Marceror

Work is tricky for me right now. I'm on a massive project with a major deliverable due soon, so I likely won't get to play until later this evening (Pacific timezone). I assume my productivity would be much lower if that were an option right now. I might be able to work some magic today, and head home earlier than normal. Fingers crossed.

I met, shook hands, got a photo, and talked hoops with Jerry West Monday night. But now I'm incredibly jealous. If it makes you feel any better, it's not like I was swapping life stories with them. It wasn't my intent to monopolize their evenings. I just wanted to quickly thank them for delivering this game. Josh, in particular, seemed like he was open for a longer conversation, but I wasn't trying to be that guy. I also saw Shane DeFreest and Justin Bell. Adam Brennecke zipped by at one point. I've met and interviewed him before, immediately following the Kickstarter campaign. There were a few other faces that were familiar from various Obsidian videos. I didn't notice MCA, Tim Cain, Brandon Adler, or Darren, but it was dark and I could have missed them. Did I mention waitresses in lingerie? Made it that much harder to spot the Obsidian folks.

I went. Shook Josh and Feargus' hand. Had a vodka T on Obsidian. Enjoyed the waitresses in sexy lingerie. A nice little shin dig. Josh looks appropriately tired. Thx again Obsidian!

Hmm, I'm a boring ole codger who doesn't do much clubbing these days. OTOH l live 30 minutes away from the Obsidian offices, and popping in for a beer or two could be fun. Hmm....

Some good ole' fashioned hype is warranted and deserved about now, particularly for the backers who have been invested in this for, what, 2 1/2 years now? It's a wonderful milestone that we are about to arrive at in less than a day now.

Not released yet..

way to dis the backers, man! If we can't sleep, why the hell should you? This may very well be the last game I back. And it's only 11:30PM local time. Apparently they're only working 15 hour days at Obsidian these days. Practically bankers hours. Where's the commitment?

Wow. Maybe there's hope for me afterall!

Which digital orders? Things like the almanac and stuff like that? If so, that hasn't been released yet. I believe someone mentioned about it being released either on the 25th, or when the game goes live on the 26th. Right now the only digital thing released is the key claiming. This really messed me up. I expected to have my digital cookbook downloaded by now. I even planned a big dinner party to celebrate, in which I had planned to feature some of the dishes from the cookbook. Since I didn't have any recipes to work with, I just had to serve everyone dry toast! Any hopes I might have had to become a master chef are ruined. Thanks a LOT Obsidian!

Woo Hoo! Splurge. Christmas taken care of in March! You raise a good point! You get a PoE! You get a PoE! You get a PoE!!!

Is this where I sign up for the backer beta? Will it be launching soon?

But how will I download my cloth map, hmm? RIDDLE ME THAT! Mapgate! Mapghazi! New scandal!! Just use your particle displacement device.

Royal Edition is royal.

Happy to be pre-loading. Too bad I have such a busy week at work this week, though.

I guess it's a good time to start thinking seriously about this. For me, it's most likely looking like I'll run a rogue. This isn't because I most want to play a rogue, but has more to do with the fact that I'm not aware of any rogue companions that can join, and the DnD purist in me wants to have a rogue in the party. I think I'll go with the "obvious" choices for the rest of the party, at least for my first runthrough. Those being: *Edair - fighter/meatshield *Pallegina - secondary meatshield with some helpful magical powers *Cadegund... err, Durance - gotta have a priest. I always envisioned having Cadegund with me, so I'll miss her. But I guess you can't go wrong with a Priest created by MCA as a replacement. *Kana - I love Chanters, and... she's one (or is it he?) *Aloth - the traditionalist in me says a wizard has to be in the first run. Sagani would be the next in line, or possible replacement for one of the above.

Indira, you ignorant sl*t! Please pull yourself together already. Seriously, I haven't been around for a while but it's nice to see some kumbayaing going on.

I would totally beta test a full release of the game. Would even take some time off work for that. But I don't believe this is remotely in the cards.

Regarding the book:

http://wastelandrpg.tumblr.com/post/102309967281/wasteland-2-collectors-edition-status-update

Playing as Castile in EUIV, and have played for around 100 years so far. I'm playing mostly as a pacifist in Europe so far, except my conquest of Granada to complete the Reconquista. I'm mostly focused on exploration and colonization, which seemed a reasonable goal for my first play through. I played it cool with Aragon, who I believe is meant to be my natural rival, and did what I could to keep our relations high. We had a royal marriage, but I did not become their ally as I didn't want to get dragged into their wars. In spite of them declaring me their rival, I eventually received a decision to hold a Castilian wedding, and that put me into a tight alliance with Aragon and Naples, since our leaders are all from the same dynasty. But they almost became like my vassals, even though I received no money from them. Eventually Aragon decided to join with me and form the Kingdom of Spain. I took over all of their forces and holdings in one fell swoop, without any fighting required and went from a moderate European power to a true heavy hitter, controlling the entire Iberian Peninsula minus Portugal as well as some of Southern Italy. A while later I was able to also integrate Naples into my kingdom, and at that point controlled all of Southern Italy and much of Central, bordering the Papal States in Rome. Colonization has been the real battle, particularly against Portugal. But in spite of a couple silly misunderstandings from me on the mechanics at first, I'm in the lead with colonies. I focused first on the West Indies, and built my colony to the point that it became self sufficient (the AI took over, to my surprise and assumed the name Castilian West Indies. They control nearly all of the good islands and most of present day Cuba. Of course, Portugal is right there, and they took a share of the spoils as well. Next I focused on Brazil and managed to establish an AI controlled "Spanish Brazil" along much of the eastern coast of South America. I'm trying to get another similar colony established in Western Africa. And while continuing to explore and develop my colonies I noticed that I was all of the sudden at war with my former ally Portugal. My colony, Castilian West Indies actually attacked Portugal's colony in the same area, and is fixing to kick them out of Cuba. They also are also colonizing lands on their own and have a fairly sizable army and navy. Wow. So I left off way too late last night with that war still to be fought. During it all I actually managed to become the top ranked nation in the game. This game is completely amazing.

Aberforth is immortal.

Oh my. Europa Universalis IV is... disturbingly good.

I never found him, so I can't be any more help than that.

Glad you enjoy it. I don't usually like first person games, but I did try Skyrim due to everyone I know saying I needed to do so. But ultimately I couldn't get past the overtly console like controls, which on a PC made it feel like I had one hand tied behind my back. And of course the whole first person thing, often resulted in me feeling nauseous. I think I got around 24 hours in before calling it quits. I could see that there was a great game there, but ultimately it wasn't for me.