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Arena basically ate my gaming time for a couple of weeks, and now I'm burned out. The game is just too shallow with the current card pool, I think.

I think the 'writers' page strikes a good balance between keeping the joke intact and giving due credit. I for one think it's more fun that way anwyay.

I'd love to take on the Dishonored review. I'll try to get one sent in tonight.

If eating's not a source of pleasure you're doing it wrong if you ask me.

It's not a post about typoes idf there's no typo

If you're not accepting content for now, I'd at least be happy to offer my services as a proofreader - I find editing to be a fun activity. I might not be the most practical source for that what with the timezone difference thought.

Holy shit, nice. It may be of interest that 'ommegang' is Dutch for taking a walk, or a parade.

Got his collected short stories; not funny, yes sad, not very fantastical. Enjoyable but not as good as advertised.

The proofreading quality on the latest batch seems a bit lower to me. I got a good chuckle from the two syndicate items back-to-back.

Those are well-beloved classics. I loved seeing how many citizens you could get inot one spot and then mow them down with a car or set them on fir with lasers. The mind control thingy was just hilariously overpowered/weird.

I love everything about this. I'm sure there's plenty of people around here who're obviously in on it who'd like to hop on board and help out. I know I would.

Well said Tycho, I hate that fallacy.

It's very unlikely that you'll get stumped before getting near the end of NG+ unless your build is truly horrendous. Some specific bosses might give you issues but that is usually more a sign of bad gear than spec (no cold resist on Merveil, for example). Put differently, all the actual content except maps are available to pretty much any build as long as the player is somewhat competent. And maps are mainly there for people who'd otherwise get bored doing NG++ boss runs anyway.

I don't understand the complaining about "having to start over" because to me enjoying the power curve growth of a character is one of the main things that's enjoyable about this genre of games. Characters are disposable once they reach their peak. And because gear isn't souldbound, you will do even better next time. The alternative to starting over is farming endgame. Fuck that.

Hm, OK that's clear enough. Sounds like I should check it out. Thanks!

Is this true even if one generally dislikes Obsidian games? The only thing of theirs I think is really good is NWN2:MotB

Oh man! That's really cool. Thanks for weighing in.

Hahaha, awesome.

The first act is basically a tutorial, difficulty starts to spike at the bosses there (Merveil is especially notorious). Then early Act 2 isn't too hard again but you start running into nastier stuff. Eventually the game is hard enough that if you don't have a good enough character build you're better off starting over with a new character applying the lessons you learned. That's also where the replayability comes from.

Yeah, once you're in the first town, you can invite whoever into your party. There's also a noticeboard with publically acessible parties posted.

re: the concert:

I found playing a summoner to be a lot more fun in this game than in D2, but obviously I can't speak for everyone. The game is very replayable for me because I love creating stupid builds and trying them out, also meaningful gear can drop at all levels to some extent.

I'm amazed that this game manages to get me coming back so consistently. They're just doing things so right. The only gripe I have is the occasional desync issues but that just means I don't play on hardcore.

I found Legend of Dungeon to be really disappointing. A beat-em-up with only one move

Thanks a bunch Cigol, I took the Valley Without Wind code. In the spirit of paying it forward, here's a humble gift of Little Inferno: