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[bugarup]

On 7/5/2021 at 6:38 PM, Wormerine said:

Lol Antivan Crow literally dressing up as a crow. DA lands wonderfully in So-serious-to-be-boring and So-silly-to-not-be-taken-seriously. 

Yeah I snickered at this too. Like, aren't they supposed to be covert from-the-shadows operators? Gotta be tricky to ambush someone when your dress is screaming "LOOK AT ME, I AM FROM THE ASSASSINS GUILD!!!!!" 

Anyway, years after and all they have is concept art. 

[Raithe]

Did this get covered already?

 

[MrBrown]

4 hours ago, bugarup said:

Yeah I snickered at this too. Like, aren't they supposed to be covert from-the-shadows operators? Gotta be tricky to ambush someone when your dress is screaming "LOOK AT ME, I AM FROM THE ASSASSINS GUILD!!!!!" 

What kind of bad guys organization would they be if they didn't have uniforms?

[Malcador]

1 hour ago, MrBrown said:

What kind of bad guys organization would they be if they didn't have uniforms?

Well, they'd be REALLY bad.

[MrBrown]

For a more serious answer, I don't think the Antivan Crows are intended to be a secret organization, but pretty open as a political force.

https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Antivan_Crows

[BruceVC]

37 minutes ago, MrBrown said:

For a more serious answer, I don't think the Antivan Crows are intended to be a secret organization, but pretty open as a political force.

https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Antivan_Crows

Also the criticism towards the  Crows dress  is really just in jest and not substantive because I can think of many reasons why any  assassins guild could and would dress in a certain way

For example the symbolism matters so they would sometimes assassinate people and want people to see their garb because you send a message which is " yes we did it cause you messed with the Antivan Crows " so they would openly show who they are 

But then logically if they play the role of spies they wouldnt wear anything linked to the Crows.....they wouldnt be very effective spies if they had wore a big, flashing neon-light that said " hi, Im an Antivan Crow and I want to spy on you " 

So I see no issue with their dress code 

[Mamoulian War]

Might and Magic X killed because of DRM. Ubisoft decided to shutdown some time ago DRM servers for few of their legacy titles, one of them is M&MX. Fue to that, the legitimate owners were not able to proceed past first act. Ubisoft now, instead of fixing the DRM issue, decided to pull the game off Steam instead. Game is still unplayable  Having online DRM for singleplayer games is once again a fully justified, right?
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2021/07/06/ubisoft-delists-might-and-magic-x-legacy-from-steam-instead-of-fixing-drm-fiasco/

[BruceVC]

2 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

Might and Magic X killed because of DRM. Ubisoft decided to shutdown some time ago DRM servers for few of their legacy titles, one of them is M&MX. Fue to that, the legitimate owners were not able to proceed past first act. Ubisoft now, instead of fixing the DRM issue, decided to pull the game off Steam instead. Game is still unplayable  Having online DRM for singleplayer games is once again a fully justified, right?
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2021/07/06/ubisoft-delists-might-and-magic-x-legacy-from-steam-instead-of-fixing-drm-fiasco/

Damn, I bought this game and Steam and have never played it 

[BruceVC]

2 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

Might and Magic X killed because of DRM. Ubisoft decided to shutdown some time ago DRM servers for few of their legacy titles, one of them is M&MX. Fue to that, the legitimate owners were not able to proceed past first act. Ubisoft now, instead of fixing the DRM issue, decided to pull the game off Steam instead. Game is still unplayable  Having online DRM for singleplayer games is once again a fully justified, right?
 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2021/07/06/ubisoft-delists-might-and-magic-x-legacy-from-steam-instead-of-fixing-drm-fiasco/

I dont know if this Forbes opinion is accurate, I went to the Steam M&MX forums and people are saying you can still finish the game but you wont have access to DLC and any bonus content

Thats not the end of the world but  I do expect to at least be able to finish the game if I purchased it 

[Keyrock]

I'm not touching it until full release, but I'd be interested in opinions from any foolish brave souls that partake in early access.

[BruceVC]

4 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

I'm not touching it until full release, but I'd be interested in opinions from any foolish brave souls that partake in early access.

Its intriguing and I thought the video was well done so I am also interested in early access feedback 

[BruceVC]

 

Okay I really enjoyed this trailer for the upcoming  Vampire Masquerade Swansong.....I do love the settings and entire Vampire game world  

[Mamoulian War]

5 hours ago, BruceVC said:

I dont know if this Forbes opinion is accurate, I went to the Steam M&MX forums and people are saying you can still finish the game but you wont have access to DLC and any bonus content

Thats not the end of the world but  I do expect to at least be able to finish the game if I purchased it 

Their opinion is pretty accurate, because if you do not have any knowledge about how to do a workaround with editing some .xml files, you are not able to finish the game.

