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I wonder this as well. I'd have to assume you'll have regions of relative "safety" (more rest zones than spots) with smaller areas of... "unrest," (I couldn't resist), and other regions of relative danger (or otherwise-preventing-extended-rest factors) in which the majority of the area will not allow resting, and only small spots will allow it. I highly doubt it'll be just little dots throughout the entirety of the traversable map. I am anticipating more official info on this, in general, though. I figure there will have to be some kind of visual indication. Were already being forced to go to specific areas just to rest, I cant imagine the design would also force us to press the rest button every 10 feet until we get lucky and find the sweet spot. I imagine it'll be on the map, but they could also do it by having it be a "vacant" camp site already visually or have floating test when you hit the area "this looks like a good area to rest if you want to".

I was under the impression that Isabela will come to the same revelation in the romance with the right dialogue choices regardless of whether its a friendship romance or a rivalry romance?

Well, they've arrested two people for the murder of the person found dead on campus.

To be fair, women dressing sexy in the real world usually aren't going into battle with their broad axe against people with magic, swords, etc. either. I think - to some degree - fashion gets skewed in role playing games because everyone runs around in their armor at all times whether it makes sense or not (grocery buying IN FULL MAIL! visit the theater IN FULL MAIL! etc).

I don't mind random encounters, I'm not sure I'd think respawning enemies (just because of resting, as opposed to "replenished ecology" kind of respawns after significant layers of time". Now, ultimately as its a game I only care that their solution is balanced for the game and not cumbersome. But I do wonder if the better solution would be to make repeated rest some sort of law of diminishing returns (so many rest periods in so much time causes the effects to minimize, add a "over-rested" status, exponentially increase likelihood of encounters while resting with each rest, etc) than to limit rest areas.

"Yes." "Well that wasn't very nice, was it?" "I, uh, I guess not." "D'you go around stabbing every random berk you meet?" "...I should really get going." "Ohh, you're too good to kill me now, is it? Mister 'I went and beat the game already and came back all uber and junk' thinks I'm not worth his time to just stab and corpse loot. Oh I get it now, now that 3 gold is a fraction of your net worth you can't be bothered with rolling me in an alley and stuffing my still-warm corpse through a sewer grate..."

It does but it is a creation of my imagination, as are all of you, the Earth, the universe, etc. The entire multiverse, including these boards, every person I have ever "met" or heard of, every solid, liquid, and gas, heck the very concept of solids, liquids, and gasses, they were all created by my imagination as a self contained universe. This is my own private playground, or my own private hell. Outside of me, there is nothing, or everything, or a completely different concept that cannot be defined by nothing, everything, or anything. I'll never know, because this self contained universe is all I'll ever know. Reminds me of the gag in philosophy class; my professor relayed the story of a colleague's revelation. The colleague, while having sex with his wife, suddenly stopped and exclaimed to her, "I just realized, I am all that exist and everything outside of me is a creation of my imagination. So I am god, and I'm not having sex with you, I'm masturbating!"

Second time through - dialogue may randomly start with "Haven't we met before?" "? I though you were dead" "Of &%$* here they come again..." etc.

Ebay + lots of money?

lol Maybe we'll get more information on the poor fellow today.

Would make us all feel better if he was!

Chrono Trigger's replayability was in the alternate endings you could find by searching in the second game for areas you could fight Lavos before the endgame. Dragon's Dogma has a free class change system that takes (usually) a few run throughs to max out all the classes so New Level + allowed you to replay the other classes. Or if you just wanted to run around and try stuff in the open world. There were a few new quests (of the "Kill X [important monsters] variety) but nothing that changed the game content. Neither of those games seem to fit what PE is doing, so again I don't think New Game + is a viable option; this game seems to be built around the replayability being in trying different classes and different skills and different choices.

Hmmm, they found a dead body at work today. Homicide they're saying, but not much more because its an open investigation. Its an open campus so very possible the person has no connection to the ol' place of business.

