ahoy you amazing wankers, been a while since i did a post, i played some games here's my thoughts
POE1: i'd gotten 3/4 of the way through this abysmal piece of shit a few years ago, heard deadfire was less shit, and wanted to finish this first as i've gone through a mad rpg rush. to me, this is truly a bad game. didn't mind the combat, or lore, there was clearly effort made, kinda liked the backgrounds (as in, graphically, some good art direction), but i didn't get hooked on anything. yeah, fine, the dlc was better, but still the entire thing felt like a waste of time. until..
POE2: deadfyyyyrre. more interesting items, more interesting characters (though still not very interesting) but a way more interesting gameplay experience. it's just explore, the game. and it's fun. it's not deep, there's not a lot of impact between games (i sided with hylea the bird-woman-goddess in first game and for some reason she had birds shit all over my boat in deadfire, ungrateful, maybe a bug but pissed me off) but I was glad i carried a save over despite that, for some little touches. worth a play, this. but i played poe1 expecting some kind of grand succession of games and it doesn't seem likely. just play deadfire if you bounced off po1 like me.
then I got to Wastland 3. Pfft. Never finished wasteland 2, got bored. Somehow, despite it's daft shit, it was much easier to get into than the POEs, and it felt more 'fun'. DLCs weren't as shit as people had made out, I played them as part of the main quest as a first time playthrough, although I didn't get much of a 'getting stronger' vibe from them; it was mostly sidegrades. all the storylines were retarded, i didn't get a 'political' vibe which made a nice change.
and FINALLY; For a wee change of pace i'm playing Shadows over Loathing, it's great, though less funny than West of Loathing & has a pronoun mention in the intro which may send some of you into a murderous rage. have hit chapter 4 just now and it's a good time, puzzles haven't driven me mad, combat is fun enough, and it tickles me occasionally.
next, i'll have an rpg break, probably play wartales with the new dlc(s), or try get into battle bros again, or rimworld with the new dlc, infact i haven't even played since the last dlc which was massive and i bought and never played, so rimworld for a month or two is probably it. still got kenshi sat waiting to be played based on recomendations here too so we'll see what happens.