MrBrown

I'll have to retract a bit on this, the last few bosses are really tough. So either be good, or grind lots. Turns into more of a diablo-like arpg at that point.

About 80% through V Rising. It's a bit repetitive. Constantly challenging, but it's mostly because everything is gated through the various bosses. So you're always with just about the same gear you fight a boss. There's various difficulties, so depending on how much you like the combat you should find a suitable difficulty. In settings, I checked the options that I keep my weapons and armor if I die, and that metals etc won't prevent teleporting.

Depending on the amount of games you play, that can still be a good deal. But for most, probably not.

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Manor Lords, early access strategies, toxic expectations https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-hooded-horse_two-clarifying-points-since-this-post-seems-activity-7215509660999503874-0ByG/

Microsoft's plans are getting weirder. Still not sure what happens at ???? before profit. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/06/27/xbox-cloud-gaming-amazon-fire-tv/

Steam Summer sales. Disco Elysium -90%. Your excuses are running out.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is on "free trial" on steam until 18th of July. You can play for 2 hours for free.

AFAIK, you need to login.

Yeah, still require the EA app... They've made it more annoying too, back when Origin games first came to Steam, you could run them with Origin staying in the background nicely, but now it pops-up and reserves some keyboard shortcuts to itself, etc. DA:O steam version doesn't require it, since it came out before EA's Origin app.

All of Dragon age 90% off, in fact.

Death Must Die Nice combination of Hades and Vampire Survivors.

Nah, I want to read, not watch videos.

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Finished Skald. Not sure I liked the ending, but, oh well, it wasn't bad enough to make me dislike the game.

Not in the game itself, I don't think.

18 hours into Skald. It's pretty good. The mechanics are clearly D&D inspired, but different enough to be interesting, and not complex enough to weigh down too much. The game has stuff like eating, resting and crafting, but does all these more fluidly than games like the new Pathfinder RPGs, so they don't feel tiring. There's some rough edges to the mechanics, but overall it's decent. Somehow, the creator also managed to mesh the writing really well with the retro look. The game has a clear atmosphere to it and doesn't feel too generic or too weird to comprehend. It won't be the best RPG I ever played, but I found it to be worth the price.

I never thought Dragon Age was particularly dark fantasy, but now everyone on the internet seems to be saying it was.

Looks more like previous Bioware games than the trailer. Like DA:I and the later Mass Effects. Combat looks like what I'd expect when they said it's more into the ME direction from DA:I. Not sure which of the action the PC is taking is something triggered by the player, what is the consequence of some enemy action. The city depicted, Minrathos, certainly seems more high-magic than anything in previous DAs, but I guess that's true to lore. Certainly left me a more positive impression than the trailer.

40$ for an expansion. Well, with the base game being that pricey, I guess it was inevitable. Ultimate edition is 90$. Seems it's just cosmetics, no early access this time.

Did they say something like that? Or are you just assuming it based on the art style?

How so? Aside from the art style (which I don't like), it's a cinematic, and doesn't really tell anything.

Been playing the new season of Diablo 4. They revamped a lot of the itemization and other stuff, and... well, it's a bit better now, you don't have to spend hours comparing items, and late-game isn't as much of slow drudge as it was before. But it's still fundamentally the same game. If you were turned off by the slow late game, then you might enjoy the changes. But people who stopped playing for other reasons probably still won't find any reason to come back.

I hope they make different enough from Civ6. 6 was basically an upgrade on 5, but I'm not sure there's that much interesting stuff to explore that way.