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I hardly recognise Witchers as RPGs, but W3 is definitely one of the better open-world "action adventures" I played. It's been a long time. I remember Heart of Stone having some difficulty spikes but can't remember much about BoW gameplaywise.

Heavy relience on GPS is an unfortunate design yes. I think we bumped heads regarding Witcher2 aka. ambitious reactivity done badly, so I won't repeat myself. That said all three Witcher games are so closely together in my personal rating that I don't feel too strongly about the order, though I did enjoy Witcher2 the least. I did adore Witcher3, but I wonder how much I will like it on 2nd playthrough (which is coming once Next Gen update drops). I wonder if filler content will annoy me more.

huh... May I ask what takes up so much of your time? From what I understood the storyline was to be much shorter then W3, and I thought there wasn't much to do outside the missions.

I suppose I just do not find them interesting. Once done once, I feel no need to do them again. They have minimal gameplay, and offer little or no reward. As I said, without doing much I have over 1000k at all times. Camp got fully upgrated within first or second camp, and weapons are few, they are cheap, and honestly all feel the same to use so outside. Also have an elite horse, that everyone complements me on (and don't feel much improvement from my good, old Whiskey). I am not familiar with typical Rockstar games - I am just disappointed how little there is to it as their games are hailed as "sandbox" - it's just a lot of pretty window dressing. EDIT: Googled Zero Punctuation as I was curious what Yahtzee thought. 100% on point as usual. Also slaps me on the wrist for still not playing Obra Dim. Why didn't I play it yet? It's made by a guy whose previous game I adored, all reviewers I follow loved it, and I had a strong recommendation from a trusty colleague. I am the problem.

There are multiple way to fast travel though (one that can be easily accessed by setting up the camp), and the latter two (together with cleaning weapons) are flavours mechanics one doesn't need to worry about too often. So far I thought that RDR2 hadled it the disconnect better then most games, but it is definitely there. Openworld is a meny through which you access main story mission, rather then story mission taking place in the open world so to speak. As to the reason why story mission are so limited I think the explenation is simpler - game system and gameplaywise RDR2 has nothing going for it. It has very rudimentary movement, riding, stealth, shooting mechanics. They have lavish animation and sound effect, but gameplay wise it's very basic stuff. That's is all. What can you do, if there is so little to explore?

I know that happens over and over again. I feel that if they would use a cutscene for travel it would be more effecting in hiding how close everything is together. It took me a while but I finally got into RDR2 - have been doing a decent progress though according to the game I am only about 60% done (don't know if it counts side content or just main story). I didnt' play much Rockstar games, but I am somewhat surprised how little there is to do outside main stories and occasional side missions - like there are some side activities like hunting, fishing, gambling or robberies, but there is little reason to do those outside "roleplaying". For all the talk about how much we need money I am constantly running with over $1k with nothing to spend it on, and other rewards seem purely cosmetic and not to my liking. It is also disappointing how strict missions are - they really discourage engaging with content beyond following instructions and map markers. Writing is decent, and the game looks and sounds georgious. It's a nice way of spending an afternoon in a rainy day.

My fav thing about Armageddon:

I think I start to understand why you like BG3 and why I don't.

Microsoft set a date for 2022’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase - June 12th. Surely, it is about time to give us an update on Avowed?

I enjoyed in on both my playthroughs but what you mentioned plus major quests generally having preferable option C keep it in my "meh" category. Playing Solasta's DLC. It might be made on modest budget, but Tactical Adventures invests in all things that matter: https://imgur.com/hAgnK2W

The first thing I did was move it to the left. I do miss tiles from Windows 10 (I had everything nicely organised) but "pinned" is enough for my every day needs (which is calculator, microsoft office, steam and gog).

Finally, as lengthy development of Phoenix Point is nearing its end, the official modding support has been announced. It might be a bit too late, but PP still has a small, dedicated fanbase. I hope it will be robust enough to acommodate some neat mods. https://phoenixpoint.info/blog/2022/4/19/azathoth-update-mod-support-this-summer

Ah, makes sense. Which dungeons are you refering to? For me "legacy dungeons" (so Stormveil Castle, Raya Lucaria Academy, Volcano Manor) has been easily most interesting parts of the game. Open world stuff and smaller dungeons got a bit stale by now. Then again I am DS junkie :-).

