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I actually felt like they avoided going full Uncanny Valley with Tarkin, which is what's so impressive. Could you imagine a movie trying to pull that even a few years ago, a human and a CGI human standing next to each other in plain view, without making any attempt to hide the CG person? The...

Damn good movie. The droid was definitely the standout character, although Blind Dude also had his moments. Whoever the CGI guy was on this movie deserves a fucking cookie. Both Tarkin and , both interacting with actual humans, and not looking horribly out of place? Well done. And that last...

My only real issue with book one (at the time) was the Azath, which comes out of the blue and gets no explanation. It comes across as the stupidest sort of Deus Ex Machina until you actually get an explanation X books further into the series, then it becomes pretty awesome. Some day I'll have...

PSX keynote going on now. The biggest announcement so far looks to have been a new Marvel vs Capcom.

The reviews have looked promising. Not going to pick it up just yet—largely because I want to thin out the backlog of other games I've been meaning to get to—but I'll grab it eventually.

Wood Elves coming in early December. They're actually cranking out these races at a fairly respectable pace. The Brets are also supposed to be coming in February.

Night of Knives is book one of a side series (five-ish books long?), so may as well follow that through to the end. Think Return of the Crimson Guard is book two.

Damn good movie. They did a great job making "magic" feel distinct from "superpowers", and the "final battle" was a nice deviation from the norm. Really, aside from the villain not being Loki-tier (which they never are, so whatevs), my only real criticism is that the humor with the cloak was a...

Well, the necro was my boy back in D2, so I guess I'm going to have to be part of that two-week influx.

Really, if you're going to go full caster, find yourself a mod that makes Destruction damage scale with skill level. It's doable without it, but a mod will make it more enjoyable (and more balanced).

The short version, as I understand it, is Sony nixed any mods that add new assets, so mods can only use stuff that already exists in the game.

Congressional term limits Ban former congressmen from lobbying Ban all campaign donations, implement a system of gov-issued stipends for campaigns Either abolish the electoral college, or distribute electoral votes to candidates according to the percentage of the popular vote received Seems...

I have this to a lesser extent for cloth with a more felt-like texture, with both the touch and sound of it, but the thing that really gets me is the sound of an eraser moving across a blackboard. Shit sets my teeth on edge. On the subject of crap, having pets cures you of a lot of the...

That's the case for PS4, but I think the Xbone was allowing new assets. Anyways, the console looks interesting, and a potentially good way for Nintendo to bring together their console and handheld businesses, but the problem remains the games. I can't keep buying a console for the sake of...

Would've liked a trailer with a bit more meat to it, but fuck it, shit looks good.

Eh, it was enjoyable, but nothing earth shattering. Not a bad way to kill an evening.

Well, goggles aside, I am liking that suit

Voted Abstain am NONE Colorado Or I might throw my ballot on the dumpster fire that is a third party candidate, it amounts to the same thing. I don't want Trump or Hillary as president, but there's no avoiding that now. So, if there's no chance of a practical victory, then I guess I'll settle...

New video with Smed, Patrick Rothfuss, and some other guy I don't know: No new gameplay, just them talking about the game. Have to admit, I'm really liking this whole god-based world generation system, and it's sounding like there's shades of the whole StoryBricks thing going on with this...

I was...a freshman in high school, iirc (might've been sophomore, but I'm 90% sure I was a freshman) and was riding the bus to school when kids on the bus started asking around if people had heard about this shit. At the time, kids were focusing more on the Pentagon than the World Trade Center...

Huh. The art style's kinda meh, but the idea sounds interesting. Might be worth keeping an eye on.

You know how AC: Black Flag is seen with regards to providing the definitive "pirate experience"? RDR is that for the "cowboy experience", minus the baggage of also trying to be an AC game.

I've gone on about this in the past, but what they talked about with EQN's adaptive AI stuff is the closest I've heard any dev come to talking about doing MMO story right in a long time. You don't make *a* story, you make a game world in which shit happens—shit that fits within the lore of the...

Even just focusing on lore and story, MMOs are objectively doing it wrong nowadays. MMOs now just shove in a single-player story and expect it to somehow result in something great, and it never does. It's never going to be as good as an actual single-player game, and the fact that these stories...

23 for me (5'11", 165 lbs)

After seeing the complaints about the naming conventions yesterday, I decided to go have a read of the lore on their website, and yeah, that was a slog. The actual concepts were okay, but that writing was not great. First of all, someone needs to go into that office, and confiscate the...

Well, athenaeum is a real word, but I'll give you the rest.

I believe the PS4/Xbone announcements were for Warband, not Bannerlord.

That works too, although that strategy requires at least some legit fighting. My way, I could just stand on a cliff above them and throw sword beams at them. And after repeatedly getting my shit pushed in by just one of those things, I was more than happy to eschew legit fighting.

I freely admit I cheesed the fuck out of that well. Take the elevator down towards the Orphan, go into the tunnel to the right and kill the frenzy bitches, then just stand up there and snipe with throwing knives and the Moonlight Greatsword. Barely had enough bullets and vials, but I managed it.

Trailer's been officially released. The announcement also confirmed that the free content that's coming alongside the paid DLC is Vlad von Carstein.

If narrative tone matters, D:OS does tend a lot more towards the "silly" in its writing (the stealth mode has your character tiptoeing around disguised as a bush; that's a fair indicator of the general tone of the game). Aside from that, yeah, it's turn-based combat, and there's a fair amount of...

Looks like whoever's running the Greek Total War Facebook page put up the video for the next DLC early. Link. EDIT: Okay, looks like they pulled the video, but the info's legit. New lords and units for Empire and Vampire Counts, with the following breakdown: Empire: Legendary Lord: Volkmar the...

Well, my post count just increased by like 40x, so yeah, guessing they've merged shit. Plus the Politics Thread is now 5600 pages long.

So yeah, Tyranny... I've known this game existed, but it was just never seriously on my radar. But with new footage coming out (even if it is just character creation) while I'm both playing Pillars of Eternity and reading one of the Black Company books, I'm super fucking on board with this...

There's been some news out of Gamescom, so it seemed a good time to make a new thread for the game. Specifically, we've gotten a trailer for the full class roster. These posters have also shown up on Reddit:

Having problems putting in links from my tablet; I'll go back and edit them in later. EDIT: okay, links added in. Gaming: TheSw1tcher (Super Best Friends Play): Love these fuckers. Group of four LPers doing both one-offs and full LPs of various games. The banter's super dense with inside jokes...

I remember my little noob dwarf warrior. I fell in the stream in Kaladim and couldn't figure out how the hell to swim upwards. I'm sitting there frantically flipping through the manual trying to find the fucking "swim up" button, while the breath bar slowly ticks down. Eventually end up...

Yeah probably true, but the concept has legs, and if someone could actually pull off what they were pitching, I think the result would be something really good—maybe even revolutionary.

Have to admit, I'm still a huge believer in the whole StoryBricks thing, and I'd kill to see another MMO with a budget take a swing at it (and actually release). Hell, if Daybreak came out a couple years from now and announced they're having another go at EQ3, dumping the voxels, and going...