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As other have said completion of a game is relatively uncommon and not a good indication for long games like Deadfire, but the steam achievements reveal something more interesting where less than 2/3s of players made it off the starting island. To compare this to PoE, less than half of players made it to the end of Act 1, which to be fair is significantly longer than getting off the island, and only 13% finished the game https://steamcommunity.com/stats/291650/achievements EDIT: I forgot to take into account mods and console commands, as such the % of achievements only reflects Steam players who did that without using mods or the console and Steam players who used mods or console with some kind of work around like the IE mod for PoE. Anyways I think we can draw a few general conclusions, that a significant amount of players will put in little to no time playing a game they have (whether purchased or gifted), that many will not complete the game and quit after a few hours, and that unintutive gameplay won't be pursued by most players (in these cases few relative pacifists or intentionally pissing off companions) Specific to PoE, Deadfire actually had a higher percentage of players finish the game, which we can interpret as either higher target audience approval or more dedicated players relative to owners of Deadfire or that Deadfire can be completed quicker than PoE. I don't think any of these facts or assumptions can readily explain why Deadfire under performed commercially, to compare it to a game that was wildly successful only 23.4% (at most, could be as low as 11.5%) players managed to complete DOS2 and only 60% got past the 1st act https://steamcommunity.com/stats/435150/achievements Josh's comments about Deadfire having less awareness remains the explanation I have the easiest accepting, albeit it is one that is more difficult to address. And one last thing, Planescape Torment is the IE game that has aged the worst. It's a great interactive storybook but the gameplay is absolutely horrendous, and I can't justify replaying it like I could BG or IWD. Fite me irl.

That'll be worth a watch. Ended up watching Look Who's Back and thought it was funny, if a little too on the nose for the current climate.

That's an opinion bruh, there is no objective criteria for what constitutes a spiritual successor.

After getting his ass kicked by his neighbor, he's slowly been losing his mind.

Yes, if it requires the existence of a state with the ability to imprison, kill, and otherwise punish then it infringes upon liberty. You yourself claimed, quoting Paine, that this was a necessary evil. If your conception of liberty doesn't consider getting imprisoned, killed, or punished by an authoritative entity that will imprison or kill you for noncompliance an infringement then I have to question its coherence. If you think that without a state to enforce rule of law you would kill anyone that comes across your path, I think that says more about you than the necessity of the government.

I played Kingmaker for maybe 2 hours, picked a feat that didn't work and ran into several bugs. I'm going to wait a few more months and then give it another go in the hopes it isn't a mess. Anyways I'll echo complaints about sales figures not correlating to quality. I think that Deadfire made some pretty egregious errors like the inversion stuff, the ship combat, and a lack of sea monsters in a region that's supposed to be infested with them. But flawed games still sell well so gameplay issues alone aren't necessarily a good indicator of why or why not something sold poorly. I doubt any one thing is really a good explanation as to why Deadfire was a commercial disappointment, so I think claiming whatever game that did something different is better because it sold more copies isn't a very good argument.

I watched Dolemite Is My Name. As comedies go, it was one of the better ones I've seen and it was nice to see Eddie Murphy again.

That's an ahistorical view and only applies if you believe the government is a necessary component of any human interaction and the state is any form of organization, which is an awfully strange take from someone who repeatably calls for getting the government out of people's lives. And frequently, that is nothing. To say nothing of seizure by the state or financial entities that is perfectly legal. The last couple of centuries would beg to differ. Then your problem with socialism restricting liberty is inconsistent, because you are supporting the restriction of liberty in the name of property. It's immediately stolen by the state and inevitably paid in fees required for living. The days of the small craftsman are almost all over, for the majority of the world labor is alienated from life. I'll believe that when Texas executes a corporation. Yeah, my mom going through cancer was a pretty big eye opener for me. Right now a friend of the family has stage 4 cancer with large lumps growing on her and has to go to work in this miserable condition or Home Depot will pull her insurance. And damn dude, it's been a real long time since you've been around these parts. How's it been going?

Eh, forums miss subtextual context pretty easily.

I can read my friend, I'm claiming that you can't call someone a statist if you believe in the necessity of a state. This is ribbing on GD (and right-libertarianism in general), who has previously used statist as a negative. https://forums.obsidian.net/search/?q=statist Anyways, "penultimate utopia which is probably indistinguishable from any number of paradise afterlives" is meaningless, the same can be (and usually is) said to dismiss anything that seeks to change the status quo in a meaningful way.

