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Arguably they're not required to not choose to represent any particular group of people either. I'd hope that whatever characters Obsidian creates fits the setting, and fits the character they want to create and ultimately works as an interesting character in game.

Please discuss the issues, not each other. Sniping at one another will lead to the closure of this thread.

Currently a thread on it in Deadfire's forum: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/93720-okay-so-here-is-what-actually-happened-with-obsidian-writer-that-resigned/page-2?do=findComment&comment=1934991

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At this time there's been no indication in any of the links that Obsidian ever got involved, that I can see.

Well I know its not specific, but just wanted to make sure it was intended to be here (okay if it was).

Is this the intended forum for this thread...?

Is that YMCA version really ragtime? I admit my knowledge of the form is limited and while it has the classical Sousa-esque um-pa bass line/beat (since IIRC Joplin melded Sousa marches for the form), I'm not really getting the syncopation feel from the arrangement that I only intuitively recognize when listening to classic ragtime. So it kind of comes off as sort of a 1930s period jazz arrangement to me instead of ragtime but that may just be lack of familiarity. Any music theorists in the house?

Yeah the timing of some of the romance stuff led to some hilariously weird scenarios in BG2. Mind you there were some weird triggers for non-Romance stuff in BG2 as well, like Nalia's dungeon banter ("how are we helping the less fortunate tromping around here" IIRC) triggering when you were in D'Arnise hold...helping Nalia...)

Yeah ME2 did that for me, I thought I was having a chat with a squaddie pal and suddenly Jacob Taylor was all "hey baby" and I was like "wut? I was only trying to be funny, not flirt". And then it was awkward whenever I went into that part of the ship for the rest of the game. BioWare games are pretty horribly guilty of the second offense, going all the way back to Baldur's Gate 2. In Baldur's Gate 2, most characters of the opposite sex will literally not talk to you outside of a few pre-scripted one-liners (interjections) sprinkled throughout the game unless you commit to a romance with them...and if you try to demur, welp, that's the end of all of their conversations. I actually think most of the games that have had romances have been guilty of one or the other excepting jRPGs where you're typically playing through a story and not really playing a character so its kind of hard to put to the same standard.

I'm okay with romances/relationships provided - The romance/relationship is built with the idea of not sublimating the character in favor of the PC The romance isn't necessary to have an interesting NPC relationship.

This topic has already been locked once because it went off-topic into personal sniping as well as misidentifying the person in question who resigned. Please keep to the topic and keep to the facts as it relates to Deadfire.

Star Wars probably has an cRPG economy, where the merchants have infinite gold to buy things, and the Emperor and Darth Vader just did a couple of dozen dungeon crawls, carried every single piece of armor and weapons out of the dungeons, sold it to the merchants and used the gold to fund the Death Star. The reason why the Emperor doesn't show up until Empire is that he was doing a massive 99 level dungeon crawl to fund the second Death Star during it.

First appearance of Photon Torpedoes was in the first season of TOS, in the episode "Arena". Prior to that, the Enterprise had used 'proximity bursts' from the phasers for the same effect.

Thanks Ethics Gradient; not having an Apple product, I wasn't sure if that patch had been rolled out that was talked about.

I'm pretty sure Crown Prince Naruhito is 57 not 5, MSN & Time...

Are they working on it - according to them yes - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/93400-unable-to-purchase-rise-of-the-goblins-ios/?hl=%2Brise+%2Bthe+%2Bgoblins I believe I read elsewhere that the patch Flounder mentions in the linked thread was delayed by some further developments but was still forthcoming.

You can't. There's no real need to if the question isn't valid anymore you could mark it answered. Alternatively I can remove the thread.

That was, according to her, what got her banned from bio's boards.

Just saw him in The Wackiest Ship in the Army a few weeks back, but will always remember him for Oscar Goldman on Six Million Dollar Man & Bionic Woman and Lt. Drumm on Perry Mason. RIP

I've always liked local co-op for action or fighting games, but generally speaking prefer single player games.

You know, I can't off the top of my head think of a game with a single fixed protagonist where that protagonist was a black female (may say more about the fact I haven't always paid big attention to game news though). I can think of some games that had the choice of a black female from a group of fixed characters (like Samantha in the Hunter: The Reckoning Series or Houston in the Vigilante 8 series), and of course plenty of games with character creation, but nothing pops to mind for a fixed protagonist game. With respect to the topic, on games where I'm creating a character, I consider gender, sex and sexual orientation of the character I'm creating as part of defining that character in my head. I try to avoid 'playing myself' generally speaking, but have done so on occasion (it all depends on what I feel like, to be honest). But generally speaking I try to have an idea for a character and play that, just like I would in a Pen and Paper RPG.

I looked up tips for bg2. It just took me a lot longer to get to that point of desperation than if I had only thought the game was 'ok'. Had to do the same on the end of BG1 too... which I gather was a rarity. Funnily enough I did IWD and PST without hints (thus didn't get the best end on PST)