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I did wonder about that! It's very catlike, like the way it dashed after the people at the party, that's exactly the way a domestic cat dashes after fleeing prey, and my brain read it as "a cat" for a half-second. And it's sleek like a cat and way faster and more agile than any Xenomorph I've...

Ok fair lol yeah I have some enjoyed a couple of romantasy novels where that was going on too (c.f. T. Kingfisher, who I can honestly say "I was reading it for the worldbuilding!" about, I just didn't object to the make-out sessions etc.)

Whereas for me I didn't vibe with Geralt at all (particularly in W2). Like 70% of the things I despise in an PC rolled into one. 1) Looks like a right twat. Sorry but he does. Tall, brooding and fit as hell so I get why chicks dig him in a "the absolute hottest 50-ish metal fan you ever saw"...

That's my experience on Bluesky too, following a lot of RPG industry and related people. D&D sometimes gets mentioned as something people are playing, nobody gets mad about it (as they might have say, two or three years ago on Twitter), but it also doesn't attract much interest either (where...

I already did at great length, read my posts! I literally answered all of those exact questions in a post upthread. It's not on me if you don't read. It's on you.

Yeah I would vote for Mothership right now, albeit not because of the rules, which frankly are... serviceable at best. At least they have some decent concepts that serve the goals and don't get in the way (unlike, say, CoC's rules, which sometimes do, and others of which are rendered vestigial)...

$200K That's absolutely nothing. I personally know people in the games industry who paid a lot more than that by themselves lol. Stop pretending they were in trouble.

Yeah 200k is basically nothing given that they had nearly 400 employees at that point. Seriously that's like what, the to-employer costs of 2-4 employees? That is absolutely basically breaking even. I had assumed that it was at least $5m-$10m for it to be even worth mentioning. Christ.

Man Hawke was the one time, the goddamn one time when "pre-created character" 100% landed for me. Hawke was boss. Like, I tried to make a better-looking character than default Hawke, and I just couldn't even come close, and it wasn't just the engine, Male Hawke looked amazing. I don't even like...

The thing with Barker is that he's honest and direct about sex and sexuality, and he's a very openly gay man so some things people think he's fetishizing, well, he clearly is not. He's just writing horror and/or fantasy that involves sexual elements, and some people always read sexual elements...

RMSS baby, wow I remember spending literally like 2 days (admittedly lazy, unfocused days) with a couple of friends where we succeeded in creating precisely 1 PC each and we still weren't 100% confident we'd got it right. At that point we decided we'd probably better stick with MERP if we were...

I might want to express a lot of things more clearly, but unfortunately I'm kind of a verbose idiot so... wait... I'm not sure where I'm going with this! But I think we're on the same page now lol.

I mean, you'd think right? But Swen specifically said it wasn't one of the two games they were developing next after BG3, and repeated that later. Probably for the best for the reasons @JConstantine and I were discussing. Then we're back to the key problem. WotC want to do it with an in-house...

This was the huge challenge 4E faced and why I think that, despite liking 4E a lot, it was the wrong game to release in 2008. 3E wasn't even a decade old, and 3E had exploded with huge 3PP support. So many people were "waist-deep" in 3E at that time. And 4E comes along and say "Nah throw that...

It didn't actually. Not compared to the other games you named. Pathfinder: Kingmaker sold 2m copies in 6.5 years. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous sold 1m copies in 1.5 years. There are no more up-to-date records I can find so I presume it may not have crossed 2m copies sold yet. Divinity...

... exactly my point... why are you arguing with me as if this wasn't what I'm saying? My point is that you literally could not have made 5E in 1984, because people didn't have the ideas and reactions and concepts that they do now (or did in 2014 rather). You couldn't have made 4E in 1984...

We have more choices though, so we can achieve more specific effects. That doesn't make it inherently "better", but it does make us able to do things that Renaissance artists could not. We have choices they didn't. And games are not pure art. Suggesting they are is beyond reductive, so is not a...

Oh yeah I remember it verrrrry well. I didn't buy BG3 in EA because I was bitter about how... er... bitter-flavoured DOS2 was, but my brother bought it for me, and I what was I going to do, be an ungrateful churl and not play it? And like a couple of hours later I was on the Larian forums (or...

No I know you didn't, but if you want to talk about clunky arguments, the chess one is way clunkier is my point, and they're both being deployed here. I think you'd probably enjoy a newly-designed simulationist game too, rather than trying to argue against the very concept lol.

What the hell are you talking about: https://www.metacritic.com/game/divinity-original-sin-ii/ https://www.pcgamer.com/game-of-the-year-2017-divinity-original-sin-2/ https://www.pcgamer.com/divinity-original-sin-2-has-sold-one-million-copies/ I could go on. Sorry, but when you're making...