Then you don't have any business calling anyone else a statist. How does this not equally apply to capitalist society? Not only does the state enforce property at the barrel of a gun, but for the vast majority of people housing, food, and labor are not exclusively theirs and can be taken at will. By your logic living imperiled is natural and liberty is a pipe dream.

Libertarian started being used by Dejacque, a 19th century french socialist, because Proudhon was too misogynistic and anti-semitic. It wasn't until radical liberals needed something new to call themselves that it meant anything but anarchism. Then your knowledge is limited, because it has been a thing for over a century and was the lines (one of) the first socialist organizations split over. Read God and the State. Property and (neo)liberal economics require a state to enforce property relationships with force, if anything it's right-libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism that break down when it comes to property.

I think they're in jail, if I'm not mistaken KXL protestors got lengthy prison sentences that were absurd relative to action. The possibility of getting locked in a cage seemingly has a chilling effect on the desire to act. Anyways soil degradation is yet another environmental issue, we've got maybe 60 years of being able to grow food left if things don't change. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/ Of course the solutions aren't easy, because it would require ceasing the use of many chemicals in farming as well as ending deforestation and there is no tech solution to the problem.

We are all children of God-King Soros.

Maybe "She's Gen Z, not a millennial", which is true. Of course the people who usually make that argument are massively rectum ravaged over her, so who knows what we will see.

He's also the Cardassian that tortured Picard, which is a much better role than an immortal incel looking to become a god because the girl he was crushin on rejected him.

Jesse Ventura is going to be Vermin Supreme's running mate.

But that is what you would do or want, not what everyone who may play BG3 or bring the banjo to an orchestra would do or want. As it is I'd bet my hat multiplayer similar to what Laraian did in DOS2 is going to be in BG3, and that it will be completely optional just as it was in BG, BG2 and DOS2. If you're interested in a single player game adapting D&D mechanics to fit a computer game, then there's been no indication that BG3 won't provide that.

Looks amazing will pick up when it's on sale.

By striving for the impossible we achieve the limits of possibility, if we were to cautiously do no more than what we know to be possible then we would never take a single step forward. Quite a bit of the time a proper single-player cRPG plays like a very poor rendition of a PnP game (even when not directly adapting PnP mechanics) with meh storytelling and most of them only saved by grognards having masochistic tastes in mechanics or waifus, the exceptions are unfortunately few and far between. I think it's almost certain that Baldur's Gate 3 is going to have multiplayer functionality similar to the DOS games, because that fits well in Larian's wheelhouse and with wizards branding D&D as a social experience/lifestyle. It's similarly almost certain that it's going to be able to be played by yourself, and be close enough to D&D 5E for those familiar with the system to recognize it, so it should be good enough for anyone able to slog through Kingmaker.

Huh, guess I'll have to avoid Lesser Wounds then. Thanks for your help.

Honestly, it'd surprise me if BG3 wasn't multiplayer. The first two having multiplayer (which I doubt few on these boards ever used) aside, the shore mages have been trying to brand D&D as sort of a lifestyle thing you do in a group, and a videogame that does multiplayer like the DOS games fits that like a glove. As long as they don't do anything like Armor in DOS2, it will probably be a pretty good game that captures tabletop.

I mostly want to use Forbidden Fist with Draining Touch for thematic reasons and consistent Con afflictions tbh, I wasn't expecting it to scale with unarmed abilities else it'd be as broken as the Woedica spiritual weapon used to be. I'm going to use the Community Patch, and I believe that it raises wound limit to 10 for Shattered Pillar. Does WotEP work with Instruments of Pain in the same way Citzal's Spirit Lance?

Old bearded men can walk into the women's bathroom as well, because there's no bathroom guard or whatever to prevent someone from walking in to a bathroom at the vast majority of places. This further distracts from how pedophiles are more likely to victimize children they are familiar with through family, friendship, work, etc. than to grab a kid in a bathroom. I guess accepting and acting on the fact that uncle eddie is a creep is a lot harder than screaming about hypothetical transwoman pedophiles stalking bathrooms for some people.

I'm considering making a sage for my next Deadfire playthrough and wanted some help. Currently I'm torn between three ideas, 1) a 2-hander Shattered Pillar that uses Citzal's Spirit Lance (WotEP and Willbreaker as backup weapons), a Nalpazca dual wielder that uses Modwyr + something else, or a Forbidden Fist that uses the exploit for infinite Draining Touch. Are there any items in particular I should look out for and any trap abilities I should avoid?