I don't think the problem is - to me at least - too many quests in Athkatla, but too many quests triggered the minute you walk into a place by people who chase you down and force you into a dialogue screen. If I'm on an urgent mission to save Imoen and I've taken up an urgent mission from Nalia to tell me of an urgent mission to save the DeArnise stronghold that she'll give me money (towards my goal) why do I want to be stopped by a runner to tell Minsc that there's an urgent mission in Umar Hills? At some point there are just too many things that trigger because you walk into a room, IMO.

Platonic was a poor word choice on my part since it - in a modern context - has multiple meanings; what I meant was character interactions that aren't based on love & sex at all (see Merriam-Webster's definition 2b of Platonic; of, relating to, or being a relationship marked by the absence of romance or sex)

Level scaling in another can of worms entirely. Most players here are not fans for this type of game; the developers seem to be of the opinion of minimal level scaling within very narrow ranges on the critical path only. I'd argue that level scaling shouldn't be inherent to New Game+ - Chrono Trigger worked fine without it.

If it has interesting, responsive character interactions that are entirely platonic, I'm not sure how you've lost anything. Romantic relationships are part of the human story; I think artificially including or excluding them is a mistake - like making a painting without the color blue for no clear reason beyond not liking the color blue. That said its entirely possible to create a story that is still well done without romantic relationships, just like its possible to make a painting without the color blue. The difference is between understanding how to use your tools and having a solid plan or just being arbitrary.

I love New Game+ for the right game; this game doesn't seem to fit the mold (less actiony, low leveled party).

I watched a movie called "George and the Dragon" which is a bit of a revisionist take on the legend from a decade or so ago. Amusing bit of fantasy fluff.

I won't get it. Waiting to see if I'll get the PS4, but the XB-One's "have to be online once every 24 hours" is not the kind of ease-of-use I buy a console for.

I had a co-worker who woke up with a wood roach on their nose.

2000ADonline.com sells them some of them in digital format on their website. Comixology has the IDW series on its site.

The house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) freaks me out when I see it even though I know its an insectovore and not liable to mistake me for a cricket (we get them at work all the time, well and crickets). I stopped stepping on spiders when I went to step on one and it reared back and seemed to hiss at me (I heard it, but the TV was on so it may be a combination of motion from the spider and sound from the TV that made me think it was hissing). I captured it and tossed it outside - halfway figured it'd have eaten the neighborhood it had such attitude. I think it was a wolf spider, H. carolinensis. My oldest brother has one of the worst spider stories - as a kid he went to step on a large spider trying to get into the house only to find out within seconds that it wasn't an abnormally large spider but a spider carrying an egg sack. He found out by having hundreds of spider babies running up his leg... In fall we see a lot of yellow and black garden spiders hanging around, which are cool because they're so huge.

It is a niche title. Its a 2D Golden Axe / Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom successor. I enjoyed the new TR; while a part of the story does deal with Lara dealing with kill-or-be-killed situations, there's a lot that goes back to the original games sense of exploration and unfolding a 'secret history' of the location and its mythology. Its the only TR game other than the first one that I've liked. But that's just my view, not trying to change yours.

Rebellion Developments are the publishers of Judge Dredd (having bought the rights from IPC/Fleetway). 2000 AD is the flagship comic/magazine, with the Judge Dredd Megazine also still being published in the UK. IDW has the rights to do a US published Dredd book and to publish reprints (just like DC did for a few years). Their color reprint of the 2000 AD series "Judge Dredd Classics" in single issues is supposed to have begun in May. In September we get MARS ATTACKS JUDGE DREDD which should be worth a look, IMO. Rebellion have published trades (the Judge Anderson Omnibus is sitting in my "to read" pile at home) but your comic shop has to import them (sadly I've only been able to find a handful of them). I don't know when IDW plans to have the first trade of the Judge Dredd Classics Line out. I think the reviewer is reading something into the novel that isn't there. Jay Gatsby definitely has changed his name and identity, but he was formally James Gatz, a 1st (or at least early) generation German-American as I recall.