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Nah, Planescape didn't allow you to have that deeper interaction and connection with party members that a sexual experience provides. That was the one thing unrealistic about the game for me. The ideal Romance implementation for me is BG2 or the DA series where you can court Morrigan and Isabela So do you think Divine Comedy would have been deeper if Dante ploughed Beatrice? To be fair though, Le Morte d'Arthur would have been a bit different without "The Book of Sir Tristrams de Lyons" and "Sir Launcelot and Queen Gwynevere" as would Orlando Furioso without Ruggiero and Bradamante...

Anyone else entertained by what just happened here? Anyway, I've never heard of that movie either. Doesn't matter. Let's posit, hypothetically, that 90% of all films is pirated. Now I'm going to painfully exaggerate this, but let's say: If 90% of a blockbuster's views are pirated, that still gives them a couple million. If 90% of an indie flicks' views are pirated, that means only about ten people actually paid for it. Obviously this is the most hyperbole version of events there is, but indie films have a much smaller viewer base in the first place. Piracy, even at the same rate, hurts indie filmmakers far more than big studios. Okay lets say a blockbuster cost $150 million. Lets say a indie film cost $150,000. Lets say that based on movie ticket prices, it can be shown that the "people" behind the films get $10 a ticket. Lets follow the common wisdom that a blockbuster has to make 2.5 times the money it cost to make to make a profit (because of advertising, prints, shipping). Lets say the indie film has to make 1.5 its cost to cover advertising, prints, festivals. So Blockbuster needs $375,000,000 and indie needs $225,000. Blockbuster must sell 37,500,000 tickets worldwide; indie needs 22,500. Lets say 1 million people see the Blockbuster and 1 hundred thousand see the indie. 90% are pirates. So there are 100,000 paying Blockbuster customers and 10,000 Indie customers. The "people" behind the blockbuster are $374,000,000 in the red. "People" behind the indies are $125,000 in the red. I don't think either "win".

Worked for me. YMMV I guess.

I thought the locations only showed up as rewards for collecting tomb treasure and/or geocaches (otherwise they only showed up if you "spotted them")? That said while I'm not sure that I want to see a return to some of the really painful timed jumps of the earlier series, I think some harder puzzles - particularly for "optional" tombs should be a must.

"Little Computer People" for a new generation?

I dunno, I can't say I agree with your experience. I liked Tomb Raider a lot and the only Tomb Raider I can say I liked before that was the original one. Weirdly I feel the complaint of too much combat could be leveled at most of the series (it was the London level and the heavy focus on combat in II and III that turned me off the series). And for me I felt that while there weren't a lot of specific Tombs to raid on the island the exploration and finding artifacts and the history of the island and inhabitants was just as interesting. I'm not sure how they can turn this game into a template for the series, but I thought it did well for what it set out to do (which is mainly to re-establish Lara Croft in a good modern game).

How does Ambition Mode work? It doesn't seem clear on the website.

I liked Dark Shadows - its a mess of a film, but I though it was fun. I think the subplots were a nod to the fact the original show was a soap opera (so always had subplots going on). Having said that, I don't remember was the deus ex machina at the end was (at least anything that hadn't been somewhat set up earlier in the story).

To be honest, I took the frailty of the spouse in FO2 as a challenge. Managed to get her through all of the game to the Enclave base where the auto-turrets (IIRC) chunked her. It was sad.

I like both!

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I think there is some logical stretching by fans to "justify" bugs by pointing out publisher issues. But again I say this as someone who hasn't experienced Obs games being worse than others with bugs.

The last I read was that we'd be getting a Southern Belle voice and a French accent.

