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I think the only way normal arrow stacks would work would be if they did a different inventory system. With the current one, it just doesn't make sense.

To me, there's an inherent flaw in putting an important menu at the center of the a rectangular border; while it is true that your primary vision is focused in a rough circle around the party, the field of visual information does not just sit in that circle but instead forms a series of concentric rings radiating away from the party. In that sense, you're going to block something the player may want to recognize in the field of vision with a big, immovable HUD piece in the center of the screen than you are at the corners (obviously making the HUD a solid bar renders the problem moot as there is no chance of vision past a immobile solid HUD bar). But in a smaller, piecemeal HUD, I'd think the important menu pieces would be most desirous in the corner to have the least potential impact to the player's field of vision.

Other games online that MMORPGs, you know. Yes, but I didn't feel like typing a comprehensive list and figured we could make the intuitive leap to understanding the point without being exhaustive in my description.

They're not saying they're taking over MMORPGs, they're looking at the industry as a whole and including mobile/tablet gaming.

I have to correct you on something, the official announcement that there wont be Romance came months after the game was funded. Up to then we were still debating if Romance would be in. Most promancers, like me, assumed they would be in the game on some level Is that so? I was under the impression they would not be there from the start. I wonder where I got that, then. Thanks for the correction. It wasn't explicitly stated, but several members of the writing team weren't fond of romances as they have been done in previous games so I think most people who were aware of the developers may have felt - as I did - that romance would be a longshot.

This really needs a on it.

What untapped potential? You're not going to sell salt to a thirsty person. If you want to tap a market, tap a market, but understand the market too.

A guy broke up with his girlfriend and posted the "why" to a website with screencaps of texts and tweets. Girlfriend is a game developer who (according to the posted screenies) admitted to a relationship with a game journalist who wrote positively about her game while still in a relationship with guy. Internet explodes. At least that's what I've gotten out of it. Like I said before, if an insider said EA was paying kotaku to get good reviews and positives articles, the internet would explode (and rightfuly so) But since it's a woman that had sex with a journalist (instead of bribing him with money) apparently a lot of people are dismissing the issue right away, people can't even discuss this in many websites without getting their comments deleted and their accounts shadowbanned. Even here I've seen many users suggesting the thread be deleted wich is embarrasing. Internet didn't explode when GameSpot fired one of their journalist because he gave too low score for Kane&Lynch, because Eidos (games publisher) demanded it, by threatening removing their ads from GameSpot's webpage. Eidos was then one of GameSpot's biggest advertisers. Actually I remember the internet exploded over that as well (Kane & Lynch). The problem (IMO) is that there's two parts to the story and a lot of people are talking more about Zoe Quinn and the personal details of her relationship with her boyfriend (see all of the debate that by "her own standards" she raped her boyfriend - it wasn't legal rape and anything else about their relationship is none of my business) than favoritism / unethical behavior of journalists.

I've only played the console version (PS3) because of the online only "feature" of the PC version (almost didn't play the PS3 initial release until I read it was confirmed to stand alone). Oh and about levels my Crusader is level 31 entering Act II; my Monk had beaten the game at level 38...and I agree IndiraLightfoot its made the game a bit more fun this time around.

We're all virile he-men here, surely. Well Woldan is at least... Anyhow, realized I hadn't done the challenge, the nearest book said to start Page 45: "Do you know the name of her boyfriend?"

I've noticed that levels seem vastly easier to achieve since my last go-around in Diablo III. My crusader is almost the same level as the monk I'd beaten the game with previously.

A guy broke up with his girlfriend and posted the "why" to a website with screencaps of texts and tweets. Girlfriend is a game developer who (according to the posted screenies) admitted to a relationship with a game journalist who wrote positively about her game while still in a relationship with guy. Internet explodes. At least that's what I've gotten out of it.

Who would suggest that was even a thing? It'd be like asking for the guy who designed a blender to design you a car. Just because a casual gamer is still a gamer doesn't mean that every game would cater to them, surely.

Make a youtube video or photobomb a celeb, and I'm sure you'll be going viral again. (Sorry couldn't resist, it put a funny image in my head).

It's not a distinction between a sports fan and a gamer. In football, for example, there are fans that get into the team - know the songs, the players, history and they always sneer at fans that don't or that casually watch (prawn sandwich brigade is a common moniker for these people). So it's a similar deal. Yes, I understand that. It doesn't make logical sense, but I understand it. But from the perspective of the team/team owners, do you think that they only think of the one of those two fans who go to the matches, buy a ticket, buy concessions but only one knows all the teams history? From a game developer perspective, if there's more money to be made in quick turn-around mobile games than in longer development for console/PC do you think they care if its "casuals" instead of "die-hards" playing? Looking down at the "casuals" is meaningless **** measuring, to be honest.

Are you talking about how you'd tackle this if you've hit the level cap or not? I'm assuming not because if after it'd be no different than tackling the IE games at level cap. I'd suspect the question comes down to whether there will be objectives (and thus objective XP) tied to specific types of exploration (like whether advancing to the next level of Od Nua will lead to extra XP).

I've never heard of fedora used for anything other than a hat, so I guess I learned something today.

I'm still not sure what the distinction is here between being a sports fan. The criteria you're using sounds like the kind of thing the one with more involvement will use to disparage the one with less involvement to hide the fact that you can still be sports fan and be overly involved. To be sure, I find the same thing true of the PC/anti-Console and Console/Anti-other-Console crowds. Its like someone decided that unless someone has a special badge and knows the secret handshake then they're in the club and everyone else doesn't count.

I gather in someways the problem with video game journalism is the need for the person writing about the game to be able to play the game, which leads to people being gamers before being journalists, I guess.

Really? I can't think of any actors or actress who dated critics. Maybe its a stage thing? Not really thinking of any directors either, but again the fault may be in my memory - right now ex-actress and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper being married to actor and singer DeWolf Hopper is the only one that really springs to mind and she wasn't a critic.

Not really "What I'm Playing" so much as a "blast from the past" - Apparently had some VTM:Bloodlines screencaps from 2007 still sitting in my files.

Yeah my defense is quite high when compared with attack. It can take some time to take down stronger monsters compared to my monk (who had some pretty fast and deadly strikes) or the Barbarian (whose biggest problem was getting Rage up to smash things so always started fights slowly in damage).

No need to apologize for something you can't help Monte. But that doesn't change the fact we should still be asking " why is there such a lack female participation on these forums and how can we change this" ? I can't be the only one who has noticed the gender disparity on these forums? In my experience most everyone has better things to do than post on message boards. Posting here says more about us than it does the people who don't post here, I think. Not sure why playing a specific game or type of game makes someone a non-gamer.

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. I'm enjoying the Crusader class pretty well, shot up to my favorite class almost immediately mixing sort of the monk and barbarian classes + flails. Also finding some of the other classes more fun than I remembered as well (never messed much with the Demon Hunter or Wizard).