melkathi

Not really in character and the storyteller is too nice to really say no to players, especially if they are new to the setting. So we ended up with a jerk simply trying to ruin everything and making the first 5 minutes of the session last 3.5 hours.

I'm reading a Steampunk anthology right now. It has no lasers and had no swords so far I loved Pride and Prejudice, that pretty much no swords in it either. Nor do I remember it having lasers.

I wasted my time today.

We played an introductory session of Vampire: the Requiem today. It went very badly. Now I'll have to nicely tell teh storyteller tomorrow that I will not be present the next session or any session thereafter as I truly have better ways of spending my Sundays. I hate players who actively try to sabotage the team...

Just that "et cetera" is not a colloquialism. It is a latin phrase that survived to this day and is far from what you try to make it out to be. Perhaps its a sort of "language barrier" or a cultural thing. Over here in the old world, there is nothing strange about that scene you linked. Far from it, a high ranking military man, to prove being above the rabble would make sense to be using a latin phrase instead of saying "and so forth" or something like that. After all, it is part of how those phrases did survive. If you would be talking about the "thou" and "thy" we were plagued with in so many games (I tried replaying Vampire: Redemption... god, those dialogues were painfull), then I could understand the criticism. Or if we were talking about teh blizzard tendency to build in a fake jamaican in every game, that could be seen as immersion breaking as well. My own pet pieve for example is Leliana's obsession with shopping, which is a far too modern thing for a setting that otherwise tries to be dark fantasy. The use of et cetera on the other hand is part of the world they are trying to depict and unlike "thou" not a complete anachronism. But it may just be a location thing. The Witcher is more based on central european culture than on D&D and therefor as a setting it may just be more attuned to our reality over here and fail to strike the same chord over there.

Which leaves us with Planescape: Torment and ... Alpha Protocol as the only RPGs with good writing? But the example you are mentioning kinda is realistic. In a situation where someone is being victimised you only have two choices: help them or look the other way. What did you want? Option 3: join the tormentors? That isn't very realistic either.

I haven't even finished The Witcher 1... Luckily what I did play of it I did in German and not English, which, from what I heard, made a huge difference. There is one thing that always bugged me and I could never figure out. When leveling up a skill - let's say for example my *wooshslashwhirl* attack used against many weak opponents - is the bronze medal upgrade I chose cummulative with the silver medal upgrade? Or should I, wherever possible, use bronze uprades for skills I wont want to strengthen further and hold out for a better upgrade I'll be wanting down the road? If I got a +10% damage and then take a +20% damage, does that turn into a +30% or is the +10% wasted as I could take the +20% without taking that first? (numbers in example completly random)

Hassat, just do what I resigned myself to doing: Don't log in a MMO during events

You may want to go to the forum and contct Sally via PM.

Just keep as far away from the prequels as possible. I'd go as far as advising to shoot anyone you remotely suspect could be possibly considering to think about perhaps bringing a copy of any of the prequels near your city. The sequels aren't bad. I enjoyed Messiah quite a bit. It's only Chapter House that I did not really like. Stil I prefer the first book to any of the sequels. You are in for a few surprises though as the story unfolds in the sequels, I think

I have been curious about that myself.

And Zoraptor is successfull Only took three and a half hours for someone to get annoyed For me Steam turned out not to offer the user friendly service I would require, so while I own games on the platform, I will choose to buy on GoG instead whereever possible. I have been moving country rather often lately and Steam does not like that, locking me out of my Steam wallet every time. To unlock the funds in my Steam Wallet for use, customer support kindly explained to me that I would need to make a completly new purchase / add funds to my wallet with a new credit card from the new location each time I move. Simply put: "Pay us so you can access the credit you have with us". Erm... no thanks. I moved country four times in the past two years and will move again before the end of this year. I am not going to open up a new bank account, get a new credit card just because Steam decided that "In the past you paid with a credit card from a different country than your current IP. Make a purchase with a credit card from your current country to remove the region lock on your account."

Tried playing Borderlands 2 again. Game rubs me the wrong way though and just can't seem to enjoy it the way I did the previous one.

GMT+2 Melkathi = Melkathi very original I know I'll have to transfer to wahetever server we end up playing I guess. Or do we make new accounts? Edit: also, do we use any voice chat thingiemagickgadget?

Hey I'll try and make a couple of games. Will be out of town half of next week, but other than that. I'm not very experienced when it comes to LoL, but my fairly good characters are Soraka, Morgana, Cassiopeia and Annie... in that order I guess I am CET+1. So nearly same timezone as you two CETs.

I would have joined as Soraka, but you already have a priest

He means me

If they made some strange fairy tale rpg. Or an interesting Steampunk setting. Or something very punky cyberpunk. Or if they did a Tron RPG. Yeah, I'd play that. But franchises that I don't care for? Nah.

At least you are suggesting that they keep picking it back up Hi Melk I like Bioware and despite all this "Bioware Bashing" I guarantee you that almost every person on these forums who claims to dislike Bioware and that there games are sub-par will play Dragon Age 3 when its released. Mark my words I wont. And I think I proved that by not playing ME3 Sub-par... Bioware has entrenched itself in a specific niche, with a very specific style which does not appeal to me. It is far less a "bioware is bad" issue than the hordes of people who very vocaly will explain how they are perfect, which in turn will make those who disagree with that position to overly disagree. I do take offense when a "serious" gaming journalist drools over the consequences in Mass Effect and then discards the writing in Alpha Protocol as shallow for example. BACK ON TOPIC: ( ) I accidentally deleted my continuous game in Anno 2070. Warehouses full of resources. 2.12 million credits. A research town churning out prototypes... all gone... So I have to start a new game and get back countless hours of playtime.

At least you are suggesting that they keep picking it back up

He does that sometimes, doesn't he?

Played a bit more of Impire. It has still quite a number of bugs. The devs are actve on the forum which gives a bit of hope that they will fix them. Of course there was an unfortunate incident of a dev telling players to learn to play... and sporting a steam username "LOL y u mad tho". That did not help the studio. Obviously there have been tons of apoligies and a change in name... Game turns out to be far far froma Dungeon Keeper clone. It's an RTS witha small number of units. In that it is closer to Dawn of War 2 I guess. It is interesting and has great art style and attention to detail. It does need polish though. I don't regret getting it, but I cannot at the moment recommend it 100%. Then again, I would not recommend without at least some reservation buying Fallout 3 either because of the bugs inherent in nearly every Bethesda game So it's a fun little game. It has a reasonable price. It is deffinitly not what many people expect from it though and it does need a patch (which has been promised to come soon).

I'll do some more poking and searching for stop options next time it remember to bother me about it

I played that hard and fast. You may have noticed, the last mission spawns the highest level hero of each of the sphere mission chains (the reason why the third mission is important after all: it allows for more XP for the heroes). Your hero will very likely be so powerful that you can simply charge one wizard's capital and kill him, then recruit the hero of that sphere and move on like that. You may very well be able to kill off three oponents before the computer's armies are so big as to put a stop to that by threatening Merlin. The map is symmetrical. You can just decide ona direction, clockwise or anti clockwise, and circle around it hitting capital cities which wil be similarly positioned to your own. It has been many years, so my memory isn't 100% on this, but it may actually be possible to recruit one or two of the other heroes before the AI has time to do so.

You need to write a song about it and upload it to youtube. My personal youtube updates are getting boring