I finally finished Baldur’s Gate 3. Loved it. I immediately started again with a Ghost Recon team, where everyone is a rogue assassin/fighter battle master build so that you can get a ton of actions, create opportunities for advantage, and then get bonus sneak attack damage. It’s working really well so far, and I’ve done more than half of the content in Act 1 with this team, though to be fair, of course the game will be easier when I know what’s coming around the corner.
I also started up System Shock, a game that sorely needed that remake and shows that the difference between what made it good back in the day and what would make it good now are basically just graphics, controls, and UI.
That’s awesome. I’m at the tail end of my first playthrough, but I’m already thinking about and all druid run with Halsin, Jaheira, Tav, and a respecced origin. I think druid is flexible enough to pull it off.
How are you finding system shock, then? I never played it originally but have played many of its ‘spiritual sequels’ in terms of immersive sims. I was tempted to harken back when the remake came out but never bit the bullet.
I played the beginning of the original release some years back and found the controls unusable, even with a mod that “fixes” them. This new game adapts the way the original basically has a console printout for everything you look at and interact with while still allowing it to control like a modern first person video game. I’m not very far in it yet. Only about an hour. But it’s one of those games where you’re scouring for resources and navigating a map with keycards and turning the power back on and such, and it does all that well so far.
I’ve played through BG3 around launch, and have been lurking the web, looking at what others have done. Right now, I’m also watching a streamer play through the game, and everything I’ve seen really makes me want to do another playthrough. Act 3 was a bit rough at times though, so I think I’ll wait for some more patches or a Definitive Edition, if Larian does it like Divinity.
Same, my friend and I gave up on Baldur’s Gate and will let the developer “finish” tweaking it. I like what Larian tries to do in its games, but I really, really despise the need to mash the quick save button after anything representing even minor progress because you might stumble into TPK combat while exploring. This happened to us in Divinity and when we got a whiff of the same in BG3, we wrinkled our noses and left the game.
I subsequently went on to play CP2077 v2.0 and really enjoyed myself, which I just “finished” yesterday with a satisfactory, bitter-sweet ending.
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I finally finished Baldur’s Gate 3. Loved it. I immediately started again with a Ghost Recon team, where everyone is a rogue assassin/fighter battle master build so that you can get a ton of actions, create opportunities for advantage, and then get bonus sneak attack damage. It’s working really well so far, and I’ve done more than half of the content in Act 1 with this team, though to be fair, of course the game will be easier when I know what’s coming around the corner.
I also started up System Shock, a game that sorely needed that remake and shows that the difference between what made it good back in the day and what would make it good now are basically just graphics, controls, and UI.
That’s awesome. I’m at the tail end of my first playthrough, but I’m already thinking about and all druid run with Halsin, Jaheira, Tav, and a respecced origin. I think druid is flexible enough to pull it off. How are you finding system shock, then? I never played it originally but have played many of its ‘spiritual sequels’ in terms of immersive sims. I was tempted to harken back when the remake came out but never bit the bullet.
I played the beginning of the original release some years back and found the controls unusable, even with a mod that “fixes” them. This new game adapts the way the original basically has a console printout for everything you look at and interact with while still allowing it to control like a modern first person video game. I’m not very far in it yet. Only about an hour. But it’s one of those games where you’re scouring for resources and navigating a map with keycards and turning the power back on and such, and it does all that well so far.
I’ve played through BG3 around launch, and have been lurking the web, looking at what others have done. Right now, I’m also watching a streamer play through the game, and everything I’ve seen really makes me want to do another playthrough. Act 3 was a bit rough at times though, so I think I’ll wait for some more patches or a Definitive Edition, if Larian does it like Divinity.
Same, my friend and I gave up on Baldur’s Gate and will let the developer “finish” tweaking it. I like what Larian tries to do in its games, but I really, really despise the need to mash the quick save button after anything representing even minor progress because you might stumble into TPK combat while exploring. This happened to us in Divinity and when we got a whiff of the same in BG3, we wrinkled our noses and left the game.
I subsequently went on to play CP2077 v2.0 and really enjoyed myself, which I just “finished” yesterday with a satisfactory, bitter-sweet ending.