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zapotec

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Playing the first drakensang, its only saving grace (for me) it's the dark eye ruleset otherwise it's a terrible nwn2 clone:
  • Corridor dungeon.
  • For now, these linear dungeons seems always to be filled by one kind of monster.
  • Super slow running speed.
  • Terrible party ai, even if you set it to passive more often than not they decide to charge enemy npc.
  • There is a sort of "desynchronization", when you target a moving npc the character moves to npc previous position instead of trying to intercept it.

Does the sequel remove these faults?
 

JDR13

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I tried playing Arkham Asylum a few years back but couldn't enjoy it because the difficulty seemed borked to me. The standard difficulty was a cakewalk, and the harder difficulty turned the enemies into damage sponges and was just annoying.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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My bro had Asylum on PS3 and i played a save file. Ofd it was the Joker I was playing which must have been DLC.
 

DalekFlay

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I'm not into superhero comic book stuff AND I'm not into third-person melee combat and yet I STILL liked Arkham Asylum a lot because it was just so well made. I bounced off Arkham City pretty hard though, not sure why.
 

Abu Antar

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
I'm not into superhero comic book stuff AND I'm not into third-person melee combat and yet I STILL liked Arkham Asylum a lot because it was just so well made. I bounced off Arkham City pretty hard though, not sure why.
Probably the move to an open world city. I preferred AA over Ac, too. It felt like the Asylum had more personality than all of the City of Arkham, even if there were some cool vistas. I wouldn't call Asylum a metroidvania, but it had similar progression with gadgets that you were given. Hell, even the Riddles were fun.
 
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What's up people? It's me, your friendly sales gremlin again and I'm here to talk about sales, sales and sales!

GOG is having a major fucking sale right now and there is too much good shit for dirt cheap prices to go through it all so just go to the site and buy something, you deserve to treat yourself to something nice. Now is the time for that since you can do it for less than a happy meal. I will give you a highlight of some of the best deals for a wide variety of games to give you a spread of great bargains.

First up is stealth, you like sneaking around like some a sneakfuck gobbo? Get yourself Styx at a fucking 90% off! The sequel is 75% off and if you liked the first game you should grab that too. Want to hide in plain sight? Hitman: Blood Money is cheaper than your mum at 80% off, I liked it more than the reboot sequels.

Want to play a game completely opposite to that where you go in guns blazing? Grab Stranglehold at 75% off an already low priced game. Pow pow motherfucker. Want to wipe the floor with DorkUnderpants? Unreal Tournament is 90% off. You're better off playing the OG game for its campaign though, 80% off but worth the extra money.

Don't care about action? You're just in it for the waifus? Divinity: Dragon Waifu Commander is at 90% off and still expensive for what it is but you should grab it anyway. The more expensive version is actually cheaper than the regular edition.

Fuck all of that, you just want to whack people, animals and orcish minorities in the head with a battleaxe, right? Sacred is the game for you, 80% off and almost free. Fuckhuge world that only exist for you to stomp on everything else, what is not to love? For more Ultima vibes you can go with Divine Divinity for your fill of whop-ass, they're practically giving that away at 90% off.

But that's not edgy enough so let's get to the real games, like Postal 2 which is 90% off and you will have to rub your eyes in disbelief when you see that pricetag. Grab the post-apo expansion pack Paradise Lost just as cheaply while you're at it. The original Postal is free just in case you didn't know so you have no excuse to not get edgy this christmas.

Too edgy? Want something to play with your fleshy waifu irl? Something wholesome and chill? Grab the Deponia games, the first is 90% off and incredibly cheap, but the entire series is on sale and very affordable. For another game that will make you use your brian you should check out The Talos Principle which is at 90% off, more expensive still than the other games I mentioned but so fucking worth it.

Two first person shooters to round this list off, first you have Strife which is Doom but with a plot at 65% off and pretty cheap for a remaster. Excellent game that doesn't get enough recognition. Buy it, play it, enjoy it. Then we have Hedon at half-price, a fresh new game in the Doom engine.

That's it for now, but I will also tell you which games you shouldn't even fucking thinking of buying right now. Planescape Torment: Enhanced Price Edition is a moneygrab, half-price and still more expensive than anything above. Then we have the biggest joke and middle-finger, Outer Worlds which is a highway robbery even at 32% off. It almost costs as much as pre-ordering Cyberpunk 2077. I don't appreciate when companies take their pinheaded parodies of capitalism into an actual marketplace and do these kind of performance art bullshit things. As a final mention we have the still expensive communist visual novel Disco Elysium, only 30% off and from an already crazily expensive base price. This is why communism is bad and gay, fellas.
 
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Taka-Haradin puolipeikko

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I've put new purchases on hold until I've gone through reasonable portion of my backlog.
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I bought Summoner, but no new purchases until summer 2021.
 

Dux

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I have 600 GOG games and will probably never play half of them.

I have almost 800 games and I will play all of them. That kind of determination has carried me through hundreds of games already, as well as other ventures in life. I can thoroughly understand the charm and comfort of having an extensive library of games but maybe the reason why you're doubtful about them is simply because you're not that interested in actually playing, or perhaps can't devote the time. Maybe you just want to have them. In that case, why sweat it? It's no big deal.

However, if you do decide to play 600 games then that is exactly what will happen, in some shape or form. Until you decide otherwise, of course.
 

DalekFlay

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I have almost 800 games and I will play all of them. That kind of determination has carried me through hundreds of games already, as well as other ventures in life. I can thoroughly understand the charm and comfort of having an extensive library of games but maybe the reason why you're doubtful about them is simply because you're not that interested in actually playing, or perhaps can't devote the time. Maybe you just want to have them. In that case, why sweat it? It's no big deal.

I own a lot of dumb shit on Steam I never want to play because of those early says when Steam sales felt like robbery, but I've been better at avoiding that the last handful of years. Most of my GOG games I actually do want to play though, outside of the weird freebies and shit. I just doubt I'll ever have the time, and also I tend to replay stuff I love a lot which limits my time for new things even more. Like... I do want to check out Lands of Lore 2 someday, it sounds interesting and I like that era of RPG, but will I ever get around to it in my ~40 years left on Earth? Probably not.
 

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When I see someone claim thay have xxx games and will play all of them, that only mkaes me wonder if they have a life outside of gaming.

They just buy them for Codex cred. I doubt they actually play half of them. Just wait for good sales, buy a bunch of shit for pennies, pad your game library and brag about it on the 'dex.
 

Catacombs

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When I see someone claim thay have xxx games and will play all of them, that only mkaes me wonder if they have a life outside of gaming.
They don't. But that's the hobby. What I'm interested in is confirmation those people actually played and beat all those games.
 

Bad Sector

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They just buy them for Codex cred. I doubt they actually play half of them. Just wait for good sales, buy a bunch of shit for pennies, pad your game library and brag about it on the 'dex.

Yes, that sounds like terrific social and financial advice.
 

JDR13

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When I see someone claim thay have xxx games and will play all of them, that only mkaes me wonder if they have a life outside of gaming.
They don't. But that's the hobby. What I'm interested in is confirmation those people actually played and beat all those games.

Why would you care? Besides, I think a lot of people have the tendency to exaggerate or just straight up lie about that a lot of the time.
 

Lacrymas

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Pathfinder: Wrath
Playing a game doesn't mean finishing it.
 

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