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I just bought Outer Wilds after the end of the year acclaim it's receiving. Sounds like my shit.
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update: I bought it, and we just finished a couple of successful hunts. It was fun! The game has a real aesthetic to it that is unique and creepy. A "death in the bayou" kind of thing.
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Now that it has opened up, things are getting more interesting though.
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I recommend everyone who likes adventure and exploration games pick this up. It's a must have, rocketing to my best games this year.
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We also got Breath of the Wild for Switch. I bought the Wii U version of this originally, but the disc quit working for some reason. So starting a new quest, I was reminded of just how special that game was to me. So I've been chipping away at a new game of that one. Still my favorite game of the decade, and it might be my new favorite game ever, beating out the Mario Galaxy games.
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Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate 2
Planescape: Torment
Icewind Dale
I decided to start with Baldur's Gate since it was the oldest and I reasoned that it probably holds up the worst. I am not terribly far in, and I am having two major difficulties:
1. There doesn't seem to be a way to speed up walking from place to place, which takes fucking forever, and makes me not even want to engage with side quests.
2. The voice samples are repetitive to a fault. When I click a destination for my main character, they utter, 9 times out of 10, "I'm on it, like ugly on an orc!" This is lame the first time, annoying the fifth time, and by now... oh man.
Can someone who has experienced one or more of these games tell me if I should stick with Baldur's Gate, tell it to fuck off, etc.?
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2. All the characters have their lame catchphrases. Some of them have become iconic. I forget, but there might be a way to shut them off. You can change their voices and phrases but the selection is limited.
Icewind Dale is more straight-forward instead of wandering around on side-quests like Baldur's Gate. Also with both games you can create up to a whole starting party not just a single character if you don't want to rely completely on random NPC's joining. For me the fun is getting into combats while managing a party of characters so I create several to start with. XP is split though so the more characters you have the slower they all level. Back in the day I also read every book in every library and explored every inch of every map, but that was when I was younger with more free time and these were among the hottest games. I tried playing BG again not long ago and couldn't get back into it. Been spoiled by newer games I guess. I do keep ID on my laptop still in case I get an urge for this type of AD&D ruleset game.
Edit: I highly recommend going into options and setting to Auto-Pause whenever combat starts.
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I might get Breath of the Wild for the switch, even though I have it and all the DLC on the Wii u. my kids broke my wiiu tablet again, so I'm working through repair on it.
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hotseatgames wrote: I bought some classic RPGs from gog.com during their sale. These are all highly regarded, and they are the remaster editions that have "story mode" difficulty so you can just waltz through the game and enjoy things without having combat kick your ass all the time. I bought:
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate 2
Planescape: Torment
Icewind Dale
I decided to start with Baldur's Gate since it was the oldest and I reasoned that it probably holds up the worst. I am not terribly far in, and I am having two major difficulties:
1. There doesn't seem to be a way to speed up walking from place to place, which takes fucking forever, and makes me not even want to engage with side quests.
2. The voice samples are repetitive to a fault. When I click a destination for my main character, they utter, 9 times out of 10, "I'm on it, like ugly on an orc!" This is lame the first time, annoying the fifth time, and by now... oh man.
Can someone who has experienced one or more of these games tell me if I should stick with Baldur's Gate, tell it to fuck off, etc.?
I've played all but icewind dale. Baldur's gate 1 is a good game, but it's the weakest of the 3. Honestly, you aren't missing a ton if you skip it IMO.
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It is super fun! I think it borrows a lot from these games but throws in a dash of Diablo and even some of the old game, Nox. I am enjoying it.
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