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Urge to donate screeches to a halt: there's no Paypal option for the boxed copy. Not good.

You're free to be a complete twit. You're also free to loath a complete twit. Freedom: everybody wins.

15 pounds for what looks like an RPG Maker game? Wow! This guy is charging $1-$4 for his. That one by the students I think is really to go help buy new computers or something. An okay work around IMHO. Thanks for the enlightenment.

Some perspective might help you. Try taking a long walk.

A-10 Warthogs rock. Saw one at an air show once. Their engines make the coolest sound during an approach run (although if I were an opponent I wouldn't want to be hearing it).

Weresheep give me a warm fuzzy feeling. At least they will once I grab the shears...

The End of an Age: Early Remnants It has an early-Ultima look with decent, blocky graphics. Not sure how serious to take it with such a low funding goal though.

Try applying the CoE enhancement mod.

Hurray!!! Now I can finally use PayPal.

So that's why they haven't been showing us much lately...

Never had a desire to play in MMO games; the thought of playing with a mob of needy 14-year olds isn't appealing. I'll stick to the single-player experience.

It's not what powers you gain that's important, but what you do with them. To balance things out, the gaining of any type of superpowers should be counterbalanced with major drawbacks. Scaling up the potency of the PC by granting him superpowers would push him/her above the capability of most opponents, essentially diminishing the capacity for dramatic conflict and linearizing the progress of the plot. The game may then need to move the story to a different part of the world where the hazards are greater, thereby raising the question as to why the powers in that region haven't spread widely and taken over. I suppose the plot could thereafter be about stopping the spread of those powers, turning it into another "world in peril" fantasy. Since this setting is soul-centric, one of the hidden goals of a character with an unbroken soul could be to become transcendent; to ascend to a higher level of existence. Gaining superpowers could be a representation of this process. But to make it dramatic, there would need to be some type of resistance to this ascendancy. Someone or something either needs to stop other creatures from ascending, or draws their powers from incapacitating those with superpowers. The greater powers of the PC may draw in those hungry to draw upon their capability. This in turn may significantly endanger others in the surroundings. Perhaps the religious practitioners of the land have gradually devised a means to deal with this danger by dispatching the source (the PC) elsewhere? As a result, those characters developing superpowers are gradually weeded out of the local population: a PC can choose the path of the normal power level and remain in the lands, or strive for superpowers, be perceived as a threat, and then be voluntarily or forcibly sent away permanently.

All good stretch goals, although I'm a little surprised some of these weren't already in the game since it has been under development. I guess it shows they really do need the kickstarter to improve the game. There once was a gent from Gent...

Hmm, you did take quite the gamble then, didn't you? I anticipate it being a variation on a theme, albeit a good one with its own flavor and features that enable it to stand apart from the original Torment as a worthwhile "spiritual successor". It's often hard to tell how much I'll actually like a game before I play it, so in that sense every game purchase is a gamble. But I'm willing to support game development of the general type: single-player, multi-character CRPGs with depth.

^^^^ Why does it keep feeling like a Mel Brooks film?

I reluctantly gambled a bit and contributed: going for the boxed game at $65 and hoping that it'll pay off down the road. Some people sing the praises of PS:T; I'm not one of them. But I liked some of what I read on the KS page, so I'm crossing my fingers that I will be pleasantly surprised.

Hire good writers.

A significant percentage of the exceptional quality item drops could be heavily damaged items: goods of obvious value that were not being put to use by the opponent because of the defect. For example, a superb sword with a broken hilt; a fine mithral chain shirt that is rent from shoulder to waist; an elegant recurved bow that has a crack running along the grip; a magical elixir that has dried to a gummy mass, &c. The PC can then choose to locate a skilled craftsman and provide the necessary funds and material to see the object fully restored to normal operation. This would add a little realism and provide another incentive for interactions with artisans.

A little irony...

Looks like they just hit $4.1M. Impressive. Greed? Marketing tactics? In a commercial business, no less. Companies doing more than one project at a time? Just what is capitalism coming to? At this rate some gaming company is going to want to turn a profit. It's shocking, shocking I say.

Barbarian is closer to a hunter class: hunter-gathers as a culture.

Well it could be a vegetarian zombie outbreak, in which case they'd want your graaaiiiinnns.....

This crowdsourced game is on IndieGoGo: Ghost of a Tale The video character is kinda cute; I'm sure the young 'uns will probably love it.

Every potential thing to be included in the game costs money to implement; they can't afford to include all the good ideas if they don't get enough funding to pay for them. Yes and it's better to go in ahead of time knowing what you can afford to implement, rather than nearing the end and having to cut a bunch of content to meet costs.