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Maybe they want their employees to be neutral? After all; if they can't discuss GG than they can't be anti-GG. BIO might just be trying to steer clear of the issue.

Simon is the most Fascist game ever.

Rejoice! But... I have yet to joice. How, then, can I do it again? o_O Joice; then do it again.

Yes. Let's have a 6-year-old-rope-tripper class, shall we? Because, occasionally he'll be able to contribute so well to the party that... who cares about all the times he can't do anything at all? 8D! You must have an awfully strange definition of "functional." I thought the purpose of party-based gameplay was to always function in a collaborative fashion. "Oh, I can't heal you, but I can keep some more damage at bay for you!" "Oh, I can't kill that guy in two fell swoops, but I can paralyze him so that you can get away!" Not "Oh, you guys go ahead... I've done my two things for this 24-hour period. Don't worry, though. I tripped the CRAP out of those guys! 8D! Oh, and, 3 years from now, I'll be so powerful I can just wipe out armies of bandits in a single flourish! But the world will constantly try to counter-counter-balance that with a bunch of 'lolz, that won't work here... it's useless!' immunities, which will then be countered with even more things that I can do. It's really okay. It all works out flawlessly, by design! 8D!" Fine by me. Can the tripper have different kinds of trips though?

Far as I'm concerned great isn't even on the table, but good is possibility. At worst it'll be decent. Wait for poe2 though; that could be great.

Okay good to know, you can never be sure nowadays True. Very true.

I've heard about it. If true I wonder why she's involved. It's not like she was involved in Mirrors Edge 1, and she's not an expert on the industry or anything. A curious choice to get her involved indeed.

Depends on circumstance, as with most things. By most measures single payer (socialised/ state run) health services are both better in terms of coverage and cheaper overall than market driven ones. Socialist health services are certainly better than socialist/market hybrids.

To me it doesn't even sound good in theory. Socialist: Wanna give up personal volition in favor of being dominated by majority opinion? Anyone with even a bit of sense: No.

Tyrannical douche.

Probably.

This is true. I guess people hold GTA to a higher standard since it takes place in a more realistic environment.

When did Nazi's decide not to sell a video game they decided they didn't want to sell.

Yes, they did. They had a game that was rated as Adult Only (18+), that was only to be sold to adults, played by adults, etc., and they gave in to a bunch of Soccer Moms that were worried about kids playing the game. Kids that wouldn't be playing the game if parents would do their damned job. It's almost as idiotic as the people that joined the class action lawsuit against Rockstar when they found out that they could unlock a fully clothed sex QTE on the PS2 in GTA:SA with a memory hacker. Most of the people in that class action didn't own the memory hacker required to unlock the QTE, but why should that stop anyone from their payout? They have every right to give in to anyone they like. You're taking this too personal. They aren't obligated to sell GTA 5.

Let me tell you something funny. I have always hated the British accent. Especially in video games. I'll tell you something else. My family is French. Guess I inherited a disdain for the accent.

You can do that if you want, but I don't see why you would. Target didn't do anything wrong.

Would you support a child-rape simulator? A holocaust simulator? Not with dime of my money, and if i was a retailer; I wouldn't stock such trash. I also don't blame target for removing GTA 5 from it's stocks. Far as I'm concerned; it has every right to not sell any product they want for any reason they want.

Pfffttt. I can't ****ing believe I'm reading this on the Pillars of Eternity boards of all places. We went ages without an adequate IE styled game. For years I said a company could make a solid profit by making cheaper classic RPGs but noooooooo they all wanted to chase the "big bux" pumping out a series of streamlined, consolized, action games in attempt to capture some mythical fantasy-COD audience. Corporations are filled with dumb****s. Any RPG fan should know this. Yes, this is quite true. As much as I approve of capitalism it doesn't take a genius to know that people can misread a market. Some people do seem to attribute supernatural powers the free market. I've seen things in high demand be completely ignored in favor of products no one wanted. Case in point: Hitman Absolution. All the previous Hitman games were best sellers. Clearly the demand for that style of game was in high demand. Then they came out with a pseudo stealth game that could barely be construed as a Hitman game, or even a game about a Hitman. It obviously didn't sell well. The developers stupidly assumed the market wanted a streamlined piece of crap over a Hitman game. They were stupid.

Glad to see the exploits are being dealt with.

How insightful.

Sure, these are all options, but these games are beatable without any spellcasters, with an underleveled party, with a party that can't use shields at all and without any archers. That's part of the reason why they have replay value. Fine. Use the wand of monster summoning. Drink lots of health potions during the fight. Use a team of stealthy characters for sneak attacks. Use oils of speed.

Summon a bunch of skeletons and have them kill all the bandits. Or just be really over leveled. Or just have everyone in your party wear large shields. Or be a team of archers yourself. Use that spell (I forget it's name) that grants you immunity to arrows.

In fantasy worlds without an established binary morality. Once again; you seem to discussing the idea of anti-villains in fantasy without taking into account that Starwars specifically has already established that it has binary morality. Not to mention that the Starwars universe is silly and unsuited for depth and nuance. EDIT: As for games; I've already established in my arguing with Sharp_one that video games and movies have different rules.

I don't think there is much in this, or any of the other engagement threads, for a dev to reply to. We're not asking questions so much as making sweeping demands, and a dev presence here would only like serve to antagonise things. If they do drop it, expect an update in the usual place and expect them to distance themselves from the community. If they don't drop it, expect to hear about the improvements to engagement that have been made for the next patch update. There is plenty for them to reply to. They could for example; let us know that they are dealing with the fact that the engagement mechanic can be horribly abused. The last time they talked about it all they said was that it needed better UI and some animations. They didn't say a peep about how broken it is. Letting us know that the issue can and will be resolved within a reasonable time frame would certainly give me a lot more reason to think the mechanic should stay.

It blatantly doesn't or else you wouldn't be campaigning for it's removal. It basically does. Sensuki's already released one video showing how it plays the same. He already said he'll release more. The crux of his argument isn't that engagement will ruin the game. It can be removed via modding after all, but rather getting it to work decent will require way too much work and resources. Especially since it doesn't really contribute much of anything to the game.