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    Are You Going To Play Baldur's Gate 3?

    The california pansexual furry night club vibe it got is off-putting, even if it's limited to camps. More simply, none of the characters look particularly appealing, nothing seems to indicate good writing, and i had plenty of good D&D-like content recently (Solasta, Pathfinder) that i don't feel...
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    NWN People who like NWN remind me why I bullied some people in school

    Everyone seemed to love NWN back in the day and the servers were full for a long time, including awful roleplay servers nonetheless full of well-read middle-aged failed actors living their wildest dreams of celebrity. For kids, it was also a first experience with D&D mechanics, and many were...
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    Final Fantasy XVI

    If you struggle to find people who played an AAA game on the main website dedicated to that game's genre, in a 40 pages thread dedicated to that very game, whatever point you're trying to make is lost in the implications. The game can be decent or good, but frankly no trailer, image, or gameplay...
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    PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: 2FA NOW MANDATORY - YOU DON'T NEED A PHONE NUMBER FFS

    This verification bullshit is the papamole of website features. What the fuck am i going to lose if i get hacked, my capital of fistbumps and gay reactions? Who's gonna hack my fucking codex account, post pirates? I should have known this site had gone the route of bioware when the funny toddler...
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    KickStarter Solasta: Crown of the Magister Thread - now with Palace of Ice sequel DLC

    Game is pretty fun with the community megamod, which is essentially necessary. Tried making some random fun builds (some untested): Terror knight(half orc) (Paladin with fear subclass + fear on enemy kill + sorcerer with fear subclass): fear -> smite -> fear -> kill -> fear Blink Duelist...
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    KickStarter Solasta: Crown of the Magister Thread - now with Palace of Ice sequel DLC

    Want difficulty? Do like me and play this blind in co-op with your girlfriend/wife.
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    Squeenix Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition remaster

    Is it this another episode of the people screeching about pedophilia turning out to be pedophiles themselves? It's so tiresome. Not that it matters, if you want to play retro console games you need the original hardware or at the very least a proper emulator setup with scanlines, a monitor with...
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    Vapourware Scam Citizen - Only people with too much money can become StarCitizens! WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

    Gotta hand it to them, you cannot fail if you never finish. Like that other sci fi vaporware project....
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    From Software Elden Ring - From Software's new game with writing by GRRM

    I started NG+ with +0 weapons, but the enemies have higher stats, so i wasn't really doing any damage. Likewise, by upgrading weapons to their NG equivalent levels bosses took longer to kill than NG with a +0 club. So i got out my +25 weapons and it felt more appropriate on bosses, but...
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    JRPGs for people who only like western RPGs

    No one seems to have mentioned Final Fantasy II. dialogues: It has an interactive dialogue system where you can bring up topics for NPCs to talk about and progress the plot. You do this by collecting keywords to talk about. The system is basic due to tech limitations, but was an obvious direct...
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    From Software Elden Ring - From Software's new game with writing by GRRM

    I've been playing Elder Ring on the highest difficulty. I start NG+ with every item and spell and any desired build, but i have to kill myself and retry every time i fail to have fun with any given area or boss. I'm currently stuck on Margit. I almost defeat him every time by having fun...
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    If RPGs Had Evolved Over The Past 20 Years...

    But RPGs have evolved. Vestigial features that drag down the whole design? Check. Ludicrous forms when examined rationally, yet perfectly adapted to the environment (audience) they survive in? Check. Made just to die and be forgotten by design for the sake of a new, better adapted generation...
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    Decline RPGs substitute offering strategic constraints for purported "character expression"

    Sorry, was trying to make a more elaborate point. It's not that they don't innovate, they literally can't make anything really awesome, let alone innovative, because they're not designing a game that tries to give an awesome fantasy to the player. When a kid writes a story he thinks "Oh man, it...
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    Decline RPGs substitute offering strategic constraints for purported "character expression"

    What is this thread about? Lots of convoluted notions, it seems. What's a game? A bunch of art assets to sell a fantasy and a fun game loop to trick the brain into thinking it's living it enjoyably. What's an RPG? Nothing really. A poor attempt at a subcategory and a marketing buzzword. RPGs are...
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    How to fix Gnomes, Hafllings, Orcs, and Elves.

    The typical argument of the artless! False and intellectually weak. Tokien collected folk tales spanning centuries and made a setting. Then that setting has been copied and repurposed. Something The Elder Scrolls can be considered "building upon". The rest not so much!

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