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LaGG_3, do gaming w Buggy games should be 100% allowed to be refunded.
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Never buy a AAA game on release. They’re all buggy messes until a year or so in.

Sprite,
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I genuinely wish I could find a new career and hobby at this point. I’m just too tired.

LaGG_3,
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Definitely easier said than done, but you’re right - if you’re not enjoying the games, try something new to give them a break.

Montagge,
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Larian games never get better lol

Caligvla, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?
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If you’re into pro wrestling, there’s the Newlegacyinc boys, they do playthroughs and streams of wrestling (and wrestling adjacent) games. I’m not even really into wrestling and I still find them very entertaining, their streams of MDickie wrestling games are top tier.

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?
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How about co-op multiplayer? I’ve seen a few of those for Baldur’s Gate 3. Like Neil Newbon or Jennifer English. Neil plays with his friend Tom (whose surname I have forgotten) and Jennifer with her girlfriend Aliona Baranova. Except for Tom all of them acted in the game.

Lowbird,

I do like let’s plays like that too sometimes - I’ll give those channels a try. Thanks! Though I may have to wait til I finish with BG3 myself, which could be a while :p

I mentioned single player games specifically partly because I personally tend to like those games best, and I like to watch let’s plays after playing the game through myself first, then seeing how different people interact with the game differently. I love watching people discover a game I enjoyed (which for me means mostly single player titles) in kind of the same way I might enjoy showing the game to a friend.

And anecdotally, I tend to feel like groups playing a single player game together tend to talk more about the game in a deep-read kind of way, or to talk about their lives, whereas groups playing multiplayer games seem more likely to talk about whatever is currently happening in the game in that instant, or it becomes mostly them joking and trolling each other. This is just my personal experience though, so it could be a function of the particular let’s players and streamers I’m familiar with. I’m sure there are exceptions to this.

Coelacanth,
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I like watching Let’s Plays for the same reason as you, and while it isn’t a group channel I heartily recommend Welonz. She is very thorough and approaches every game with great respect, usually giving a summary of her overall thoughts at the end.

I found her because of her VTM: Bloodlines LP, but her Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk ones are also fantastic.

ashok36, do gaming w Buggy games should be 100% allowed to be refunded.

You say that rolling back to a previous save “didn’t fix it”? Do you mean that the error happens every time you reload? How far back are you going in time?

Sprite,
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Yes, the issues I encounter are 100% repro. I roll back to before the interaction that is broken at the time, but I had so many broken dialogues I’m too tired. My 2nd refund request was rejected by Steam, I wrote an email to Larian, albeit I fully doubt they will even respond, considering how much emails they get related to bugs. I’m currently sitting rewriting my CV. Some people may not understand, but I’ve spent my life in gaming, my work is literally being a gaming QA tester and I’m too tired.

bane_killgrind,

What drivers are you using?

Are you using process inspection software?

ringwraithfish, do gaming w Buggy games should be 100% allowed to be refunded.

Post your specs and driver versions

bane_killgrind,

This is important.

GhostMutt, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?

If you like Game Grumps, maybe check out Oney Plays.

Lowbird,

Will do! Thank you for the suggestion :) I hadn’t heard of them before.

Essence_of_Meh, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?

How big of a group are you looking for?

mikeburnfire is pretty fun.

Most of the videos consists of two friends, Mike and Zack, playing modded Bethesda games. Their main gimmick is that they are playing games like Fallout NV in "multiplayer" but they also play other stuff (Mass Effect, Inscription, Stray to name a few).

Lot's of military stories, some great gun rants from Zack and a general feeling of just two friends having adventures together.

Over six years of content and still going strong.

Lowbird,

Any size group is good! Thanks for the suggestion - sounds good. I’ll give them a try :)

Essence_of_Meh, (edited )

I also completely forgot to mention another duo - Chip & Ironicus.

This one is a little different as they record their commentary over premade footage. They can also be a bit more... low energy (?) compared to many bigger channels but if there's one thing they (or more specifically Chip) really shine in, is the huge amount of effort put into each and every playthrough.

