Yes, although BG2s starter dungeon is a whole act instead of a few rooms/battles.

But this mod is starting with the opening area, Waukeen’s Promenade, where the game opens up, (similar to act 1 in BG3).

Also technically BG2 has the tutorial area with Xan that is similar to BG3 in the sense of being a quick few rooms and battles to teach the basics.

In some ways the Board being the same is a good thing, since it means they remember that they can’t try to pull this shit again.

Of course it also means they had (or supported) the stupid idea, so they’ll probably try to pull something similar again.

Really no matter what it means keep an extra eye on Unity. When it comes time to evaluate engines this incident should always show up on the con side.

I thought the same for a long time. I had a gaming PC, I had my Switch (or earlier Nintendo consoles), I was covered. Eventually my gaming PC reached the end of the road (15+ years, minor upgrades along the way.) I was happy enough without it so I decided against building a new gaming PC.

Then Baldur’s Gate 3 was announced. I knew I’d need a new gaming PC to play it. Of course alternatives like Stadia showed up at that time, but we know how that story ends, and it ends before BG3 came out.

Steam Deck truly is a savior. I can play the latest games. I can play my old games. I can emulate games.

Plus unlike Android it feels like a Linux machine underneath. I don’t say that to shame Android, but I don’t feel like I own the device. I can customize a lot, but I’m just a user. But the Steam Deck? I can open the hood if I like and it’s a Linux machine with a built in touch screen and controller. It’s my PC.

The Manor Lords situation confuses me since the game is still in early access. Games can be done, and that’s fine, but you have to complete a game first.

the base game is still very robust for a free-to-play title and that what is usually offered for paid tickets are extra items or Shiny Pokémon

They are 100% correct, but what they’ve missed is that they’ve de-valued Shiny Pokemon. If I can just pay for it, what value does it have? Plus, you’re not paying for exclusives just early access.

I agree, but appreciate that Zelda isn’t just “girl Link”. Ganon & Link sword fight enough, with Ganon dipping into magic, it makes sense for Zelda to lean heavily into it. I do think a bow would be fitting, but I expect we’ll have enough creativity with the echos that it won’t be necessary.

Never heard of this game, although it just releasing on early access is probably why.

Ori 1 & 2 are some of my favorite games, looking up a few trailers and gameplay videos for this, seems like it might be fun. As a rule I never buy early access games, but I hope this develops into a great game I can play in a few years.

If not… Maybe Ori 3 sooner? Either way I’ll wait. (And maybe get this game between)

Yeah anyone apart from Larian making BG4 is basically fucked. Maybe if they wait 5-10 years and a studio with an established brand comes in, but that isn’t what’s going to happen.

Prior to BG3 I held BG1&2 somewhere in the top 5 games of all time. BG3 had an impossible bar to meet and they not only met it, but far surpassed it.

I’m genuinely sad at whatever BG4 releases as. It’s like someone who loved Diablo 1&2 looking at Diablo 3&4. Diablo 3 was a shell of Diablo 2 and I literally just had to check if Diablo 4 was a released game. Maybe it’s fun to someone, but I’ve completely checked out of the series.

So here’s to BG4, BG:TCG, & BG:Mobile, shells of the greatness that came before them.

April 30 is the release date for those wondering.

I was ready to buy it before just to relive the game again. I could still play the original, but figured it would be fun to play this one.

New levels are exciting, curious to see how they are fit in. I hope it’s a few twists concepts of existing levels put right alongside vs a new area. (But I’ll be happy with either.)

(Also, please give us a better way of claiming the first star, I hate waiting for hours.)

Based on the headline, “Neat”.

Based on your comment, “Ohhhhh Yeah!” (in Macho Man Randy Savage voice).

I look forward to the ridiculous future.

Someone please correct me, but a few months back on Mastodon I reported a post (on a different instance) and it went to the admin of my instance.

I assume it’s the same for Lemmy.

Goof Troop?

Top down co-op puzzle adventure game. Name another game like it. (Seriously, I want to play more.)

I see where you’re coming from, and at one point I may have even agreed with you, but not anymore.

BOTW & TOTK are VERY different Zelda games, but they are Zelda games.

The biggest difference is that these games aren’t linear, even more so than most Zelda games.

Let’s look at Link Between Worlds. You can do many of the dungeons in that game in any order. You receive the dungeon item outside of the dungeon and as long as you have it, you can complete the dungeon that requires it.

Or let’s look at Ocarina of Time. While the intention is that you beat the forest temple and then the fire temple, you can actually do them in either order. The game will certainly take you on the path to the forest temple first, but it isn’t required.

BOTW and TOTK are definitely in a new class of Zelda games, in the same way you can look at and compare 2D and 3D Zelda games. You can compare Link’s Awakening and Minish Cap. It’s difficult to compare Link to the Past and Twilight Princess. It’s difficult to compare Wind Waker and BOTW. They are all Zelda games, so you can do it, but it’s difficult.

So BOTW changed it up, for them the key item was manipulating the dungeon.

In TOTK it actually went more back to the basics and the key item was the new ability.

They only had 4 main dungeons each, but otherwise it was still a puzzle dungeon. Where they make up for the lack of dungeons is by having a hundred plus shrines. BOTW leaned more towards your core abilities, but also had some padding with tests of strength. TOTK leaned more towards construction, which gave them a lot more variety.

And yes, to clarify, drive a pre built car to the end of the room, is a puzzle. Remember even some classic puzzles are as simple as, move a box on to a switch.

It also wasn’t well done. Specifically because solving a Zelda dungeon requires solving a puzzle. The dungeon builder they let you make was just “beat all the rooms” which isn’t fun.

To follow the traditional formula you need explore the dungeon and run into obstacles. Then you get the dungeon item. Now you return and unlock new rooms. It usually starts with obvious/easy uses of the item, then more complicated.

When the game first came out a friend and I were discussing how bad inventory management was for about 20 minutes before I realized he was playing with keyboard+mouse and I was playing Steam Deck/controller.

We both had so many complaints about inventory and we were using completely different methods.

I’ve gotten use to it so it’s “fine” now, but it could use some major improvements.

I got it during the Act 2-3 transition. I had a fight that had to end in 3 or so turns and I didn’t make it.

I’ve been playing since launch, although admittedly not much the past few weeks, and I think it’s fun depending on what you find fun.

I’ve never been big on the Battling (PvP or Raiding) but I’ve enjoyed the “Catch 'em All”.

I do however agree that even the “catch” part of the game is poorly put together. For example while the game may contain 800+ Pokemon, realistically you can only ever catch ~30 different species at a given time. If you started a new account today and did ALL the activities available, really grinding for a month, you’d probably only have ~200 or so Pokemon. If you played for a year, maybe double that.

For this reason why isn’t Pokemon HOME considered the game with the most Pokemon?

0% chance Chris Pratt will play Mario in the video games. He’ll do the voice for another 2 movies along with the rest of the cast and that’ll be it.

We’ll get a few spin off movies, maybe he’ll appear in those briefly but then he’ll be done.

They’ll eventually do a 4th movie but I’ll have a name like “Universe” or “Dreams” and I’ll be a new Mario cast.

Braid is one of my favorite games.

The Witness is one of the largest gaming disappointments.*

I look forward to whatever this ends up being.

*(I found the Witness to be an excellent version of the game he was trying to make, I just really didn’t like that game. If you hand me the worlds greatest ham sandwich, but I don’t like ham, its going to be disappointing.)