Oh I won’t disagree that they tuned it weird…same thing for the enemies. Being defeated by an overleveled mud crab is…demeaning. and more generally I still recall putting my character in a corner, hitting q, and leaving for the day so she’d be a good runner when I got back…which is just downright dumb. But the concept at it’s core is beautiful, and I wish more games would investigate that concept until we find a really good solution.

I forgot, there’s one other super shit rpg thing that always pisses me off even though it’s literally everywhere: why do I have to pick skills before I even start playing and understand the rules? SPECIAL, stat points, attributes…whatever a game wants to call it, I want to play first before I do all the math on what is the best skill to use.

Oof for me act 2 was the worst. I mean act 3 also kinda phoned it in but there’s a lot more stuff to do that isn’t gray.

Maybe try vm first, make sure you want it.

Bg3 acts after 1?

Morrowind still has the best skill system concept. “Do what you think is fun and you will level up and get better at it” is great game design.

Things that are the kernel of bad game design: Fetch quests in quantity, especially over large maps with limited fast travel points (fuck you Witcher, cyberpunk), having eleventy billion containers which just might be good to open (fuck you baldur3/divine divinity/Morrowind), or having an inventory system that makes you crave death every time you use it (same), or having an inventory system that makes you do endless, constant field checks to figure out which weapon or armor is best because you don’t have space for more than 3 things (sooo many games, but cyberpunk, deus ex, and borderlands get a big old fuck you from me).

But have you tried to use one as a daily? Concept is great, but I wanted to erase kinoite from the face of the planet about 4 hous in.

Oh… Is that funny? Ok

Still beats gnome, lol, tee hee, jajaja

Why don’t you explain the joke and we’ll see

I mean just saying it’s optimistic is insufficient. “Fever dream fantasy” is closer.

What are you even talking about?

Pro tip, any time you do visit the office, bring a standard key for the dispenser. I mean they bought it for your use, right? If you don’t have an office nearby you can always visit someone else’s office.

Or: buy a computer, once

It’s not that hard, the original author is just lazy or ignorant or both.

My smart tv is a mid ranged i5 from 2012.

Tried to install it but it wanted to put a rootkit of some kind on my computer, hard pass.

When was this overlooked? Maybe you overlooked it but there have been articles on it for years.