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Baldur's Gate 3.
I can probably count the number of games I've paid full price for in the past 15 years on one hand, and this is one of them. No regrets whatsoever.
Looking back on Steam, last time was GTA V. Prior to that Skyrim, and prior to that Portal 2.
I swear 40-50% of all dialogue, interactions, etc. reflect the character I built. It is insane. They made D&D into a video game. They actually did it.
I’m playing Sekiro for the first time and am loving it! It’s my first FromSoftware game. Mechanically it’s quite similar to Jedi Survivor, the other game I’ve been playing lately, but is a lot less friendly and more straightforward (as far as plot and other stuff going on). However, it works really well and is very enjoyable to get good at.
Planning on playing through Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 for the first time this week. Know almost nothing about the game, nothing about DnD rulesets, just diving directly in because a partner very highly recommended them.
Edit: Ended up buying Baldur's Gate 3 and getting into it instead, looks like I'm gonna be playing it in 3 > 1 > 2 order. As a side note, performance was way better on Vulkan than Directx11 for me, despite common advice being to use Directx11 on Linux for the game.
They are absolutely lovely, though undeniably very old school. BG1 is more action-adventurey with a bigger emphasis on exploration, BG2 is very story-heavy. They have aged remarkably well, considering they're over 20 years old. The handpainted backgrounds still look pretty.
With potential increased interest due to BG3, I wonder if it would be an idea to create a community for the classic Baldur's Gates 🤔
I just started Baldur's Gate recently and beat it minutes ago. It's not the first D&D game I've played before, but I'm far from well-versed in it. I had to Google "THAC0" a couple of times to understand what the game was trying to tell me, as well as understanding certain status effects. There's a presupposition of knowledge that the game has with its players, but it's still fairly okay at initiating people to D&D.
THAC0 is... yeah. I guess the systems take some getting used to. And it gets a little more complicated at higher levels with different layers of protective spells and counter-spells.
Are you planning on playing the second as well?
I can't hear you over the sound of my mind-flayer parasite.
Yes. It has consumed my mind as well.
First time ever paying full price for a steam game. And no regrets.
Baldurs Gate 3 on my linux machine runs pretty good and smooth. Already died because I failed a persuasion/deception check which led to a party wipe. It wasnt uncalled for either and didn't came out of the blue. I really enjoy it.
I'm also playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my Linux machine. Besides some frequent crashes, which I haven't confirmed if they are the game or my aging hardware, it's been running fine. I'm currently waiting for it to transfer to my Steam Deck to see how it fares there. I'd love to be able to play in bed, but I fear I may lose a lot of sleep if I do that.
I too am playing on Linux after making the switch last month. BG3, surprisingly, runs perfectly right out of the box. No settings changes, no command line parameters, nothing. Hasn't crashed once. I'm really impressed.
Just finished Life is Strange and Life is Strange Before the Storm.
Both are great games with a really good soundtrack but I personally preferred the story of the first title.
For me, I just finished pikmin 4 100%!!! I have now moved on to Jedi survivor, which I am having a lot of fun with.
I got it near launch, but it didn’t run super well. I am happy I waited as the game runs much smoother than it did when it came out
Yall i was fucking with Baldur's Gate 3 splitscreen with my wife and found out that using an Nvidia graphics card and 2 monitors, I can turn vertical split screen games to broadcast to 2 different monitors so it looks like 1 screen each.
Fucking awesome.
None of my friends were half as impressed as me and the wife were. I feel like a technical God recently (all because I figured out how to enable a setting and set an aspect ratio properly for 2 screens lol)
I just finished Hollow Knight this week (basic ending, didn't go out of my way to find items I didn't organically come across). Metroidvanias and 2d side-scrollers in general haven't traditionally been my thing, but I was persuaded by Monty Zander's video and...yeah, it's as good as everyone says. The world is surprisingly immersive for its format and the gameplay is tight and rewarding. Abilities and enemy variety were always changing the way I played, and the different areas each had their own identities and obstacles. The sense of excitement on unlocking a new area and getting to explore it was on par with Elden Ring.
Unfortunately, I moved on to Kena Bridge of Spirits, which I think is a pretty good game so far, but it has some AA jank that I think stands out more after the fine tuning in Hollow Knight, and the combat is a lot more rote. Trying not to be too harsh though because not everything can be what Hollow Knight is, obviously.
I have been busy this week so I have played mostly Slay the Spire. Being able to get up and walk away at any time let's me play in my limited down time at work, or while I am working on dinner.
I've also been dabbling in a mobile game called To Arms.
Transport Fever 2, because I can ride da choo choos
It's super chill and relaxing, you just have to ignore the rest of your empire falling into ruin
FF6 with my wife. I was always told it's the best one but 8 has been my fav so far.
