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@BruceVC As a man i must say that i´m glad not being a woman in those countrys. I dont meant things like driving a car.. but more being used as a modern slave. The most bad things we dont hear in the news but are very common... Woman are lesser beings there. It´s in their tradition. Even fundamental christians are inspired by the thought of bad eve good adam and that nonsense. So i realy can understand woman who are attracted to old "banned" theories of what is and what not... nature related ... Woman who are inspired by witches from old are the coolest i know. IS a bit OT but i think that it is a good movement also that you find once again what was for you and was taken away from the clerics. I´m sure it helps woman who feel a bit "helpless" to start digging into ancient cultures and myth where you were accepted as you are and not as some thing. And feminism should inspire woman and is not a cult of domination. If it inspires a punished and bad treated woman to stand up and free herself i think it´s great. Because we all know that a man has more physical power and violence in his ego then most woman does and a lot make use of it. If man would not hurt them there wouldnt be a problem so the problem for them is imo the violence and traditional thinking of being superior just because of the **** adam and eve fairy tale.

@Osvir I agree with you... the egyptian osiris inspired jesus etc. The 12 apostles are the zodiac and so on. (IT´s all in the open now. Check out Bill Donahue on youtube... that guy is worth more then all popes in history! ). It´s all some astronomical and the 7 chakra of the vedics stuff they put down in tales so only a few would understand them and the rest would just do as being told. Even in the ancient times there was a priest class that made use of their inner knowledge. Always the same. Monetizing on knowledge or wisdom meant power and controll and today it´s money. I thought alot about religion and especialy the history of it and my conclusion is and stays no thank you, a million + lives burned, killed and tortured are enough for a world like this. We dont need it, what we need is education and human empathy. If we would teach our children more about empathy and the gift of live and how to create and not to destroy and just consume maybe we would have less violence and greed. But i doubt it and i will die before that will happen. But i´m absolutely against a one way education of children that a negative force (god) has created our planet and everything in it. Even heaven and hell must be erased from the memories because there is only one paradise and that is HERE. Garden Eden is our planet and the theory of a later heaven is the cause why they all dont care about the here. About JEsus... the bible jesus never existed how they wrote it down. THe bible was changed a 100 times i bet and there are theories of this and that about this guy. 2000 years and the christians have not understood his teachings or the 10 commandments. If you lead a corporation that bad you would have been fired 2000 times. So god is not with them and will never show himself to anyone. He must be so embarased because of their stupidity and ignoreance of 10 simple rules and giving knowledge it´s the most epic fail of humanity! You can say that whole religion thing based on the egyptian judaism mix is an epic fail. Native people in the rain forest are way more inspiring then any of these terrible scribbles and messup up mind freaks. I realy think religion is a mental disorder once you belive that stuff. The asylum would be a good place for all fundamental believers because they are dangerous to children and humans! Yes religion turned humans into creatures with no brain!

hehe...the caster animation is either a simple melee attack or mid throwing animation... looks funny for sure. But i wouldnt worry about that, i´m sure they create at least a spellcasting animation and maybe allign the spell node to the hands ! But it looks amazing... and i dont wanted to watch that stream... Game is looking great! Love it

@TCJ that was a very good point. When a little feature or way to introduce a quest(romance) has been picked up by some very vocal people and morphed into a complete different thing then it was meant to be it spreads like a plague that every RPG has to have this... even it was never meant to be a main point of the game at all. Hehe... not roleplaying game = RGP but romancing game with combat and magic = RGCM So in the future you romantics should try to focus on RGCM games....

I have the feeling that back in time a few "humans" with to much time ate to much mushrooms and losed their mind. And so we have these religions of today that you can breake down into control of society via brainwash! And i know that the planet earth dont need a religion... animals dont need that and a stupid rock not in the slightest. But the people in power needed it and they appreciate it very much today too. so no we dont need any religion but a modern humanism that is based on ONE law and that is "what i dont want anyone does to me i dont do to others". That one rule alone would make our planet a very much better place for all. And no science and atheism alone leads to KZ like experiments when you dont have a basic understanding of humanism = empathy and undestanding of the living things. Because the religion kills because of superiority and science kills because of advancement! Both are cold theories about the living.

Yes i´m serious. The graphics and romances dont impress me at all. I dont like excessive games of today and the many reasons people expresses what they like about it are the points why i dont like it. And when i once said i think EAware sucks then i meant it... i´m an not an idiot!

I could also argue that i want the face or the skin of my PC later on DIRTY because he is an adventurer and adventurers dont bath every day and they wander trough rivers, slimy mudponds, swamps and crawl trough caves etc... but i think i just dont care because i can accept that some things are the way how the devs designed them and good is. A game is not a wish concert where everything has to be perfectly looking how i imagine it... would be hard to do by so many different people who all have a unique vision what can be different...

