Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: JarmerAt first I was having an absolutely wonderful time in bg3 but then the ending happened ...

I haven't played this game myself, but I think there are more than a hundred possible endings, plus minor ones... Was it just yours, or would it end in a similar way had you made different choices? (I've read your spoiler tag).

There were thousands (tens of / hundreds of?) of posts across the larian and steam message boards with people saying the exact same things I was. There were so many furious fans, Swen (head of larian studios) actually even came out and addressed some updates.

For my specific case, it was a combination of

1) no writing / completely unfinished sections of the game
2) not accounting for the player choosing certain combinations of main character and love interest

Both of those are unforgivable for a released game they charge a premium full price for, and then trick the player into thinking anything they do will actually make any difference at all.

They have done lots of updates since I played it, so I have no idea if these were addressed or not. I will never open the game again. Most likely won't ever play anything by Larian ever again.

I think i liked the Karlach and Astarion ending the best. It's fair to say that not every companion was equally well or interestingly written. Karlach seems kind of a 1 bit companion, not much to her beside the ending, with a twist.

Astarion and Shadowheart had a lot more stuff written in the game about them (or at least i remember more, oddly Shadowheart is not mentioned in the ending for me). Lae'zel is meh for me although i understand why they went with the theme they've chosen for her.

I really disliked Gael and Wyll, I don't think Gael was particularly well written, much of the Gael stuff seems more of a tack-on than the other companions.

The secondary (and evil) companions are a miss i think. On my last playthrough i subbed Minthara in for Karlach. I wish there was more content to her.

All in all i feel like BG3 is their best game, but for me mainly because the gameplay is leagues better than in the DOS series. I wish there were more difficulty options though, like in the pathfinder games.

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I used to play a lot on GTA:SA servers. It was my first multiplayer experience in my teen years. Couldn't care less now about Rockstar's online though. Tried it once or twice in the past, but there is no magic to it.

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Anticheat is crap anyway, best choice is supporting DRM-free games, and maybe stuff with userland anti-cheat. I don't really own a computer so that every proprietary blob can dictate what i can do with it.

I'm totally uninterested in what Microsoft has, i have to deal with a lot of their crapware at work, it's painfully slow and buggy.

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I finally sopped waiting for gog realease and bought it. Cool game, will have to get used to it, so used to 'modern' shooters now that it totally kills me in the first level. Will probably buy on gog too, if they manage to put it there sometime.

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I'm sorry for trolling. Living under a fascistoid authoritarian regime I cannot help but be annoyed each time i read 'woke' or 'liberal', and quite a few other catchphrases. It is usually unrelated to the original meaning to the word itself, or to the original movements intentions, and more to do with right wing sycophants, who turn these words inside out then spread idiocy faster than light.

Further red-flag words for me are random phrases taken out from philosophy or the social sciences, like 'postmodern marxism', 'critical race theory'. If enough of your countrymen go down this road, it will surely lead to the ruin of your country. The people spreading this kind of shit can lead a country to ruin.

It also absurd how often this comes up under videogames. I mean i understand that we gamers as a whole are not the most mature crowd, but come on, how is this crap taking over the more technical or informational points you want to see? Is the game idea fun? Are the controls well tuned? Does it have the amount of content that was advertised?

For this game in particular i see it as unfortunate that the devs made an idiotic comment about 'wokeness' too instead of just communicating, 'look, we made a sick-looking, fun game'.

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Quoting: Cato-the-younger

Quoting: TuxeeTim Sweeney is a prick. And I don't care for Fortnite in the slightest. I'm waaaaay to mature for that crap.

Yeah something a "mature" person would say 😂🤦‍♂️

People who use the term "mature", don't even see the irony of their statement

Aleo Dragon Age: Veilguard looks like a terrible, woke mess. Do not recommend.

I have already played Space Marine 2 on my Linux box, it works great if your hardware can handle it. It runs at about 28 fps on my laptop running arch. Story has been quite good so far and it plays kind of like God of War with guns.

And if steamcharts show about 1.5 million Steam Decks and we presume there are alot more, how do we account for the difference?

What is woke?

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Perhaps the best bundle in a while.The 9 EUR tier is cool, but these are steam only, i think i prefer getting them there.

Btw. how are Icewind dale and Neverwinter nights?

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So some big wig put everything on red 33.

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Graphics look kinda bleak, guess i'm skipping this one until massive discounts. Not going to spend 60 € on this game with no linux version

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Looks like an adventure game to buy.

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