Recent content by MarkB

I haven't played through a lot of them, but I'd rate Lae'zel a little higher than that. I had a good time playing as her, and her story feels more closely intertwined with the main plot than most others'.

My first playthrough was with a custom character, tried Dark Urge for my second and didn't get along with it. Aside from that I've played origin characters - my most complete playthrough was as Lae'zel, I've played as Karlach and my current one is as Shadowheart. For me, being able to explore...

I don't particularly want to 'break' anything (I've never seriously employed barrels en masse to tip the result in fights, for instance) but I do appreciate a game that rewards outside-the-box thinking and nonstandard solutions. The issue there is that in any given playthrough you may choose to...

Fair enough.

That seems like it would be a pointless restriction to place upon the ability, and would create headaches for no good reason.

What they mostly need is fewer plotlines that wait until the final act to be resolved. An issue with BG3's large roster of party members and the fact that you can drag them all along with you is that almost all of them have questlines that can be progressed during a single playthrough and...

I didn't even get the impression that the apologist bits were in Abrams's hands, more like they were mandated in the manner of a corporate retraction. But yeah, the rest is such a mess, and neither the parts nor the whole made much sense.

RoS is just mostly backpedaling and trying to tell the audience "No, we didn't mean it!" about everything in TLJ that got a bad reaction, padded out with the old and familiar. It's hard to like a movie that reads more like an apology than an actual story. Plus things got kinda weird with trying...

70s Sci-Fi Sleeper As quirky Woody Allen satires go that one wasn't the worst, but as I recall it was extremely 70s.

What does the gameplay look like in that? Those RTSs have constant build progression and end-goals of destroying an opponent or their base, so how do you make that persistent, and in particular how do you handle it when someone isn't online to defend their territory?

Divinity: Original Sin and it's sequel, the major CRPGs Larian developed prior to BG3.

I played superhero MMO City of Heroes for awhile when it first released, and it had a variety of traversal options. Flight was most popular and web-swinging was in there, but I had fun with a character that used Hulk-style leaping, and another that used Nightcrawler-style chained short-range...

Top Maul complaint: "Look, I know you're trying to be dark and sinister, but can you please stop getting your shadow all over my face?"

The funny thing is, it still works as a jab at his title. "Only a master of evil, Darth." As in, sure you can call yourself a master now, but you were never a Jedi Master.

Palpatine couldn't think of any more 'in" words to attenuate ominously after insidious and invader, so he just gave up on the whole naming scheme and let them pick their own.