I think that's a fair time estimate. I finished Pillars in a little over 55 hours on normal difficulty and I didn't do any of the bounties.

I dunno how feasible it is for you in Nagoya but I solved the problem of not knowing anyone in the city I'm living in by going along to a local boardgame group and playing with strangers. It took me months to screw up the courage but it was worth it.

My guess is that people who dislike blind Let's plays are the kind of
people who gets angry when others do things "wrong", either by playing
sub-optimally or by not making the same choices as they would have.

Ever since I watched last year's BlazBlue Evo finale I've been tempted to mess around with a fighting game. Last week, spurred on in part by all the noise around Mortal Kombat, I finally pulled the trigger and picked up the pc version of Calamity Trigger (it was going cheap-ish I'm not going to be good enough for…

I love that they put in the extra little paragon option of trying to physically stop Tali from jumping off the cliff… and it doesn't work. Way to really twist that knife Bioware.

"real words as Native American language"

I do wonder what it'll do to the relationship between modders and developers. It would also feel less skeevy if the modders were getting more than 25%.

I find it weird because the fatalities seem pretty easy to do. I haven't played it but I looked at some lists of the fatalities' inputs and there wasn't even a backward quarter circle amongst them. I mean if you can't do some of those how do you even have fun playing the game?

In all fairness they're not the only fighting game publisher that does that. Arc do the same thing with BlazBlue and Guilty Gear.

Midnight Tides is an alternately funny and grim dissection of colonialism that can be read as a stand alone novel. I can't really recommend the whole series; the chaff to wheat ratio is too high.

"In one incident, Doop's brain explodes, and parts of it land all across the world. X-Statix and Avengers fight each other to gain control of the brain pieces. Doop, running on a backup brain in his butt and now capable of human speech, joins in."

They did pitch a KOTOR 3 to Disney. They were knocked back.

What everyone else said. Also there's no xp for reading in Pillars so you won't be driven by that incentive.

When you click on a character and go to move it there will be a red background behind your movement cursor if moving the character will result in a disengagement attack.

Leftover skill points are saved. Afaik saving skill points is the only way to unlock the upper tiers.

Potions can be pretty handy. There's one that gives something like +10 to accuracy.

I think some DnD knowledge would actually be counterproductive as the ways in which Pillars deviates are surprisingly significant. If you have a basic understanding of how attributes and such work from Dragon Age you should pick it up without too much trouble. Make sure you have the tool tips enabled as they do a good…

The menus are updated. They're not 100% ideal but they're significantly better than those of the Infinity Engine games. In the Infinity games every character's inventory was on a different page and you had to switch between them. In Pillars they're all on the same page. It takes two clicks to move an item between…

Yes, yes it is.

I have no interest in recapitulating this tired debate in full so this will be my final post on the subject.