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No need to fly to waypoint 2, can't you see I am already safely on the ground?

 

Seerix, you need to cure yourself of the plague before you can swim to the island. There is still much landmass for you to uncover.

I consider Miasmata a very pretty game. Assets are pretty low quality, but lighting is among the best I've seen, looks really natural. The game also manages to turn walking around into a fairly sophisticated gameplay mechanic, which is quite an accomplishment.

 

Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc

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The English like to talk.


Steamrolling through the enemies.


Once the city gates/walls are breached its time to get rid of the remaining defenders.


RTS view is confusing to move around, but it can get you unstuck, sometimes.


Things that can get you or your soldiers permanently stuck in place: trees, stairs, low roofs and fucking horses.


Fat englishmen.


Everything is easier with a canon.

 

Shovel knight

 

Enough with that pixelized hipsterfaggotry, time for some...
PIONEER:

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Ethvece lightshow:








Urzece lightshow:










Green dreams (apparently):





Vear-y red:




Rivers of light:





Copper marble (is actually Dolan water):


(accidentally swung by a moon here en route to another one)



No, I'm not:



An inordinate fondness for Iceland:



Old neighborhood:




Entombed in obsidian, presumably:




Haven't I seen you in Skyrim? (Were my misery too...):



Cant relly envy him (what a dreary place):

 

Dosbox really isn't ideal for taking screenshots. Still, since I'm having a surprisingly solid amount of fun with this game...











It's the old Interplay title Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Surprisingly solid Star Trek adventure with some space combat, missions with puzzles designed around your teams capabilities and even different outcomes depending on your actions. The enhanced cd-rom version is a talkie with every line spoken by the actors from the show. Runs flawlessly through Doxbox for me. Enjoyable, and the sequel Judgement Rites is even supposed to be better.

 

AMIGA platform/action awesomeness :



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THE BARD'S TALE

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Jesus K Reist is this shit popamole



The bugbear wastes you in 2 hits, meanwhile it obviously has hueg hp bloat. Also, when you smack it a few times, it hits you with some smoke bomb shit that stuns you and then runs around pushing levers that activate traps around the room.

This is so popamole I don't even know where to begin





Meet Crispy.



I find it hard to enjoy this ironically like I did with Ultima 8

 

I really liked that Bard's Tale iteration...

 

I don't know, maybe it's the start that's slow or something, but the bugbear cave was just annoying as shit.

Also, fuck limited saving.

 

Bard's Tale actually looked really nice on my Nexus 10. Must've been the 2k res.

 

Anyway.

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Time for adventure!




It's fantasy so we can have niggers in charge!


And even a token raghead!


And finally:

 

I demand more goblin trow karaoke in my RPGs

 

Inquisitor 1 & 2 are little wads for Doom. Both of them have some familiar enemies and npcs.

 

Looks neat

 

Oh man, I gotta check that out!

 

Skyway is eastern, not central.

 

So I took some very irregular screens during my latest session, starting where I left off entering Candlekeep crypts.

I see dead people.

Dead people with neat stuff on them. They won't miss it.

A ton of traps up in this place too. I guess they want people to stay away, strange that they never set off the traps tho. Anyway, I escaped from this shitty crawl killing more doppelgangers on my way out. Reaching Baldur's gate there's just like three quests in this chapter to do. Help the ill duke, kick the assasins' ass and mess up Sarevok's GF. It feels very rushed with so little content, this is a major let-down after experiencing the previous chapters.

After cleansing the Iron Throne's place leaving only the chef alive I got the evidence I needed to face my nemesis.

For some reason the engine can't take screens when you're talking with people but I stomped some more doppelgangers and kicked Sarevok's ass so hard he GTFO'd with a teleport spell. What a pussy.

Unfortunately you spend no time investigating where he went or why or even what sort of place that even is. You just enter another god damn pathfinding hellhole following after him. There's someone dying on the floor giving exposition but it's all very awkwardly paced.

This is the worst.

So much time wasted on this crap. It's not challenging nor is it fun, seems like Bioware ran out of cash and had to artificially lengthen this chapter. It's a long game enough guys, you don't need to do this filler shit, it's okay.

