I've found that my enjoyment of real-time with pause is directly tied to the party size. If the party is 4 characters, it's fine. If it's 6, I can't keep up anymore and have no idea what's happening and why.

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They've also shown over and over that they love making games LOOK good, but have an utter disdain for making them actually perform well once you get into the medium and late game. Their engines tend to suck ass once you scrub the veneer off. Stellaris being the perfect example. They've flipped flop from core "ways" of doing things (how they count pops, etc...) so many times it's almost a meme by now.

Starting a fresh new game is a chance for them to fix their engine behind the scenes. It's just a question of if they prioritized it at all, I suppose.

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I dual booted as well but Windows lasted only for like 2 years before I realized the SSD space would be better used differently :) So, a whole decade of dual booting sounds like a lot to me. But I understand it, it's normal relatable human behavior. I think everyone has left the cheese too long in the fridge at least once in their lives and only threw it out when it went really, really bad.

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Yeah, I am at a loss here. Copyright is incomprehensible to me. You ask for permission, you get it, have a license and then get taken down anyway?

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I don't really get the comparisons to No Man's Sky either. I finished the game on launch. It was already a phenomenal game, just plagued with bugs. I was lucky, I suppose. I played it on PC and didn't run into all that many bugs. As I understand it, it was especially the console ports that were scuffed on launch.

What I remember this game the most for is the city. Even though it's more of a L.A. Noire situation, where the open world city just serves as a backdrop to everything else that's happening in the game rather than driving the game itself. The difference is in that Night City is the single most jaw dropping piece of backdrop I've seen. In terms of design and presentation, Night City is truly incredible and the devs paid plenty of attention to detail.

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If I remember correctly, previously, they claimed they cannot update the anti-cheat, basically because they fucked up the implementation, they modified it too much. That's why it's been so wonky. Until now. Now that the support for their old version runs out, it seems that all barriers for updating are gone all of a sudden?!

Not that I do not appreciate that Fatshark is still keeping this game alive...but it's a little bit too late in my case. My friends have literally made families with kids before they updated their damn anti cheat, so unless someone here is missing a fourth person to play with, I won't be playing this anytime soon :wink:

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Civvie 11 is going to love this.

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but anyway, what they should have done since they created the framework (and the first campaign, while a 'game', was merely a showcase for the framework) to be so amazingly flexible was just pump out modules every week or month, big, small, medium, with voice, without voice, new assets

just like a regular roleplaying game book would come out and be a basic framework, and then they'd release adventures and settings and things, that's what i thought they were going to do at the time but... no, always seemed like a wasted opportunity

That's what would have happened if NWN released today, yes. I bet it was definitely the idea to be releasing modules and asset packs and stuff, but this idea was a little bit ahead of time. There was no infrastructure to facilitate all of this yet, games were still sold primarily on physical media.

At the same time though, NWN is purely a product of its time, because making something similar today - something more akin to a framework for RPG adventures rather than just a cRPG - with modern production values that gamers expect today is impossible. The costs are simply put too high, which is why there's nothing similar to NWN as far as I'm aware.

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Quoting: "Raaben"I really wish Beamdog were in charge of 2 as well, but as long as we're getting it back in some form. For single player, I will die on the hill that 2 is actually so much better than 1 in every way, even the mediocre original campaign. Mask of the Betrayer is one of the absolute best experiences and worth it for playing through that alone. It's a shame the custom campaigns didn't take off as well as they did with the original toolset.

But then there's Storm of Zehir. Frankly, I'd rather play the OG campaign of NWN 1 than SoZ ;)

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Quoting: TheRiddickWas kind of hoping for a :pick female/make :pick school :pick appearance. Witcher game. Ell well, not that I don't like Ciri, its just I was hoping for like a fresh game, maybe even good old witcher day prequel would be nice.

By the time Ciri is in her adulthood years, I doubt there is more then a handful of actual witchers left in the world.

At the end of Witcher 3, a second Conjunction of the Spheres happens. I think that will lead into a resurgence for the witchers, and the witcher creation process is altered, modernized. Ciri is a new kind of witcher.

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