Rajaah's CRPG Blog

I'm not gonna really get into anything until at least Sunday or Monday cause busy, but I did try NWN, Icewind, and Planescape out for a little bit yesterday. Figuring out what I want to play. Planescape is pretty awesome, the first conversation in the game reads like a quality novel. That's about all I did though.


NWN is interesting cause it's so different from the other two. It looks like the intermediate step between BG and KOTOR and plays sort of like a single-player EQ. I think I might do this one next instead of Planescape cause it's so different. Not sure though. ID is definitely third in the running at the moment though. For NWN I was gonna go Rogue, but I ended up going Fighter (class up to Weapon Master specializing in either scythes or katanas). Trying to figure out the Package Customization or whatever to get that class-up set up. Game is a little unwieldy to play but I like the classes and feats and that pulled me in quickly. Working towards an upgrade class is something KOTOR also does. So yeah I'd say I'm 50/50 between this and PT for next game, we'll see.


Icewind looks like it's basically BG2.75 and exactly like what I played recently. I like the snowy theme. Mostly just did character creation and had fun with that, nice to finally have a reason to make an entire party from scratch in one of these games. Also I made this hottie.

One of my characters is a Bard and I think I might change that to Shaman or something else and restart (can import all the others). Thoughts?


Rockerton - Fighter (Wanted to do this after BG)
Mario - Assassin (seems like the best variety of Rogue)
Templeton - Dorf Cleric (changed his portrait after this)
Catbird - Bard (think I might change this guy's class to Shaman since I haven't had one of those, see above. Are Bards good?)
Oasis - Monk (I really wanted a monk cause I never had one in BG)
Stella - Sorcerer (only made a second lady so the first would have someone to have sex with, cause these dudes aren't gonna cut it)

Kharzette I feel like you'd enjoy these names

Gavinmad said:

joke would be better if it weren't an Anheuser product.

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I didn't even think about that connection TBH. I'm probably one of the few people on here who doesn't actually give a fuck about Dylan Mulvaney or the "controversy". It reminds me of all the shit the woke people fly off the handle about and demand apologies over. Anheiser changing their ad campaign and hiring conservative think tanks to advise them reminds me a lot of when corporations cave to The Woke and go on the apology tour while hiring diversity consultants to "be better". It's pretty much the same stuff in reverse. Since it's happened so many times in the other direction I can't say I'm bothered by it being like this for once, but it's still dumb and not something that's worth spending any real time thinking about.

Burns said:

A lot of people love bards. While they don't do a lot of damage on their own, they usually have the best, or one of the best party buffs in the game. My main issue with them is that I usually run out of song charges before my mage/cleric/druid needs to rest. They can cast some spells though, so are able to help out in that department too.

I vaguely recall using a monk in a BG2 playthrough or TOEE, but I don't think they are rated very highly in 3.5(?).

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I'll just keep him a bard then. I chose Longsword as a specialization and then realized after I started that I wanted him to use Scimitars and it immediately started bugging my OCD. Not gonna restart and do all that again just to change his spec to Scimitar. That's part of why I considered re-making him though. I'll just get a Scimitar spec whenever he levels up a bit. Like I said though I'll prolly play this one last. I think I'll do a bit more with NWN and PT before I decide which to go with.

Kajiimagi said:

Rajaah

After several delays, Nightdive Studios has now confirmed that System Shock has gone gold

System Shock Has Gone Gold, PC Requirements Detailed

After several delays, Nightdive Studios has now confirmed that System Shock has gone gold and the date is set for May 30th. In addition, we also got minimum and recommended requirements for the remake. The remake of the original game, which was originally announced back in March 2016, is planned...

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Looks like it's PC only at this point but better than nothing.

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Bleh, so we went from March PS5 to May PS5 to no PS5, possibly. Lame AF. We'll see. Will be very pleasantly surprised if they drop a PS5 version outta nowhere in early June. Also got Front Mission 2 Remake (first time that game is in English) around the same timeframe so it's gonna be a busy month.

What's this Neverwinter game on PS5? It's free for PS Plus I think, has Drizzt on the front cover image. Looks like it has a very WoW-like interface.

Caliane said:

the mmo. from cryptic.

still active yeah. the menzoberranzan expac with drizzt just came out in march.

Neverwinter – Free Dungeons & Dragons MMORPG

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter, a Free-to-Play MMO based on the D&D roleplaying game and packed with epic tales and adventure.

www.playneverwinter.com

It was ok. An instance/zone mmo. a billion currencies.

shit. wait. are we adding Dungeons and dragons online to the list?

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Naw no way. I downloaded this cause it was free and I'm gonna probably delete it without playing it. Kind of figured it was a generic MMO, was hoping it was some new D&D game I hadn't heard of. I'll stick to the normal D&D games.

I've been at a bit of a standstill with these. Couldn't decide between the 3 "next" games on the list, played some of each of them, still couldn't decide. So instead I've been doing RL stuff. Paralysis by Analysis, as Joe Rogan would say. Neverwinter Nights is probably in the lead because I found its character-build system the most interesting. Nothing wrong with focusing on RL though, provided the CRPG Crusade doesn't just totally fall off. I'll see what I can do.

Kajiimagi said:

Started Throne of Bhall today. This was my favorite part of the 2 PC games. I do have to say though I have almost given up multiple times due to the fact that this fucking game cannot go more than 2 hours without crashing. I don't know what evil curse this software put on my PS5 but nothing I do fixes it. At least it's almost over.
None of the other 10 or so games gave me a bit of trouble. Weird as all get out.

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That's rough. You playing another CRPG after this?

I'm doing a Ghost of Tsushima backlog swing and then probably another CRPG after that.