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I remember you were quite excited about this when it was first announced. Is it living up to your expectations?

Well, Kingmaker sure feels as if I was playing a teenager's D&D campaign... Resting is pretty much as stupid as in Encased. While healing with it is good, the stat decrease spam from many opponents early on in the game makes it so you need to rest multiple days in a row just to be able to get back in the fight. The starting party is also basically crap. Devs want to make a game that is just a standard D&D campaign, but then they want you to have useless characters in the party so they can break the mold.

I started pathfinder kingmaker. Not convinced, but due to too many AD&D campaigns in my teens, I will soldier through it for now

The other song you "need" to know is Ma Baker

Americans...

I think you'd be surprised how many people on this forum know Boney M. At least ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen should be familiar to most.

Of course Steelrising could be promising. I know some people here are bound to play it just for it being a Spiders game. Which is a good enough reason really, considering there are people who play Larian games for being Larian games

Brucie, you sounded a bit like that ABBA song there, Take A Chance On Me Not looking forward to anything in gaming really. Found most games too disappointing. I'll have a look at that Dune strategy game when it comes out naturally. But other than that I'm hard pressed to think of anything that could be in the works. Maybe Midnight Suns.

I could cover all my living expenses for so many years with that...

I uninstalled Encased. After a very positive first impression, I can't seem to find the energy to bother with a game, where devs try to throw roadblocks into player enjoyment. The abysmal heal on rest is a terrible design decision. Especially as the main story will force the player to get damaged at times. Add the bad luck of getting crit hit by an opponent at one point or the other, and suddenly players end up playing the game at the brink of death, because the game doesn't let them heal. Of course you could just rest for a week with breaks for eating and drinking. Drinking you can do from the toilet too, for free. But that means the rest system doesn't work. If in other games I'd sleep 8 hours and continue playing, but here I have to sleep 80, all I will end up doing is sleeping 80 hours. Might as well have let me be done with 8. And of course nothing has been added to my game experience. At least nothing positive. Not that this dev attitude is unique to Encased. Camping supplies in Pillars of Eternity were just as stupid an idea. Dragon random encounters in Skyrim were even worse. In Skyrim I ended up hitting the console, clicking on opponents and typing "kill". It made the game more bearable by a thousand fold. Even though I already had toggled godmode to be able to ignore the encumbrance system. Devs should really be forced to start actually playing games. Possibly even their own.

You remember correctly.

I figured it was a character limit thing and also that you could just give that name to a moogle.

Meanwhile... Shiva: "I got beaten up by a character called Beefstik. Beefstik! That's it. I am going back to FF. They may have literally objectified me by turning me into materia, but at least nobody called Beefstik beat me up. Doesn't even spell the name with a C..."

It 100% follows the book with the addition of a side quest and new character. Just that you only get Tungdil's point of view, so some characters and events may appear a bit sudden to players unfamiliar with the source material. The game isn't extremely long, so by the time you are done with the gimmick of horde combat, it may be over anyway. The book is Heitz's best book in my opinion, though it already has the issue of certain characters being too powerful. This becomes worse in later books in the setting.

I am probably going to give up on Encased. I find the extreme scarcity of healing adds nothing but frustration to the game.

Just like the TV stuff.

Sanderson working on a game but not on an IP we know or with the Devs we may think. Whatever Devs he thinks we think. https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/12/22/brandon-sanderson-author-of-mistborn-and-stormlight-archive-series-says-hes-working-on-a

Just realized it is that time of the year when I have to reinstall Saints Row 4 and play How The Saints Saved Christmas

I hate the barter system in Encased. It is like Fallout but not. When you add something on your side, the game doesn't automatically add cash on the merchant's side. You have to click a button for that. I keep giving away stuff for free.

Also remember: "Quitters can't lose."

I guess I did pick the right portrait.

So in Encased apparently there is a city called Crystal Sands. Question: If Shady should play Encased and really like it, will he change his name to Crystal?

Best line in Rogue Lords: "I heard you... you called me three times!" (Bloody Mary)

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