Gromnir

The hell are you on about now? I was responding to 213374U's point about Kreia, which was related to the main topic. The more I read from you, the more you weird me out. I'm done responding to you after this. you are stopping? thank goodness. regardless, you started off-topic in your reply to Gromnir, not numbers. "Did you save the day in the original? Doesn't matter here. The Jedi all but die out in FIVE years. And suddenly we have multiple Sith Lords running about that come out of thin air." again, such stuff does not in any way show a ls/ds preference by the obsidian writers. sudden feeling the need to revisit a dead issue from a game released in 2004 & complete mischaracterizing your concern? now that is weird. HA! Good Fun!

believe it or not, our beverage o' choice is lemon-lime kool-aid, though am also a fan o' the less common available watermelon flavor. went through a short-lived peach-mango phase 'bout a year ago. typical we buy +20 packets o' the stuff at a time along with the generic brands o' splenda. have been habitual drinking the kool-aid since the mid-nineties. HA! Good Fun! ps am pretty sure we got started drinking it during law school years as we were so freaking poor that it were the only beverage other than water that we could afford... and berkeley tap water is/was foul.

you are no longer arguing what you claimed to be arguing. *shrug* kreia were not a villain such as darth mushmouth. unlike the faceless evils such as sauron and grendel, kreia were 'posed to be a real human. she needed a rational and believable motivation. were you forced to agree with kreia? 'course not. am assuming you played the game. if so, you know you need not agree with kreia. kreia's belief that the galaxy would be better off w/o the force had to be rational and believable. if all we got were some kinda quasi-intellectual's theory 'bout the force subtle adjusting events every few thousand years to bring 'bout balance to the galaxy's unseen light v. dark meter, her actions would seem ridiculous. did obsidian writers hate the force? perhaps. clearly the obsidnaties saw the question o' the force's role in events as being worthy o' consideration. however, the possibility that the writers didn't like the force or your belief that plot holes were in abundance is Not a showing o' any kinda writer preference for ds o'er ls. HA! Good Fun! ps we only responded 'cause you were getting off-topic in your own thread.

you don't need saving. and even if you were saved, another player need be damned as a consequence. we were told by a few developers that the two most common complaints of every ie game were identical. the game was too hard and the game was too easy no doubt many games have the same top 2 complaints. attempting to get crpg difficulty balanced is a sisyphean endeavour. the problem is magnified in games that offer more optional side-quests for reasons we noted earlier. HA! Good Fun!

back in march and april, more than a few folks observed that they had reached level 12 before finishing act 2. even as a die-hard completionist we did not quite manage that feat. nevertheless, obsidian made a few post release xp adjustments, including reductions in bounty xp awards, and so we has not seen anybody claim to reach level 12 before the end o' act in over a month. am suspecting greyfox experienced some kinda bug and his exploring of saves seems to support this notion. nevertheless, in our opinion, there is a problem with poe xp. the developers, pre-release, observed that they would be surprised if any player hit level 12 before being at the extreme end o' the game. 12th level were s'posed to be requiring an obsessive completionist to achieve. unfortunately, we believe the game were balanced with the obsidian misapprehension 'bout level gains in mind. assume that the typical player finishing the game is level 10 or 9 and suddenly the difficulty o' the game strikes us as much more appropriate. end act 2 at level 8 or 7? levels confer a considerable 'mount o' power in poe and the levels we reached through completionst play were not what the developers expected. a mistake were made. that being said, the completionist is always gonna have a relative easier time with games such as these. is axiomatic that the more optional content you provide in a crpg, the more power you is giving to the completionist. even if you remove any and all xp awards from non-critical path questing, you is still gonna have additional gold, gear and crafting resources from a completionist playthrough. am not certain how much effort the developers needs/should put forth to save us completionists from our selves. HA! Good Fun!

Pretty much this. ^_^ in our opinion, you both kinda missed the premise o' kotor 2 if that is what you got from it. the force in kotor 2 is the Ultimate Bad Guy, at least from kreia's pov. the light side cannot win anymore than can the dark side, 'cause the force is gonna eventual, mindlessly perhaps, bring about a galactic balancing and all the jedi and sith is little more than tools to realize that necessity. *shrug* light side makes just as much sense as does dark side, and we see no preference ( ls preference actual more likely as the game is still a heroic 'venture) so long as you accept the writer's core premise. HA! Good Fun! is gonna be spam if we quote our self more than once. *shrug* again, what sends kreia into the abyss is that the force renders jedi and sith actions meaningless. kreia sees the force as an evil that needs be ended, once and for all. her fury is believable, and even reasonable, precisely 'cause o' what happened after the end o' kotor. if you understand kreia anger at being impotent, then how can you be surprised when the writers reveal that all o' revan's ls works were in fact undone? am not sure how else to explain. is too old a topic 'pon which to waste more effort. if you ain't accepted obsidian/kreia pov o' the force by now, then Gromnir explanations have no hope o' bringing forth additional clarity. HA! Good Fun!

have played through poe multiple times now. in all such cases we do all available bounties (which ain't actual that many as one tier 1 bounty can only be reached in act 3) and descend to at least 12th floor of the endless paths before initiating the act 2 conclusion. our first game were previous to the bounties being trimmed o' xp by obsidian, but even so, we were not quite level 11 at the end of act 2. took us about ten minutes o' act 3 to reach level 11 before bounties were trimmed. regardless, level 10 is where we always end act 2. we feel over-level'd even so. it goes against our nature, but am gonna try and play a critical path poe run and see what levels we reach. am suspecting that poe is much more difficult at critical path levels, even for a player who has invested many hours into the game. HA! Good Fun!

you get the role o' the force in kotor 2, but you see the nullification o' revan's ls works as somehow inappropriate. ... that don't seem rational to us, but you need not share our perspective. kreia's existential crisis actual makes more sense to us with a ls ending. regardless, you do have an explanation as to why revan's ls deeds would be erased by the force in kotor 2. HA! Good Fun!

Pretty much this. ^_^ in our opinion, you both kinda missed the premise o' kotor 2 if that is what you got from it. the force in kotor 2 is the Ultimate Bad Guy, at least from kreia's pov. the light side cannot win anymore than can the dark side, 'cause the force is gonna eventual, mindlessly perhaps, bring about a galactic balancing and all the jedi and sith is little more than tools to realize that necessity. *shrug* light side makes just as much sense as does dark side, and we see no preference ( ls preference actual more likely as the game is still a heroic 'venture) so long as you accept the writer's core premise. HA! Good Fun!

Personally, I have no ****ing clue what you're speaking about, Frodo. am equal perplexed as to what the genesis poster thinks is obvious. the cursive rain smelled of blue and gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4uaKgCQ9A HA! Good Fun!

we would rather french kiss an electrical outlet than play another arcanum. HA! Good Fun!

kinda had this out on the boards already. all we were told is that that there were an agreement 'tween obsidian and paizo for the card game... plus. were a long-term agreement with no details whatsoever regarding the agreement. am not even knowing what kinda games obsidian could make under the agreement beyond card games. am not knowing duration o' term... or any other terms for that matter. and why imply? *shrug* we didn't see any reason to be especially enthusiastic based on the announcement, and as you note, more than a year has passed since that time. HA! Good Fun!

not as if Gromnir is a huge hyperion fan, but am afraid that this is gonna look like sharknado. visually, am not sure how syfy can hope to do justice to the material, but beyond the production values, the plot is... weird. between the shrike and keats and all the other convoluted sci-fi crap in the books, is actual kinda impressive how simmons made the novel(s) work. that being said, the books is deeply introspective and am expecting that any adaptation beyond print is gonna need rely on tortious amounts o' exposition. *shrug* this project is limited to train-wreck interest for us. HA! Good Fun!

wtf is wrong with obsidian? armoured warfare *shrug* poe were the first game obsidian has developed in quite some time that we bothered to play. not ds3 or ap or south park... and o' those three games, only ap had a chance to be a uniquely obsidian title. ... we get that obsidian gots bills to pay, but am fearing that armoured warfare were a trap. the tank project is requiring inordinate resources and will necessarily prevent obsidian from taking on projects Gromnir would prefer to see from them. HA! Good Fun!

if one genuine wishes to shiver... in the low-res videos, fabio kinda looks like weird al, so first time we saw this we thought it were a yankovic parody o' something we were unfamiliar with. regardless, the clip is great and terrible at the same time, much like so many christopher lee movies. HA! Good Fun!

had similar issues with a rc boat. no craters 'course. no up and down neither. should be obvious that Gromnir's right and left is not necessarily the boat's left and right, but when the thing is zipping along at silly speeds... no excuse. even so, one may always blame developer and claim a ui fail... at least with gaming software. HA! Good Fun!

