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    Decline What's up with these characteristically weak classes nowadays?

    I've never been able to learn this skill myself.
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    Torment PST - "shit combat"? Why?

    :hmmm:
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    KickStarter Solasta: Crown of the Magister Thread - now with Palace of Ice sequel DLC

    I think this a good assessment. It's fun, good even, to the extent that I've played through the main campaign & Lost Valley a couple times & enjoyed it. But what it lacks is any feeling of "I achieved something!". To illustrate what I mean, I'll use BG2 references: there is really no Firkraag...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    You're both right - looking back, I could have triggered the "Rhin leaves" event right before I initiated the events that led me to the Endgame where she returns, so it's possible she wouldn't have been gone all that long. But, for me, she was gone a long time (I had Matkina with me for quite a...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    You were right, but I had to finish. Final thoughts: - There was a lot of potential here. It just wasn't capitalized upon. And billing it as a successor to PS:T was its ultimate downfall IMO. Presented as a completely unrelated, new game, I might have enjoyed it more. Not enjoyed it, just...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    Back to it, more massive SPOILERS will follow, including some that reveal the whole plot & end of the game that I kept out of the previous post just so I could put this BIG MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING on this one!!! Also, the TLDR subhuman cousin-fuckers are gonna hate this one. - Go through the...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    Continuing on... [massive, massive story spoilers in this] Um, if you didn't read the previous text, MASSSIVE SPOILERS ENSUE. You have been warned enough. - In the Heart of the Bloom, I have to sneak past people fighting, doesn't work, a fight ensues. I kill them with no effort. It takes...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    I do like that rusty_shackleford decided to double down & confirm what a meth-mouth lizard brain Neanderthal he is, within minutes (seconds?) of my last post, like he was just waiting, poised, for days, all this time, anxious for me to post to get, um... release. I'll try to post more frequent...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    More Bloom, more spoilers, more multiple sessions in one, but my enthusiasm is seriously waning. The TLDR mongoloids are seriously gonna be triggered by this one. I used to break these up by "chapter breaks" for significant events. But this Bloom "chapter" has turned into an interminable slog...
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    Baldur's Gate Siege of Dragonspear was actually OK

    I'm Gen X, too. And while I agree with most of what you wrote, I don't think it's us. We famously don't give a shit. Could. Not. Care. Less. It's our one defining trait & I'd be proud of it if I could muster up the energy. We don't even get into the Boomer vs. Millenial conflict. They hate...
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    Baldur's Gate Siege of Dragonspear was actually OK

    Just to address this specific point, I almost agree, except for the comparison to TotSC. For me SoD would have needed to be an entirely separate game for me to not compare it to what it was supposedly "building on". I've been running through Torment: Tides of Numenera for the first time & having...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    [warning: more spoilers] Bloom updates, this section is really long & elaborate - this is a couple sessions in one because very little of significance happened. Still just seems like there's no real purpose here. - Released some gross zombie-cyst thing by feeding it suffering. By far the oddest...
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    Baldur's Gate Siege of Dragonspear was actually OK

    I agree with most of what the OP wrote, except for the title. Just because it has some decent parts (items, big combats, good side quests) does not make the sum of its parts even "OK". The plot & story being absolutely horrible cannot make up for the good stuff. The fact that it doesn't tie...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    On to the Bloom, relatively short update, in game-terms, not in wordiness. Basically: I didn't accomplish much. - Finally found a benefit to all these Intellect points I've been lugging around: getting Skaydi to resist the Bloom & stop letting her critter feed off of her. Lost me 8 points to...
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    Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

    That is a great way to sum up what I'm finding. There are a lot of interesting ideas, characters, & encounters, but they are so disjointed from each other. Like in the Valley of The Dead, where all these kinda interesting people don't have any reaction to the also-sorta-interesting quest-givers...

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