Highly recommend the sitting in the character’s shoes approach. I ended up

and really kicked myself for missing that cue after. Still one of my most regretfully memorable gaming moments.

I really do think they should have flipped the timeline for the two in W3. Even players of the first two games don’t really know Yennefer that well, so her proper introduction to the player comes very late, all things considered.

Not being immersed in their backstory also doesn’t really convey how messed up it is that Triss got together with a man who lost the memories of the woman he was in love with (a woman she knew).

Headline doesn’t match what’s in the report. It’s not just gacha; the question in the survey is inclusive of other games that offer in-game purchases (課金 in Japanese). So we’re talking about skins and boosts in MMOs, MOBAs, and shooters, hints in games like Candy Crush, etc.

The report posted here last week showed just how much MTX spending there is on PC, of which gacha is still a small part. I suspect there is a higher rate of gacha spending in Japan than there is globally (outside of China, perhaps), but I’d be surprised if gacha even made up half of the spending SMBC is reporting on here.

I’m now trying Giant, Death cleric, and the Hexblade dip for my crit build martial character.

I like the flavor of Giant but throwing can be miserable sometimes. You don’t get the same line-of-sight help when moving around, and I’ve had more than a few situations where I don’t have LoS but it certainly looks like I do. I’ve also already had to pick up my Returning Pike a few times now. Still gonna stick with it.

Death cleric has been less interesting so far but it’s certainly been effective (though to be fair, anyone with Phalar Aluve is gonna be effective). The Channel-Divinity-on-hit hits like a truck. Going to mess with it a little more but I’m probably going to replace it with a Circle of Stars druid once the druid joins my party.

The Hexblade dip has been less successful. I think I’d assumed that you’d get the option of the better of CHA or STR/DEX on your attack roll with your hexed weapon but that’s not the case. So I’m not even using the hexed weapon at this point, just Hex (the spell), Hexblade’s Curse and Booming Blade. I rarely have the Bonus Actions to spare, so I don’t think this is better than Great Old One for my build. With GOO, my lower CHA doesn’t mean I’m missing an attack, just not getting the effect proc. It’s an all-in crit build, so I think maybe once the build fully comes online with Act 2 gear and crit elixirs Hexblade will be better since it won’t matter that I’m getting regular hits less often with the hexed weapon.

Can’t wait to play the new Star Wars game from XCom devs and miss a 90% as a freaking Jedi 😒

Jumped back into Baldur’s Gate 3 after the new patch dropped to try out the new subclasses. Giant barb is fun! My Tav is a relatively boring diviner, but I realized I haven’t played a wizard face character before and some of the dialogue options have also been interesting. I rolled a Zariel tiefling so it’s also been amusing to use Intimidate checks as a cloth-wearer. Got a Death cleric that’s been not quite as exciting (planning on replacing with Circle of Stars druid a little later) and my crit build martial character I’ve run half a dozen times before will be trying the notorious Hexblade dip.

Side note, I play on Honour difficulty and I’ve run into a few bugs/blips already, more than usual. Frustrating as hell, though I guess I could always dig into my file system if I really wanted to load a save for a (legit?) reason.

Early Access games feel out of scope. Half of the point of patient gaming is waiting for a feature-complete product.

Woman-centered is not an absolute. One does not have to be part of a single characteristic of a group to have a stake in it, to be an ally, an advocate, a partner, a family member, among countless other scenarios.

I would suggest reading up on intersectionality.

By the way, all of this is covered in the subreddit sidebar, including in an FAQ in the wiki.

Neither the WvP subreddit nor the Discord excludes men from identifying as witches or from participating in discussions.

I actually don’t have one with Warlock as the main class! I love debuffs/CC, and trying to get my spell DC as high as possible means staying in the class (and short rest spell slots).

Whenever I multi Warlock it tends to be in martial builds, getting the extra attack with Pact of the Blade, or a quick dip into it for Mortal Reminder. I have a crit build I do this with.

I’m itching so bad for the BG3 update. It’s been one of those games where I’m in the shower and a new multiclass build pops in my head and next thing I know I’m reinstalling it. And now I get a bunch of new toys!

The Eternal Life of Goldman is visually stunning. Plus Yasunori Nishiki? He’s had some amazing music lately. I’m definitely in for this one.

I don’t see this one talked about much, but when I do, I hear the story is amazing?

I did like the one on the brand surgery. I had a hunch that one would be good and went with it. However, what I really wanted was more on

but from what I can tell, there wasn’t one for that. Just the one with the flowers. (I haven’t played the DLC, though I plan to some time.)

Ah yeah, this one’s not nearly complicated enough to have all that, hah. You’ll get a prompt concisely describing a new system when you unlock one and a small summary of new powers when you get them. That’s about it.

If Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is the ultimate hand-holding tutorial experience, FFXVI is about as far as you get on the other side of the spectrum while still having tutorials/descriptions.

Even among JRPGs, Persona 5 and Dragon Quest XI were turn-based games that were big sellers. Octopath and Like a Dragon have had some success too.

But yes, it does seem like the division leads at SQEX want action combat for mainline Final Fantasy. Maybe we’ll get something in a hybrid style like Metaphor or the recent Trails games.

This was ultimately my least favorite release of the series, but I agree that the “choices matter” element of the game is quite strong. I always appreciate a lower budget game like this really going for it in that realm.

The story hasn’t aged well for me–this game’s initial plot hook would have looked a lot different after 2020–and it’s sad that the atmosphere of the game feels quaint today. A lot of what the two go through is disturbingly commonplace among persons of color in the US, but then they have this cult chapter of the story that stretches suspension of disbelief well past the breaking point. I’m still annoyed at its inclusion, which I think undercuts the (very important) greater message the story was trying to tell.

I think this money grab wouldn’t have gotten as much run in the media if it hadn’t been front and center in the Direct. Feels like a misstep, but then, so does €90 Mario Kart…

Rumors abound for a remaster of this one, but I’m gonna start thinking it was a casualty of SQEX’s recent restructuring if it doesn’t surface this year.

You’re not kidding. I think my death count on Demon is the highest for me in any FromSoft game.