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Finally finished Bg3. I think most my angst about Act 3 was because I really hated the design of Shadowheart's personal quest, specifically the final fight. That battle was such a pain - too many enemies all using darkness and bone chill on you incessantly. One IGN guide said they had to use up Shadowheart's Divine Intervention just to survive the battle. And related to that, this battle particularly irked me because my Tav was Drow and although the game made mention that this darkness was 'different' that didn't seem a good enough explanation for her being as affected as every other party member. It *might've* been palatable if she experienced 25% of what other party members did when hit with it but acting like she'd be completely effected by it just seems stupid. A multiclassed Rogue Ranger who is also a Lloth Sworn Drow suddenly helpless in the dark - wut?

On the ending, I'm not sure how I feel. I got what I consider to be a fairly positive one but...
I feel like BG3 tied the endings to your romances and that's where I screwed up which in turn left me feeling like my ending wasn't quite right.

My Tav had a fling with Gale only for Astarion to demand I choose so I dumped Gale thinking I'd get with Astarion and be serious about it. I'd intended to romance Karlach when the opportunity arose but had told Astarion he could feed on me that night at the start of a day so when we got Karlach's engine tuned up and she was eager to spend the night with someone, I couldn't actually spend the evening with her. I thought fine I'll stick with Astarion and not worry about romancing Karlach but then early on in Act 3 Astarion dumped me when asked him what was up. When that happened I reloaded a save and just didn't ask him the question hoping that was the trigger and I could raise his affinity towards me before the end.

Turned out that the game decided I was dumped whether I knew it or not but because I'd done Karlach's personal quest it started treating us like we were in a relationship even though we never spent a night together and she had just told one of her old friends "ewwwe, no we're not in a relationship" days earlier. After beating the Netherbrain when Karlach is about to explode on the pier, I was given the option to go to Avernus with her with or without Wyll and the feast dialogue options were geared towards us being a couple. I was happy with that at first but then it just didn't feel quite right because we never got to go through the romance earlier and I never really set my character's head canon towards that. So I wanted to see how it would play out if I let Wyll and her go alone and the game stuck me with Halsin despite the fact that I never clicked the dialogue option that would've triggered Astarion dumping me.

Oh and the House of Hope quest was def. worthy of the hype.
That song! OMG the song! I didn't expect the beginning of a broadway musical to breakout and now I want to see the entire show - :lol:

Still overall, great game. And now I'm once again on the look out for a new game....
 
I'm playing a game called A Thousand Threads. It's quite a relaxing game that is hard to describe. It's got a simplistic cel-shaded art style to it. You play the role of a mail carrier, which itself you don't often see in games. Along the way as you wander around, the people you meet in its open world might have other missions for you, which ends up being your main source of income. You end up visiting different biomes in your job to deliver mail.
 
If you haven't played Spec Ops: The Line yet, it's already gone from Steam and Xbox, and it sounds like it'll go away digitally everywhere else too.
 
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I loaded up Skyrim just to view the mod scene for Xbox X. I'm surprised at the implementation (it's fairly well done and miles ahead of where it was in the past) but it kills me there are size limits and the mods I want to run aren't there. Vanilla Skyrim is hard to deal with once you've tasted ultra-modded bliss and right now the Xbox X scene isn't doing much in the way of visual overhauls - nothing that compares to what you can do on PC which is a shame because I think the hardware is capable if you're careful. That said, the SE/LE enhancements are better than OG Skyrim so there is some progress there. It's just that I was really wanting to experience the environs I know I can create on the big screen.

So minus the greatest walking sim of all time being modded to my liking, I started Death Stranding Director's Cut which so far appears to be a surrealist take on a post-apocalyptic amazon prime delivery man. So far it's intriguing but I really have no idea what to expect. I've played some of Phantom Pain and Death Stranding reminds me of the best parts of it. I got bored with the gameplay of Phantom Pain but really enjoyed the weirdness. If the drop off and go out on a mission stuff had been half as interesting as the cut scenes and weird stuff out in the wilds I'd have finished it. So maybe this bodes well for me sticking with Death Stranding for a while as it's the only experience I have with Hideo Kojima.
 
