1842

I think it was more about the criticism of Gothic 2, which is an RPG darling hereabouts.

1843

Reported for being too lame.

Nah, Gothic 2 NoTR and Gothic 1 really are difficult games.They are not for fainthearted, they are brutal and unforgiving, especially in the beginning - and many people love this, me included.

1844

The only thing you missed is the reported meta-joke.

1845

That’s a shame about being able to gimp your character in Gothic 2 Gold. I haven’t gotten to that yet. I loved playing through Gothic 1, and never worried about gimping my character with the choices I made.

1846

I think you should be okay if you use some common sense.For example, do not train every stupid sideskill and then lack points in sword mastery or stuff like that.

1847

If you didn’t gimp your characters in G1 I don’t see how it would be much easier to do so in G2. Maybe if you play a mage, which I never did?

1848

I’m gonna have to argue with that, as it has nothing to do with common sense, but with knowing IN ADVANCE that the game is sparing with skill points and that they have a real impact, and that there’s no respec. Every RPG handles these differently.

But it wasn’t even that for me. It was pretending that there’s freedom to try to solve every quest by running away or stealthing or non-combating it, and then you get smacked with some unskippable combat against one-shotting mofos, and hit the next Chapter and you can’t fight a single thing 'cuz they respawned at a brand new, tougher level.

Game over after a solid chunk of hours invested, with no way to undo w/o restarting WAY back.

So yeah. Playing with a walkthrough probably a good idea if you don’t want to learn by replaying the game a lot. I love its world, but I am still not sure about the game design. I mean, it’s great that you let me play without using the Make-Me-Want-To-Kill-Myself combat design, but don’t fool me into thinking that I won’t need to beef up like that, geez.

Back on topic of GoG: anyone know anything about this Obscure game that’s on sale today?

1849

and then you get smacked with some unskippable combat against one-shotting mofos, and hit the next Chapter and you can’t fight a single thing 'cuz they respawned at a brand new, tougher level.

BINGO. I found Gothic 2 amusing in that, like some RPGs, you need to grind lowbies sometimes to get that extra “oonf” to carry on.

Problem is there are very few grindables out there, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Not enough “oonf” to go against the one-shotters in order to progress the game? Then fuck you. You die and you don’t go any further. G2 lost me at that point.

1850

Beyond Divinity is also coming out. I remember wanting to play that but it got panned in reviews. Was the negative press mostly because it had Starforce or was the game just not that good?

1851

Eh, the Halloween sale is disappointing. Obscure looks decent.

1852

Then I guess “Demon Souls” on the PS3 is up your alley.

1853

Yeah I like that game, one of the few ps3 games that justify ps3 in my bedroom.Still not as good as either Gothic though.

1854

I ended up having to go in and tweak a config file, but I now have it rendering correctly. I like the huge view area, though the small text is kind of hard to read, so I might end up bumping it down a notch too.

1855

I found that ideal for me is 1280*800 on 24", same as when I played Torment.It looks good and the text is very well readable.But the black fog of war is still a bit annoying…I wish the character could see more around him.

1856

Starforce didn’t help, but the game is also not very good, from what little I could tell. I’ve barely played it.

1857

It is not.

1858

Then my wallet stays a little less anorexic.

1859

Damn, I’m addicted to GOG already. Just waiting for whatever comes next in the RSS feed.

1860

Tell me about it.68 games and counting.I need to stop buying games, dammit.

1861

You have 68 games from GoG? I didn’t even that had that many games in their catalog already.