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Those pictures are really good.

The problem of course is forcing multiplayer and always online down the throat of a game that doesn't need it. Many FPS games have little other appeal than multiplayer, not so with Sim City.

I would suggest that this discussion belongs in Computer & Console where there is already a thread for this kickstarter. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/63563-divinity-original-sin-kickstarter/

For me Homeworld was primarily a multiplayer experience. Competitive RTS for bragging rights. I don't think Homeworld Tychoon tm would appeal to me, or the social media angle. Still if this becomes a hit maybe they will be able to make another Homeworld.

Wow. That sounds remarkably like something I would never glance at twice. Too bad, they have put out some good games over the years. I guess this is where it ends, with the always online/microtransactions trend.

My Galaxys s3 has a cracked screen. Can't be replaced without changing the touch panel as well which is very expensive, like half the cost of the phone. Pretty stupid. At least you can change a cracked sceen on an inphone. But there is no way I would do without file handling and installing from any source.

Yeah it gets better. Too bad they're afriad of dialouge options. Would have added that extra layer with all the effort that went into the scenery and the background.

I've played 30 mins and I don't like it. Can't believe I called in sick for this. . Mediocre shooter with magic and such, and a story I don't care about so far. It's pretty though, but that ain't enough. I dislike the way you have to hoard mana to cast spells, stopping to loot every trashcan. Find some other way to balance it. Not familiar with the Bioshock universe so I don't really care how well it ties the rest of the games together. Still, it will probably get better. There must be something to all this enthusiasm. PS: Is there a way I can get Iron sights to be the usual configuration for shooters (hold right mouse to aim) instead of being a toggle ?

Divine Divinity didn't have turn based combat, the later installments were pretty uninteresting to me at least. I don't see how this is a return to the roots. Old 3d games really show their age and are often unplayable. The Isometric 2,5 D like the infinity engine with pre rendered sprites are still playable so that's a plus at least.

Is she hot. (Sorry couldn't resist)

So it's basically Boardwalk Empire in sky castles.

What is it ?

I find that building whatever you need the most now works best. Getting the officer training school or foundtry even just a few missions earlier at the cost of having to invest more in power and tunneling later is well worth it.

If games consistently get 9 or 9.5 out of ten something is amiss with the scoring system. Were one less discriminating one could suggest that the usual whores deliver what they are paid for. And of course the game migth be awesome, one can't know. I hope it is.

I thought we were talking about the original X com. The reboot is all kinds of awesome. Some tiles were unreachable on alien boarding missions and the tile selection a little buggy with mouseover. The reboot doesn't have base defense sadly.

Except for that last alien on the map you cant find that prevents you from ending the mission and possibly from completing the game if its during a base defense. That and the 3 minuite waits between turns while the scripts are doing god knows what will test the patience of anyone.

Usually only a problem for 3d engines. If it's just a sprite you can have as many as you like. It's pretty borked in Skyrim by the way. The engine leaves the corpses for 20 game days before it starts cleaning them up if I recall. That's a whole lot. Makes saves incrementally larger the longer you play, totally unnecessary. It also illustrates that having 200 dead bandits scattered by the roadsides is quite possible with today's hardware. In Divine Divinity they stopped being lootable after a while. Seems like a good compromise.

By Hrothgar's Hammer I shall avenge you !. Overacting and orgies, what's not to like.

It's not a dub, the actors just speak English so Daniel Craig can understand what they are saying. The effect is the impression that Sweden is populated by Brits.

Subs are awesome by the way. Yay for subs.

You knew the minuite you saw , but it's an old trick to dangle an apparent lead in front of the audience in the beginning to throw them off track. I think I saw the one where everyone is Swedish except the leads and they all speak English. Kinda bizarre, but you got used to it I suppose. They made one with American actors ?

Showed up for work on my day off... that I requested myself a week ago. I'm sooo tired. Have been the whole week.

That would scare the rest off.

I know it's not fair to Peter Jackson, a movie has to stand on its own and it's not supposed to be true to the book except in a general sense, but I was too annoyed with all the stuff he just made up to suit the pacing. It didn't feel like the Hobbit to me and the Dwarves were all stupid. There is a lot of Dwarf slapstick in the book but if you cant make it work - better to cut it out entirely. Any film of the Hobbit was going to depend a lot on the cinematography being part of the storytelling. All the GCI and tumbling and dangling off the edges of cliffs for the benifit of the 3D cameras worked against him this time.

Cloud Atlas. Was told it was hard to keep track of because of all the time shifts, au contraire actually. I thought the shifts were very smooth. The story was a little meh though. I suppose they had to dumb it down to make a movie out of it. There was not a lot of connecting the dots between the different characters played by the same actors, or the story, and ultimately It didn't succeed in making me ponderous about life and stufftm after leaving the theater. That Korean actress from lost with the funny nose is still very cute though. She looked hilarious as a European.