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Soul Hunter, a distant relative of Playful Darkness, rolled a 1 and failed a Fortitude spell. That helped save our party members. But the battle was decided thanks to some new cool criticals anyway: Then we returned to the Midnight Isles and finally challenged the boss. I didn't know what to...

This story is one of the most blatant examples of how to fail in developing a game, from the very concept to the release: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/paradox-takes-37-million-write-down-after-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-misses-targets Paradox has announced it is writing down SEK 355...

Continuing Chapter 4 and now also doing the Midnight Isles DLC, part 2. Lots of cool fights, excellent loot, and most importantly, story reveals. I enjoyed interactions with Nocticula and revelations by Areelu, looking forward to further events involving the two. My Trickster path allowed for...

Even though it might be a bad event when it comes to awards, it still does mean something to me. Seeing my favourite developer winning and receiving all of that extra praise and exposure should be a win for all gamers. Even nominations for the award raise awareness about games. Many of us want...

Aaaaaand... 2 years later, the situation repeats itself. These are the nominations for this year's Indie GOTY: And here are a few explanations why Expedition 33 shouldn't have been nominated as an indie game...

Still enjoying Chapter 4. Pretty much loving everything I see here, from story twists, to characters, to fights. Almost every fight allows me to inflict some crazy damage in melee with my main character. Here is the biggest (so far) critical hit - 346 vs Chivarro. This Minagho's "acquaintance"...

Yeah, everything we keep hearing about Subnautica 2 and Krafton is bad. And here is Eurogamer using double standards. They DID NOT give CoD any bad score, even while the game blatantly uses AI...

The Embark Studios extraction shooter Arc Raiders has exceeded expectations for player counts. Media opinions are also positive, with an 84 Metacritic rating. However, one score sticks out like a sore thumb, as the only negative Arc Raiders review on the aggregator. Eurogamer awarded the game a...

Chapter 3 final boss fight against Dazzazand turned out to be more difficult for me than the Playful Darkness. Probably because he wasn't alone, and 2 Marilith Conquerors next to him posed the biggest threat: Blade Barrier spell. On Unfair, it can hit for up to 150 damage as AoE and immediately...

The end of Chapter 3 is full of intense, challenging, and diverse fights. The kind of fights that would have given me a scare when I was only starting to understand the Unfair difficulty. Take Siabrae, for example. A lvl 20 druid that opens a fight (with no option of your party's first shot...

How should I handle spoilers going forward, @Serg_BlackStrider (considering you haven't played past Drezen)? Ivory Sanctum reminded me why this game is not just good, it's very good. It is an excellent area full of interesting fights, but also intriguing stories, mysteries, and high stakes...

This was supposed to be a post about my slow power grind in Chapter 3 as I managed to complete all (!) crusade battles (and capture forts) before my party reached lvl 11. I was about to get to that level after doing just Mythic quests, side activities, and exploring (not even entering any of the...

Chapter 3 start is a very interesting moment in the game. I remember when I first played WotR on release, the amount of new information, quests, systems, etc. felt a bit too much, and it was clear the game switched to a more open version compared to Chapters 1 and 2, where everything was a bit...

I'm inclined to continue with this party. At lvl 10, my witch doctor finally got access to the Loremaster prestige class, and I took Remove Sickness from the Cleric spell list. I chose Improved Abundant Casting for both my bard and my vivisectionist, so I have enough casts of Freedom of Movement...

Out of my six characters, the only one I’d say is objectively weaker than her vanilla NPC counterpart is the witch doctor (the healer role), specifically, when compared to Daeran. She lacks several crucial buffs like Remove Sickness, Freedom of Movement, and Death Ward. I also miss the...

Another topic of this week is Satya Nadella's quote that games these days compete with TikTok and YT shorts (and that's why, apparently, Xbox games often fail--according to him). I can recommend this article by Jez Corden. This statement has become a bit controversial...

The second part. Here is an interesting quote: