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One to try out at some point, sounds like a solid effort. Good review.

It should be quite doable as people as saying Tactician isn’t as hard as previous games, and I’m currently going through DOS2 on Honour and Tactician and finding it quite pleasant barring a few scary my encounters. I’ll probably also do a few origin playthroughs so will defo try for this.

@Fiendish-Beaver That’s a great point! Hadn’t even thought of that, there could be some cool stuff they can still do.

Really appreciate the review! Looks like one to get when there’s nowt on backlog or if I’m craving this type of game.

@Fiendish-Beaver Would temper expectations for anything massive as they’ve said it would be too tricky to boost levelling, so they may have to get creative with little bits.

@Northern_munkey lack of physical is a bit annoying. The collector’s edition looked amazing though if you want lovely art, but probably a stretch if you’re just looking to try it out and not too into DnD.

Great deal for Midnight Suns, so much content and great gameplay for the price.

Will we get a review of this by chance? I do like my strategy RPGs.

That’s a shame, but looks like “not even on sale” experience.

I’d give it a chance if we could have more of a look at the gameplay loop. Will always give a narrative game a chance.

Always carry an explosive barrel or two, noted.

Interesting direction to go in after Forgotten City. That was a great game so will check this out at some point.

@Northern_munkey This sounds like defending an oil company because they pay another company to “plant trees”. Every single company has a charitable program, it’s part of PR. That doesn’t mean they’re a good company. Why should people mention the good things when it doesn’t really tell us anything about them beyond they’re a modern company when it comes to charity?

@gollumb82 Would recommend Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous if you want another expansive turn-based RPG, another excellent game by an excellent studio now working on a Warhammer CRPG.

Think I’m finally coming around to starting with a Sorc-based class as none of the Origin characters apply as far as I can tell. Sort/Fighter, Sorc/Paladin, Sorc/Bard, or something like that.

Who the hell is called D’artagnan these days? Need them to do all promos, let’s bring that name into popularity.

Imagine they’ll add a mirror or something like in DOS2. That said, I’m quite curious to see what little good bags they add to the game. DOS2 had some pretty cool and powerful mods that transformed a playthrough and they were sprinkled throughout time as little free DLCs.

@mcdreamer Sweeet, you’re tempting me. Do we know about trophy support for cross saves? One of the few things making me wait for full release.

Great idea. We’ve already had people fleeced on Kickstarter. AI could lead to a lot of generic shovelware being output with enough gloss to tempt people in. These projects should be the passion projects they always intended to be.

Tbh 4 hrs works for a single-shot experience. If it becomes too long you have to resort to tricks to extend the narrative for a single protagonist. This would feel natural. Interested if I can get a deal.

@themightyant Agreed. I played it on Master from the start and it was extremely frustrating sometimes. It was my choice, but it really dented my experience even after platting it. Amazing from a small dev outfit though.

@rjejr Watch it, it’s ace.

Hoping to squeeze this in before BG3, but have a couple off the backlog to finish. Happy for them, the first game was criminally underrated.

Really dig the sound of her demo stuff. Interesting that Kevin Penkin follows her on Twitter, could easily see her helm some epic Made in Abyss style anime.

@Gamer_Guy Ah did not know that, thanks. Though would like to play it one go tbh.

@riceNpea Not sure what on Earth you’re talking about.

@Elodin That’s the bright side of having a month to wait for us, we should have some great builds waiting for us. I’m thinking of going custom but still can’t decide on a class. Fextralife and Mortismal Gaming have done some great overview and comparison videos on YouTube. Going through them atm.

Been waiting for a complete edition to pick this up. Looks like waiting a bit more.

I’m curious to see how this works. They’ve hinted that you can use it for good as well, but that there will be consequences. Could we literally turn into playable mindflayers, the way the Pathfindr let you become a dragon? Even if not, buzzing for this. Been going through the plot of BG1 & 2 again and quite looking forward to how it all ties in together.

Lol this is hilarious. And it shows why AI is nowhere near where people think it is. It’s going to dilute the quality of content across the web.

Haven’t taken holiday yet this year, this seems like a decent reason to. Need to start planning some builds. Good thing for us console people is we’ll have a month of PC players optimising fun builds based on the full game. There should be some fun stuff to pick up.

