Were you not here for Baldur’s Gate last month?

The devs have said that they expect most people to beat Starfield at around level 40. To get all skills, you would need to be level 328.

For me, a big difference is that in Valhalla, everyone basically ends the game with the exact same skills. It’s just a matter of in what order you get them.

3) How exactly did Baylan know about Anakin’s fall into becoming Darth Vader?

Christiansen is a good actor. I remember going to see Life as a House with him in it as soon as I heard about his casting and being optimistic that he’d be a great Anakin.

I am on board with you on the maps except for in the cities. New Atlantis is a mess to get around in. Even more so if you want to go to The Well, which doesn’t even have a fast travel marker, so you better remember where the random door to it is. I have gotten lost trying to walk from the Spaceport to Constellation…

Good question and I will have to give that a try.

This seems an odd complaint in a world with 22 Call of Duty games and 40 Madden games.

“2. You can steal enemy ships, which are better than your starter ship. You will have to register it, but that price is less than its worth, making flipping ships for a few thousand credits another option.”

Honestly, the main reason that I’m feeling the “PC Master Race” vibe for the first time in years is just the ability to play both BG3 and Starfield. It’s a case where console wars have made PCs the clear winner.

With the addition of a compass, it would be fine for exploring planets. But why isn’t there something better for the cities? I got lost several times just trying to get to my base in the city from the spaceport.

I did, which is why I cited those two over dozens of other reviews that I did not read. I just didn’t see a parallel between the gripes vs the score. For instance, BG3's terrible inventory system didn’t stop it from getting 10/10, but Starfield’s terrible inventory seemed to be a major gripe of the review. Arguably,…

My read of the reviews is that the games come off as being better than “passing, but without distinction”. PCGamer’s complaints of it starting slow and taking a while to get going feel like if an English teacher wrote “Your essay started slowly, but ended on a strong conclusion”, which in my mind would be more a B…

Some of the reviews are very odd, because if you were to read the review without looking at the score they give, there’s a big disconnect. Maybe a case of “failed to meet high expectation?”

I will say that I had substantially less happy endings for my companions. 

HR always throws a fit if people take off the Friday before a three day weekend, but I am very tempted...

This is kind of worded like it’s a decision from Larian, but I have to assume it’s really Xbox seeing all the BG3 hype and deciding to change their policy so they can get BG3 out faster.

It has been extremely weird seeing so many ads for a game I was (essentially) playing in 2016. Presumably there’s enough people still shelling out money for the loot boxes, but it’s a weird vibe.

A co-worker one room over is also playing this and we compare notes now and again. We were both generally intending to play a “good guy” character, but it is WILD to me just how different our playthroughs are going. He talks to corpses; I talk to animals. I lost a companion to a missed dialog roll. He’s going into a…

It’s the “I buy it for the articles” for the 21st century. :D