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The French ready to fight? Truly, the end-times are nigh!

So I'm still confused. Is it the case that the game is grimdark throughout and with no good-happy ending? 'Cause that's a dealbreaker for me as well.

Thanks for sharing. Being able to turn off all combat is a huge draw for me. But I'm still unsure about managing individual people's survival. I'll wait to see I suppose, since I won't buy/play until it comes out of EA anyway.

This is exactly my take on this game as well. I'll let it sit in my wishlist for six months or longer and then reevaluate how I feel about it.

A question about the Hogwarts game: given that the Harry Potter universe is based on children's books and movies, is the video game at a level where it can be realistically enjoyed by adults? Serious question, as I know nothing about this or any other Harry Potter video game.

* yes I meant Farthest Frontier I largely agree with you. I think it is the adding of the "survival" piece into the builder games that make them a turn-off for me. But even with strict builders, or where you can use a sandbox mode (which Patron also now has) option, caring for the needs of the people and making sure everything is optimally available for them starts getting tiresome for me once the population gets big. Even when I play Surviving Mars, I always use the robots mod so that eventually I can replace most of my workers with bots and limit my human population to under 100. Btw, I've kept Kingdoms Reborn on my wishlist. Because of its card game component, I'm curious to see how it eventually turns out (once it leaves EA).

Interesting. I got bored with the game after I crossed 100 population, and quit soon after. I then went into my Steam wishlist and deleted a couple of builders I had there (Foundations, Last Frontier), because from the looks of Youtube demos I am very likely to get bored with them also for the same reasons I got bored with Patron. I think what I need, and am looking for, are games where I get to build cities (and even an empire), but without having to micromanage individual citizens and their needs. That's the part that gets tiresome and tedious for me after a while, and especially as the population gets beyond a certain threshold.

It's good for Larian, good for the BG franchise, good for D&D, and good for me personally. This is the best news I've heard involving Larian since BG3 was announced. I'm actually finding myself curious and interested in what those two new projects Swen talks about may be. I hope at least one of them turns out to be a Larian game I will like, finally! And yeah, it is also my take that Larian learned the same lesson everyone else who's ever had the misfortune of trying to do business with WotC learned: WotC (and Hasbro) are the worst! I don't see too many studios, and especially small studios, risking their fortunes by hooking up with WotC.

Thanks. Yeah you are correct in your assessment. It is indeed tricky to find games I will like outside of my many strong preferences. I am trying to broaden my preferences, but the problem is I keep finding out that I'd rather just replay an old game that I liked than play a new game that is so-so to me.

Thanks. All these, and other similar games, I have and have played (repeatedly).

No, never. Given the dirth of quality fantasy RPGs to play nowadays, I've slowly become open to the idea of trying some post-apocalyptic RPGs. But for me to be willing to try them, they'd need to at least satisfy me with respect to my other major game preferences: be party-based; no first-person perspective; melee combat just as viable and effective as shooting from afar. Oh, and I'm probably not going to try a super-old game. I'm not one for wanting fancy graphics, but even I have my limits. Recommendations?

As much as I'm a fan of Obsidian, I've only ever played three of their games: NwN2, PoE, and PoE2. This is mainly because I have not been willing, in the past, to go outside of fantasy setting based RPGs for my games. And for me, all three of these games were fantastic!

I decided to change up from playing RPGs to playing city builder survival game: Patron. I had tried playing this game when it first came out, but found it not very interesting or fun. Now, more than a year later and with many changes and upgrades, the game is pretty good. I've been playing for a few days and have not yet lost interest. As always with this type of game, I know I will start losing interest once my city gets really big and exponentially harder to manage. But for now in its early stages, the game is pretty addictive and fun.

Zoria released:

But I'm not asking for them to be full-blown companions, as you suggest. I simply don't want to have to share them with/have them be used by some online stranger.

One of my favorites from back in the eighties which I recently heard for the first time in 35 years! LOVE her voice!

Does anyone here still watch network TV? If so, any thoughts on the new CBS drama Tracker? It's my favorite new show (well, my *only* new show). I'm quite amazed there is even one new drama on TV these days that has me so hooked.

But surely all of this is possible to do with companions without those companions having to be shared with other players.

Did you mean Realms Beyond? Because Black Geyser is very much alive, and recently had a successful KS for its DLC due later this year.

Sorry to disappoint, but this game is vaporware. The devs absconded with the KS funds, and with bankruptcy and a legal war between the two main devs. The project is dead and we won't be getting the finished product. If TB is acceptable, these are the current old-school indie cRPGs I would suggest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159090/Zoria_Age_of_Shattering/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1478850/Vendir_Plague_of_Lies/ This one is RTwP, but not quite a cRPG; more a cross between cRPG and ARPG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/945770/Dark_Envoy/

Well, unless the soul happens to be that of Gen. Blunt, for whom I was not too sympathetic. Plus that halfling scholar-woman is going to be researching interplanar travel without gates, so there's my rationalization. 😛 Yeah, I even save-scummed to get the achievements for elevating each of the five clan leaders to Speaker.

You may want to check out this site. It not only gives you info on the new expansion coming for this game but also a whole bunch of additions and improvements coming for free to the base game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grapeocean/black-geyser-dlc-tales-of-the-moon-cult

Haha. I saved and did both to get both achievements. 😄 For someone staying behind I also left my PC behind <sob>

I think ( I may be wrong) the gap between you and Monty is that you are talking about all RPGs whereas Monty is being limited to classic, old-school cRPGs. I also used to limit myself that way, but eventually decided I wasn't going to get too many of those old-school cRPGs without TB combat nowadays. So now I have embraced ARPGs up to a point. I still won't do games that are pure dungeon-crawlers or pure hack-n-slash. They still have to be story-rich, character-development-rich, and roleplaying-rich. It is interesting that given the choice of expanding to ARPGs versus accepting cRPGs with TB combat, I am very much more accepting of the former over the latter.

Finally completed my Solasta: Palace of Ice run. Overall I liked the game very much. The only issue was that because I was using the big UB mod for the game in which I had set allowing the XP cap to go above the game's 16 levels, I ended up being rather over-leveled at the end (level 18), which made the final battles a bit too easy. But that's my bad. The DLC had a very interesting story all the way through to the end, and I actually ended up caring about at least some of the NPCs I interacted with in the game. Now I have to figure out what to play next. I'm still waiting on a good sale price to buy my new gaming computer (with a 14th-gen i9 processor and the RTX 4090 GPU), so I cannot yet buy the "big" games like CP2077 or Starfield. 😧