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People don't make really good bacon like pigs. ...or so I hear...

Seems like the idea was to give you a chance to revive a character and have them do a final shot at the enemy. Which gives me the mental image of your paladin in the corner, encouraging the battered boxer to "get back in there and give it all you got!" for some reason.

Okay. Not sure what it means, but its sunk as far as it'll go. You could, legitimately, compare PoE with any game (BG:EE too). Regardless of age. Its all fair as long as you can reason well and get across your meaning and intent. I'll conceed both were published recently. I'd argue that a remake of a decades old game being published now and a newly created game aren't entirely the same thing despite publishing dates, but it doesn't change the basic truth to what you say. They were both "made" recently. Well yeah no one forced Obs to create their own IP. Its just they didn't have anyone else's IP loitering in their offices when the whole "a project was cancelled, we need money, how do we get it, how about kickstarter" thing happened.

I want to replace Eder's portrait with Josh's now for some reason...

Imoen's voice is done by a voice actress → Voice actresses are hired due to availability, cost and talent → → A Voice actress of no talent is not worth the cost, even if available Therefore Imoen's Voice Actress must be talented People with talent are good at what they do → People who are good at what they do cannot, by definition, be bad at what they do → → Imoen's voice actress is therefore good at doing voice actressing → → → A good voice actress will have a good voice, or not be a good voice actress Therefore, Imoen's voice is good People like things that are good → People don't like things that are bad Therefore people must like Imoen's voice because it is good. QED1 1For sufficiently forgiving versions of logic

Well it depends on how sacred you hold your entertainment. When I was a kid and I had nothing but time to kill I would tolerate any dreck. Well that and I had no money so I kind of had to accept whatever I had. Now that I am coughing up the money and my time is much more limited I get pretty cranky when something fails to meet expectations. I don't hold my entertainment sacred at all. That's why its my entertainment and not my religion. Seriously, as I've gotten older I too have a lot of time crunches; but like Hurl, I tend to like more stuff than dislike. But I also tend to approach my entertainment hoping to like it rather than expecting to hate it, so maybe that's different? Hahahahahahahha. Indeed. For example, pigs are very happy when they roll in shiet. And hey, it works for them. Bacon is great.

Doesn't bother me, really, either. My initial point was that, realistically, you could have a player character who wouldn't care about the Iron Shortage but the game will force you to care.

Age verification, methinks.

That may be the best explanation ever. Again I'm not AGAINST the railroading in BG1 - I'm just saying I admit its a railroad. A good flexible one as it may be, you can't just walk away from the story (as you could in P&P)

Why would a neutral Druid care about the situation unless it was threatening the wildlife (which it doesn't seem to be)? They're not fond of mining (as they won't use metal armors and use natural weapons) IIRC in the D&D setting. You could fall back to "Well solving Gorion's death" which might be a good motivation, but for a particular type of Druid...maybe it isn't. Maybe Gorion and his insistence in staying in Candlekeep was holding you back from your role in life. Maybe the impending war (war affects everything. And never changes1) is enough motivation, but as the war isn't actually happening you could argue the druid could be more inclined to find a druid enclave and work with them to protect nature as part of the druidic group rather than run around with a bunch of random people of vastly different motivations "saving the day". Look I'm not saying BG is bad (I'm rather fond of it and think there are things it does better than BG2), but realistically a narrative railroad is a narrative railroad even if it produces pleasing results. 1Obligatory Fallout opening reference

Two wizard companions in one game? Bit much isn't it? Kinda weird (unless they plan a large number of companions). Has there been any indication how many companions they're planning for?

^Certain neutral and evil characters wouldn't, realistically, care about that either. Again, at some point you can only accept that as a video game you will ultimately be on one of the paths the game allows; complete freedom to define a character as in pen and paper just isn't possible.

Because the weapons you're using are Breaking? To be fair, if you're playing a wizard (in robes, wooden quarterstaff, wooden/leather slings and rock ammo) you might not see a mysterious iron weakness as a pressing matter. Similarly an archery rogue (in leather, wooden bow, wooden arrows) or a druid (unable to wear metal, using a club). Mind you, there is always the obvious motivation of computer RPGs - a quest means killing and looting, naturally. I suppose the secondary motivation is you can't get into Baldur's Gate to track who killed Gorian without solving the iron problem. (You could argue that some evil and neutral types wouldn't care who killed Gorian or about the iron shortage either one, but ultimately that's the limitation of a computer game vs pen and paper...at some point your character is going to have to funnel into the paths the game allows)

This is absurd as it implies isometric gameplay is somehow objectively superior to other styles of gameplay. It's not. I like to think that the Fallout = Isometric gameplay crowd would take a Fallout novel and turn it 45° on its X-Axis and 35.264° on the Y-Axis before reading, so that they were ensured the novel was good.

I don't. It would cause people to lose faith in the company, plus it would mean they don't have enough to make games. er...that was sarcasm in my post...?

I was mostly trying for humor, rather than strict accuracy.

I've liked all the DA's. I'll also admit each has flaws - even flaws big enough that I can understand why others wouldn't like them. But then again I don't expect every game to be the best ever. Or every movie. It's why I can enjoy an ed wood film and a tarkovsky one, they do different things and engage me in different ways. Ymmv, of course.

I'm not sure anyone in this thread believes their punctuation, much less their sentences, at least as far as the topic is concerned...?

You talk about superior drone firepower now, so I'm sure it'd be nice to get paid doing something you love.

Are you sure that was the Codex? I didn't see the words "Incline" or "Decline" used anywhere... I kid, I kid. Kinda funny we have 13 pages (and counting) of reviews of a review. I guess I should get in on that action. FWIW, I think its a fair review of someone who didn't like the game. While I recognize some of the things he classifies as a fault as faults (others didn't bother me but I can understand how, him not liking them, would help ruin the experience) I've probably had an over-all stronger experience than he did.

I think Obsidian should kickstart every IP they don't own. What bad could happen?

Its hard to deny the appeal of the small, perfectly circular pair of glasses. They just look erudite.

Sanders had roundish glasses too... http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/e0/d5/98/e0d59885a6e9b07d71e48e969ff343ac.jpg

I never realized how much Leon Trotsky looked like Harlan Sanders...

Being "basement dwellers" is values neutral? Really? What context or nuance could be added to "Dink the Kool-Aid" where it would not imply that the "Kool-Aid Drinker" is a member of a brainwashed cult? The text you quoted basically has nothing in common with the conclusions you derive. What the hell. Really? So "New generation = healthy cultural vocalublary...language of community" and "missing in the days of 'gamer pride'" is not a implying that the past (identified as "basement dwelling white male gamers" previously) is inferior to the present with new fans (by implication not "basement dwelling white male gamers")? Who said I didn't agree? What we disagree on is who are the trolls - as I've said before anti-GG and GG both are willfully blind to the trolls and harassers in their own camp, because they are so assured of their own righteousness. My point is, her statements are, essentially, lets silence the voices we disagree with. Whether she has the ability to make that happen or not is irrelevant. By forcing the neutral gamer into a position of abandoning "gamer" as an identity or risk being equated with the trolls who harass, stalk and doxx people. As I've said before as someone who plays video games, plays board games, plays P&P RPGs, pays card games, the idea that I'm a gamer is central to a primary hobby that I enjoy. I don't want to have to abandoned that because a group of people on the internet decided to "poison the well" by equating a great, diverse group with its most problematic element. And the division has already happens here, your arguments imply I'm "for" gamersgate when I find both groups problematic. But because I question an article of an anti-GGer I, by default, have to be a GGer. The community stands divided, and it is a very sad thing.