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@frytup: My cap is 250GB (sometimes it trips at 150 but my ISP never has anything to say on that topic so idk)... if I did nothing but play games with my internet, that's still only 27.78 hours (1080p/60fps) assuming the streaming math functions like this. I do like to have internet for things like GB content so Stadia is never going to be sustainable for anybody with internet like mine. I couldn't tell you what the % of gaming folks are in my shoes, but it's worth noting.

Stadia in its current promised form sounds like it's destined to fail in the U.S., though I'd be thrilled if by then internet disparity magically disappears. I wouldn't be surprised if by next year it blindsides the GB crew because they constantly forget about internet infrastructure problems in the U.S.

Or it'll recoup the U.S. losses in foreign markets, I don't know. I just find the whole thing untrustworthy without even mentioning Google's tendency to prematurely kill everything they do.

@brunothethird: Yeah, I'm glad you brought this up. I'm usually in the "Who would play this on console?" crowd but I guess I just hadn't thought about it that hard before. Hope you enjoy these, Baldur's Gate 2 is one that I wish everyone at least touched at some point if only to really see where all of the "BioWare-isms" from the early 2000's onward originated.

Without the full digression, it also replicates a tabletop experience that I've never really seen elsewhere. Glad even more folks can get to experience that.

@frytup said:

Yep, this was my knee-jerk reaction. Part of what makes the Pillars combat at least bearable is how insanely fast you can shred through the MASS of encounters. It's what made Icewind Dale bearable too! That's not even to mention the really unbearable Pillars bonus/malus system that just feels like a badly designed ARPG. I'm wary of this but if it causes them to actually redesign some of the encounters then hell, I might play it again!

I wish there were more actually difficult encounters that required more than Select All - > Attack - > Buff if you want, without having to play on PoTD and just not have fun.

As a fan of classic WRPG's it's always been a bit of a bug of mine that I've never completed a main line Wizardry game (though I own The Dark Spire, which is essentially a very snazzy Wizardry 1 clone) and figured that I'd do what I do for any of these series... just kinda pick one and go. Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant has a lot of good will behind it so why not do it first? The odd graphics of VI threw me way off and I couldn't start it. I can stomach abstract lines representing dungeons like the original few, but the shitty in-between of VI (everything has this terrible grey brick wall texture) rubs me the wrong way.

After 2 hours of rolling characters, thanking God that full keyboard controls exist, and getting my Grid Cartographer speed back I'm starting to see why people adore this game. All the skill systems seem overwhelming and full of noob traps that I might have to restart at LEAST once to get a hang on a good party. The minor puzzle of getting into New-City was its own reward and that alone has me excited to try and see this damn thing through!

Always have at least played casually, and ever since SF4 I can't help but go back every few months and play a fighting game with the intent to reach my "level" of yesteryear. I'm hoping that the slowly rising tide of UNIST will get me back in, because that game is fucking rad and nobody wanted to play Melty Blood ever so this is the closest I've got.

If I didn't also love a ton of other genres of games and tabletop games, I'd surely be dedicated to FGs even more now that I'm older and have some disposable income for travel.

• Dark Souls 3 is a tragedy of a game that never stuck in my mind as anything memorable.
• There has been exactly one truly excellent, top-tier classical RPG that could approach the greats in the last 15 years: Fallout New Vegas. This, on the back of a bad engine with largely poor gameplay. Not a good look.
• Nioh is an awful game with no clue what it really wants to be and has precisely a good fight -- Tachibana on a perfect run, specifically.
• Science fiction and fantasy literature has never been in a better place, mostly on the back of JY Yang.
• Divinity: Original Sin is the only game out of the batch of Kickstarter cRPG's to be genuinely great and spawn a sequel at largely the same, high quality.
• Bethesda has not made a good game since Morrowind. All their games get passes despite being boring, laughably written, and filled with uninteresting "content" for the sake of it. Sidenote: Fallout 3 is the most disappointing game of my entire life.
• People that can't enjoy schlock in any form take themselves, and the media they enjoy, too seriously.
• Planescape: Torment has an incredible story buried underneath a mountain of prose as purple as Pillars of Eternity.
• Abby is the most wonderful addition to Giant Bomb anyone could have ever hoped for: constant, great content and reveals a specific type of person for all the world to mock. What could be better?

There are games I replay every few years (Persona 3, Fallout 1, Resident Evil 2/REmake) because they are GOAT but generally no. Too many new games, too many "classics" I'd like to at least experience, and far too little time. I'm not counting "endless" games like Diablo 2 or Path of Exile because every time a new ladder season or league catches me, does that count as a replay?

I also have the hunger for constant new experiences -- new meaning new to me, that is -- and that makes replaying games other than my absolute beloved ones difficult.

Devil May Cry 2. Look, it's not that much worse than DMC1 in terms of gameplay, you can totally beat the game just using the guns without ever engaging in the melee combat but that's not my willpower's problem. You know what it does have, though?

Dante fighting a hyperbeam firing building and Dante shoots darkness incarnate (Satan? I have no idea) in the head in the dumbest way possible.

It's not the best DMC, but it's so hilariously stupid I love it. The first time I played it I was shocked. Every cutscene is so freaking weird that I dunno how people hate it this much. Well, I did learn from the new DMC that people take this series very seriously so maybe that's it? It's a fun experience.

Diablo 2 definitely. I'm real glad that I had no way of clocking hours back then. I really don't need to know how much of my life is lost in Meph runs...

see, but it could be closer

and it should be