melkathi

In case people are wondering why nobody is posting screenshots, people have independently decided to boycott the thread, to protest Amentep locking threads "for length" always just after I post in them. Obviously a conspiracy to prevent people from looking at my posts. Now I am not saying I support this boycott or that I believe these conspiracy theories to be true, but I am amazed and touched by how people have started this boycott for me. *sniff* Thanks guys and gals. I appreciate it, but for forum peace, start posting again.

So is this releasing this month?

The Dwarf that didn't work for me was one of limited vocabulary Enchantment? Enchantment!

Yes. Story wise it stays absolutely true to the book, with only one side quest and npc added to the game. That character is written by the book's author though for the game, so they don't feel out of place. The horde combat is fun enough as a gimmick. You get enough characters for your party so that eventually you can make a party that fits you. It isn't a long game and by the end of it you have gotten everything out of the gameplay that it had to offer. A good effort for a small studio. Don't regret backing it. Would have liked a bigger game but happy with what we got. The story I guess can feel a bit odd at times, if you haven't read the books, as the game faithfully follows all the chapters the protagonist is in. But it leaves out all the chapters he isn't present for. So as the protagonist comes across certain situations, the reader knows things the player doesn't. The asking price is too high though.

Dedicated to the discussion in the BG3 thread about Dwarves in crpgs: Dark Elf: "You are nothing but drunkard comic relieves with fake Scottish accents." Tungdil Goldhand: "Everything dark elves say is a lie, so..." "... I'll just go find dwarf on dwarf romance." Boïndil: "Kids..."

Well, money allows devs to keep working on a game. If they had spend another 6 months on Stygian, they could have done more. And then there is the security of knowing you haven't run out of money. That does wonders for letting people concentrate on their project

If the money that is being poured into BG3 had been given to the Devs who did Stygian. The RPG we would have gotten would have been for the ages.

Oi! Watch how you talk about Fallout!

Because in other games the pre-made characters you do not choose, die in a blimp crash, after a Molochean Hand orc flies his ornithopter into it to kill the Living One. And inadvertently getting the whole prophecy rolling.

By the teachings of Zerthimon! *Mind blown* I thought it was an ugly elf...

Doubt you'll get your own party. Larian seems too eager to prove they can write. And creating "iconic" npcs will be part of that. The more nostalgic people are about Minsc and Boo and whatever the others were called, the more newer RPG developers will try to live up to that memory they too have. Be it Pillars or DOS2 or Outer Worlds or whatever (though I'll say again, it was amazingly brave to make such unmemorable, plain party members as in Outer Worlds).

The short guy. Halfling or Gnome or whatever. With the extremely disproportionate head. *shudder* Obviously, they have time to improve.

Mordheim Screenshot of Authenticity:

Maybe he'll spoof an angry rant by me over spoofing a review in my name 😛

It spoofs reviews from people on your friend list?

Spawning on the other side of the base is, from my experience, a bit of a misconception created by extremely bad radar/map mechanics. A lot of the times I have noticed enemies are spawning far away. But I need to be staring in the right direction, at the right time, hitting R to cycle targets for my targeting to pick them up and then possibly have them appear on the radar for a moment. If I miss that window, they won't appear on my radar until it is too late and they have already engaged. That way they give the impression of having spawned right inside the base I am defending. In reality they kept out of line of sight which kept them off the radar. And it is extremely annoying that the npc shouts "You have hostiles incoming" but does not give me a direction. I have though fairly often shot down VTOLs and blown up tanks before they ever had a chance to appear as a blip, because I was looking in the right direction and noticed them (or, in the case of tanks, because they had started shooting at me from beyond radar range...).

MechWarrior 5 has some major problems. Main one is probably your lancemates' AI. We are supposed to defend a base and they run through the buildings. Of course that could have been less of an issue if the devs had designed the base layouts with a street leading through, so that you can reach the other side when the enemies spawn on that side for the next wave.

melkathi plays games starting with M: But there is a character limit on names: Sometimes you have to work with what you are given:

Oooooh, trailers for the announcements... In the classic action movie trailer voice. This summer Written by the social media intern who brought you the press release for xyz And based on the memo written by the personal assistant who ensured the Devs didn't run out of coffee. Get ready For the next Big Announcement

They'd need to do an announcement for when we get the countdown.

Wizards helped a lot to keep the kingdom standing. And when the cultists had built a large enough army of rats, rocs, and other animals not starting with r, that helped the wizards to stay alive.

The Skazz challenge: Cultist Joyous Forest is the first to storm the castle (and having fun doing so) : After everyone ran away from the Liche Queen and wouldn't go back to face her for all the gold in the Kingdom ("all the gold" is relative of course, add enough 0s to the number and some heroes will think about it), the Rogues hung around waiting for someone else to charge in so they could swoop in and cash in on the bounty. Cultist Yellow Boulder, followed by Cultist Pleasant Sea shifted into bear form and did just that.

That will be extra challenging, as the game starts you with two temples of Agrela

Tried playing Majesty Northern Expansion and remembered why I never finish those missions. They are just not fun.