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Stalinwolf, do games w Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time
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I was enjoying it until I reached the first city. I hate city portions of RPGs.

wintermutehal, do games w Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time

As a soon potential buyer, how is the track pad for mouse central games? My biggest concern is playing old crpgs with anything like the control scheme on Switch. It was a waste of 30 bucks to get Baldur‘s Gate on Switch for the control alone in my experience.

doggish,

I love it. The key is setting the triggers as the left and right clicks though. I find clicking the trackpad not great for precision. There is a certain level of tinkering/customizing that will be needed to get the most out of the controls.

I’ve played several 20 year old FPS games with absolutely no native controller support and completed them all. If you put in a little work in getting the controls how you like them it makes it hard to play stuff without all the Steam Deck options.

Macaroni_ninja,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

Trackpad mouse controls are great, even for strategy games. You can fine tune them even further if default is not for your liking.

Aside from the Steam OS I think the trackpads are the other big feature for me to choose SD over the competition.

Jaysyn, do games w Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

Great game. If you even remotely like PoE, give Tyranny a try.

MeanEYE,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

I actually loved Tyranny more, but act 3 is seriously rushed. Also new game+ is meh at best.

micka190,

Tyranny was such a fun game (rushed act 3 aside). I really wish we’d get more games that explore being the bad guys without:

  • Immediately trying to overthrow them
  • Making it into a joke/comedy
MeanEYE,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

True true. We need more anti-heroes.

micka190,

No no no, see that’s the opposite of what I want. I want more games where you can just straight-up be the villains. Not an anti-hero, not someone who’s trying to change the system from within, not a secret rebel who needs to go along with the bad stuff to keep their cover.

I want more games where you can just be a villain. I want more games where you can rob the banks, kill the NPCs that aren’t listening, have a big fortress of doom, and fight-off heroes who are trying to stop you.

Not because of some gray moral backstory that somehow justifies some of it (or that will have people jumping through hoops to justify it like with Mr. Freeze and his wife).

Just because you can.

Tyranny gives you a bunch of options to just be evil and not enough RPGs do that properly.

MeanEYE,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

Ah, I misunderstood you. Yeah, it would be refreshing to see that as well.

Macaroni_ninja,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

I loved Tyranny, but the combat was much worse compared to PoE. For newcomers I would recommend the lowest difficulty setting so they can enjoy the excellent writing and story.

idunnololz,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

Dammit PoE is way too overloaded of an acronym. I thought you were referring to Path of Exile and got confused.

Shurimal,

Power over Ethernet
Perl Object Environment
PowerOpen Environment
Product of Experts
Platform for Open Exploration
Post Occupancy Evaluation
Port of entry

I'm sure there are more.

idunnololz,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

Power of Evil :^)

doctorzeromd, do games w Playing Pillars of Eternity for the first time

What other crpg style games have you played and enjoyed? I’m trying to figure out if I should play it or give something else a shot

Bassman1805,

BG3 runs like a dream on steam deck.

Virulent,

Until act 3 😬😬

doggish,

I’m sure I’ll pick it up eventually. One of my friends had to have a talk with her husband about how much she was playing that game.

snugglesthefalse,

BG3 isn’t a bad game but it hasn’t really grabbed me.

Macaroni_ninja,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

On what settings? Mine mimics a jet engine every time I fire up BG3, no matter what settings or scaling I used so far and I already have the quieter fan in the SD.

maniacal_gaff,

I think Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 are better gameplay wise but the world building and lore in Pillars is unmatched.

doggish,

I wanted to check out Pillars because I think Avowed looks cool, but I do see Divinity Original Sin 2 on sale pretty frequently so I might pick it up. I’m still trying to take a big bite out of my backlog before buying more games I won’t end up playing for years. (I finally played GTA5 last month.)

bionicjoey,

Personally I was a huge fan of Tyranny. It’s built on the same engine as POE, but I liked the story, worldbuilding, and characters a lot more.

doggish,

I also got that game for free from Amazon and I’m planning on playing that next! The premise is pretty cool!

