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Do you mean wait until the season is done and then subscribe for a month to watch all the episodes? Also, when you say the whole library, do you mean all of their shows? I am not at all familiar with streaming services.

Yeah me too. I really hope Netflix allows you to just subscribe to a specific show only.

Don't think I can provide a meaningful rank-ordering, but among recent cRPGs: I love PoE1, PoE2, and P:K. I like T:ToN. I hate the D:OS games. Among modern ARPGs, I love DA:O, DA:I, and Witcher 3, like DA2 and Oblivion, and hate Skyrim.

With the season pass it was only about $22, and I've been playing the heck out of it since, so well worth my money.

Used the recent Steam sale to pick up two non-RPG games that have been on my wishlist for a while: Surviving Mars, and The Operational Art of War 4.

Having just completed the base game of Witcher 3, I started playing the first expansion, but so far am not enjoying it much. I want to be clear it isn't anything about the quality of the expansion, which is excellent. It's just that there isn't a compelling "big" story to keep me engaged and wanting to play on. But most of all it is that combat (which was always a pain) has become utter drudgery. They're all just long-winded slug-fests against foes that are immune to everything and have like a million health. Don't think I'll be finishing even the first expansion let along getting into the second one.

This is the kind of question where one would hope (and expect) that someone from Obsidian would consider it appropriate to chime in and enlighten us. But alas ....

I was only referencing these developers because for some people it seems that D:OS2 having sold well makes Larian an awesome studio. So by that logic I was asking if the same applied to Bethesda given Skyrim sales numbers. I'm personally not a fan of either Skyrim or Bethesda (though I do like CDPR).

But this just brings up another question: clearly NwN1 (in the form of its enhanced edition) does not have any Atari issues, so why does NwN2 continue to have Atari issues?

Does anyone know why NwN2 is not available on Steam? Separately, does NwN2 loaded from the original CDs run fine in Windows 10? I've never bothered to try as I assumed it would be too much trouble to try and get it to run. So any feedback would be appreciated.

Seems like many of you play a variety of games and not just RPGs, so anyone here played Surviving Mars? It's on my Steam list and I'd very much appreciate any feedback. In particular I can't help but wonder if it's the type of game where it's loads of fun the first two or three times but then very quickly loses its appeal.

Well everything I've been reading, especially the recent German article, points to the game being third person, or at least something that is NOT isometric. Besides, I just can't see a AAA game with a budget upwards of $50m being isometric.

I think a Witcher 3 style game using D&D would be quite awesome. I did not care for the D:OS games one bit, so I have no basis for trusting Larian and have deep misgivings about and skepticism of Larian doing a good job with this game. I fear BG3 will play like D:OS2 (though probably not look like it since BG3 will most likely be third person). That will kill my interest in the game and, as a hardcore fan of the original BG games, leave me bitterly disappointed.

In that case wouldn't the makers of Skyrim (Bethesda) and The Witcher 3 (CDPR) have been MUCH better fits? I don't think Larian is a particularly good fit at all, but I understand that Larian is the current "cool" studio for many of the idiots inside WotC as well as for most of the gaming news media.

Finally finished Witcher 3. Got the really good ending. Did every single quest. What an incredibly awesome game! Will be doing the DLCs next. :)

Thanks for checking! I vaguely remembered it had something to do with a statue coming back to life.

My understanding was that in the Murder in Baldur's Gate pnp module (I think) it was revealed that Minsc and Boo had been turned to stone long ago and someone had mistaken them for a statue and, heroes that they are, placed them in a town square somewhere. Then along came some adventurers in the current timeline who decided to cast 'stone to flesh' on the statue and voila!

Same here. I broadly disliked the D:OS games for multiple reasons, but especially for the combat system.

Took a break from Witcher 3 to fire up Civ 5 for a bit. Now back to Witcher 3 and still loving it. I feel very strongly that a non-party-based RPG cannot ever be enjoyable for me, but Witcher 3 appears to be a unique exception to the rule. I guess in a way it feels quasi-party-based, what with characters like Ciri and Yennefer and others constantly involved directly within gameplay. An interesting way to approach a solo-play game.

@algroth, thanks for being so fair-minded. Don't get that from too many people these days. I'm one of those who absolutely loves P:K. But unfortunately I don't have the time to write a lengthy explanation of the many reasons why. Yes it had some early teething problems, not surprising at all for a tiny studio making its very first game. But they have been superb at listening to fan feedback and releasing patch after patch to fix and improve the game. The current enhanced edition of the game is very solid. P:K, along with the two PoE games, is my go-to game now for repeat-play among classic RPGs so much so that I no longer have much of an interest to repeat-play any of the IE games anymore.

Actually, you've said it right here. For me, immersion comes more from the feel and the world and the story rather than from gameplay mechanics. So that's the difference. And besides, I've never cared for the mechanics and rules-set of 2e anyway, so for me there's not much of any meaningful difference between BG1 and 2 in that regard. And, the EE has brought all of BG2's mechanics and various other gameplay options into BG1. But, you are also right in that at the end of the day this is all very subjective.

What for you is romanticizing for me is realism and immersion. Yes, believe it or not, I like that part of a game where I am just a tiny little pawn. It *is* engaging and fun for me. This is why I prefer playing BG1 over BG2 every single time, and, I prefer the early parts of BG1 over the later parts, essentially beginning to lose interest once I get to the city of Baldur's Gate.

This article brings up the possibility of replacing spell slots and spell memorization with something else. Lots of interesting (in a non-positive way) things in the article. https://www.pcgamesn.com/baldurs-gate-3/dungeons-and-dragons-6th-edition

If only. I shudder at the possibility we may end up with cooldowns.

I agree. One of my fondest recollections from playing BG the first time was how incredible it felt when I FINALLY got my first +1 sword. I suppose this all also fits in with Vincke saying that leveling up is too slow in D&D and again, "not fun" in a video game. So, both XPs and awesome items thrown at you like candy.