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If it would cost me actual money I'd obviously wait, but there's no reason to do so for anyone who has Game Pass. I suppose the only concern then is whether there are any modding restrictions on the Game Pass version of the game, like how their version of Skyrim doesn't support SKSE.

Having the posters read anything but just "Star Wars" doesn't look right. 😛

Gedonia. Joined the Mage Academy, where using dark magic is punishable by death, never mind the four skeletons that follow me everywhere. Also, finally built my house, complete with my own bar. As for the main plot, I'll let Wyanna says what she thinks about it (I'm not joking, this is her reaction to the next step): To be fair, the game was developed by a single person and the result is pretty good. Nice of him to make this joke though.

Solasta's version of turn-based 5th ed D&D seemed to work well, in my opinion. Hoping BG3 is similar.

I can play TB with no problem, but I prefer RTwP. When I tried TB in Deadfire, even the first battle looked like it took ages and I decided never to select that option again.

Fixed that for you.

Chilloutman and I need two lancemates for MechWarrior. You'd have to manage just one single mech

Nope, all of them are just regular downloads, same as if you bought them from the Microsoft Store. Early on, the games were generally provided as UWP apps, which were closed-off to modding but were nonetheless still full local downloads. However these days they're generally just standard Win32 apps and in most cases can be modded in the standard way. Bethesda games on Game Pass can be modded with any mod that does not have a dependency on the Script Extender. Cloud gaming is technically a separate service they provide, but is effectively just an inclusion if you subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate. I've been subbed to Game Pass for years but have yet to try anything on xCloud.

And I was able to defeat last of the 4 big Spirits who came with light from Lenegis in Tales of Arise! The Sylph was the hardest of them all, and I have spent loads of items to stay alive. The reward was my 20th artifact, and the trademark Hot Spring Event 😆.

Ukraine didn't sign onto the CCM, so no big deal in that regard. Stupid HRW, don't they know the way the rule based order works.

It's like we're twins here. I'm in exactly the same situation. The game I want to play, in terms of their genre, I can't stand their TB combat; the games that have a combat system I would enjoy are games I'm not too interested in playing, genre-wise. Yes, this^. I've been able to stomach TB in Solasta, for example, but Larian's approach (to many aspects of RPG design) really, really grate on my nerves.

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BBC is airing the possibility that Wagner is moving 8000 troops to Belarus. Possibly near the Polish border. A case of plausible deniability if they move over the border and help Polish "Freedom Fighters" take the fight to the Nazi government in Warsaw? Lukashenko on the other hand claims Prigozhin is back in Russia. Not that I trust either (BBC emphasizing it's unconfirmed) and Lukashenko I wouldn't trust further than the distance could be pushed out of a third floor window... Neither is likely yet both could be true if Lukashenko "appropriated" Wagner and sent Prigozhin to Moscow as a birthday present to Putin.

I generally prefer RTwP to TB and TB to the weird thing in Final Fantasy VII/7 (probably 7, the one with "select the menu option while on timer because hotkeys are hard"). My issue with D:OS was that the animations were unskippable (in WotR it was possible to triple the speed and, as painful as that one battle was, at least it was faster) and that only the combat area was entering the TB mode, so everyone else could randomly wander into it. In terms of encounter design, often something was appearing out of nowhere (e.g. the second wave of slimes in the oil pits) and there was no way to prepare except for the meta knowledge. Then all surfaces were lava (sometimes literally) and just finding a safe spot to stand was a problem. Though, I think, Larian has lowered the number of environmental hazards in their D&D game. Going to play it at some point, but likely in co-op. On a related note, Wasteland 3 had this amazing feature of switching between the players in dialogues (providing that the other player was in range) with 1 button. I strongly doubt that Larian will add it, so triggering dialogues with the rogue/fighter then reloading and putting the bard in front is going to be a thing. Elden Ring. Defeated a dog/cat statue boss, then went to another dungeon and died to 2 dog/cat statue bosses, then went to the main story castle and died to some guy with magic hammer. Then defeated a skeleton boss with a boat and ran away from a dragon boss. The two positive things I can say so far are there is a horned horse called Torrent and Torrent can double jump. Considering just modding the game and running the critical path. Overall, the open-world in Dragon's Dogma and Shattered: The Forgotten Subtitle was more enjoyable and engaging. They also were smaller and the PCs were less flinch-y.

Yes Wormie I understand but why you overlooking the most important and influential 3rd party evaluation that the Internet has confirmed, through numerous metrics, has the most credibility and influence ? Didnt you know the " BruceVC this game is going to be excellent " analysis has been made several times. Its science and we all respect science and believe in science

More Tales of Arise post game. Defeated “Night Blossom of Nevira” and Ultimate Zeugle super bosses. Built “ultimate” accessories for most of the party and cleared little bit of Training Grounds. I am missing last Super Boss (the wind spirit) and then I will unlock some new quests and grinding to max level 😩 We’ll see how “enjoyable” it will be in this game.

