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    In Witcher 3, Size Matters

    And the same thought will keep popping in your head 40, 50, 100+ hours in.
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    Pillars of Eternity: your opinion so far?

    Iirc, Mind Blades dealt more damage and bounced better than the bouncing magic missiles spell that Wizards get, not to mention can be repeatedly casted thanks to focus (Blunderbuss 6 hits...) A competent tank and 5 characters with firearms make the game a bit of a joke as firearms deal too much...
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    Pillars of Eternity: your opinion so far?

    As far as balance goes, it's mostly nerfs on some of the overpowered stuff and some improved ranges on Wizard spells. Sure-Handed Ila chant now gives 1.2x reload speed instead of 2x Slicken wizard spell only afflicts prone status once instead of over and over Chill Fog wizard spell doesn't...
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    Pillars of Eternity: your opinion so far?

    Well then that post is quite off-topic then, isn't it? Unfortunately the cost relating to resting isn't all that significant after first few hours, especially since sleeping in the Common Room of an inn is free. I'd like it more if sleeping in common room gave you the Minor Fatigue penalty at...
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    Pillars of Eternity: your opinion so far?

    I always love a good mechanics rant, buuuuut... What was your point, at least relating to PoE? That "Per rest" restrictions are sucky at balancing and will always suck?
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    Pillars of Eternity: your opinion so far?

    I really like it so far. Having played Baldur's Gate 1 vanilla slowly over the past 2 and a half months, the improvements on the IE formula in terms of both content pacing and gameplay are immediately apparent. This is probably the smoothest RTwP gameplay experience I've had, with Aarklash...
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    Bloodborne - the upcoming Gothic "Souls game" on PS4 with more aggressive gameplay (now footage)

    Ctrl+F "TGS 2013" and then look for the link that has been sitting there for some time in webm format ;)
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    Bloodborne - the upcoming Gothic "Souls game" on PS4 with more aggressive gameplay (now footage)

    Alright guys, now there's gameplay to show! The TGS 2013 gameplay trailer that never was actually shown, and this is now an old build <youtube=DNf5df8L9ig> Off-screen footage of the current build <youtube=0GCx2wW61aQ>
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    Bloodborne - the upcoming Gothic "Souls game" on PS4 with more aggressive gameplay (now footage)

    There is a bit of more frequent enemy grouping, but what it seems to mainly mean is that your character's more agile in general as opposed to tanky, and fighting for a long time in one place will ultimately result in you getting surrounded because the enemies finally have patrol routes which you...
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    Bloodborne - the upcoming Gothic "Souls game" on PS4 with more aggressive gameplay (now footage)

    <youtube=G203e1HhixY> A lot of you probably saw the debut trailer of Bloodborne shown on Sony press conference, but the information has not stopped there. The Playstation blog has been updated with more basic information and a couple of screenies...
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    Dark Souls 2 Graphics brought into question.

    This is potentially worse than Watch_Dogs. The preview copies that were sent to reviewers this February on PS3 looked pretty much EXACTLY like the promotional material. There was no reason NOT to expect the final retail versions to look as good. At least Ubisoft showed what the game really...
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    GOG Kicks off their (nuclear) winter sale with a bang!

    Picked up Anachronox and Miasmata for 4? total. Love dem dollar prices. Btw, they changed things a bit yesterday and are still selling all previous bundles/packs/package deals at the same time now for another 87 minutes. What happens next though?
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    Jimquisition: Shaming PC Ports Because Why Not?

    You took Jim's words completely the wrong way. He did call Durante stuff like "layman" and "average joe" because by strict professional standards that's what he is. Doesn't matter how good he is, compared to the people making and porting these games, Peter "Durante" Thomann is a but a dedicated...
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    Make a bad game better with one change.

    Vanquish - rebalance the game so that all cover-based mechanics can be taken out. The game wasn't bad, it's just that cover-based gameplay hurt it more than helped.
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    Stalker... a good buy?

    Overall, Call of Pripyat is mechanically the best of the 3, but it does seem like it was made for Stalker game vets because there's practically zero tutorial compared to the other 2 games.