Katarack21

My pledge was collected at 11:00 AM Pacific.

From what I've seen, "yandere" means "violently abusive and/or dangerous stalker, but played for laughs".

This post is severely lacking in gravitas.

I don't know why that remark was directed at Sagani, but I lol'ed. Sagani is my go-to for the minimum of companion allure. Less interesting then that, and I'm never going to use them.

I just want a weapon that's as much a person, with goals and hopes it's own perspective and full personality, as any other NPC. I want the weapon to be as much an individual as Sagani.

I recommend the Enhanced Editions. Some purists will decry them because they don't like some of the minor additions made (like a couple new companions), but I played the originals, and the Enhanced Editions are wonderful upgrades, particularly graphically. Truth. I bought and played the originals back when I had to keep track of all five disks; the EE are superior, IMHO.

My views? Sure. Why not? I'll never use it, but who cares if it's there for people who would? I'm on the other side of the equation, IE I want *faster* movement rates. Moving across a map that I've already explored five times takes *FOREVER*.

You must be setting fires in dry forests. I'd imagine I'd have to work pretty hard to get an account banned in a day. I honestly have no idea what the hell keeps happening with my Twitter and Reddit. I consistently manage to make one or two innocuous posts and then, BAM! "Your account has been permanently banned for being compromised." I've long since given up.

Reddit is like Twitter for me. Seems nice for everybody else, but I've never managed to have an account for more than a day that didn't immediately get hacked and banned.

I realise Fighters weren't the highest DPS, nor did I say they were. What I said was that, unlike tanks in MMOs they weren't designed to be passive roadblocks, but were also capable of doing some damage. You mean like tanks in 3rd Edition? Or a big burly troll with high body in Shadowrun? Or basically every tank ever? You're confusing the aggro mechanic popular with MMO's with the tank archetype. At low levels, fighters--that is, tanks--have pretty much *always* outpaced other classes on damage. It's not until mid-levels that fighters start to lose capability; that switch is what PoE was avoiding, and that quadratic-wizards-linear-fighters problem was very definitely present in D&D 2nd Edition.

It really didn't though. Fighters might have been intended to be able to soak more damage than other classes, but they were also designed to be capable of putting out damage. Ha! No. No, you clearly didn't play 2nd Edition D&D--or at least you don't remember it. Highest DPS in 2nd Edition was mages and/or thieves. Or thief/mages if you're a powergamer. Or a psionicist if you're a munchikin.

What you think of as "subtle" I think of as "boring and flat". I want it to interject into conversations, to comment on my surroundings, to observe the world as it happens. I'm always disappointed that my sentient talking weapon is about as reactive as a television screen--it only reacts to me or my actions, never the other way around.

It is easy to love Ydwin when other female companions are masculine ones. This ****. This **** right here. This **** is why I develop such hatred for fans.

And/or capes.

GASP! Fulvano is the Changing God!

Pretty sure that's an elaborate ruse to sell fanboys twenty million different costumes for their virtual dolls.

Let me just put it like this. All three of the companions that are returning were in my party from the moment they became available, I did their quests, were in my party the whole time, and ended the game with them. At least one of them I care about a whole lot less than Stormcaller.

He's absolutely right, to. Those city scenes in that video do in fact look frickin' badass as hell.

Nope. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises

But that's not what's happening. It's more like a choice between 10 fleshed out companions, 20 more basic companions, or 10 fleshed out companions and 10 more basic companions. I'll *always* take the latter.

World-Class Braggart, I'm guessing.

It's definitely taking off a bit in the final hours. That's nice to see. Beat the original PoE in total money raised, too! :-D

But...but Ydwin....

as already stated, josh has frequent advocated aspects of d&d editions post 2.0. and again, there were common (unfair) criticisms o' josh attempting to turn poe into d&d 4.0. as such, your perceived marginalization by josh does not align with our observations or the consensus feedback o' much o' the poe beta folks. HA! Good Fun! I've often seen Josh talk about his time playing D&D and the fun he's had with D&D; rarely if ever have I seen him point out features and aspects of D&D that he likes and wishes to emulate or even keep in a game. Regardless, this is all way more defensive aspects from a bunch of forum posters over a game developer that none of us know that I ever expected a non-judgemental basic obersvational statement to obtain. Again, I'm not attacking Josh, this was never meant to be an attack on Josh, this was simply an obersavation of my own that is admittedly based on fragmentary information from incomplete sources (re: interviews, etc). This conversation is over. I have no intention of arguing with any of you about the finer points of Josh Sawyers personality. **** that.

"a willingness to point out shortcomings in game systems is perceived as josh elitism." Oh, no. I'll point out the flaws of D&D and other class-based systems all day long. It's a desire to minimize the influences of pretty much every well-known mainstream game and system combined with a general tendency to dismiss the concepts, ideas, and tropes of those systems.