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I'm not much better in that the last JRPG I finished was FF7, and Super Mario RPG before that. I asked a similar sort of question to this back when I bought my 3DS, got a few recommendations (for multiple consoles), but to be truthful none of them really stuck. Bravely Default I found tedious and the characters mostly unlikeable. Trails in the Sky lost me on the usual rat-slaying tutorial. Secret of Mana was an unpleasant grind. That said, I tried the Octopath demo on my sister's Switch a few months back and I admit it looked fairly promising. Feels like it got right exactly what Bravely Default got wrong, even though they have a superficially similar approach of saving up turns. That, plus the characters (so far) aren't insufferable and entitled little kids. (The full game isn't out until July)

I usually play a thief so it tends to be low-key, fairly minimalistic stuff. Not "Hey everyone, I'm a thief" stuff, but civilian kinda stuff. Like just about anyone, I still like to be pretty of course, but not so much about the hourglass shape. Besides, being a thief, I find all the bikini armour is heavy armour and I couldn't equip any of it even if I wanted to.

Reusing the Arcanum IP doesn't really add anything to any potential follow-up. I mean, if anything it might be a millstone, creating a sense of obligation to stick with its many many poorly designed elements. It's a game more suited to a spiritual successor that can be a bit more liberal with changing up the formula. Now it can often be worth recycling old IPs for the marketing benefit associated with name recognition, but I don't think Arcanum was ever popular enough to make it worth the drawbacks. Consider by way of contrast a hypothetical Baldur's Gate 3. The commercial upside would be absolutely huge, and far outweigh the annoyance of being obligated to go by D&D rules.

Can you even buy 1080p OLEDs anymore? Haven't seen them for a couple years now. All consumer OLED TVs use LG panels so the difference is in the electronics doing the image processing. In the end though, the image ends up fairly similar between all three of LG, Panasonic and Sony. Image retention is a physical phenomenon and as such will behave more or less identically between all three as a result, but this is not a typical concern as you pretty much have to intentionally abuse the TV for it to become a problem (i.e. running 100% brightness at all times, when a properly calibrated display should be about half that). Between the three, the Sony is more expensive because, y'know, Sony. So I've been weighing up the entry level Panasonic vs LG recently, and I note a few common traits: - The Panasonic is better calibrated out of the box, so if you don't plan to do calibration on your own, the Panasonic has the more accurate image. - LG supports Dolby Vision, Panasonic does not. The usefulness of this depends on what media you watch, of course. - Panasonic's Smart TV functionality is based on the discontinued Firefox OS and is fairly outdated compared to the functionality other brands offer. - Panasonic historically has better customer support in the event of any faults. - EDIT: Panasonic had a minor stutter issue, this has been corrected with a firmware fix as of February this year. Bear in mind too that new models typically release mid-year - indeed the new models have been announced - so there may be good opportunities to grab a good discount soon on last year's models. EDIT: To clarify, the models being discussed here are the Panasonic EZ950 and the LG B7 or C7 which are the current entry level models available to purchase, at least where I am.

Non-episodic too please.

Visit Europoort in multiplayer ETS2.

I'm finding myself going deeper and deeper into the ETS2 rabbit hole. I bought myself a Logitech G920 wheel and found the rather basic clamping system doesn't work at all with the bevelled and curved front edge of my desk. So a brief trip to the hardware store and a rummage around my garage later and I solved the issue by using a pair of F-clamps to extend my desk using a spare Ikea cabinet door I had lying around. It's a right hassle to install and uninstall, but that's the price of playing sims I guess.

Yeah, my numbers are based on a generic i5 or Ryzen 5 build with 16GB RAM and SATA SSDs. Just a general ballpark of what constitutes a good gaming system for the typical gamer these days. I've barely kept up with any specifics lately because I'm probably a fair few years away from needing to change anything myself.

