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Finished Revelations 2, got the "good" ending. Might go through again to get the other one. Also did some raid mode stuff, but that seems to just be run-and-gun so, meh (though that time I ran out of ammo was kinda fun). Went back to an ancient Skyrim playthrough, still have 2 achievements I'm missing (one of which due to a bug...), going to try to get those. The first minigame was upgrading the gazillion mods though

What system are you playing on? I never noticed an issue with movement in the PS4 version. The only slight "herky-jerky" moments I noticed were when in tight spaces (like a scaffold) and you accidentally shift him from walking to running, or running to walking. He sort of does this stutter-step. Yeah, hardware's gonna be the problem, shame, seemed to perform pretty well at first sight, but looks like I'll need to upgrade ~20fps isn't really playable. Bah

Is there any way to make Geralt move a bit more fluently? Right now it feels like he's skidding all over the place. From the little bit I've played so far this isn't much of an issue in combat, but out of combat movement feels terribly unresponsive (and I thought TW2 was bad, this is much much worse)

Neither of these warrant a day one purchase as far as I'm concerned based on the things we've seen so far. So the only date I care about is the date they go on sale for a reasonable price.

Source: https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/615752320324755456

Spoiler: (No really!) Phew, I was almost afraid I missed out on something, but yeah, I can see how that could give a Fallout vibe (I gave mine to Jaheira btw, bit of a shame you only get to play with it for relatively short amount of time) I'm kinda putting of the RE: Revelations 2 bossfight and have gone back to an old Skyrim playthrough (I also played some PoE and DoS). I seem to have a really hard time sticking with one game and finishing it lately...

BG series has the most insane Fallout easter egg... but you must start it in BG1 to complete it in BG2/Throne of Bhaal. I wonder if the BG:EE team has done any updates to that; or did they even know about it? Are you referring to the "Pantaloons Enigma" (and if so, what makes it a Fallout easter egg?) or is there something else that crosses the entire saga?

From Beamdog? Yeah, I don't see who else will realistically do it? They seem to have the IP around the Forgotten Realms from a development perspective so it should be feasible? Yeah, but can they make combat as fun with whatever the latest version of D&D is? I seriously doubt they'll be allowed to use 2nd edition for a new game, and then there's the risk that they'll start fiddling with things *they* consider to have been "bad" in BG2 (on top of whatever changes were made to the ruleset already) and we'll end up with another PoE... (looks like a duck, squawks like a duck, but swims like something else entirely) I wish they'd just leave BG be, the studio that made it is gone, the talent that made it is scattered to the wind and the saga was complete. If they want to make a BG-style game set in the Forgotten Realms, I'm all for it, there's a definite lack of *good* RtwP games that have been coming out. (there's SitS, which I really should get around to, dunno of any others really) Give them a chance to prove they can do it. But don't abuse our dreams by piggybacking on BG, they'll more than likely just be crushed once more anyway (not to mention that the backlash should they fail to deliver would be beyond epic...).

Squeeeee!! Though... also kinda scares me... EDIT: Colin coming aboard is also way cool, of course

Which is why they do their best to try and kill the second hand market any way they can get away with, these tricks don't affect PC gamers much since you either buy new at release or dirt-cheap in a Steam/Gog/wherever sale. The CPU core thing actually had a practical reason: it allowed them to sell off CPUs with botched cores (by disabling them), which apparently happened a lot in the early days (dunno about nowadays though). People with such a CPU could sometimes re-enable these cores and sometimes they worked fine, though just as often they would kill system stability. Also different models are pretty likely to have other differences besides the lowered clock speed (otherwise simply overclocking would get you a much more expensive card for free and you'd bet that information would spread like wildfire ), like slower ram or narrower buses or what-have-you. I doubt that'll be any time soon as the logistics/administration would likely be nightmarish...

As someone who never played the originals I get a bit of a M&M X: Legacy (should really finish that one...) vibe from the descriptions in that video. Not sure why he doesn't compare the viewpoint to Legend of Grimrock or M&M X which I'd assume the target audience would be familiar with (even though the gameplay of the former is decidedly different, being real time and all)

Dunno, standard price for AAA *PC* titles here has been 50euros (or the pre-euro equivalent) for as long back as I can remember (which would be dating back to the Tomb Raider/Dungeon Keeper times, which were 2000BF at launch, which is ~50euro). Console games have always been more expensive, for some unfathomable reason* But hey, if they can find enough idiots to pay that price instead of waiting for a sale and playing the like 300 other games they own in the meantime, all the more power to them... *well the reasons are quite clear, though why people put up with it is beyond me.

60 euros pre-order price? They are out of their mind! Even if I were super excited about the game I wouldn't be prepared to pay that much

Halfway through chapter 3 in RE: Revelations 2. The game is pretty much more of the same as Revelations 1, but in a less interesting setting (imho, it gives me some serious Tomb Raider vibes, the newest Tomb Raider, that is), though going through the same areas twice with different characters (and seeing the effects of the others that came through first) is interesting, they spiced it up compared to the previous game by allowing actions done by the first two characters to pass through to have effects on the second two (eg. depending on what you two the others will be able to access extra goodies and/or will have an easier/harder time in the level). The boss fights so far have also been less frustrating than in Revelations 1, we'll see if it stays that way though, wouldn't be surprised if the final boss turns out to be an insane difficulty spike, like in the last game. Still not sure about the lockpicking minigame, either I'm doing it wrong or it's just a big "**** you" towards colourblind people as I really can't tell by the supposedly changing colour whether I'm near the unlock point or not. Generally I can figure it out in a few tries by measuring the distances between where it fades and then more or less picking the middle point, but this often fails when it's near the border. Most of the time it's only a minor annoyance but there was this part where there was a box in a timed section (if you're not fast enough you either die or have to skip the box) that I just couldn't get done in time, so I had to give up on that box. Thankfully I only lost out on (potentially useful) loot but game progression wasn't blocked (unlike that horrible spectrometer minigame in Arkham Asylum that actually resulted in me giving up on that game). At least I can be glad that some game designers manage to turn something that's a minor handicap irl into a major source of frustration... Thankfully both inXile and Obsidian included colourblind modes in their games, which I can only applaud, though I've personally not needed it in PoE nor in W2 (which, of course, is even better, though that by no stretch of the imagination means that other colourblind people do not need it to be able to play these game).

