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[Sirus]

i decided to look up dragonforce live and what the fuck they're actually good

The comments are just as surprised as you are. There's a WTF.

[Eric Blank]

You know, I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was growing up.

Oh boy did I love to everything about prehistory, even got magazines about it. I was very young (about 5 or 6) but I was darn sure I wanted to study that. It was the first thing I pictured myself doing as a grown up. Sadly that career doesn't even exist here, much less a job market for it, and as a final blow, I meet computers and fell in love with them.

Theres not a job market for it here either really. I dont even know who funds what. And i wouldnt even qualify as an intern. And compiters are super addictive yes

[Tack]

Discovered that a certain brand of lube expands under heat.
Was a messy affair.

[Draignean]

The first Freedom Chronicle episode for Wolfenstein is... pretty bad. It's not utter trash, but it's like if the team handed development off to a bunch of fan scripts.

[McTraveller]

i decided to look up dragonforce live and what the fuck they're actually good

The comments are just as surprised as you are. There's a WTF.

That was amazing.

[deathpunch578]

the first witcher, my WTF is the combat system in general. I feel like I have no input over the combat other than move, click, change style. just as a general thing I'm playing with keyboard and mouse, I have no clue if playing with just the mouse is better and if it is I will go through the bullshit to get the story

[Teneb]

the first witcher, my WTF is the combat system in general. I feel like I have no input over the combat other than move, click, change style. just as a general thing I'm playing with keyboard and mouse, I have no clue if playing with just the mouse is better and if it is I will go through the bullshit to get the story

It's pretty much that. Just mouse would be actually worse because how the fuck would you even dodge in combat?

[EnigmaticHat]

I liked the Witcher's combat system.  Mainly because I liked the idea of prepping for combat before hand.  It was a great feeling to read up on the monsters I was about to hunt and then oil my blade with something that's poison to them.  I messed around so much with the alchemy system that I discovered early on how to create a lategame combat potion out of common ingredients.  You can also do stuff like make human opponents bleed more and it actually does make blood fly everywhere when you cut people.

You're right about the lack of input tho.  The guts of Witcher 1 is an RPG like Neverwinter Nights.  You and your opponents are moving on a grid and combat mostly resolves through invisible dice rolls.  They've wrangled their engine into producing an actionized game but that's not what the engine is for.  I guess the positive takeaway is that the combat looks cool and there is a genuine element of timing to it.  Pulling off the longest group style combo against a large group of weak enemies for example looks awesome and is really satisfying.  You can also do some funny stuff like blast your enemy's weapons out of their hands.  Or taunt them by taking a big bite out of a chick leg in the middle of combat.

[Teneb]

The guts of Witcher 1 is an RPG like Neverwinter Nights.

The guts of Witcher 1 is literally Neverwinter Nights. They licensed the engine IIRC. It's also why it looks... bad.

[deathpunch578]

I liked the Witcher's combat system.  Mainly because I liked the idea of prepping for combat before hand.  It was a great feeling to read up on the monsters I was about to hunt and then oil my blade with something that's poison to them.  I messed around so much with the alchemy system that I discovered early on how to create a lategame combat potion out of common ingredients.  You can also do stuff like make human opponents bleed more and it actually does make blood fly everywhere when you cut people.

You're right about the lack of input tho.  The guts of Witcher 1 is an RPG like Neverwinter Nights.  You and your opponents are moving on a grid and combat mostly resolves through invisible dice rolls.  They've wrangled their engine into producing an actionized game but that's not what the engine is for.  I guess the positive takeaway is that the combat looks cool and there is a genuine element of timing to it.  Pulling off the longest group style combo against a large group of weak enemies for example looks awesome and is really satisfying.  You can also do some funny stuff like blast your enemy's weapons out of their hands.  Or taunt them by taking a big bite out of a chick leg in the middle of combat.

The alchemy system is something I've always loved about the witcher games (I played 2 a couple of years ago and did some of 3 before deciding to play through all of them before hand), but the animations are kinda janky  in my opinion (they are too slow)

[Eric Blank]

Tried to smile more, because apparently this improves morale. It definitely makes my face sore

[Teneb]

Tried to smile more, because apparently this improves morale. It definitely makes my face sore

Could you say that... your face is tired?
^{Ah, the Mass Effect: Andromeda memories of people bashing that line}

[Akura]

That's why people won't trust you. Why I won't trust you. Why my face don't trust you. Why my face must purge you. Forgive me. Forgive Andromeda.

[Yoink]

Tried to smile more, because apparently this improves morale. It definitely makes my face sore

Sounds like you need some WD40 on your facial chassis.

[Akura]

I literally downloaded DF 0.44.03 not even half an hour ago to finally give it a try, and there's a new version up.

Oh well. The place I embarked on sucked. No iron.