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  1. Hell March

    Fallout Fallout: New Vegas - New California Total Conversion Mod

    I finished this mod the other day and I can honestly say that it has one of the worst stories I have ever seen--period. Worse than most amateur short stories, worse than most games, worse even than most fanfiction. Without spoilers: The entire plot hinges on the Enclave hunting the player down...
  2. Hell March

    Balance Poll for DOS 2

    Tactician is very difficult when you don't exploit top-tier winning strategies, but laughably easy when you do. It's like Larian deliberately steers players towards cheese.
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    Codex Review RPG Codex Retrospective Review: Pillars of Eternity Revisited

    Feats and skills (as systems) aren't traps because they are things that everyone gets and are all equally meaningless with the exception of magic feats + Use Magic Device skill. Furthermore, it is very unlikely you will ever make a choice that will "ruin" a character, outside of doing something...
  4. Hell March

    Codex Review RPG Codex Retrospective Review: Pillars of Eternity Revisited

    Clearly you're not using "frontloaded" in the way I'm used to hearing it--that's usually used as a criticism for games that have character building and leveling systems bound to their starting point. 3.5, with it's many problems, is the exact opposite of frontloaded because the choices you make...
  5. Hell March

    Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

    Pretty much this. There's nothing disagreeable in his article, but it doesn't apply to what he does or has done in the past. He doesn't practice what he preaches, retuning is the only thing he does. Most notably, he pats himself on the back for nerfing sniper rifles in NV--only a few months...
  6. Hell March

    Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

    Nearly all videogames are fantasy, science-fiction or war games, which is basically pulp fiction. Not everyone who likes fantasy stories likes crap, but people who like fantasy stories tend to be a lot more receptive to crap than others.
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    Editorial RPG Codex Editorial: Darth Roxor on the State of RPG Writing

    Even if that were the case, is universal education inherently bad? Presuming that the skeleton of education was changed to fit more rigorous and less immaterial standards, wouldn't a more educated humanity be a better humanity? Obviously the modern university is a pretty corrupt representation...
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    Editorial RPG Codex Editorial: Darth Roxor on the State of RPG Writing

    You can't be a good writer if you can't define good from evil? What on earth are you talking about? How many of what western civilization considers to be great novelists had anything to say on the divide? You realize that you can construct entire literary canons out of books that have nothing to...
  9. Hell March

    Vast hour and half long Fallout 4 analysis

    For people saying the video is too long, it gets worse. He's making a part 2 to the review that's coming out soon, and he claims it's over 2 hours long. So that's 4+ hours of Fallout 4 talk. Anyway, Joseph Anderson has said that the reason he makes his videos so long is that he approaches his...
  10. Hell March

    Your personal top ten

    Keeping in mind the guidelines: 1. Bloodborne 2. Deus Ex 3. DOOM 4. Fallout: New Vegas 5. F-Zero GX 6. Heroes of Might and Magic III 7. Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer 8. Rocket Knight Adventures 9. Expeditions: Conquistador 10. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
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    Prosper POLL: What type of fag are you?

    I'm an unashamed systems fag, even if I recognize that a good system by itself doesn't make an "objectively" good game
  12. Hell March

    Shadowrun Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition

    A "Frankensteiened" story is pretty much perfectly on point with how I would describe HK, though it's at least a Frankensteined version of a good story rather than a bad one.
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    Shadowrun Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition

    On the opposite side of the spectrum, this game loves to assume that your PC is someone that has no awareness of current events. Things that should be common knowledge to anyone "in universe" like the existence of toxic shaman or the status of the Red Samurai are usually locked behind an...
  14. Hell March

    Shadowrun Shadowrun: Hong Kong Pre-Release Discussion [GO TO NEW THREAD]

    In certain editions of the tabletop, Rat Shaman are supposed to have ties with every type of spirit, probably making her more of a dedicated summoner with stealth than a caster. Though they completely changed what it meant to be a Dragonslayer in Dragonfall so maybe I'm wrong. Magic definitely...
  15. Hell March

    Quests: the good, the bad and the retarded (there are spoilers itt)

    I hate bullshit forked quests like the Raedric one, because it's always apparent that the narrative heavily favors one outcome. Being that he's a fucking Vlad-style mad king, (as Kolsc even says: murder is murder no matter how he excuses it) not to mention that , the only reasons to kill Kolsc...

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