At that level of abstraction, chess isn't a skill-based game either. (View Post)

Everything @CamDawg says here is right, but there's an additional advantage in shipping the resources in your own mod: you know for a fact that the file hasn't been altered by anyone else. SCSII incl… (View Post)

I feel some need to protest that some of us love BG2 but also think DA2 and ME3 were great games... (View Post)

I read a review of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ages ago which said that Joss Whedon (the show creator) excelled at giving fans not what they wanted, but what they (and the story) needed: conflict, death… (View Post)

In my view this is a bad idea, so taking it out of BG2 was sensible. The idea of a higher difficulty setting is to increase the challenge. But giving out more XP (or cooler stuff, etc) just serves to… (View Post)