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I think this would be an interesting concept to pursue. Part of the reason why consoles are so appealing is that they just work, building a PC requires a bit of dedication and effort; however, if we went to a plug-and-play style interface, that's no longer an obstacle.

I didn't find the faction quests necessarily less involved, although I agree that they were generally less satisfying. Frankly, we came so far down from Morrowind that I just don't see a lot of daylight between Oblivion and Skyrim. There are too few factions, too few tangible effects from being in a faction, and the…

They mentioned porting before, but I think that you can't use the same character in both iterations. Could be wrong though.

With their long lead times, I don't think ES is in any danger of becoming stale; each release has also been profoundly different in terms of mechanics, style and tone.

What worries me is how they'll address accessibility and dynamics in the future. Will the compass and map elements of Skyrim be dialed back further,…

Believe it or not, it used to happen with some frequency. I believe there are still people who'll mention that their introduction to PDS was with a pirated game in posts, but there used to be people who made threads out of it, despite piracy being a banned topic.

Hell, that's exactly how I started with them about four…

Your initial complaint was about paid DLC, and the fact of the matter is that you could have had it for free for little to no effort. Btw, EUIV only 40 dollars, not 50. Even the "extreme" edition was 45, and that's the one piece of content you actually had to pay extra for. It's not a full-price product, it never was.

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Actually, a pretty good portion of the Paradox forums are in that camp.

You mean the flavor DLC that didn't actually add any features? You mean the ones they gave away to people who like, signed up all of 10 people to a newsletter or pre-ordered? Yeah, those were really critical to the gaming experience.

There's no demo for Skylines, I wouldn't be surprised if that accounts for a pretty heavy percentage.

I can't speak to the games they publish, but the PDS grand strategy games get a number of free features in the patch that accompanies every DLC.... to my knowledge, we've always had more free feature updates than paid ones. Their patch notes tend to be on the lengthy side.

Why do you think people dislike ZZ so much? They only started animating it halfway through!

Seriously though, I like ZZ.

Well, to a degree, vanity does factor into quality of life hence the comment about burn victims. But yeah, it's one of those issues where the reality is far more nuanced than it seems.

As I remember, the plastic surgery in question was actually a breast reduction. It's a shame we don't have better terms to distinguish between 100% cosmetic bullshit procedures and "elective" procedures that can actually be kind-of important.... or very important; I want to say that some procedures to help burn…

Yeah, the serious neo-Satanists (not all of which are Satanists, oddly enough) are all about the power and self-rule metaphors. I say serious because there's a bunch of "Satanists" that are just atheists doing it for the lulz rather than people ascribing to an actual life philosophy. From what I remember of the two…

That's right, Mike, asses jiggle too! While they're at it, let's port those penis physics from Mount Your Friends over.

Agreed.

I was going to make a strip-o-gram joke but, according to wikipedia, it's totally a real thing.

The sad thing is, they're not even really about the middle ages.

Hey, at the very least he's his own character and not an established one in black-face. Changing race on, say, Johnny Storm in the new FF movie is decidedly worse than using an alternative Spiderman.

and here I was more bothered by the fact that he said "high" instead of "low" since measuring consumption per distance is traveled is all about getting as low a number as possible.