one thing i did wrong was not spoil myself enough to know to either start as fane or just dont let him die at the one event where everyone dies. theres a weird amount of stuff that needs an undead, scholar/mystic. I’m a custom elf which sucks because I lose out a whole characters questchain for half the game. my guy is outlaw and mystic tag. mystic tag has seemed very good but outlaw almost entirely worthless, maybe because i just hate breaking the law in these kinds of games and in general. this stuff is annoying because i get locked out of whole quest chains sometimes, not realizing fane was the main character apparently. oh well
my guy’s backstory is he is an elf because their starting ability is broken, that’s it
Gotta say, coming back to bg3 and DnD 5e rules reminded me why I hate the concentration mechanic so much. Maybe because I’m old school and miss being able to cast more than one useful defensive spell at a time, I dunno.
I miss pre-buffing or combining spells in fun ways.
Maybe I’ll do another playthrough of Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous after this
I started playing Overwatch again. With the decline of the game and the rise of Marvel Rivals, the remaining player base is horrible. Now, I only play Mystery Heroes and Quick Play, but hoo boy, most players stink. Every game is overpursuit and charging into points alone.
I’ve played 7 games of Marvel Rivals and it was good, but pretty much felt like an Overwatch clone with Marvel characters. Guess I’ll have to go back to it to see what I’m missing.
Playing TOTK, and while I semi enjoyed BOTW, and appreciated that it was an overall good game, BOTW felt somewhat tedious and just time consuming in completing shrines and going through the levels with minimal snags until it ended. But I am completely stuck in a part in the sand area of TOTK and realize that I enjoy being completely stuck at certain parts for some reason.
I remember launching my favorite game of all time, Ocarina of Time, and being stuck at a spot for literally months and would just roam around aimlessly until something clicked. Im not sure why that makes it enjoyable for me exactly - maybe it slows things down into just playing and exploring for something cool to happen instead of just grinding through the game which just feels like work to me…idk.
Was afraid that I fucked up my playthrough of Skyrim today. On an assassination quest, I managed to aggro all of Windhelm even though I did a stealth kill. Even Ulfrick was chasing after me and using his Thu’um. My follower got left behind doing my escape, I was worried she was dead. In all the running around, I burnt through all my autosaves, so no redo unless I wanted to use a really old manual save.
And somehow when I was on the run I contracted vampirism. Luckily I had the ingredients for a cure disease potion. And when I finally went back to Windhelm after checking in with the Dark Brotherhood, everybody was cool again once I paid 1000 gold. My follower was even still waiting for me outside the gates.
Either the modders are geniuses or Square Enix are a bunch of filthy scammers. Not only does it run on my 16XX, it runs beautifully and is the most graphically beautiful game Ive ever run on my system. Why on earth they would lock this off to only next gen graphics cards is beyond me.
you can become a full blown serial killer side plot with vampirism. on hardcore i love vampirism cuz i dont need to deal with obnoxious ass food mechanics anymore, lol. its not possible to fuck up a play through of that game. its why its so devilishly addictive. you really just kinda can do whatever. i like to laugh at the fact ive spent the amount of time in that game that i have and almost never have progressed past the first main quest you have to do. after that its basically up to you
i just did the college quest chain, was annoying. dont recommend. magic is op though
I was thinking of trying Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Price tag =$90. Do I just need to readjust my expectations for video game costs? I was expecting $60.
I think that’s the price for the deluxe edition. Standard edition should be $70, which seems to be the new normal price for big games. Haven’t played it though.
It’s such a great game though, I’d say maybe the best I’ve played in years, would rank it over BG3 for first playthrough, not sure how it will hold up in subsequent ones.
Can’t even put my finger on a single thing it does best, it just works. E.g. brewing potions manually following recipes step-by-step (and you can actually mess it up) sounds stupid, is slow, and somehow still enhances the experience.
And it looks realistic, I don’t even mean the graphic quality, I mean “how things look”, like the villages and landscape themselves, it feels like you’re on actual earth somewhere in the past.
Knew nothing about this game but it does look pretty cool. The recommended PC specs are pretty crazy so it’ll give my desktop a workout which is a change from most of the stuff I’m playing. It’s $60 on Steam for the base game.
Fair warning, the combat is, in German there is a negative word for “needs-getting-used-to-it” and it’s that. But it fits the game world; it wouldn’t make sense if you had a whirlwind strike and ultimate attack on hotkeys, you’re basically a regular dude trying to hit people with stuff that also try to hit you.
Siccing the dog on people is basically what magic is in other games though.