WadeTheWizard,
@WadeTheWizard@kbin.social avatar

We need more villain-as-protagonist games. Tyranny giving you evil choices that were both meaningful, and reasonable, is so much better than the usual "I'm the hero, but I do enjoy kicking puppies on weekends" evil choices in most RPGs.

bionicjoey, (edited )

The thing is, it’s not really villain-as-protagonist. It’s more like “goon-as-protagonist”. You are just a cog in the real villain’s machine. That’s why the choices are so interesting. Because they are often trolley-problems constrained by the world Kyros has created. So you don’t get choices like “will you kill this baby or not” because then it’s easy to not be the bad guy. You get choices like “Kyros demands someone from this town is getting killed. You can choose this baby or this old person. You can also choose not to make a choice, but that would be shirking your job as a judge and omniscient daddy Tunon wouldn’t like it”

doggish,

I loved the original Fallout games. Pillars is a lot like the original two Baldur’s Gate games and the other games like it. Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment. Though I haven’t really earnestly played any of them. I did play the Dark Alliance games when they were new and I was a kid, but those are action RPGs.

Amaltheamannen,

The two Pathfinder games by owlcat are also great.

Stamau123,

Torment: tides of Numenera plays similar to PoE, although I’m mainly recommending it because it was my gateway into the Numenera universe, itself more interesting than the OK game.

t3rmit3, do gaming w What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?

Metal Gear: AC!D

It was such a great adaptation of stealth-action, but people didn’t like that it had “Metal Gear” in the name. I absolutely adored the card collecting and deck-building, and the very deep, seemingly-emergent combos you could pull off.

sculd, do gaming w Metal Gear Revengeance - whats with their faces ?^
otp, do games w Has any of you ever tried the "Ragnok 2 gun mouse"? If so, how good is it?

Lmao someone in the comments said they were sold a used one (at brand new price) straight from the manufacturer.

Then someone replied to them saying basically, “that’s on you from ordering from the manufacturer instead of a trusted store like Amazon. I had no problems with them.”

mara, do gaming w What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?
@mara@pawb.social avatar

No Man’s Sky, but they vastly redeemed themselves.

dj1936, do parlamentarna w PO, Trzecia Droga będą głosować przeciw usunięciu Bosaka
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Niedawno kolega nauczyciel opowiadał mi, że uczniowie, którzy na lekcji mówili, że są libkami, najebali się na wycieczce szkolnej i wyszło na niej, że są naziolami. :)

jonsnothere, do gaming w What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?

Unpopular opinion because it’s so recent, but I think Starfield is/will be in this category

Joker,

It will be if they give it some TLC like CD PROJEKT and Hello did with their games. There’s a lot to like about Starfield, but it has problems that have a big impact on gameplay. I don’t want to deal with that inventory system for the hours it will take for me to enjoy the story. In general, the menus kinda suck. They really need to work on the ergonomics.

barsoap,

Bethesda never does that and from what I’ve heard the modding community still won’t switch away from Skyrim. They, too, are tired of Bethesda’s shit and they already invested so much time in Skyrim to fix it up they might just as well continue.

Wrrzag,
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The problem with starfield is not technical but that the writing is pretty crappy in general. Technical or feature problems can be fixed (cyberpunk or no man’s sky did it) but the story can’t be extensively rewritten without making it a different game.

Joker,

Is the story that bad? I played a few hours and I was into it. Does it get worse later? I set the game aside because it was buggy and didn’t exactly run well. I’m planning to pick it up again after it gets some updates.

In the 6 or so hours I played, it was the inventory and menus that drove me crazy more than anything else. They are so poorly designed and implemented that I wonder if anyone actually played the game during testing. I can’t see myself continuing the game until they are improved.

