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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 1st⁩ ⁨⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As great as Jeff was, he’s the one that did all the stuff to Overwatch.

  As far as I’ve heard/read he was never really interested in making a PVP game, he wanted to make Titan, the MMO. Then he got another chance with OW2 and the PVE mode, and even got an offer to make a separate dev team that would focus on PVP, so he could put his all into PVE, but declined, so the game was left to die (even though it never really died). Then PVE in OW2 was a bust again and he left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 1st⁩ ⁨⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong Ashes. You’re thinking of Ashes of the Singularity, which is an RTS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I put a lot of time into Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader these last two weeks and finished the game. I had a great time with it, mostly because of the combat, I just really liked it.

  Story is kinda meh, because in my run it felt a bit unfocused and bloated. It’s like the devs just wanted to cram as much 40k stuff into it as possible, so story threads just kinda fizzle out or something completely new gets suddenly thrust into the focus. It’s possible that this is because of my choices, how I did quests or if I did or didn’t kill certain NPCs.

  This game also made me realize I don’t really like 40k. The whole setting and universe is just too ridiculous, dumb and over the top for me. I’ll still play the occasional 40k game, like Boltgun 2 or Dark Heresy, but it’s not a selling point for me.

  I’m definitely gonna do a second playthrough, probably once the second season DLC is released. I actually started another run yesterday, because I just had so much fun with the game, and played through the prologue, making heretical choices, but I’ll try to finally give Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous a proper shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more Jackie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, kinda disagree. I played the game for the first time last year and imma be honest I didn’t really care about Jackie when he died.

  He says you can spend a lot of time in the opening area, before doing the heist, which I did, but almost nothing of it is with Jackie. Even the couple of missions you do with him, you’re often doing your own stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends, as is the case with all games.

  I think it’s very good, but not the second coming of Christ as many people made it out to be.

  It’s a better Final Fantasy game, and I think the story is much more interesting. However, if you’re looking for something like BG3 with the freedom, size or character interaction, you’ll be disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

  I did finish the game, but it was a complete slog at the end. It was mainly because I still really like the characters and had invested too much time into the two games at that point, so I have to see this trilogy through to the end.

  Like you said, there’s just soooo much padding, and I’d even say the world is much worse than Ubisoft stuff. It’s just empty, except for the same five copy & paste “events” in every zone.

  Something must be wrong with me though, since I’ve actually been thinking about replaying the game lately. Dunno why, but the thought just keeps creeping into my brain every now and then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 21st⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting a lot of time into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I’m deep in Act 2, probably close to the end.

  Since I cleared a bunch of areas that I wasn’t supposed to yet, thanks to the parry that makes you invincible, I’m massively overleveled. I don’t mind this kinda stuff though, even like it in RPGs like this, so it’s not a big deal, that story bosses die in like three turns or something at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 14th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally “done” with World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. The final phase is a complete joke and let down. Blizzard in their generosity added two quests and one new world boss. The speed with which your character gains power is also increased, but there is still no account-wide power-sharing, so you’d still have to grind for dozens of hours on each character if you want to get to the part where you’re completely overpowered.

  My sub still runs for three weeks or something, so I might check in here and there, like for the Christmas event, but otherwise no WoW for me for a while.

  Now that I’m free, I finally continued with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, after a two-month break. I stopped near the end of Act 1, just after getting a fourth party member. Now I’m in Act 2, the world has opened up a bit more, so of course I gotta explore everywhere you’re not supposed to go yet, so main story progress has been slow.

  The game has some small annoyances, that make you question what the devs where thinking, like the newly added option to give up in combat (so you can restart it), but it’s not a straight reset, you go through a jingle and animation, and then the game asks you if you want to retry. Why not just retry immediately. Selecting no boots you to the main menu, but there’s already a separate button for that, so the only reason to give up in a fight is to try again.

  Then the save situation is kinda ass. The game only has autosaves, no manual saving, but it’s kinda random at times and even straight up lies to you if it says it’s saving the game. Sometimes when you change something in your inventory the game saves, but not every time. I think the game has some internal timer, so it only creates a new save every X seconds. After a fight the game saves, but it creates two save slots that are the same. Usually not a big deal, but I suspect it overwrites your most recent save in the process (because if you do a bunch of fights back-to-back you don’t have a bunch of double saves). What I’m trying to say is, just let me save manually whenever I want, and let me manage my save slots.

  Good game otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective is Available Now!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely, but according to Steam, it looks pretty good.

