Amentep
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Wouldn't the equivalent of "SAW the video game" be something like TECMO's Deception: Invitation to Darkness and not a FPS?
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One of the things I really liked about Arcanum was their backgrounds. They were generic enough not to nail down too many things but still gave the feeling that your character didn't suddenly appear from the aether either.- 55 replies
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From what was reported that I can tell - She wasn't fired, suspended or disciplined One of the suicide notes did criticize the Hospital Administration but it was for a previous disagreement between her and another employee she felt the hospital didn't properly address. She blamed the DJs for her death in the third suicide note She had attempted suicide before The last one is really the one that is the most important to my mind; with an anonymous prank like this you have no clue who you're dealing with and whether they have pre-existing struggles that could trigger a suicide or rage or if they'll just shrug and go "whatever".
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I love the Saints Row games and the new GTA trailer does nothing for me.
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So...basically you're wanting someone to license F.A.T.A.L. for a console game?
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I just wish they'd ditch the Guy Fawkes masks.
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I can't say I've seen many pranks that are about "deflating truly pompous people". All the ones I've seen or heard are "lets make someone look stupid to the public and laugh at them" with pomposity being irrelevant.
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If you'd said "People looking down on you, or considering you weird for watching it, since they consider it to only be hentai about tentacle rape" or something, I possibly could have agreed with you. But anecdotally speaking, the vast majority of people I meet seem to accept anime an manga now in ways they didn't in the 80s. The 80s was total wilderness where you usually only saw films if someone traded you a copy of a copy of a copy and everyone said "cartoons? That's for kids!" Now days you can walk into Best Buy and buy anime films. You can get Studio Ghibli films at Wal*Mart. The stuff isn't just seen as "for kids", I know a lot of adults who've watched some anime films. Not in the diehard way, but in the way of casual people watching stuff.
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I was thinking more "Lone Wolf and Cub"... ...although I can't find the actual scene where they use the bladed babycart...
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Maybe Sawyer meant normal doesn't require food or drink? Maybe a link to the quote to see context would help?
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Apparently its the 1980s again, when anime in its natural habitat was a hard find and those who did find it were thought to be watching cheap kids fiction and not startling cinematic movies and tv shows of uncompromised vision that just happened to show nudity as well. When Galaxy Express 999 squeaked to theaters in NY and LA, when Castle of Cogliostro was mostly known as a laserdisc game called "Cliff Hangers" and 7 Zark 7 was seen as an integral part of the Battle of the Planets. In the future - we are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives - from around the mid-2000s on, I will not know anyone amid my niece's age and younger who will not watch anime or read manga. Do they look down on themselves in this utopian future of anime, flying cars and jetpacks, you may ask? No, my startling visions of that glorious future that awaits us all indicates that they will be well adjusted and happy with their anime and manga...but less so with flying cars and jet packs. Back to the present, however, I wasn't on the internet in the 1980s so am unsure how I'm posting this message to a forum that won't exist for 20 more years. I shall declare it "movie magic" and move on.
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It kind of depends on the game. Usually for fantasy RPGs I play Neutral to Good though and maybe multiple runs through might try some of the evil options. I'm not a fan of "whack a villager = +1 Evil" systems.
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Update #58: Crafting with Tim Cain!
Amentep replied to Darren Monahan's topic in Pillars of Eternity: Announcements & News
I believe he is referring to the fact that PE combat is going to be a series of rock/paper/scissors. All party members will have two or more "weapon sets" that will allow each character to rapidly change their weapons. This is being implemented because they are also adding "flavor" by each type of weapon (crushing, piercing, slashing) being "best" against certain types of armor. (IE: War hammers (crushing) are better than a dagger (piercing) against plate armor.) So your characters will be constantly be switching weapon sets, even within the same battle. Unless its ranged vs melee I'm never crazy about micromanaging my weapons. -
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Whose fault is it? Default.
