What did you do today in any other game out there

BG3

I didn't try to the talk to the two squirrels standing around the minstrel in the first PT because I presumed it's a Beauty and the animals moment; said animals entranced by the Beauty and her music. This time I talked to the two squirrels and 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 at what they said.

I chose to interrupt um a certain couple at a barn. In the previous PT I walked away and didn't bother to come back. Shadowheart apologised but apology not accepted so there was a fight.

Playing from Shdowheart's POV is certainly very interesting as what she experiences in those moments concerning the two Goddesses reveals much about her past. I chose not to pick the Shar options when they're available.

I wish they would not move things around. In the EA, the tollhouse key was on the corpse outside. Then it was on the corpse down in the cellar. Now it's not on either of the two corpses. I looked high and low for it. Not here, nope. Not there, nope. Where the bloody h*ll is it??!! 🤪 Did a search and one hint said it's on the rocks. NOPE!! I went up the path to the area exit then down the path to the stream to a potential companion before I found it.

Borderlands 3

Next mission was a bit of an odd one. I guess two boss fights. The main thing though is like I lot of games these games aren't going to be that easy to stop since there is no manual save. Nothing that is too big of a deal but wasn't much of a natral stopping point and well one thing led to another which led to another as well. But might make certain other things harder to do till Veilguard comes out. Ugh.

Other thing about this game some of the side quests have been interesting but its been hard to do any of them, have run into quite a list of things that just we haven't wanted to do...so off to the next story mission on the list.

Which ended up being to actually go after the Vault. All in one go.

First objective was to hunt down the last of the Vault Key fragments which the Jakobs(ses) put in the beer cellar of their estate, or another estate. Apparently they age their bullets in beer and use beer and also so it will come out smelling like beer. Wild. So we went through the areas of the cellars looking for the right barrel which had the key fragment and we got it. After Alistair and Wainright argued on how to solve a puzzle. Next after that though Aurellia appeared and shot Carhtright as he was saying 'you have to shoot me to get to him' which then froze them together. First boss fight of the mission and it was a little bit of a push over. Boss with shields. And I have a shotgun with electric damage. Got a bit aggressive but still pushed through.

And then right onto the Vault itself to hunt down the monster. Killed it but it was quite an...interesting fight given that it had AOE attacks and also tipped the platform over on the end which knocked me off. But we got it, killed it, drained it and the twins were all acting horrible. We also went on to get the ability to use Artefacts finally from the end. But then after we got out of the Vault the Calypsos teleported Tannis away. Have to say her 'this is Disconcerting' got a good chuckle out of me despite the annoyance with the situation.

Gear was fun, as was usual. Found a shield at the end which gave me a 'damage boost when shields are full but drains shields.' I was like 'mine or theirs' but pretty sure since the answer was 'mine' I didn't want to risk it. Well later I found a shield that detonated a nova when it was damaged and I was like 'oh that might be fun to give a try'...but I missed that it did the same damn thing but by that time I was already comitted. Most annoying and I did confirm. Then fun with ARs. I didn't really like the AR legendary I had so I have been looking forward to it...so I was looking for an upgrade with just a higher gear score even if its 'rarity' was lower. Found a green Atlas, I liked Atlas, so why not. But it didn't have the Fire rate boosts of the others so it fired very slowly even being full auto...so started looking for another upgrade. Found a level 405 like...purple...SMG but it was hyperion and fired fast so...oo. Had a scope even. But then after getting back to Sanctuary found, of all things, a Legendary Dahl AR. Less gear score, but Legendary and it just looks like...well pretty good stats. So without even testing the SMG upgraded to the DAHL and even better it actually looks like a Belt Fed. Only 52 rounds but I must say it does 400 damage, plus, five round and full auto options like most Dahls...and I've always thought that a Belt fed or a drum fed would be a super good weapon. Also still now the best weapon I have gear score wise.

There's another game that has caught my attention and that is Baldur's Gate III.
And i've seen that some of you guys played this game or are still playing this game and to name a few Saandrig Curious Crow Obsidian Gryphon Azarhal Talyn82 and DragonKingReborn and probably more.
Don't be angry if i haven't mentioned your name.

But should i buy this game and can you tell me why ?

Thank you.

High quality presentation.
Lots of builds options.
Cool companions.
Fun story.
Fun backstories if you play as an origins.
Choices&consequences.
Multiple ways to resolve quests and combat encounters.
Great soundtrack.
Great voice acting.
Lots of content (it's a long game if you do everything).

It wasn't called a masterpiece in official reviews and won basically every awards last year at random.

Downside, do you like turn-based combat? Because there is a lot of that.

Thank you.
 
At this moment i have no idea what "turn-based combat" is but is that the same as in the earlier Final Fantasy games ?

Tha tjus t about sum sit up yeah thinkin gof giving it another go when I g ointo RPG mode  aft reVeilguard a sone of th egames I wantt o push through as I'm thinking of plasyin g al 3 Baldur' sGate's again.

Yes.

It's good. 

Oh - more specifics?  

Well, it is a significant change of pace to Valhalla, so you wouldn't be rolling into the exact same type of game and gearing up for another 50-80 hours of the same 'basic stuff'.

The character creator is fantastic, allows an enormous range of looks and builds.

Karlach.

Classic defeat the great evil story but this time you get to decide if you're good...or just a different kind of evil.

Almost every situation has multiple paths through it that are equally valid and satisfying.  Spoiler free example - early in the game I attacked a group preventing me from accessing a crypt.  An explosion blew a hole in the ground and we got in to the crypt.  On another playthrough, there was no explosion, but there was something hanging above the weak point.  I threw a tin cup at it and it fell, blowing open the hole and we got in to the crypt.

Karlach.

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Turn based combat means just that, each participant in a fight rolls a dice and gets assigned a place in the queue.  They take their turn, moving, attacking casting spells, drinking potions.  The game is literally (and visibly) rolling dice each step of the way.

I may have an addiction about talking to dead people. I kill someone, use a spell to change my look to another race and then try to talk to the body (it won't talk to you if it recognizes you or you use the same race as a disguise - the dead hold a grudge, but are kinda stupid).

Sara cleaned up the first stage of Havarl yesterday, finding the third Monolith and activating it then resetting the vault.

Discovered the crashed Turians, one of them Avitus Rix is an ex-spectre trained by Saren!!!!! Anyway he was desperate to find thei Pathfinder who it sounds like he may be involved with.

Then looked for debris from the ark and of course in this technological age had to go to The Tempest, fly to space to speak to Evfra on AYa and to trigger the mission to speak to Addison on The Nexus from Havarl.

So returned to Havarl, then headed to the scientists who had been deployed by The Nexus at the request of the head Angaran scientist on Havarl.

Next talking to more scientists and tracking down over sized mutated animals before they disappear after the vault reset and to finish some minor missions.

Pic's

Havarl really is pretty.



The First Sage, apparently Reincarnation is a thing



Come on Taavos pick up the glove and let the reincarnation/memory recall kick in



Damn Spectre are everywhere, even in the Andromeda Galaxy



Pathfinder working the magic, oh and SAM of course



The Pathfinder, bringing people together



Sorry got to get to orbit to do a Zoom call

Barrelmancy is overrated!!!!!

I installed the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition last night. I'm not gonna replay them yet. I still have Morrowind, Oblivion, Dragon Age 2, and Dragon Age: Inquisition to finish. If Veilguard turns out to be good then I will buy that game since all three previous Dragon Age games will still be fresh in my head. But I've I installed a few mods for MELE like the community patches and some restored content mods so that way when I'm ready to play I don't have to install them.