Recent content by Black Elk

It definitely appeals to my ADHD&D! :cool: Just kidding, I can't stand subscription models for things like this. I mean I used to have Dungeon magazine, or pony up for things like CDs when I came on board, but that's when we'd get actual things, like a magazine or a CD. Some sort of ephemera in...

I miss the sprites with the low to no rez faces. Fidelity and the cinematic/cartoon presentation is just becoming increasingly boring to me. When I compare BG1/2 to BG3, Solasta to Solasta II, Resident Evil 1 to Resident Evil 4, the little low poly block faces seem charming now in a way that the...

It's bizarre as hell to see what the DLSS 5 did to the image. First it changed the temperature from warm to cool, desaturating the whole thing. Note the color of her hair and jacket, also glow coming off the street lamp, the little red lights by the garbage can and that green piece of trash on...

Same, although I bought it anyway just to see the character creator UI and such, since I always enjoy tooling around with those. I also figured that Solasta II would have to serve as my method of figuring out what 5.5 E is all about since I didn't buy the 2024 books and prefer the cRPG...

Camping on Solasta at the moment. Saw some of the previews of the character creation menus and such in this, which seem intriguing

Another thing I noted while reading through the AMA stuff and all the various gaming articles that it spawned earlier today... Quite a few questions where the framing was something like 'Are you going to ignore fan feedback this time and just stick to your guns... when it comes to xyz?' The...

Q: "The WASD movement mod was one of the most downloaded and beloved mods for Baldur's Gate 3. Will the new Divinity game include native keyboard movement controls (like WASD) right out of the box?" A: "No." lol So I guess that means no horizon line after all? That one got 66 replies, I think...

Same. I'm just not interested in the other things on offer really. Striking while the iron was hot would have been... split the party and have half the team knock out an expansion to BG3 ala Tales of the Sword coast redux? So like another lvl 1-12 adventure that feeds into the already existing...

I was just reading a study from Cell Press: Patterns, cited in an article for Digital Camera World earlier today. It caught my eye for coining the phrase "visual elevator music" to describe the type of generic imagery being produced in about a dozen clusters of image types lol. "The clustering...

@Skatan I think you got my point, but then latched onto my facetious joke about Walmart furniture as being somehow super earnest lol. I didn't actually buy any tables, but was speaking as if for emphasis. You know to stress the general decline in quality that happens, since it's more familiar...

The contrarian in me wants to push back against this idea that they're only trying to eliminate the laborious tedium, and only so they can expedite the release schedule. If they say the aim is to cut development time in half (from 6 years down to 3 years) then that must mean the final game is...

Larian is getting dragged pretty hard right now across the board, or at least from what I can gather. Earlier this week it was because of comments about trying to use genAI in their development process. This morning it's about their hiring for the writers room. I think one could probably add to...

I haven't played any of their other games so wasn't really sure what to make of it. Look'd like they went for some sort of holy mountain of bones altered states there lol. I was still rather hoping Excalibur was totally on the nose, and meant like some sorta riff on the round table and the grail...

Well guess we know what they're up to now Larian keeping it light lol

I don't know about the Wizards, but I just saw the Tactical Adventures teaser trailer for the Solasta II EA, with Devora Wilde getting the top billing! Dropped a couple hours ago. I will follow Lae'zel to the next plane I guess. I think I will definitely check it out now lol Hopefully it has...