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It is very slow. Not slow as in too many steps to get to the fun bits, but slow slow. I played only in fast forward x2 speed, which for other games would have been normal speed. It puts a lot of weight into the Landsraat, which is badly designed, as you have no way to affect how others will vote. You can buy more votes with influence, but as we have already seen in Endless Space 2 with the Academy requests, if something is decided by how many resources are dumped into it, the AI will always have an advantage through the resource bonus it already has. Alpha Centauri worked, because different policies were tied to traits that the different leaders and societies favoured to different extent. Then it adds the houses minor for random vote distribution. This is a simple RNG though, so one resolution was marked as being favoured by the houses minor - it failed because while all major houses voted for it, all 300 house minor votes were assigned to votes against. In the end, the Landsraat is just a bad RNG system. The game does nothing truly right, while doing some things truly wrong.
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Good Old Games still oldies but goodies
melkathi replied to melkathi's topic in Computer and Console
I wonder if they intentionally wanted old people think of Dr. Sbaitso. -
Good Old Games still oldies but goodies
melkathi replied to melkathi's topic in Computer and Console
This sounds like painful AI narration: -
Having multiple characters also means Bartimaeus has more targets to repeatedly stab, so more characters may escape.
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Most games don't allow for protagonists with gnawed off heads. That is why people in Bartimaeus' vicinity have trouble identifying with video game characters.
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Brought to us by the same people who had proof of WMDs in Iraq but no proof of human rights violations by Israel. Yeah, I do not see how anyone can take anything coming out of the US seriously anymore.
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My regret: I couldn't find a nice old set of scales to put the gargoyle's quest cartridge on one side and chocolate on the other.
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I enjoyed transmog in GuildWars 2 and Old Republic. If you are going to try and get people's money by selling them a "look how you want" or generally spend hundreds of hours with that character, I believe it only makes sense to allow players to enjoy it.
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And now you basically described the Saints Row franchise
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The thing is, Bruce could probably quit his dayjob and live off the monetisation from that channel.
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And they do want this outcome. Look at Greece removing art from the syllabus and replacing it with cheerleading.
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Word is the Russians are behind everything. They so zealously meddle, they even started the rumours that they are behind everything. And if you are missing socks - the Russians.
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Some of the extreme damage from old posts is due to an Argenta bug, where a certain ability would not raise damage according to the modifier provided by the stat (+1, +2, +5 etc) but by the stat itself. An Argenta with (I think Perception) 95 would multiply damage by 95 instead of times 5. It is still strange though how for a game with surprisingly few actual worthwhile choices when leveling up, it is easy to make all the wrong ones. And not getting the exact weapon you need at the exact time you need it makes a lot of difference as well - there just isn't a lot of worthwhile loot. The vast majority of weapons you just trade for reputation. Argenta progresses between something like 3 boltguns throughout the whole game, and only her alt weapon slot makes any difference between builds. Again though, there may be just two heavy bolters and two flamers worth equipping. Most likely, if you messed up anything it is colony projects, locking you out of two or three items worth buying. Again, most items you get from the factions are again just bloat.