Pfff. I've been interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy and managed to keep my cool.

It's the other end of that wormhole.

I thought we were having steamed clams.

Do you have any idea what I've done for BP?

"So what's this show about?"

So let me break it down this way:

I think they have to get to Perestroika and Glasnost and watch as the Soviet Union implodes. Then jump forward twenty five years and Elizabeth is now married to an Oligarch or shooting down planes in the eastern Ukraine or something.

I'll keep this short, just to say we'll have to agree to disagree lest this talkback become longer than one of those backer short stories. Like you I was a backer of PoE and still happy to have supported it despite what I consider to be some manifest flaws. I hope they make more games with the setting and more with…

And when you put it like that it is even less convincing than in the game, which is to say not very.

Yeah, the first one or two were okay but they quickly became tedious. The purple, overwrought prose definitely didn't help.

I think its something older RPGs had plenty of fourth-wall type humour, c.f. the genre mixing and monty pythonesque humour of a lot of early D&D that carried into CRPGs like Baldurs Gate, or the pop culture references in Fallouts 1 & 2.

The one good thing about the Grieving Mother was her character's soundset - when you click on her you don't get the usual NPC squawk but jingling bells. Much as I was only lukewarm about the story overall, the game was filled with those kind of little touches.

But how can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read the billboards if they can't even fit inside the building?

I agree about the companions being some of the "the least vivid and personable of the party NPCs that Obsidian and Black Isle have created over the years" but I disagree that they aren't given a ton of room to breathe. This is a game with no shortage of writing, after all, and it seems like they went out of their way…

"in which a large crowd of pro-reform demonstrators"

a "rarely explored culture"?

Mothers I'd Like To … Sing You A Song?

Right up until she got eaten!

“the long term affects of global warming"

"Buzz has been building for the film since its January premiere in the U.K. and word has been overwhelmingly positive."