Nordicus

Huh, and I thought it was a Witcher 1 reference

That is an impressive hyperbolic claim with no backing and seemingly no other reason to exist rather than be confrontational. I'm downright hopelessly trying to figure out what you mean by "shallow", is it your twist on "natural"? Tell us, oh Torturer of Butterflies

It almost annoys me how little business I've had with GOG.com. I'm not personally a massive retro-fan, and the few old classics that I want, I'd rather have as boxed copies, no matter how rare. Two of these titles would be Arcanum (because I really have to complete my Troika collection!) and Planescape: Torment. Plus, even if there was a sale on a game that I'd want, I hate having huge backlogs and Steam is feeding so many games into it already.

Hahaha, oh whew, if you actually meant what you said, I'd be here debating the game for hours. Oh wow, the planets must have aligned because I'm playing it too, after an insanely long hiatus. The first major dungeon under the starting town was rather tedious at times. But now that I can leave the starting village, the game's simply sweeping me away, hours at a time (then dying without having saved the last 30 minutes of progress) My major gripe with the game is that for a diablo clone, it's rather hard to target stuff and the isometric perspective can get really weird at times. I'm having problems with 1 character that I don't even have with 6-man parties in Icewind Dale games I heard Divinity 2 got "remade" once or twice after its initial release. Can anyone here tell me what made the first version such a poor-to-average game, and made the current one actually quite good?

Finished Stalker: Clear Sky like 5 minutes ago, and wow, that game was such a thorough disappointment. It's like somebody took everything that made Shadow of Chernobyl, shook it in a canister like a madman, and then poured it out, putting a few finishing touches to it, 75% of them bad. It's essentially the first game all over again, except none of the design polish. Difficulty spikes everywhere and complete lack of atmosphere

What's up everyone, 300-hour player here! Maining a level 80 Asuran Mesmer with a level 35 Asuran Necromancer on the side. While the novelty of the game has worn off, I'm still playing it almost daily with my friends in our guild. It's a very enjoyable experience, I'm surprisingly addicted to the "Dress-up doll" aspect of the game. Just can't have enough good armor skins and dyes! Also, is anyone else excited for the upcoming Halloween event?

"Notes" section where you could write your own notes to read later? The lack of this feature in most RPGs and open-world games didn't use to bother me, but about 2 years ago I played the first Deus Ex (yes, heresy to play it that late, but, in my defense, I played the horrible Invisible War a year after that to pay for my sins!), and after noticing that I could create my own in-game notes in my journal, either editing the ones game gave me or making new ones, I was using it CONSTANTLY, either to write down computer passwords that I read or clues that other NPCs gave me. It sped my progress along by eliminating backtracking, increased my immersion because I could make my own decisions on what information is important as JC Denton. I'd come to a lot of situations where minor information was useful 0.5-1 hour after I gained it, thanks to the rather large levels. As an example, in Morrowind (I believe it lacked this feature, though I could be blind), a few times an NPC would give me information (i.e., an unmarked quest) and the game would word it entirely differently in the journal, sometimes leaving out vital details that I'd only be able to find again after going through about a 100 "little secret"-titled subject quotes. Anyone who's played Morrowind will know that you sometimes leave a quest hanging for maybe 20 gameplay hours until you're in a position where you can complete it without too much hassle. Now of course, there is always the option of writing it down on paper or a Notepad file, obviously. However, I play most PC games in full-screen and sometimes it's easy to lose physical notes. By having a Notes section in your journal, you can tie a bit of information to your save file itself. Heck, developers put tutorials and manuals into the game itself even when you commonly get a proper paper or .pdf manual regardless, right? Anyone else here who'd like more games to add this feature?

I think they'll simply have to send a survey, because with all the different add-ons to the donation tiers, there are simply too many different possible donation reward combinations that cost the exact same amount.