Everything being massively sped up didn't bother you? Hm, nothing actually came across as massively sped up compared to most games over the last decade. It was stable, and nothing jumped out as an issue.Hell, the last time I replayed SR2 was about.. hm. 2-3 years ago now thinking about it. Not everyone had problems with it, the performance of the port was all over the place. I guess that is true of all games, to some degree, with a game running like a dream on one computer and having problems on another (with similar level hardware specs), but Saints Row 2 is a very extreme example. It's been a while, but I think the game's speed was actually tied to framerate and there was no way to cap the framerate (I remember games having issues like that in the past, but that was the 80s). So, if you had a beefy rig that could run the game at 120 FPS, then everything in the game was going at hyper speed. There were graphical glitches, keybindings not working, crashes to desktop. It worked fine for some people and was COMPLETELY unplayable for others. The Gentlemen of the Row mod fixed a lot of the problems, though some required weird workarounds as some of the problems were hardcoded into the game. One issue I had with the game, though I'm not sure if this was a PC only problem, was how insanely twitchy the vehicle steering was. You could tweak an ini to lower the steering sensitivity and make the cars much more driveable. Unfortunately, tweaking the steering sensitivity did so not just for the player, but for every vehicle in the game, and the driving AI was hardcoded to the original steering sensitivity, so when you turned steering sensitivity down all the AI drivers constantly crashed into each other causing massive pileups at every intersection. This was pretty hilarious for a while, but got annoying after a while, especially since it broke driving missions, so I had to put the sensitivity back to original and just deal with how twitchy the handling was. It's too bad because it's a very good game that I never got to really enjoy because I've never been able to get it to run well on any machine I've owned. I suppose I should give it a shot on my current monster desktop rig, though running it through WINE isn't likely to help me out in getting it to work properly. From what I remember from trying to get SR2 to run somewhat properly not too long ago (after finishing SR IV, in fact) the steering sensitivity thing is related to the massive speedup, it's one of the ways that you can see you are suffering from the speedup problem according to the stuff I read back then. The rest of the game stays playable with the speed problem (although it looks weird/funny), but driving is just broken.

Everything being massively sped up didn't bother you?

She was also one of the few characters that were sufficiently fleshed out instead of gimmicky or downright silly like Sera or Iron Bull. I don't know what Bioware did with that game, I mean I still liked it enough to play for almost 150 hours but it feels as if it was developed by a team of interns with a little supervision by seniors. What made Iron Bull silly (besides his looks, or is that it?)? His motivations for joining made sense at least, or is it the romance (which I didn't see)? My favourite female character is probably Josephine, she just makes sense and though they didn't turn her into some sort of doll she doesn't look bad (not in the sense that Sera looks like Gollum...), though whether someone would consider her good looking is, of course, a matter of taste. I assumed Jaws of Hakkon was just more Hinterlands style crap, is it actually worth getting? Does it add some meaningful exposition? (which the main story is sorely lacking)

'sup folks? Self portrait Awww...

Finished up DA: I, the main story feels like it lacks fleshing out, we don't really learn anything about the main villain (or he could simply be as one dimensional as he appears, of course), for example. It's a decidedly average game and pretty short if you cut out all the repetitive filler content but I enjoyed my time with it (or I wouldn't have finished it), though unless they release DLC that actually flesh out the main story (my female Dalish Inquisitor has a few questions left for Solas, for one ) I don't see myself returning to it anytime soon. Oh, and I actually liked Leliana in this one.

A full version? Like a copy that comes with every episode? You can buy all episodes together in a pack, yes. But it's not considered as one game but individual episodes (which they try to abuse in the sales by making Episode 1 dirt cheap with only moderate reductions on the rest), but they've all been released. During the game they present it as if it were a tv series as well ("Next time on ..." and "Last time on Resident Evil Revelations 2, blah blah blah"), I find this extremely off putting personally as it breaks the flow of the game in a major way (Since I've just completed half of Episode 2 I can't really say much more about the quality of the game overall, but that wasn't the topic either).

Think I'm nearing the end of DA:I, did all the side quests I could find, collected all the shards (boy, did that have a bad effort to reward ratio), killed the last few High Dragons, didn't bother trying to complete all the mosaics though. So just finishing up some War Table operations and then it's up to the endgame (at least everyone seems convinced we're going to beat up big baddie next, though I guess they could always string up a few more schemes that need dismantling)

Got bored with DA:I so figured it might be about time to finish up my Shadowrun Returns Deadman's Switch campaign. Yeah, guess not, seems all the patches totally broke my savegame. I think I'm pretty far in now: Not sure if I can be bothered to start over at this point, ugh.

None of those allowed in-game chat though as far as I remember, which is the feature I used Xfire for. The line "this time I brought some friends along", co-op confirmed?

Still DA:I did the Warden quest (already did the ball) back to sidequesting now I guess before moving the main plot forward again. Oh, and dragon slaying, think I have 4 to go or so.

So Xfire, which was probably the first of its kind, is shutting down it's social services (which have been lagging way behind the competition for quite a while now). If there's any people here that need/want to download their screenshot/video library, you have until tomorrow (yeah, talking about short notice) http://social.xfire.com/