Rosveen

Is there a list of these games? Or does it affect all regional versions? I'm a little worried now, I might be leaving the country soon and I'd hate to see my RHCP games not working. I have only one or two because I avoid region-locked purchases if I can, but still. I don't know what Valve is expecting, but that's just supporting rampant piracy.All games bought in one regions are not accessible in other regions. I think the rule might not apply for games bought before 2015, but I am not 100% sure. I was researching how to gift myself a cheaper game from another region and found this info and people complaining that moved permanently from Russia to USA.(I know, I know, but my country has same prices as Germany while our buying power is 1/3 of germany... **** steam!) I know gifting outside the cheaper region was disabled. I actually think it's fair - and no reasonable person buys new games on Steam anyway, so it doesn't matter much. Though it gets quite interesting when my game is region-locked, but still sold on Steam for the full price because my country pays in euro, not rubels... Anyhow, it's absurd if they lock us out from playing legally bought games when we leave our region. How is this even legal? Was it ever reported to a consumer protection body?

Is there a list of these games? Or does it affect all regional versions? I'm a little worried now, I might be leaving the country soon and I'd hate to see my RHCP games not working. I have only one or two because I avoid region-locked purchases if I can, but still. I don't know what Valve is expecting, but that's just supporting rampant piracy.

I've heard it before, I never found the source. Where do you take it from? As for walls of text, you aren't talking to yourself. If you want to engage the reader, you need to write in a format they can easily digest and respond to. An essay works well as a blog post, but not so much in a forum debate, especially a fast-moving one. Similarly, raising several points in one post often deviates from the original topic of discussion and discourages people from reading at all if they have to wade through unrelated observations to get to the main point. There's nothing inherently wrong with long-winded posts - but if you want to be heard, you need to adapt to your interlocutor. Brevity is a valuable skill.

Returns is very linear. If you have time for only one game, you should have bought Dragonfall, which improved on Returns in practically every way. But hey, that only means the jump to Hong Kong will be that much more satisfying to you.

No real difference: cooperative gameplay is a subset of multiplayer. Multiplayer is any game mode played by several people at once. Another subset is competitive multiplayer. Games often mix these two, see any team-based PvP titles. However, co-op is often understood specifically as campaign mode played together. I don't know what multiplayer means to the author, it could be anything from a separate game mode to PvP to a shorthand for MMO. I'll let him explain.

Please explain.

How about none. Instead, I'd like to see more recognition of our race, culture and background. Some combinations have very few interactions and godlike were almost completely ignored.

I don't know if he's even been asked yet. It's just a fan suggestion for the KS campaign on Larian's Uservoice page. It got quite a lot of votes though.

It isn't a continuation of the main story. You can play with your old character, but you need to load a save from before entering Sun in Shadows (the game creates an autosave for you, so don't worry if you forgot to save). I'm going to start a new game just because I want to take the new companions on my adventure and maybe see it in a new light thanks to their interactions.

Yes. But even if they had, it's too late in development for him to make a difference.I didn't realize it was that far along in development. It just seems like they announced it recently, but I guess it has been a while. Well, I still hold out some hope that he can get in on some Obsidz projects. Yeah, maybe not, but as long as everything ended amicably, there's always the chance that he could even come in on future PoE franchise offerings.Bethesda officially revealed it quite late, only 5 months before release. It's coming out in November, so it's pretty much finished now. I doubt he was secretely working on Fallout 4 before, but maybe he could join for a DLC? Who knows. There's always his job as a professional stretch goal. He's already been suggested for D:OS 2 and Larian supposedly are considering it.

Yes. But even if they had, it's too late in development for him to make a difference.

Why not?

Yes.

Now I'm intrigued. The only age that I haven't seen yet and so could blow my mind is less than 12 or more than 90.

I disagree. The case was: They don't. THey are charging both separately and gave option to buy them in bundle. So it's not like buy part 1 and get part 2 when it comes out. You need to buy part 2 separately or in bundle beforehand.Actually, not, that was not the case. You quoted Tigranes' post when placing the bet, so that's what everyone understood the bet was about. And Tigranes was right, backers get both parts, so you lost. You should have been clearer in your original post. Besides, they are giving us the option to pay once at the standard price, without jacking it up. So if you want to argue the bet was about Alexander's post, then at best neither of you won.

Rosveen beat me and said it better and simpler. Funnily enough, Killyox ninja'd me with his own edit.

Backers who purchased the expansion add-on will receive both parts. We saved $5.

Why would it cost more to buy them together than separate? Also, where did you hear about that 8 month wait for part 2?I think Nakia missed a 1 there. Should be "another 14.95" for part 2. The release date (March 2016) was taken from a German gaming magazine, check the White March News thread for the article.

$20 was what we paid for the expansion during KS campaign, so I expected this price.

Less loading screens? How do you figure? I can walk from one end of the place to the other and not see a single load screen in Skyrim. With DAI, if I want to travel from Haven to Hinterlands, that's a load. If I then want to travel to the coast, that's another load. So, I don't follow...Interior cells maybe? You can't walk through the door without a loading screen and there are many doors. Even cities aren't open, much to the chagrin of oldtime fans. As long as the loading screens are caused by geographical barriers like crossing seas or mountains, I don't mind. If I get a loading screen in the middle of the road because I just zoned out, I consider it a fragmented open world or not an open world at all, depending on the execution. I only wish it was honestly marketed as such. I don't base this on playable areas. I don't need to walk to every mountain on the horizon or enter every building in the city. Even in Bethesda games you eventually reach the end of the playable area - heck, Skyrim had invisible walls on the roads leading out of the province, now that was a strange combination of immersive and immersion-breaking at the same time.

Almost a full year for the first expansion? Uh, now I see why they decided to split it in two to save people the long wait. I guess I won't be replaying PoE till next year...

Shush. I'm an eternal optimist. Believe it or not, I actually enjoyed Skyrim, but it's partially because I expect different things from an Elder Scrolls game than from every other RPG I played (including Fallout, which is why I'm not a fan of FO3). I honestly think the shift gave use some interesting improvements, my favorite being perk trees; they have potential if handled well (not that Bethesda knows how, with their "no level cap! be all and do all!" attitude) My main gripe is that some of Skyrim's major weaknesses are in the areas that can't be fixed with mods, and that's what I'm worried about. But that's neither here nor there. To be fair, I would say there's a SMALL chance it could be better. Like FO4's development did overlap with Skyrim, so it's understandable they share common elements, and perhaps they begrudgingly embraced that even after recognizing flaws with Skyrim. Thus, the next game - which saw no such overlap - will have the chance to try new completely different systems and improve on past faults. Still though, let's not kid ourselves, the chance is still small. If you mean "areas that can't be fixed with mods" to mean their NPC interactions and storylines? Oh yeah, that'll continue to be awful. I don't bother criticizing their storyline that much....and that's the biggest insult I can give. I criticize the RPG aspects of their games for example because I know Bethesda can do better. I don't bother to do anything but chuckle at how awful their plots are because holy crap they can't write worth a damned and thus there's no point in me expending any time or effort into critiquing it. That too, but I was also thinking about never being allowed to fail. It permeats the whole game design: skills, stories, NPC interactions. I think this is what I truly miss. Not old attributes and eleventy billion sliders in character creator for their own sake, but specifically the experience of giving something up, whatever form it might take.

Shush. I'm an eternal optimist. Believe it or not, I actually enjoyed Skyrim, but it's partially because I expect different things from an Elder Scrolls game than from every other RPG I played (including Fallout, which is why I'm not a fan of FO3). I honestly think the shift gave use some interesting improvements, my favorite being perk trees; they have potential if handled well (not that Bethesda knows how, with their "no level cap! be all and do all!" attitude) My main gripe is that some of Skyrim's major weaknesses are in the areas that can't be fixed with mods, and that's what I'm worried about. But that's neither here nor there.

First off, I share your dislike for pre-orders. I'm nowhere near as passionate about this matter as you, but I do feel the decision often isn't smart and it brought some negative practices into the industry, like chopping up content to sell as pre-order bonuses and selling a promise of a promise in form of season passes. But if I got so worked up about stupid **** people do with their money, I'd be raging all day long and ain't nobody got time for that. Anyhow, there is also no disadvantage to pre-ordering early. If you know you want to play the game on day 1 for sure, then it doesn't matter (to you) if you order in April or September. You might even be lucky and find a better price if you look early, as I did with ESO - $15 less on GMG before Jan 31, you wouldn't get that a week before launch. Collector's Editions must be ordered early as well. Additionally, Steam allows you to cancel your pre-order (pre-purchase, actually) and refund the price to your Steam Wallet. Honestly, I feel you're more bitter about people not listening to you than about the game itself. But it's... life, just so much. Internet rabble gonna be internet rabble and if it frustrates you, try to move away for a time instead of diving in head on. The comic you linked? Stop eating poop, Longknife. Or rather prodding people who fling poop at you when they disagree with you. If it's been this way for four games as you said, you should know better by now. As for Fallout 4. After playing Bethesda games for a decade and watching the direction they've been going, I think I can predict quite accurately what kind of game they're going to make next. And you know what? Some people actually like what they see. I don't because I didn't enjoy Fallout 3 very much and wasn't moved by Fallout 4 promo material. That's fine, I guess I just don't like Bethesda's vision. I'll maybe pick it up during a Steam sale in 2017. But I'm worried about TES VI: voiced protagonist, no lesson learned with skills... I hoped they'd rebound after Skyrim, now I'm not so sure. But even if the worst comes to pass and it is not even a shallow puddle, but a glass of water spilled on my favorite carpet, I need to see it for myself. I love the franchise too much to skip the new entry just like that. I don't leave pre-emptively. So I'm going to buy TES VI no matter what, pre-order it for convenience the moment I can afford it and that's that. No amount of forum negativity can discourage me because my reasons for pre-ordering don't hinge on an internet stranger's opinion. I can imagine this is how some people feel about Fallout 4, though from what I've seen, most seem to be genuinely excited (including the typical locust that frustrates you so much). Will they get burned? Will I? Maybe, but that's not for anyone else to decide.

Purpose of pre-ordering digital games: pre-loading. If you had very slow internet, you might appreciate it. Also, looking at your posts above, no wonder you were banned. Bethesda forum became so sanitized it's suffocating, I will readily agree, but you're just a ball of uncontrollable rage sometimes. No skin off your nose if other people do things you consider pointless, so stop seething like a hormonal teenager.