Another week another thread. Whatcha y’all playing? And why is it Baldur’s gate 3?
Just finished Link’s Awakening and now I’m in the middle of Oracle of Ages! I’ve just been playing gameboy games on the switch for months lol I used to dream of playing this stuff on a backlit screen when I was a kid 🥲
Same I’ve replaced finishing pikmin with blasting through the oracles games
Guild Wars 2 by my-self. BGEE with my SO.
Sadly no BG3 in the near future as a computer that can run it costs too much. The two computer can’t.
replying gtav and playing some more rock band 3. im gonna also buy papa’s freezeria on steam maybe tonight or tomorrow
While everyone has been talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, I decided to cave in and started a replay of Divinity: Original Sin 2. Well, yea, I got a ten years old PC and a Ps4!
Still, what an excellent game. The easy mode goes well since the battlefields are chaotic, there’s not a single combat that I go through that doesn’t involve 1)Setting everything on fire 2)Shocking a large portion of the characters 3)Poisoning a large portion of the characters 4)Mixing all that because elemental interaction exists (Poison + Fire makes NECROFIRE which is a harsh and often deadly punishment)
But the questing and adventuring still stands out well. This is a game that has a somewhat large map, but unlike most open world fillers its a dense map. Every corner has a named NPC with a little trouble to solve, and there’s no “random cave with nameless mobs” to venture into; Every single place you can go has a little lore, a little story, something important that makes the world feel alive.
Its no surprise Larian has been taking the world by storm lately, and I’m glad this has aged so well so folks can try an original setting whenever the BG3 hype cools down.
While everyone has been talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, I decided to cave in and started a replay of Divinity: Original Sin 2. Well, yea, I got a ten years old PC and a Ps4!
I’m sure your PC could run Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2… 😉
I would not wish Advanced D&D THAC0 mechanics on my worst enemy
all these years later and i still cant fathom why they went with an inverted dc scale
Inherited from naval wargaming, where it came about because first rate ships of the line had better armor than second rate etc. so armor class scaled inversely. That meant THAC0 was the best way to figure out what you needed to roll to get a hit.
It’s also not functionally that complicated (your THAC0 minus target AC), just weird and confusing if you try to understand why it works that way.
I’m trying to beat Final Fantasy Tactics - I never got past Act 1 as a kid. I’m currently up through Golgarion Execution Grounds. Turns out the secret is to not bomb in all-offense and get nuked into the ground. Who knew?
Uber modded Skyrim and a Minecraft world with friends we called HIV
I am just now playing The Stanley Parable on Switch and am having a great time with it. I’m not a PC gamer, and rarely a console gamer, so I missed when it first came out.
I have recently finished Hollow Knight, Deaths Door and Fire watch.
Hollow Knight was great, and I was pretty sad when I finished it.
Deaths Door is really good, but it felt a little lacking of content to me. But it’s a small game and is a good introduction to more complicated games in similar genres.
I liked Firewatch, but I remember being disappointed by it for some reason. I can’t remember why exactly.
I have recently finished Hollow Knight
Did you finish it finish it? Have you battled The Radiance? (9000 times lol)
Well… I didn’t finish it finish it. I didn’t:
- Complete the path of pain
- Beat Nightmare Grim
- Complete the Pantheons.
I felt like I was missing out on other games, so I opted to shelve Hollow Knight. I was spending so much time trying to complete the path of pain and defeat nightmare grim, I didn’t even want to attempt the Pantheons. I instead just moved on, lol.
I think I was at 107% completion or something
After years of hearing so much about the games, I loaded up pokemon on my retro handheld.
Started with Ruby for no reason in particular.
I’m splitting my time between that and D4.
I also have the following games on the back burner at various stages of completion:
Deep rock Galactic LoZ: LTTP Last of Us Part1 on PC Tiny Tina’s wonderlands
There’s more, I’m just too tired to go look at my “recent” queue in steam…
Any suggestions for games that I should play on my retro handheld, it supports everything from neogeo up to ps1… More or less.
“Stray Gods” is an incredibly beautiful game. I was turned off by the playstyle at first, but then I embraced it and got really invested in the characters and the story. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Greek mythology and/or fantastic stories about interpersonal drama and enjoys games with tough dialogue choices.