The state of feminism in the islamic world is at zero and so it will stay! This is not anything against any religion but the truth is that religions (not spirituality) is a burden or the enemy of woman. I dont even understand how a woman can accept a male god that suggests to make herself a slave or worse... that is my oppinion. And you should realize that we have an islamic revolution worldwide that will make your fight even worse in the future! So i hope that you army of feminists realize your real enemy and dont try to kill of healthy familys and man who are loving fathers but disagree with you at times because thats alot what happens. You take a person out who is open hearted and then you celebrate your "victory" once the poor guy lost his child to a woman... his ex-wife who in reality is just a selfish psycho. Take it serious and fight the religions that have killed and tortured you for centurys but stop being ignorant about good fathers.

I will NOT play the game simply because of the people who enjoy that stuff. I would have to ask myself how can you seriously enjoy that sh*t when you know what others like about it... you just need to read the comments below the gameplay demo and i know...sorry but you all suck and EAware can shove it down their a**. It´s an excessive game that robs ideas from everywhere flahes everywhere and VIP´s are always on the stage... yeah! Great stuff... PS. stuff like "OH OMG HAwke is female hero yeah wut..kicks as* glamour"

...a high fantasy (whatever that is...) game should make use of the laws of nature. Because if not i want my PC to fly (oh i forgot there is no gravity), walk vertically on walls like a spider (oh i forgot there is no gravity) and talk out my a** (yes that should work). I hate it when things makes no sense. If you can explain to me how that material can be that flexiible or that colorwork for common clothing can be afforded from the mass the game has to tell me. When you dont make huge distinctions between trashy, poor, commoner class and the establishment i think you miss the point of social structure and wealth which is always an important part of a rpg no matter if it is a medieval setting or not (the witcher and dishonored did it right too). It´s still is a medieval setting because of the material they use, how they dress, think and live (buildings included).

I dont think that we get to see our characters or every character in detail that much while you play. Not sure how close you can zoom in but who needs a extreme high poly model if you play a game like that? It´s not a first person game where you can kiss npcs...

F*** that glamour thing! If you have a magical or masterwork piece of weapon or armor then they must be somewhat outstanding but ordinary stuff is crafted for practical use only. I like the approach when a designer knows how an armor is crafted completely. From the material up to the cauterizing of ornaments and colors, otherwise most stuff looks like ... looks like.... right! So stylized armory can look amazing but it should be at least practical too. Nostalgic = more experienced!

Ok... you may be right about the killing but i dont think about a scripted npc as if it is a human being, deeply depressed and so irrational in the worsest way possible. If i had the intuition how selfish and stupid she realy is I wouldnt have brought both npcs together. (so here was bioware not good enough to tell me that there could be a REAL gamebreaker later on if ...)This is not a philosophical question for me when a npc´s decides to go berzerk, mad or just kill my gameplay right in the middle of a game... it is a question of how bad the design is and what can i do to restore my fun. You can also debate a whole day why a npc of any game with the name "noname" has no name and why he wears this red robe... but in the end it´s just some design some dude did and nothing of importance realy. Have you always wondered about people who argue about a modern art image that is just random paint with nothing but could be anything in it and they realy see philosophical questions and what not in it...

I realy like puzzles because they make you think about stuff. Combining objects or using levers in a specific way etc. are a welcome change when combat and dialogue makes 100 % of solving problems. An adventure without puzzles and riddles is leaving out a great option imo. What i dont like are puzzles where you think ok.... this stuff makes no sense and is just there to make you look stupid!

when romances or interaction between npcs or PC´s are somewhat "realistic" but illogical at the sametime you get what i had in BG2 the underdark. The evil dwarf in my party was so bad to aerie that she left... she left right at the beginning of the underdark and i lost my main spell caster because of that. I couldnt adventure further and had to use a save game prior to the sahuagin quest... That was unnecesary, unrealistic (she would never ever walk alone back to athkala) and just bad design! Because in reality my PC would have killed her but i did not had the option to do. A selfish traitor like she in such a situation would have been killed, female or not doesnt matter.

In defense for the witcher... the game setting is medieval europe and no single game came that close to that look. I live in germany and if you have seen old villages, catacombs and castles... it´s authentic as it can get. No mumbo jumbo stuff from japanese or american imagination how it looked here.... on point!

If you only add ONE romance option for a guy dating a woman then feminists and gays are angry and so the complete package of romances have to be thought out in order no one complains and wants to sue you because you are a hidden sexist and xenophobe in their paranoia! So the resources are a problem because romances can lead to paranoia by some people and they are very vocal about. They see sexism and whatnot everywhere... even there is just light they see dem darkness! Burn the witches....

