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Taear posted:In my combat all I care about is if it starts to drag. PoE did. Even though Shadowrun is turn based which could mean long combats while you wait for the enemy to finish their turn I still didn't get as annoyed with it as I did with PoE combat. They patched it to be a little better, but yeah I definitely had a lot more fun with the game on story time difficulty.
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Actually I had a tonne of fun power gaming in POE on storytime mode.
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Arglebargle III posted:I couldn't get into it. Combat wasn't compelling and neither was my blank slate character or his mystical problems. Felt like an AD&D campaign where you're just expected to care about what's going on in the one government building in the one city. Don't know about combat, but Tyranny seems like it's better placed to have much stronger characterisation for the protagonist with their role in the backstory being much larger. 'You are fantasy Judge Dredd' is also just a much cooler concept than, 'you can read souls and have a past life'. Also said to be shorter than PoE, which might help pacing and remove a bunch of superfluous combat encounters. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 04:31
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PoE's reveal at the end was just dreadful.
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Sep 28, 2016 15:00
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It just felt pretty underwhelming. And like Morrowind had done a similar thing, better, earlier.
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Sep 28, 2016 15:17
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Which is why it's so underwhelming. It's literally an irrelevant factoid that doesn't really change the dynamic of the story much beyond perhaps how likely you are to listen to their advice on what to do with the souls.
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frajaq posted:I'm 99% sure that's not how it works anymore, they changed in the second DLC patch I think? Doesn't that reinforce his point?
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Strudel Man posted:No, I gotta disagree. If the gods are things outside and beyond human experience, sincere belief and worship seems relatively reasonable. If you know that they're just things people made, I don't see that anyone could do so. It cuts the feet out from under them. The main character's past life literally shows this isn't true though. 
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Sep 30, 2016 06:34
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At the end of the game you find out Thaos made the gods so that all the non-Engwythians would stop fighting religious wars and performing human sacrifice and instead worship the one set of constructed gods. The watcher's past self was told that by whatsherface, but decided to go on believing in the gods despite knowing they were fake and still betrayed her to Thaos to be tortured.
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Sep 30, 2016 09:09
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2house2fly posted:The Watcher's past self didn't know they were fake, and betrayed Iovara more out of fear/loyalty to Thaos than belief in the gods. There's a scene at the end where your past self angrily confronts Thaos and asks if the gods are real or not but decides not to pursue it for fear of being killed as a heretic, revealing that the whole reason they're possessing the Watcher is that they're tortured by not knowing one way or the other. When you defeat Thaos you read his soul and get a vision of the gods being created; finally getting confirmation that they're fake lays your past self to rest. But then anyone the Watcher tells is also not going to know. And will have to take it on faith. I think you might actually get to choose your past self's motivation, so I guess it depends. I suppose after talking about it, it's not the worst. It makes it interesting in that empirically minded people would actually be far more likely to continue to believe in gods as there is physical proof of their existence. but I think it could have used a bit of tightening up. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Strudel Man posted:It may not be cynical, but it is essentially false in that the reason it suggests cannot possibly be the foundation for genuine belief, only (perhaps) a waypoint while you build one. In Christianity, fortunately or unfortunately, other foundations are possible. For the divinities of the game, I simply don't see that they are - while genuine mythologies tie themselves to the origins of the world and of man, this one only traces back to the culture that created it. It's of more archaeological significance than religious. Because the only thing tracing it back to this is the watcher, in a world with a bunch of charlatan watchers who act as fortune tellers and spirit mediums. There's still whatever creation stories Thaos and co. created. Why would people who already have a genuine belief just drop it on your say-so?
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It wasn't a major gently caress up though. I haven't played it in ages, but I don't think the courier even put two and two together, which is why Ulysses was particularly obsessed. Like there's really no reason for the courier to feel guilty on that one. Someone was using the postal service to deliver wmds. Your character doesn't try to commit mail tampering. People die.
