Took longer than expected from 3.3 million.

I was a [email protected] and only bought it after the release discount was gone.

Have fun, I think it really is one of the best games of the last decade.

When they came for the birds I did nothing.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is not always gloomy. The world is actually quite beautiful in most places. But its start to tears time is about 30 minutes.

Time to subsequent tears depends on your playstyle.

They should remake Dragon Knight III instead.

The thing that would speak against ARM are the recent sightings of new AMD based APUs from Valve on benchmark sites. Unless that is the next thing over and they are actually now ready with Deckard/Frame.

Most of the fun I had in VR was with “real” games ported to VR like Doom 3.

To combat the ramble-y-ness of your posts you should try to add more paragraphs. That makes it easier for your readers to take a short pause while reading.

For the topic at hand, I basically don’t play any multiplayer games precisely because it is too much work to keep up with the current meta. It seems to me that often enough what the game teaches you in the tutorial is not what you have to do in the real thing to succeed.

Add to that that many people don’t even pay attention to the good things of tutorials and you get a horde of brainless people just doing the bare minimum to pass by.

As to why they play ranked, at least to me ranked play comes with the promise of match making. That you get paired up with players of a similar skill. In theory that should give you a 50% win rate. I’d play ranked exactly so that I get lumped in with players who are as bad as me.

I’d make it depend on the length. Expedition 33 is shorter. So if you want an experience that you can finish quickly you should choose that. If you want to spend weeks to months on a game choose BG3.

Both are great. Maybe play E33 first and go to BG3 after that.

Reminds me of playing Doom 2 co-op with my brother. I wanted to just play the game but he’d end up shooting me instead until I cried.

Good times.

Definitely also a thing in Germany. Alongside magazines printing source codes of games for you to type off.

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is currently 30 % off. Haven’t played much so far.

Now I wish the Steam Deck had a camera after all.

Wasn’t 2 the lauded one and 3 disappointing?

Just an uneducated guess, but stabilising your own plant with your power needs might be much harder without the grid behind you.

I thought it was just the plot of Fubar.

Note, the DLC mentioned here is already available for free in the game. The trailer is over a year old.

Folding laundry wins a diamond medal.

I’d say in many time travel plots it is the entire point of the story to make nothing happen.

Like in Day of the Tentacle, you want to go back to yesterday so that Purple Tentacle cannot take over the world.

MasterCard would allow this!?! Wow, this reflects so badly upon them!

Oof, I remember that one. It’s so cool to build all these awesome units. And at the end you don’t have enough resources and would have to start from the beginning.

Currently playing through X-Wing’s first expansion. It’s so much better in many places than the base game.

And in the end that totally backfired. I never touched it because of that even though it is supposed to be a great game.

Is it possible that WOTC just utterly suck? Like even playing D&D for real at a table I always thought the wizard’s stuff was kinda boring. Every time our DM did something himself it was awesome.

You need a VPN if you’re German.

If you’re German you have to use a VPN. Ironically UK worked.

Correct, but it works with a VPN.

Still seems to be overwhelmed. I can’t claim it.

Edit: That must be because I’m in Germany, I suspect because of Postal. Ironically I could get everything by VPNing to the UK.

Edit 2: Because of multiple games. Haven’t checked all but for Agony Unrated, Postal 2 and Sapphire Safari I cannot view the game’s store page. Even with a VPN active. Haven’t tried it while logged out. But I can download the game files.

Nice. Didn’t know thag PRPGs are a thing. I take it that Gothic would qualify although it is German?

What about dungeon crawlers, like Ultima, Lands of Lore or Might & Magic? To me they seem to be very distinct from isometric CRPGs.

Doom started out as an Aliens game. Though they pivoted away from that to retain more creative freedom.

Not an RPG, but in the Thief series the hardest difficulty usually means that you aren’t allowed to kill anyone. Many people even try to play the games as a ghost. Meaning the only sign of their presence after leaving is the stuff they stole. Every door has to be closed and locked again. Keys stolen from guards have to be returned (in lieu of a game mechanic for this you have to lay it on the ground behind them).

People do challenge runs of the Gothic games as pacifists. So it isn’t part of the games but doable with some shenanigans.

Unfortunately it died a few years ago.

I used to have an early VR headset. With 3DoF headtracking, 640x480 at 60 Hz (combined, so actually every eye got only half of that). Descent supported stereoscopic 3D and the headtracking could be added to almost every game with a mouse driver. It was bad. Really bad. Descent alone could be nausea inducing. In VR it was a literal pukefest. Still I had to try it every few months or so, because it was so cool on paper.

I remember spending hours configuring the controls to something I would like. Mouse aiming? Never heard of it!

All I remember from my scheme was that A and Z were for up and down. Orientation probably with the cursor keys. I know I had something on capslock and shift. Maybe forwards and backwards.

Safe and clean games like my own Diarrhea 4.

I dunno, the people making the games would love to sell them but they are literally deprived of a way to take money from you. Even if you wanted to give them money. For once it’s not the publisher fucking you over.

Knowing Roblox it will probably allow adults to send unfiltered lewd messages to children…

For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

Limbo and Inside: The games are about to be delisted from GOG so I got them quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.

Funny, first time I’m hearing of Romero Games and it’s such bad news. But I guess they can stay afloat with the name.