As a fan of puzzle islands since Myst, I am excited to check this out, but maybe after XCOM. Glad to hear it is actually cool!
As a side note, the price discussions for this game (and also No Man's Sky) are pretty baffling to me. It seems there are people who sincerely believe that team size and not quality of product should be the measure of price? I mean, I get the Gone Home argument a bit because the length of the game is short (though I think the quality is high enough to be worth it). But by multiple accounts The Witness has high marks for length AND quality of experience. So what's the problem? So what if a small team made it? They certainly spent a hell of a lot of time on it.
I guess the idea is that if a small team made it, it MUST have been cheaper to make, therefore the devs are ripping people off by charging more then they have to? It just seems pretty presumptuous?
I really liked that piece on Rosa Var Attre in the Witcher 3. The ending to that part of the quest took me aback. It seemed true to life though, sometimes you think a relationship will go somewhere and it doesn't, you just have to move on. I felt similarly about what happened to Tamara Strenger at the end of the Bloody Baron quest.
It's an interesting quest and it definitely stands out for me. I remember it as the time I felt the most disconnected with Geralt as a character. After the attack, there was no 'positive' dialogue choice, you could either be a little disapproving or really disapproving of Rosa. It was kinda outputting, she gets attacked by these would-be murderers and Geralt gets weirdly preachy about it ("These men are dead because of you!") Victim blaming much Geralt?
That alignment chart is pretty good and probably rather accurate (except I'd probably switch Brad and Rorie).
Yeah isn't Rorie the guy who introduced a bunch of chaos into that avalon game during the big live live show?
I'd switch Austin and Jason. Austin seems like he cares about social justice, which would strike me as someone who would favor what's good as opposed to what's lawful. And Jason seems super organized and orderly.
These things are so silly and yet I can't stop the urge to debate them...
I felt the game did a bad job of explaining that it wanted you to figure it out. When they said "there is NO way to tell who is infected" I didn't really take it as an invitation to try and figure it out. I took it as don't waste my time and find a cure. I did feel kinda dumb for not thinking of they language thing though, there are a lot of clues
I used to think Kotaku was pretty bad but I think they've been more than alright in the last few years. People seem honest and passionate, and I don't always agree with all their points but I don't hate them for it. Don't think Ubisoft or whoever HAS to send them them preview builds or anything but it seems like life would go a lot smoother if everybody didn't take shit so personally.
Also... seems pretty strange to bring up kotaku posts that feature watermelons that look like a butt as a negative when you are posting on GiantBomb.com Like, this is a website where a man recently made an alcoholic drink featuring nacho cheese and vodka. He also tried to get as far as he could in Mario Bros 3 while riding a roller coaster. Not every post has to be serious? You can post exposes, serious reporting and funny shit on the same website.
So... like they are obviously going to be selling lots of heroes and skins for this right? Everyone seems surprised that it's not f2p, but it seems like it is going for more of a best of both worlds approach.
$40 gets you a good bunch of heroes and they steadily release more for $5 each (or $10 if we're being honest, it's activison/blizzard after all ). Anyway, that's what I think they are going to do.
+1 on the no trash talking among friends argument.
Source: Me. I became the butt of jokes for my group of teenage friends (we had been lifelong friends up to that point). This was around the time most kids my age were discovering beer and I didn't feel comfortable with it yet. I felt the trash talking became too focused on me and less and less good natured, It built up until I finally "snapped" and told them to fuck the hell off. They never felt the need to patch things up.
I'm not saying that everyone stays friends forever. People change, they drift apart. Especially during those early years. But this experience probably went as painful for me as it could have gone. And you never really know what people are really sensitive about that they try and hide. Making light hearted fun of the guy who always loses at Mario Kart might seem fun to you if you're the one who always wins. But they may be more sensitive about it than they probably should. Worst yet, they may feel the need to say something back to retaliate and stay on "even footing" and I feel that shit just builds and builds until it explodes.
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