Hell, I played Fallout 4 on the PS4, and I had to download a mod to fix a gamebreaking bug. So, a bit of a double-edge sword, in that I was glad modding was finally possible on consoles, but pretty peeved that it had to be a mod that fixed a severe issue rather than Bethesda themselves.

And it was a pretty stupid bug too, given the open-world exploration nature of the game. I don't remember the specifics since it's been awhile, but I remember that if you approached the Brotherhood HQ, you'd hear some chatter and a quest would trigger, but that if you didn't immediately choose to go check it out and wander away from the area, the quest would be bugged and none of the NPCs there would respond to you. Like, how dare you choose to do something different! And because of that bug, the entire questline remained inaccessible, until I downloaded that mod in question. And another reason I was peeved was I didn't know my save was bugged until I was further in the game and tried going back to the quest.
 
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I've been adding lighting to my Oblivion mod and it looks amazing. The first image is from the construction set and shows the interior of a cave where I've placed bright lighting in the centre and you can see how it bleeds in to the small room at the top and bounces off the cave walls and ceiling structures. The second image is from in-game showing the same area with the entrance to the large room on the right. The red markers are sound effects are there are literally hundreds to choose from. Some play once and some are on a loop like the sound of a dripping tap or howling wind. The sound and lighting effects really add to the suspense.

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These are a small selection of the NPCs I've been customising with the face editor apart from the blonde gladiator in the centre who is original. That's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter who doesn't appear in the game but is in the construction set. I'm not sure what part she will play in the grand quest but I'll find something so Lynda can finally make an appearance.

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https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Lynda_Carter_(Oblivion)
 
I'm back working on my second play through of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and I appear to have run into a glitch. It's telling me there's a new mission available at the train hideout, and when I fast travel to it, either Evie say there's a letter for Jacob, or Jacob says a letter arrived for him, but I can't find a letter or anything else to trigger the mission. I've searched through the whole train inside and out, and I can't it.
 
From what I remember of my playthrough, I remember being annoyed at some of these things as they were easy to miss. But if I remember right. it's either on one of the walls or the desk, and you have to physically interact with it.
 
Should I get Alan Wake II? It's on sale via game pass right now. My only hesitation is that I grew pretty frustrated with the gameplay in the first game. I loved the story but the combat was more of a pain than enjoyable. I didn't finish the game because of that frustration tho I may go back to it.
 
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Has anyone played Genshin Impact?
I have started playing the game and enjoying, but today suddenly I came across this unknown error code 31 4302 while playing the game. I have no idea what could be the issue is. Can anyone please help me to fix it?

Thanks
 
Playing Horizon Zero Dawn one last time before The Forbidden West comes to PC in March.

I did something different this time around at level 15 dived into the Frozen Wilds part of the map, and was a little naughty. I ran past the scorcher at the start of the map and used a money cheat to buy weapons at the blue vendor there, then want back to the normal part of the map to continue the main story. Now I have cool powerful weapons and will use them.
 
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Louisa Corkery said:
Has anyone played Genshin Impact?
I have started playing the game and enjoying, but today suddenly I came across this unknown error code 31 4302 while playing the game. I have no idea what could be the issue is. Can anyone please help me to fix it?

Thanks
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The problem which I was getting the error code that is outdated the game file. Also I followed some useful methods from this article https://bytespired.com/genshin-impact-error-31-4302/.

Most importantly, if there is missing the game file then this kind of problem may happen. Now I have no longer any issues while playing the game. My son also started playing a new game 'Alan Wake' and he is very excited playing the game.
 
I enjoy Genshin Impact from time to time. The exploration and the fights are fun, and the graphics are great. I wish they would cut down on the long dialog sequences, though.

I started Bravely Default II recently. I've been meaning to try it for a while. I am slightly disappointed that the actual game appearance is more "chibi" in its character aesthetic than the cover art. Also, I'm playing "casual" mode, and some of the bosses are still really hard, and the battles go on and on and on. That's not my idea of "casual" gaming! :scream:

Kor
 
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