Don't upgrade, that's a dead-end path especially since you're buying near-obsolete DDR3 RAM. You can get a much faster CPU and motherboard combo, be it Intel or AMD for about $250-300. With 16GB of DDR4 your system spend before SSD will be $400-450. Then buy *two* 1TB SSDs and you get to your $1000 budget. Your video card is still totally fine and still counts as high-end even today, don't touch it. Your existing Win7 licence probably won't activate automatically once you install it on this new PC, but a quick phone call to Microsoft and they'll do it for you, no cost involved. You might need to stretch the truth and say your old hardware broke if they ask.

It's a game I hear so much about but availability is surprisingly spotty for something so highly rated. On the Wii VC but not Wii U, and mysteriously absent on the underwhelming mini-SNES.

Wildly popular, extremely profitable, and immensely overrated? But the Half-Life series is already that. *ducks for cover*

It's dynamic pricing that changes from hour-to-hour but it appears to be in the region of 175-200k per month for US servers. Other regions are more expensive. Live pricing here I took a break from WoW back in May last year, ended up not bothering to come back because I'm playing other stuff most nights now, and with nights reserved that means no raiding, and no reason to play.

Oh wow, just noticed they killed off the gamefaqs.com domain.

As a relative latecomer to the genre, my strategy is based on Ultima 8: keep double-clicking until either you or the enemy falls over dead. Some 25 years later and I've largely come full circle, screw tactics, I just want to get the combat over with and do more interesting things. In the intervening period I've held a number of different opinions on what good RPG combat should look like, but like my fashion choices, they all turned out to be but passing fads.

Neal Hallford tried a survey/petition thing some years ago to gauge interest in a successor. It fell way short, probably due to lack of publicity, so the KS never happened. Doesn't help that his book KS also fell short so he's probably a bit gun-shy at this point. https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/make-a-spiritual-sequel-to-the-hit-crpg-betrayal/

Well, in the meantime I have a T-shirt I can wear I guess. :|

This is where you buy a Nintendo Switch and surreptitiously play PoE2 on it at work.

I came into it late - and indeed into PC gaming fairly late since we only had a 286 with EGA graphics until around '94 or '95. Got a DX4/100 at that point, and a Creative bundle containing a Sound Blaster 16, double-speed CD-ROM drive and a over a dozen games. That bundle changed my life. SimCity 2000 Rebel Assault Return to Zork Iron Helix Ultima 8 Wing Commander 2 Syndicate Plus Strike Commander Railroad Tycoon Civilization Silent Service 2 F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 I might even be forgetting some titles there.

Hey, SO2 lets you blow up space stations *with nuclear missiles*.

I've run multiple displays for some years now, but it figures that it takes a game like ETS2 to make me try using them for Eyefinity gaming for the first time ever. The experience doesn't necessarily translate into screenshots, however, which indeed look peculiarly Escheresque. (Click for larger but still shrunk version)

You can totally use a keyboard with all modern consoles. If a specific game doesn't support it, then that's on the developer of that game (or whichever company they used to handle the porting) because the infrastructure support is there.

Hopefully when I get my Switch (waiting for a good price) I'll use it more than my toaster. I don't think I've even used my toaster for 3-4 years now at least (nor have I bought a loaf of bread in that time).

I want to install Promods, which is like, *the* mod for ETS2. But to do that I need the France expansion. And that's full price from everywhere at the moment, despite the Italy expansion having just been released. So either I have to roll back my patch version to install an older version of the mod, or I have to buy a full price title, unheard of in this day and age. It's like Skyrim mods requiring Dawnguard all over again.

A quick Google shows that a NWN EE patch about a month ago broke the sound for some people. Dunno if it's been resolved yet but it may well be it's just a game bug that you're encountering.

Playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 for the first time since (according to the timestamp on my saves) 2013. I bought the Scandinavia expansion years ago but this is my first time playing with it. First thing to note is that Sweden, your road signs are ugly. Second thing is that my former top-of-the-line truck is now apparently obsolete. God, it's just like the WoW gear grind.