Keyrock

I have no clue where it was actually developed, but Septerra Core is as jRPG as jRPG gets, whether it was developed in Japan or elsewhere.

Hear, hear.

This just further reaffirms how much superior 'Murica is to the rest of the world, as we get all the content on every platform.

On the positive side, it took 12 pages for the thread to jump the shark. That's better than I figured.

What's a platformer without Lucha Libre? Eet E-Eet E E E-Eet

Never had a cloth map on my life. Oh sure, had to one-up me with an even more blasphemous statement. Show-off!

And now, for the most blasphemous statement in the history of blasphemous statements: I honestly don't miss cloth maps in the slightest bit

Digital distribution must be a godsend to game companies, especially small to mid-size. I imagine the money saved with digital distribution compared to burning discs must be quite significant. Heck, even after Uncle GabeN and... (/looks up GOG wiki to see who runs the show) Uncle Guillame take their cuts, it's still gotta be a heck of a lot cheaper than burning discs, printing boxes, manuals, code wheels (ah, good ol' code wheels ), etc.

I'm definitely interested, having played the previous 2 games, it's just that I've got so much stuff in the backlog as it is that Book III isn't a priority. It's definitely on the to-do list.

Yeah, I understand. *sigh* I'd rather it took place somewhere else. Somewhere tropical and exotic. Oh well, it's not a deal-breaker or anything.

Agreed. Also, I'm a bit disappointed by it looking so medieval Europe-ish. One thing I really liked about Risen 1 & 2 was the lush tropical setting. Supposedly there will still be some tropical areas in the game. I really hope so.

I did the Fred Bonaparte level in Psychonauts last night. I like how there are some basic elements of point & click adventure in that level to spice up the platforming. Also, picking up the cannon ball shooting armored guys with telekinesis and hurling them into the river never ceases to be satisfying. Edit: Also, I run off a 5400 RPM HDD. Suck on my eliteness, bitches!

They should make a completely unrelated game called Baron Atomic: Mass Destruction RPG instead.

You put way too much faith in my, Bruce, I'm flattered. I LOVE the concept (RPG in an Arabian Nights type setting? What's not to love?), but I have no clue who any of the developers are and whether they can actually make a halfway decent game. There is a demo, which I have yet to play (but will), so that's probably the best thing to go on at the moment.

I liked Sacred 1, and, oddly enough, I liked it because it was a mess of a game with massive balancing issues (which, for loot em' ups, is usually kind of a big deal) and wacky exploits. My favorite exploit was the developers forgetting to include a crossbow animation for the Daemon while in Soaring Daemon mode so the game reverted to an unarmed "kick" animation which was infinitely faster than any crossbow animation (unarmed was pretty much the fastest animation in the game). Since attack speed was based on the speed of the attack animation, while in Soaring Daemon mode the Daemon became a machinegun bolt throwing (out of her hip) death from above ranged master of destruction, when the character race/class was meant to suck with ranged weapons.

Yeah, with the way both Nvidia and AMD rebrand old chipsets into new cards, that first number doesn't mean much of anything any more. You add to that the new GeForce 750 and 750Ti, which are the new Maxwell architecture while they still use the same first digit (7) as what are mostly Kepler cards, then you have some cards with the same first digit that are still Fermi architecture... It's a bloody mess.

You're telling me that a 2gb dd3 card is entry level? It's a compromise for sure, but I would rather call it mid level than entry level. http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-710M.84746.0.html Generally the Nvidia naming scheme goes like this: GeForce x10 - x40 = entry-level GeForce x50 - x60 = mid-level GeForce x70 and up = high-end Edit: Triple-ninja'd

A GeForce 710M is an entry-level card. It will run any game, but you ain't maxing out any recent AAA games on that card. I run a 650M 2GB GDDR5, which is a mid-level card, and I'm not maxing out any recent AAA games either (though I can run them at very nice looking levels at 1600x900). It ain't the drivers, your card is simply nowhere near as powerful as you think. Forget any anti-aliasing options (super duper resource hogs) and keep anisotropic levels to something sane like 2X or 4X. Stick with low shadow options (tend to be resource hogs) or disable shadows entirely. I haven't played XCOM:EU (/ducks) so I can't comment on that specific game.

Which games are you unable to max out setting on? As a laptop owner, I generally am able to max whatever settings I want, it might just make the game into a slideshow for me (in the case of something like The Witcher 2). Also, the graphics driver is generally the same whether you are running a desktop or a laptop card, at least that has been the case for me with Nvidia (what I currently have) and AMD/ATI cards. Are you running a lappy with an Intel GPU? I would expect newer games to support Intel cards just fine, older games may have problems, or no support at all, as Intel GPUs only recently have become up to snuff for gaming.

Yeah, so far the consensus for Thi4f seems to be: A few truly good side-missions, crappy main story and characters, hit or miss level design, buggy mess. Seems all the red flags that popped up during this game's development were warranted. This is just too bad. I had hoped this would have turned out better, but oh well, maybe stick to Dishonored. Anyone looking forward to South Park: Stick of Truth? This game looks good and I believe Obsidian to make a good game, but I haven't watched a lot of South Park and wonder if the greatness of the game will be lost on me. I am chomping at the bit for South Park. I am ba-chomp ba-chewy-chomping at the bit.

Seriously, Risen was stronger because it was a smaller gameworld. I am a bit worried about them going for a bigger world again too. I mean, I'm certainly not against the idea of a bigger world, it's just that last time they got really ambitious with the scale of the game world... Gothic 3 happened. Granted, with Gothic 3 they were not only making a new game, they were also creating a new engine, with Risen 3 it's using the same engine as the previous game. In fact, I believe it's still the same engine (modified, no doubt) they've been using since Gothic 3. Note: I actually like Gothic 3 quite a bit with the unofficial patch and the content packs, but holy smokes was it an unmitigated disaster when it originally released.

Yeah, so far the consensus for Thi4f seems to be: A few truly good side-missions, crappy main story and characters, hit or miss level design, buggy mess. Seems all the red flags that popped up during this game's development were warranted.

Gah, the dreaded 'focus mode' or 'eagle vision' crap! Oh well, as long as I'm never forced to use it and can simply ignore the feature, I'm fine with it.