Recent content by MarkB

I like the concept of this one a lot, it's a versatile class for this sort of role. I hope they do the pacts as mix'n'match progression paths rather than exclusive subclasses, allowing for some flexible character building.

After a busy week I finally got back to playing BG3 and cleared out the goblin camp, hitting 5th level along the way. I'd forgotten just how much of a beast Karlach becomes when specialised into a dedicated throwing build. Like, I remember it being strong, but I hadn't remembered it being this...

From the review I've seen of it (Mortismal), the Steam version is supposed to incorporate two major fan patches plus additional fixes, and should be good to go as-is. I don't own it so I can't back that up with personal experience though.

Both Divinity Original Sin games have a lot to recommend them, I spent a lot of hours playing them. However, they're also pretty big, dense games whose combats tend to run very long at later levels and with each of them I found myself getting fatigued later in the game. I'm not sure I actually...

Certainly more practical than the original list.

Me neither. The anime shows that are on Amazon natively seem to be at least competently titled. On the other hand they've faced recent controversy for trying to add AI dubbing to a couple of shows. I haven't watched any anime on Prime in over six months, but it still defaults me to Japanese...

Works for some services (I too subscribe to Paramount+ through Prime when they have new Star Trek on), but not for others. I tried subscribing to Crunchyroll through them, and the things they do to subtitles (on shows that are perfectly well subbed on Crunchyroll directly mind you) are just...

Ohh, that's why there was a heart on my pillow when I woke up. Had a hell of a time trying to give it away, though.

They've gotta make the most of it, since dwarves can only take a short rest.

And if you're still not sure whether it was a cover, load up the original on YouTube or your app of choice to do a side-by-side comparison. That way you'll know for sure whether you're out.

They can be pretty rewarding. I've played most of the way through as Lae'zel (got bogged down somewhere in the last act, which seems to be the fate of half of my playthroughs) and that was very satisfying. Yeah, same. I'm basically just debating going the quiet route of isolating some of the...

I'm currently playing as Shadowheart, reskinned as a paladin. In the goblin camp at the moment, currently about to kick things off with Halsin's rescue, have been kind-of putting it off as that's going to be a lot of big fights.

Though there are certainly ways to make them feel worse. In games with mouse-and-keyboard control the classic one is to make the NPCs move faster than your character's walking pace, but slower than your running pace, ensuring you have to stop-and-start no matter what. Fortunately less of an...

To some extent it was just showing off that they could do it. Up until the likes of Half Life, the default assumption was that you didn't do cut scenes within the game engine itself because those graphics just weren't up to the task of portraying expressive and individual characters. As...

Certainly I've heard that people clipping anything muppet-related, e.g. for reaction videos, tend to get copyright claimed particularly aggressively.