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Obviously the game being designed determines what is and isn't necessary. Which is in Obsidian's hands. I'm not sure that really compares to the adventuring party. Its probably more like Marco Polo traveling to the east combined with Howard Carter discovering Tutankhamen's tomb laced together with the Conquistadors running roughshod through the Americas with just a dash of hot military army-on-army action and the occasional purchasing of supplies from the locals and terrorizing their livestock for flavor. Or, imagine maybe more practically its like an old military clipper where the hard work and long hours might not lead to anything happening during the tour (although not impossible either) but shore leave tends to be where the action was at, so to speak.
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I hope it doesn't. I hope it boils down to what works for the game obsidian is designing and not a "well the masses wanted this, so lets fling it at them". Because that approach never goes down well. Also since romance is a singular emotional outlet, I think its possible to create a narrative that just doesn't sustain it. As long as the NPCs are interesting and responsive in their relationship to the PC and the remainder of the party, I don't think there has to be a romance in the game. Romance is a spice, not what you're cooking (unless you're making a romance/dating sim) so its not necessary by any means.
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I'd assume - perhaps wrongly - that the appeal in the case that Zalpha is talking about is the self-identification with a protagonist that is common in fiction. Otherwise tearjerkers would never have someone reaching for a hanky and scary films would never elicit a jump or cry of fright. Which we know they do. There is a certain degree of self-investment in any fictional storytelling that engages the reader/viewer. In that light, identifying with his protagonist and their relationship with Aerie to an extent that it moved them isn't surprising and not that dissimilar to someone saying that two characters romance in a book was "deeply touching and moving" or similar. That said, there are the unhealthy investments in fictional characters that happen with some people which I understand is what you're talking about but I think a distinction has to be made between the two camps as often in these discussions - frankly - it seems like anyone who is "pro-romance" is seen as the unhealthily obsessed and not those who've engaged in a movie story or character point in a healthy, typical to fiction way.
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Not sure why its funny; the same thing could be roughly said about any aspect of games. For some posters RPGs are about fighting in tunnels, for others creating and interacting with interesting characters, some its all about the narrative, others for loot or cool abilities. Some may like multiple parts of these in different games and dislike the same in others. We all respond to different things. Generally speaking, when we discussed this before, the main points - and I feel they are fair - come down to: games aren't best designed to take into account complex human interactions ("Hi, I'm so glad to meet you, is that an Amulet of Mara?" *sexy wink*) romance/sex isn't practical in most situations ("Hey baby, after 2 days in the sewer of the Unholy Underground City of Pestilence, I'm feeling a bit randy. Fancy a roll in the hay?" "Sure!" *rips off clothes*) romance tends to curtail the viability of joinable NPCs (Romance dialogue translates to 30 pages of text. Non-Romance dialogue translates to a fortune cookie) So even though I'd like robust interactions with companions - both PC-NPC and NPC-NPC (friendships, rivalries and again if it fit the character, setting, etc. romance) I can sure see why some people see the mention of romance as a call to pass the pitchforks and torches so as to storm the windmill (a la Frankenstein)
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I admit, I was a bit disturbed that BGII:ToB went with the baby inventory item route. It seemed wrong on several levels.
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Could be, but then again I didn't like the narration aspect as a whole and in general if they were trying for an unreliable narrator they failed, IMO.
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Types of romances you liked Relatioship/Romance Thread I Relationship/Romance Thread II Relationship/Romance Thread III Relationship/Romance Thread IV Romance and Friendships Romances, Yay or Nay? The Romances If Romances are Included A Suggestion for the Romances you're considering (if any) Sex and Romance Poll Its a reoccurring topic.
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How "grindy" will the game be?
Amentep replied to eschaton's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
I dunno, I didn't reload when I got bad rolls on Wild Magic either (unless it killed me). Seemed to miss the point of "random event". -
Yeah my edition of the uncut STAND could easily stop a bullet. Bit bulky in the shirt breast-pocket as opposed to a handy cigarillo case though...
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What about if you love the original Lone Ranger? You have to put aside the memories of Clayton Moore (and, for that matter, Klinton Spilsbury, but you probably did that already). Personally accepting that its a new take on the character I thought it mostly enjoyable and yet with some elements that just fall flat (not terribly surprising considering the script - like Spilsbury's LEGEND - had been revised numerous times). IMO:
