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I'm not sure you can use the crowdfunding raised to create a budget comparison; I'm pretty sure that non-crowdfunded monies were applied to both games.

If the scene isn't investing you, then the writers and actors have failed you. I wouldn't say its a failure for me so much as, having grown up on games with no voice acting at all, my method of game play is still primarily focused on reading, and if you read faster than people act, it can make the game frustrating to wait for them to act out a scene. So since pacing in a game is usually user controlled, as opposed to a subtitled movie where the movie has the pacing created by the editing of the film, I tend to still favor reading and advancing at the speed I read. Only a scene of something remarkable (visual, acting, writing) will make me pause and watch it as it is, and honestly I'm more inclined to do it in a 3rd person game than a isometric one.

And he didn't. He just had the one moment of weakness, of hesitation, which makes him human—unlike a certain other protagonist. ROTJ Luke showed that he can be one angry mofo, all because pops teased him about his sister a little. That's the only part of the movie I actually liked, tbh. Impatience, insecurity and a proneness to rash action is pretty much Luke's MO in the original films. He feels left behind by his friends so wants to join the rebellion, he doesn't want to help his family because he wants to get on with his life, he hides that R2 is missing because he knows he'll get blamed so his solution is to search for them himself, he argues he's a better pilot than Han despite never actually piloted a ship in hyperspace, he overlooks Yoda because he isn't "jedi mastery" enough and gets mad when he doesn't get the training he expects, he leaves his training despite being warned not to and loses a hand because he's not trained enough to beat Vader, conceitedly faces off with Jabba assuming because he's a Jedi he'll win and when that fails, has to improvise and not learning from that lesson he does the exact same thing in facing the Emperor. Regardless of how Luke got the vision (Snoke induced or otherwise) that Luke would do something rash AND impatient (jump to the conclusion that killing Ben was the only solution rather than trying to connect with and train him) and that he'd then become insecure over his ability to train anyone again seems pretty in keeping with the character. Yoda even calls him on it a bit - saying he's always looking for the next horizon is an indicator he never really got past his impatience and rashness. Not really where I expected the story to go for Luke, but I never felt it didn't fit the character. I think Ben set out to be Kylo, but its a mask (literally) through all of TFA and most of TLJ. Its something he wears because he felt rejected by his family and pushed into; then he tries to use it to please Snoke by becoming someone he isn't (Vader). I think the idea in The Last Jedi is that by the end, Ben actually finally has an internal goal of his own rather than doing things as part of a reaction to external events and people.

Eh, I think it depends on the DM and what the group wants a lot. And some of the settings can tend darker than others. Ravenloft, with its evil Darklords trapped by their own obsessions and failings, ruling over people who can't escape their grasp is intended to be dark and horror filled. Even if the adventurers somehow can topple the ever present Darklord of one of the realms, odds are that there will be someone else who'll take their place just as bad or worse. Birthright with its political backdrop could also be ripe for exploiting humanities cruelty to one another through infighting and manipulation (one only needs to look at some of the real stories behind people trying to get or keep power and how individuals were crushed or used as pawns to further agendas to see how dark it could be). Mystara or Forgotten Realms, with their respective emphasis on heroism and adventure probably won't get superdark for more players.

I should also admit that I'd listen to the voice acting if I liked the voice regardless of scene. A character being voiced by Tony Jay or Jennifer Hale, for example, were always a listen. "Promised? Promised? I made you no Promise" - how many times did I listen to that bit of dialogue in Icewind Dale? I was gutted that Rebecca Sanabria wasn't a voice option for Saints Row 4; the dialogue and her voice kinda helped make my Saints Boss character so memorable in 2 and 3.

Its kind of irrelevant to me other than the cost impact to development / limiting dialogue potential consequences. From a practical standpoint as a game player, I read faster than most actors speak their lines and unless the actual acting or scene itself engages me on a level beyond the usual, I'll be reading the text and choosing dialogue options without listening to the VO; in games where the choices weren't fully written out in text choices, I'd have subtitles on, read the subtitles and advance to the next dialogue piece when I was done unless, again, the scene invested me somehow.