Finally, the light at the end of the tunnel. There's another dying exposition dispenser here.

Meeting another party was sort of fun, they're weak punks but at least they're not doppelgangers.

This map was very empty and in a less flattering way than the wilderness of the earlier chapters, shame because the ending could have felt pretty cool with the right amount of build-up.

Cabloowie, I beat the game. This fight was actually harder than I thought it would be, mostly due to the vast amounts of spells flying around, and the fact that I accidentally equipped my ranger with explosive arrows, Sarevok himself was just HP bloated and not that interesting. It all worked out in the end though.

Now I'm going to play the second game with the same character which I haven't done before. I've only played them once each and that was a very long time ago, I'm not even sure I have finished them so it's a fresh new experience for me. Word is that bows sucks in BG2 and especially in ToB, so I'm thinking of either taking the stalker kit or just remaining a standard ranger with some flexibility. What's the most viable option for rangers in BG2 and what weapon proficiencies should I get? I don't want to get shafted because the game doesn't have any good X types of weapons.

 

Hooray!!!!

Link in pic. Runs in gzdoom (included).
I discovered that gem some months ago. I've understood that there was a public alpha that dev removed. But there was a video (removed again now) showing some stuff... Men, that was cool!
And today dev upped the beta. I've instagrabbed it and played 10 minutes... And i confirm: it's cool!!!
I love the stile. Look, music and sounds. Dismemberment could be improved, but hey, it's a beta and an one man project.
It's also very hard, enemies kills you very fast, i even found some enemies that seems invincible (maybe they were ghost and magic was needed? Or just long to kill?). And i was just playng at 2nd difficulty.

Seriously, i love default attack:



There are 3 classes, the huntress that has the bow, mage that has a fireball and a cleric that starts with only sword and fist.


In first level enemies are avoidable. They are cruel.


Those are basic enemies, but some care is required since they have no problems to hurt you.


Howewer there's some healthy bolod.


I think that this is extremely cool looking.


Another enemy.



If i undesrtood well that was due to enemy friendly fire. Fireball too does burn...



Here the fireball. Tha enemy is quite nasty, the first time i encountered it he hurt me a lot. Maybe i was not in full health, but instakilled!


Yet another enemy. I'd say there's quite some variery since all these enemies are just on the start of second level...

 

Stalker is decent for pure Rangers, but consider using Shadowkeeper to make your character a human so you can dual-class to something a bit more fun. Ranger->Cleric dual-classes are a little cheesy, but extremely fun. A little bug allows them access to the Druid/Ranger divine spells for all of the spell levels, not just levels 1-4 that Rangers could typically access. This makes for a character that can cast practically every divine spell (I don't believe they can pick Greater Elemental Summoning in ToB) and fight well.

Some of those Druid/Ranger spells are really exceptional too, giving the Ranger->Cleric dual class an advantage over other Warrior->Cleric duals. Insect Plague, Creeping Doom, Nature's Beauty, Call Woodland Beings, and Iron Skins are incredibly helpful.

This might be a little power-gamey, but it's not nearly as broken as other dual class builds, while still being reasonably fun and varied.

As for proficiency points, the only categories I would shy away from, in any case, would be Bastard Sword or Katanas. Magical Katanas are quite rare and a lot of the mileage that one can get out of this proficiency relies on metagame knowledge. Bastard Swords are simply poor compared to every other category of weapon and all of the magical ones are placed extremely poorly; there's really nothing beyond generic +1 Bastard Swords until very late into the game. Half of the unique Bastard Swords in the game are basically right on top of one another.

If you're looking ahead to ToB, you may also want to avoid Clubs. Support for them completely drops off after SoA.

 

There's already a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ranger in BG2 and he can romance you if you play as a girl/tranny, why deny yourself the best part of you game?

But seriously, I was going to recommend the same Cleric/Ranger but multiclassed, I thought I was the only one who knew of that. Instead I'll recommend the Archer sub-class, it's the best ranged user in the game and bows are pretty powerful, you get to play something a bit more original than the mage battles BG2 is known for, try to hit those spell disrupting/poison/exploding arrows on the key boss! You'll never miss.