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I am also sure that POE 3 will be the next big project from Obsidian No it won't. Sawyer has made it very clear he wants a nice long break from PoE, and I don't blame him at all. He's also been pushing for years for Obsidian to allow him to make his historical RPG. So I am sure it will be, in order: New IP RPG (possibly Sawyer's historical game) TOW 2 PoE 3 (maybe)

Personally I think it is far too early for them to have launched a TOW2 project even if only in an exploratory form. So I'm convinced at least one of the two unannounced projects is a new IP game.

Gotta disagree with you there. Because mass effect and dragon age were sucessful , although i think the world setting of dragon age is inferior to pillars. rpgs focused in story are not dead. but as i said before. the poe gameplay will unfortunately have to be modernised even more. lets hope the old workers , writers and directors of obsidian manage to preserve aspects of crpg even with the selling to obsidian. ME and DA are AAA franchises, so apples and oranges.

D:OS2's tremendous sales success (yes, it is indisputably a huge sales success) is very easily explained: 1. Co-op play 2. DM mode These are very much the things a great many of today's young gamers really like to have in their games. The classic RPG in the tradition of the IE games is and has always been very much a niche genre, and the D:OS games do NOT fall into that genre. So if someone is going to make new RPGs in that genre, they're going to have to accept that sales will be in the ballpark of what they have been for the PoE games. I think OE was kinda' ok with that up to now, but from a Microsoft pov that's just not going to cut it. Which is why I have predicted that we have seen the last of PoE1/2-style games from OE. If there is ever another "PoE" game, it will be a third-person ARPG with co-op/multiplayer included and released for consoles right from the beginning.

I can see one of those two unannounced projects being a follow-on to TOW. I wish OE would start giving out some hints on the other of those projects, one that's been going on for some time now.

Yup. It's been sitting in my Steam wishlist for a while now. Looking forward to it.

Good article on what comes next for CDPR and The Witcher franchise: https://www.gamesradar.com/the-witcher-4-release-date/

Yeah this game I may actually play and finish (I have it downloaded), unlike Skyrim itself which I quit in the middle of my first playthrough and never returned to it.

Amen. Especially stay away from people's personal "reviews."I stay off YouTube when a game I deem worthy of purchase comes out, mainly because I want to avoid spoilers. Additionally I've learned to avoid talking about a given game that I'm really looking for to on forums and Facebook because someone usually has something negative to say and it's usually people who have no idea what they're talking about or an extreme bias which makes their opinion irrelevant. Yup. And Steam user reviews are the worst. I've never taken their reviews into account when trying to decide on buying a game. It's so very obvious most of the negative reviews are coming with an agenda.

Well, there was this story providing an explanation of what they mean by "live" elements. As a DA franchise fan I'm not too concerned. Yet. https://dailytech.page/2019/01/10/casey-hudson-confirmed-the-development-of-dragon-age-4-and-tried-to-reassure-fans-2/

Ok, so it seems like in most of your cases the streaming services are in place of cable rather than on top of cable, so that makes sense. And yeah I have Xfinity triple-play with hi-speed internet but without the premium channels and it's 192/mo. Do these streaming services also give you all the network shows? If not, how do you get those?

Amen. Especially stay away from people's personal "reviews."

So do you guys have subscriptions to every single streaming service out there? Isn't that ridiculously expensive? Very curious about this.

The news from the devs that the game can be completed without fighting anyone intrigues me and makes me wonder if I might enjoy this game after all. My utter dislike for the first-person view is very largely about FPS combat. So if combat can largely be avoided, then maybe first-person won't be so bad.

I'm quite convinced CDPR's next game after Cyberpunk will be a new IP. Sadly though for me, because they already have fantasy covered by the Witcher franchise, it'll likely be in a genre I don't care for.

Hey that's just the way Russians talk. They're trying to translate talking with your hands to text, so lot's of exclamations.

Try Pathfinder Kingmaker. I've heard scary things. I may wait for a year or more to let it settle. The scary claims are overblown. The game is in a perfectly playable state and is truly very good. But it does not hold your hand.

The best one of these was in Tides of Numenera where you can skydive to your final death right in the first minute of character creation. Too bad the rest of the game didn't quite live up to it. Yeah that was funny. I liked that game. My only major gripe was that it was way too short.

I was commenting on the actress playing Dinah and the charcter as she plays it and not really on the character per se, because I know these characters from the DC universe only from these shows (now down to just Arrow since I got really tired of the other shows). I never read any of the DC comics because I found their heroes all to be not particularly interesting and rather lame with the sole exception of Batman. I'm totally a Marvel universe person.

So this^. Could not have said it better. I absolutely cannot stand her character. Give me moar Dinah Drake. Now she is awesome!!!

Is this a "RTwP is always better than TB" opinion, or is there some way they could make TB better for you? Happy to engage with you since you're being civil, unlike certain other asses. My problem with TB is that the actors' actions happen sequentially. So the one and only way TB can be ok for me is if you use the turn to issue orders to all actors and then all actors' actions get resolved simultaneously at the end of the round. The idea that everyone goes on their designated turn, and when it is not their turn they just stand there doing nothing while enemies are wailing on your buddy who's standing right next to you just utterly destroys immersion for me. Nobody ever fights a battle by taking turns to attack their enemy. You may as well land a spaceship firing lasers in the middle of the battle 'cause it is that much of an immersion-breaker. I place a great deal of value on the chaos and messiness of battle. A battle without chaos and screw-ups where everything happens in a nice orderly, optimal way is completely artificial and fake. I want enemies to be able to swarm me from different sides at the same time, and be able to do the same to the enemies. I want to be able to have multiple actors take their actions simultaneously. I want actors to be able to hold their actions to any point they choose within the battle. I want to have situations where you cast an area spell only to have all the enemies move out of that area by the time your spell goes off. I want for my party to make mistakes, cast the wrong spell at the wrong time, take the wrong action or waste an action. These are examples of the kind of thing that makes combat interesting and meaningful and real for me. I would not have the love and the nostalgia for the IE games today were it not for Baldur's Gate being RTwP. Had BG been TB, it would be a forgotten game at this point in time for me. It is precisely the chaos and messiness and confusion and the resulting tension and fear from those early combats in the game that entirely fuel my nostalgia for that game.

Unless you're just killing time, a completionist run can be done in about 150 hours. Oh I'm sure. I'm not quite killing time, but I do wonder around aimlessly at times and also spend a lot of time looking through and fiddling with what's within the various menus. I also do a lot of pausing the game and leaving it running while away from my machine doing other things including even leaving my house to run errands. So my "hours" on any game are not very informative.

And is it? It's been out for a while now. Balance isn't that important, tbh. But a good TB is a whole other experience and would get me back in the game if it was good enough! Mechanically? Yeah TB is great. Some things in the game are a lot better than they were in RTwP, but that's balance stuff that can be sorted out. So long as it's clear this is opinion and not fact. Mechanically and otherwise, nothing's better for me. No objective answer can be provided about whether it is 'better'.

Yup, as I also suggested in the the other thread. But I feel there won't be a PoE3 at all, and they will simply go straight to the new game, some sort of TB 'Pillars tactics' game as Sawyer himself at one point in the past mused about in a post somewhere.

Just gone past 100 hours playing Witcher 3. The porblems I was having with the combat are mostly gone now that I've gotten used to the system and the controls. Really lovin' the story, the setting and the character of Geralt. As a completionist, it is quite possible I'll end up with over 500 hours just on this first play through.