So after "just starting" a game, you're already prepared to herald it as the new standard against which all future games in the genre will be judged? You don't think you're maybe being a we… (View Post)

Eh, that's pretty standard for Metacritic user reviews in my experience, which is why I consider looking at the user score to be fairly useless. Too many fanboys and/or haters voting at the extremes,… (View Post)

I'm pretty sure the reason it was implemented this way in BG2 was that thieves already have lots of points to spread around by the time they're at BG2 levels. It acts as a form of balance by making i… (View Post)

Same thing with staff of the magi I believe. (View Post)

I think the environmental is a multiplcative factor, not an additive one. Some guy did some tests way back, and IIRC the results suggested that the factor for being is 0.5 for direct sunlight , 2/3 f… (View Post)