Tuxedo Catfish posted:

I'm never going to play BG2 again because the gameplay is rear end.

Randallteal posted:

Inquisition is a deeply uneven game, but it had by far the best characters, vo and writing Bioware's done.

Endorph posted:

the asari party member in that game was really boring unless you do the sidequest where seh gets replaced by a succubus

Spring Break My Heart posted:

BG2 is still the clear best of that type of gameplay. I liked Pillars well enough but it was as blatant an attempt to recreate it as you could possibly have. I'd also take it over any western ARPG that was mentioned.

Cuntellectual posted:

I've never found Bioware to have significantly better writing than any random CoD installment.

Cuntellectual posted:

Can you give any examples?

Cuntellectual posted:

I mean, I pretty obviously disagree, I was more meaning can you explain why you think a given character is well written?

Cuntellectual posted:

I wonder if the writers at Bioware said the same thing.

Jay Rust posted:

I recently replayed Dragon Age 1, and I liked every companion. Well maybe not Leliana the Bard, she’s pretty boring, but Sten, Zevran, Morrigan, even Alistair and Wynne have got great stuff going for them and talking to them is a delight

Jay Rust posted:

What are some games with good dialogue animations?

precision posted:

Palpek posted:

What are the predictions about Monster Hunter: World?

Ms Adequate posted:

Supernova hot take.

Ms Adequate posted:

fuckin cowards don't just credit Varric and nobody else


eat my ENTIRE rear end, da2 has flaws but the characters sure as gently caress don't number among them

lets hang out posted:

Well it's definitely not running at 60 fps or even 30 then

Olive! posted:

Eugh

Samuringa posted:

The dude speedrunning Bloodborne right now looks exactly like what I expected a Bloodborne Speedrunner would look

Real hurthling! posted:

You get like 4-6 vials on every boss run in the game. Try not using them for a few rounds while you learn the attacks if you really need 20 to beat a boss like a chump.

FirstAidKite posted:

Yeah, but it's still pretty funny that something like that managed to pass through. It'd be like if a dungeons & dragons game gave the dwarves a racial ability involving rushing headfirst at stuff but never actually defined what that talent was.

homeless snail posted:

its more common than you'd think, I never got the impression that p&p rpgs are rigorously playtested at least in the sense like someone has worked every single page of the book into a game. core mechanics sure, but even D&D ends up with lots of stuff that makes no sense or is just hosed up until they go back and issue errata

Internet Kraken posted:

I dunno how anyone can think video games are more of a cultural waste than movies right now. Modern cinema is absolutely dire in pretty much every way. There's a lot more innovation going on in games whereas movies have been treading water for years now.

CJacobs posted:

I mean... The Room is entertaining

Jay Rust posted:

Dungeons and Dragons Chat reminded me that I’ve owned Neverwinter Nights 2 for years now and never even tried it.

Yikes. Ugly and janky as gently caress

al-azad posted:

Skip to Mask of the Betrayer. You’re not missing anything.

Harrow posted:

I don't run Dungeon World much anymore, but it absolutely made me a better GM. It forced me to kick a lot of bad habits and stop doing a lot of things that were probably making my games less fun for my players. It also served as a great introduction to roleplaying for some of my friends who'd never done it before and never really thought of themselves as "nerdy" enough to do tabletop roleplaying, and now they play in all of my games and kick rear end at RPGs.

If nothing else, I hope everyone who plays any *World game comes away with one lesson: if there's no interesting consequence for failure, just don't bother having the players roll. If your players have to roll for easy things, it makes their characters seem like bumbling idiots; if they have to roll for tedious things when there's nothing to be lost if they fail, it just grinds the action to a halt for no reason. What I try to implement from Dungeon World in all the games I run is that whenever a player rolls a die, something happens. Either they succeed, they succeed with a cost (or other drawback), or the consequence of failure leads to another interesting scenario and pushes the players to take more risks to get out of a jam.

Harrow posted:

The way I've seen it described is that it's more like each encounter is a puzzle with a "correct" solution rather than XCOM's focus on in-the-moment tactics, though I haven't played it myself yet.

exquisite tea posted:

Just buy DOS2 as it's a straight upgrade to every single thing about Original Sin.

homeless snail posted:

I don't think they've said what it is yet. I'm expecting a moba with loot crates

Zaphod42 posted:

It wouldn't be that hard for any store that can accept credit cards to accept something like bitcoin, if bitcoin was better established.

That said, right now its a wildly speculative trade good, not really a currency. Its like if Walmart posted their prices in amount of some company's stock or something. It changes too often and way too much to be effective as a currency. And everybody buying it right now is buying it because of hype, its definitely a bubble like the dot-com bomb, and its gonna burst and lots of people are gonna get stuck with worthless coins.

Then like 40-80 years later Visa will merge with Mastercard and incorporate blockchain technology into its credit cards, and they'll become accepted as the official vendor of US credits, which will replace paper money entirely.

I said come in! posted:

Is Monster Hunter World a game you absolutely have to play with other people? Is it a pretty challenging game?

In Training posted:

A home brew Vita can barely run anything more intensive than a ps1 game, there's no way that's remotely functional or real

Ciaphas posted:

please play monster hunter