FIash Mob #5678

There’s plenty of combat. If you’ve played BG3 I imagine you’ll enjoy it.

The caveat is that it’s made by an indie studio, so the cutscenes aren’t AAA, but I think the game is amazing regardless, and that includes the expansion packs.

A few hidden gems I’ve played:

Dungeons of the Endless: https://store.steampowered.com/app/249050/Dungeon_of_the_ENDLESS/

Solasta Crown of the Magister: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096530/Solasta_Crown_of_the_Magister/

Tower of Time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/617480/Tower_of_Time/

Detroit: Become Human: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222140/Detroit_Become_Human/

The Dark Pictures Anthology - Man of Medan: https://store.steampowered.com/app/939850/The_Dark_Pictures_Anthology_Man_of_Medan/

I hope you like them all as much as I did.

Fighting Fantasy books

I love Next Fest… but I’m really waiting for the Halloween sale on horror games.

Truly open-world Star Wars. Like a Breath of the Wild game except with multiple planets and all the Star Wars stuff.

We had something close to it with SW: Galaxies, but… RIP SW: Galaxies.

I loved Resident Evil but it was the third one that really got me, with the havoc in the streets and the scare where you realize Nemesis can literally chase you from room-to-room and/or show up literally anywhere at any time.

Dead Space still scares the hell out of me.

FEAR was so darn good.

I actually have a 3E diorama of from the opening level hanging in my condo. I replay it once or twice a year. Still holds up.

I’d say Dark Souls 2.

When you get to the area with the bazillion spitting statues that respawn when you do, it became very clear that Fromsoft was out of ideas for making the game both interesting AND challenging.

Good.

One of my good friends was one of the voices on LA Noire years ago and gets zero residuals from it. It’s maddening.

The worst one I can remember is Final Fantasy 8.

But also the UI was so complicated and bad that it made me hate the game.

That’s what Solasta did. (Developer: Tactical Adventures)

Then we got two more fully-fleshed adventures as DLC’s, which I was more than happy to buy.

Find good developers and then (if you can) pay full price so they can keep making great, microtransaction-free games.

It’s that simple.

I went with Tiefling Bard.

It’s been fun so far.

There are usually ways around this in the config files. That’s how I’ve always fixed it.

I’m sure we’re thinking the same thing.

That isn’t even close to the weirdest sex scene you can barge in on in the game.

But I won’t spoil it for you.

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My bard and Astarion work as a team to do the robbing. When you perform, crowds gather around you, so it’s very useful for redirecting prying eyes so Astarion can pick pockets.