Katarack21

Paradox was smart to get on board with this. They'll make tons of bank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves%27_cant

My first character is pretty much always named Katarack. It's my forum handle, and it works for fantasy names pretty well.

I'll bet they will actually be way more messed up than normal. Judging from the dialogue options I've seen in a stream, this **** seems pretty hardcore.

I just want the manual. Maybe the documentary. Something to entertain myself. I won't be seen for days when it actually releases.

You must have missed the memo that PC gaming has been dead for years. Actually if you beleive the hype, PCs in general are dead, tablets are the future! Oh and nobody wants an isometric RPG, lol. 3D or bust. Isometric viewpoints are viable, though, on touch-based tablet interfaces for casual games.

Pfft. This is a PC video game forum. Do your really expect me to drag my pale, sweaty bulk away from my monitor and out into public at this hour?

Nice work with the burning. I bet his hands are shaking now. Where's my key? Are you the Keymaster?

I get put on stronger medication.

Keys for preloading. Not playable until the 26th.

If you were a pro you'd just steal Josh Sawyers laptop and run off back to wherever you live.

Internal consistency helps to create a believable world that helps with the suspension of disbelief. Anything that is jarringly outside of that can easily break immersion.

They'll do it Tuesday. Tuesday for *them*, which is tomorrow and possibly Wednesday for some.

Maybe it's not "other people, my toys" syndrome? From what I understand the descriptions and such written by the backers vary in style and type and are, of course, completely outside of the rest of the game world. That could easily break suspension of disbelief for some people, and that's something that I can understand bitching about.

I'm guessing there will be regular but not insane usage of foul language; they get the chance to write the dialogue they feel like now without being contrained by WotC or LucasArts.

I saw "****" once in a stream and "****" once. It was a very limited stream though.

He's uncovered the plot! Burn him!

It was a joke...

Good question, yes. Personally, I'm all for giving review copies out to the streamers/LPers to help advertise the game and thus boost sales. What I'm less happy about is that their embargo isn't also ending on release day, since that means that there are what, thousands of people who haven't (and a reasonable proportion of whom won't) bought the game who are going to experience a good chunk of the story, albeit by watching rather than playing, before those of us who've spent literally years following this game's production and contributing to it by playing the beta and offering feedback and suggestions. Some people getting the game in advance to figure out what they're doing and plan their streams, or get their videos put together for the 26th, I'd be fine with. Three days of them streaming it while I'm very excited about the upcoming release and have to wait... well, flaunting their access was a good phrase for what it feels like. It's not a huge deal for me, but yeah, I wish it had been handled differently. That is actually a legitimate issue, and something that I'm not entirely comfortable with as well. I would much prefer the stream and review embargo be lifted on release date, and I honestly don't know of a really compelling reason that it's not. Sales, obviously. Streams and let's plays are much more effective (as a sales platform) a few days in advance rather than when decision day has come and gone. Hypemachine Go! So basically pre-order drivers? I can understand that.

Good question, yes. Personally, I'm all for giving review copies out to the streamers/LPers to help advertise the game and thus boost sales. What I'm less happy about is that their embargo isn't also ending on release day, since that means that there are what, thousands of people who haven't (and a reasonable proportion of whom won't) bought the game who are going to experience a good chunk of the story, albeit by watching rather than playing, before those of us who've spent literally years following this game's production and contributing to it by playing the beta and offering feedback and suggestions. Some people getting the game in advance to figure out what they're doing and plan their streams, or get their videos put together for the 26th, I'd be fine with. Three days of them streaming it while I'm very excited about the upcoming release and have to wait... well, flaunting their access was a good phrase for what it feels like. It's not a huge deal for me, but yeah, I wish it had been handled differently. That is actually a legitimate issue, and something that I'm not entirely comfortable with as well. I would much prefer the stream and review embargo be lifted on release date, and I honestly don't know of a really compelling reason that it's not. FYI, the review embargo is still in place until the 26th. People seem to forget this when they say streamers/youtubers are "reviewers" as well, or viewed as such. @Sparklecat hit it dead on btw. And I feel the same way. Well that would be why I said "stream AND review" instead of "stream/review".

There are dialogue options for cruel responses, aggressive responses, for lying, etc. All of these things are tracked and go into how NPC's respond to you in the future. That sounds pretty good; so you could make a cruel character who isn't necessarily "evil", or an aggressive, violent, but honest character. I believe so. I plan on playing a character who is polite, courteous, friendly, and also a viciously, brutally pragmatic murderer.

Yes. Because you aren't breaking the rules; you aren't actually forcing the game to accommodate you outside of what the creators intended for you to be capable of doing. In that case the creators clearly *intended* for you to be *capable* of playing the game in the fashion. It may be cheap, it may be lazy, it may not be their original narrative intention, it may be a lot of things but it's not cheating, it's simply using an option that was knowingly and deliberately given to you for your use. Cheating, by definition, involves dishonesty. Cheating means you are doing something you were never meant or intended to do for your own self benefit. It does not mean using an option that was deliberately provided to you which subverts some aspect of gameplay.

Sorry about that.

There are dialogue options for cruel responses, aggressive responses, for lying, etc. All of these things are tracked and go into how NPC's respond to you in the future.

Good question, yes. Personally, I'm all for giving review copies out to the streamers/LPers to help advertise the game and thus boost sales. What I'm less happy about is that their embargo isn't also ending on release day, since that means that there are what, thousands of people who haven't (and a reasonable proportion of whom won't) bought the game who are going to experience a good chunk of the story, albeit by watching rather than playing, before those of us who've spent literally years following this game's production and contributing to it by playing the beta and offering feedback and suggestions. Some people getting the game in advance to figure out what they're doing and plan their streams, or get their videos put together for the 26th, I'd be fine with. Three days of them streaming it while I'm very excited about the upcoming release and have to wait... well, flaunting their access was a good phrase for what it feels like. It's not a huge deal for me, but yeah, I wish it had been handled differently. That is actually a legitimate issue, and something that I'm not entirely comfortable with as well. I would much prefer the stream and review embargo be lifted on release date, and I honestly don't know of a really compelling reason that it's not.