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Divinity: Original Sin, aka a great game. EDIT: Welp, this was in response to Gyshall's question asking what game the thread was referring to. And now it's just the first post in the new page of the Pillars of Eternity thread. 
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Jul 7, 2014 18:49
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Divinity: Original Sin, aka a great game. Awaiting the official "what I'm playing until Pillars comes out" thread.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:09
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Wittgen posted:This tells you what you need to know about how good this game is. Either that or this.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:18
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Selane posted:Either that or this. I'm kinda disappointed the girls' haltertops didn't have pumpkin bras as well. Way to ruin my immersion, Larian.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:28
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Selane posted:Either that or this.  I think I'm sold.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:35
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Selane posted:Either that or this.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:47
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Raygereio posted:... is that a pile of intestines with eyes on the table? Yes.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:49
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It's just delicious pre-sausage.
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Jul 7, 2014 20:06
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So the guns are man-portable cannons that take forever to reload; can I make a renaissance gunslinger who brings like twelve loaded guns to a fight and just pulls out the next one every round? Or will there be some inventory-management stranglehold to prevent the apex strategy.
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Jul 7, 2014 21:39
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You can switch between weapon sets in combat, but weapons have to be in sets when combat starts. You can't move items around while in a combat state.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:37
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Divinity: Original Sin, aka a great game. How's the combat? Would it scratch that "ain't got pillars of eternity" itch? I just remembered I have IWD:2 and haven't started a run yet. poo poo.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:50
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User0015 posted:How's the combat? Would it scratch that "ain't got pillars of eternity" itch? It does for me. Lots of skills, lots of build diversity, several spell combos. Gameplay's fun overall. Awesome NPC pathfinding around hazards and obstacles. Fair bit of content. Some neat quality of life things, like being able to change appearance or builds mid-game. Story, music, and UI are meh. Not offensively bad, but not amazing. Level thresholds are unforgiving. Quest text is vague w/r/t direction. Some talents (Leech, Comeback Kid) are borderline overpowered.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:56
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I really wish I could get IWD2 to run on Win8 instead of just crashing out, even in compatibility mode. fake e: I guess I should try to see if I can get a windows XP VM up and running on it the way you could with Win7.
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Jul 7, 2014 22:56
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LogicNinja posted:fake e: I guess I should try to see if I can get a windows XP VM up and running on it the way you could with Win7.
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Jul 7, 2014 23:39
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Runs sweetly right off the discs for me on 7. You really have to go through setting a VM for it? Kind of sucks. I don't have disks, I have a Gog.com download, and it freezes as soon as I launch it, before it even shows up on screen. I wind up having to kill the process. IWD1 ran fine, as did other older games. So it's pretty disappointing.
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Jul 7, 2014 23:46
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Huh, that's worse: the GoG editions should be more up to date than my old discs. They called out their updating games for more modern OSs as a selling point often enough. 
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Jul 7, 2014 23:53
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LogicNinja posted:I don't have disks, I have a Gog.com download, and it freezes as soon as I launch it, before it even shows up on screen. I wind up having to kill the process. Give this a shot. quote:uncheck the scaling and the "run as administrator" boxes in the shortcut http://www.gog.com/forum/icewind_dale/icewind_dale_2_crashes_on_start_in_windows_8
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Jul 7, 2014 23:57
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Huh, that's worse: the GoG editions should be more up to date than my old discs. They called out their updating games for more modern OSs as a selling point often enough. They do; Win8 broke a bunch of games that work fine on Win7. Arcanum is another one. I imagine the issue comes down to some syscalls being reimplemented in Win8 in a manner that isn't bug-for-bug compatible with the old implementation, but who knows.
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Jul 8, 2014 00:24
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rope kid posted:You can switch between weapon sets in combat, but weapons have to be in sets when combat starts. You can't move items around while in a combat state. So my dream of playing a mage hunting monk who unloads a brace of pistols then proceeds to beat the poo poo out of them bare handed can be realized? Actually, can you go guns akimbo with pistols? Might be an interesting trade off between accuracy and having another shot before having to reload. Mostly just want a pirate monk, though.