  800+ reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive (95% positive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mocked-up images of a new Steam Controller appear, as speculation rises around Valve revealing new gaming hardware this week [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s supposed to have touchpads. If you don’t need or want those, there’s little reason to choose this controller over a more standard one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 9th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still grinding that World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. New phase started this week, along with the next raid. I’ve been playing so much the last couple of weeks, that it’s definitely getting stale, but I’ve been saying the same thing for a few weeks already, and I’m still playing, albeit a bit less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 2nd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I basically skipped Legion back in the day, because of how ass the Legendary system was on launch, and never went back, so I never really did any of the raids.

  I guess you mean getting knocked around by some orbs, which might instantly kill you because you fall off the platform? Stuff like that is basically the only thing that could be an issue.

  From what I read in different comments, the final raid, Antorus, is supposed to have another boss, that could be a problem, Eonar.

  Blizzard has actually changed one boss so far (Il’gynoth, where you have to use some blobs to blow up this big eye), although that was probably more because people deal too much damage and would regularly blow up the blobs on accident, the second they spawn, which was just annoying and extended the fight needlessly. Maybe they’ll do more changes, since you can clear these raids daily for the time of the event.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 2nd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still grinding World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. Less raids this week, I’m only clearing each one twice every day, instead of three times, but did a couple more Mythic+ dungeons to knock out achievements.

  The next phase will start in a few days, along with new quests, but more importantly another raid to farm every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Week For Unions At Blizzard As Hearthstone Team Also Votes ‘Yes’ [Aftermath]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, we’ve seen the exact thing with WoW and Overwatch, after the teams formed Unions. Both games were immediately shut down.

  It’s only a matter of time until the Diablo team forms a Union, which will of course also be the death knell for that franchise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 19th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been grinding that World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. Monk is a lot more fun than Demon Hunter, so I’m glad I made the switch. I’ve done basically everything for now, most of the quests in all the zones, and I’m at the gear cap. For now, there are raids to clear daily, which I’ll do, and clear Mythic+ dungeons over and over for that “infinite” power, which I won’t do. In a few days the second phase will begin, with more quests, a raid and other things, so I’ll keep playing, but wind down afterward (until the next phase).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 12th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished the Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure DLC. It’s alright. The courses are more difficult than the base game, but the map is also so small, but still packed with courses, and you’re constantly driving through the same parts. Since you also need to do each race at least twice (one rally, one normal race) everything just kinda blends together.

  Then World of Warcraft: Legion Remix has started. This is the second time they’ve done this mode, and the first time was some of the most fun I’ve had with the game ever. This time doesn’t hit as hard, but it’s still fun. I started out as a Demon Hunter, but found it kinda meh to play. So I’ve switched to my normal main class, a Monk, which is a lot more fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 5th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally started the Forza Horizon 5 DLC. First up, Rally Adventure. The DLC adds a new, small, but densely filled map (at least more densely than the base game). The new races also get a new game mode, a proper Rally mode (as you’d expect from the name). It’s just you alone on the track, trying to make it to the finish as fast as possible, while an NPC reads pacenotes to you.

  As someone who doesn’t play normal rally racing games or watches real life ones, it’s fine. The game also asks you if you want to disable the visual racing line, which I did. That makes it a lot harder, since you can’t just immediately tell when you’re supposed to break, but with the rewind or just trying the race over and over again, it’s manageable. I also constantly switch cars, so I don’t get a consistent feel on how a specific car handles.

  Then I also started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I wanted to get to this before all the GOTY-talk at the end of the year. I’m in Act 1, dunno how early, because I’m just running around, exploring everything, ignoring the main quest as much as possible. As you do in RPGs.

  The game plays well, it’s pretty responsive, and hitting those parries feels good. The story is intriguing so far, but I haven’t seen a lot of it. Performance has also been fine for me, but I do have a pretty powerful PC.

  A few annoying things are, every time you pick up an item on the ground a character has to comment on it, and there are not a lot of different voice lines, so that gets kinda annoying. Then certain parts of the game, like the cutscenes, are filled with pretty ugly post-processing effects. You can disable that stuff for normal gameplay, but then a cutscene plays that has just super heavy depth of field, chromatic aberration, weird artifacts around character outlines (that might be tied to the DOF), it’s weird. These are pretty minor complaints.

  Also, in a fight it’s like Super Mario RPG, where you can hit specific keys at the correct time to deal extra damage or for the dodge/parry to avoid any damage. Hitting the offensive buttons is not much of a problem, but the game does some stylish camera angles and shakes a bit, which can make it difficult to time button presses for the defensive moves. There are options to disable these, but the camera shake option doesn’t seem to affect combat, and if you disable the camera movement option the battles look so much duller, with just a terrible, static angle. I think I just have to get used to it. It also doesn’t affect every enemy, some are definitely worse than others.

  Still, I’m having fun, just gotta play more of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two weeks is ancient, when it comes to stuff like this, in my opinion.

