Saw this (about BG3) in a Discord I'm on:
Incredible.Glorious story of unintended consequences from my brother just now. He’s been storing his valuables in a rat corpse that he picked up at some point (no, I don’t know why either).
Apparently just now an enemy had a critical miss when firing a necromancy spell at him, which instead of hitting him hit the dead rat full of valuables, which then promptly ran away.
Does anyone play Age Of Empires? Saw that 4 is out on GamePass on Xbox and was thinking of giving it a whirl
Who was it that used to beast me (and Cord, and Benny) in the glory days of The Third Hard? @CJay ?
I'd be there all pleased to have taught my peasants how to point a pitchfork the right way round and then my first scout would find his fucking fortress because he was already in the Castle Age or whatever.
Finally decided to put some time into Metal Gear. About a third of the way through it and it's scary how much of it was remade two times over.
Done with FFXVI now.
All in all it was good and all, but it did feel a little unpolished all around. The environments were kind of bland, enemies just the same everywhere. Things like giving you different Magics (as usual in FF) but not having elemental affinities is just a little weird.
Like firing Fire magic at a clearly burning Bomb enemy always used to heal them, not hurt them, in previous FF games. I'm not sure why you would forego mechanics for instance.
The story was good but a little odd in the sense that most of the game was sort of this war-of-nations theme which was essentially a manga version of Game of Thrones - which really was quite interesting - but then had very little to do with the main antagonist Ultima. The game itself suffered a little bit from trying to be dark and serious and lightweight and quirky at the same time in a way that it didn't always pull off.
Compared to some of the antagonist greats of FF (Sephiroth, Kefka, Kuja...) who all were intertwined into the stories better, Ultima felt a lot more forced upon this universe. That said, as a character, he was well designed and fantastically voiced.
Cid was a great character, but I couldn't get over the fact that the voice actor was the same as Lorath in Diablo 4, and that he looked like David Beckham, which was just a completely oddball combo.
Also on the ending:
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Mimimi (Shadow Tactics, Desperados 3 and the new game Shadow Gambit which I haven't got to yet) closing down.
So for lack of anything to play while waiting on BG3, I downloaded Remnant 2.
It's pretty fun, but it's fucking difficult, even on the easiest setting. Yesterday I must have died maybe 30 times doing a pretty early game boss that was just a bunch of big ass cubes. In God of War, for instance, I only died that many times when doing the Valkyries / Berserkers.
The shooting is fantastic. But the movement and dodging is frustratingly slow, which I suppose is the point. Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll stick with it, but I do enjoy it when I seem to have a bit of tail wind in the game.
Baldurs Gate 3, cold take inbound, loses a little of its lustre as you get to the back of act 2 and starting act 3. Little things, but the dialogue doesn't tie in quite as neatly to stuff you've done, some quest weirdness, stuff that feels a bit half baked and some VERY weirdly balanced fights.
It remains very good, and probably on balance their best game yet when you factor in it being Larians best ever writing / characters but I remain to be convinced I'm having as much FUN as I was in DOS2.
For me the main thing that brought it right above DOS2 is the freedom in terms of where your story goes. Obviously the overarching story kinda remains the same-ish (endings aside), but the main story arcs within the Acts can differ a lot.
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Act 3 does need a lot more work indeed (which shows that their decision to push it forward a month was a very weird one - Starfield proximity aside), but it's not as much of a mess as DOS2 Act 4 (or whatever Arx was) was on launch.
So I picked up The Making of Karateka a couple of days back. It's quite staggering how much stuff Digital Eclipse has got a hold of. Plenty of interviews, a daft amount of letters, design documents, playable prototypes and a couple of unreleased games that aren't Karateka.
For a game that's 15 minutes long, they've rung every bit out of it. Hopefully more collections take this archival approach.
So Ive had more joy with the first three hours of BG3 than with any other game this year. Superb stuff. I'll admit to being on easiest, my first proper stab at a game of this type but I've lolled about five times already.
OK I had to give Remnant II up because it is just too damn hard. I'm not sure if I'm getting the mechanics of the game wrong or something and if I should just do a lot more levelling before taking on any bosses, but that seems a little inane and not quite like how it's intended to play out.
It's a shame, because for the most part I enjoy the gameplay and the setting is fantastic (even if the story does seem very bland). But for every boss I face it seems more and more impossible, and the one I'm at now I can't even get the HP down by 15% before dying.
So now I'm instead trying Sea of Stars, which is a hommage to FFVI and Chrono Trigger, and so far for being exactly that it looks marvelous (but - it's just it feels a little dated with no voice acting etc).
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What you playing as?
A very very minor spoiler for a funny moment later but I'll pop it in tags anyway:
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I've gone for a dwarf barbarian who answers everything with fists. I punched fuck out of a book last night, proper laughed when it let me do it.
