Make gamers boycott games again!
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Sigma gamer: "there are more games than can be played in a lifetime made in the 30 years the industry didn't hate me. I will play those instead, often for free"
Yeah, they could stop making games tomorrow and I probably wouldn’t give a fuck, just play some New Vegas.
/starts playing the original Baldur's Gate trilogy again for the umpteenth time
It's been 20 years and it hasn't stopped being a satisfying experience yet.
The companions in 2 getting fleshed out really helps. 2 lets you start by enraging a brick shithouse of a ranger do he attempts to attack you then immediately recruiting said enraged brick shithouse to go and punch things while shouting about his pet miniature giant space hamster. Which turns out to be accurate and not just one of his mad ramblings despite however many blows to the head he's taken by now.
Then you look up Jim Cummings imdb and realise he also voiced Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, Taz the Tanzmanian Devil, Pete from various Disney productions from the 90s onward, and a whole host of others including many video games.
I have been meaning to pick that one up for ages. How does it hold up compared to Baldur's Gate?
Is not really a trilogy, was BG1 and BG2.
You also expect humans to be the major race in Faerun, yet less then half of the characters are human.
It just does not feel like BG to me. In BG2 you had the main character being tempted with the power of Bhall, and one of the things you are tempted with is the ability to kill things like mind flayer, demons and other stuff like that. You are not suppose to kill everything at level 3.
Sorry for the rant, I like playing BG3 and at the same time I hate how not like BG it feels.
True but I consider ToB to be part 3 even though comparatively it's shorter than 1 and 2 and it has shared content with 2 since you can run Watchers Keep in both [which I often would for the first few floors in BG2 since things like the infinite ammo fire xbow could be bought at the entrance and some other extremely handy items were nearer the top].
Plus story wise the 3 were generally separated that way. 1 is dealing with Sarevok, 2 is Irenicus, 3 are the other Bhaalspawn.
Fucking wot. They literally exist by complete host parasitism and feed exclusively on the brains of sentients... 🙄
LOL I just picked that up at Goodwill for $3 to play on the 360 I got at Goodwill for $13. Microsoft has never gotten a cent from me for any of their systems or games that I own.
Awesome! Get all the DLC, one of the few games where I felt all the DLC was worth it.. Also if you ever get the chance get it on PC, lot of great mods.
goodwill doesnt sell xboxes for $13 lmao, it would have been at least 50.
They did 4-5 years ago when I bought it, before the retro gaming craze picked up. Also got a Dreamcast for $13 6-7 years ago.
They've gotten better at appraising some of that stuff recently, but at the time they didn't always know the value of the stuff they put on sale.
If/when PS2 emulation gets more stable and reliable I'll probably never need to buy a new game again.
There was a time a few years back every time I'd go to goodwill I'd see a used PS2 on sale. Got a couple of them as spares for when the drive motors wear out.
Then of course if you can find some old PATA hard drives there was a way you could hack the system to play games directly off the HD without needing the discs. I remember doing this back in college and putting a shitload of games on the HD but forgot how I did it.
I'm around 7 PS2s deep over the course of my lifetime. I have the worst luck with them. My first two fresh out the box lasted long times, but used ones I get always seem to be on life support when I get them and die within a handful of uses.
For the console with the most games I love, it certainly does not love me back. And as I am the least tech savvy person, I cannot fix nor hack a console without something going even wronger.
Apparently these days the PS2 is completely cracked, and you don't need to do any hardware mods as long as you have the network adapter which lets you connect a hard drive to the PS2. Unless you have the last generation of PS2 slim, which doesn't work.
Basically you format a memory card to put some sort of program on it that lets you play games that you load onto the hard drive. To format the memory card you either burn a special DVD specific to the particulars of your PS2, or you format the hard drive with the software that then formats the memory card. Then you use some PC software to load ISOs onto the hard drive.
Back when I did this many years ago I think it required a gameshark disc and some hardware that let you program a memory card from a computer, so this seems like it's an improvement. I may try this with one of my PS2's with a dead DVD drive to see if I can breathe some new life into it.
There's also apparently some knock-off network modules that let you connect a SATA drive, which could come in handy if you want to use a modern SSD to load games off of.