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    Total War: PHARAOH

    I'm playing Canaan and liking almost everything except for the battle AI. I attacked Damascus outnumbered about 2:1 by attacking a small stack outside the city, with a a balance of power about 1:9, and won pretty easily just because they blob up their archers, never shoot, and are always on...
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    Total War: PHARAOH

    If one actually plays this game you will immediately see why it would be dogshit to merge it with the Aegean map. It has totally different campaign mechanics. The campaign mechanics involving the Sea Peoples / collapse would not work in a combined map. The native troops / faction troops setup...
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    Total War: PHARAOH

    The game starts around 1200 BC and that is also around when the Trojan war happened. But I don't think that this game would be at all improved by combining it with Troy.
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    Warhammer Total War: Warhammer III

    Their biggest problem is just existing in the UK. I can understand the company's perspective: you get to employ skilled workers for janitor wages (the people who put honey into bottles on an assembly line down the road from me probably make more in a year than the average senior software...
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    World of Darkness It is time: Baldur's Gate 3 vs Starfield

    Honestly these two games might be what gets me to quit gaming. I didn't think this would ever happen to me, but it is just such a bad experience to get home, have like 2 hours to play a game, and to have most of that time taken up by stultifying woke dialogue or loading screens. I already quit...
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    As far as I can tell, only one of the companions () gets more powerful than a normal character if you complete his quest a certain way. All the rest of them don't. Additionally, it doesn't really seem like any of them have unique content. There is almost always a breadcrumb quest that overlaps...
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    I think people have a hard time understanding that modern lefties aren't really very ideological (because they are functionally illiterate). They are not like the previous generations of leftists generated by a more literate culture that derived their beliefs from reading Marx and other books...
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    It's not bad that they cut a lot of Act 3. The whole thing should have been cut until it was worth releasing. As it is the art assets are nice but it does not gel together in any way or even make sense. Some of the issues should have been obvious on paper, like after you make a deal with . It...
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    I killed all the guards, the eyeballs, and the warden and they never respawned.
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    Every single actor on this list with the exception of Simmons is B-list at best and most of them are just above community theater practitioners. And Simmons is basically retired.
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    Doesn't really seem like they could have possibly done that much motion capture. The animations are mostly 2000s era blank standing around and dead-eyed swaying. There is tons of VA, but by using mostly Brits, they get to save a lot of money. No name actors are cheap, mocap is an ancient...
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    I think that the decision to give every NPC a name and to put little stories everywhere probably appeals a large number of people who buy RPGs. There are lots of people who like the idea of "alternate resolutions" that involve pressing dialogue options. The game has that in spades. You can also...
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    Yup. The game is at its strongest when it is a dungeon delver. The physics system, the simulation of all the objects, and the semi-faithful porting of 5e are all the best parts. Some of the plot is even OK, but the game is probably best enjoyed if you mash spacebar whenever dialogue comes up.
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    Casters are, in fact, excellent, especially if you use summons liberally (almost none of them require concentration). You can also dodge having to rest in much of the game by just swapping out your casters once you exhaust their slots, not that it matters to economize on long rests except for...
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    Right, in Torment, the enemy is... yourself, and it's about overcoming or accepting your situation. That's another game with lots of Special Snowflake supporting characters, but every one of them ties in to the main conflict of the story in some way without outshining the main character. In BG3...

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