Pretty much every episode is released in two versions, cut and uncut commentary, to let you choose whether you want the option to focus during cutscenes etc. They are also filled with cool trivia, secrets and just good skill level in general.
They have a pretty legendary MGSV LP where Chip prepared 3 seperate playthroughs, each with a different approach (stealth, combat and goofy).

Besides that, they also have stream recordings with live commentary, a podcast and regular charity streams.

Chip worked at recently closed Volition so he could definitely use more views.

dark_stang, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?
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Loading Ready Run streams a lot of stuff. And you might like the dessert bus for hope fundraiser happening in November.

Rekhyt,

Specifically I would say the following streams fit the bill:

  • Let’s Nope (horror)
  • Let’s Watch (Steam garbage)
  • Rhythm Cafe (rhythm games)
  • Talking Simulator (hard to describe)
canis_majoris, do gaming w Buggy games should be 100% allowed to be refunded.
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You can refund games for being buggy, you cannot however, play them for dozens of hours and then refund them. Steam’s limit is two hours and two weeks.

danque,
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And two weeks? That must be new, I had games refunded after months but with a playtime below 2hrs.

BuboScandiacus,
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Maybe it’s different in the US ?

wccrawford,

I think the “2 weeks” is the line for auto-refund, but they can and will refund you after that at their discretion. And they don’t seem to be jerks about it.

SheeEttin,

Yeah. I’ve definitely gotten refunds past those limits. But I’ve had a Steam account for like 16 years at this point, lots of games, and I’ve requested a refund maybe twice.

StarkillerX42,

Steam is known to be more generous about the rule if you have few refunds on your profile and a decent amount of purchases. Unfortunately the same can’t be said for updates, even if the update makes the game unplayable.

thelosers5o, do gaming w Buggy games should be 100% allowed to be refunded.

I just wanted to comment to say that I find the game just as buggy as you say. I do think that some people are more sensitive than others. I’m playing couch coop and my gaming partner doesn’t notice any of the bugs until I call them out for him. Unless they are game breaking. Within 11 hours of play I have encountered 3 bugs that warranted a game restarts and countless other bugs that ranged from minor to frustrating.

This is typical larian though. Divinity 1 + 2 were the same for me. If anything this game is even buggier.

TimTheEnchanter, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?

I like RKG! They play Dark Souls and those types of games- one of them plays, the other two chat about the lore of the game or whatever. Right now they’re playing Elden Ring!

Zoot_, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?

You could watch best friends play. They dont make new content but if you havent seen any of it there is plenty to watch. Sad they are gone though

AceFuzzLord, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?

If you don’t mind a group of friends playing multiplayer, there is Stumpt. Depending on the game they’re playing, you either get some commentary about the game or in the case of videos like their Game of Life 2 videos, they kinda just talk about whatever because they’ve played it so much.

JowlesMcGee, do gaming w Can anyone recommend let's play channels or streamers wherein a group of multiple people play single player games together?
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Jelloapocalypse plays games with his friends. He also has highlights up on his main channel if you'd prefer something more edited.

LetMeEatCake, do gaming w Current PC is too bad for Cities Skylines 2. Can anyone judge the PCPartPicker list I've put together?

Cities Skylines sees a fairly decent improvement going to the 3D cache chips from AMD (17% speedup here for the 5800x3D). Whats your ability to increase the budget to go for a 7800X3D look like? If this is a genre of game you like and you want to hold off as long as possible between upgrades, it might be worth springing the extra. The difference the 3D cache provides in some games is rather extraordinary. City builders, automation, and similar games tend to benefit the most. AAA games tend to benefit the least (some with effectively no gain).

A 7600X should be more than capable of handling the game though. So it’s not a question of need but if it’s worth it to you.

You do not want 4800 CL40 RAM though, that’s too slow. I’d strongly recommend going for 32GB of RAM as well; 16GB can be gobbled up quickly, especially if you want to use mods in Cities Skylines.

Going up even to DDR5-6000 is not much of a price increase. I’d suggest 6000 and something in the range of CL36-CL40. There’s a lot of 32GB kits in those specs in the ~$90 range. I would not build a gaming system today with 16GB of RAM.

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