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    Game News Baldur's Gate 3 Community Update #14: Patch 6 - Forging the Arcane

    I mean. It's an isometric CRPG set in the Forgotten Realms, and it will ostensibly feature some characters from the original games at some point. So yeah, I can see how it can be considered a sequel. But I agree with everyone here that it could have taken more design cues from BG1 and 2. I...
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    Game News Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Kickstarter Update #94: Dev Diary #4, Preorders and Season Pass

    The game is 1 month from release--they have animators, writers, game designers, QA testers, producers, programmers, etc. who have long since finished their contribution to the project and still expect to get paid every month. Would you propose they all just hang around the office talking about...
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    Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

    You know which Bioware game doesn't follow this formula? Dragon Age 2. Bioware's magnum opus in storytelling (Yes, I'm aware it has many, many gameplay issues.)
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    Game News Strangeland is a surreal new adventure game from the creators of Primordia

    It's been a while since the last point&click from Wadjet Eye! Excited to give it a try.
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    Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

    I played for a bit the other day, didn't even finish Eden Prime. Of all things, I was surprised at how badly the narrative design has aged. Every interaction feels so gamey, every conversation a thinly-veiled excuse to dump exposition on the player. You get all these options to "investigate" but...
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    Game News Corsairs Legacy Will Be

    The animation is ROUGH, and the trailer was clearly put together from an extremely early prototype with barely any content. Questionable decisions all around imo, but then, it wouldn't be eurojank otherwise.
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    Game News Cyberpunk 2077 Released

    I agree it's disappointingly light on RPG elements, to the point where it might make sense to call it an action game with RPG mechanics instead of the other way around, but calling it a mediocre action game is a bit disingenuous in my opinion. It's a sublime action game, and a disapointing RPG.
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    Game News Cyberpunk 2077 Released

    That's what I'm thinking too, though I'm curious as to how will all this negative press affect their post-launch plans. I'm sure CDPR expected a much more laudatory reception. I'm probably close to 30 hours and I'm still really into it, don't forsee losing interest anytime soon though completing...
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    Game News Cyberpunk 2077 Released

    The best looking, most immersive urban setting in any video game ever--for whatever is worth. The story is solid and feels like something out of William Gibson's 1980's catalogue, and you can tell it's really not what mainstream audiences expected. I insist, if you like actual cyberpunk...
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    Game News The Game Awards 2020: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Dragon Age and Mass Effect

    There's barely anything to talk about but from what little we've seen: I got good vibes from the DA teaser. It openly says they are dropping the whole "chosen one" story structure that so badly hampered DAI. It's the most re-used cliché in Sci-Fi and Fantasy and we've seen Bioware can create...
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    Game News Baldur's Gate 3 Community Update #11: Patch 3 - Inspiration, Freedom & Pacifism

    I don't understand the fascination with replayability. There are thousands of games out there, to say nothing of books, movies, and--so I've been told--an outisde world. Why would I want to play the same game twice? Even if I do, and even if allowing for replayability is a "good to have", surely...
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    Game News Baldur's Gate 3 Community Update #11: Patch 3 - Inspiration, Freedom & Pacifism

    Ouf, the heresy. But I guess one of the few things in which DA:O isn't better than P:K is in the depth of the combat system, and that's all that matters around here, eh?
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    Preview Cyberpunk 2077 PlayStation Gameplay Footage

    The first few pages of comments are just codexers crying and whining because there's a big game coming out that doesn't cater specifically to them. Honestly embarrasing, and I imagine most of you are middle aged men too. Grow up already, if you don't like it, don't play it. I'm disappointed by...
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    Game News Cyberpunk 2077 delayed yet again to December 10th

    To be fair, all due dates in software development are "just a guess". A more or less informed guess, for sure, but a guess all the same.
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    Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

    Are all companions romanceable as of now?

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