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Jul 8, 2014 00:43
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I recall having to do some strange work-around from the Infinity engine thread to get my IWD2 working in Win7 previously. Just went to reinstall the other day and my discs won't even read anymore, so I got it from GOG, and that version is working fine in Win7 without the work-around, so it sounds like something funny in win8.
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Jul 8, 2014 00:44
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isk posted:It does for me. Lots of skills, lots of build diversity, several spell combos. Gameplay's fun overall. Awesome NPC pathfinding around hazards and obstacles. Fair bit of content. Some neat quality of life things, like being able to change appearance or builds mid-game. How hard is it to screw up a build? Can I just kinda throw points at whatever looks cool and make it work?
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Jul 8, 2014 00:47
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Mac Con posted:So my dream of playing a mage hunting monk who unloads a brace of pistols then proceeds to beat the poo poo out of them bare handed can be realized?
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Jul 8, 2014 00:58
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StashAugustine posted:How hard is it to screw up a build? Can I just kinda throw points at whatever looks cool and make it work? It can give you the feeling that you will screw up a build, despite the fact you can make almost anything work. I think the only way you could really screw it up is if you completely screwed up a main attribute with your skills ie have a high int and take melee skills and you end up not being strong enough to equip weapons. And even then you could just respec eventually or just take Telepathic and throw 60 pound vases at enemies.
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Jul 8, 2014 01:14
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rope kid posted:You can only wield one ranged weapon of any kind at a time. You could alternate between a pistol and bare (monk) fists, though. What's the reasoning for this limitation?
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Jul 8, 2014 04:35
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verybad posted:What's the reasoning for this limitation? You need both hands to reload I would wager.
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Jul 8, 2014 04:36
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SoggyBobcat posted:You need both hands to reload I would wager. You could just double the reload time?
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Jul 8, 2014 04:41
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Wezlar posted:You could just double the reload time?
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Jul 8, 2014 04:44
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SoggyBobcat posted:You need both hands to reload I would wager. Maybe I understood ropekid wrong, but I thought he meant that you can only ever have one ranged weapon in your set of weapons.
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Jul 8, 2014 04:49
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Divinity: Original Sin, aka a great game. But I have so many other games I need to play! 
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Jul 8, 2014 05:02
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verybad posted:Maybe I understood ropekid wrong, but I thought he meant that you can only ever have one ranged weapon in your set of weapons. That would seem like a strange limitation if that were true. e: can you have more than two weapon sets?
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Jul 8, 2014 05:06
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verybad posted:Maybe I understood ropekid wrong, but I thought he meant that you can only ever have one ranged weapon in your set of weapons. SoggyBobcat posted:e: can you have more than two weapon sets?
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Jul 8, 2014 05:23
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Backer beta release date announced. That's sooner than I was expecting.
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Jul 8, 2014 07:40
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Can one weapon occupy multiple weapon sets?
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Jul 8, 2014 07:53
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Backer beta release date announced. Happy birthday to me 
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Jul 8, 2014 07:59
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Is the beta gonna be a random chapter/mission or will it be like BG's Chapter 1+2 CD demo? 'Cause I'd like to be able to have access to the full character creation beforehand so I can instantly play the game when it comes out instead of spending hours thinking up a dude.
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Jul 8, 2014 08:04
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Backer beta release date announced. It's the day after Gen Con so the gameplay video will probably be revealed at Gen Con, with a "backer beta tomorrow" announcement or something.
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Jul 8, 2014 09:34
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Backer beta release date announced. If my smile were any wider the top of my head would come off 
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Jul 8, 2014 11:40
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Ahh, a month and some change from now. Perfect timing for when this latest spot of employment runs out and I'm back to working on a more sparse schedule.
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Jul 8, 2014 12:37
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Backer beta release date announced. Hurray my birthday. The day I become a 23 year-old loser.
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Jul 8, 2014 12:43
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Disco Infiva posted:Happy two days after my birthday to me
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Jul 8, 2014 13:41
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