Now I've ditched Starfield BG3 will be my main game going forward.
I just want to say to you that as a barbarian you're gonna have a great time lobbing people into chasms or at each other because I certainly do with the barbarian party member.
Barb is a ton of fun indeed. Which forces me to post this gem of a video (several spoilers for act 1, so proceed with caution):
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Queuing to join a World of Warcraft [Classic] server in 2023 is so funny to me. 37 mins to go.
Hardcore really got the buzz back, huh.
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When I was just exploring act 3 in Baldur's Gate 3 and mopping up the less consequential side stuff I was starting to feel the magic wear off. But I'm on the home straight now, just doing the big companion quest stuff and there's some properly good stuff in there.
And what's more, it's not even you're this late in an RPG of this sort and I still feel like as many as three of my companions might turn on me/ leave / force me to put them down depending on what choices I make.
Oh yeah act 3 is still a great game. It just lacks the polish and consistency of the first two. I'd still really enjoy it if the full game was of the same quality as act 3, it's just that they set the bar very high with the first two and the last one doesn't quite hit that mark. It has some of the best parts of the game in my opinion:
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They've also already fixed a lot of things, to an extent that you rarely see in the industry:
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and with their track record with definitive editions (both DOS1 and 2 got massive updates), I can't wait to see how it all turns out.
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Only issue with finishing up House of Hope and Astarion's questline is that I did those back to back and there's a fair bit of crossover in the sort of vibe of those sections.
Aaaand done. I think it all hangs together fairly well at the end, really. And I got to lob a barrel of firewine at a giant neon brain so really I dunno what more you could ask for.
It turns out I missed like half of Act 1 in my MP playthrough that fell apart because one of the players had absolute main character syndrome and got furious if someone else did something they didn't want.
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That dude sounds like a dickhead who should not be playing multiplayer.
Having decided Starfield is too boring to live I'm onto Shadow Gambit. Off to a good start but I'm just playing it sad that Mimimi have closed their doors.
Ive took a week off work to play F1 23. Quest for Elite rank. Its damm near impossible as other online players, cant take being overtook and use their car as a missile causing DNFs for you both
Interesting interaction on Twitter today.
I legitimately don't know how he found my tweet as this doesn't seem to be something in the news.
An absolute hall of fame bio though
He's done you there. Twice, really.
Thrice, if you count his location.
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So true.
What's the word BA*****SH that he's not happy about?
He really hated The Rock vs Goldberg at WWE Backlash.
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I asked. He didn't reply. 4-0 Elite-Force Cinema.
5-0, account no longer exists.
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Some mysteries are best left unsolved.
My level 20 Druid died on Hardcore WoW.
Especially sickening because he was well geared and carrying 3 gold.
Will main my 13 Mage for a while, I think, to try and farm some gold.
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So the game is fucked. Basically, you have ranks. From Bronze 3,2,1, Silver, Gold, Elite. At the end of each week. Is when you either get promoted if you have enough points or face relegation.
At the end of each season. About 30-40 days. You get reset and everyone gets relegated. Its been brought to my attention, The people who were in gold 3 last season. If they got into elite the exact moment the season ends. It does not count because everyone gets reset. So at this point, im currently in elite but I have to wait until the end of the week for promotion and relegation. Because the season ends on Monday. It will not count that ive made it to elite. It will just relegated me from gold 3 back to gold 2.
Silly system. If you could just get promotion at anytime duuring the week, once you have enough points like they do in FIFA. It would be fine.
Anyone want a free Steam key for PGA Tour 2K21?
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My Retroid(2S) device surprisingly came yesterday. Thought I'd go and quickly set it up but boy was I wrong. I can see why people just buy the cards with it all set up now.
Device feels a lot better than I thought it would considering it was $99. Build quality seems great on it. I just need to go and build a ROM library now. I wasn't expecting it til early next week so I didn't think I'd have to do it yet.
If you can get on back-ups.me and search for BAZPACK there’s quite a lot to get you started.
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Affiliate ROM library
archive.org tends to have a few as well.
Baz
Torrents > * though
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BG3 is so absurdly good.
If you want roms lads, full sets for every system is here. Its what I use:
https://r-roms.github.io/
Cheers DS. Reddit had pointed me there as well so I've downloaded some absolute favourites. Just need to get my hands on the BIOS and I'll be good to go when I get in later.
Disco Elysium will be a PS+ game in October. If you haven't played it and have PS+ it's a must.
Cool. It's one of those games I think about but then the genre has me at arms length.
Also, where's your source? The October games were already announced. I have a copy of Callisto Protocol and you can't take that away from me.
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I think he means the ones coming to Premium tier
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