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e: I did not realize this thread was from 2009

Me too. I've mostly just complained but I am loving the game. Also you need to play Baldur's Gate 2 now. Also I mostly agree with your complaints. Clicking on the model sucks, ive made mistakes because of that. I didnt' realize the patch added more skill bars though, thats great.

My problem isn't' with it being goofy, its more that it doesn't commit to its tone, but instead tries to tell a serious fantasy story and at the same time be goofy. That can be done, I think, but for me I don't think this game succeeds, so it's tone just feels confused. Some of it is genuinely funny, but the overall tone just feels like there were 2+ conflicting goals in the writing that were never really reconsiled. I didn't' consider the analog to real life D&D, but in this case I am not looking for that experience, especially as I am playing this single player. I think were I playing it multiplayer/coop it would likely work better. Perhaps some people do like that aspect, but I think it detracts from the game. Which I still really like, regardless.

Yeah, I also listen to Alt+F1. thats why I started watching it in the first place, actually. I think I ended up getting deeper into it than Drew and Danny though. The changing nature of the sport is really cool, and I also really enjoy the sorts of strategy that are largely unique to it (or at least to motorsports), like tires and fuel strategy. The fact that it is so hard to view the races is pretty annoying. I end up either waking up early and catching a stream, sometimes using a VPN to watch on BBC, but BBC only has some of the races. The other way is torrents, there are a couple of private trackers that just have motorsport stuff. I wish the FIA or maybe just Bernie and F1 would look to the WWE for inspiration and launch a WWE network style service. A lot of people would pay for that. I guess F1 isn't really about making money though, and I think they are locked up pretty tight with TV contracts. Still dumb.

You are going the right direction (there are other places you can go to, but blight town is generally where you go next from there).

I certainly don't talk about game development in there, but I have totally seen other people talk about it a few times

channel is still pretty active

I actually got pretty close to finishing it, but didn't quite make it through. Not bad, just not what I wanted and it came in the kindle 3 book collection called the books of the south, but was out of place and killed the momentum. I'll probably pick the series up again at some point.

Glenn Cook's The Black Company series (which I think Erikson said was an influence on Malazan) is pretty good for that, though I never finished that one. I got mostly through the Books of the South, but then there was a book that starred all the characters and events I didn't care about and stopped reading.

I would also like to get a drink with jake rodkin

I've also been playing this game. I am a big fan of oldschool crpgs, and this sure is one of those, all the way. A crpg-ass crpg. I am really enjoying it, I like the combat a lot, and there is enough there in the setting and dialogue to keep me going. So to be clear, I like it and think it is a good game. With that out of the way I am going to proceed to talk about the parts I don't like, or at least think could be better. The biggest (and really, only but its big) complaint I have is about the writing. The setting and main story is just standard fantasy stuff, nothing to see there. That is fine -- being different with that stuff, say like, Planescape Torment (my favorite game) would be better, but a generic fantasy crpg will work just fine -- baldur's gate (2) is pretty generic, and is also one of my favorite games. Where BG2 excelled, and I think Divinity: OS falls flat, is the character writing. I don't like how the main characters are written at all, especially in situations where they are talking to each other. The dialogue options are things no person would ever say, and I have to choose one. The tone of their writing is inconsistent, sometimes they are written as just regular adventurers, sometimes they are written as sappy romantic stories, sometimes as comedy. If it were just some characters that picked one of those and stuck with it, I would have less of a problem, but between the main character's writing not being great, and the tonal inconsistencies, I am not getting anything out of their characters. Anyway this game is pretty great. e: for some reason, this entire post is indented, and it appears that other posts are not. very strange.

True. I also have a tendency to unintentionally pick up bits of an accent when I am around people speaking with one, which is a bit strange

oh man. I want that. Thanks for re-railing the thread also. e: did some research, that poster (and other Dark Souls and other video game posters too) seem to be from https://www.etsy.com/listing/153189036/dark-souls-poster-great-grey-wolf-sif?ref=related-4

Exactly, this is what I was referring to when I said I don't have an accent. The accent is called Generic American, and is the closest thing to no accent since it is closest to dictionary phonetics and lacks regional characteristics. It is a standard accent, if any can be called that. It is also uninteresting.

well there is that one Persona/Demon that is in the Persona/SMT games. http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Mara also searching for that (I did't remember the name so I searched for "persona dick chariot") also yielded http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/eirikr/lists/top-ten-genital-demons-in-shin-megami-tensei/15347/

Danielle's great accent made me sad that I don't have any accent to fall back on, I just speak boring unaccented english. It is a real shame the it's was flubbed.

I'm sad I missed all this amazing drama now. It sounds great, for sure. Very good stuff.

I just realized that Sif the great grey wolf is probably a lady, just going by the name, since Sif is a norse goddess. Which was interesting, not because the fact itself is meaningful, but because I was surprised that I was surprised that sif might not be male, that was just my default assumption. That is a detail of no import at all to the game, and the game, so far as I can tell, never even uses a pronoun to refer to Sif, but I found it interesting just because of how it made me question my assumptions. Anyway, I now have a strong Sif Is a girl agenda. Please help spread the word.

I wouldn't mind just meaninglessly increasing a number on my profile, but it (intentionally, of course) is impossible/very difficult to get a complete set of any cards without trading or buying, and that part of it I have no interest in, so my inventory just collects cards that just sit there, because I don't want to go through the motions to sell them (and most of them would net me only $0.01 anyway). It would be neat to have an opt-out of trading cards, or something to automatically put them up on the market at whatever the last selling price was. Actually I suppose I could make something to do that. Maybe I will.

I read all 10 of the books, and enjoyed them, but found them inconsistent -- the character switching sometimes resulted in long sequences, sometimes most of books, focusing on characters and plot-lines I didn't really care about. The other problem I had with the series is one that I think any series of this style and scope runs into, and that is it introduced many more plot threads that it could keep track of or resolve, leaving most of them unresolved at the series' conclusion. I probably could have not read the last half or so of the books and gotten just as much out of it, though that isn't to say I wasn't entertained. I've heard Erikson has written other books set in the same universe, and that some of them address things left unresolved by the series, and also that books by Esselmont address some of those, so perhaps had I read those as well I would have gotten more closure.

I just finished my 2nd playthrough (ending . I enjoyed it the first time through, but the way they change NG+ was very impressive. They do explicitly tell you it will be different after you bet it for the first time, which is good, because you wouldn't want to miss that content. It recontextualizes a lot of the game, and just adds some additional narrative that is mostly quite good. I don't think i've seen another game do anything like that. Dark Souls 2 has some very limited additional narrative in NG+, but not in the way Nier did it. I'm still enjoying it, so I may go as far as to get ending C/D, after collecting all the weapons.

I just reread The Last Wish and Blood Of Elves, those are good books. Last Wish is the best though, it is just a series of vignettes with a framing story. The sequel to blood of elves has also been translated to english, I think I will read it as well. It does prominently feature Ciri (Blood of Elves does, I mean, I can't speak for the sequel yet). I'm going to replay 2 as well (I have a playthrough started) but I want to even more after rereading the books.

shouldn't it be naturediaps.com though?

I haven't. That's one of those games that I think I would probably enjoy, were I to try it, but I have no inclination to do so.

I love dirk gently. I recently reread it, a month or 2 ago.