Did he?

I’d fuck that pig over most recent titles any day of the week

Oink oink

Oh I won’t disagree that they tuned it weird…same thing for the enemies. Being defeated by an overleveled mud crab is…demeaning. and more generally I still recall putting my character in a corner, hitting q, and leaving for the day so she’d be a good runner when I got back…which is just downright dumb. But the concept at it’s core is beautiful, and I wish more games would investigate that concept until we find a really good solution.

I forgot, there’s one other super shit rpg thing that always pisses me off even though it’s literally everywhere: why do I have to pick skills before I even start playing and understand the rules? SPECIAL, stat points, attributes…whatever a game wants to call it, I want to play first before I do all the math on what is the best skill to use.

Oof for me act 2 was the worst. I mean act 3 also kinda phoned it in but there’s a lot more stuff to do that isn’t gray.

Maybe try vm first, make sure you want it.

Bg3 acts after 1?

Morrowind still has the best skill system concept. “Do what you think is fun and you will level up and get better at it” is great game design.

Things that are the kernel of bad game design: Fetch quests in quantity, especially over large maps with limited fast travel points (fuck you Witcher, cyberpunk), having eleventy billion containers which just might be good to open (fuck you baldur3/divine divinity/Morrowind), or having an inventory system that makes you crave death every time you use it (same), or having an inventory system that makes you do endless, constant field checks to figure out which weapon or armor is best because you don’t have space for more than 3 things (sooo many games, but cyberpunk, deus ex, and borderlands get a big old fuck you from me).

But have you tried to use one as a daily? Concept is great, but I wanted to erase kinoite from the face of the planet about 4 hous in.

30%

Not the only platform

Glorified downloader with DRM

Microsoft prevented PC gaming from dying and moved the industry from “sometimes there are pc games” to “occasionally there is a platform exclusive other than Nintendo”. That was all Xbox. Valve did a much better job of sitting back and raking in 30% for their glorified downloader, but the games existed because of the compatibility efforts of Xbox.

Did you not know other people had jobs before their current?

Big old citation needed there.

Supports more hardware… But not gaming hardware… And not industrial hardware which is often windows only… But def more…

As the saying goes, you have to use arch or you have a small penis

Half life effect

It’s still…only fine. Lacks some magic. Worth playing, but I found myself regularly skipping through cutscenes a lot (or trying to, thanks unskippable cutscenes inventor) just cause I was not that interested or it was obvious.

Nintendo has patches now, they just also tie you to physical media for DRM and $$ extraction.

I’d agree they seem to have fewer patches, though.

This makes actual sense tho since it’s DRM free. Never understood the epic is evil but steam somehow is good. Both are DRM shills

But why? It’s just a downloader. It downloads.

“I love this DRM monopoly. It is my friend and it will never harm me ❤️”

Irrational steam fanboys are funny

This cave is not a natural formation

Hostile shotty in the field

Wololooooo, wololooooo

Man did I love clicking on 8000 book shelves in baldurs gate