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Point and click horror up for grabs on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_whispering_valley

I've been continuing on with my very first BG3 playthrough and am now, finally after months!, almost at the end, about to head out to the final confrontation. And, nothing has changed in my view of the game. As I've said before, the game is fantastic on such things as graphics, cinematics, and cut scenes, the game is very big, and its main story is quite epic and compelling (though with some questionable areas). But in so many other ways, ways that are much more important to a CRPG, it is a weak game. Most of the companions were not at all likeable, with the mild exceptions only of Karlach and, surprisingly, Minthara. The rest were all whiney, angst-ridden prima donnas. I especially hated what they had done to both Jaheira and Minsc, and was utterly appalled by the "new canon" for Viconia. The side quests were meh, and a lot of the areas in Act II were a slog. Despite the claim that combat encounters were/would be fewer in number and more interesting, I found the number of encounters to be no less/different than in any other RTwP RPG and, as I'd expected for TB combat, very frustrating and aggravating and boring. Thankfully, due to mods allowing me to go with larger parties, I was able to breeze through virtually every combat encounter within 2-3 rounds. Not being able to "pause" the game during real-time exploration was a huge pain, especially when trying to be stealthy (and being forced to go into TB mode), as was how party movement is set up, with, for example, party members walking through traps and mines they themselves just announced having discovered. And the UIs were atrocious across the board. The quick access bar was surely the worst, but other UIs were pretty bad/non-intuitive as well, including inventory management. This is not by any means an exhaustive list of the ways the game falls short, but covers some of the biggest failings in my personal opinion. My rating of the game would be a C+ (77/100).

Fake news. In reality, Caine would just point to the ballroom and ask how big it is.

Just backed it.

Here is a Demo Video of the mod in action for anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn_OwYzoSZ4

The entire Yellowstone series is one of my favorite series of all times I watched 3 episodes of Marshalls and stopped, its not the same writers or creatives and its bland and boring But you must watch 1883 and 1923 if you haven't watched them. They prequels to Yellowstone and they excellent, on par with Yellowstone

I've gone beyond that, the mere sight of a laptop triggers a traumatic response.

Watched the first episode of Marshals and didn't even finish it. Looks like generic pew pew action slop.

I've signed on to a months free Gemini ai and asked it to remind me to cancel the day before I'm charged. We'll see where it's loyalties lie.

What Ai would you use to read a EULA, or all the fine print you never read when you sign up for a gym membership or similar. I'm thinking one on your phone with text recognition would be very useful. Unless it's to read the EULA on your phone I suppose.

Going to give Neo Cab a spin, although I suspect this was a waste of money. Replayed Consortium, have not changed my previous opinion that it's a game with good bones that a better developer should have taken

Crimson Desert - ---my camp finally has a barber. You cannot change Kliff's face, so I tried trimming his beard a bit and cutting/coloring his hair. But then I missed his glorious, dark, wind swept locks and reverted to original hair. I kept the more tidy beard. ---I climbed a snow peak, because a giant tower was on the top and was curious. Was almost to the top when a cutscene suddenly swept me away into a tower locked boss fight with a flying wizard. Killed me a couple times with nasty air attacks. So I countered with my magic swirly repel+attack to dmg. and knocked him down on his butt a few times to wail on him and win. guess I'm OP now. then the area teleported me to an Abyss/puzzle (sky) location. Said "nah" and went back to the ground. ---I climbed another snowy peak in the middle of nowhere. Looked down upon a big square courtyard type building surrounded with lava rivers. Thought to myself "bet that's a story boss location" and left without bothering to go down and look. ---saw a woman in a tent mumbling about the cold. Could have run past, but started a fire for her. She thanked me then teleported away, asking me to visit. eg, I found my 3rd Witch. That was a pretty out of the way location. Wonder where the 4th will be. --found a couple caves full of gold ore to mine and some treasures (that I don't need, but hey, it's treasure). Game is definitely its best when random exploring. Unfortunate that MQ gates so many quests and even npc's etc. But yet, I think if you rush MQ toooo fast, you might lock yourself out of certain things/small quests without realizing. So game still has poor management? telegraphing? information? lack of dev foresight? in that fashion.

Recently I got hooked on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim again, it's really addictive with its atmosphere. I constantly catch myself just walking around the world and exploring, instead of going through the story. Now I'm stuck at one point and I'm not sure if I'm going through the quest correctly. It seems like I missed something or did something wrong. Does anyone remember how to complete the quest with the Dark Brotherhood correctly to get the best reward?

Bunch a guys riding giant iguanas or something attacked me for no reason. So I killed half of them, then stole one of their rides and killed the other half. The little beasties even had a purple spit ranged attack. That was pretty fun. Alas, couldn't perm keep the ride, as usual. Why do the enemies have all the hotrods. Mundane sights you sometimes see while randomly roaming. Mundane, but nifty enough to admire for a few moments, before shooting them full of arrows because I need their antlers. :P