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I find both the Steam workshop and the Nexus Mod Manager to be wonderful systems for making installing and removing mods as painless as possible.

In this summer of reversals, Square Enix just said they were wrong and will update the game. Meanwhile, I've been playing it a bit on the ipad, and while it's early days yet, it's both a real deus ex game and definitely the best ipad game I've played. Can't comment about length yet, but they really should have done this as a Blood Dragon type game instead of "mobile", considering the apparent depth. While I'll never get to play it (lack of iDevice and all), I'm glad it's a quality game and not just a quick cash-in.

I'm playing The Adventures of Pre-Boob-Job Lara Croft. I could definitely do with less QTEs (like all of them), otherwise it's pretty good so far. My lappy (i7 3630QM GT650M) can't handle TressFX, but I can crank most other settings to max besides AA (FXAA) and anisotropic (4X), so the game looks quite purrdy.

I also scooped up the Tomb of the Lost Adventurer DLC for Tomb Raider for $0.74. All the other DLCs seem to be either weapons, multipler maps, or skins for multiplayer. Now I just need Of Orcs and Men and La Mulana at 75% off and I'll be all set.

**** yes! Tomb Raider 75% off ($12.49). Perfect timing too, as I'm about to go for a bike ride and can just let this download while I'm out riding.

That's the reaction I had too.

I hope they do make it someday. I'm down for Skyrim Shock Effect (Mass Sky Shock? System Effect Rim?). Obsidian has already proven they can make a far superior game with one of Bethesda's engines, obligatory bugs aside.

They have to save something for Sharknado 2 or Sharknado vs. Sharktopus Seriously though, SyFy has done a bunch of these super cheesy monster and/or disaster B-movies. Most of them have been just plain bad, but they hit it out of the park with Sharknado. It was so absurdly ridiculous that it was pure joy to watch. I'd almost put it on the same level as Escape From New York as far as amazingly awesome B-movies.

Prosper, while that's magnificent work, it's pretty tame by your standards. You're not going soft on us, are you?

As long as you went through even a single battle, you've gone through all of them, as they are all practically completely identical, right down to happening in the same areas again and again and again and... Now all you have to do is watch the cut-scenes on youtube and, congratulations, you just experienced the entirety of Dragon Age 2.

It's only illegal if the DM says it's illegal. The rule books themselves state that the DM can modify, ignore, or add any rule he or she sees fit.

@LadyC - That was Sharknado. Greatest movie ever made. Period. It was glorious! Sharks attacking cities traveling by tornado. Chainsaws. Pool cue killings. Ian Ziering. 'Nuff said.

Decided to go back and finish up Mars: War Logs. I'm in the Shadow Line. I'm assuming that's the last, or at least penultimate, area. Got the overload Technomancer power. When you reach max fluid and it goes off it's pretty fantastic.

How about late bloomer?

I have a lot of respect for Vogel, though I could never get into his games.

This sale has been really yawn inducing for me so far. Hopefully some of the stuff I want comes up in the next few days. Come on La Mulana at 75% off. You know you want to do it, GabeN, you know you do.

They will. Game specials often show up 3 or 4 times during the Steam Sales, if not more, especially for popular games.

I don't really care one way or the other about Fargo and others using anti-publisher sentiment to sell their ideas. I always saw it for what it was, a marketing tactic. It's the same way I feel about Fargo using the Torment licence for TToN, I have no problem with it, in fact I support it. If it get s the project more money then I, for one, think it it's fair game. The only things I care about are: 1) Am I actually going to get the game I supported 2) Is the funding going toward making the best game possible As long as I receive the game I was promised I will be satisfied. Fargo can use all the marketing ploys and doublespeak at his disposal to get the job done, as far as I'm concerned.

Let me guess - you expected DVD copies to be hand-crafted by IXIle staff personally? Nah man, it's completely the right business move, but it doesn't mean I can't give Fargo **** about it. That's true and as you mentioned he was very vociferous about how unhelpful and obstructive Publishers were Yeah, but he was speaking ill of big bad meanie publishers, the kind that will take you to Burger King for a ****ty meal, then think they can **** you in the ***. Apparently Deep Silver is a nice guy publisher, the kind that buys you flowers just for the sake of buying you flowers and likes to cuddle. In all seriousness, we have every right to poke fun at him, and, like pretty much everybody here, I agree that this was the right move for him and inXile.

Anyone play Little Inferno? I quite enjoyed World of Goo and this is by the same folks so I'm mulling it over in my head.

You're splitting hairs. With that said, I'm not going to give Fargo and Co. any grief about this.

It should be variable by region. Highly civilized areas would likely have a very smooth gradient, both in terms of wilderness and danger, in some areas almost no gradient in terms of danger as whole chunks of land, towns and countryside included, would be patrolled. In more frontier regions the gradients would be sharper. Areas occupied by nomads or savages my basically go right from village to wilderness with no more protection than fires and safety in numbers.

The early part of BG1 is TERRIBLE. Even fighters can get pretty much insta-killed at level 1 with just a roll or two going against them and mages and rogues are ridiculously squishy. Until you get to about level 3 or 4 the game goes something like this: Encounter > die > reload > encounter > die > reload > encounter > survive > save > encounter > die > reload > encounter > survive > save > etc... It's horrible, it forces you to save scum. I hate it so much that I use a save game editor to boost myself to level 3 at start, then later on dock myself 4000 exp to get back on par.

Yeah. BioWare Junior is really doing something totally interesting by making a Mass Effect clone. Even if it was nothing more than a Mass Effect clone, I'd be on board. I liked the Mass Effect trilogy quite bit, all the way up until about the last 10-15% of ME3, where it promptly fell off a ****ing cliff. Heck, a lot of people refer to Fallout: New Vegas as nothing more than a Fallout 3 reskin. I personally think it's more than that. Regardless, F:NV is one of my favorite games, reskin or not.

Wait, you can turn those trading cards into money? I thought they were just worthless trinkets to look at.