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You can turn down the difficulty setting. That tends to work in those super-difficult battles and allows you to move on.

But he does praise the game and how it is turning out.

@xzar_monty, what @Boeroer laid out is exactly what I meant as well. Thanks for laying it out so well @Boeroer.

I'm with you on this. I also don't have any evidence, but my gut tells me this was a major turn-off for many hardcore cRPG fans. I would then add that reinventing the game mechanics from PoE1 was likely also a major turn-off for many who had liked PoE1.

No I'm with you as well. If they want to go TB, they should do it with a completely new game. A PoE3 should remain RTwP. I would not buy a TB PoE3. But I also disagree with @Boeroer's take on Josh's postmortem. What I heard from it was that TB brought in additional sales but nothing spectacular, and that Obsidian was not going to be moving away from RTwP altogether.

Me too! It's interesting how we each have a 'type' of sorts which does not necessarily conform to society's images of people's attractiveness.

I really liked it too, though I found the family drama with the hot Russian trying to drive a wedge between the husband and wife a bit much. It did end on a high note so I will tune in for the second season.

For those of you who've been missing a steampunk-like cRPG: https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/06/dark-envoy-is-the-next-rpg-from-tower-of-time-studio-event-horizon/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/945770/Dark_Envoy/ Looks quite interesting to me even though it's not quite my usual preference for a game.

So, when do you all think we will start hearing about what's next for Obsidian? Will it only be after TOW is released or is it possible we will hear something before then?

See this recent article where Cameron Tofer, one of the core creators of BG, directly addresses it: https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/pc-gaming/282565/baldurs-gate-legacy The tabletop origins of RPGs does not justify sticking with TB for video games, because by that logic we should also stick with tabletop itself and not have progressed to computers. Coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing things is a must for anything to survive into the future.

Or maybe because they felt that RTwP would provide a superior gameplay experience than the age-old TB way of doing things.

Hehe. I got my master's in aerospace engineering from the University of Tennessee's Space Institute, the institution that was built to piggyback off of those German scientists, including von Braun, who were housed and working nearby.

Right on! As a former aerospace engineer, this week has been awesome for me with all the 50th anniversary of Apollo11 shows on TV.

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.