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When you start as a new character, do you lose the character creation extras (eye color, skin color, hair color etc) you've bought previously or the main menu character editor? I've been tempted to start over from scratch but don't really want to lose the character creation options (anyhow not restarting entirely until I've finally taken death out).

I picked up Dark Souls when it came out. Sold it back 4 days later. Sorry, but the game was just not for me. Feel free to de-friend me.

You should have climbed on its neck and whacked it with your sword. I tried to do that. But my guy ran out of stamina while trying to climb to the head. So he'd leap onto the neck, shimmy a bit toward the head, then drop down huffing and puffing. Apparently my character is also morbidly obese. That's strange. I climbed its neck with my mage. I had enough of being only a mage, so I decided to just go berserk on it. I'm now a mystic knight (although I haven't played for several days now). Remember encumbrance increases the use of stamina when climbing. If you want to be an all-climby fighter / warrior type you need to keep your gear & supplies light particularly at lower levels when you have less stamina to spare. IIRC Striders use the least stamina when climbing of the three basic types but fighters have a higher encumbrance rate. Fighters usually need to use the shield bash on flying enemies (encourages them to attack the player). Warriors have an upthrust and a good jumping slash for low level flying enemies (but yeah, Striders and Mages have the upper hand there, but many big monsters will one-hit a low level mage but not a fighter). RE: Pip - the game encourages jumping around, climbing and trying to find ways to get to the seemingly inaccessible.

Maybe try a "floss pick" for it?

Shhh, they can smell your fear. And they find it ...nourishing. Apparently the US network are secretly headed by: ABC - Cthulhu CBS - Azathoth NBC - Yog-Sothoth Fox - Nyarlathotep CW - Shub-Niggurath

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam. Or 3 Dev Adam. I'm just saying.

Wait, you're surprised about this? This is the direction that gaming is headed and has been for years. I estimate we're only a year or two away from games coming out with a special edition you can buy for a cool $20 more where you don't get the game at all, but instead you automatically are awarded all the achievements so that you can show off your SKILLZ and your ePen1s can grow. But you need the X-Box One kinnect camera to show that last bit off, surely?

I've got Ironclad but yet to watch it.

Right now its showing is good on TV By the Numbers Renew/Cancel index and they think renewal. BubbleWatch on the same site (which uses the same number but tries to predict the ratings for a full season) puts it in the bubble but with only four episodes and one on a different night it may be difficult to predict at this point.

Maybe it'll be as good as the original Japanese Manga that the Korean film was based on...?

Looking forward to the Persona 5 for sure. Also new news on the fighter sequel. And I really need a 3DS...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marktaormino/adandd-1e-module-the-hanging-coffins-of-the-vampir Old 1E style, OGL based retro Dungeon Module, "The Hanging Coffins of the Vampire Queen".

They're actually filming a lot of the actors performances now in the booth - particularly for facial expressions - to then be viewed by animators to capture the essence of those actions/reactions. So yeah a very different world now.

I totally agree with you. I remember getting into an argument in the 80s with some fellow anime fans about US voice actors vs Japanese voice actors. They claimed that Japanese voice actors were clearly superior. I pointed out since neither of them knew Japanese they really couldn't comment on the quality of the acting so much as the quality of their vocal intonations, and what they were really responding to were voices that sounded cool because - without an understanding of what they're actually saying and contextually how that should be delivered they couldn't really understand the quality of the acting. One instance was the Rin Taro directed Harmageddon which the main villain has an awesome sounding voice...but without understanding Japanese you really couldn't understand if the performance actually fit what was needed. Needless to say they disagreed rather vociferously claiming that when they had subtitles they knew what the story was and what was supposed to be said (which doesn't explain how they praised performances in the unsubtitled films they got their hands on - this being the 80s when most anime didn't make it to the US) but also neatly sidesteps the fact that the subtitles are an approximation of how things are said and you still lose the context provided by nuance in the original language. All of this to say, I usually look at stuff from other cultures differently from stuff in my own; I think in particular a lot of films from China, Japan, and Korea are very reflective of standards of acting rooted in vastly different forms of theater than either US or UK productions and so you either adjust to the expectations or get lost, I think.

The leftover pizza I was going to eat had went south, so instead I made myself a quesadilla.

The whole "regurgitating" argument is rooted in the idea that remaking a FL film is somehow unoriginal. Which is also - arguably - true of any adaption from any other media including filmic ones. IMO, it whether something is a remake, an adaption, a retread or a wholely new work, there are a lot more important things to consider when regarding the merit/lack of merit when viewing the film than whether it started out as another film (or book or tv show or...) Since in these cases Hollywood is targeting foreign successes for their remakes and the fact that Americans live in a cultural bubble so they are unaware of them. I think regurgitating is fitting, even though I use the term plagiarism myself. Like putting Martin Scorsese's name on the headline of a foreign film that he had nothing to do with just because it can be better marketed to American audiences. Its not plagiarism if they arranged for the adaption legally anymore so than "The Lord of the Rings: The Desolation of Smaug" is plagiarism; regurgitating IMO still doesn't fit. What I watched: The Croods. It was funny but a bit heavy handed in the "message" dept.

BANANA? You are wrong and must be stopped. Banana is delicious on a pizza, you must try it I would rather swear allegiance to the Champs Elysee and then urinate on the Queen. So not totally out of the question then?

Well it was funny because they weren't after them (but there are birds of prey in the area so big bird shadow = run for cover). The vultures just sat in the road eating road kill.

Still going on: Indf/RTwP/TB 684/6331/6582 I hear the TB fans are voting via an orderly queue but its taking a lot of time to get through; on the other side, some joker yelled out "SPACE BAR" around the RTwP fans and now they're stuck waiting for someone to yell it again.

When they did some expansion during boom times, they upended a vulture rookery. They moved to an area behind my house for awhile (about 3 years), which was fun as they're huge birds and I admit it was funny seeing all the small animals run away when they saw their shadow flying across the yard.

My point is that if the perception is - and it most definitely is - that PST's combat sucked, its not that surprising that people would vote against doing what PST did. The pros/cons of TB or RTwP isn't going to factor into it, much less better versions of one or the other (like BG2). The "experience" (and important word left out of my previous post) were vastly different for the end user. Or its just the die-hards and there usual TB fandom turning out...dunno. As I said, I don't really care one way or the other if the game is good. I like both styles.

Actually, what they're saying is they "want Heroes of Might and Magic-style combat rather than Planescape: Torment combat". Which, as I recall, is the one thing almost universally derided by even the most ardent of PST fans. PST combat wasn't the same as the BGs or the IWDs.

I really don't care which it is, so long as its a game I enjoy. So I'm not voting.

*sigh* this just ain't the Falcon's season.

This is exactly what happened to my first party in BG1. I recall this like it was yesterday! :D Ah, the fond memories of being torn to pieces by serrated fangs the length of scythe-heads... I actually encountered my first ankheg coming out of those kobold-infested mines on the other side. The result was the same though. Yeah I got ankheged myself just trying to wander around in the first game. I also those spiders near High Hedge got me a whole lot.