I would suggest trying Caveblazers, as it’s similar, but it’s more barebones and (I think) significantly harder.

It’s wild how good the cheap games are these days. I’m 30 hours into playing Noita, have hundreds of hours in Vampire Survivor.

And I got about 15 hours into Dragon Age: Veilguard before it occurred to me I could crack open the Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition and actually have an enjoyable experience.

This pleases me.

It’s not that it’s bad.

It just doesn’t feel like Dragon Age. It’s like Dragon Age if Disney made a DA game.

I gave it 10 hours and had to just conclude that, nope, this wasn’t for me. Instead, go get the Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition for 5 bucks with all the DLC’s. That game is a work of art and has one of the best expansions ever made.

It was so, so bad.

I’ve had some fun Anti-Nazi movies playing while I work-from-home lately, like Inglourious Basterds and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

There’s no wrong answer here, but I like the bow tie.

Good.

Console exclusivity was always a super shitty idea.

There are always extra steps with piracy.

But it’s worth it.

It could happen, but if it does, it’ll be decades down the line. Gaben has surrounded himself with true believers on purpose, in part to prevent that scenario.

I have a reminder to check it on my Proton calendar every week, haha.

That’s literally the only reason I have Epic on my PC.

Free games every week.

Neverwinter Nights, probably 10k plus hours over the last 22 years, and Dead by Daylight (1666 hours).

Great games, both. I DM a weekly campaign on Neverwinter Nights.

The ones I’ve played of late are:

Disney Dreamlight Valley

Dungeons of the Endless (Casual, but a tad addictive)

Dungeon Defenders

Trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle requires a lot of bullshit, and Fox, NBC, CNN, CBS, and your favorite news outlet are happy to shovel it.

Stop watching partisan, billionaire-owned news outlets and start consuming international news and non-partisan sites. (Like the AP and Al Jazeera)

Also, watch moderate people on the other side of the political divide. It may annoy you in some ways (like how I can’t listen to Maher when he gets on the topic of Israel), but you’ll learn more and you’ll have more nuanced views, which will benefit you in ways you can’t fully understand until you’re able to think about things in a different way. I’m a leftist, so for me, it’s been Bill Maher, Chris Williamson, or Jon Stewart. More people need to learn what they don’t know that they don’t know.

Glorious.

Let’s hope Sony doesn’t snatch them up too.

The DLC for Dark Souls 3.

Decided to give it another try after picking it up in 2017 and hating it, and for whatever reason, I like it now.

UGGGGHHHH, please let it not happen.

That’s wonderful. Happy for you!

I’m happy for you!

It made me smile when I saw it this morning.

That’s so cool.

I played the hell out of this game in the 90’s, and then again when they re-released it. How fun is it to actually have to sneak into town and complete a stealth mission when your pirate’s got a high level of notoriety?

It was a fun find, and I love the variety. Some of the sites are dumb fun. Some are games and puzzles. Others are just something completely different.

Here’s the first random site I got: https://alwaysjudgeabookbyitscover.com/

Silly.

I love it.

Sounds awesome. I average 12k steps a day, might as well do so while enjoying a fun game. :)

And good old Bard’s Tale. :)

Ooo, that’d be fun!

IMHO also the pinnacle of LOTR-related video games.

As far as I’m concerned, the genre peaked with Battle for Middle Earth II.

It looks so good!

It has a lot of neat experiences that many people don’t know about.

For instance, the first thing I did with my VR rig when I got it last November was experience a VR documentary where I was on a British bomber flying over Berlin during WWII.

Then I took a White House tour with the Obamas.

VR’s neat. FB just kind of sucks at it.

I’ve got 15 hours in it and have played all weekend.

There are some performance issues, but overall, I’ve had a blast playing it.

All of the game content is accessible for the sticker price you paid, so yeah, I couldn’t care less about the microtransaction aspect of things.

Elden Ring

One of the two games I’m glad I bought at full price. Awesome.

Ah, my mistake. I thought it meant ‘top-down’ perspective.

You’re not wrong. 💯

They won me over permanently when they instituted a refund policy.

Honestly?

Same.

I DM on a Neverwinter Nights server like five days a week and it is so much fun. I wish I could do the same in the Dragon Age setting, but oh well.

Yup.

Could have put the money in stock instead and they’d likely have made a profit since then.