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  1. Amentep
    I can't say I really understand the dislike for Antje Traue here
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    Maybe they should've used more faux-Welsh words. "Mae'r swm amgaeëdig yn cynnwys cost cludiant" said the NPC. "What the **** did he say?" thinks the non-Welsh player. "What's he going on about postage for?" think the Welsh player.
  3. Amentep
    "Let's see... I'm just gonna lob that lightning bolt over the wall... Seems legit!" Off the expressway, over the river, off the billboard, through the window, off the wall...nothing but net.* *see
  4. Amentep
    BIG HEAD MODE!
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    There is something to be said for familiarity IMO. The setting is already new and the game mechanics will take some getting used to. Most of us know what the "blue plus sign" does(heal) so it's one less thing to try and figure out. Besides how many different ways can you really put haste or heal into an icon...just google haste icon and....yup most people use boots with wings or something similar. I do understand how people may think it is out of place though since the setting is more dark/stoney. The icons are pretty bright and colorful. IIRC way back in the mists of time, it was stated that Obsidian bought the art assets from Icewind Dale. My guess is they'd reuse those icons for similar spell types to save development time and cost.
  6. Amentep
    So...do you create romance mods for NWN? I kid, I kid... ...Put the knife down!
  7. Amentep
    The closest meaning to how gamers use it for immersion is "deep mental involvement". This meaning for the word was typically used to reference the idea of being surrounded by concepts that one was totally invested in. For example if you were studying ancient Greece intently with every waking moment, you could be said to be immersed in ancient Greek culture or history. For the sake of argument, I'd suppose that one could make a claim that certain game elements may effect ones "deep mental involvement" in the game/game world, but to be honest 90% of people I see saying "X broke my immersion" are just saying "it didn't give me what I wanted, so I don't like it." They might as well say "it bent my Wookie" as much as "it broke my immersion".
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    ^I've always suspected that there are some business people who see a short lifespan mega gain now as better than a long lifespan good gain over a longer period of time. Its why, I think, there are some business people who seem only interested in getting as much money as they can before running the business in the ground then going to the next business to do the same with. That said, I do agree that LoL has the player base it does now because of how they're doing things now and I think he's optimistic to think his changes wouldn't kill the money stream dead.
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    I like CoC, I think its a good system (never played it, only read the rules). Since you have the D20 version, you could probably find a D20 victorian period set (or look at the D20 OGL modern rules) and cobble together what you need to represent all the pieces you want.
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    Well, I think it illustrates why you don't necessarily want an accountant making creative decisions, what he's saying isn't wrong (from his perspective) although, as always, I don't think he's looking at the damage to the brand his money making ideas would create.
  11. Amentep
    I thought the animations in the Gamescom footage I saw was "servicable". I could probably play the game with graphics like that and be okay. But with months til the release, I imagine that as the beta winds its way through there will be more work done on all fronts to polish and debug the game.
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    I don't know how it'll turn out, but Wild (from Michael Ancel (Beyond Good And Evil, Rayman)) looks interesting - http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/08/12/introducing-ps4-exclusive-wild/ (sorry if its linked already, a search didn't turn anything up)
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    http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2014/08/13/dark-tidings-bioware-announces-shadow-realms-at-gamescom/ Yeah, that's me not interested anymore. I don't want to play any game where I'm forced to play with another player.
  14. Amentep
    I doubt it will allow you to access the keep if you don't have the game tied to the account with which you will access the Dragon Keep. I was under the impression that someone who - legitimately - bought only DAI (and never played the otherse) would still be able to use the Keep to create a file of their choices if they wanted to. Might have been a misunderstanding on my part though.
  15. Amentep
    I need to see Party Down at some point. Looks like the major cast is all there except Tina Majorino (who, IIRC, is in TNT's LEGENDS crime-drama series so probably wasn't available).
  16. Amentep
    Or those who pirate, though I guess they will figure out how to crack the keep too. Well this Keep application will probably generate a file somehow, so who knows. An interesting idea, even if it seems more stick than carrot to make it popular RE: Piracy - it might affect people who pirate DAI, but my understanding since you're manually creating the saved data state(?) I'm not sure it'd matter if you pirated DAO/DA2 as I'm not entirely sure its necessary to upload anything. RE: file creation - I imagine there will be a file - whether you can, say, download it to PC, put it on a flash drive then upload it to your game I don't know about; the stuff that I've seen so far implies you need use the Origin ID that you are using to play DA:I with on the Keep so that the information is ported. This sounds to me like the Keep is going to interact with your DAI game through the interwebs to me.
  17. Amentep
    I'm underwhelmed. It's still early but if this is indeed a co-op then I'm not interested. It depends on the type of co-op. I'm out of anything that involved an constant, easy internet connection.
  18. Amentep
    I'm probably not the market for the card game (although I liked Culdcept, the only console card game thingy I've ever played), but I hope its good and finds its audience (and, of course, that something that maybe more to my interest is forthcoming).
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    Which - if it works as I understand it does - is a huge "screw you" to people who don't play their games with internet connections. Mind you I guess that's kind of expected in today's gaming environment.
  20. Amentep
    I dunno, I'll need to see more. As an action RPG fan, that footage doesn't win me over or repulse me.
  21. Amentep
    It's a year and a half old, but... I remember that quote now that I read it, as I thought at the time I'd want to see what PoE was like before buying written sourcebooks. BUT...maybe this is what its all about.
  22. Amentep
    I'd be happy if they just got the quote right - IIRC it is supposed to be properly translated "And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
  23. Amentep
    AFAIK they can't use the D20 system rules as its prohibited in the Open Gaming License; so the game would have to have its own rule system (presuming that they couldn't also license the D20 rules independent of the Pathfinder setting but that seems like a lot of rules...)
  24. Amentep
    Fatale is very good.
  25. Amentep
    Since I've started Sacred 3, I've also fired up Sacred 2 which I've been playing off-and-on for some time. Now I need to remember what my Dryad was doing (or start over, but that might be a nightmare).
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