Recent content by MarkB

Mortismal did a good new players' guide for it recently which covered some basic "cheese" tips as well as plenty of other information.

The Muppets' Christmas Carol is the only Christmas movie I still watch every year.

I'm starting to think that Whamageddon is being perpetuated by cover bands in order to boost their sales and royalties.

One issue with playing a single game so much over the weekend, my brain currently has a perfect rendition of the BG3 battle music running on a loop in the back of my head.

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...