Hello everyone. Hope everyone had a good week and weekend. I got my PC set up again after moving so I’ve been back on the Balatro grind, and also continued to dabble in Rome Total War: Barbarian invasion.
Working on Main and MG questlines in Oblivion Remastered. Then I’ll do the SI expansion and “retire” my Hero of Kvatch-turned-Madgod (at least until Beth adds official mod support and people start making quest mods).
started Stray Gods recently, liking the story so far, the songs work well in between dialogue, I like visual novel type stuff and should play more in that genre (it’s also why I play ESO, the massive amount of quests and character dialogue, all voiced), I was also around 20-30% into Star Trek Resurgence and stopped a while ago and really should restart that and finish it
Tangentially-related, I was thinking about actually getting into ESO (instead of just obsessively skimming the lore) now that I have a decent amount of disk space and have been in need of a TES fix since Oblivion Remastered. I even got the Roads to Power DLC for CK3 so I can play an adventurer in Elder Kings.
He’s got his hooks into me yet again.
that’s sort of how I got there too, wanted to play more stories in that world after Skyrim, the quests in ESO are simpler than the single player games but the lore and vibes are there, also the overland/quest enemies are underpowered so at some point you would have to self-nerf a bit to keep it interesting, they are also unlocking access to all other classes’ skills soon so harder story content (dungeons) will be easier when playing solo
Just started Persona 3 Reload. As a longtime fan of the series, I do find it a little strange. Everything is laid out exactly as it was when this game came out on the PS2, but it’s all shiny and high rez. They didn’t take the opportunity to redesign much at all, so you see stuff like the interior of the dorms that feels very much like a 2000s era video game building interior where the ceiling is unrealistically high on each floor because they didn’t know how to program a camera back then, but again, super modern textures and lighting on top of that. It reminds me a little of those YouTube videos by like beginner game devs who import a bunch of Nintendo assets into Unreal engine and label it like 4K realistic Mario or something. Thankfully the UI sells the authentic experience.
But boy, did they overhaul the main dungeon and combat. That shit is smooth as hell and just as engaging as Persona 5. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the new vocalist so far. She just doesn’t give the battle theme the swag it used to. Something about the way she over-pronounces “baby, baby” bugs me, I guess lol.
That’s exactly how I felt when I played P3R, as someone who last beat it back in… 2014. They kept it the same but perfected the visuals, improved the QoL dramatically and had a lot of unnecessary fat trimmed, particularly from the dungeon crawling aspect.
The rework of Mass Destruction seems to be polarizing but I absolutely fw It’s Going Down Now (I just wish it played at a 50% chance instead of every time you get the battle advantage).
Warframe. I did it. I finally did it. I got every single warframe. Now, I can finally play the game.
By which I mean, start grinding out every OTHER thing!
Still playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
Thinking about killing Lae’zel
Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3
You can find documents that prove to her that the entire way her society is structured is based on a lie and convince her to oppose the Githyankkki status quo.
Sadly, it’s some great man “the good king was usurped and slandered and now the evil queen is in control” type shit instead of something based and communist, but what can you expect from most mainstream writers?