  The thing is, the article doesn’t make it clear, that this is about technically SFW games, that add NSFW content later down the line.

  I don’t know if that’s a new policy because of the recent issues or if it was always a policy, just not enforced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an old article BTW, and it’s apparently not really true? Or at least different than what the article makes it seem.

  store.steampowered.com/news/…/539991294395549714?…

  Rumors are not facts

  Ladies and Gentlemen,

  I’m sure you’ve all heard the rumors that Steam doesn’t allow NSFW games to release free updates, only paid DLCs.

  This is simply not true.

  Since our game’s release, we’ve rolled out numerous free updates, with the latest major content update dropping just three days ago.

  Steam hasn’t officially changed its policies, and there’s no rule in the Terms of Service supporting this claim.

  These rumors stem from a handful of vague NSFW game developer announcements with no solid backing.

  We will continue to release free updates in the future.

  Have a great day!

  The article talks about games that are marked adult-only with warnings, but apparently the problem is only with games that don’t have any NSFW content yet, and want to add it through updates or patches. Games that already have NSFW content will be able to receive patches that add more of that stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WoW dies with the Lich King⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And since then it’s back again with Dragonflight, The War Within, going into Midnight.

  WoW probably will never die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom warn that Monster Hunter Rise, World and Wilds might not run on Windows 10 PCs after October 14th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Arch btw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Played it for a bit last year, shortly after the 1.0 release.

  It’s probably a better game than Megabonk, but I think the Auto-Shooting part doesn’t really work in first-person, if you have to do all the aiming yourself anyway.

  Still fun for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just used the Wanderers Crest the whole game, mainly for the normal downward pogo.

  For some reason the game forces you into a specific crest a few times throughout, which I just find weird and unnecessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think flying enemies are absolutely terrible to fight, especially early game.

  Runbacks are the things everyone has already been talking about. There were two in the whole game that I thought were terrible, so it could have been worse.

  However, for boss runbacks especially, because your corpse is in their room, it discourages leaving and coming back later. In Hollow Knight your ghost at least spawned in front of the room so you didn’t have to commit to fighting the boss, even if you had to make it back there again.

  I guess because of how much of the game is optional and non-linear, the devs couldn’t often really plan on when players will have which ability or upgrade, so some stuff felt kinda underutilized, for long stretches of the game.

  Why are so many shard drops above places, where 75% of them will fall into unrecoverable spots? For rosaries, you at least get the magnet, just add the shards to that or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finished my Hollow Knight: Silksong 100% playthrough. Great game with some weird, frustrating and outright bad segments, that make you question what the devs were smoking.

  Then I also beat Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. I was pretty close to the end two weeks ago, before I took a break because of Silksong. Only one small boss and the final boss was left, but hunting for the rest of the secrets still took a while. It’s definitely better than Circle of the Moon, which I played before this, just because it doesn’t play like absolute cheeks. Graphics and Music are a major downgrade though.

  Next up is the final Castlevania GBA game, Aria of Sorrow. I’ve played the sequel, Dawn of Sorrow on the NDS years ago, and I remember it being great, so I have high hopes for this one.

  Then I started Megabonk. It’s Risk of Rain 2, but as an ASS game (Auto-Shooter Survivor game, like Vampire Survivors). Each run is 1-3 loops of a single map, and there are only two different maps in total. Characters, weapons and leveling are like VS, so your choice is for a starting weapon and each characters innate passive. Then you also earn money during a run to open chests for different items, like in RoR. While I think the game is solid, you have to like the gameplay enough to be fine with just not much variety in the visuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe you’re vastly overstating the importance of this game and franchise. As I said, I think it’s a terrible series of games (and I’ve played them up to CS3), so there’s absolutely some bias here.

  Also, what does other people’s review have anything to do with how impactful or important something is to the medium? Does this mean that the Hentai game Mirror with ~96% positive, 85k+ reviews on Steam is even more significant than Trails?

  And if you look at modern RPGs built around serialized storytelling and grounded politics—Disco Elysium, Baldur’s Gate 3, even the way Persona 5 structures its arcs—you can see Falcom’s fingerprints everywhere.

  Please show me where those fingerprints are, because I don’t see them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your only arguments for your statement in this thread are, that there are a lot of Trails games, and that the games are all connected. Comparing this to FF7 seems like a real stretch.

  If these games are so important, how about some examples of how they influenced gaming and their impact, either to devs or gamers.

  BTW I think the Trails series is garbage and has only one good game in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August September 14th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been playing Hollow Knight: Silksong. I’ve seen credits twice, and am now in Act 3. Currently going through the world again, looking for stuff I missed.

  While I do have a good time with the game, I can’t say I love it, because it has a few too many frustrating sections and maybe a few parts that were a bit too difficult for me to really enjoy.