[Keyrock]

2 hours ago, BruceVC said:

 

Okay I really enjoyed this trailer for the upcoming  Vampire Masquerade Swansong.....I do love the settings and entire Vampire game world  

I've been eagerly anticipating this game ever since it was first announced, more so than Bloodlines 2, and even before Bloodlines 2 started throwing up more red flags than a Chinese military parade. It's being developed by Big Bad Wolf; they made my 2018 GotY The Council.

[Gorth]

Sort of (very) old news... but interesting none the less. I'm sure poor @Gromnir is fed up with explaining that the BG2 npc is named after him and not the other way around, so lets just revisit that particular confirmation, that it is indeed so

 

[melkathi]

13 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

Having online DRM for singleplayer games is once again a fully justified, right?
 

 

Not only justified, anyone who believes conspiracy theories that you could lose access to games with DRM should take off their tinfoil hat. Who has ever heard of anyone being unable to play a game because the DRM no longer works? I can guarantee you have never met such a person if you are honest

[melkathi]

4 hours ago, Keyrock said:

I've been eagerly anticipating this game ever since it was first announced, more so than Bloodlines 2, and even before Bloodlines 2 started throwing up more red flags than a Chinese military parade. It's being developed by Big Bad Wolf; they made my 2018 GotY The Council.

As long as it isn't the Vampire the Masquerade Battle Royal PvP Shooter that is desperately trying to convince people that whoever says VtM is not a PvP Shooter setting does not know the Vampire setting...

[Gorth]

22 minutes ago, melkathi said:

 

Not only justified, anyone who believes conspiracy theories that you could lose access to games with DRM should take off their tinfoil hat. Who has ever heard of anyone being unable to play a game because the DRM no longer works? I can guarantee you have never met such a person if you are honest

Dark Souls (no idea if it ever got patched to work after the live service got discontinued). Same thing with Fallout 3, although that one could at least get "hacked" to not look for it.

Edit: If I had checked my Dark Souls game in time, I might have been able to get a refund on Steam, but i didn't (try to) boot it up until months after purchase, so I never got to play it.

[melkathi]

Darkspore had the servers taken down by EA.

Any game from the Squeenix Store before Squeenix decided to sell on steam...

Didn't something happen with Gaming for Windows Live at some point as well?

And when looking at offline DRM, any game with SecuRom.

[Azdeus]

1 hour ago, melkathi said:

As long as it isn't the Vampire the Masquerade Battle Royal PvP Shooter that is desperately trying to convince people that whoever says VtM is not a PvP Shooter setting does not know the Vampire setting...

I was glad to never participate in the local Vampire LARP, every other weekend people were designing new characters for themselves, usually from getting caught in some kind of plot that usually ended in their demise.

[Lexx]

I think the main character dude in that Vampire Swansong game looks stupid.

Edited July 9, 2021 by Lexx

[Keyrock]

6 hours ago, melkathi said:

As long as it isn't the Vampire the Masquerade Battle Royal PvP Shooter that is desperately trying to convince people that whoever says VtM is not a PvP Shooter setting does not know the Vampire setting...

If it's anything like The Council then it will be a heavily narrative focused investigation adventure with RPG-Lite elements.

[melkathi]

This is the VtM game I will not be playing:

https://youtu.be/0sMTC7uGU08

[BruceVC]

8 hours ago, Gorth said:

Sort of (very) old news... but interesting none the less. I'm sure poor @Gromnir is fed up with explaining that the BG2 npc is named after him and not the other way around, so lets just revisit that particular confirmation, that it is indeed so

 

Gorthfuscious that has got to be the most interesting and illuminating video I have ever seen around the original ideas and creation of the BG series ....well done for posting it 

So many things to consider. I even  found the frivolous bits of  information interesting like the beer, the comic and the MDK2 spell. But the whole time planar " Sword Coast dictatorship " brilliant, a pity they couldn't implement it 

I also always assumed @Gromnir was just using the sobriquet of an established character , well done Gromnir for being the owner and sustaining this " IP " ....Im not sure what else you can refer to it as ?

But great video 

 

[Keyrock]

1 hour ago, melkathi said:

This is the VtM game I will not be playing:

https://youtu.be/0sMTC7uGU08

Honestly, that doesn't look half-bad. If I was into multiplayer competitive games I'd probably give it a look, but I'm not, so I won't.