The soundtrack also!!! It’s a musical game and the songs are all SO BEAUTIFUL. I teared up a few times.
Trying to learn Dark Souls 3. 20 hours in and finally getting used to the controls. Beat the second boss with 2 deaths so feeling a tiny bit less despair for now.
I finally started looking into emulating on my phone, so I’ve been playing some games from my childhood. Mostly Alleyway and Pokemon Red, with a little Harvest Moon thrown in.
Well for me it is actually Baldurs Gate 3! I just beat Jedi survivor last night and now have moved on to the zeitgeist that is this game
Do you usually try to play games that are new and part of The Discourse? I’m more of a patient gamer, so the mindset of chasing the latest game is a little foreign to me.
Nah not really. I just pick up what sounds fun to me mostly. That often is new games but I try and finish ones I have going before picking up a new one
I’m trying to get the last few cards in the pokemon trading card game on switch, I’ve been cheating with the rewind feature which has made life slightly less painful but it seems to pre calculate your coin flips so not as powerful as it could be, also played some tabletop simulator and started doing dragon riding races in WoW as part of that event. It’s been a crazy year for releases so it’s nice having some downtime
Continuing my first time playthrough of Apollo Justice on my way through the rest of the Ace Attorney series.
And returning to Death Stranding since I beat the game to max out the prepper shelters (mission givers) and to slowly work towards Legend of Legends (completing every single repeatable mission on “hard” mode).
Now that the story is over Death Stranding is a fantastic “throw on a podcast and grind” kind of game. Very soothing.
Still working through side quests in Borderlands 3 as well. Really enjoying the shooting in this one. As acclaimed as 2 is, I just couldn’t stand the shooting model until at least Pre Sequel, but 3’s shooting genuinely feels quite good now.
Is there a way around the stealth / hiding from the black fog thingy or does it get less as you progress? This is the only thing that held me back playing further. And I was so impressed by everything else in the game. It is a bit sad, I really want to continue playing.
They won’t go away, but you will eventually learn and see where they are. Sometimes you’ll have to engage them, a lot of the time you can get around them.
They’re not in all areas, but you will be able to understand how to deal with them and once you can fight back you can handle them.
I was terrified by them in the beginning and didn’t want to have to deal with them, but now I really think they’re cool and enjoy taking them down. You really go from helpless and confused to knowledgeable and prepared.
Thank you very much. I guess I just have to pick it up and get through this. I loved everything else of it, so I am sure it is worth it :-)
Don’t worry, once youre given equipment to deal with them it’ll start to demystify them and you’ll feel more confident.
Don’t be afraid to save before you deal with them too. If you walk into their radius (your odradek will pop up in a dramatic fashion and start tracking them) then you cannot save, but if you just walk back until youre out of their range again you can make a save and then take however many attempts as you want to handle them.
Their behavior can be hard to figure out, so feel free to message me or something if you want more info on how to best handle them.
Awesome, Thank you very much for all your tips! It is smoking hot outside at the moment, so I try to prevent heating up my room even more with the GPU fans spinning, but when autumn / winter comes I will welcome a nice warm breeze under the desk and reinstall it again. I am really looking forward to it now after your comment :-)
You do get a way to combat them fairly easily later on, but it’s still usually best to avoid them unless they are very dense or blocking your path directly. It does not become less frequent, it gets more frequent, but you can actually engage them
Thank you. Knowing that I am able to deal with them other than trying so sneak around them will make things easier :-)
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I hope you enjoy the Apollo Justice series! Will you be playing the Investigations series with Edgeworth too?
I played all the Ace Attorney games for the first time during the pandemic and had an absolute blast! The Great Ace Attorney duology is definitely my favourite of the bunch by far, but they are all so charming!
As a kid I endlessly replayed the original trilogy and never wanted to try Apollo because “I thought his hair looked dumb”, so after trying it now and realizing that even with a new character it’s still Ace Attorney I won’t be skipping any other games.
So yes, I’ll be doing the Edgeworth Investigations next! I’m excited. Eventually I’ll make my way through the 3DS titles and then to Great Ace Attorney too.
Mostly Palia this week, with a little Hexceed. Need to get back to TOTK soon.
