Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 1st
Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Played through the Nioh 3 Demo. It seems fine, a lot of changes from the previous games (especially if you compare Nioh 1 to 2), that need some time to get used to.
My main problem with the game right now is the price. 80€ is just far too much, even if I’d probably put hundreds of hours into the game (if the first two are anything to go by). I’ll either wait for it to get cheaper or get it from a key reseller, not sure yet.
Then, I’m deep into Act 3 in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. At this point combat is mostly trivial, although I just completed a dungeon/area that was just a massive slog with overtuned enemies (Blackwater) that made me question my life choices. Nothing new for this series, Kingmaker had similar balancing issues (basically the last third of the game). Still having fun most of the time.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 days ago
Last third of Kingmaker really soured me in Owlcat and has made me postpone WotR indefinitely. Shame to hear some of the same issues appearing again in it. How does it compare otherwise? I am also somewhat hesitant about the epic setting and godslaying type of story compared to the more grounded Kingmaker. Is the writing good?
Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Gameplay is very similar, for obvious reasons. Wrath has more things, of course, but it’s still based on PF1e.
All the Mythic Path stuff makes you scale extremely fast at certain points, but it’s not like you’re suddenly doing different stuff in combat. But if you like to use super hard hitting spells, you can sling those for days (I’m level 15 and my Angel Oracle has like 80 spells slots between level 1-8, and some other characters aren’t far behind).
If you’re ok with just spending all your spell slots every fight or something, then rest, and go again, then very few fights should take long, but I’m the type of player who usually doesn’t rest inside of dungeons. Although I’m maybe a bit too stingy with them, that’s why this one dungeon took so long (I also didn’t really optimize my party a lot, but did some changes for the last few fights, that made things a lot easier).
As for the writing, I’m the wrong person to ask, I don’t really care about it, same as with Kingmaker. I’m playing these games for the combat, which I mostly enjoy.
If you’re not sure about Owlcat games after Kingmaker, I’d recommend you check out Rogue Trader, if you’re ok with the Warhammer 40k setting (which I didn’t care about). I found it very enjoyable and a lot less buggy than the two Pathfinder games, although it is on the easier side.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Okay, good to know. Thanks for the writeup! I am also one of those players that like to keep resting to a minimum in order to maintain immersion, which punished me hard in BG3 as I missed out on like half the campfire scenes in Act 1. Silly me for actually taking the game seriously when it said things were urgent.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Rogue Trader so maybe I will check it out one day, but the 40k setting never really did it for me personally. I was actually into painting minis for a while in my youth, but it was always the fantasy setting that appealed to me. There were some guys who were into 40k around me back then, but those were all assholes who were incredibly demeaning towards fantasy and constantly denigrated the Warhammer Fantasy group for using a silly and “uncool” version of the game. I think that period has tainted my perception of 40k subconsciously.
Anyway I got wildly offtopic there, sorry 😅