mothersprotege

Weird that I've logged multiple 3+hour sessions on my low-end PC with zero crashes. I guess I've accomplished the impossible!

Ah, the perils of making my first run as a baddie. Hope I still see some of those lines in what remains of act 3. When is patch 2 dropping, I wonder?

It's because Llewellyn is a Welsh name.

Yeah, I think you're right, and maybe my waning enjoyment of that style of rpg says as much about my lack of imagination as anything else. I'm just a sucker for a story I can get caught up in, with characters that I can somehow relate to, and I've nearly always felt let down by Bethesda games in that regard.

Yeah, this is true. I think Bethesda games have just felt really empty and lifeless to me for a long time. I enjoyed Morrowind a lot. Oblivion I played for a while, but never finished the story. Don't even remember if I ever finished Skyrim, which was obviously massively popular. Same with their Fallout games, it's just been diminishing returns for me. Different strokes, and all that, obviously, they just don't have that secret sauce I crave.

I think part of it is that your character doesn't have any personality; you're some total cipher of a Chosen One, which makes it difficult to form an emotional connection to them, and by extension to any of the NPC's. Some of their NPC's have well-written dialogue, but I sure don't remember any of them.

While this headline is true, I don't think it's the fundamental reason for the game's success. Having characters that feel alive is awesome, and part of what elevates BG3 over D:OS 1 and 2 for me. But what makes it great is the amount of control you have over the narrative; how the game responds to your choices. There is nuance. There are permutations. It ain't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than any rpg Bethesda ever put out (fite me).

I don't think it's a cause for concern. There was a hotfix right after launch that affected some people's saves, I think, (I haven't encountered any issues) and they immediately rolled it back. They've released one major patch so far, and I haven't seen any complaints about savegame integrity. I didn't play DOS2 at launch so I can't speak to the history there, but I'd be very surprised if save corruption was an issue with this game. They've got a zillion people playing it right now, the last thing they want to do is piss them all off.

Hey, I run it on the Intel equivalent: the GTX 1060, and haven't had any crashes in the 400+ played hours I've logged (this includes all afk time, and times I fell asleep in my office chair—how do people get accurate playtimes, do they just lie?). Chugs pretty hard in the city, but not bad enough to frustrate me.

Midway through Act 3 with my Ivy Bridge i7 and GTX 1060. Frame rates are certainly lower in the city, but I've encountered zero crashes or serious bugs. And while I've yet to finish the game, I've observed no drop in quality or quantity of content in Act 3. I must concur with another poster in questioning the avowed beastliness of your machine.

It'll be interesting to see who they put up next for pope. My experience of history suggests an inevitable regressive swing, but I'm certainly no papal scholar. If Trump is re-elected, I could see him reforming US Catholicism in the style of Henry VIII, with himself as the head of the church. Don't imagine it would be a big shift for some dioceses.

As far as I can recall, I've never heard anyone refer to the US as "God's own country," though I'm irreligious. The Wikipedia entry suggests it's been used to refer to all sorts of places, and perhaps most notably (pertaining to the US) by Goebbels.

If you're going to copy and paste something several times, and are representing it as a quotation from law, maybe spell-check it? Also, I think there are good arguments to be made on both sides of this issue, but comparing an inconspicuous piece of jewelry to an abaya seems disingenuous. If small crosses were allowed, but small star and crescents weren't, that would obviously be wrong.