Keyrock

Tell that to Dark Souls and Darksiders (both of them). On the other hand, Sleeping Dogs was also a good PC port. Maybe it's just games with "dark" in the title that do garbage PC ports?

It still feels weird to see Lackey come off the field to a standing O. I'm not a fan of the guy either, but after the last couple of years, it's good to see him have a good year and actually help, as opposed to hinder, the team. Tazawa and Uehara have been the key guys on the pitching staff this year, especially with Hanrahan and Bailey going out for the season. They've been all types of great as the set up guy and the closer.

I always said that being able to actually control your character and decide when to do things and how to do them is completely immersion breaking. The best way to immerse the player is to just have them press the win button and have them watch a pre-scripted sequence.

I haven't been able to find it either. I have a feeling RPS put that video out before they were ready and the game hasn't been put up for sale/pre-order yet. Or maybe Ubi are just slacking. Either way, maybe it will be available Monday?

Still playing Legends of Dawn. After you get used to the awkward controls, they're not that bad, and there's an almost halfway decent game underneath all those faceplam inducing design decisions. The open world is fairly large, I appreciate the no hand holding approach with quest targets not being clearly marked or even looking different or standing out, and the fact that you can wander into territories where you have no business being at a low level and get promptly brutally slaughtered for your stupidity.

It's been frustrating to watch the Sawx for the last couple weeks. They have had no shortage of scoring opportunities, and the pitching has generally been good, but they keep wasting said opportunities. They may as well be called the Boston Left On Base. On the bright side, the Sawx managed to get to Hiroki Kuroda, who's one of the best pitchers in the AL, today, and Lackey (yes, Lackey) has been pitching a gem. Hopefully they don't blow it in the late innings. A big win over one of the top pitchers in the league may be just what the doctor ordered to get things back on track. (or just wishful thinking) Edit: Woot! Insurance run. And another insurance run. This should be it for Kuroda.

I bet Keyrock has sexy legs. I don't know about sexy, but they sure are sore.

I just got back from the longest bike ride I've done in at least 6 years, about 41 miles (66km). Absolutely spectacular weather out there: Mid to high 70s, low to moderate humidity, mild breeze, can't ask for much better. We're not quite into the spectacular autumn foliage season, but it was still really gorgeous out there. I was also smart enough to bring a granola bar with me, which definitely came in handy for the last 6 or 7 miles. I'm really worn out, but I feel great right now. I super duper earned a cold beer.

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Yay! Gameplay footage! That does look and sound pretty good. Hopefully they're able to fully realize all the things they talk about.

Why must there be a rivalry? I would be very happy if both The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age 3 turned out great.

What's that on the horizon? Why, it's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_S9J0fYYU Cloth map

I blame Saints Row. Before Saints Row nobody would have called GTA the "serious note". Blame Rockstar for trying to make a movie and forgetting to make a game.

The rules are extremely simple. The main thing to learn is the few exceptions and all the modifiers, but that mainly happens during character creation and advancement, and you would generally have those handy. The core of the system is extremely simple: GM assigns a difficulty level to a task, whatever it may be (attacking an enemy, breaking down a door, jumping across a ravine, etc.). The player needs to roll a certain number or higher on d20 to succeed (3 times the level of the task [e.g. a lev 4 task would require a roll of 12 or higher, a lev 2 task a roll of 6 or higher]). Player applies any applicable assets (devices that would make the task easier [e.g. a crowbar would make breaking down a door easier]) and any effort they desire to reduce the difficulty of a task (e.g you can decrease a lev 4 task to a lev 3 task so you only need to roll a 9 rather than a 12 to succeed). Player rolls and either succeeds or fails. In a nutshell, that's the complete system right there.

I'm only about 100 pages into the core book at this point, so I haven't gotten to reading about the setting in-depth yet. I mirror your thoughts on the rules, though. Until I actually play the game, whether from the GM side or the player side, this is all speculation, but I really like the system as it's presented. It seems wonderfully simple, yet gives the player a lot of control over their actions. In particular, the effort system seems brilliant. The idea of being able to apply extra effort when you really need something to succeed, but at the cost of leaving you vulnerable and with less options going forward, is fantastic. I also like how absolutely every action in the game, whether combat, athletic, intellectual, etc. is resolved in exactly the same manner. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this plays out in practice.

Just as long as you don't use 'The Emperor Protects' as a valediction. Or...you know, try to purge the unclean. I try to purge the unclean once a week generally. The skid marks don't completely come out, though. On a more serious note, GTA Online does sound quite good. Assuming the GTA V ever comes out on PC, and assuming the PC port isn't complete garbage, and assuming that GTA V is fun to play and worth my money, I'd like to form a completely non-criminal group in GTA Online and just do completely legal activities and never rob banks or drive over prostitutes or go on random killing sprees. I wonder if it would be possible to do that and still progress through the "story" at all?

What do my eyes behold? Why, it's pre-alpha gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km2Muh9kSi0

I helped fund this game on KS but to be honest your view isn't really a positive report of the game. Should I wait till it gets more stable before playing it? Stability isn't the (main) problem. I don't see how much can be done to improve the game. Adding more tooltips and better explanations of things is feasible, but much of the game's problems stem from poor design decisions, and I don't really think that can ever be fixed, barring a complete overhaul of the game. The game reeks of an inexperienced team with some interesting ideas but not the experience to implement them properly or knowledge that some of the thins that look good on paper won't really work in a video game. Whether you play the game now or 6 months from now, I suspect you're in for more or less the same experience. Be prepared for something that is exceedingly rough around the edges. Also, rough in the middle, basically rough through every atom of its electronic mass. If you can get past the shortcomings, and adapt to the awkward controls, and get past the horrific camera , you may get some enjoyment out of it, as I have.

I wonder why they can't announce superstar lead programmer and art supervisor that will blow everybody's socks off? If they let the name slip will the Yakuza have them offed or something? I can think of at least couple of reasons: 1) they are currently involved in other work and don't want the distraction; 2) if we knew, it might scare off some contributors... for whatever reason. But if they're really super duper stars why would that scare us off. Wouldn't it instead make us throw our money, and possibly underwear, at them?

If you wish for a rough demo of combat for the Witcher 3 i'd personally install Flash's Full Combat Rebalance mod for Witcher 2, rolls are out, pirouettes from the books are in and combat as a whole is rebalanced and tweaked for more reactivity and precision response. Still not to everyones liking, but i'm finding it quite enjoyable, hopefully they'll allow strafing and circling in the third game. I've been meaning to give that a try. Is it easy it install?

Yeah, Tropico is a good game, so good, in fact, that Tropico 3 and Tropico 4 are basically carbon copies of Tropico 1. Tropico 2 is the only game in the series that's even slightly different.

I'm playing Legends of Dawn. I went back to it after a month+ layoff to see if they've implemented any changes/patches. There have been some patches and a few things implemented, but for the most part, it's still the same clunky experience. Strangely enough, I'm kind of almost enjoying the game despite all the faults with it, and good gravy are there some glaring faults: Very awkward controls, clumsy combat, lack of tool tips or any kind of explanation for many things, some of the worst camera issues I've seen in a while, hilariously bad enemy AI, corpses showing up as upright statues on reloads, design decisions that defy all logic, absolutely zero polish, etc. Yet with all that, I'm kind of looking forward to playing it some more. I can't really make sense of it, it doesn't add up in my head.