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  1. Black Elk

    Industry News / Upcoming Games

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

    Baldur's Gate III News

    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...
  3. Black Elk

    Baldur's Gate III News

    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...
  4. Black Elk

    Larian's next game might have been Neverwinter Nights 3, but it won't

    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...
  5. Black Elk

    Baldur's Gate III News

    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...
  6. Black Elk

    Baldur's Gate III News

    @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...
  7. Black Elk

    Baldur's Gate III News

    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...
  8. Black Elk

    Baldur's Gate III News

    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...
  9. Black Elk

    Industry News / Upcoming Games

    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...
  10. Black Elk

    Industry News / Upcoming Games

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

    Could AD&D be back? A rumour about 6e

    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...
  12. Black Elk

    What game are you currently playing?

    I haven't played any game in what feels like months and months, blah, but I have been listening to the Hades II music while doing laundry all day with my dogs hehe I like the villainous carnival of it all. Feels like Noctober, with thrash synth harpsichords and whatnot Spin and drain...
  13. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    Hehe great question! So a din is a loud and clamorous noise, with connotations of being somehow particularly ominous and incessant. It's a tumultuous sound, that assails the ears and stuns the listener. Combining ideas like the braying of horses or trumpets with other such uproars, all coming...
  14. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    Oh wow, I just found what is surely the first ever concept Din! Din 1999! With the trusty number 2 pencil! He was hiding in a big trunk full of old high school drawings, in my mother's garage!!! lol Clearly at this stage in his development, Din was still a 'mostly humanoid' draconic whatever...
  15. Black Elk

    I ranted about every class/kit in Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale for nearly 3 hours.

    I like your order of rank! Abdel tier had me cracking up heheh One thing I miss from the old days, just how playing as a human fighter and then dualling into something more interesting had no major downsides. I mean at almost every level break point, just sorta better off starting as a fighter...
  16. Black Elk

    Games that could be turned into great movies or series

    For sure! We're all among our peeps here lol Also, along the Oregon Trail, for a follow up different branch, I'm less interested in the lost John Wayne (though he could probably just be like a Westworld robot or something) it's really more Ann Rutherford's lost character that peaked my...
  17. Black Elk

    Games that could be turned into great movies or series

    I saw this the other day and thought it was trippy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(1936_film) Not the flick, cause that's lost, but the poster... pretty wild! lol It made me think that a cool concept for a game would be like something like the Lost Reels on that, and a cool...
  18. Black Elk

    Alignment

    Cool vid! I wanted to resurrect this thread as well the other day, but then I couldn't find it with the quick scan around, so I dumped my silly alignment chart in the Off Topic section instead hehe. In any case alignment's been on the mind again, so it was nice to see that hop to the top! A...
  19. Black Elk

    BG3 Honour Mode: strategy & tactics (many spoilers)

    BG3 Damage Chromatics Tried to create some oppositional binaries for a visual aid table. A simplified unified equation, so that it would all make more sense... Force in contraposition to psychic, radiant to necrotic, fire to cold, thunder/sonic to lighting/electric that sort of thing...
  20. Black Elk

    Strategy Games Thread

    Totally! Hehe ETW was so fantastic! I mean like I can remember it being so bugged that my entire strategy for the first 3 dozen or so campaigns was to build nothing but line infantry and a single cannon unit, and then (regardless of faction) sending it all either to India or the Americas to...
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