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  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Are negative reviews more useful to you than positive reviews when buying a game/movie/music/etc?. on the General Discussion board

    Negative reviews are basically what reviews are for. By and large people only look up reviews for things they already want to buy, so a positive review doesn't really do much but confirm their hopes ...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Games of the Mid-Year 2023: Celebrating More Also-Rans. on the General Discussion board

    @therealturk said: I think that Diablo IV is a perfect example of a game that for whatever reason feels extremely over-designed. Any individual system in that game technically works, and you can even ...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic What would make you hate a game genre less/or even like it if you could change something(s) about it?. on the General Discussion board

    I already enjoy card games, but I would absolutely LOVE it if they weren't all about paying way too much to keep up on cards. Every card game I've quit, I've done so because I didn't want to deal wit...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic I was just exposed to the scale of outsourcing in AAA game development. on the General Discussion board

    People forget that videogames are big business, and we're talking BIG business. We're used to thinking that you hire as many people as you need and you do your best to accomplish what you wanted, but...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Reviews are out. on the Starfield board

    @efesell: Yea, I never really invested in it myself, but from what I read even people going hard into stealth is finding it very challenging to remain stealthy.

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Reviews are out. on the Starfield board

    Having finally finished the game, I think I actually hate this game. A lot of people have talked about how it gets good 10+ hours in, but my journey was far more complicated than that.It took me about...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Reviews are out. on the Starfield board

    @sethmode: Have you noticed the eyebrows yet ? =D

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Reviews are out. on the Starfield board

    @lab392: Honestly, I think the reception is more about Starfield just kinda being a whiff and not so much Bethesda fatigue. The game seems very uninspired beyond the "but in space" concept, and the tr...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Campaign Complete - I want to complain. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    @efesell: For sure, I totally get that the game needs a big bad boss to beat at the end and that the stakes need to progressively become bigger. But going through the different encounters you have I t...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Campaign Complete - I want to complain. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    I feel like one of the things no one seems to be talking about is the absolute whiplash the game has when it comes to scope/stakes. Act 1 is largely ok, you get this grand opening hinting at bigger th...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Baldur's Gate 3 Full Release Discussion Thread. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    @efesell: Honestly, with the way DnD works I wouldn't want to be responsible for creating combat encounters. The extreme differences depending on party composition, levels, combat preparation, items e...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Baldur's Gate 3 Full Release Discussion Thread. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    @efesell: On a similar note, I just got into the city and my performance absolutely tanked. Was already having some issues in the outskirts area, but nothing unplayable. It's also become abundantly cl...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Baldur's Gate 3 Full Release Discussion Thread. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    Having put 50 hours into the game now I feel like this game is the perfect example of a 8/10 game. People often judge games by taking off points for things they didn't like, which tends to come off a...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Baldur's Gate 3 Full Release Discussion Thread. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    @mistersims: As far as I can tell the game very much follows the Bioware formula of having companions at base, talking to them and eventually they unlock missions. You use whoever you wanna use for yo...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Baldur's Gate 3 Full Release Discussion Thread. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    @sethmode: I feel like if they just stopped allowing you to pick up all the trash items it solves like 90% of the issue. You could still have them as objects in the world that you can move etc, but th...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Baldur's Gate 3 Full Release Discussion Thread. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    Kinda funny, there's been a fair bit of talk about how this game sets new standards for RPGs, but I just came to the realization that most of my issues with the game stems from the fact that it doesn'...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Baldur's Gate 3 Full Release Discussion Thread. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    Hadn't touched the game in early access and have now put about 10 hours into the full release. First thing that comes to mind is that I hate the fact that it's a silent protagonist. I understand why ...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Larian Changes Baldur's Gate 3 Release To Avoid Starfield; Wants You To Know You Can Do Sexy Stuff In The Game. on the Baldur's Gate 3 board

    The game looks really great and I'm looking forward to trying it, but watching parts of the stream I was reminded how I just don't like the kinda characters cRPG enthusiasts and developers seem to lov...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Diablo 4 thread. on the Diablo IV board

    @therealturk said:I'm beginning to settle on "Well made but badly designed" as my verdict on this game. There's nothing in here that's outright bad - there's a ton of systems that were very clearly pu...

  • Ares42 posted a message in the forum topic Diablo 4 thread. on the Diablo IV board

    @atheistpreacher: When they put D3 on console (and kinda standardized controls for arpg on controller) they made it so you're constantly auto-targetting the closest enemy in the direction you're point...