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    Torment Is there a list of who wrote what in Torment?

    Sorry to break it to you, but that's pretty much her entire character arc :( I felt the same way.
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    I'd say that the normal trash battles aren't really that bad, they can be fun in small doses and solved fairly quickly, but my God the boss battles/pivotal encounters dragged on. Frame rate issues + having to wait for 10, some times 15+ enemies and neutral/friendly NPCs to make their move +...
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    Torment Is there a list of who wrote what in Torment?

    Take Erritis. Callistege seemed cool on the outset, but I don't think she said anything interesting during the entire game. Maybe one funny dismissive line of Erritis, but that's it.
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    Torment: Tides of Numenera video review

    The edge&effort system is a way bring a semblance of interactivity to an experience that's very visual novel-esque through skill checks. It also makes your non combat and combat resource pool shared, so it adds an element of choices&consequences to your actions, as there's the possibility of...
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    Torment: Tides of Numenera video review

    I mean that all your party members belong to the same race, ie are humans, and are thus more boring, where as in the original game your party memebers had far more diverse backgrounds.
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    Torment: Tides of Numenera video review

    Hey yall, I managed to get a review copy of the game, so I had time to make a little video review of it in time for embargo. Click this link to skip straight to the review Note that the script is mostly based on a review I wrote for the Finnish version of Game Reactor, so I had a character...
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    Fallout Fallout 2 crashing/save file compatibility

    I installed Fallout 2 from the anthology collection. It worked fine for awhile until the game started randomly crashing after I was ready to leave Klamath (I can't recall the exact error message, but something about memory). So I installed the restoration projects in hopes of fixing that...
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    Games that are all about exploring the setting through NPCs

    I recently re-read Transmetropolitan (humorous cyberpunk comic set in a diverse metropolis), which got me thinking of Anachronox. What exploration centric games can you think of where enjoyment is primarily derived from dialogue with NPCs, reading up journals etc rather than physically exploring...
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    Incline History of D&D games video by Obviousplant

    Thanks for the feedback. karfhud yes I did, though I started to regret my choice of aspect ratio around the time I first entered a tiny shop :) I'd recommend something like 1200 for width if you use Ghostdog's mod, 1920 is too zoomed out. I actually quoted two of Felipe's articles in one of...
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    Blobbers - what's the appeal?

    How many games like that there even are? Ultima Underworld 1&2, Arx Fatalis, the King's Field series and few other From Software titles... and the upcoming Underworld game? Serious question, I can't think of almost any single player, first person perspective dungeon crawlers.
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    Ultima The Ultima Series Discussion Thread

    How did people manage with out achievement pop ups back in the day? Nothing enhances immersion like seeing something like "Stop kidding around! 10 points" pop up after you discover something like that, eliminating all mystique and uncertainty of whether or not it's an intentional design element...
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    Blobbers - what's the appeal?

    That's the thing about old school dungeon crawlers. Regular encounters aren't as much tests of skill as a constant drain on your resources. Games like Dark Heart of Uukrul and Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne have made me more anxious than most horror games managed to do (the good ones have similar...
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    Incline History of D&D games video by Obviousplant

    First I got re-tweeted by Matt Barton and now this? FYI: this video is more aimed at people who are unfamiliar with D&D games and I'm relatively new to them myself, so it might piss off some seasoned veterans how superficially I cover many of the games I hadn't played prior to starting this...
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    Good gaming channels on Youtube?

    Probably doesn't contain any info that the average member of this forum doesn't already know, but here's my video on DnD games through out the ages. Or I should say up to the early 2000s, since I had to leave out some of the later games for technical/budget/time reasons. The main focus is on...
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    Wizardry Vita: Dungeon Travelers 2 or Operation Abyss?

    I'm currently playing Demon Gaze and I should be finished with it pretty soon, so I'm looking for the next JRPG to buy for my Vita. Currently I've only got P4G, DG and Disgaea 4. And I've played through/till boredom many of the better titles on PSP, DS and 3DS (though if there are any recently...

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