MrBrown

Oh, Rogue Trader is by Owlcat. Not sure if this is good or bad news. Probably means it'll really be a old-style CRPG, but very buggy and with a bloated character generation.

Unfortunately, espionage is mostly useless. The "intel" part of it works fine, but the espionage actions are just woefully weak.

It's possible to play a 4-year old version of it, using the beta feature. Obviously still not original, but that's pretty far back.

https://www.fanbyte.com/news/activision-inexplicably-introduces-tool-to-rate-character-diversity-metrics/

I know some other games that could benefit from this. Path of Exile comes to mind.

https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-an-agreement-to-acquire-eidos-crystal-dynamics-and-square-enix-montreal-amongst-other-assets/

And Arena. https://www.pcgamer.com/some-of-bethesdas-classic-elder-scrolls-rpgs-are-now-free-on-steam/

In Lost Valley, I managed to ambush the enemies quite often, yet those encounter still end up with the enemies surrounding your party, you just get the surprise round. Kinda disappointing.

Random encounters are sort of balanced on the idea that you don't have to hold back at anything, since you're going to long rest anyway, so you can use anything you got on round 1. ...But, given that it's pretty easy to rest in the game anyway, you usually can take a long rest every 1 or 2 fights in any case.

Must have misread then.

Started Solasta: Lost Valley. With the classic team of half-elf Paladin, half-orc Rogue, and two half-orc Barbarians. Seems decent so far. One place had a big performance hit due to some graphics, not sure which, and one minor quest bugged out somehow, but mostly it's been good. Also seems like the warnings of "you can choose this skill/language for your character, but it's not used in Crown of the Magister" really do apply only to Crown of the Magister, and not to Lost Valley.

Playing Chrono Cross, released on steam a few days ago. Runs well and looks good. Lots of people on steam complaining about it, some people seem to have a problem running it, while some seems just annoyed it doesn't look better than some hugely modded version. *shrug*

https://en.cdprojektred.com/news/a-new-saga-begins/

Wonder how much it will cost. With the Barbarian/Druid DLC being 9.99...

I liked The Council well enough, I'll probably play that.

I never understood why people think Chrono Trigger is so great. I liked it, but didn't find it that much better than most of the other RPGs of the time. It and Chrono Cross are about equal in quality, IMO.

Also coming to PS, xbox, steam, supposedly https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-switch/

Speaking of Crusader Kings, I made the terrible mistake of taking off Steam's adult content block, and was recommended a game called "Sex with Stalin", because apparently it was similar to Crusader Kings III. Well, yeah, I guess, in a sense.

Shopping spree. Got worried MS was going to buy everyone.

Another game for the pixel fetishists.

The China sales started on Steam. A bunch of anime games I had on my wishlist had lower prices than on Christmas, so I bought them... I guess the Chinese are big on buying them on steam.

They are quite different, PF exists for PnP, while PoE exists for the story of the computer games. I wouldn't say that's the main difference of the two games though, PoE is more easy to learn, while Kingmaker is like D&D lets use all the books hell.

At some point the ministry of justice antitrust people are going to say no.