RIP Mr. Anderson. He was great in Night Court, and in the miniseries adaption of IT.

Ohhh, thanks Sharp_one, Gfted1 and Majestic. It looked like a piece of cardboard, so I didn't read it as a "play" icon.

Have you emailed support@obsidian.net?

I don't get it.

Only one reply addresses the original post, the end result is this thread is toast.

I have to think someone in the locked room will have the good sense to break the arm sticking through the window trying to cut the cable lock. Why would you stick an arm in? Wouldn't you slide the bolt cutter in and...cut? I guess you could try and jostle the bolt cutter, but you'd have to be at the door to do that anyhow. Again I think as a solution it'd work most of the time simply because the shooter is going to move on.

Doesn't look like Ted Knight either.

Ah, that East Coast Bias. I'm not sure I ever really agree with that line of thought - I think the bias is "how large is your media viewer base" bias rather than coast specific. NY based teams, California teams, Chicago/Illinois teams all get a lot of coverage because they have a lot of viewers. Smaller markets tend to be less favored - unless they're doing well or playing the local team.

I'm not entirely convinced that solution isn't vulnerable to a breaking the window and using a bolt cutter. Or if you have a lot of ammo, just spraying into the door until you can physically break through it. But most school shooters seem to be opportunistic rather than determined, so it'll probably work 9 times out of 10.

I'm not sure if its a bias so much a product of a practical approach to live events with respect to broadcasting them. If the draft started at 8 PM PST the east coast would largely be going to bed as it started...or already be asleep if using Alaska or Hawaii for a "Prime Time" start.

This thread has gone a bit long. New Thread here:https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/96828-portraits-ii/

The old thread can be found here - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/91743-portraits/page-38 I believe the most recent topics involved needing more male barbarians user portraits and whether or not the official portraits of female characters were 'pretty' enough. Don't you think they don't know it? They just don't care. More sisnister reasons are hidden behind the players' not-likeness of already established and flesh-out characters' portraits, unfortunately Don't you think they don't know it? They just don't care. More sisnister reasons are hidden behind the players' not-likeness of already established and flesh-out characters' portraits, unfortunately Essentially, I want all of the female companions to pander to my very limited and misogynist view of what a beautiful woman looks like Personal choice is irrelevant: anyone that doesn't accept the creator's view of what a character's portrait should be, is basically a sexist, racist bigot *Cough, cough* What you want to say is:

There is a new arcade game, using the movie's monster designs. Gameplay looks similar to the usual rampage game, but with the monsters jumping to the next block over when they've destroyed a block.

RIP. Tim O'Connor was one of those actors who if you watch 60s - 80s US tv shows was an ever present face as a guest star, as well as his regular roles on Buck Rogers and TV's Peyton Place. Shows like Columbo, Streets of San Francisco, Alfred Hitch**** Hour, Twilight Zone, Police Woman, Wonder Woman, T. J. Hooker, Murder She Wrote, The Defenders, Father Dowling, The Fugitive, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, Ellery Queen, Six Million Dollar Man, Cannon, Banacek, M*A*S*H*, Rockford Files and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was in a few of movies (including Sssssss, Black Jack and one of the Naked Gun sequels) and a few TV Movies (including Winter Kill, a murder mystery with Andy Griffith set at a ski resort) as well.

Thread pruned. If you believe this thread is for topics not involving rogues in PoEII and their "suckage" or lack thereof, please re-read Pidesco's post and re-consider your misapprehension before continuing.

But why would you want a fatbastard in your eyeballs?

Good. Good. I was hoping it would be that bad The trailer seemed bad. And not just bad in a "not anything like Reboot" way but "bad because its bad" way.

I so want to make a House MD joke, but this being the political thread no doubt people would take it seriously.