I was thinking about ART and now i know what defines the soul of art for me. And that is art is creation. IT´s a very simple revelation but this basic thought of creation needs to be associated with art imo. I dont want to write much more then that because it´s not the right topic to do (and that something very dark, destructive and disgusting is by other people considered to be art) but it´s another step for me into a more evolved mindset. And i watched Oliver Twist from Roman Polansky and liked it very much. IT immidiately touched me and made me think about how good I had it as a child. How good most people have it (western societys) and dont know it! I stood in my kitchen and thought well... you have everything most people had not and why do you need luxus realy. Why!

@Nonek I couldnt have said it any better then you. Even in my native language i guess. And i agree that his interconnected tales of protagonists are so open to anything possible that it might be a reason why he doesnt seems to care where the guys ends up. During my read of Elric i always asked myself why do i read that... i mean that guy wasnt realy likeable, the whole tale is one tragedy after another (but disguised for him) and his ongoing suffering in detail was more depressing then interesting and the only reason i kept going was to find out if he finds what he is looking for in his "heart". Later in the book I learned to understand his thinking, his very few feelings and wished him just die! And once it ended.... i was so upset at Moorcoc*s honesty how he wrote the only ending possible and thought this book is just there to say "hey see f*** you" thats how it is! No excuses and no mercy and i write realistic events in an unrealistic world/ worlds. And that the plot moves the people is something i dont like too. It´s like a hidden hand telling people that senseless thoughts and illogical behaviour is the way to move forward. Plotholes just sucks and it´s like being cheated imo.

and how you reacted shows me that i caught you cold. How i did that? I grew up in jerky town known for the many jerks and so am I. Say hello to the proud jerk!

Well well well about the godlikes. I dont see them as ugly.... they are just different. And that they are infertile is not important for the adventure i guess... except you want to stay in the stronghold and marry someone... and then quit the game! I think some vips in our world are way more face morphetes and other unexplained experiments then these godlikes. Also gods are not born the way we humans reproduce i guess. There is no myth where 2 gods had sex like we and made a baby. It was always left out and i think i know why...to me gods dont look like humans, why should they? Maybe the godliness is spiritual and not defined by shape....

does anyone here know Michael Moor****´s books (Elric) where you have the feeling the author does not know where the story ends because it feels totaly random at times while you read it. It feels so natural and yet so random that is is like reality. In the later bioware stuff it´s more like a script of a streamlined hollywood movie where you have the vip´s and some events and an end and now they try to fill in a story that is action, romance and some "mystery" but all seems to be forced. Like a disney land somehow and dont make someone totaly screw things up because that would be to complex later on.... we need to get to that end you know....and this one has to survive and this and that...bla bla When i think about bioware today i see them on the path becoming an interactive movie studio. Characters needs to be natural and things can get pretty messy if you write tales that have persons in it who are influental and "realistic". All this everyone must be a vip bores me to death. It´s like a normal human being cant be something unique or interesting because a personality has to have vip status... In the first alien movie you dont have to much interaction and everything feels natural because the people are just ordinary in their field + their unique personalitys and yet everyone of them support the story 100 % and without a single one it all could have failed to work. Just an example that you dont need vip´s everywhere to create a great story if you can write a good story...not that alien was a monster story but it felt so natural and realistic it was scary! edit: that guy´s name is realy moorc**k! so it is not my fault....

I hope your just being silly because that isn't even close to what I asked. When being funny or silly is the opposite of being serious then i was feriously illy again because i dont take myself to serious. I can laugh about my own comments the most but in your case of question i couldnt resist to post what i did cuz i needed some silly laughs for myself... so if your complete text especialy the question about the expansion was serious then i nailed it at least for me...

Do you guys need some NPC to tell you that you are now best buddies because you have adventured trough 3 caves? I mean when you do a friend a favour does he tell you "hey your my best friend now" or do you two just know it because it´s a natural thing ? It´s a bit like with the messed up new synchro of darth vader in Episode 6.... NOOOOO... when you speak out thoughts that are meant to be only thoughts (privacy or intimacy of the mind) it´s ridiculous and i feel like a little kid only to be teached how i have to understand a scene.

For the witcher game the history of Geralt was neccesary because you play him. But when I do real character creation i dont realy want anyone else writing a tale for my "unique" adventurer. I have enough ideas myself and can create a very simple story in just a few minutes that i can use. Not that i dont like one or two fixed events that happened in your past to push the story along or a sidequest but the main theme of my character should be my own thing. I dont even need to write it down into a text box in a gui later because i have a fully working brain in my head... I dont want to question the ability of you obsidian writers to tell an interesting story for my PC but it just does not fit right paired with the ability of unique character creation. You are unique somehow but not so much you know... ? ! But i have nothing against a very basic setup that does not limits myself to much.