Hmmm I am closer to lvl 90 so that's not that . Yeah, I am just getting out of getting one shotted by everything, as I failed to upgrade my secondary stats like health or stamina. After Radahn I got distracted by new underground dungeon that turnout bigger then expected, so I didn't explore much further past the abandoned magical city full of invisible spellcasters (don't rememebr how it was called). Are you veteran DS player? So far, outside of bosses (and those spider-graft thingies) I didn't find Elder Ring to be very challenging. Well, there is occasional DS2 level of bull**** - the last one I remember was trio of crystal enemies as a final dungeon encounter... that took couple tries and a lot of running around waiting for an opening.

I finished char1 story in Weird West and am Pigman now. I am slowely swinging toward SkillUp spectrum on Weird West. I have been playing it less and less. It has traditional Arcane problems that fun stuff tends to be too tedious or unreliable to use, and easiest way to play is also a boring one. So far Pigman didn't change things much, though I try using close range weapons to vary things up (all that means for now that I die a lot, where's it was a rarity with bounty hunter). WW made me go back to Red Dead Redeption2, and that's mostly what I have been playing for the last week. I really got into it now, I think. I did some story mission, but mostly focused on exploring and crafting - most of my time with the game was hunting, and it was most fun I had in RDR2. "Immersion" is the reason, as vague as this descriptor always sounds to me. Digital sun drentched prairie has been a blessing with weather being so crap outside for the last couple weeks over here. As I am in the bit of the story where we are "hiding in the plain sight" I decided to make Arthur look a bit more like a civilized citizen. I dig that look - will be sad to go back to wild Arthur. He seems to me a more sinister character with this look - like a manupulative sociopath when he turnes to crimey things. Rather then being his default brutal, but honest thug.

Ah, didn't get there yet. What level are you? I felt like I might have deviated from intended order - did Valcona Manor first, at looking at Smithing Stones I am getting in Caelid it seems like it was intended for lower level. I have been hearing how tough Radahn is, and my dual katanas melt him rather quickly.

Are we talking Elden Ring? Big crow things? I didn't find them difficult - they are mostly just overgrown hawks. Dodge their stump attack and slash back.

That's not bad. After playing 10 hours of an Elder Scrolls I am usually at the point where I will start deep cleaning my place so I don't have to play any more of it.

Does it? Some say "aren't used in Crown of the Magister, but are used in Lost Valley".

It doesn’t matter too much. Just different intro and more talking during the missions.

Once they started to expand the story I started to enjoy the game less - it shipped from realizing a grim, corporate, exploitative reality, to being over the top riddiculous.

Best D&D 5e based RPG on the market gets new DLC in about an hour - a new campaign, Lost Valley allegedly priced, at $12.99/£10.99.

I installed "Tunic" through gamepass - your ususal indie Zelda "inspired" with a touch of DarkSouls top down action metroidvania thingy. First impressions didn't thrill me - combat is just servicable, and game offers little direction (sort of - on that later). I got really annoyed when I read a sign, only to be greeted with made up alphabet. That made up alphabet also greets you in inventory, item descriptions etc. Pretencious right? Well, actually not. The guadance and tutorialization of that game is pretty unique - you can find individual manual pages in the world (like actual old-school manual). Those will include map areas (sometimes with what looks like penciled in notes), objective lists, and explanation of controls and individual mechanics, story summary. Those are also mostly written in made up gibbrish with occasional english words - plus hefty amount of pretty illustrations and button promts. I suspect that devs played original Zelda in Japanese and wanted to translate the experience of figuring things out through limited information. It really works. Everyonce I find myself stumped, only to study manual pages I found for a bit, only to figure out a new mechanic, or path I didn't notice before.

That's simple to answer I think. Avowed have been revealed very early so Microsoft can tease all the great things that are to come in upcoming years. Afterall, they have been buying a lot, but not much came out so far - aside from some titles that hasn't been fully made under Microsoft. Hopefully we will get some details soon.