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Gromnir is an interesting case also in the way it shows how access to Watcher's Keep gear and the raised experience cap make the game that much easier. The fight is really only an issue if you carry over a vanilla SoA party at the experience cap or when using the default party (I'm guessing here, I never used the pre-mades). I never played BG2 with SCS installed because it came out after I stopped playing. I did play the game on Insane with full Tactics and Improved Ilyich (back when they were two seperate mods, pfff, do I feel old now). Yeah, well, after Improved Ilyich you know enough cheese to make the other fights in the game utterly boring by comparison. Except maybe for Kuroisan the Cheesy and Ascension. All of which are mods though. So, time to stop thinking about it before I actually reinstall the game. Time for some more Grim Dawn.

Yeah, most likely... that is roasted pork and Eisbein usually refers to cured ham hock boiled long enough to make it "edible" - and I use edible very loosely here.

The annoying part was when our Obs guys here did their best to remove, redesign or nerf abilities that made trash battles take less micromanagement. The biggest offender of White March Part 2 was the change of spell mastery. It had absolutely no effect on the balance of the few major and really interesting fights because you can spend the spells only once per encounter anyway but for some for me utterly unfathomable reason it was deemed making trash battles to easy. It's hard to blame Obsidian for listening to the complaints on the forum though, but recent efforts have been a bis schizophrenic I think. First we get the Party AI that is supposed to lessen the micromanagement load and then we get a redesigned spell mastery so we get more micromanagement back. Yay... I guess. Also, I don't know, but Grom... I had more problems killing you in ToB than killing any of the dragons.

Sounds like the gameplay might be too vintage for you as well.

Curious... or not really: 44% Hitler, 0% fascist and 91% Sanders.

Yeah, get off my lawn, dammit! Not specifically meant as a direct answer: It's a matter of efficiency. It takes 10 seconds to read a stat priority list for e.g. a World of Warcraft spec while it definitely takes much longer on video even if there are bookmarks.

Oh well, I put the 18 bucks down for the early bird tier with only the game but I sure hope the humor in it turns out to be better than the somewhat boring video. The concept looks great, but I've always had a soft spot for side scrollers. Kinda grew up with them, although I'm sure that on lonely nights my parents still cry over the lost money that I "invested" at the arade.

I have that same beef with the ever more popular video guides for games. Sure a video guide is super useful for a jumping puzzle or some such, but why would I want to watch 45 minutes of hell where someone with an annoying, nasal voice tells me how to gear my toon and blabbles on endlessly? No thanks just give me an article to skim through, FFS.

Well, but there is a different term for using a game (engine) to tell a story: Machinima. I wouldn't count those as Let's Plays videos in the same way speedruns, reviews or dedicated video guides aren't. Or YouTube news coverage or commentary on games (I can heartly recommend "When Cheese Fails" for everyone who played a bit of Starcraft 2). Near as I can tell the HAR HAR goblin presentation is the core aspect of video LPs, which is why I don't like them, and most likely never will.

You actually liked Season 5?

The optional client is optional so that can't be the problem. It is possible to buy the upgrades through GOG's site, in fact, when the upgrades first appeared Galaxy was still a closed beta (if even that). Offering upgrade paths for other games and other companies doesn't automatically mean it works for everyone. We have no insight in how GOG or Paradox offer the upgrade paths but it is quite possible that there is a technical issue and not enough impetus (potential buyers, in other words) to fix it. If I had to guess the problem's either with some form of communication between GOG and Paradox or the billing process, possibly both. Fun fact, there are a two upgrade packs in GOG's Paradox catalogue, but these really are only DLC packs more akin to an expansion, not real edition upgrades. Either way, neither Paradox nor GOG are really going to release the gritty details, but if it were a trivial issue they would have fixed it already.

The thing I find odd is the idea that a 12.5k gold item can somehow break BG's economy and lead to a lack of balance. If there's one thing that the BG games weren't it is balanced. Class choice matters more than any item you could buy, not to mention that you're almost literally swimming in gold a few hours into the games anyway. Not that I disagree with the notion that a low level party member should not be carrying around stuff worth that much. That's just plain bad character/equipment design in itself.

Gamestar stopped being good 16 years ago when the went from sticking it to the man to being the man. *sigh*

No, that's not it. GOG has upgrade paths to higher tier editions available for a number of other games, including Wasteland 2 and the Shadow Run series, some of which I consumed myself. The Galaxy client is currently sort of not capabale of actually installing White March (at least on existing installations) but that is a whole different level of suck that really is GOG's fault.

Apple's products are almost never cost-effective. You get mid-range hardware for high-end prices and buying only makes sense if you do it for the software and the ecosystem (the hardware stopped being unique a long while ago). Or maybe for brand recognition because let's face it, no one makes mice that can't be used while charging look as good as Apple does. *scnr*

Two hourish DLCs nonwithstanding I would argue that the unmodded ToB is amongst Bioware's weakest exansion packs, just only barely pulling ahead of Awakening. The best I would say were the NWN expansions. They even managed to salvage the utter shice that the original campaign was.

Just watched Space Cop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjjiE0OD4K0 I doubt any comment is necessary. Absolutely epic.

By that metric I've been old for 17 years now, and I'm a few years over 30.

I think I've come across every bug so far discovered: Hitched turns, characters (especially The Spectre) getting stuck after interacting with the environment, the upside-down screen problem and the wonderful one where starting combat results in the AI not doing anything at all until you completely quit the game and try again. Not to mention the excessive strain the game puts on the system, but that just might be a Unity 5 issue. Still, I've already spent hours trying and retrying the character generation and I did laugh out when someone called my castoff Adahn. So far so good.

The Earliest Bird Consortium Rook tier seems like a decent deal. Backed.

Assuming the movie is a somewhat faithful adaptation of the book nominating Fifty Shades of Grey for worst screenplay is a bit unfair. With that source material not even the most talented screenwriter could come up with something worthwile. I didn't see the film but next to E. L. James even Stephenie Meyer looks like the next literature nobel laureate. And yeah. I wish I was kidding.

Add a few things here and there and it's the perfect guide to BruceVC's posts. Bruce is too tolerant of the opinions of others to be an SJW. SJW's are basically relatively powerless Stalinists by another name. True, Bruce is the root beer of social justice, but don't let that fool you.

As much as it is painful to admit I think Anita Sarkeesian had it right when she said that the movie is good fun in the cinema but the more you think about it afterwards, the more it falls apart. Of course she then complains about the interpersonal relationships coming too short in a science-fantasy action movie while ignoring the blatant mary-sueing of Rey but thank god, the last thing I want is having to fully agree with her, on anything. JJ at least managed to create an interersting juxtaposition here. Star Trek 2009 which is effectively too different from its base material and Star Wars VII that was so similar to the original trilogy that it essentially is a soulless remake not quite capable of standing on its own. During both films I had fun at the theatre and both films crumbled after repeated viewings and some thinking. Ah well.

That's just how it works. If your character can notice the hidden object it will be highlighted for you, if not you can't use (or loot) it even if you as the player know it is there - because no one in the party does.