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Don't you mean Preprosperous?

This may be Prosper's best thread yet.

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Kickstarter ended at $776,084. With PayPal (somewhere in the 35k region right now), it made the 800k stretch goal adding another chapter and transformation. With PayPal staying open for a while, maybe 900k Hero Mode is still possible? /crosses fingers //crosses toes ///ouch!

Saints Row 4 first person view mod: It's in alpha state right now and rather buggy, as you can tell from the video, I'm sure, but holy smokes this looks fun. Super speed, super jumping, and gliding in first person view? Yes, please!

I'm expecting Thi4f to be every bit as true to the series roots as Torture Porn Raider. With any luck, it will have just as many QTEs. On the bright side, instead of deciding what to do yourself you'll be able to just push the cool button to have Garrett do cool stuff.

I also am quite skeptical of this. Space Tsars sounds great, but it also sounds insanely ambitious, even were it not on a highly restrained budget, but for 500k? Best of luck to them, I hope they can pull it off.

It just dawned on me that the Cleveland Browns are currently the AFC North division leader. The ****ing Cleveland Browns.

With 14 hours left Shantae: Half-Genie Hero has reached the 700k Costume Swap stretch goal.

Yeah I enjoyed the Risen series, it may not be a Gothic but it still has that " open world map that you need to explore to find things" vibe about it. Also there are some good non-critical quests that force you to explore the islands Piranha Bytes world building is truly impressive. They have an uncanny ability to cram a 14 story building's worth of exploration into a seemingly 1 bedroom loft's worth of space and yet make it look natural. There's a real wonder to coming around a seemingly plain looking corner that seems not to lead anywhere or even have much room for anything, and suddenly there's all this cool stuff for you to explore. Imagine if they had Bethesda's budget to work with?

Roaming around Ticaragua in Risen 2. The graphical mods aren't a huge change, but you can definitely notice the higher res textures when the camera shows a close up of a wall or a door, and the speedtree draw distance mod makes the pop-in significantly less jarring. Risen 2 really is a pretty game. Don't get me wrong, it's not Metro: Last Light or The Witcher 2, but it's visually pleasing nonetheless. The character models aren't the greatest, particularly with all the armor/clothing clipping and the nappy plastic hair, though they do get bonus points for Patty showing off camel toe, but the landscape/scenery is gorgeous. The lush tropical islands of the Risen series are definitely more pleasing to the eye than the landscapes of the Gothic series. Even with this not being Piranha Bytes best effort, it's still an enjoyable game. A lot of RPG developers with much larger budgets could stand to learn a thing or two from this German developer.

The most noteworthy thing about Daikatana was that after all of John Romero's boasting it flopped harder than an Italian footballer. It wasn't as bad as the press made it out to be, but it wasn't anything special either.

So, no real chance of playing that non-violent? That was my real hope for GTA Online, being able to play a non-criminal, and just cruise around with people on bikes, or play golf with people, or whatever, and stay away from murder-fest 2013. If it's all just people shooting each other, I have zero interest in it. Of course, as long as there's no PC version, it's all a moot point anyway. You can play non-violent, I just don't see anything to do. I wanted to do co-op or stuff. But all the missions are deathmatch, race, or objective where you're still shooting at each other. There's supposed to be tennis and golf, but I'm not sure if that unlocks later, it's not showing on my map. And again there's racing, but I don't care for that at all. I wanted to do heists and car chases. I wanted to assault gang turf, take on the military base, or other criminally co-op things. But nope... deathmatch or race. Early days young grasshopper, early days. Give Rockstar time to add meaningful content outside of killing people. They have just finished one of the largest and successful single player games in history. Allow the poor Dev's a little break There is no PC version (yet?), therefore they don't get a break. Get back to work and crank me out a PC version, you lazy bastards!

That it will. Chances are, win or lose, I'm going to wind up drunk.

Brown can suggest root beer. Root beer rocks! Brown can > red can.

Hmm. So Lester vs. Moore, then Lackey vs. Price. I like our chances on Friday, not so much on Saturday.

Sports games, racing/driving games, platformers, there are plenty of games where a controller is a superior tool to m&kb. I love my 360 controller. I also love my flightstick. While m&kb is certainly superior for many games, it's not the holy of holies some make it out to be.

Is he a good enough shooter to play the 2?

So, no real chance of playing that non-violent? That was my real hope for GTA Online, being able to play a non-criminal, and just cruise around with people on bikes, or play golf with people, or whatever, and stay away from murder-fest 2013. If it's all just people shooting each other, I have zero interest in it. Of course, as long as there's no PC version, it's all a moot point anyway.

So far so good with the modded Risen 2. The majority of the mods I installed are graphical in nature: Improvements to dynamic lighting, higher res textures, greater distance for high quality speedtree, and such. I figured I was nearly pushing the limit of my lappy with the vanilla game maxed out, so I was a bit worried I wouldn't be able to use the mods and still use max settings, but so far it's chugging along nicely. The true test will be once I get to a big open area with lots of people and foliage and buildings to draw at the same time. I also got the unofficial patch, that fixes most of the few remaining bugs and snafus. Sadly, there is no patch to remove the ridiculous over the top gesturing by characters during conversations. I'm used to it from previous Piranha Bytes games, but it is rather silly looking. I'd say that it was a Eastern European thing, as the god awful Two Worlds games do the same thing, but CD Projekt Red seems to have no problem making characters look and act natural during conversation rather than making them wave their arms frantically like they're on fire and trying to put themselves out. There was a gun rebalancing mod that looked promising, but I didn't bother with it since I plan to go voodoo anyway. I'm not sure if that mod would extend to firearm wielding NPCs.

So the Rays won and move on to face the Sawx starting Friday. Despite the fact that the Sawx have owned the Rays this year, they still scare the **** out of me, mainly because their pitching staff is always capable of going lights out for an entire series, especially a 5 game series. In theory, the Sawx should hold the edge. They can match pitching with Tampa, though I'd give the edge to the Rays just slightly, and are just as fast and crafty on the base paths, so they can play small ball pretty much just as well. Where the Sawx have the edge is power and explosiveness. The Sawx lineup is simply a scarier bunch to face top to bottom, and it's filled with disciplined, professional hitters that can not only mash it, they can grind out long at-bats to drive up the pitch count. The Sawx rotation will go as follows: Game 1 - Lester Game 2 - Lackey Game 3 - Buchholz Game 4 (if necessary) - Peavey Game 5 (if necessary) - Lester Who will the Rays have pitch on Friday? Will they throw Price out there on short rest?

Over/under until LadyC gives in and gets the black cat pet - 1.5 days I'm in the process of downloading a bunch of mods for Risen 2 via the Risen 2 Mod Starter, then I'm going to start a new game and get my voodoo on.

Semper Paratus

Technically, this still falls under the umbrella of bestiality, right?

With a decent push in the final 48 hours, I think it will make the 700k Costume Swap stretch goal. If they leave PayPal open long enough, the 800k stretch goal could happen too, Hero Mode at 900k seems unlikely, but I suppose there's always a chance.