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I got 2 games (Division 2 and Gears Tactics). Promptly downloaded both them and only played maybe 20 minutes, max. I was hoping I could use them as some free time sinks, but haven’t have much free time, and spent what I do have, reading or working on an old 40K model I never got around to building. Gaming is dead and I killed it.
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CS2 announcement got some of the boys back into playing csgo and even though we are beyond washed up due to a multitude of reasons, it was a lot of fun.
In the previous iteration of this thread, I mentioned playing Pillars of Eternity, and while I was overwhelmingly negative in the description of my experiences with the game, I'm still playing it and I've put a solid ~20h into the game. Ever since I followed the advice of some online vidya connoisseurs (such as skipping the dialogue of certain companions, not reading everything the game offers which basically boils down to barely paying attention to anything besides the plot), I seem to like the game much more.
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Heck yeah good on you, Eder is my frickin bro. Between both 1 and 2 for that matter. Ultimate wingman
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Yeah, he's definitely great. I'm currently having Eder, Pallegina, Aloth, Durance, and the grieving mother (myself of course too) in my party. I think I'll end the game with that composition too as I don't really like the other companions (except maybe that huntress girl who's pretty nice to have due to her pet but I wanted the same amount of ranged and melee companions). I think the construct from the first expansion is pretty cool too but she kept dying so I replaced her with Pallegina because there is less to micromanage this way. How do you rank the game and its expansions compared to other titles in its genre?
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Honestly I loved both pillars games as they delivered on what they promised. They didn't necessarily blow my mind but I didn't want them to reinvent a genre, I wanted rock solid isometric CRPG with good atmosphere and it delivered 100%.
Comparing some similar isometric CRPG games I'd rank them as follows from games I've actually beat without thinking too hard about it:
Pillars of Eternity II
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Wasteland 2
Shadowrun Returns
Pillars of Eternity
Atom RPG
Disco Elysium
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Wasteland 3
(Not including some slightly similar games in this because it could get too long but considered listing Bastion/Transistor/Hades and Project Zomboid, but they're just not similar enough to compare.)
It's also too hard to compare it to older games like Baulder's gate/fallout/ultima etc because the difference in time is just too great to be objective so I'm just sticking with recent examples. The sad thing about POE2 imo is how bad it did despite improving nearly everything from POE1 in every way, especially the visuals which scale to 4k as well as the 2.5D lighting system it uses which is still pretty darn impressive and lightweight enough to run on jank.
Thus sadly it does not appear there will be a POE3 at this time.
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POE SUFFERS FROM WRITERS WHO REALLY WANTED TOO MAKE ART. EVERYTHING IS SO SHOT THROUGH WITH PURPLE PROSE THAT PERMACHUDRANCH ABSOLUTELY HATED THE GAME BY THE 20 HOUR MARK AND THERE WAS NO COMING BACK FROM IT AND PERMACHUDRANCH SAY THIS AS A FEMINIST ALLY
And trans lives matter or something. PermaChudRanch also stand with israel
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I read this without reading whatever the frick you replied to and was about to get irrationally lolcowsy over thinking you were pooping on path of exile.
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It's dumb. and it's ultimately pointless. It reminds me of the latest entries to the SCP wiki, in which people try to make up fancy new words and abuse CTRL-F on a thesaurus instead of focusing on the actual content. Ultimately, they end up being forgettable no matter how 'great' the writing is. I still think no game has come close to making companions as unique as the old classics. Heck, show me a 'newer' CRPG that has a companion as unique as Minsc:
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YOU CANT WRITE A MINSC LIKE CHARACTER TODAY BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE ABLEIST OR R-SLUR-PHOBIC OR SOMETHING
HOWEVER WIZARDS TOTALLY TRADES ON THIS CHARACTER BECAUSE HE WAS FUN AND MEMORABLE AND PEOPLE STILL QUOTE HIM TODAY
TRANS LIVES MATTER AND PermaChudRanch STAND WITH ISRAEL
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