Have you forced vertical sync off in the .ini file? That apparently causes all sorts of weirdness. Sadly I'm playing it on a console. Otherwise I'd have modded the **** out of it for a better experience like I did Oblivion and Morrowind. No, it's just plain and simply bad writing and it doesnt limit itself to the main story. Every time I have gotten a new quest, there has been a good chance the dialog was so half-assed that questions like "why?" and "what the hell just happened?" have been emerging to my mind rather strongly after I've got the quest. You know when I wrote that I hadn't really given it a thought, but there was a bit in Dawnguard where Serena was telling me something important and the only response I could choose was "Just get on with it" which seemed a bit weird as an only response. So I can see where you're thinking about it being half-assed in someways since it actually didn't make sense in context (at least they didn't give me two choices where both went to the same response). Some of the quests do seem rather...random. But I do think part of that is the nature of the game and the radiant AI making spot quests very basic.

To be honest, I've never found Obsidian's games to be more (or less) buggy than other game company's output. And pretty much every Gamebryo game I've played have had game ending bugs. But Bio's games have had some bugs (usually graphical glitches, but some others as well).

BTW if you pledged through Kickstarter, you can log in and check to see what tier you backed at. For those who can't remember.

In games that use VO for every line of dialogue, paying the voice actor/actress to say a bunch of naturalistic lines leading up to the real wind-up and pitch is probably not cost effective. PE doesn't have that concern, so it'll be interesting to see how it does its character/non-joinable NPCs banter. (Even still the IE games had similar problems).

Is there anything at all which would be safe with a ravenous wolf inside it? A satiated tiger? I can see it now. Me: "Ah, a friendly satiated tiger. I will rest against it's warm fuzzy belly." Tiger: "Oh god, the pain!" *wolf emerges and eats me* One would hope the tiger didn't swallow the ravenous wolf hole, I think. Are you sure your tiger didn't have a facehugging xenomorph on it?

Is there anything at all which would be safe with a ravenous wolf inside it? A satiated tiger?

but like I say moving very 300 miles away very soon. Do not worry, the internet is not a fixed geographic phenomenon. And they should allow you to change your address in the fulfillment site should you put it in before you move or move multiple times after your move but before the game comes out.

How about - "Backers who backed after the Kickstarter Ended but before pre-orders began"? We can call them BWBATKEBBPOB for short.

So have I! Weirdly I've had more problems this time around, including a flying mammoth. I've had a lot of freezes and a game ending bug in Dawnguard (doors wouldn't open). That said, i think the problem with the writing is actually a problem with the narrative as a whole which I think stems entirely from the "you can do everything". The story, therefore, has to be created to not have any real urgency so the player isn't pushed to not do this over that as part of the philosophy of the gameplay. Sometimes. But it never looks as bad as Morrowind did (I couldn't play that game without graphics mods to improve/replace everything).

The verdict of not guilty can be overturned in the case of jury tampering. Otherwise the system has always been to let the guilty to go free rather than let the innocent go to jail (in theory).

Okay I'm not sure how to take this. Was there a "previous member of the porn industry" requirement before posting here that I didn't know about or do Avelone, Urquhart, Sawyer, et al have a much more varied career than I first thought looking at their public CVs? Do you mean emotional bondings intended by the game (ie narrative bonds intended by the story) or player bonds with their PC or other NPCs because of things that draws them to an interest in PC/NPC that may be as much investment by the player as investment by the creators?

My understanding - and I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV) - of Florida's law was that it would have been near impossible to convict him of murder under the law. 2nd degree murder requires 2 things in Florida (from what I've read) proof of a depraved mind and action that wasn't premeditated. I don't think they could ever have proven the "depraved mind" - ie that Zimmerman knew his actions would lead to murder. There's three manslaughter charges in Florida, the second is about getting someone else to commit an act that leads to death so its out so doesn't apply; the first requires the death to result in the course of action considered to be unjustified and unexcusable (hard to prove, IMO, as Zimmerman's actions were as a result of him being a neighborhood watch captain). The third involves murder as a result of “culpably negligent” conduct, which might have been provable since Zimmerman had been told to not follow Martin by the police dispatcher so it might be possible to prove his negligent actions escalated a situation such that an unlawful killing took place.