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2house2fly posted:Like I said, PoE mis-stepped, and personally I think spell damage should have been governed by a different stat for that reason- a master mage and a buff barbarian shouldn't be pumping the same stats to be effective. A sneaky assassin wouldn't benefit from "Intimidate" in the same way a buff warrior would anyway, so there'd probably multiple "Intimidate" style skills. If you were designing a game with archetypes like that in mind you'd probably also design the stats for them too, so you could just identify which stats a sneaky assassin would use (maybe Dexterity gives a bonus to stealth, say, or Perception increases crit damage to attacks from behind) and have dialogue options for those. Isn't that what they specifically designed against? Allowing people to play a buff mage grabbing people by the throat was what they were aiming for. The only problem was that 'buff mage' was a really effective build, so anyone building their character efficiently was having the choice made for them, rather than it being an organic decision.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Might makes a lot more sense when you view it as a reflection of inner strength, similar to the Chinese Qi. Individuals can channel that spiritual power to accomplish superhuman feats. Whether that feat is of physical nature or magic nature is ultimately not important because both acts tap into the same source. Which is likely what they were going for. The solution is probably just to write more dialogue options that have the same requirements, but differ based on class, so like [Might]You smash the guys face into the ground. [Might][Mage]You harness the power of blah blah blah and burn the guys face [Might][Cipher]You break through his mental defences and search for his most painful memory and bring it to the fore Probably takes too much time and effort though. WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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Oct 7, 2016 01:11
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Strudel Man posted:Isn't that normal? The character creation in Tyranny is apparently going to go through what your actions during the war were, and that will affect even stuff like the landscape of a town. I think they might have shown off a huge chasm dividing a town in two, and it not being there otherwise in one of the previews depending on your choice. They obviously think it's pretty neat, because they're saying that the game is intended to be replayed.
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Oct 15, 2016 01:12
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How 'good' could the bronze age civilisations you're invading be any way.
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Oct 17, 2016 15:32
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Nothing more insidious than an overlord with a neckbeard and poor choice in hats.
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Oct 19, 2016 16:28
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Count Uvula posted:Didn't the preview material at some point mention Kyros was a woman? Yeah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukitiztvC44&t=45s I guess she's gender fluid? Or the level designer just wasn't in the loop on character.
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Oct 20, 2016 00:56
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Hopefully fuckwits don't get upset and constantly refer to the game without the first y.
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Oct 20, 2016 01:04
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Riso posted:What I am wondering about the story is if you can become the ruler of the entire region. Be a nice ending to siding with the Rebels. Take them over only to submit to Kyros as an Archon.
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Oct 20, 2016 13:31
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What if the camera's underwater? 
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Oct 26, 2016 06:50
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MiddleOne posted:No they're correct, the facial animations in Bloodlines is still way above what RPG games of today have. I mean they were good, especially for the time, but let's not be hyperbolic. Witcher 3's are just absolutely phenomenal.
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Oct 26, 2016 18:59
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Everyone's a secret synth or a tranquil respectively. 
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Drifter posted:*they start kissing* I don't think it does. 
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Yeah it's odd isn't it. Almost every bit of promo material talks about how shittily handled evil playthroughs in other games are, and how they're all essentially dumb/chaotic evil. But one of the major factions you can align with seem to be dumb/chaotic evil. I don't think I'll ever bother with a Scarlet Chorus playthrough, if they're written as they seem to be.
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Oct 31, 2016 06:30
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Devil of Caroc is only seen as a sociopath, because she's a woman. There are thousands of tales of revenge with male protagonists who aren't comfortable living in the company of society who aren't treated as evil.
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Kyros is an ai construct, and the third act will take place on a space station.
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Strudel Man posted:But it looked like it was hopping over a good portion of the map... The game takes place in the last tiny peninsula of a large continent. The conquest stuff is all happening on that small peninsula. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukitiztvC44&t=42s WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Nov 2, 2016 23:43
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Yes. 
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GOG says 6 days 4 hours, on the dot. So Friday 3:00am AEDT And Thursday 9am PST WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Nov 4, 2016 13:00
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Pffft, Bernie is clearly part of the followers of the apocalypse. Failing that he's Joshua Graham, the Berning man.
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Nov 5, 2016 00:46
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Knowing Obsidian's luck they've agreed to some awful contract where their bonus is dependent on pre-orders and first day sales.
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A bit easier to pull that off with grand strategy than RPGs though. Changing and introducing new mechanics is easier than producing new story content.
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Nov 6, 2016 00:33
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Another thing to consider in GOG vs Steam is currency conversion. Tyranny from GOG was $7 cheaper for me, because they actually use an Australian RRP, rather than the US one converted into Australian dollars.
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Nov 6, 2016 23:59
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Consumables are terrible and exist only so I have things to sell.
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Nov 7, 2016 04:22
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Your Lorebarian will have no chance against my Barbrarian.
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Nov 7, 2016 04:49
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Even in PoE they had items like the effigies that replenished on rest. Those were the only things I used.
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ZearothK posted:Nah, I prefer turn-based too. I feel Divinity: Original Sin had the best combat of all recent party RPGs. I just wish it didn't have the worst, most cringey comic writing that I've seen in years. 
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Nov 8, 2016 12:51
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Help! Help! Kyros is initiating force and breaking the NAP!
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Dishonored 2 releases a day early for those who preordered, why couldn't this have a dumb preorder gimmick like that?
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