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    Game News The Wayward Realms coming to Kickstarter in May

    The title of the game rings a bell. Wasn't the guy who put this together a young idealistic game designer who hired some veterans to get together at a retreat or something and sketch out a design and the veterans would only work a very few hours a day then relax the rest of the time while the...
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    Why do people hate Oblivion so much?

    First time I fired up Oblivion the week it came out I was shocked by the giant font-size of the UI. I had only played PC games prior and didn't realize this is what happens when a game comes directly from consoles (or vice versa). Also, the fact that it ran like ass on my system with more...
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    Fallout Fallout 3 isn’t as bad as you think...

    Who wrote the words and lyrics to that song? Redd Foxx? Sounds like it's right off one of his old party albums. Fun fact: there's a czech pornstar by the name of Red Fox.
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    NWN Neverwinter Nights (NWN & NWN2) Modules Thread

    I never finished NWN2's OC. Played it when it first came out. I got to the trial sequence (about 1/3 in?) and quit after that, though the trial itself (or the plot) wasn't the problem; it was actually unexpected to see that in a DnD cRPG and I kind of liked it. I just didn't like the more...
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    RPG with the best monster raising mechanics?

    I loved that you could capture and enslave any human (even very powerful ones) in Conan Exiles and put them on your Wheel of Pain and break them to be your combat thralls, but those weren't monsters; well, not non-human ones anyway. Edited: also, you could raise proper monsters/fierce animals...
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    Random thoughts on whatever JRPG you're currently playing?

    I like that you get to play the bad guy and not just any bad guy but the BIG bad guy from the main Dragon Quest games, but as a child before he became fully evil. More games should take this unusual "dark prince" approach. I fired it up in Yuzu and it runs exceptionally well, far better than...
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    Atlus Shin Megami Tensei V - It's been hurting my OCD.

    I played a little of SMT 1 (or maybe it was 2) with the Super Famicom version in the translated rom a few years ago but didn't care for its bland old-style blobber design with the same dull textures on all the walls until enemies pop-in in front of your during encounters. The PSX versions were...
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    Atlus Shin Megami Tensei V - It's been hurting my OCD.

    Seems like SMT IV it will be then to ease me into the jRPG monster fusion genre. I did play a few minutes of the Digital Devil Saga series on PCSX2 a few years ago and found it good though I could feel its difficulty ramp rising.
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    Atlus Shin Megami Tensei V - It's been hurting my OCD.

    What's a good starting point in the SMT series for a newbie other than those bland looking dungeon blobbers of the first two games on NES and PSX1? III? Creature fusion is not a typical mechanic of western RPGs, especially as an important strategy to win, but the japs are crazy about the idea...
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    Starship Simulator - An engaging space exploration sandbox, featuring a 1:1 scale galaxy and fully simulated starships.

    Why does the avatar during character creation always have eyes that look like two piss holes in the snow? In other words, stewed to the gills. Doesn't mean it's a bad game though. I like the uniformity of the panels, buttons and switches. In the future, things should look simpler not more...
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    Nintendo Switch, the only console today making games which are games

    There's one game called Astral Chain (aRPG?) on the switch that I recently tested in Yuzu that I thought had an interesting battle mechanic. You're a police-person of the future, not terribly dissimilar to the aesthetic of Spielberg's very good Minority Report, who fights with a tamed...
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    Codex Review RPG Codex Review: Neverwinter Nights – Darkness Over Daggerford

    Never felt the need to slow things down (or speed them up) for NWN. However, I have used CE for years (rather infrequently but still nice to have that option); it would probably be ideal for something like the first Drakensang game which I understand was ruined for many in an otherwise...
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    Nintendo Switch, the only console today making games which are games

    Damn, didn't realize until very recently while playing around with emus that the Switch had a shit-load of games; yes, indeed, it is a success. Unfortunately, most of the RPGs are ports/remasters of jRPGs from of days of yore. However, even there they tend to be good ports/remasters (Live A...
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    Codex Review RPG Codex Review: Neverwinter Nights – Darkness Over Daggerford

    Aeilund Saga I found kind of intense (but fair) in the combat area. I wouldn't exactly call it relaxing.
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    Codex Review RPG Codex Review: Neverwinter Nights – Darkness Over Daggerford

    I played about 1/3 of DoD when it first came out after playing many user-made modules. It was certainly solid - C&C, evil paths, puzzles, tough combat (if you didn't use an overpowered build like I unfortunately did with my wizard). But I didn't finish it, partly because combat with a pure...

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