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I find Achievement / Trophy from XB360 / PS3 as apples to the oranges of the situational perks created in Fallout where doing certain things you get the perk that may have an in-game effect. Since I like the backgrounds of Arcanum and Fallout, I like the perks / traits /whatevers

Right now, I'm a bit biased because I've never actually enjoyed the mounts in games that have them. The ability to fight mounted is usually not well implemented (at least in the games I've played). That said, if the developers had a way to do it that'd be fun - I'd have no problem with it. But certainly not a priority for me.

You know its silly - and I'll say I can't defend it at all there was a lot of silly in DA2. The above "We'll attack the city to get in!" moment, the false dichotomy in leadership leading to the end where you just ramrod through everyone, some of the cameos, some of the companions, opponents dropping from the sky. And yet I still enjoyed playing it. It is a total guilty pleasure game for me.

To be fair, it actually is expensive (~$30,000 for a regular film) to strike a print of a film. If a film opens in 300 theaters world-wide and you are using film prints, you've just added $9 million to the cost of the film (without even counting shipping - film cans are heavy and usually come in 3-4 cans, dependent on the length of the film) before getting to the theaters. If you subtitle a film you're adding the expense of a new print and someone to subtitle the film too. There is a student film theater at my old university and sometimes they'd want to do a revival, but they could only afford to do revival showings of films that wouldn't need a new film print struck (due to the price added to the rental fees).

As someone who has always played both PC and Console games...I don't get achievements. A game being good will be encouragement for me to replay it, not trying to complete an artificial list of "things to do" by finding 1000 McGuffins in the Secret Dungeon.

Generally I support the idea that anything the PC can do an NPC should be able to do (and vice versa).

I'm in that category actually, I never played the original. However I've heard a lot of good things about it, I like what I've read about it and when Wasteland 2 came up on Kickstarter I was happy to support it. Compared to that, I played all of the IE games.

Not even as a food source for the flesh devouring blob when its iron rations have gone stale and its only half-way through a dungeon?

I'm terrible at mildly complicated strategy games - might be why I don't respond well to games that make me pre-plan for too many things. Give me a few resources to manage and I'm okay but too many and I just start having no fun trying to keep up with everything.

I wish I could remember the game I was thinking of that I had that happen in, but alas I can't.

That explanation from whoever at Bioware doesn't make sense - there's really no difference in a 1-50 scale have 29.56 vs a 100 to 5000 scale have 2,956. I mean the numbers are abstractions anyhow, but the idea that "big numbers" is better is ridiculous, just like the idea of making normal items "white test" and rare items Green and unique items purple means anything but the arbitrary designations the creators gave them. I hope that kids today don't look at an arbitrary 10,000 and go "Kewl!".

While I understand the sentiment, my experience with food mechanics is actually the opposite of urgency. You stock up on all the food you can carry at town, then use rations to get to the dungeon, then 1/3 of the dungeon is cleared you run low on food, now you HAVE to go back to town NOW or else run out of rations before you can get to a store, so you go back to town then restock and go back to the dungeon and now you have to walk back down to where you left off (hope monsters don't respawn) and so on. So while I understand in theory food mechanics make you go "We can't just stand around here - our food is going to run out!", my experience with them is that the instead make you go "Wait evil baddy, I need about 12 more days to go restock on food and return because I don't want to starve and die while stabbing your horde to death."

*whew* I edited because I was afraid I wasn't remembering right and thought it'd be kinda wrong to be incorrect.

You'd be amazed at how spectacularly unlucky I am in internet games like this. Haven't heard of her (and a few other former BISers) since Sammy/High Moon closed their forums.

I've never found food mechanics fun*, but as long as it is optional (like how Fallout: New Vegas did it). That said if it can be optional and not a problem to develop it for those who'll like it - sure why not? Sleep mechanics I think I like more as long as its simply a stat penalty and not a "YOU MUST SLEEP OR DIE...HOWEVER YOU CANNOT REST HERE AND YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE AREA WITHOUT FIGHTING 1000000 ORCS BUT YOU CAN'T FIGHT BECAUSE YOU MUST SLEEP" kind of thing. *To me its needlessly micromanaging things; again if we are looking that we're playing a character and their skills and knowledge and not mine are important, that I'd like to think I'm playing a character who knows how much food they need to bring with them and if nothing else how to subsist if they run out rather than make me plan their dietary intake for days on end. I think this is why we just went with a flat upkeep fee in town to abstract food mechanics in most PnP RPGs we played. At least with sleep mechanics you have something that can directly effect travel and adventuring without requiring the micromanagement of items, unless you have to expend bedrolls to sleep or something.

As long as halberds, flails and morning stars are in, I'm okay. Well I'm okay if they're not in too.

I really disliked the "New Area Cutscenes" in BG1 for some reason. If I saw that lady throwing the slop bucket out on that guy one more time...! But not really a big deal.

Thanks for the reply; I think part of the problem is we know its going to be "like" old school isometric RPGs but with the features not more nailed down its easy to suggest things that aren't easy to implement or not necessary given what their goal is. Its also easy to take the fact that we're not literally looking at a new IE game to think of it as a new game full of possibilities forgetting what we know about the game already.

Don't your first two sentences basically contradict one another? Lets say a developer like Obsidian wanted to write a story and include something that a significant subgroup of RPG players dislike in their glorious new RPG. Would you spew your hate and vitriol on their moronic idea or would you accept that its a stupid notion that everyone should be able to enjoy games in any way they want? Cause it seems to me your opinion is suggesting "I should be allowed to spew hate and vitriol on any idea I consider moronic and that would make it so I couldn't enjoy games in the way I want". Or am I missing something?

I'm still not sure how "I'd like to customize my characters look (or not have it change or not have pointy wizards hats or whatever)" = "I want to dress up dolls". One of the few times I played an IE game with a friend we both ended up looking exactly the same. Male fighter avatar in the same color scheme. It was funny the first couple of times we tried to click on each others avatars, but got old quickly (and I changed my color scheme and portrait). Mind you that's not an issue since, AFAIK PE has no multiplayer. However clutter up the UI - not sure how this follows since any of the various clothing requests (my crafting/blacksmith thread, this thread, Monte Carlo's wizard's dunce hats thread) only affect the avatar and character sheet have next to no impact on what you can see - not sure on that, since even in the IE games you could tell the difference in what characters were wearing take up development time and money - they have to create armor weapons art assets anyhow; heck if saving development time and money is the goal wouldn't not wasting time on additional art assets out of a handful of starting appearances actually be less time consuming?

I finally moved mine out of the CD cases not long ago so no longer have that - except for BG1 which had a cardstock paper sleeve folder thingy which is still with my BG1 manual & map.

I played them all. Played them all to completion multiple times with the exception of BG1 which I only beat once (and cheated to do so, I'm unproud to say).

One thing to remember about movie distribution is that digital projection has improved things a good deal (since the early 2000s) because of the lack of need in striking prints. Prints cost a lot of money and probably led some to delayed roll-out to other countries. However I'm not sure that can really account totally for the shift just simply because it required cinemas to upgrade to digital projection as well. It is pretty clear that US piracy - as well as imports of untranslated material - of Anime through the 80s amid fan-to-fan video trade led to companies noticing that there was enough interest in the US to start licensing and translating anime films and tv shows at a greater pace (far greater than the 80s when I can think of only a handful of films that ever actually got such treatment through official channels).

I never joined because I knew I'd get killed. :|

I'd only support racing car clothes if I could dress my dwarf in early 1900s racing gear and name him "Barney Oldfield".