I'm 100 hours into Kingmaker and I think i'm in chapter 2 or 3 and I everything about the game is really quite good, there's just one thing thats kind of ruining the entire experience and is tempting me to drop the game and Owlcat as a whole forever. Does the filler combat ever let up? Maybe it's because i'm playing turn based with a controller(pc) but it feels like i'm fucking drowning in combat all the fucking time. I'm playing on challenging and it kind of feels fucking ridiculous at this point and the pacing is completely fucked by virtue of constant never ending battle at all fucking times. Are all the Owlcat games like this? I already bought all of them because I heard they were on par with Larian. It doesnt even feel like there's a "little" too much combat it feels like the combat to story ratio is completely fucked 4x in the wrong direction and its blowing my mind and driving me a little crazy. Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?
>>3987832Because your Demorilize action/debuff lasts longer early on, and your cornugon/display/shatter defenses shit later makes them frightened which is a stronegr debuff (though an issue if they try to run and you did not account for it).Plus, sneak damage is valuable in the first 2 levels
>>3987845>though an issue if they try to run and you did not account for ithaha yeahi specced amiri and uh the tower shield chick pretty similar with intimidateit was like a benny hill skit with enemies always running everywhere. had to end up taking the black dude as ranged and speccing the halflig girl into crossbows
>>3986978it wasn't hard to equip a fighter tank and standing by grease was pretty effective for a long time. i played with mercs so filling the party was not an issue but if you hold the levelup for the cheap mercs then they are only level 1 which caused some issues for a short moment right at the start.the problems i had after that though were mostly because i went way too anti-minmax in my builds. i really should have went human on my archer for precise shot at level 1 and i should not have made a melee rogue at all because they absolutely cannot tank and explode whenever enemies decide to switch targets. i feel like it would have been a breeze(relatively) if did that and made some reach melee character instead. obviously using mercs is a lot easier than the normal companions with their shit level 1 choices though.>>3987745you can also cause enemies to reset if you run far enough, i had to shamefully abuse things like that to pick apart the big mite queen pack.
>>3987950Fighter is actually very good for early game. I also have memories from the first 3 months when grease was not even in the game
>>3987957all those early feats really do help. my fighter has stayed pretty strong even through the midgame. has the highest ac on my team, barely ever misses even with defensive(no crane style) and power attack toggled always. sadly there's not really any utility besides the intimidate stuff. regular fighter is just pretty good in general, armor training is super good and the advanced weapon training options also fix a lot of fighter's weaknesses (poor saves/initiative) and i didn't even know about them lol.
I got a significant pc upgrade! I'm wondering if I should go from LE Skyrim to SE. If the headache of trying to manually search and re-download my some 200 mods (if they even exist SE) is worth it?I'd like to preserve the mod list as much as possible. There are some obscure ones I doubt have SE versions. Will my LE saves be stable if I'm unable to port a few? Rn I'm trying to see if I can transfer the mods, NMM managed, to Vortex but I think it needs to be done 1 by 1
You should use this as an opportunity to reset and reduce your mod list to as short as possible. Less is more. I can almost guarantee that you couldn’t tell me 75% of your list or why it’s important.You can also take this opportunity to start tinkering in the construction set and see how the game works under the hood. Make a few simple mods for minor tweaks you want but can’t find exactly what you’re looking for.
>>3986203Dear Diary
>>3986203Porting between versions is not straight forward, either way, I'd drop LE entirely. SE/AE have so many options available at this point. If I were you, I'd just get AE, install wabbajack and install a new curated modlist. AURORA is good if you just want graphics and bugfixing pic related is my old modlist that used it as base.I've also personally been using Lorerim recently, since I deleted my own modlist due to how unstable it got and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
>>3986287>install wabbajack
>>3986218not OP but 75% of my modlist is random tiddy followers I want to fuck
Mine's Gabriel/Indalecio
>>3979683
>>3980588As it should be.
