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It will be his VR thing. I can't see any other reason for him to be there.

Yep this is broken for me too.

Windows 7, Chome desktop and Chrome Mobile.

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Also happening to me. Win7 + Chrome (two different chrome versions, since my office controls updates and doesn't run on google's update schedule).

So I suspect a lot of people here didn't go far enough into playing Braid and interpreting the meaning behind all those quotes in that game and how they fed back into the gameplay of what Tim is doing.

Major, major Braid spoilers:

It's a very metaphor laden interpretation that certainly isn't clear while playing through the first time (the big reveal doesn't even happen until you've beaten the game), and definitely took time for people to understand. I suspect The Witness will be similar in its eventual "plot". The quotes and audio files will give context to whatever the bigger overall meaning is. Assuming that meaning exists and Jonathan Blow isn't leading us on for no reason.

ATVI getting this for only a 16% premium on King's shares is actually pretty cheap for a buyout deal. This is probably a pretty savvy investment into a good mobile brand and people that actually know what the heck to do in that space (which is something Activision has been struggling with for years). They get the Candy Crush IPs and whatnot to add to their "look at us" lists, and the people behind it can start using ATVI's IPs to make new games that will hopefully make them more money. Seems like it COULD be a good deal. Hard to say if they can ever replicate that perfect storm that Candy Crush had again, but getting to leverage famous IPs could help.

Prepare yourselves for mobile gatcha enabled versions of whatever famous Activision IP you don't want to have a mobile game.

Pillars of Eternity is a good intro to the genre and will certainly prepare you for the more fiddly aspects of Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment. If you like Pillars enough, then go ahead and jump into BG II. The actual game of BG I just isn't fun enough to recommend going back to, and BG II does everything much better. Especially if you include the Throne of Bhaal expansion for it. Ludicrous amounts of time can be spent in that world.

While BG II has the more interesting gameplay, Planescape: Torment has a MUCH better story. The Nameless One's tale is far better written than anything else in cRPGs. In fact, I think the writing in Torment is pretty much the best in all video games. It is an amazing story end to end. The gameplay leaves quite a bit to be desired, but since you can find a number of solutions to most situations you can get by pretty easily. Most combat can be talked out of or bypassed. Play the game for the story not the combat.

BG II is the reverse, combat not the story. I would only go back to Icewind Dale and IWD 2 if you REALLY like the combat and don't feel the need for a main story arc. Those games are basically ALL combat and are fun because you can play an entirely player created party, leading to some insane combinations.

Divinity Original Sin is a great game as well, but because the combat is turn based it loses a lot of the urgent feel that you get with the Real-Time with Pause (RTWP) systems. It isn't bad, I love that game. It is simply different. There is tons of dialog and fun to be had there as well, I just see it as a different thing than the rest of the games.

Heroes of Might and Magic! Any of them! Turn Based strategy awesomeness. Ubisoft just dropped a new one Heroes VII (no idea if its any good), there is an HD re-release of Heroes III (considered the best by fans), and Heroes VI has a lot of weird online stuff to talk about.

Or you can always go back to my fave Heroes II and that sweet pixel art and CD audio soundtrack! A slower paced game for a civilized age =)

It really seems unfair that an automated algorithm counts as "considering" fair use. When alogrithms are just programmed to choose arbitrary lengths and amounts of content. It just seems like the court is handing power to some programmer at google. Not really inspiring confidence.

Winds of Winter basically wins against anything anyone can put out. The Song of Ice and Fire fanbase has been waiting for the conclusion (which isn't even this book!) since the 90s. The books are set to be surpassed by the TV show next season, and even though people hope this will come out before then, they are dreaming. This book is very likely going to come out 2 years+ from now, and then the author will die having written 10 pages of A Dream of Spring. =(

Torment: Tides of Numenera is another one that I agree with. The game is long in the making (which is fine for a game of this type), but I have concerns about inXile actually getting to the finish line. What with Bard's Tale whatever going on, and the company not having the greatest track record. The project is super ambitious, the setting is really really cool, but man. Gotta keep waiting on this one.