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Since I backed Bard's Tale 4 on Kickstarter I got remastered versions of the original games (lhough 2 and 3 are coming at a later date) in the package. Yesterday I downloaded it not thinking much about it. I mean, I loved those games back in the day but that was before the 3D revolution. I didn't have high hopes. Spent probably an hour just rerolling characters. I had forgotten how much I enjoy the stupidity of rerolling the perfect char through sheer stubbornness. Then I went into Skara Brae and died a bazillion times before I even got to level 2. Apparently I had forgotten how much more difficult games were back then (even though the Bard's Tale games were notoriously difficult even for the times). Long story short, I'm currently level 9 and spent half the night on the first level of the Skara Brae sewers..

You're probably joking, but I actually tried replaying it a few years ago and it was surprisingly playable still. It ended up being on the right side of the WASD+mouselook-controls revolution. Games released the same year or slightly before that still had those horrible control-the-camera-with-your-keyboard controls. Those are impossible to play today, for me (I'm looking at you, Underworld-series). I know the resolution is locked to something like 640x480 but that was strangely enough easy to get used to, even if my eyeballs bled a little for the first few hours.

Just another example of how thorough TooLeetForYou is with his opinion. Check out why they actually did it: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-08-11-pete-hines-defends-bethesdas-legal-threat-on-amazon-marketplace-game-seller Spoiler: guy tried to sell a game he bought as "New". But there's no way for anyone to confirm that the game is actually new (which means it still has all the digital codes etc. intact) so Bethesda wants him to sell it as "pre-owned". That's it. It's that simple.

So.. I recently helped a friend who is kind of new to PC gaming to install Fallout 3 Steam Edition on his Windows 10 machine (not entirely straight-forward because the game demands Windows Live or something and that doesn't exist anymore). After getting it to run I got a weird urge to play it myself so I bought the Fallout 3 GOTY package from GoG and it just worked out of the box. Yay GoG. Anyhow.. to my amazement Fallout 3 is a much better game than I remembered! Sure, the start as a baby, Three Dog, the subways and the Intelligence dialogue options still grate, but.. since I already know about those flaws it is much easier to look past them and enjoy the actual game. And it's good. I'm having a blast. I've also forgotten a surprising amount of stuff. I usually remember games for the rest of my life which makes replayability crap. But Fallout 3 has somehow been wiped from memory. I still think New Vegas is the better game, but now I feel that Fallout 3 has gotten an undeservedly bad reputation. 30 hours in and still only level 14. Deathclaws still kick my butt.

It¨s rough but I loved it. Just.. don't do everything the game offers or it will be a grind. Just concentrate on the fun parts.

It's an underrated gem. Really though? No-one on this forum has ever said anything bad about this game (except that whiner on this forum who has never said anything positive about anything ever) and it has a metacritic score of 80+. I think it's actually overrated on these forums. I bought it because of all the hype on here and I'm underwhelmed. For some reason the entire game feels like one endless scripted event from. You walk from level to level, ever sucking up resources, ever shooting/fighting the same three or four black blob enemy types. Every once in a while the game lets you get more of those level up thingies and you get ever so slightly more powerful. Then it's on to the next level with slightly more powerful enemies (still the same blobs but now in different colours) or the exact same level you just left, but now respawned with those colourful blobs. There are (almost) no riddles to solve, no clues to find, no puzzles to get stuck on. Just a looong repetitive trek around the spaceship (that might as well have been a hotel.. or Bioshock city.. or any typical gamey indoors environment). The few puzzles there are are so signposted that they don't feel like challenges, just another way for the developer to try to show how clever they are (they aren't). I'll still complete it, I think, but I don't understand the hype.

I'm lucky; today's game trends seems to coincide with my own tastes. I like open worlds and first person view. I've noticed that genre takes a backstep to those two criteria so I have a lot to look forward to. I play everything from Ghost Recon: Wildlands to The Division to Elex to Skyrim/Fallout 4 to Dying Light to anything with those two criteria basically. They allow me to have fun in any game it seems. So.. Next GTA Red Dead Redemption 2 Anthem (probably..) Dying Light 2 Cyberpunk 2077 Assassin's Creed Odyssey Next Elder Scrolls Next Fallout Starfield Star Citizen ..and so on Good times ahead!

It's an entry level computer that will do well at 1080p. You will soon run out of space on that tiny SSD though so you might as well buy an X TB secondary drive at the same time. Other than that it looks good for that price. Oh, and this post should have been in the junkyard.

I bought Prey. Started in an apartment with a jammed glass door to the balcony. Spent a few minutes trying everything I could to break the glass to get outside to no avail. A few minutes later my only option to further the plot is to.. break the glass and exit through the window. Great start..

So many funny stories about Ovi's celebration. Russians really do know how to drink..

Uh.. did you miss Fallout: New Vegas? Because if you did.. boy, do you have something to look forward to!

