Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (Steam)

It was okay, but also not excellent. It was a lot longer than I was expecting. I managed to get most of my party back together that I used in the main game- with the exception of Branwen (who isn't in the game) and Imoen of course. Imoen is no loss, as I've always found her annoying and only had her in my party because she is sort of cannon for the story. I relaced Branwen with the Goblin Shaman to back up Viconia with healing. Apart from the Goblin, I wasn't really into the other new characters. The famous Trans side character met with an accident...something fell on her head.

The game started off quite good for the early areas. But the closer to the ending things got, the more crappy it got. I'll give them some credit for at least trying something different for the end game areas- but the system just doesn't really allow for a good representation of a large-scale battle...I just let all of the support troops go in and get massacred and then went in after them and mopped up. The final fight was very easy for this series. Overall, it was okay, I'm glad I finally played it, but no one should consider it essential for playing the series by any means.

Trails of Cold Steel 2
Trails of Cold Steel 3
Trails of Cold Steel 4
Trails into Reverie
Final Fantasy 16
Trails through Daybreak
Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Ghost of Tsushima
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
God of War (2018)
God of War Ragnarok
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
Indiana Jones
Yakuza 0
Yakuza 1 Kiwami
Yakuza 2 Kiwami
Judgement
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
Plague Tale – Innocence
Yakuza Like a Dragon Ishin
Lost Judgement

Warcraft 3 Reforged, Nov 10 (Xbox Game Pass)-I've wanted to play this for over 20 years and when I finally got to I was a little disappointed. I really did not like the first two campaigns focusing on Arthas who I found to be very annoying. Follow on campaigns were better and The Frozen Throne expansion was quite good with a lot of variety in missions. The bonus campaign was terrible and should have been cut. And this game has possibly the worst unit pathfinding I've ever seen.

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X-Men Legends II. I mostly just wanted to dip my toes in the modding scene for this, although I ended up just installing the "all X-Men" mod that brings over characters that were exclusive to other versions. What this meant was that Dark Phoenix, who was exclusive to the PSP version of the game, was playable, and she's appropriately overpowered compared to everyone else, basically a "push button to win" type, so I practically soloed the game with her. Other X-Men were there, but she was the one doing most of the damage by hitting enemies with constant life-stealing powers. Walk into a room, point at everyone, wait for them to drop dead while your friends hurry them a long a little bit..

I was fine playing it like this because I already completed it when the game was new and although it's basically just more of the same as the first game, I was never as fond of it because if the first game is essentially a classic X-Men experience, this one makes you, uhhh, taste a lot of the later crap that had infested the line from the late 80s through the 90s. The story is pretty lousy, but I can't deny that there's some catharsis in viewing it as an exercise in literally destroying all the bad ideas of the Bob Harras/Scott Lobdell/Fabian Nicieza era. Especially when it comes at the hands of Dark Phoenix.

I might check out the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games again but I think I need a break from this style for a bit because they do get monotonous in their gameplay.

On that note, just pointing out that Kirill's music remains freely available: https://music.kirillpokrovsky.de

Otherwise, yeah, DD sure showed how to do an ARPG right. And a dev with the right mindset, hiring someone who was complaining of early builds being boring on the forums to add all those little events and places to make it interesting.

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I hardly play any games at all this couple of months. But I redeemed an old steam key of mine for this game and thinking why not instantly playing it? Better than abandoned it and just add to the backlog. This is more of an interactive story book with a slight puzzle element. A short one as well, around 2 hours to get all the achievements. It also reminds me that I am terrible at drawing stuff.

crysis 1 and crysis 2 :)

Heretic

Because I finished the first three episodes and I guess that's the original game? Played in the remaster though, on medium difficulty, just for fun, to blow off steam, not to git gud. Not sure whether to still try and play through Shadows of the Serpent Rider now, because the first level (E4M1) already seems terrible. Beating the toughest opponents to death with a wooden staff is not my idea of an enjoyable shooter. Episodes 1-3 were enjoyable though, for the most part. I think, unless I overlooked something, E3M8 was the first and only level among them where you were required to make use of an item you collected, which is why I got stuck at first, always forgetting about the items.