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Sorry, Bruce, but I consider Dark Urge to be the absolute worst thing (among many bad things) Larian has managed to come up with in that game. It is the psychopath option in the game, with the "you can resist it if you want" claim being a pathetic attempt to spin what it really is.

It's like we're twins here. I'm in exactly the same situation. The game I want to play, in terms of their genre, I can't stand their TB combat; the games that have a combat system I would enjoy are games I'm not too interested in playing, genre-wise. Yes, this^. I've been able to stomach TB in Solasta, for example, but Larian's approach (to many aspects of RPG design) really, really grate on my nerves.

And very clunky TB combat at that, in my opinion (from what I've seen in streams). And there's zero chance of anything changing in this regard in BG3. TB combat just really sucks. In WotR that one battle that you are forced to fight TB is easily the most annoying and frustrating part of that game for me.

I assumed they were the demon slaves I freed when I killed the slave traders in the slave market area of the demon city.

How do you "lock" the crusade morale?

Critical condition? Not dead? See, now they'll have to put a pillow over his face in his hospital bed. Man, Putin cannot even off his political enemies competently anymore. What's Russia coming to?!

So here's a question about the so-called 'secret ending': it is my understanding that you have to enter Threshold on specifc dates that are in the fourth month. In Act 5 I am now in the ninth month. If I were to keep skipping days to get to the fourth month there is no way I can stretch out capturing forts and killing demon armies for that long. So am I screwed on crusade morale once I have no more enemies to defeat?

I also saw these reports this morning. Classic Putin. Prig is such a complete idiot (and soon to be a dead idiot).

Whenever Billy Idol's Rebel Yell comes on the Oldies radio station I have on in my car, I have to pull over out of traffic so I can go nuts.

What a disappointment. I was so excited about the prospect of political chaos in Russia. I suspect Prig learned that as much as generals in the Russian military may dislike/disagree with Putin, they were surely not going to throw their lot in with him. But I do feel this increases the odds that someone within the regime/military with more credibility and standing will look to dipose Putin in the near future. Prig has been gutted like a fish here, but Putin has also been exposed as being weak and vulnerable.

Interesting. If true then Prigozhin could have himeself an airforce now. Milerovo is home to a full regiment of Su-30s, and Voronezh has a regiment of Su-34 bombers.

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Thanks for the summary! I'm actually really happy that the 1,000 planets will not all be teaming with life and full of stuff to do. That would be entirely unrealistic and kill my immersion. I want to land on planets that are barren/desolate. I want to land on planets that only hold resources I can extract and pretty much nothing else. That's not boring for me at all. To the contrary, that's what would be interesting to me. Sooooo excited for this game!! I wonder if I can still run it and play it even though my computer doesn't quite meet all the minimum requirements, especially not having an SSD?

Interesting that the wording involves "sovereignty" without mention of territory and borders. That will be an immediate 'no' for Ukraine, with justified reason.

Maybe of interest to you: https://gamerant.com/bioshock-infinite-similarities-clockwork-revolution-trailer-brian-fargo/ https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-responds-to-clockwork-revolution-bioshock-infinite-similarities

Well, supposedly there are reasons to be hopeful of a third-person option: 1) Apparently in a job posting from Obsidian for Avowed back in 2019/20, they specifically asked for people with programming skills and experience in both first-person and third-person combat animations. 2) In certain places in the recent gameplay trailer they do show both exploration and combat animations in third-person. But of course it remains to be seen if these reflect in-game gameplay or are merely cinematic displays. 3) When Grounded was released Obsidian said they did not have any plans to add a third-person option for that game, and yet now they have announced the addition of a third-person option for that game. So, all taken together, some measure of cautious optimism?

Yes it is first-person, and because it is inXile I would imagine there's no chance of a third-person option. Also, time travel as a concept really bugs me in all forms of entertainment. If it is possible to go back in time and change anything and everything, is anything real? Does anything matter?

Anyone seen this? I can't decide if it is something I'd like to play or not:

Hello Obsidian! What's with the recent push to make first-person-only games? When TOW1 was released, Obsidian claimed they couldn't include a third-person option because of their budget limitations. Well, things are different now, aren't they?

Yeah this is what may prevent me from buying it right away. I think my current computer will really struggle with it.

I'm happy to pay $70 for Starfield as I know I will thoroughly enjoy that game and be playing it possibly through the end of my life. Totally worth it. OTOH, it is BG3 that I'll be waiting for 40+% off sale price to buy it. And Avowed (and TOW2) I won't buy at any price unless it comes with a third-person option.

It really bothers me that this question isn't being addressed in any of the interviews (Carrie Patel, where are you?) or here on the forum where devs are supposedly reading posts. I can live with any and all other issues with Avowed, and would very likely enjoy playing the game as it has been described thus far. But the first-person perspective exclusive with no third-person option is very much a deal-breaker. And I'm quite sure that will be the case with a great many others. Their now-fellow stablemate Bethesda seems to have no problem having both options in their games including in Starfield. So as far as I'm concerned there are no legitimate reasons for not including a third-person option in Avowed (and in TOW2 for that matter).

Starfield gameplay:

Heh. I was going to ask the same thing.

I predict Boeing or Northrop Grumman gets the contract and not LM.