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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...

In retrospect, the biggest difficulty in original Starcraft comes from the horrendous pathfinding. Where you click and where the unit goes sometimes, randomly coincide.

I find first person better for combat. The most important mod for me (besides no random dragons) is the alternate start one. It still allows you to get a rumour about Helfen and be the first to get there after it's destruction, and link into the main quest, but the different starts really help make your character yours.

You are not really convincing me to want to play this But it looks like something to go on deep discount quick - similar to midnight suns

Apparently coming sometime next year (aimed release date 31. March). Starter Box will have 12 Terran marines, 2 marauders, and 3 medics VS 24 zerglings, 3 roaches, and 1 queen. Protoss will get a faction starter with zealots, adepts, and a sentinel. Three phases, move, shooting, close combat. Each with alternate activations. Whoever finishes their activations first in a phase gets to go first in the next phase. Units have both point cost and supply. Points for list building, supply is the way of implementing unit cap - as the turns progress, the supply you can have on the table increases, so you can bring in more units. Seems OK rule-wise.

Sometimes a solid sequel is all we need. Just have more fun of the fun we were already having.

Because of the imminent release of the StarCraft miniature wargame, I have started playing the original StarCraft. I had a bit of a disagreement with General Edmund Duke. Raynor and I said we need to stop the zerg from killing whole planets. Duke asked "But do you condemn the sons of Korhal?" We didn't. Now we are terrorists. Obviously now the zerg are trying to eat Duke, so we have to save him. We should have just sent him a message: " When the zerg came for Mar Sara, I did nothing because my villa wasn't on Mar Sara. When the zerg came for Chau Sara, I did nothing because my golf course was not on Chau Sara. When the zerg finally came for me, there was noone left to save me."

It was more about how early in the game the bugs apparently start

Solasta 2 is possibly the one game I want to play at launch.

And once you get it to work, chances are you get the crash on gender select bug

The magic of triple A titles on launch

So I take it, starting the 24th, I'll be all alone in the forum because everyone else is playing this at launch, right?