Another week another thread. Whatcha y’all playing? And why is it Baldur’s gate 3?
I’ve been playing Divinity Original Sin 2 with my partner, we both never really got that far into it in the years we both owned it, so we’re trying to get more into it in anticipation of playing Baldurs Gate 3
Metro 2033 and Have a Nice Death
I’ve recently been trying to get back into Guild Wars 2, with the new expansion that came out.
It’s not Baldur’s Gate 3, because it’s Baldur’s Gate 2. I think I’m past the halfway point, and I’m hoping to have it beaten before this thread comes up next week.
I also started a co-op playthrough of Quake with a friend of mine, and I play a few runs of 30XX here and there.
Other than that, it’s Street Fighter 6, and there’s a patch coming for Guilty Gear Strive soon that I’m excited about.
Last act of Baldurs Gate 3. Damn, does this game have a ton of stuff in it.
The third act is a bit of a disappointment though, compared to the first two. Not necessarily the storylines, or environment, but parts just seem unfinished, more glitches and bugs with quests, which is par for the course for Larian games I guess. It’s still great, and I’m thinking about doing a second playthrough eventually, but probably not before the Definitive or Enhanced Edition release in a year or something.
I hope to finish it in the next couple of days, then play the recently released Quake 2 Enhanced release as a palate cleanser, before jumping into the next bigger game.
I think I’m nearing the end of Midnight Suns. Story seems to be wrapping up so I’m trying to get the last few friendship levels for folks. This has been such a blast to play and I’m glad I picked up the complete edition for ~$35 in a Steam sale.
Not sure what the next one will be. Really tempted to grab Baldurs Gate but I’ll probably go back to some indie backlog games for a few.
Uber modded Skyrim and a Minecraft world with friends we called HIV
It’s not Baldur’s Gate 3, because it’s Baldur’s Gate 2. I think I’m past the halfway point, and I’m hoping to have it beaten before this thread comes up next week.
I also started a co-op playthrough of Quake with a friend of mine, and I play a few runs of 30XX here and there.
Other than that, it’s Street Fighter 6, and there’s a patch coming for Guilty Gear Strive soon that I’m excited about.
While everyone has been talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, I decided to cave in and started a replay of Divinity: Original Sin 2. Well, yea, I got a ten years old PC and a Ps4!
Still, what an excellent game. The easy mode goes well since the battlefields are chaotic, there’s not a single combat that I go through that doesn’t involve 1)Setting everything on fire 2)Shocking a large portion of the characters 3)Poisoning a large portion of the characters 4)Mixing all that because elemental interaction exists (Poison + Fire makes NECROFIRE which is a harsh and often deadly punishment)
But the questing and adventuring still stands out well. This is a game that has a somewhat large map, but unlike most open world fillers its a dense map. Every corner has a named NPC with a little trouble to solve, and there’s no “random cave with nameless mobs” to venture into; Every single place you can go has a little lore, a little story, something important that makes the world feel alive.
Its no surprise Larian has been taking the world by storm lately, and I’m glad this has aged so well so folks can try an original setting whenever the BG3 hype cools down.
While everyone has been talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, I decided to cave in and started a replay of Divinity: Original Sin 2. Well, yea, I got a ten years old PC and a Ps4!
I’m sure your PC could run Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2… 😉
I would not wish Advanced D&D THAC0 mechanics on my worst enemy
I only had to Google it like 7 times to get it straight.
all these years later and i still cant fathom why they went with an inverted dc scale
Inherited from naval wargaming, where it came about because first rate ships of the line had better armor than second rate etc. so armor class scaled inversely. That meant THAC0 was the best way to figure out what you needed to roll to get a hit.
It’s also not functionally that complicated (your THAC0 minus target AC), just weird and confusing if you try to understand why it works that way.
I can kind of get that, if they kept 1 as the hard cap on AC. But they have 0th rate as the reference point, and then bizarre instances of negative AC. A minus third rate ship reads like a dingier third rate ship, not better than a first class ship.
I’m playing BG3 right now, and am thinking about giving D:OS2 another shot. I played it around release and got off the first island, but stopped after that. Although, maybe I should wait a bit more, so I don’t get burned out so soon on this type of game.
My partner and I started playing Palia this week and like it so far. It has some issues and I wish there was more co-op, but it’s a nice relaxing game that’s been fun to explore.
I quit my xcom2-lwotc run. I guess I didn’t play optimized enough. Enemies keep getting stronger and stronger and my science is too slow to keep up. It got to the point where I could only finish missions with massive save-scumming and now I benched it. In my next attempt I’m gonna be quicker about everything and build up multiple teams right from the start but for now …
I am playing BG3 :D
For xcom2 you need to immediately research the upgraded weapons as soon as you begin your campaign. It feels counter intuitive because it takes so long but it really puts you into the correct pace. I don’t remember when it best to upgrade them again or armor but that’s the best start. Also aggressively use grenades because they’re guaranteed hits.
For BG3, be sad there is no overwatch, sorry, I mean readied action like in D&D.
Thanks will try that when I come back to it. BG3 should take a while though I’m afraid :)
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Guild Wars 2 by my-self. BGEE with my SO.
Sadly no BG3 in the near future as a computer that can run it costs too much. The two computer can’t.
The OG Splinter Cell. I modded my original Xbox not top long ago and am looking to play games on it so it wasn’t a waste so I figured why not give it a try?
I am enjoying it so far but I’m used to playing the new Hitman games where the AI is rather predictable and I can gun my way out of most situations. I just beat the Kalinatek level and feel like I need to finish the game at this point.
I don’t know if I need to play one game after the other to full understand the overall plot or what game I should stop at if I just want to play the best in the series.
Not sure if I’ll play Baldur’s Gate 3 because I own the first two on multiple systems and haven’t beaten them
There is a bit of a continuing story in Splinter Cell, but for the most part, each one is its own story. I’d say I was fairly unimpressed with Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent, but neither is bad. Conviction is very different from the games before it but still plenty of fun, and Blacklist somehow manages to marry Conviction’s gameplay with the classic gameplay of the series in a modern way, but Michael Ironside was battling cancer at the time, so Fisher was unfortunately recast. If you’re asking the average person which one is best, most will say Chaos Theory, and then you’ll get a contingent of people such as myself who prefer Blacklist, but CT is still great.
As for the old Baldur’s Gate games, no better time than now to go through them. I’m inching closer to finishing 2 after beating 1 earlier this month. They’re great.
Been slowly picking away at Blue Reflection Second Light. It’s nice and chill, and neat that the first game’s subtext of girls love isn’t subtext anymore.
Also been playing some Gundam EXVS Maxiboost On with a friend. Slowly getting our bearings and it’s neat how every session our play improves, as does our coordination.
