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2/3 is to much, but the whole game could have been reduced by 1/3 to 1/4 across the board. BG was not 220 hours long...

I'm not sure if you are including questlines in encounters, but I would. Than again it's a big question mark if having more time would equal more quality. I'm pretty sure that there is nothing much that could be done around the art style/environment graphics, as they probably don't have the people capable of it. I still wish they would go for true isometric like PoE. Combat encounters would become better by the simple fact that there would be less of them and thus less repetition. Not even counting the extra time for polish and new ideas. What they could change, and I think this would make a huge difference to the player experience, is make the environment more reactive to player actions and the story. A simple example is having different versions of Drezen throughout the story, or if you rebuild or destroy some location it's actually presented as such. This was a big let down in Kingmaker for me too, especially considering how building was a big part of it. Apart from the above, the dialogue could also use some work, or to be more precise, the alignment dialogues are horrific (literally in some cases).

Any occasion?

I personally liked the difficulty curve, early on every fight needed thinking and later in the game you just steamroll the trashmobs. My complaint is that the boss fights are not hard enough, or to be more precise certain boss fights along the main quest line (the optional bosses are great). I do understand why they did it, as they want people to finish the game and these type of games already have low percentage of people who do that anyways. I will not say anything bad about the mini game on the world map because for all it's faults it's still in another dimension compared to what you were forced to go through in Kingmaker... My "complaint" is that the game is too long, which is not to say that I didn't like the amount of content, but I feel like they could have improved a lot of things by spending less time on quantity and more on quality.

DMC5. Trying to beat the prologue boss.

It's coming out earlier than the original date. Because of Starfield.

With mods. I used toybox.

Yep. You will get spawning enemies, but you need to capture forts too. I just locked the crusade morale.

I think they picked the wrong...excuse the pun...forum for that. I doubt anyone of that age is hanging out in forums.

I don't think it's even (only) that. What memes can you even make with their offered "themes". They should have left it open and the mods could have done the pruning if needed.

No. But then again that goes for 90% of stuff posted here.

Chechen troops going in to Russia to fight against Russian separatist. We have come full circle. If this whole sordid affair wasn't sad it would be funny...

https://www.youtube.com/@toldinstone/videos

That is not a bad thing. 😄

And getting roads to be parallel...

For all it's faults SimCity was a better game. I found myself getting bored with C:Skyline as there is no challenge to it, hopefully they add a game to the city builder simulation with the sequel.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/adhesive-to-counter-billion-dollar-us-laser-weapon

Congrats to the big guy! Now come play for the representation and lets try and do something.

We should get more info on Star Wars tomorrow.

Apparently Phantom Liberty revamps the whole game, plus a new ending. Don't know how much of it will come as a free patch to the game though, or if it will at all.

I think that the biggest issue the game will have is empty worlds. The IGN live show just shat all over Avowed... I mean, the trailer didn't grab my interest, but I don't like these type of games. Saying that I still would not feel comfortable ****ting on the game that I haven't played. Really rubbed me the wrong way how they commentated on it and not only that, but the comment was braindead. It was something along the line "I heard they wanted to make it on the scale of Skyrim, but dialed it down. Why would I want to play it then, when I can just go and play Skyrim."

PoE Gothic

Tbh, I'm more hyped for Fable. edit: Got your wish. 😄

They glossed over all of the **** he did during the bodybuilding days and he did some underhanded stuff during that period. Same thing for his actor days, but to a lesser degree.