Just write it off as kamikaze drone experience. it's as if you have never been on a crpg message board. clearly the problems gifted1 had is caused by an unintuitive ui-- obvious developer fail. HA! Good Fun! ps am gonna ignore the larger philosophical question regarding whether a drone may suicide.

one possibility not yet considered: chris genuine believes that he is going to hogwarts. as a writer o' crpgs, chris must necessarily have a rather loose grip on reality. perhaps he finally let go. for years his psyche has stood at the gaping maw o' a metaphorical chipper-shredder, white-knuckled hands grasping the rusted steel feed chute and inexorably failing. at last, his arms, tired beyond reasonable endurance, shudder, spasm and fail. a brief smirk o' bitter relief paints his features 'fore his demons finally have their way, sending chris' sanity headfirst into the angry metal mouth where what were left o' his tortured mind gets turned into tiny splinters o' memory and the dust o' half-forgotten dreams. HA! Good Fun!

As far as I can tell, it comes from people who don't like Sawyer assuming that Avellone agrees with them. the way rumors germinate and spread is curious and amusing. as you say, some folks don't like sawyer-- he ruined poe. chris mentioned in an interview that durance and grieving mother material had been cut from poe. *gasp* so clearly the reason chris left obsidian is 'cause he were escaping the new tyrannical sawyer regime... or something like that. creative free-thinkers is no longer having a place at obsidian. the way sawyer did not instant reject appeals to remove the divisive limerick also works into the conspiracy theorist's calculus, but am having difficulty balancing that equation. once the rumor is created it need only be shared by a handful o' like-minded nutters to gain strength. gotta say pazuzu's name three times before he manifests's, yes... or is it betelgeuse? works similar with rumors. rumors grow not with evidence but with repetition. eventual the rumors gets passed along to a place such as this message board and bioware and steam forums and... heck, the rumors might even be true, but is unlikely to be for reasons the rumormongers believe. for all we know, two years ago josh borrowed chris' copy of Fat Cat Art: Famous Masterpieces Improved by a Ginger Cat with Attitude, and never returned the volume. and so the feud were born. is as likely as the theories we has seen tossed about here and elsewhere. HA! Good Fun!

isn't obsidian an independent developer? HA! Good Fun!

More like to work on the one best RPGs ever made. *shudder* rating game quality is subjective, but am gonna observe that regardless o' your opinions o' the value witcher titles, the writing chrisA has done in the past doesn't necessarily mesh with cd projekt red offerings. perhaps chris is looking to get outta his comfort zone and try a grit & b00bs title, but it is not a natural pairing. obvious destination from a fan pov is inxile where chris would be able to work on wasteland (the fallout games that was fallout before there were a fallout, and we all know how much chris has wanted to do fallout) and torment (an homage to chisA's vanity project from 1999) titles. even so, am gonna keep trying to promote the kotor 3 with bioware rumor as it would send more than a few mca fans into fits o' apoplexy. HA! Good Fun!

should start a rumor that chrisA is going to bioware to work on a mobile app/game that is, for all intents and purposes, kotor 3. HA! Good Fun!

be careful what you wish for. insist on completion has chrisA write that the novella protagonist gets drunk and wanders over a cliff ledge whilst looking for a place to relieve himself... and dies. the end. HA! Good Fun!

is there a phobia o' awkward exposition? am understanding that poe is a new world and bloated info drops is the most simple and straightforward way to makes essential setting details known to the player, but our phobia makes us particular sensitive to such stuff. am also having a phobia o' repetitive mob encounters. our fear causes such anxiety that we literal broke out in hives fighting undead in level 8 o' the endless paths. we curled up into a fetal position after fighting the 5th or 6th mob o' skaen cultists in the place east o' defiance bay. yes, am certain that arachnophobia is a serious condition, but Gromnir's phobias is equal serious, and fixing game to accommodate us would benefit many more players than would removal o' spiders from poe. HA! Good Fun! ps we liked poe quite a bit, but it were heavy handed with the exposition and the mobs placements.

How ****ing out of touch with reality are you Bruce, Jesus ****ing Christ... seemed as if bruce were making a funny... which if true makes it seem as if longknife is the one actual divorced from reality. HA! Good Fun! Or you could have gone this route ......... Yes Bruce it was well played ..... longknife has perhaps spent too much time in Germany, yes? anywho, back on-topic... the baseless chrisA speculation at this and other sites is actual kinda amusing. have seen some folks share their guesses as "the only rational explanation." *chuckle* am gonna be a tad disappointed if chrisA decides to share... though that won't stop folks from speculating 'bout his Real motivations. HA! Good Fun!