As everyone has thrown their 2 cents I suppose I will add mine. Production wise it is an excellent turn based combat - they did a lot of work to make animations snappy, turns flexible, and the whole thing feels pretty good to play. They pace their game around turn based - so it’s not as boring as Turn Based Pathfinder or PoE2. As usually with Larian I have some misgivings about individual rules, and some major concerns about a feature or two. Still, hope for the best and reserve my full judgement until 1.0. As far as 5e goes, I can’t see it not being turn-based - they would need to make up a completely new system. And I am also in the camp who think that D&D RTwP combat is pretty crap - it combines worst part of the both systems. So either created system E signed with RTwP in mind (PoE1&2) or make turn-based system a turn-based one. But I also really like turn-based games, so that’s definitely one change in BG3 I don’t mind.

There is TB and than there is Larian's TB. I don't mind TB combat, but I really dislike his approach to it.

I on other hand welcome TB over real time. I enjoy it a lot if its there is not 10000 filler battles

And very clunky TB combat at that, in my opinion (from what I've seen in streams). And there's zero chance of anything changing in this regard in BG3. TB combat just really sucks. In WotR that one battle that you are forced to fight TB is easily the most annoying and frustrating part of that game for me.

Thanks! Yeah, my question was poorly phrased; what I meant to ask was whether turn-based mode was the only option for combat. I was pretty certain of the answer, but I'm still a bit disappointed. I would've liked to play the game, but there's no way I'm going for anything exclusively turn-based.

[Put and Insane commander paper mask] Exploration is in real time, but combat is turned based.

I guess I'll start reading your links

I think it would be more accurate to say it's Gamebryo with 20 years worth of Bethesda bugs progressively added to it.

I think Bethesda has given up on truly trying to address any problems. They know that the average console gamer doesn't care enough about details to notice that things are wrong, and among the PC gamer community anyone who does (or thinks they do) is going to download mods anyway. Why care about getting the most out of your graphics when the players that will complain are already planning to install Bodyslide, Caliente or turn all models into furries.

Todd Howard is who I would want to represent humanity when the Aliens show up

You guys obviously do a lot of research on your games, given how detailed and plausible your worlds are so that even little things stick in memory, like rings considered to be tacky to use as jewelry in Tyranny or yacht's name in Alpha Protocol being a reference to cult soviet cartoon, and it's clearly more than "lets google this sh†t", so here's my question - how do you do your research?

And you can get them all with a 60% discount for a low, low price of 101.49 euro! It's like Sims!

Once again we had 2 full weeks of fireworks leading up to the 4th and fireworks every day since. It wouldn't be so bad if they stopped at a decent hour but they go until early in the AM. Keeps my son up, scares my dogs, and occasionally makes my PTSD flare up.

crazycakes is 99% good enough to disarm traps and open locks. few wotr traps is genuine lethal regardless. is also maybe a couple chests where your main character will be solo, thus the 99%. if you are genuine concerned, put one point in traps and with skill and dex boosts you should be able to overcome those exceeding rare obstacles. however, spotting traps and hidden stuff is the other aspect o' the thief skills. perception is also a useful dialogue skill. ideally your main character should have high perception, but most perception checks is gonna be overcome by your party. wotr offers multiple party npcs who may achieve high perception, but if you got them positioned at the rear o' your party, they may be poor situated to spot traps before your vanguard stumbles across 'em. regardless, we would say if you are willing to suffer camellia for the entire game, she should be satisfactory at handling "rogue stuff." HA! Good Fun!

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If I had more disposable income I'd buy a lot of fireworks to setoff over the rest of the week in retaliation for being kept up all damn night before I have to go into work. Call me crazy, but it makes more sense to set off fireworks on July 3rd or the midnight of the 4th like you would for New Years. Let me enjoy a day off instead of waking up exhausted for work. Somewhat relevant, but my phone's has started giving me a moisture alarm whenever it's plugged into my vehicle. Tested with different cables and another phone to make sure, unfortunately the issue is definitely with the phone itself. So any firework money gets to go to a new phone instead of petty revenge against neighbors. Oh well.

At this moment Bethesda has no credibility with me. I honestly don’t care about reading what they say, as I won’t believe what they say. I will need a neutral 3rd party evaluation to take any promises about Starfield seriously.

If Netflix ever makes a JoJo adaptation, this one will look fantastic. This one, right?

Yeah, as I said, we're on the "losing side" and TB seems to be the way forward for games like this. It's yet another example of how the selection of games I'm playing continues to dwindle until there's essentially nothing left -- and indeed, in the past five years I have acquired less than five games. It may well be that in the next ten, I won't acquire any at all.

I fully agree. It's awful. If I want to play (any derivative of) chess, I'll just do that, I don't want any of it in my cRPGs. But apparently we're both on the "losing side" when it comes to real-time vs. turn-based approach in games like these. Nothing we can do about it, I suppose.

depends on your chosen stimulant/depressant: alcohol: cayden cailean psychedelics: desna coke: gorum meth: lamashtu weed: gozreh caffeine-- to stay awake in anticipation o' fighting undead during the hour of the wolf: pharasma all of the above: rovagug HA! Good Fun! ps elf + coke and psychedelics: calistria