Gorgon

Modders with real talent should be making their own games. It's easier now than ever and game engines only asking for 5% as opposed to 75, and they would be owning their work as opposed to being locked into an indentured servitude deal with STEAM.

75%. Lol. Did I read that right. They get 75% and the modders get the rest. luls.

Traditionally it's where would be indie developers get their feet wet. Do you really want to be paying for the efforts of people who are very much still learning everything. Donations are fine of course, but. I dunno. Why can't we just have this one thing to ourselves outside of market forces and considerations. Not an unfair objection I think.

Borrowing off eachother's assets, using someone else's code with permission. It's all going to end sooner or later with the introduction of a profit motivation. People are going to get more careful and jealous with their work and fewer people are going to do anything just for kicks.

So this is going to be what finally kills off the skyrim modding comunity. Well it's been a hell of a ride.

Witcher 1 had stances and blocks, it was so long ago I don't remember how many, but they were poorly implemented. It basically came down to timing and spells, like withcer 2.

Maybe 2 people here are going to get this, and it's a really terrible cover, but anyway

Thankfully there was only one resident 'Dakkon' where you had to pay close attention to advance. Not as good as the circle of Zerthimon, but what is. Pretty close though. Strong voice acting too.

Found myself fast forwarding through dialouge, mainly the main quest stuff because I was tired of getting fed everything in tiny pieces, but to be honest I did that a few times with Planescape Torment as well. In PST the Dionarah storyline, which is kinda - sorta similar, felt like you were unraveling a mystery. There were plently of times in PST where you were forced to go through rather lengthy complicated main story dialouge, but they were with different characters and it was a different piece of the puzzle each time. PoE on the other hand, a little too much of the same thing spread too thin.

If we follow the rule that every other Deus EX game is terrible this one should be good.

I'm kinda in the mood for something like Freespace 2, while we are waiting for star citizen, but if Elite lacks a strong main story I predict getting bored with it eventually.

Anyone tried Elite Dangerous ?

I want to know what novel she's talking about.

It's alrigth.

Strips never work when they get political, and before you mention political satire strips, they're all terrible too.

Skill cheats don't work anymore. I'm guessing it's part of the retro fix to strip whatever seems like buffs. Well, they have to be reapplied but given that the cheats only work early and late in the game, same difference.

You are making 1 party member out of 6 perhaps 10-20 % better. It really won't matter much.

It wouldn't matter if you had a roll system like torment. Have your cake and eat it too. Why not. It's your main character. I proudly cheated the stats on my guy so I could have a dispersal that would not otherwise be advisable as it would starve main stats.

It looks pretty deserted. There's a few hirelings pacing around but where are the servants, the janitors, the groundsman, the people who run the place ?. Why am I not dealing with land disputes and local politics with other lords. Seems like a missed opportunity. Resting is not practical. There are two area loads before you can get to bright.. whatstheplace.. the inn and no one seems to have resting supplies so I tend to use inns in towns as a base of operations. The ingredient shop and the bounties are worth getting, the rest not so much.

This is why I dislike point buy. The stats on one character doesn't matter that much anyway so they might as well have given more freedom for main character creation. This is your main guy, you are supposed to care about other things except how effective he will be in combat. A 'roll' function with adjustments like PST or instance.

I've been wondering what certain terms mean exactly. Typically they are in the discription of an item. Ei. retaliation and second chance, whatnot. Written in blue I think. Maybe there was supposed to be a mouseover function describing them. They are not in the Journal. It would be good to know exactly what they are.

In my experience STEAM randomly resets your options every so often. Things like auto update on off, popup window spamming, cloud save.

I'm worried long term, in a general sense, that being too sensitive to who you may potentially insult is going to make everything too safe, boring and irellevant. the first rule if you are trying to create something interesting is : don't try to please everybody. If you need to make concessions as a game developer to avoid becoming a target for a boycot campagin then that's what you are going to do, and that's why we can't have nice things. I don't think the limerick is a big deal, in fact I don't think it's anything but this weeks soon to be forgotten drama, but since we are raising a general issues that are also relevant to other art and entertainment media.

We care about a Limerick now, try to keep up will you.

With everything that's been going on I think it's important that people be allowed to express themselves on this. If things get too personal and people start stepping over the line. Well, the usual response will be to time out the thread. That would be a shame is what I'm suggesting.