Wormerine

Sorry, it’s late my English is off. You will miss out on origin content if you create custom character - I am not aware of any Tav specific content. [speculation] Picking an origin might push you into specific situation at times outside player control - specifically dark urge has been rumoured to occasionally take control away from the player. As we haven’t seen origins being played, we don’t really know how they evolved since d:OS2.

You won’t get the content and story tied to this origin (though you can see their story as companions). There is also Dark Urge, who is a customisable origin.

1) can I move my battlenet progress over to steam? 2) can you make me want to play Overwatch2 again?

Yes, almost every spell left surface at the start of EA. I think I have seen saving throws from fire arrows in recent Panel from Hell, so maybe they won’t be a guaranteed hit in 1.0. They have been completely wrecking concentration spells, together with guaranteed damage granades. It doesn’t seem like BG3 will support starting with custom party (though 4 instance multiplayer trick will likely still be a thing). There will be hirelings available through the camp ghull. I got an impression we will need to collect them but I am not 100% sure. I think hirelings are to some extend pre-made, but respec allows to not only reset levels but also change class of our hirelings, PC and companions.

So…. JA3 is good? So far the reception seems to be positive.

I am coming back regularly and trying to S rank it. Managed the lowest difficulty but got stuck on higher ones. There are two missions that I find frustratingly difficult to S - the biggest offender being the one where you fight V’s summons over and over again.

Depends when you played. The UI got major overhaul couple months ago (Here is my old feedback on it. Not shilling here, just the first thing that came to my mind to showcase it). In early days it was just a hotbar, which was a royal mess. Now we have proper drop down menus, but the game can be cumbersome. Unlike Solasta, I don’t think BG3 UI helps in understanding games mechanics, which I think could be a big problem for new players. And yes, a lot of things tend to take too many clicks to do - both in hotbar and party management. It is much more playable now than it was on launch - having to spend a minute or two managing a hotbar for every character has been a real pain. Now you can mostly play from the get go, and customise hotbar as you play.

To be fair, they do work hard to recreate Sven’s time with Ultima7 [harr, harr]

Noclip got their hands on some old tapes of game related media that were to be thrown out. They will be digitising and uploading stuff on a new dedicated channel. Probably worth keeping an eye on what they upload in case something interesting pops up. https://youtube.com/@NoclipArchive

As you should. If I remember correctly they count each a category of a spell as a separate thing (so chromatic orb is counted separately for each of its variants) Thanks, I am gonna watch later. Over at Larian’s forum community manager who got invited over mentioned some really promising things as well that weren’t highlighter in the PfH.

A weird bear sex scenes won’t bring down an otherwise great game - I don’t think BG3 is great though. Bear sex is just another weird thing that Larian seems so very proud of. I never claimed bear sex isn‘t precisely what one should expect from Larian - but I am also not sure why it is there to begin with. I don’t like many narrative aspects of BG3, and unfortunately after two solid PfH this is where Larian put their focus. As to other stuff you mentioned it’s all fine. They said they will do Player Handbook so Monk and Half-Orc/Dragonborn are bare (bear?) minimum I would expect. It seems they finally made proper UI for character creator, which is good, but again nothing to blow my socks off. Does the creator have very necessary class preview? So far it seems it does not. Of so than it is still very much the worst character creator I have seen in a while - with Solasta, Pathfinders and PoE2 fairing much much better. I have questions about implementation of some of the monk abilities, including why some of the reactions didn’t work during the stream when they should, and why they were able to use flurry of blows without using main attack first. Deflect missles seem to work occasionally - also deflecting missle didn’t seem to impact Larian’s homebrew AOE fire arrow. So you catch and throw back an arrow and yet it’s AOE effect still hits you. Like so many aspects of BG3 it seems half-implemented. In general my main takeaway from the showcase is that the game seems to be in dangerously buggy and unstable state considering it is releasIng in a couple weeks time. Tactician mode just looked awful. I still have hope for BG3 - I hope modding will be passionate enough to make something of it. But to be honest, I just expected to see something of higher quality with the game being so close to release, and Larian confidently moving release date forward by a month. Meantime they released a video praising how great their cinematics are, while in that very own showcase basic shot/reverse shot conversations aren’t properly blocked, with a game being about as buggy as ever. BG3 has so much potential, but it seems 1.0 will not be getting rid of “pre-alpha” feel of he early access. there are positives. Some deeper digging suggests we finally got a keychain, so not to pollute our inventory with endless pile of keys.I am sure there is more but Larian chose to focus on fluff instead. Perhaps not a bad game, but bad marketing at least for me.

Yes. They looked at a Druid and thought “could you have sex with it when it’s in bear form?” Truly, creativity worthy of one of those awful comic strips Facebook keeps pushing on me. I wonder if it is a result of me spending too much time on Larian’s forums… The Panel from Hell has drained any enthusiasm I have build up after months of not playing the game. My gripes with the title seem to be left predictably left untouched, and difficult mode seems to just crank to 11 Larian’s cheese mechanics. The last origin turned out to be just that, and the idea itself sounds actually quite interesting, but that leaves our party options really underwhelming. I assumed they were holding off on a real banger. They even created a whole we based mini game (blood in baldurs gate) just to build up to the last origin, that lacks the main component that makes origins interesting to me (aka. companions). At least choice and reactivity looks impressive even though it’s not quite my cup of tea. The choices are so extremely cruel and illogical that I can’t imagine even considering most of them - at least here they keep BioWare legacy alive.

If you thought “maybe DLSS will help Starfield not run like crap” worry not! Bethesda has partnered with AMD to ensure their games runs as poorly as it can for as many of people as possible. https://www.pcgamer.com/starfield-partners-with-amd-and-oh-boy-the-internet-is-not-happy/

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.

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.

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

Lol if they remade P:T in D4 engine, that would be worth asking price to me. I really wish BG1&2 would get Diablo2 style remaster

Finished Planet of Lana - I didn't care much for this one. It was very pretty, and I loved the asthetic callbacks to Another World, but it felt flat to me - it didn't flow for me very well, most puzzles felt more like padding, and the game wasn't able to pull off a cool setpiece without reverting to a QTA. Started Gears of War5 - probably won't finish it a long time, as I am heading away from my PC for the next months, and by the time it will be Baldur's Gate3 time, but it looks like a decent spinoff of a tactics game they did a while back.

Eh, push and broken stealth are bigger concerns for me. Abusing barrels takes active effort.

I suspect it's combination of multiple things - Starfield being a step up in ambition and size from Bethesda previous titles, it being a "return to RPG" after trend of streamlining, it being a game after Fallout 76 and many people hoping it will be glorious return to form, it being THE Xbox first party release and years and years of nothing making it important for them to land this one.

According to the devs they were holding back the PC release waiting for Console. As packed as end if August is, they decided to release PC early and PC5 will get a consolation price when Starfield releases

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3/ Baldur's Gate3 PC release got moved to the beginning of August, and reveal some solid info on what we will get at release.

FFVI is the only FF you need to play . People are fond of FFX - never managed to get into it.

DMC is amazing though - Relative lack of gameplay is what would worry me more. FF were always story heavy, but if the story is as dry as Skillup claims it might not be the greatest of times. I also doubt that FF16 combat has a depth of DMC. I am not terribly fond of jRPG combat, so I would be all for FF but with different combat system - it seems while they were at it they carved out more than just the combat.

Hmmm. FFXVI seems to be received pretty well, but most of the sources I trust don't seem particularly enamoured by the game: