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I have been under the weather, stuck on the sofa. So I finally felt lousy enough to waste time and watch The Watch. That show is a dumpster fire. The most amazing thing is, the people responsible for it were so delusional, they even wrote in the hooks for a second season.

So, should we schedule you for next month?

But only about a month behind me playing it, so you are good, carants. Just be careful that you do Old Countries in a New World before Mystery if the Ancient Ruins. Anything else in the game you can progress and leave as you wish (the few times things are timed it will tell you). But if you progress those specific quests in a mix, you can get the game breaking bug I got.

Hmm, Disco Elysium is today's free game on Epic. Maybe it is time to see what everybody was so excited about.

Though do we know who owns the rights to the IP after Troika went under?

With the trends, it is Arcanum II - an online multiplayer survival crafting souls-like.

I find it interesting that Bloodlines 2 has not gotten a heavy discount. The reception seemed worse than the Midnight Suns debacle, and that got hit with heavy discounts sooner. But the heaviest on that came after the holiday season, so it may still happen if it seriously underperforms with the -20%. I am watching just with academic interest at this point.

They started a few days ago with Hogwarts Legacy, which came as a bit of a surprise.

I always thought of trash mobs those that are defeated with ease, and who's only role is to have you do stuff, without ever standing a chance of putting up a fight. Such as the cultists in Chaos Gate who die the moment a space marine as much as points a bolter in their general direction.

I like this conversation. A number of people who dislike things I dislike, dislike things about BG3 I would be bound to dislike, were I to play it. So I guess I can skip it.

In 20 years when they are towards the end of milking DLC for it, and a lot of it will be discounted, I may look into getting this.

Hmm, I joined the imperials because I don't like the Thalmor.

We could have told you that for free. Remember what the goblins say: Time is money

With the companion quests it is especially Kurt's quest that really matters, I understand the ending is affected by a number of things but will always end in the confrontation with that one major choice. I get that people think the devs wrote a naive fairy tale ending, but I find it refreshing not to be driven from one forced binary choice to the next, like a Telltale game, to be given the illusion of choices that matter. Do you want vanilla or chocolate ice cream is not a meaningful choice - you still get ice cream at the end. It was simply arbitrarily decided I get to only have one flavor (I still buy two scoops, as I don't get refunded half the game's price for never playing the other choice).

I finished Greedfall. After that one big bug, it was bugfree. I enjoyed it. The writing improves over the course of the game. It felt a bit awkward in the beginning, as if it needed to figure out what the social position of your character is - npcs were acting as if random guard and your character were equals, making me long for a reply of "You seem to mistake this for a democracy. Oh, you don't know what a democracy is? It is the system in which your opinion and consent theoretically matters." They managed to give the impression of choices that matter well. Spiders' best game hands down.

I hear for Gothic like games, studios actually hire professional bug devs to add the right bugs to the games.

Dragons are easy with this foolproof strategy:

I toyboxed her personal quest. I found those hidden counters based on your dialogue responses stupid.

It seems to be some strange bug with the two main quests - if you talk to one governor but not the other, then go to the mines to check out the ruins, all quest related npcs in New Serene disappear (even meaningless npcs like the two guards outside the governor's mansion, who are just there for the dialogue when you first arrive).

I had to load a save about 6 hours earlier in Greedfall to get to an unbugged state. Ignored a couple of quests for now that others mentioned online bugging out or conflicting with the stage of the main quest I was on. Now I'll need to see if I can continue those or if it'll bug out again.

Greedfall just bugged out on me. All quest NPCs have vanished from the game.

I don't know of any way. But I didn't have that problem - I played at a time when Argenta killed trash mobs faster than it would take to search for a mod and install it At least encounters don't respawn.

That is what first put me off in Pillars 1. Reaching the city and having to choose between two factions without enough time to get a feel for things.

I just realised I own Greedfall. And have it installed. So I am trying that. First impression: yup, definitely a Spiders game.

Not bought it, but looking at that Sacred 2 Remaster that just released... edit: read the one review that says it is terrible...