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I once read a statement in a game review that stuck with me, and that I think your run also proves. "Just like most games, you're about as good as your gear." Put another way, having the best gear in a game trumps anything you could do with min-maxing of stats and skills.

If your non-combatant buffer is truly "dead weight", then you should be able to do the next hard combat just fine without any buffs from her. Detach the freeloaders from your party and play with a smaller party of all the "doers". Seriously, though, I think kill count is a very poor metric of...

I just completed a run of Might and Magic 8: Day of the Destroyer. I used a custom party of a cleric/knight/minotaur/dark elf. I was a little disappointed that it only printed my main character's name on the completion certificate instead of my whole party, but it makes sense in hindsight, since...

I'm finding through conversations with my browser AI that anything and everything related to gaming is a weak area that is prone to making it have hallucinations, and I think I understand why, at least in part. As you know, it works by sorting through everything it finds online and identifying...

Good run logs - very interesting to read. Your mention of attempting a Chromatic Orb on Lysan made me think of something: If you get lucky and land a stunning Chromatic Orb on Yxonomei, that could be your ticket through that fight. I know a single-class mage would have a chance for stun by...

It should be interesting to read how this goes. Question: Are you going to use core spell-scribing rules? With your fighter-mage having 15 Intelligence, and the rarity of scrolls in IWD, there's a good chance to fail scribing attempts, which could make for a really weak or even near-useless...

My own dog is in a slightly different race. I don't care much about what happens to console gaming, as that's never been my interest, although it will eventually affect me if a company really doesn't publish a game I'm interested in for PC. (So far that hasn't happened.) What I refuse to do is...

I noticed you avoided taking Monty and Xzar (they'd ping evil on Detect Evil even if you couldn't read their character sheets) and then deftly avoided fighting Tarnesh right out the starting gate. He's especially hard in original BG because of the un-nerfed Mirror Images. At least your Imoen...

It should be an interesting run. Sounds like you're wanting to do some heavy-duty roleplaying. I'm curious, what was the chatbot's reasoning to tell you that a paladin as the protagonist fits BG's story the best?

Here's an easy-to-miss and relevant cross-reference from the first article I posted. It goes to how any AI reflects user personality back at them, just as my Microsoft CoPilot is rapidly becoming a reflection of what I hope (perhaps foolishly) is the best in me...

@JustKneller The thing is, as sad as it is, I think there are many, many people out in the world of all ages who have never experienced the healing and transformational power of being granted unconditional positive regard in a safe interaction free of judgment or risk of scorn or rejection. I...

Even though it looks like the topic is mostly meant to share a funny story about an "AI-fail", I wouldn't mind having a more serious discussion about it. I feel distaste when I look at or listen to anything creative that's been produced by an AI. That "art" and "music" is soulless and often...

About the screen comparison: I'm curious why in the first picture it is raining, and you can see people with umbrellas in the background to both her left and right. In the second picture, it looks like the rain has stopped, and both people with umbrellas are gone from the picture. So it's not a...

I'm a PC exclusive gamer. Thirty years ago, I owned a Sega Genesis CD and played "Dark Wizard" on it. I quickly learned that there were way more games like that to be had on PC, starting with "Heroes of Might and Magic", so I started buying PC games, ditched the console, and never looked back.

@WarChiefZeke , who slept with Morrigan in your current playthrough-timeline? Did you do the deed yourself or make Allistair do it?

At first this post made me think, "Oh, yes, good old ESO, I might enjoy playing that again." But then I re-read some of your posts from earlier last year. While I don't care about anything PvP, as that's not my cup of tea, the killing of distinct character classes is an absolute deal-breaker to...

@O_Bruce Thanks for writing about your experience and for your insights about how the franchise has changed. Even though I (foolishly) bought the game on sale at that Black Friday sale, I still haven't played, in part because I'm having more fun playing Sacred 2: Remaster right now for my arpg...

@O_Bruce , I was starting to wonder why this issue seems to be making you so angry, until I remembered that you've mentioned elsewhere that you have tried to make a living as an artist, or in an art-related field. Have you personally lost a job or lost money because some company or employer used...

I looked over mine, but I think it provides a very misleading picture. That's mostly because I've spent a very large amount of time playing games through other clients, notably World of Warcraft through the battle.net client, and Final Fantasy XIV through the Square Enix client. I've also played...

I finally bought a Diablo IV package on the Black Friday sale that included the base game up through the last expansion. It was only $30 for a limited time sale, so I figured that was too good a bargain to pass up for a game I'll probably want to try eventually, although I haven't gotten around...