I contemplated grabbing this last week and I’m glad I did, I’m having an absolute blast! It’s a total power fantasy, Robocop is a tank, and that’s awesome! He doesn’t run, or take cover, or even crouch like some loser, he boldly walks into oncoming fire from no less then a dozen baddies at a time, and doles out…

You probably are more familiar with DnD mechanics than you think! They’ve been used in video game RPGs for a long time. The first time I actually played DnD, I found it easy to understand thanks to years of being unknowingly exposed to a lot of the mechanics in video games

I give zero shits about D&D tabletop, but it’s not pure D&D. It’s D&D with a goodly splash of Larian homebrew. It’s actually much more transparent to your every person than all the previous D&D games.

I had only a very primitive knowledge about D&D stemming from the Gold Box PC games I played in the 90's and I have never played any of the previous BG games.  But I’ve enjoyed this game immensely.  There’s a learning curve, to be certain.  There are going to be a lot of numbers and weird shit they’ll throw at you…

You can totally face-roll it and pick up things along the way. Don’t be afraid, learn to wave away all the details and just shoot goblins with a fireball.

Same, and I’d say, don’t sweat it. While BG3 is definitely heavily invested in Tabletop systems, usually success is more about creative thinking and observation. It tends to have less to do with how well you’ve optimized your sex kitten protag.

You don’t need to know about D&D, it explains what you need to know and failure is part of learning.

The lesson we all need to learn from this and NieR: Automata is that when somebody asks you, “Why is this character design horny?”, it’s perfectly acceptable to answer “Because I like it.”

You certainly managed to draw a lot of conclusions about games that are 100+ hours long without actually playing them, based entirely on very small amounts of information. Clearly, we have found our new authority on the subject.

This is the least Metal Gear trailer for a Metal Gear game I’ve ever seen.
Kojima’s absence is readily apparent and sorely missed

It sounds like Remedy understands the mistakes they made with the first Alan Wake, but as someone who also hated playing the first AW and never finished it, and loved playing Control (and absolutely loves the world that Remedy has built around these games), I’m very nervous about how fun this new one will be.…

hey, you can’t get fired for being anti-genocide when you’re too young to legally have a job! 

I’m glad that even bigger developers like Remedy are just throwing their hands in the air and giving up on PC optimization.

Oh everyone getting on a high horse can fuck the fuck off. Have you played the game? Miles couldn’t be more Puerto Rican, they gave him a fantastic suit based on the PR flag.

Another myth busted: The “cancelling” of Hogwarts: Legacy didn’t actually cancel the game... 

If anyone hasn’t seen it, I highly recommend Death Becomes Her. Not only is it an absolutely hilarious movie with groundbreaking effects that still mostly hold up well, with Willis killing it in an against-type role, but after his condition was revealed, the movie’s ending now takes on an incredibly moving new meaning…

In universe it actually makes sense that phones won’t work intergallactically. Grav jumps enable ships to travel across solar systems, but everything else is still limited to the speed of light. So realistically you can’t talk to someone in real time unless they are on the same planet as you.

Such a non-story. Square Enix just confirmed that a character’s name is pronounced exactly how everyone has been pronouncing it from day 1.

I haven’t started Phantom Liberty yet, I, luckily, started a new V about a month ago, got her to level 13 then dipped so I could save her for 2.0 and I’m very glad I did. Gotta say, 2.0 is pretty sensational, and I’m only on Series X so I don’t even have access to all the graphical bells and whistles they added,…

The sheep is here!