Henroid

Edit - Let me actually SAY something about this. So, the art had me intrigued when we first learned of a Ron Gilbert game, but all the context is making this way better. A Metroid kind of game just has me hooked automatically. I'm a sucker for that kind of gameplay so I will be on this one for sure.

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Diablo 3: The Final Solution of video gaming.

Just means he has two knock-out punches stored up.

I hate to do this but that Engineer mechanic sounds a lot like the paladin holy power mechanic in WoW. The Embermage thing though, that sounds great. Is there anything unique regarding the Berserker's rage, or is it just the basic momentum-equals-more-damage thing? And what about the Outlander, what do they have?

But now you're just giving him a reason to format his readermails that way.

The "warning points" thing was probably the software's infraction system. Everything incorporates it now. Be enough of a troublemaker and the system takes care of banning for the people running the board. But I'm kinda glad it was killed. Not that I'm against it, but out of any forum I've been to, this one is pretty danged chill and not full of people trying to one-up each other in anger.

Yeah, the Penny Arcade forum changed to Vanilla a year (and a half?) ago and it really made things a massive pain in the ass. Especially since it provides no formatting tools for posting. Also I got weirded out for a second when looking at the bottom of a thread just now and saw my forum name, comma, then some dude's name. It took me a second to realize it was a list of people currently viewing the thread.

Oh good, they're adding to the complexity beyond simple "use mana" stuff. That alone has my interest enough.

Can I say my thanks for not using the Vanilla forum software? I was totally worried about that when I saw the forum upgrade message earlier today. That said, so far it looks like things are pretty square!

Well in some of those cases you were able to identify a functional-theme for the trees. Crowd control, buffs, etc. In the first game, for the most part trees were just based on themes of "how do you kill stuff." The alchemist being the most exaggerated form of that since it was a choice of summons vs. spells vs. engaging the enemy head on. The first question that pops to my head right here is what separates the engineer's Blitz tree from what the Berserker does?

Well, what sorta skill trees were there for the classes, and were the themes of each tree evident?

50% less lame to be exact. I'm trying to squeeze info out of people regarding any class skills that are in, since the main site provides no info to that degree. I think people are too busy having fun. Without me.

No you've got something. The right idea. There was only one time my friends and I drove into San Francisco. Oh, and I went there one time when showing a long-distance girlfriend around the city, with my father, we drove in too. But finding temporary parking, forget about it. All negative memories. The BART was great. I've been up and down it almost each and every way to the end of the lines. It was mostly my Pleasanton / San Francisco / Oakland Colosseum vehicle though.

Oh crap, are we gonna do a SF Bay vs. East Bay thing? I was on the Oakland side. GO RAIDERS, BOO 49ers! etc etc And Sean is right about the rent by the way - it's why I'm not trying to move back there. This is exactly what I meant. I knew few - and I mean few -people back home in California that had their well-thought-out conservative views, but a lot of people would hassle them right away just based on their conservative identity. Being aggressive and intolerant expands beyond race and sexuality - politics has a lot of that kinda crap going on.

I used to live in the Bay Area. You may have the wrong perspective.

By the way, bonus points to Sean for "non-critical brain." I liked that statement so much.

"Revolves around an interesting plot which will keep you spell-bound" is right up there with IGN.com quotes. Kudos, Wal-Mart.

This is the kind of thing I can see myself reading, since I often get into Wiki-holes and emerge hours later in a haze. On a similar subject (history), you could always look into Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. I'm still in progress reading it, but the bottom line is that the Russians were covering up any investigation into the guy, and that came to a stop when the Soviet Union collapsed. So now there's plenty of research and things learned about the Mongolians, and they were pretty more advanced than anyone gave them credit for.

Well, I certainly haven't read every biography, and there's few I'm interested in at the moment. But as soon as I'm convinced, I go and get the book and so far I haven't really been let down.

I play because I like to interact with systems and push them to their limits / see how they can be flipped to be abusive to themselves. I play because I like experiencing narratives but hate reading books (which I just posted about elsewhere on the forum).

So I'm an uncultured nerd (video games, what do you expect?) and almost never read. The exception is auto/biographies, and like that's it. Do any of you guys (Idle Thumbs crew) read these and would they possibly get any time for the book podcast?

Yeah but, they're doing the same to you. Gentlemen.

When I first heard of this when it was a rumor, my reaction was, "Well, if they handle it right, this could turn out okay. The world is already crafted in detail, so they can focus on a lot of other things to make them better since it's just a matter of recreating existing terrain." Now I'm taking a cursory glance at details and...

Fuck exams, you should have your degree already for that.