The unofficial "So what are you playing?" thread

Oh yeah another cool thing about BG3, in the DA games you need a mod to hide your helmet. Built into BG3, you have the option to hide helmets completely or make it conditional. I think DAI might have let you hide your helmet in the options menu but its been so many years since I played it.

Finished BG3......92 hours, my first playthrough of Dragon Age Inquisition was 95 hours. I did EVERYTHING in Dragon Age Inquisition, missed some stuff in BG3.

Basically the big "evil choice" I made near the beginning of BG3 killed a LOT of NPCs. Including NPCs that have pretty long quests themselves. I ended up playing my character as someone whos starts out evil but comes around at the end and is not a psycho killer at the end.

Fantastic game and easily in the running for best CRPG of all time. I felt like an idiot for not recognizing some of the BG2 characters in the game right away but to be fair its well over 100 years after the events of BG2 so they have aged quite a bit.

Near the end of Act 3 I had finished this very long quest but had not trigger some of the end game stuff I thought should have. I double checked my quest log and it was like "You killed so and so, check their body". OMG, after a while bodies disappear and become bags of loot on the ground. I had killed this guy days ago and looted all of his companions but not him. Went back to where I had killed him and sure enough a loot bag laying on the floor that has some of the most valuable info in the game, just out in a public area sitting on the ground.

I decided to go for minimal mods that change the gameplay, there are spell/gameplay revamp mods. I specifically avoided all of this because I wanted to experience the base game, I also didn't respec my companions even tho you can.

One of the characters you run into a Rogue, and is the Arcane Trickster subclass. They are a Rogue that can use some magic, I ended up using them as an assassin and sparingly used their magic as a backup. For one of the last bosses in the game I had someone cast Greater Invisibility on them then sneak into the room and use their Sneak Attack with the strongest sword I had found in the game up to that point, they have extremely high stealth plus wearing armor that is +3 to Stealth checks. They just got to hack away at this boss and got them down to almost no health left before finally coming out of stealth. Brutally OP.

Turns out instead of Arcane Trickster I could have respecced them into another subclass called Assassin which has abilities that are even more OP at killing bosses and such at the cost of their magic. If I knew that earlier might have done it.

Would have finished the game a LOT sooner if I didn't keep saving/reloading different scenarios to see what different dialog happened and such.

Excellent RPG

Looks like Silent Hill 2 Remake supports all the modern graphics features. You have to edit the .ini to get extra settings like Ray Reconstruction but still they can be enabled. Curious what the mod community will come up with in the next month

www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Silent_Hill_2

I decided to pass on the 2 day early access. I understand many people are having nasty transversal stutter. I'm going to give them some time to release a few patches.

Finished Silent Hill 2 so many times I actually burned out on it and quit playing it every October on twitch. I can wait.

IGN sucks, stopped looking to them for reviews long ago. Was just remembering how they gave Days Gone a 6.5, read like the person who reviewed it hardly even played the game, and it was largely due to that review that it never got a sequel. It wasn't a groundbreaking game by any means but it was still a fun ride with a good story, contained a lot more than I was expecting.

Also its funny when I say "everything maxed" I mean everything, I have DLAA turned on, Ray Tracing, etc.

If I want to get a nice boost in FPS all I have to do is go from DLAA to DLSS Quality. One setting change and I should go to 200+ fps most of the time.

Sounds like someone who got the job for an easy paycheck and not out of any strong interest in games. He/she is probably one those of ppl who really excel at bullshitting their way through interviews.

If anyone decides to get Baldurs Gate 3 I highly recommend picking your origin as The Dark Urge. They do a terrible job of explaining that origin is basically the main character of the game, you default looking like a Dragonspawn thing but you can completely customize the race and class and such if you press a button at the character creation.

Its weird its like that was supposed to be the default origin but at the last minute they changed it, I think because you get to make some pretty huge decisions as The Dark Urge before you know the long term consequences. Maybe people complained about that when it was in Early Access?

I remember when IGN was still in magazine format, actually had a subscription to them. It was ign64.com which now just links to ign.com.

Funny I just got some video in my recommends of someone calling Veilguard a "woke" game because of all of the diversity stuff in it. I used to follow David Gaiter on twitter. He was the lead writer for the first 3 Dragon Age games and while it was a group effort, he was the individual the most responsible for the text and lore of the world. He also wrote at least one of the books between DA2 and DAI. He moved to BlueSky(Twitter clone) laughing his ass off about people complaining about DAV being a "woke" game, because Dragon Age has ALWAYS been woke by design since the first game. It was designed by a bunch of progressives in Edmonton, Canada.

People complained about DA2, and complained about DAI being an "SJW game" and said they were going to boycott it.............DAI was the best selling BioWare game of all time.

I explained this to the guy who popped up in my recommends and he said my arguments were "pathetic" and David Gaiter, the guy who wrote Dragon Age calling it woke was "Death of the Author".............lol I pointed out that people said the same thing about DAI but he was deadset on defending his video. He even said "LGBT characters aren't an example of woke" when 99% of the time when people bitch about wokeness its because they are complaining about LGBT issues.

The only problem I have with games gone woke is when they make the political messaging the central focus of the game and forget to include good writing, story, gameplay. 

I watched Mike Matei (on Twitch) play a bit of the new Zelda game and it's boring as fuck. He had to turn the game off because the dialogue & story was too simple/boring and there was way too much of it. The gameplay was slow & weak as well, to match the dialogue. You could argue that he just needed to give it more time.. but if a game doesn't "grab" you in the first 10-15 minutes, i think it's normal to just drop it and go play something you know is good. I've read a few of ForReal's posts even where he said he had to drop games because they didn't grab his interest early on.

www.gameskinny.com/column/zelda-goes-woke-how-dare-she-star-in-her-namesake-franchise/

ME 1 was tedious. But it's worth at least one play-through if you're ok with the RPG genre and having a grossly underpowered character at the start, at least if you choose solder class which i think is the game's default starter character. First playthrough, it's better to choose a space wizard class like "Vanguard" that basically has Star Wars force abilities.

I don't know if I personally care for that though. I think i prefer the traditional RPG where you suck at the start, your first few level ups are crucial.. you start out as a wimp and become nearly god-like towards the end of the game which, i believe is a concept they ripped from early editions of D&D tabletop.

Although, ME1 isn't in the category of woke combined with weak story/plot and/or shitty gameplay. I know it has the alien politics & biogtry thing, meant to mirror racism among humans. However, I don't think most ppl in modern society consider race issues to be a form of wokeness. It's mostly when they push sexuality of LGBT+ and/or excessive hating on men when ppl consider forms of media to be "woke."

I use my old Case Logic from when I was a teenager as something to put my mousepad on when I am working from home.