I wonder if there will be driving in the Cyberpunk game? I mean, we had that horse in Witcher 3..

I'm always on the hunt for open worlds to explore at my own pace, from Test Drive Unlimited to Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Genre doesn't matter much (except strategy, I don't play those).

Wasteland, Gothic (all of them!), Deus Ex and Fallout: New Vegas are the RPG's I can play over and over without seemingly ever tire of. 1. Wasteland: open world, skills that increase by usage, contemporary weapons.. all in 1988. Talk about ahead of its time. 2. Gothic: open world, ruthless difficulty, brilliant world design, exploration beyond belief. 3. Deus Ex/Fallout: New Vegas (I can't choose between them, sue me): Deus Ex had that player skills/modifiable weapons mix that I love. Not open world, everything else was perfect. Fallout: New Vegas has an abundance of everything, skills, quests, dialogue, you name it. Weak open world design, but it was their first try.

I tried playing Breath of the Wild, but.. I'm a huge fan of open world games (I even buy games only because they're open world, like Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3) and I've played a lot of them over the years. I've also enjoyed some of the Zelda games before. But I could not get into Breath of the Wild. All the reviews have been absolutely raving about how good it is and how Nintendo is teaching everyone else how to build open worlds. In my opinion, Nintendo made almost every mistake a newcomer to world building could make: indistinct areas, instantly respawning enemies, finite vital resources, resetting world states, lots and lots of filler content instead of 'real' content, annoyingly impassable areas that you need to traverse over and over, the list goes on. Hell, I wouldn't even be surprised to see Oblivion-like level scaling in there (I never got that far before giving up). The biggest problem for me though was the story. Or the lack of it. There was absolutely nothing there to keep me going. There was no goal, no aim, no interesting things in the distance. Just dullness. I think I played for 8-10 hours before I gave up. Oh, and the last game I bought was.. 1nsane on GOG. I wanted Singularity too, but $30 for an eight year old game? Uh.. keep it.

Since I like lists.. here's another one. https://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/834-best-rpgs-of-all-time-community-picks.html I'm only posting it here because they (like me) consider Stalker to be an RPG. Take that, non-believers! Edit: This was supposed to be in the news thread, but it ended up here and I'm too lazy to move it.

Meet my partner Lydia: Yes, hmm.. maybe I was a little harsh earlier, maybe Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 is worth 6/10 after all.

Exactly my kind of game!

Still think Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is very pretty..

OK, so I have been playing Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 for a while now and the first few hours seemed very good, bordering on great, and I kept wondering to myself why this game got such middling review scores. After a few hours of playing I understood it completely. The world is great, the presentation top notch, the fire fights and sniping are naturally quite good (although enemies spawn in when you get close to the levels they are in and not when you can reach then through your binoculars, which irks me a little) and even the quests/writing seems OK (more the quests than the dialogue actually..). So what's the problem? This game plays a lot like Stalker. You have your world, things happen and you shoot yourself out of situations. But in Stalker you feel progression. It's an absolute blast to find a new weapon (even more so if it's modded or unique) and feel yourself become more accurate, more deadly and more powerful. In Sniper I find a new weapon and.. nothing. I get the same results whether I'm using the starting weapon or the fourth sniper rifle I've bought from the list in my home base. I bought a light armor. No difference (maybe one more bullet before I died?). I invested in some skills (Sniper has very light skill trees). Great, now I have an extra slot of health (one more bullet before I die again?). This game has really put into light how absolutely freaking awesome the Stalker series is, and how difficult it must be to balance such a thing to both make it challenging for the player AND give the player that feeling of progression and getting better. Sniper fails completely in this regard. In fact, even though the rest of the game is good/great, I fear continuing knowing that the actual gameplay will never really change. I will not shoot farther, I will not aim better, I will not change my playstyle the further I go. I will do exactly the same thing from beginning to end in this game. Maybe I'm still too early in to have a valid opinion (around 20-25% completed), but right now it's hovering on 5/10 or some such.

I recently bought Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 for some reason. I wasn't expecting much, but so far I'm pleasantly surprised. After a slightly awkward introduction you're let loose in a big open world. An open world where you're equipped with a sniper rifle... The deer population will never be the same. I also think it looks very nice. Much better than I was expecting. The attention to detail is top notch and the interactivity is also quite good (although I have hit the edge of a canvas that stopped my sniper rifle bullet dead in its tracks once). I've only played for two hours yet, but so far so good.

Apparently Pillars 2 is quite good: https://wccftech.com/review/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire/

Finished Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. It's such a great game, only way it could have been better is if it had been fully open world and had a lot more equipment to choose from. Also longer.

Since I have 400+ games in my Steam library it's easier to filter the currently installed games. I'm playing like.. two of those.

They were and I loved all three of them (and even the fourth on PS2). But since we have viable 3D graphics now I was hoping for updated game mechanics, like Bethesda did with Fallout. I played those games despite having crappy 3D and movement, not because of it.