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>>94015
she shim, he sher

>>94034
Original

Got to 44 off some Baal spam. Can at least kill the Act 1 boss bitch on NM now.

>>93972
None of the games look appealing to me anyway to be worth pirating, other than maybe Pillars of Eternity if I wanted to get back into playing CRPGs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_Entertainment#Games

So BG3 only got all the hype because of the bear sex meme, right? Because anybody who's actually played the game knows it's a buggy, poorly written, unfinished mess, right? God awful experience, the worst I've had since back when I forced myself to play LoL. Apparently there's an update coming next year but it's not to fix anything, it's just to add new subclasses which nobody asked for. Not even all the subclasses, just one per class. What even is the point. Why the frick is the camera randomly all over the place at random cutscenes? Did anybody actually have fun playing this? The diversity shoved into everything is disgusting, too.

>>94080
There's far better crpgs. Pillars of eternity isn't bad it just isn't great either. Obsidian got a name making fallout nv but thier reputation is very unwarrented imo.

>>94083
I'm playing through it right now, and I think it is a very good game. My only complaint about it is that the romance crap gets pushed in your face from party members, and I don't play this sort of game for that content. Leave that to dating sims imo.

As far as bugs, it's all been super minor stuff. You wanna see bugs, play an owlcat game.

>>94085
>the romance crap
Almost immediately, the Gith wanted to bone me. And then one day out of nowhere, after finding out he's almost certainly going to die, Gale tried to convince me he loved me. Good thing I'm saving myself for my half-elf princess.
>bugs
Aside from the camera not being positioned where it belongs, I've encountered one with stuttering conversations, characters limbs being warped or elongated, and at random one of my characters became over-encumbered despite having no status effects and after I removed everything from their inventory. I can't think of any others at the moment but that's some shit to be getting from le AAA game.

Also, the Tiefling bard song would've been a lot more impactful if they didn't overproduce the song. It's one person playing a single instrument, where the hell did everything else come from. It's not a bad song either, it's just the whole scene came off as really tone deaf.

>>94086
Lae'zel's romantic advance was extremely creepy. Ugly frog bitch wants to taste me? Yeah I don't think so.

Gale's romantic advance definitely caught me by surprise as well.

>hey bro come here
>wanna learn some magic bro
>damn that magic was like, poof, gj
>btw you feel really intimate with gale right now
>despite the fact that he's an ostensibly heterosexual man who's previous lover was female
>my dude stares longingly into gales eyes
>break it off, rest of the scene plays out really awkwardly

Generally I've found the game pretty good at telegraphing when a romantic encounter was going to happen, but that one blindsided me. Unfortunate. Feels like the romance system was tacked on at the last minute tbh, and you can see why they did it because it seems to be all people can talk about when they talk about the game. I think the game is genuinely good, like the combat is great, the plot is engaging, the characters are fun when they aren't trying to get in your pants, but the romance crap gets under my skin.

>half-elf princess

Massive bitch. Hate every interaction I'm forced to have with her. I can't think of a single character I'd want to bang other than maybe Karlach but I'd need some resist fire potions to slam that tiefussy.

>I can't think of any others at the moment but that's some shit to be getting from le AAA game.

I'd say Larian is a AA studio at this point, and regardless if you look at the state of real AAA games nowdays...

I mean look at starfield if you want a laugh.

>Also, the Tiefling bard song would've been a lot more impactful if they didn't overproduce the song.

I kind of enjoyed it but I know exactly what you mean. Would have had more soul if it was simpler.

