I cannot do balders gate 3, or any rpg of that style. I suspect it’s to do with trying to roleplay a character while simultaneously viewing them in that top-down third person perspective. I can do X-COM, strategy, I can do roleplay in third person, but that particular combination just kills it for me. It’s bizarre.

Personal opinion here obviously: Mass effect, or at least the first one, was actually surprisingly well written and internally consistent. Kind of like a star trek lite. There was interspecies tension, people expressing feelings on the state of the universe, but also enough moustache twirling to keep it interesting as well. It struck a good balance between that and a decent looter shooter/RPG combo, at least for my tastes.

The later games lost a lot of that and overly relied on what the first game setup up without expanding much on it, but that first game was just chefs kiss.

Not saying you’re wrong or anything, more just this is what I personally get out of it.

Fuck me that’s bad, last I used it was in 2019, and even then it wasn’t fantastic.

Funnily enough though they’re also potentially losing desktop users to Linux.

Maybe it’s like an uncanny valley situation for the poor thing.

Please keep doing it

Kinda. I wanted to go into game dev, didn’t really exist as an industry in my country at the time. Had some artistic talent, had it stifled by my parents.

Ended up going into IT, those jobs have dried up in the last few years. Now I have three fields I’m good at but flairly unable to pursue.

Honestly I feel a bit beaten down over it.

I did it a few months ago, honestly after the initial learning it has been a great experience. That’s including me having to fuck around with stuff because I chose to run extremely new graphics hardware, and that’s kinda on me.

Continue the 2008 storyline you cowards

Big props for you trying to get people involved though, most obviously did nothing.

I loved it, but I had frustrations. I think there are two almost perfect games in here, the tile based mansion builder and the myst like mansion explorer. Somehow I found that putting them both together resulted in a slightly lesser experience than either of them functioning alone. It’s a very minor blemish on a fantastic experience though.

It has been 5 years. Next door has been doing construction for the past 9 months, they have destabilized two of the property border trees that could potentially land on my house. They have literally lashed them to the frame of the house in the meantime at least. So I’m a little biased here haha

The stress is as bad as you make it usually though. Sometimes you just have to let things be suboptimal for a while to maintain your mental health.

And if it like blows in the wind that’s a whole jigglebone system and wind simulation that’s a lot of stuff going on

All the time, but I think I’ve just got a lot of emotion that I seldom let out, and that’s the only time I can let it out in an appropriate way. I’m not too fussed about it honestly.

Oh for sure, I don’t think less of people for these kind of situations. More at the state where it’s unfortunate but also interesting. We keep seeing these situations happen with varying amounts of justification from people, it’s interesting to try to understand what’s happening.

I don’t think it’s obtuse or anything, this stuff isn’t hard to find out before buying. I think it’s probably closer to people being afraid of fromsoft doing something different, but don’t have words to articulate it, so they express it in other ways.

Running Ubuntu 25.04 with Wayland plasma so it’ll play nice with my rig, really happy so far. My login screen doesn’t display properly for some reason but it’s the last in a list of minor problems I’ve been getting through.

Big issue for me is the direction towards incentivised exclusivity. I can tolerate it on consoles (barely nowdays) because you’re paying someone to use your hardware instead of another, and you have to specifically develop for console hardware. That takes time and effort.

Different distribution platforms do not have such issues, and I don’t want exclusivity anywhere near PC gaming, unless you’re self publishing. Frankly if they weren’t banging on about steam using the industry standard % take, while they themselves are trying to undercut and use garbage tactics, I would have absolutely no problem with them, same as Ubisoft and EA’s garbage store.

Not like wrong wrong, most of my big realisations happen by myself. I consider recognising others points and being willing to modify my ideas when appropriate an invaluable cognitive skill. It’s more difficult sometimes than others, but I’m not going to end up as a closed minded old man at least.

Definitely 456-123 order, I know some people have different ways they prefer to watch but I think that kind of detracts from watching how the franchise evolves over the years.

If you want more after that, rogue one and andor is pretty good, clone wars/bad batch has some good stuff (though I’d recommend finding a watch guide for clone wars, some episodes are straight up kids stuff, other episodes are almost literally Vietnam war and decapitations)

I think the sequels are interesting to watch, I’m a bit of an 8 apologist in some areas, but you have to go in with the expectation that there’s a general decline in story progression and making sense from movie to movie.

Honestly though I think the series has a general decline after 5. It’s all not bad, and there’s some good stuff, but if you find yourself uninterested don’t force yourself to continue after like episode 6.