Wrrzag,
@Wrrzag@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s the kind of thing that the more you think about it the more flaws you find. The stories from the different factions also feel very disconnected, like Skyrim’s. Everything seems to exist in a vacuum).

But don’t take me for my word, if you already have it play the game and see if you enjoy it, that’s what’s important.

Fonderthud,

Liked the main story well enough. Not as good as Morrowind but on par with FO3/4 and Skyrim which I grade as mediocre. Starfield does have some of my most enjoyed faction quests though.

Biggest failings to me were the repetitive POIs and half finished sub systems that while functional could have been so much better. I’m still happy with my purchase and see myself playing again over the coming years but it’s understandable why so many people walked away from it.

noyesster, do gaming w What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?

Unpopular opinion, but I enjoyed the hell out of Redfall. It wasn’t what most people wanted from Arkane and I completely agree, but it was still a lot of fun and didn’t deserve all the hate it got. It isn’t perfect and had a ton of bugs, but the scores it received made no sense and it seemed like it was just fun to jump on the hate bandwagon.

minishoemaze, do gaming w Metal Gear Revengeance - whats with their faces ?^
@minishoemaze@beehaw.org avatar

:)

lupec,

Best Brazilian representation in gaming bar none tbh, love the guy

Catastrophic235,
@Catastrophic235@midwest.social avatar

weakest male in Brazil

AliasAKA, do games w Has any of you ever tried the "Ragnok 2 gun mouse"? If so, how good is it?

Eh, I’d personally just get a more ergonomic vertical mouse, wired if you need the absolute lowest latency. Much easier to come by and they’re cheap. I used an evoluent I think it was wireless mouse for DotA2 when I played it ranked years ago, and I found it more than capable to climb the ranks with it. I also have a Logitech gaming mouse, for comparison.

Some vertical mice can easily be found on Amazon or anywhere really. Logitech makes one (it’s okay) and a few others as well.

Conversely, if just looking for more ergonomics, you could try a hyperlight mouse with a good gliding wrist wrest.

southsamurai, do games w Has any of you ever tried the "Ragnok 2 gun mouse"? If so, how good is it?
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

There is zero point to that beyond the looks. You can get mice with better ergonomics. maybe if it had some ability to be used like a gun in fps games, it would make sense. But as just another mouse? It isn’t even a good gimmick.

zeshi, do parlamentarna w PO, Trzecia Droga będą głosować przeciw usunięciu Bosaka

Drugim dobrem jest to, by Prezydium Sejmu obradowało w taki składzie, którzy będzie najlepszy dla Sejmu.

ah, więc to o dobro sejmu chodzi, a nie o brak dobra faszyzmu.

Nie rozumiem tego pieszcenia się z Konfą. Ostatecznie nie są przcież potrzebni, niech zgniją.

BubsyFanboy,
@BubsyFanboy@szmer.info avatar

Chyba o prostu chcą w ten sposób pokazać że prawica jest cały czas witana w roli marszałka a brak marszałka PiSu to wyłącznie ich wina.

nudnyekscentryk,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

Ale przecież Konfa nie straci wicemarszałka, tylko chodzi konkretnie o osobę Bosaka.

misk,
@misk@sopuli.xyz avatar

Jeśli Konfederacja zrobi cokolwiek z Brunem, to stracą pewnie posłów Konfederacji Korony Polskiej. Bez nich nie mają dość posłów do założenia / utrzymania koła parlamentarnego, a tylko te mają reprezentację w prezydium sejmu.

nudnyekscentryk,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

tak, tyle że ja się odnoszę do tego, że lewica wnioskując o odwołanie bosaka chciała kogoś innego z ich klubu na tym stanowsiku, kogoś mniej kontrowersyjnego (typu tyszka czy inny wawer), a nie chodziło stricte o wykluczenie konfy z prezydium. analogicznie do case’u witek – pis cały czas ma miejsce w prezydium, tylko nie chcą wystawić kandydata bardziej akceptowalnego dla reszty sali

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