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Eh, I'd say Starfield is more function over fashion. BG3 is amazing, that's for sure, but you also have to wrestle with the camera. Starfield is pretty muted in comparison. It does have some nice looking moments. I also had it set to high and was surprised at how dull everything was, but once I upped the setting to Ultra, everything got sharper. It didn't seem to affect performance, so that's nice. I'm comparing Starfield more to games like No Man's Sky, X4, and Elite: Dangerous. It's a decent upgrade on those. edit: Oh, I went to the moon and jacked some big ship out from under a group of spacers. I don't know that it is better than my starter ship, but it looks cooler.

So far I'm really enjoying the setting. I've been even reading the books.

I'll never understand the need to pit these games against each other. Like, do you only get to play one game in life? They are both great RPG's, yay.

Regular old $10/month Gamepass let me preload Starfield a few days ago. So it's installed, but it says it unlocks in a little over 4 days.

I'm somewhat excited for Starfield. It's different enough from JA3 that I probably won't play it and just wish I was playing JA3. But I'm just going to wait for it to be available on Gamepass. Maybe I'll buy the imperial edition on sale when it comes out in a year or so.

For sure. This person is an idiot who wanted to play a game early and get attention. He apparently had about 5 copies to sell, which is worth a few thousand bucks? 12 years of hard time is not a reasonable sentence for being criminally dumb. He probably won't serve that anyway, but I'm not going to defend our justice system, which is punitive rather than restorative.

The disconnect between some gamers and real world consequences is so bizarre.

Vampire Survivors is the greatest game since JA3. My son and I are pretty hooked on it right now. Right now the old man holds a slight edge on longest run, with me at 30:05 and him at 29:58.

That sounds like 90% of the stuff on Youtube to me, honestly.

I have no idea why they didn't just make it so food automatically goes to camp, though.

Those rotten eggs are part of a quest that gives you the vorpal sword.

Yeah, that's still a bit too retro for my tastes.

That's huge, particularly after Russia failed a few days ago. Very exciting!

Quest for Glory 3 was pretty amazing, so there is a precedent.

Hot take - same developer and artists use same engine to make game that looks similar to previous games.

Trump, the sitting President, called an election official and pressured him to find votes. That's pretty damning. That's some banana republic crap.

Your problem is you just played Jagged Alliance 3. I knew this was going to happen. We are ruined for games because nothing can match JA3.

I watched Barbie about a week ago. It was great. Had some fantastic Mattel toy humor and was a bit more emotionally stirring than I expected. But honestly, it's not really a movie for me. It's a movie that speaks to the 3 generations of women I have living in my household. I don't get why there are men who don't get that. There are some dumb dudes out there.

Well I can tell you Volo features prominently.

No. You will win.

I think thieves tools are only spent when you need to reroll. You need at least one to attempt, and more if you don't succeed.

Huh, I'm surprised Wyll is one of the least popular choices. I thought he was a pretty easy one to jump into as a character. I also realize that I make unpopular choices, since my 2 created characters are a Human Templar of Tempus named Garret the Pale, and a Halfling Bard named Devin Eleven Toes.

Livewire has a lot of attitude, but it is pretty justified. I mean, yeah, it's not fair that you have to watch over everyone, but you are damn good at it.

It's probably so the aliens can spy on you while you play.

I'm not sure how this led to it being a big thing, but it's very different than PoE or PF in terms of gameplay. Solasta might be close (now there's a bad UI), since you can jump around and manipulate a bit of the environment, but BG3 does environmental reactivity dramatically differently. I'd say for better or worse, really. I don't know that I need to be able to move every crate and rock in the game. I don't know that I need to slow down every time a bit of water spills on a patch of dirt. I don't know if I need the camera to be able to zoom in on all those weird angles. But it's definitely something different than other RPG's. I also probably don't need to roll dice on everything. If I have enough bonuses to cover it, just skip it. Ugh.