Still Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) and Final Fantasy XII (Switch). Loving both still.
Elden ring for now
My life has been completely subsumed by Baldur's Gate 3. I spend all day at work thinking about it.
My husband called it a "tactical combat dating sim" and that cracked me up.
I'm playing A Plague Tale: Innocence for the first time – really enjoying the medieval flair and great graphics, though it is definitely a linear game (not my usual cup of tea, but exceptions obviously apply).
I'll be playing Baldur's Gate 3 as soon as my COOP friends have time for it... it is installed and ready to go! Very much looking forward to this.
All of them running great on Linux too, which is just amazing.
Hypnospace Outlaw. I'm not old enough to have been using the web in 1999, but I like to think it was exactly like this.
I got a ttrpg itch recently (unrelated to bg3) and started looking into pathfinder 2e and will probably pick up the core rulebook in the next few days.
Going through all of the Hitman reboot trilogy maps purely to take screenshots. My plan is to have a fat wallpaper folder of all sorts of locations from the trilogy. It's a beaut
Replaying Witcher 3 for the xth time. So far only ever played the base game, now I look forward to the dlcs. So far I am mostly rushing through the main quest and am now facing the wild hunt at kaer morhen. Never before reached this state with so few side quests completed 😅.
You'll love the DLCs. Hearts of Stone is the best story in all of TW3, in my opinion.
I just recently learned there was a HD remake for Freelancer. So I've been taking a nostalgia trip all weekend. Still such a good game. And free/abandonware now!
Edit: Game can be found here: https://archive.org/details/Freelancer_201807
HD Edition mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/freelancer-hd-edition/downloads/freelancer-hd-edition-v06
Right now I'm waiting on the new PoE league as well as the GW2 expansion. For now it's either a MUD, The first Skyrim save I've kept long enough to complete the main quest, or Yakuza: Like a dragon.
It really just depends on mood and if anyone else is active on the MUD.
I'm glad to have finally found a Skyrim build I enjoy. I've always appreciated the game but never managed to stick with it. This Illusion/Thief/Assassin combo is a great time. Calm + backstab for life.
Yakuza is a delight. It's a lot like FfXIV in that it's a pretty fun movie that is sometimes interrupted by RPG game play elements. Loving the humor.
Restarted the Demon's Souls PS5 remake. It's going much better than my previous attempts. Not quite back to where I was last time but got there aot faster.
Back on the old Bloodborne. I meant to finish it years ago, but ran out of time with exams so restarted just there with a brand new save. Loving it so far although I'm not too far into it.
I initially started Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered a few days ago, but I wasn't really in the mood for that game, so I ended up going back to The Witcher 3 to start (and hopefully finish) both DLCs (I'm part way through Heart of Stone atm and have yet to start Blood and Wine).
As for feedback, although weekly might perhaps be too often, maybe a "Show us your collection / show us your setup" kind of thread? This could generate some engagement and lead to interesting discussions imo.
Omg thank you for answering the second part of the question 😆. I think I'll make another post highlighting this question as it clearly wasn't looked at super closely, but your suggestion is great! I'll add it to my list :)
I’m excited for starfield so I started playing through Fallout 76 to scratch the bethesda itch which led to me starting fallout 4 again, which led to me staring new vegas again too, and then committed to finally 100% achievements for Fallout 3 after all these years.
Still playing Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and 0 A.D. See this comment for details.
Also checked out SWTOR but I couldn't get past the clunky controls and camera, so considering dropping it. Also checking out Star Trek Online for the first time, and it's looking promising. The combat is a bit weird, but I like the controls better than SWTOR.
Currently playing Nier: Automata. It's incredibly hard to talk to people about this game without spoilers. It's all about the story, but the gameplay is pretty good too.
I bought Disco Elysium during the Steam Summer Sale. I'm only on the second "day" (in game time). It's OK. There's lots of attention to art and fleshing out the NPCs. I'm not blown away yet, though.
I honestly didn't like it. There just isn't a lot of game in that interactive book.
Well I just picked up Last Epoch last night / Monday! It's an Action RPG so follows the same format as PoE / Diablo. Haven't been super impressed with the post-campaign experience of D4, and immediately after jumping into Last Epoch I already feel like it has exactly what I was looking for from D4 in terms of power fantasy and buildcrafting potential.
Its still Early Access which I generally don't pickup, but someone here on Lemmy recommended it and I have to say, so far I regret nothing!
Finished my first playthrough of valheim this week as a duo team. Yagulath and the Queen boss were pretty crazy. I'm hoping the Ashlands comes out soon, not really sure what to do with the game until then.