>>3980668No manly allowed, sorry
>>3984613Rean is a Bishounen/Twink not Bara/Manly
I'm about to play Witcher 1 (Enhanced Edition) for the 1st time and I'm new to the series. Are there any super essential mods required or should I just enjoy the game raw?
>>3983390>junk in some places>voice acting could definitely be improvedyour mother sucks dwarf cock
>>3983390>voice acting could definitely be improvedEnglish version is shit and Doug Cockle was a miscast.
>>3983390Use the polish dub
>>3955828>Are there any super essential m-SPEED WALK, choose either 100% or 50% but you gotta get those or else you'll waste half of your time walking around cause it's quite slow
>>3987802NTA but Link here -https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/788
A man, his gf and his dog.Too bad we couldn't have it in Fallout.
>>3987723Tifa has known Cloud all her life but never understood him, Aerith spends a month with him and understands the real him. That's the point of the relationships?
>Princess that is trying to save the world>Pirate that turns out to be a princess>Girl of that cool old dude that died recently>Random jobless guy
>>3980368when i was kid i was really confused on how that dude with no legs gets around.
>>3985929I used Barret and Vincent, though tbf I have no particular love for any of the FFVII party. Such a bland and inscrutable gallery of rogues, and they kill the healer off halfway through the game.she dies a virgin like Christ.
>>3980368>A man, his gf and his dog.I know, I played Metal Max 2 as well
people are going on about AOE spam being the most broken strat in this game (something that doesn't unlock until like 10 hours in) when sagecrafting and rushing health regen gems is possible within the first few hours AND you can be a martial class for the early game. how wrong were you frauds?
>>3987808Should I play on very hard for the first run
>>3987801So it has a game breaking bug? Multiple saves it is then. Can the game wipe the hdd?
>>3987829fuck no. play on hard, then if you find it too annoying/ tedious drop it to normal
>>3987837Got it
>>3987265>rushing health regenMight do this. I love pumping up health regeneration. Especially if there are also berserk bonuses for taking damage.
My life was through once I first laid eyes on her. Wandering in off the cold rainy streets of balmora, enduring the cold stares of the hostile blue skinned nwahs that leared at me like angry alley cats. I got lost in the warmth of her eyes as she greeted me with a joke about elves and whether I had seen them. She was the first to acknowledge my mere existence. I was through as soon as she laid eyes on me. Finished. So when she told me to start a ruckus at the thieves guild with my sword arm I didn't hesitate. When she told me shake down the old cathouse in Suran I did so between sips of Skooma to numb the weight of my foul deeds. The imperial cult be damned, the blades be damned, the nine be damned, my previous allegiance to house redoran was in the crapper, all down the dark and seedy demented spiral of crime and debauchery and misdeeds that had become my life. And to think....all over a dame.
Is she one of the corrupt Guild Leaders? I can't remember.
>>3987509No.
>>3987509Why are you forcing anon go gay?
>>3987519Give her the bittercup and she's chill
>>3986626>My life was through once I first laid eyes on her.But you don't even like her enough to go for her original unmodded look body replacement mods are fine tho
Since a Romancing thread went awhile, how about a general discussion of the assorted SaGa games?The original gameboy series, known as Final Fantasy Legend in the west, the Romancing series on the SNES which the west didn't get until the mobile remasters and Minstrel Song remake, the Frontier series for the PlayStation... and the other stuff that has it's fans probably maybe.A hodgepodge of divergent and experimental jrpgs, from the usual Squaresoft fare and even from it's own series or within each series, made by the annoying contrarians and heretics within Square who got given shoestring budgets and left to make what they want.
>>3986847>EB has significantly worse presentationOn what planet?Both use the same exact visual formula and everything in EB looks better including the UI, which SSG also somehow downgraded coming from the Vita version.
>>3986891i dunno. i thought the Essence of Saga book said it was a bug. or unimplemented. IIRC Blue was suppose to also obtain both Mind and Mystic magic mastery.
We were spoiled having EB, RotS and SF2r released in quick succession. I'm still holding out hope for an Unlimited remaster before I replay it, but I could see a RS3 remake in the vein of RotS coming first. Which would actually be pretty disappointing. I was hoping RotS would be radically different from the original like MS, but it was extremely faithful despite the art change and streamlining.
are there any games in existence that have combat similar to SG or EB
>>3955314Have you played Hat World?
Abyss Remastered SOON™
Tales of Hebephillia
>remasteredthe biggest scam
>>3968767Every year I'm finding more reasons to love this game.
>>3986607I mean like… cancel and block (blocking is still winning the interaction 90% of the time). Honestly i don’t find it that huge of a deal with early game Yuri - it’s definitely less smooth than when you have high agility and all your skills and artes, but he’s pretty much fine from the get-go. Early Karol on the other hand is really rough - I’d probably not play as him until around the start of Act 2 when he gets some of his good stuff, though he’s still a solid NPC with his support skills
>>3987695Yeah half the fun in tales is getting drip fed cool skills throughout the playthrough and getting to try new skill combos
Best DLC for New Vegas.
>>3982248>50s envisioning of the futureRetrofuturism.
>>3987471I haven't played much of 1 so I didn't know for sure.I guess sentient AI is a very consistant thing across the games. From those you mentioned in 1 and 2, to Eden in 3, to Codworth and the Synths in 4.But still the way it's done in OWB bothers me.
>>3987472I still think the main theme of New Vegas is moreso political philosophy, greed, and the realities of war. But yeah the idea of being stuck in the past is pretty prevalent across the main game, and the major factor for 3 out of 4 dlcs.Honest Hearts is more unusual in that way since, thematically, it's about faith and whether there can be a morality to war and fighting.
>>3982384Same. The whole concept of standalone mini-worlds in an open world game is basically retarded. The only one of these things that I found remotely worthwhile, was Broken Steel, and that's because it was a continuation of the main plot. Also because blowing up BoS to absolute fuck was particularly rewarding.
>>3987677>But still the way it's done in OWB bothers me.it shouldn't because the sink appliances are repeatedly and very explicitly stated to not be sentient. They're simulated personalities. It's a clubhouse full of BonziBuddies of different psychosis. They're a bit obnoxious, but they're not real AI.
I'm about halfway through Metal Max Returns, so far I'm enjoying it. The vehicle/on foot modes are kind of neat even if the game hasn't really combined the two all that well so far.Does the rest of the series improve on that any? I'd like the concept and the setting, but I don't think I'd want to play another barebones RPG in the same vein.
>>3985601Apparently, just web searching lost password and MM3, all the passwords are easily searchable. So surprised that the only nice one is the car was mop, and that 99t scrap metal used for that weight puzzle later in the game. Fug, forgot how to get there after unlocking the area by beating Coldblood Dominguez...
>>3987050So…who the fuck IS Gratanos anyhow? Where does he come into the arch narrative of NOAH etc.?
>>3985601The games came out in the DS era, it was always just an internet ARG thing you would look up.
Finished 2R
>>3987822>ARG thingMore like gay advertisement.
YE YEYE
one day I want to believe it will be finished
>>3985543patience my friend
Uh, stop rewinding the flow backThis ain't your modern daynewwave or throwbackNojack, it's just a West CoastthingWe shine brighter than the glow stick techno sceneYou'd better check your EXO-SKELLO-TEENAnd if it ain't the same as ours, then we'll wreck your teamI betcha, we gonna pressure, we twice as strongHomie, you ain't winnin' nothin, no, the price is wrongThey sayin Brooklyn keep on makin' it, LA keep on takin' itDo this for the spray painted bridge with the break you kidsBlack tops where we play since '86Fake chrome spinners in the place of Mercedes rimsBusted our Mercedes BenzBlew up on the 405, no one's never seen it sinceUh, I don't sweat that thoughComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Finished both the first game and Tie just now and wanted to discuss it. Despite the first game being pretty bare bones gameplay wise and the second one being way too easy with how many ways to get overpowered, I genuinely loved these two games in a way I hadn't felt before in a long time. Great OST, girls are cute, themes of friendship done in a way that doesn't just feel like stale tropes, Tie in particular really was able to capture that feel of summer vacation coming to a close especially I got closer to the end of the game. Wish there was a future for this series but it seems like the mobile game was a gigaflop and Mel Kishida seems like he's moved on. Anyone else have thoughts?
are the games actually good or is this more 4chan gaslighting like they gaslit me about troubleshooter
>>3985671They are good especially the sequel, but of course, you have to like RPGs, magical girls, artcore and piano music, yuri (in the case of the sequel), and at least tolerate fan service and Japanese voices.
>>3985671They have both significant strengths and significant weaknesses. They aren't something I would recommend to everyone, but there's also a reason people still give a shit about the series. They're worth trying out if you like the premise, genre, aesthetics, and like games that focus more on characters than the storyline, and are willing to tolerate serious balance issues.
>>3985672>RPGsunlike many denizens on this board, i do like them>magical girlsjust got done 100%ing Magical Princess >artcoreno clue what that is>piano musici'm learning to play piano right now>yurijust got done 100%ing Magical Princess >fan servicei'm an unrepentant gooner>japanese voiceswhere the fuck do you think we are Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3984521Yes, Earth Defense Force.
>in order to hunt down the BBEG you have to go to a planet where evil megarcorporation researches almost extinct ancient mind controlling aliens, a planet where evil megarcorporation researches mind controlling alien, find a mind controlling alien expert on extinct ancient mind controlling aliens and then a planet where you learn that the true BBEG is in fact an ancient mind controlling alien who killed said extinct ancient mind controlling aliensHow the FUCK did they get away with this?
>>3986798don't cry because it's over, smile because it's almost over
>>3986865do you think that the helldivers2 version of this where the heatsink lets you fire unlimited shots but if you overheat the heatsink is consumed is ideal?
>>3986865I'm glad this game's for PC and we can now mod it to be whatever we want it to be. Fix all wrongs.>>3986929I always assumed detachable heatsinks would mean the gun still cools down on its own, but you can just swap them out for a fresh one if you can't afford waiting.This mod has options where:1. Guns cool down the way I just described2. Heatsinks are universal, and thus interchangeable: Instead of carrying 200 heat units worth of 30-shot rifle ammo, plus 30 heat units worth of 5-shot shotgun ammo, you carry, say, 10 heatclips. Each clip fully reloads any one gun, but it comes from the same pool.3. Your omnitool can flash-forge you a new heatclip after a whileEverything's optional. You can have one option and not the others. I no longer accept Mass Effect without self-cooling weapons lol https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1817?tab=descriptionWhat helldiver guns do that?
>>3987047sickle for one, I don't remember the others, the laser guns
>>3986627>>3985806>>3985042you just don't get it... Size isn't everything it's also about how they fit in a wider context. How they fill out the silhouette of a person, if they make someone look top heavy and unbalanced... Thinking bigger boobs is immediately better than smaller ones is a poverty mindset.
Aside from SMT/Persona how many RPG games take place in a modern setting?
>>3951639It was futuristic when it premeired, but it's modern now.... Ain't that something?Uh...>Arc the Lad 1-2 were pretty modern in 96'
>>3987667>but it's modern nowlmao no, not really.
How did I get this far down the thread and not see Shenmue 1/2Fuck is wrong w y'all
>>3987740Barely an RPG at all, just like Yakuza
>>3987667>It was futuristic when it premeired, but it's modern now.... Ain't that something?It's probably MORE out of reach now than it was at release, when the future still held some promise. Society and technology have only slid backwards since.