Third person shooting looks doooodgy but interesting and premise.

Just feel like gameplay will get old pretty quick. There doesn’t seem to be a genuine variety in spells from what I’ve seen, they’re all variations of shooting with some defensive ones. But maybe the final game has more depth.

Really dig the concept. One I’ll be checking out.

@Bunchesopuppies You can play the whole thing solo. I solo’d the first. People say it’s a lot harder on your own but I had specific builds in mind when I played so found it good fun, apart from a couple of infuriating bosses. They’ve actually added a character class that has an AI companion doggo for people who want an easier time playing solo. Looking forward to checking it out.

Previews have also started coming from those who got hands on at the panel and pretty much everything being said is positive, so that’s probably a huge factor too, especially since the previews are showing how much more there is beyond what was covered in early access.

Wahey a Joe Abercrombie reference! You’re now my favour writer on this site Khayl.

@Mio_Nakashima True enough, but you’d be surprised, there’s not many games that take that long to platinum. I just finished Kena and that took me 16 hrs. I won’t bother if it’s too grindy and frustrating, or requires a commitment to online, so I make judgement calls because some platinums can actually negativley influence your experience of the game. Finishing Kena on Master difficulty showed me how ***** some of the boss mechanics were, for instance. Probably wouldn’t have noticed on Story mode, but I’d do feel like I’d mastered the combat by the end.

Agree with the incentives for trophies but on the other hand having no incentives means it’s truly optional since there’s nothing to gain. If you add a bonus to it, some people may feel obligated to do it even when they’re not.

@Flaming_Kaiser oh 100%. For instance, Pathfinder WotR and Divinity OS2 are some of my favourite games, but I didn’t platinum them because of how long it takes and having to play on the tactician difficulties. More a rule of thumb I guess. I almost never bother if there are online trophies.

@Mio_Nakashima I tend to platinum games I really enjoy, not because I want the digital trophy, but because trophies are usually a decent way to check you’ve experienced as much of what the game has to offer, sometimes forcing you to engage in mechanics you might actually not use much.

When I platinum a game, I can put it away knowing I’ve done everything I’d want to do in a game I enjoyed.

Surprised there’s been no coverage of the other stuff they showed on this site. This game is looking phenomenal.

@RadioHedgeFund It does though. The Druid mentions the this happens to him involuntarily sometimes, and despite him being the one to arrange this meet-up wants to cancel it out of embarrassment. This is basically showing him that you accept him, but in a funny and silly way. It’s an RPG for god’s sake, you can make it mean what you want in the story of the character you’re playing, they’re just giving you options, you don’t have to pick it.

We need to know what happened on that night out. How do you lose it sitting at a bar? There’s more going on here, possibly involving animals, drugs and a colourful cast of characters.

Sounds a teeny bit like Destiny’s gambit mode, but more bonkers.

Absolute horseshit, what does this have to do with inflation? It’s virtual currency ffs.

They over-promised and under-delivered. The fact that you say there are aspects of the game you need to rebuild is never a good thing. This worries me that they haven’t learned at all and people are all too willing to let them slide now.

Why? There’s quite a bit of repetition in dungeons anyway, just let people optimise. Nothing worse than nerfing a single player experience if it’s not game breaking. It’s convenience.

I was initially worried they would gloss over the issues in that industry but the fact they highlighted it in a funny way is brilliant, satirising it and exaggerating it to great effect. Hope this game does well.

I think we need to stop calling this an RPG because it sets the wrong expectations. It’s a good action game and looks like it will get better, and while they will fix some of the RPG elements, that doesn’t mean it becomes an RPG because it’s not really built that way. There’s nothing wrong with it being a great action game and saying it’s going to be the RPG we dreamed of is exactly what set people against this game at launch when they went in expecting a huge world changing RPG with deep systems.

Looks promising but I’m very suspicious about Ubisoft gameplay videos. We should all remember what happened with the Watchdogs games. Cautious, but interested, although the gunplay doesn’t look great tbh, and I have a feeling much of the ship action will be scripted.

@pyrrhic_victory Exactly, but that doesn’t support his argument so we’ll just ignore those valid data points.