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    Titan Outpost Release Thread

    Sounds great, and totally understand the desire to limit oneself to fixes and tweaks given the game as-is is complete, basically stable, and very good. Greatly looking forward to your future endeavours!
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    Titan Outpost Release Thread

    I also stumbled on thanks to the Codex GOTY list, which gave this a very high average score but few raters. This game is fantastic and it is criminal it has so far had a fairly limited audience. I sincerely hope it takes off - not least because that could spur the developer on into either...
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    Question about stat checks in dialogues

    (Welcome to the forum, Tony Lynx) Like others, I think with the option of die rolls versus hard thresholds, the latter is better. Most people aren't playing the game ironman, so if they're willing to reload rather than start from scratch if they die in a combat encounter, there's a natural...
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    CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 + Phantom Liberty Expansion Thread

    My bad, you're right. I didn't remember as this happened to me maybe once per 10 hours or so. Maybe brawlers/guns blazing types see it more often, as stealth/hacking builds will eliminate everyone without them firing a shot. I'd guess the same applies to enemy netrunners (they also gave me more...
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    CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 + Phantom Liberty Expansion Thread

    A few of things to add from what I said before 50(!) pages ago: I've seen a couple of nice bits of reactivity. A good example is if you do a gig which involves you killing a pimp, you can intimidate another pimp in the story to give you info by claiming responsibility for the demise of the...
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    CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 + Phantom Liberty Expansion Thread

    Coming out of retirement to give a short capsule review (I understand Konjad will have this covered). Tl;dr: I got the sense the game has its heart in the right place, and it deserves a lot of credit re. story telling. The gameplay also sometimes comes together well. However, its a buggy...
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    Let's Read Andromeda LP anyone?

    RK47 I can only salute you. In your prestigious career, you have made many contributions to better understanding the 'new shit' over previous years. Particular highlights were the 'texted out' LPs of the Mass Effect series. I urged you on when you were flagging in ME3 - understandably, and I...
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    Preview Shocking Report From RPS: First Hours of Mass Effect: Andromeda Stinks

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    Preview Shocking Report From RPS: First Hours of Mass Effect: Andromeda Stinks

    Played an hour or so, can't really take anymore. I had planned to offer a review of this to the Codex (given I've looked at the other ones) but I just don't think it would be worth 50 hours or whatever of my life. So-so gunplay, uninteresting characters, a dull plot which manages to spoil its...
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    Editorial RPG Codex Editorial: Darth Roxor on the State of RPG Writing

    I greatly enjoyed this post, and it definitely joins the Codex Pantheon of best posts ever (perhaps alongside the PoE review by the same author, and grotsnik 's appropriately dyspeptic review of video games journalism). I offer some further thoughts given I also have an amateur interest in...
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    Let Us Play SMAC PBEM

    Excellent stuff, I shall follow with interest. I play SMAC fairly often but I missed out on the PBEM, and rolling AI on Transcend teaches you very bad habits. Some questions which I should be able to know the answer to, but hope you can save me the time ;): 1) Is there a consensus in PBEM...
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    The Dragon Age: Inquisition Thread

    Sorry for Necro: I've been playing the Dragon Age series over the holidays. Holy moly the game is bad. I've never really played MMOs, but this has inoculated me against them. I got 8 hours in for the obnoxious 'gating' of story with 'power' you gain by grinding FedEx and frobbing loot to be...
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    Game News Wasteland 3 coming to Fig on October 5th, introducing two player co-op and cinematic conversations

    Why is there a demand for wasteland 3? Wasteland 2 was (barring perhaps one quest) utterly unexciting and forgettable. Who is going to back another serving of this lukewarm pablum?
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    Deus Ex GMDX: Deus Ex Advancement Mod v9 Released!

    (Mostly replying as I enjoy the discussion of mechanics - feel free to disregard as you know much more about the game than I). So you mean a headshot would be a... lethal takedown? ;) It obviously has good realism credentials (getting shot in the head with a rifle is, I gather, usually pretty...
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    Deus Ex GMDX: Deus Ex Advancement Mod v9 Released!

    I have replayed DX with GMDX v8, and I think it is fantastic. The vast number of carefully implemented improvements raise the game even higher - from visuals, to gameplay, to balance, to map tweaks, to AI. I'd unhesitatingly recommend both old and new players have GMDX as the default. I dash...

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