Keyrock

Doesn't BioWare have that name copyrighted? I wouldn't want to infringe on anyone's intellectual property.

Snag the DRM-free version from their site.

I've played for about an hour. I'm playing an Ork Shaman named Restless Wolf. I'm definitely liking the game so far. I love reading all the flavor text and dialogue, they absolutely nailed the Shadowrun vibe, which they damn well should have since Jordan Weisman created the game in the first place. I basically have just the bare minimum ranged skill to wield a rifle right now and try to keep back and let my summons do the dirty work.

More than anything, I'm curious what "publication" named Imperium Galactic War Game of the Year 2013.

Any idea how long? Thought I heard something like 10 to 15 hours. That's the word out on the street I'm hearing too. Edit: Woot! It's downloading.

Sweet. You got a head start then.

I'm excited to get my hands on the tools. After I finish the main campaign I plan to give it a looksie and hopefully get crackin' on some shadowrunning goodness. Hopefully this will grow into something like the NWN modding community, so many awesome community made modules for that game.

Yeah, I used to meta-game dialogue options. These days I stick with an outcome, even if it's not what I expected. To each their own.

As long as the checkpoints it saves at aren't too far apart, I won't be bothered by it much. Sure, I would prefer save any time, but as long as it's not more than maybe 15 or 20 minutes playing time apart, I'll live with it. 2 more hours before I can start downloading...

Seems to me like Obsidian are taking many of the familiar elements of IE games Isometric view Party-based Tactical Combat Real-time & pause Story driven And addressing one of the biggest shortcomings of the old IE games by designing a new system from the ground up specifically meant for a video game to replace the D&D system which put significant handicaps of game design in the past. If that's "setting the bar low", then by all means, Obsidian, set the bar low.

I'm checking out different utilities for doing PnP over the internet for future potential Numenera sessions. Roll20.net seems pretty cool, and, as best I can tell, free. I'm guessing that's what Rol20.com has become. Anyone else have experience with this utility or have another one to recommend?

The bad news: This drops at 1 PM where I live, which is right in the middle of my work day. The good news: I brought my lappy to work so I can download it at work and have it ready to play when I get home. I'm already trying to think up names for my Ork Shaman.

Oh wow, that looks and sounds great. Thank you for all your hard work. I don't envision myself jumping back into DA:O in the very near future (ridiculous backlog, tons of new games coming out, etc.), but when I do (and I will eventually), I'll definitely give your campaign a whirl.

Okay, that makes sense. A wireless controller doesn't generally make sense for a PC anyway since most people are going to be sitting close to the PC, rather than on a couch 10 feet away.

I didn't even know 360 pads needed batteries. I use a 3rd party 360 pad for my PC and it doesn't have a battery, as best as I can tell. It just gets its power from the USB port. Is this something 360 pads can't do when connected to the 360, or is my cheaper 3rd party pad just superior on that front? I'm confused.

I've always taken that to mean that as soon as you sign up and they have your information, they send someone to your home to kidnap you.

Sweet. They should hit at least the first 2 stretch goals (composer, localisations), I'm hoping they can hit the 3rd (destructible environments).

Very rarely midnight. Probably around 10 am pacific. I'm getting an unhealthy level of excited about playing around with the level editor. It'll be hilarious if it doesn't even run on my computer. 10 am pacific would be 1 pm for me, which would put it right smack dab in the middle of my work day. *sigh* Unless your computer is really ancient, I doubt it will be a problem. Unity games are generally pretty easy on the resources.

You can create those hirelings by yourself and they probably don't have much of reactivity towards anything, in other words they are mute party members that do what you command, if I have understood correctly. I was referring to this: I read this as there being 16 Obsidian provided joinable NPC's and that the eight hirelings are not Adventurer Hall products. Have I misunderstood? Maybe that's the amount of companions/hirelings you can bring with you and have available in camp locations. So if you want to switch your party around you could go back to camp and have up to 16 characters available to choose the 5 (or less) you want to bring with you. If you want to take a character along from outside the pool of 16 you still could, but you'd have to trek all the way back to the adventurer's hall (I'm guessing there will be only 1 or very few) and give someone the boot from your pool of 16 to make room for them.

Someone died? Someone farted?

It's Shadowrun Returns Eve. Celebrate! /taps fingers on desk Is it tomorrow yet?

I've never quite understood all the hubbub over the royal baby, or raby (I'm hereby coining the term 'raby'). So this is the future King of England. That hasn't meant anything other than "rich" in hundreds of years.

Keyrock you seem to be a veteran of gaming, do you ever go to forums or watch video's to see how to beat bosses if you have been beaten a few times? In other words do you get advice on the strategy around how to win a certain battle Only if I get REALLY stuck and I've reached the point of serious frustration. I'll die 10 times in a row and keep trying to figure it out myself as long as I'm not ready to put my fist through the monitor. I had contemplated suddenly developing a sickness, but, nah, can't do that. Hopefully it drops early enough in the morning that I can set it to download before I leave for work so that it's ready when I get home. I'm quite happy about scooping up Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. I almost feel bad for getting it for free (thank you trading cards), almost. It's a really fun game and absolutely perfect as a secondary or tertiary game to play since you don't need to worry about story and you can play it in bite size pieces. I really love how everything in the game changes dynamically when you switch personalities from cute Giana to punk Giana, especially the music. The dynamic and seamless music switching is one of the more brilliant pieces of audio work I've heard in a game in quite some time.

Yeah, it might be more work than the scope of this game can accommodate with all the different deity combinations, but the prospect of characters with different religions butting heads, maybe in a respectful manner, maybe in a heated manner, maybe even coming to blows, excites me.