Rosbjerg

Any MMO ever, just can't stand the grind.. As for singleplayer games, I've become very skeptical of any newer game developed by Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sid Meier or Bioware, they've generally moved in a direction, with their games, I'm having a hard time finding enjoyable. The emphasis being on smooth, gamey and arcadey aesthetics and gameplay - I don't like the overly polished, makes me feel like the game is too artificial. Bought and played all the Witcher games too, but they never really worked for me either. I always completly lose interest about 10-15 minutes into the games and then never come back to them.

I don't understand American consumer practice at all, you guys let both law enforcment, government and cooperations get away with so much crazy ****. I can't even imagine the public outrage if something like that happened so openly in Europe. Which is not to say stuff like that never happens here. I've just noticed it's always a little more extreme when it's in the states.

So he might've permanently blinded a guy? wow.. Play stupid games, win stupid prices indeed..

President Camacho disagrees

Seeing as you didn't use the quote feature I may be going out on a limb in thinking that you were responding to me, but I am responding to you. I am explicitly defining "satisfying choices" here, and my definition is one where those choices have resolution, closure, and engender some measure of positive enjoyment in me. Frankly it's not as though I am the only one who felt that PoE had a somewhat weak or disappointing story. I have read at least a dozen posts from here, GOG, and Steam that echo that sentiment. I am sure there are more. Regardless, in your own comment you mention "meaningful work of literature." Isn't that also "extremely subjective?" It seems like there is a bit of a double-standard in your post. Also, I definitely expect to be "pandered" to or "catered" to in this situation. When something is slated for a commercial release and I am charged a fee you can bet your boots it will become all about me. A lot of game developers (Bioware, Beamdog, Bethesda, Nintendo, etc.) seem to think that they have some sort of inherent artistic right to make their vision irrespective of what their customers want. This is utter nonsense and now with the power of the Internet I'd like to think they are becoming more aware of that. Obsidian, to their credit, seem to have listened to their customers more than most (thus the successful crowdfunding, though there are probably multiple factors at play there). There should be even more of that. A fair counter argument, but a pricetag is a consequence of our society, not an admission or requirement of pandering in and on itself. Art must try to achieve more than mere profit and try to do more than merely entertain, at least from most accepted norms and definitions of what constitutes 'art' 'Meaningful work of art' is subjective sure enough, but I'd argue that most of the RPGs mentioned try to aspire to this tag. I'd argue that they have an almost moral imperative to 'push their vision irrespective of what their customers want' - while you in parallel, as a customer in a capitalistic system, must vote with your wallet on what you deem worthy, In short, wer're muddling defintions - but I agree on many points, except the two above.

"They suggest that for a long period of Earth’s early days, the planet was covered by one solid plate, like an eggshell. Scientists still aren’t sure how we might have gotten from an early solid crust to our present-day tectonic plates." Much in the same way an egg's shell cracks when boiled I would assume? That internal heat build-up, creates a pressure build-up, which cracks the hard surface. I'll send my account information for those 64k$

I'd argue that any meaningful work of litterature, can never be such, if it panders to satisfaction. 'Satisfying choices' are also an extremely subjective position, I for one value being questioned in my preferences, having to justify my assumptions, rather than have them catered.

'The Kyber thing' was that the Death Star was a deadly mixture of Sith magic and technology - making a giant ass lightsaber based weapon out of the ruins of the Jedi original homeworld. Kylo was actually a great character imo - probably the only good thing (for me) in the TFA. In many ways he is what Anakin should have been - and shows just how devastating existential angst can be, in a universe with a dark side. Jyn and the entourage of Rouge One was meant to show you, that people may find a redeeming camaraderie in the dark things they feel - rather than the heroics they do - their bond was a soldier's bond. I could argue what their character was, but obviously it didn't sell well enough with you, and that's fair of course. And funny enough I'd have made a very similar set of arguments against TFA

Funny, for me it's the best SW movie since the originals... While I loathe TFA, just felt soulless to me. While Rogue stayed true to it's mission, a war movie. What did you expect going in? I've noticed that's usually where the issue arise.

As was said in another thread, Paradox often release non-critical dlc to pay for the development of bigger expansions.

To Tyranny? Yeah you can add portraits in the same way as PoE.

I find it mildly annoying too, but they've been upfront about their motives several times - that they release non-critical cosmetic dlc, so they can keep a cashflow going, that allows them to make and keep fine-tuning their products. Which I can respect.

Yeah, for me the fact that they've made these games available on my tablet, so I can play them on the go, is awesome beyond words. Same with Dragon Pass and a lot of the other 10+ old games being ported to moble/tablet. I'm really finding it a great medium for RPGs,

Holy necroposting Batman!

Hmm, has that been confirmed?

You need to host it externally, through imgur or a similar site.

Hah, yeah - What I do like about them however, and what I think is one of the reason they are so prevalent (and used / or misused) is because they are so easy to grasp and read.. while at the same time being concise. A rare feat that many modern authors could learn from.

Huxley is an interesting author. Brave New World seem to ask if we can accept the complete loss of peronal freedom, if we're just presented with enough distractions. It's brilliant, precisely because he refrains from heavyhanded moral judgements, making all but a handfull of charcters content- if not outright happy. Thus questioning if the pursuit of happiness, in and on itself, is really such a noble goal, without a higher moral imperative. Have you read 'Ape and Essence' or 'Island'? - thematically similar if a bit more Philip K'ish, as it was after his mescaline trips.

And that's a fair critique, because they do look weird. This looks weird because her expression and body language is completly off the mark. And it's not that you can't critique her looks, that's also fair - but to say that she looks 'off' because she's not pretty enough.. Well, that's just invites counter responses that are equally one sided and inflammatory. And now, instead of a fair critique on an obvious issue, it becomes a much larger issue of how people judge each other. Instead of the actual issue, a product that shipped without proper quality control.

The video posted in the previous thread brushed on the subject lightly, that even if we try to work Kyros' rule and stretch it to be as lesser of an evil as we can - we are still actively supporting a fascist and oppressive regime. One could argue, that the only morally (if we see such things as evil) right thing to do, is to actively fight against it, no matter the odds and consequences. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil... and all that.

I find it hilarious that the guy criticizing the game, looks like he belongs in it. It makes sense to rip the game for the dead facial expressions of coruse - but I think it's fair for Bioware to push the ugly-to-average-to-good looking people as the norm, seeing as that is the norm. Not that highly stylized games can't have super attractive models, as in characters like Miranda, where it makes narrative sense. I've always found it much more immersion breaking when everyone, from the cleaning lady to the deck chief, is a f-ing hunk.

So I've gone back to school - to study teaching, as I might've mentioned - and lo' and behold if teachers are not super geeks. I now have a steady roleplaying group every Tuesday on Campus, with 15-30 people coming every week. Great fun. And great to see you again LC, now we just need Woldan and we can get a photography thread going

Rebel as in independent or with the factions of the Tiers? As for supporting Kyros

Closed due to length, new thread here.

Old thread here. Been thinking about doing a new playthrough - is siding with the rebels fun?