Thanks! I have just bought a bunch of new games I will most likely never play.
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I am a game collector. I don't play them, I just collect them.
Make sure the virtual packaging is never opened!! The moment that "hours played" marker isn't 0 anymore, it looses all collectability value
thank you for easing my personal self-loathing a bit!
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Bought BG3 at a discount! 💪
Enjoy. One of the best games ever made.
Not to be a contrarian, the game is good, but I seriously don't understand how it's one of the best games ever made. Just my opinion no one asked for, but I know I can't be alone. Only other game I can think that's more overhyped is breath of the wild.
Sounds like those just weren't your type of game. Chances are I could toss a rock at work and hit someone who thinks COD is the best franchise on the planet. Not saying you're wrong, your opinion is valid, just that to people who lean even a little more towards that kind of experience, to them these games are gold.
You're not necessarily wrong but maybe you kind of are. I'll explain, I played the other baldur gate games in the 90s (I still have the old school big box BG2 collectors edition), im not young or new to this style game. It's not my favorite genre but I DO enjoy it. I played DOS2 in 2019 and loved it, baldurs gate was just over hyped after hearing everyones praise and llaying those other games i expected more. Its obviously keaps ahead of BG2 but thats an OLD game at this point... and man too many people love cod even tho it's what I'd consider objectively not good, unlike BG3 which is an objectively good game (but over rated).
Another game I've played a bit of but can't understand why it's so successful is helldivers 2. I Def need to try it some more and see if it clicks, but it's kind of.... empty and repetitive, like cod.
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Facts sister/brother, spit your shit indeed!
Everyone knows the best games ever made belong to the King's Quest series by Sierra.
/j...mostly...
Ah, Sierra. The game company almost singlehandedly responsible for creating a generation of masochists.
You're still right.
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BG3 is annoying as fuck. There's far too much sequential quest nesting that blocks you out of content for no reason. Not to mention the bugs. Save scumming shouldn't be part of normal gameplay.
There's far too much sequential quest nesting that blocks you out of content for no reason.
The reason is for replayability and having a fresh experience each time. You get blocked out of content because there are about 60 unique paths you can take through the game with different content for each.
Not to mention the bugs
The few I experienced personally were fixed within a couple months of release. I haven't seen a bug of any sort, actually, since January.
Save scumming shouldn't be a part of normal gameplay
Then... Don't do that. Save scumming also isn't a part of tabletop gameplay. You fail a roll or fuck up your plan, you deal with the outcome. Saves are only for emergencies if some bug does come up.
You're allowed to not enjoy the game, and that's fine, it's not for everyone. But your reasons why are poor reasons.
I do think BG3 is a very impressive game and deserves a lot of the praise it gets.
That said, it sucks how finicky it is to run away from a fight. There's way too many fights that just sort of happen with very little explanation as to why they're attacking you. It's also waaay too easy to accidentally steal things and trigger fights, especially on controller.
You basically do have to save scum a little, because one accident can lead to an entire town being pissed at you. If the game had better ways to de escalate combat and some better signposting of consequences, it'd be a 10/10 game
Hold A on a controller and it gives you a much easier way to search for interactables.
This pretty much solved the stealing issue for me.
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Agreed. Also a good time to buy it. Act 3 was so buggy on release but they've been shooting out patches non stop for the last year almost
I’m 100 hours in and just about to wrap up the story (I think). And I’m gonna go back and replay because I skipped a TON in acts 1 and 2. It’s such a good game
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It's honestly the only modern game worth $70 imo. One campaign run is like 126+ hours. Additional playthroughs are possible from other characters, which tells the story from different perspectives. Can go to areas you missed in the first playthrough, too :)
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BG3 is the only game I choose to bought at full price. It's well deserved.
I'm VERY tempted to buy Fallout 4: Game of the Year edition due to my hype for Fallout: London (which releases in April of this year), but I'm worried of getting burned if it turns out to be a bad/disappointing mod. :/
If you're still considering it, you can get it for like $10-$15 on GOG. Same price of steam but DRM Free, and it's almost always onsale.
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Just bought and played through Pony Island. $.75 and 2.5 hours later, a nice little experience.
If you haven't played it already - Inscryption - by the same author - is also really good.
... and I should lay off the emdash for the rest of the night.
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Great game!
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I bought a cat game where you need to find and click 100 of them! They had cute noises and every single cat was named!
What's the name of the game?
https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/100CozyGames
makes me think of this, but these are “free”?
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is it spring? i have completely lost track of the flow of seasons at this point. Its like the game of thrones weather but every other day instead of every ten to twenty years
Grabbed a bunch of yakuza games, been meaning to play those for a while.
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Alright what games should I be getting this time?
But the real question is which ones will sit and gather dust in our libraries!
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I just bought Brotato for like $3.74, because I just finished 100%ing Vampire Survivors on my Steam Deck.
Mandatory you should own Stardew Valley by now, and his big v1.6 update finally comes out next week.
Hades is on sale for like $12.50. It's on sale for $12.50 more than it's not on sale, really.
Red Dead redemption 2 and two spider man games are also on sale.
Really, it's a steam sale. Just buy everything that's at least 40% off till you're broke. My backlog is probably already bigger than I have years left.
Goodbye, money.
If you buy Backpack Battles you can get a copy of Slay the Spire for free ... just sayin'. I mean I am totally not hoping for a lot of people to hop on Backpack Battles, so I will have a lot of people to play against forever. 😏 It has a demo, so no blind buying necessary. It is Early Access but worth every Cent in my eyes.
Finally gonna play the first 3 games of The Longest journey and Dreamfall. I am convinced Funcom are great story tellers but awful mmo creators. See Anarchy Online, The Secret World, Conan Exiles. Great story telling. Terrible mmos.
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cries in steam is no longer a viable store where I live
Why is that? What happened?
I'm not in an affected country, but from what I can gather from what happened most recently:
Steam changed their pricing policy in relatively poor countries from localized affordable prices to strictly usd equivalent because people in other countries were using vpns to make accounts in those poor countries to get games for what would be pennies for them.
I don't remember which countries were involved in the first place, but in those countries now where they don't make as much money on average, but everything is much cheaper, some steam games can cost the equivalent of a month's salary.
That's why the store isn't viable in those countries anymore.
Edit: Here's a source
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Indeed f, indeed
With the state of free to play games, looking at you, the finals, I can't justify buying games I'll never even have time to play
...which is fine. The finals is great!
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Fellow rhythm gamers, the DJ Max Portable 3 DLC is 80% off, get it for the best version of Supersonic.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568680/DJMAX_RESPECT_V__Portable_3_PACK/
Sorry but Dragon's Dogma 2 releases next week and I won't need to buy any other games for a while after that.
Yes, but what if you just impulse buy 5 or so games that you might want to play someday before DD2?
My impulses are under control. My impulses are under control. My impulses are under control. My impulses are under control.
why is my credit card balance suddenly $500?
I'm not going to buy something I'm not going to play right away. I'm not going to buy something I'm not going to play right away. I'm not going to buy something I'm not going to play right away.
OO $35 for every Yakuza game!
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