>>94088
>the combat is great
It can be. Sometimes the game likes to blindside you with total nonsense, and because you can't trust autosave it's a risk of losing a disgusting amount of time if the ten enemies with three attacks rape your party to death to the last save point. I ran into some real bullshit in the Underdark, when I entered into it from the Goblin stronghold. I thought I was clever getting around the death laser, but then almost immediately got absolutely fucked by the mini-beholder that's just kind of chilling on the side. Never did manage to kill him, ended up sneaking my way through the whole of the Underdark out of paranoia. And then I got to Grymforge. Fuck that fight. Maybe I'm a retard but it took way too long to figure out how to kill all of those Duergar without killing the Gnomes in turn. Except that at the end of the fight, the rolling ball of fire I summoned rolled into one of the Gnomes on its way to me for whatever god damn reason and I couldn't shake the agro. So I ran my characters to the portal then portal'ed back, thinking they'd have calmed their shit. Instead the whole place was empty and the big baddie I was there to kill in the first place had his corpse sitting out in from of the pile I was supposed to blow up. THEN I went to the lower area to the forge and got surprise merced by a horde of devils, THEN I went to the forge itself only to get surprised by the boss. I had more issues Grymforge than I did the rest of the Underdark or the Shadowfel-touched place afterwards. Or at least I did until I went to storm Moonrise, which is where I am now. What really bothered me was that Hagrid or whatever his name is told me that it was safer going into the Underdark than it was taking the mountain pass. I went back through the mountain pass afterwards and despite some issues with ghouls and the silly Gith demigod, it wasn't that bad comparatively.
>the characters are fun
The banter is enjoyable. Shadowheart and Lazael riffing on each other is amusing.
>Massive bitch.
How dare you, sir. That's my stuck-up brainwashed sociopathic wife you're talking about. At least she's not that poofter vampire. Easily the most annoying member of the team.

>>94083
I can't comment on BG3 since I haven't played it yet, but you might like Pathfinder WOTR, which I found to be a pretty fun game.

>>94090
I remember one really memorable battle, with the hobgoblin king in act 1. Karlach was going toe to toe with him while my mc (a ranger) and poofter vampire were keeping the hordes of goblins off her back. The then hobgoblin did this pushback attack and knocked her flying off a platform into a pit of spiders. She had to fight her way clear from the pit while the rest of the party fought a desperate battle against the rest of the goblins.

Was kino as fuck.

Had a few other good fights too.

>the giant phase spider queen
>nuke her repeatedly with fireballs

>the fight outside the goblin encampment after killing the boss
>kicking goblins off the cliff and throwing exploding barrels down into hordes of them

Genuinely great combat system. I like that you can use the environment as a weapon.

>At least she's not that poofter vampire. Easily the most annoying member of the team.

Yeah I gave my main a couple levels of rogue specifically so I wouldn't have to have him in the party. You do need a rogue in your party I think. Been rolling with wyll, gale, and karlach since.

youre all faggots

>>94092
You're the second person to suggest that today. I'll have to check it out.

>>94094
>You do need a rogue in your party I think
I re-leveled him as a bard. Him being a rogue didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Also heavily thinking of making Shadowheart a Paladin. Right now my party is Shadowheart, Lazael, and the NIGGER because narratively his pops is in the tower so it makes sense to have him along.

>>94095
no u

>>94100
The NIGGER is pretty alright tbh. I was considering dual-speccing him as a paladin because I don't use shadowheart and my party is pretty bereft of healing except through potions.

>>94070
Nice. I'm not sure how far I want to get before ladder reset. Maybe I'll try to get a character capable of doing ubers, but I doubt it will happen.

>>94100
You went from the black mage flag(when you were getting laid) back to the red mage flag. Not getting any puss?

>>94100
>I re-leveled him as a bard.

Yeah I could see that. He's a "charming" sociopath but his ingame char sheet has 10 charisma by default.

>>94102
No problem, though I probably won't no-life after ladder reset either. Will still try to play at least every couple days after reset. Planning to play Dofus Unity with some randoms. Unsure how committed they will be. Trying to get a Niggering off the A1 boss before trying for any other gear.

Because nothing fixes soulless corporate games like replacing people with soulless AI. Can't wait for NPC dialogue that sounds like it was written by a smart fridge.

If and when Elon does it, all the other major video game companies will copy him and double down on it because shareholders and investors love to copy Elon's moves (after all he's the richest man so "he must be doing something right").

