@Oldrocker99: Oh, I think I finally got what you meant by having to start at the beginning. :whistle: Monsters and stuff get reset when you quit the game or leave an area/level, but you keep the loot and experience you've collected. The levels aren't that long and this way you can return as many times as you want for the challenges, extra loot or whatever. You can access all the locations you've found from the castle map, so pretty much the only downside is that you have to play through the levels in one sitting. Anyway, this is clearly by design.

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Quoting: oldrocker99My only problem (still only 15-20 minutes into gameplay) is that I have ti start at the beginning, even after passing two checkpoints :><: .

Oh, didn't see that. Perhaps because I didn't actually manage to die once in the couple of hours I've played. :P

Quoting: oldrocker99It is still one awesome game :woot: :wub: .

It sure is a blast. I know I've only scratched the surface but thus far I find it much more enjoyable than Torchlight. A big plus for good gamepad support.

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Quoting: subImho, this would be really interesting to get a good idea of issues with the porting process and what's actually going wrong with Catalyst. But from my experience companies do not want to share this kind of information. :(

More likely it's AMD that does not want these details public. Software developers generally do not want to piss off HW manufacturers, at least if they need their support or driver bugs fixed.

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Quoting: coesetaMetascore or steam score is useless. The only sane thing to do is watch some lets plays and decide for yourself if the game is to your liking or not.

I for one prefer reviews to gameplay videos. Written reviews often tell you why people like or dislike the game instead of just what gameplay looks like. After all, I'm trying to find out if I'd enjoy playing them, not if someone looking over my shoulder would be suitably entertained.

Maybe I'm not sane (to use your words), but I also find watching others play fairly boring (sorry Samsai :P). I don't think I've ever watched a let's play for more than a couple of minutes. Also, these videos spoil a lot of stuff for any game where that matters. Like most of the games I'm interested in.

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Quoting: mulletdeathI love horror and I love point and click adventure, so surely they'll be good together, right?

We'll there's been plenty of point and click horror games made since the nineties, so why don't you find out. :) You could get started with some of the free ones like Yahtzee's "Chzo Mythos" quadrilogy of adventures, if you don't mind the low resolution.

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Quoting: KimyrielleOther than a few exceptions such as the ones you listed in your post, gender or skin colour almost never matters.

I still think the author should be allowed to choose. In the real world details such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, social status, upbringing and pretty much everything else do influence the way people interact with their peers. You simply must keep them in mind if you're going for a believable character living in a world even slightly resembling our own. You give Tolkien's Frodo as an example, and indeed he's a good one: Hard to find a character that is easier to replace. He is pretty much a blank slate living in an intentionally unrealistic fantasy world. Not bashing the story though, even if it's not one of my favourites.

Now I'm not saying you couldn't replace a significant chunk of all game protagonists as well, but giving the choice to the player would in most cases require at least additional art assets, code and writing. You can't deny that. In any case, let's hope your message reaches the developers and we'll see a bigger percentage of games feature female leads in the future. Wouldn't change my gaming habits, seeing as pretty much half of the games I've bought in the last couple of years already seem to feature heroines instead of heroes.

EDIT: Some inane drivel replaced with other drivel.

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I'd make a great hunter, as nothing on earth would see me as a threat. Who am I kidding, they wouldn't be wrong. I feel bad if I have to kill a fly.

The only thing I "hunt" is bacon, and then proceed to pay the cashier. But I'll beat the crap out of virtual monsters any day.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI think that a good writer can always adapt a given story to a custom character and make it fit regardless of whether the player picks a white guy or a black female.

A tall order, and often an expensive one. Any story-heavy game (the kind I prefer) would need a lot more work. Picking the lead is the prerogative of the author, I'd say, even if they do have a bias. The industry probably still has a rather small percentage of female writers and developers. Not much of an excuse, though.

Quoting: KimyrielleWhat is so off-putting to me is that when devs decide to go with a premade character, 99% of the time it will be a male one. Because apparently even in 2015, women gamers do not exist. At least not in the heads of the devs and publishers, who in this time and age are still reluctant to publish a game featuring a female lead at all.

Sad but true. Personally I fully support game character gender equality, even if I don't share your opinion on the importance of character customization.

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Quoting: BeamboomCan u create your character in this game, and is gender amongst the options?

No, you are Victor Vran. The game is about him.

And that's the only thing that keeps me from buying this game. It looks great otherwise. :S

Might be a bold statement, but I'm 90% sure you'll forget the lack of character creation and gender option if you just give it a chance. It's too good to miss out.

True. One would think you'd miss out on a ton of great games if you absolutely refuse to play anything with a male main character. Just seems a bit weird to skip games based on the sex of the protagonist alone. Not that it's any of my business what you play and what you don't play, I guess. :)

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I want to fly like a bird... because it seems slightly more enjoyable than flying like a refrigerator. And a lot safer. But I definitely don't want to fly like an irate avian (trade mark deftly avoided, phew), as I hear they tend to smash into things and explode a lot.

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