Thanks! I have just bought a bunch of new games I will most likely never play.
I am a game collector. I don’t play them, I just collect them.
Make sure the virtual packaging is never opened!! The moment that “hours played” marker isn’t 0 anymore, it looses all collectability value
thank you for easing my personal self-loathing a bit!
Steam Deck has been a game changer. Easier to play a crappy game for 10 minutes on a handheld while watching tv.
My Deck is for playing single player games when I can’t use my desktop, such as when I’m on the train heading to work. I’ve finished more games since I’ve had the Deck than the few years before that. Love that thing.
Bought BG3 at a discount! 💪
Enjoy. One of the best games ever made.
Not to be a contrarian, the game is good, but I seriously don’t understand how it’s one of the best games ever made. Just my opinion no one asked for, but I know I can’t be alone. Only other game I can think that’s more overhyped is breath of the wild.
Sounds like those just weren’t your type of game. Chances are I could toss a rock at work and hit someone who thinks COD is the best franchise on the planet. Not saying you’re wrong, your opinion is valid, just that to people who lean even a little more towards that kind of experience, to them these games are gold.
You’re not necessarily wrong but maybe you kind of are. I’ll explain, I played the other baldur gate games in the 90s (I still have the old school big box BG2 collectors edition), im not young or new to this style game. It’s not my favorite genre but I DO enjoy it. I played DOS2 in 2019 and loved it, baldurs gate was just over hyped after hearing everyones praise and llaying those other games i expected more. Its obviously keaps ahead of BG2 but thats an OLD game at this point… and man too many people love cod even tho it’s what I’d consider objectively not good, unlike BG3 which is an objectively good game (but over rated).
Another game I’ve played a bit of but can’t understand why it’s so successful is helldivers 2. I Def need to try it some more and see if it clicks, but it’s kind of… empty and repetitive, like cod.
BG3 is annoying as fuck. There’s far too much sequential quest nesting that blocks you out of content for no reason. Not to mention the bugs. Save scumming shouldn’t be part of normal gameplay.
There’s far too much sequential quest nesting that blocks you out of content for no reason.
The reason is for replayability and having a fresh experience each time. You get blocked out of content because there are about 60 unique paths you can take through the game with different content for each.
Not to mention the bugs
The few I experienced personally were fixed within a couple months of release. I haven’t seen a bug of any sort, actually, since January.
Save scumming shouldn’t be a part of normal gameplay
Then… Don’t do that. Save scumming also isn’t a part of tabletop gameplay. You fail a roll or fuck up your plan, you deal with the outcome. Saves are only for emergencies if some bug does come up.
You’re allowed to not enjoy the game, and that’s fine, it’s not for everyone. But your reasons why are poor reasons.
I do think BG3 is a very impressive game and deserves a lot of the praise it gets.
That said, it sucks how finicky it is to run away from a fight. There’s way too many fights that just sort of happen with very little explanation as to why they’re attacking you. It’s also waaay too easy to accidentally steal things and trigger fights, especially on controller.
You basically do have to save scum a little, because one accident can lead to an entire town being pissed at you. If the game had better ways to de escalate combat and some better signposting of consequences, it’d be a 10/10 game
blocks you out of content for no reason
Example? Most of the sequential questing is necessary for the complex narrative of a tabletop campaign.
Rescuing hostages from the Moonrise Towers. It warns you against entering before you find the bad guy’s immortality, which sends you to save the Nightsong. If you do that, all the hostages die/disappear and you fail the rescue missions for no reason. The Iron Hand dwarves then won’t show up in Act 3, locking you out of that content.
That doesn’t sound right to me. My first playthrough was blind. Me and a buddy ran straight to Nightsong in chapter 2 and got a flag that warned us to check the rest. We managed to save the prisoners and then go do the nightsong.
same here, did entire playthrough with no guides and never ran into something like this. Was just very thorough on each map, like any rpg I play.
Only complaint I have is the underwater prison in act 3, that one I save scummed. The game makes it seem like Gortash is gonna blow it up in a instant, but you have enough time to dock and do your thing. That is not clear at all, and if you try to go back a second time, then it is instant.
I’m 100 hours in and just about to wrap up the story (I think). And I’m gonna go back and replay because I skipped a TON in acts 1 and 2. It’s such a good game
It’s “Escape From Robotropolis”?
I’m VERY tempted to buy Fallout 4: Game of the Year edition due to my hype for Fallout: London (which releases in April of this year), but I’m worried of getting burned if it turns out to be a bad/disappointing mod. :/
If you’re still considering it, you can get it for like $10-$15 on GOG. Same price of steam but DRM Free, and it’s almost always onsale.
4, for it faults, is a wonderful framework for mods and survival playstyles.
Enjoy!
Grabbed a bunch of yakuza games, been meaning to play those for a while.
Just bought and played through Pony Island. $.75 and 2.5 hours later, a nice little experience.
Huge fan of that game. Can’t wait for the second one
Bought that game years ago as a joke and it ended up actually being a cool indie game lol
Alright what games should I be getting this time?
But the real question is which ones will sit and gather dust in our libraries!
That’s the neat part, all of them!
It’s soooooo good. I second this.
It’s not on sale, lol. Well, it is, but on Fanatical.com.
That’s surprising. I guess the publisher didn’t get the memo?
is it spring? i have completely lost track of the flow of seasons at this point. Its like the game of thrones weather but every other day instead of every ten to twenty years
I bought a cat game where you need to find and click 100 of them! They had cute noises and every single cat was named!
What’s the name of the game?
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/100CozyGames
makes me think of this, but these are “free”?
Goodbye, money.
Finally gonna play the first 3 games of The Longest journey and Dreamfall. I am convinced Funcom are great story tellers but awful mmo creators. See Anarchy Online, The Secret World, Conan Exiles. Great story telling. Terrible mmos.
Ohh I played those so long ago during a really difficult time of my life, they were definitely a fun escape and the story felt well suited to a point and click.
I loved Anarchy Online back in the day. I don’t think I ever did anything particularly in depth on it, but I remember being proud that I had an in game apartment and a flying car thing.
I am convinced Funcom are great story tellers but awful mmo creators. See Anarchy Online, The Secret World, Conan Exiles. Great story telling. Terrible mmos.
cries in steam is no longer a viable store where I live
Why is that? What happened?
I’m not in an affected country, but from what I can gather from what happened most recently:
Steam changed their pricing policy in relatively poor countries from localized affordable prices to strictly usd equivalent because people in other countries were using vpns to make accounts in those poor countries to get games for what would be pennies for them.
I don’t remember which countries were involved in the first place, but in those countries now where they don’t make as much money on average, but everything is much cheaper, some steam games can cost the equivalent of a month’s salary.
That’s why the store isn’t viable in those countries anymore.
Edit: Here’s a source
That sucks. Never occured to me I could do that, now that I know the consequences I’m glad I didn’t!
With the state of free to play games, looking at you, the finals, I can’t justify buying games I’ll never even have time to play
…which is fine. The finals is great!
I’ve been curious about The Finals, it looks fun. Is it easy to get into? I worry about toxicity in multiplayer because I’m not great at team based games.
It’s a toxic hellhole
Well it’s multiplayer 🤷
Yeah sadly you can’t get away from it these days.
Fellow rhythm gamers, the DJ Max Portable 3 DLC is 80% off, get it for the best version of Supersonic.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568680/DJMAX_RESPECT_V__Portable_3_PACK/
Grabbed Age of Empires II and oh my gosh it’s spectacular, great storyline, unique missions, just wow
The words of a saint! Man I fall into this trap every fucking time