>>94111
There is one day going to be a caste of intelligent, lonely people who don't want to talk to AI slop.

>>94111
Yeah, it's completely missing the point and very transparently trying to sell another grift he's invested in as the cure. And you know cattle are going to fall for this shit because IRL Iron Man said it.
>this is just like my favorite movie franchise MCU! i cant wait to be an ai prompt engineer for based musk!!!1 *chugs soylent*

>>94106
Not me, bro. I haven't been here in like a year.

>>94127
How come?

>>94128
Ask me in the blog thread.

>>94129
Nah. Gunna play some video games.

>>94106
I don't recall many posts being made using the black mage flag within the past year anyway. I think I can remember seeing it half a dozen times at most.

>>94142
>>94106
>>94127
Black mage is smiley LOL.

Some of the users here switch flags regularly. Red Mage has never been the Black Mage

Plants vs. Zombies was the Ocarina of Time for PopCap Games but the multi-millionaire owners of the company, who didn't design any of the games, decided they weren't rich enough already and decided to throw it all away for EA Games to snuff it out, together with the other masterpieces like Peggle and Insaniquarium. Such a shame.

>>94267
It's the case for a lot of video games. It bothers me quite a bit.

I feel like video games are a form of art, and a very important part of modern culture. The experience of playing a video game and sharing it with your friends is a kind of modern day mythology, like telling stories of heroes and adventures around a campfire in olden times.

Maybe it's more accurate to say, video games want to be art, but they're treated like products. Corpos don't see them as anything other than a throwaway item to be consumed and forgotten about, or alternatively milked mercilessly with all sorts of gambling systems and dlcs and reboots and other scams until there's just a husk remaining. As long as these KIKES have their claws on video games, and can claim that they own cultural symbols and have the right to destroy them, these tragedies will play out again and again.

>>94268
>The experience of playing a video game and sharing it with your friends is a kind of modern day mythology
Just a couple of hours ago my daughter was complaining that she couldn't sell something to the court mage in Whiterun. I told her to try Belethor's General Goods because he'll buy anything

Unreal how a game made literally 20 years ago looks and plays better than one made by an AAA studio in current year. Even graphically superior despite the limitations computers had back then.

Has there been an AAA game released in the last while that hasn't been soulless, half-broken slop?

>>94267
Plants vs Zombies is based.
You VILL have a zombie on your lawn
You VILL assemble a team of photosynthetic defenders to defend the human's brain
and you vill be happy

(You're absolutely right btw)

Too bad this never got a proper sequel.

https://www.smashjt.com/post/whistleblower-exposes-sickening-wheel-of-privilege-dei-training-at-behaviour-interactive

What's your power level, 4chon? 2000 points for inner ring, 1000 for middle, 0 for outside. Max 24000.

I was lied to. The D2R ladder resets on the 6th.

>>94271
shut up retard

>>94445
>every single thread on the front page just got a sage-as-a-downvote, one line, no punctuation, mindlessly hostile reply

Looks like Avid just woke up from his drug fuelled bbc orgy and is having a bad day. Go have a shower you slut, you stink.

>>94455 (checked)
dubs confirm avid is a retard who obsessively brings up gay shit, unprompted, in disgusting detail no less

>>94458
>>94455
says the retard who obsessively brings up gay shit, unprompted, in disgusting detail no less

>>94461
lack of dubs confirm you are coping, seething and projecting

>>94463
says the retard who obsessively brings up gay shit, unprompted, in disgusting detail no less

>>94440
Alright, good to know. I'll try to be active come reset, though also trying to play a couple other things too.

This was my latest one last week based on mood.

Post 'em.

>>94489
Just D2R and Master Duel. I do not play a lot of games, I play the same ones for months/years at a time. It's why I quickly drop out of GAYMER friend groups.

>>94489
Hotline miami 2 is inferior to the first one. Same with human revolution tbh.

is this your favorite games of all time or of the last week?

>>94491
Good taste. Castle crashers is a great game.