Chet_Awesomelad

I fucking love Next Fest, it’s such a great way to find new games from smaller developers. I’ve already queued up 7 demo downloads, can’t wait to try them!

I’ve been trying to play Starfield but I’m just not feeling excited about anything that I’ve seen so far. I’m still playing through BG3 on my second character. Also been playing Sea of Stars, which has been surprisingly good.

Lmao I’ve also taken the day off. I’ve also told my partner that I will essentially be uncontactable for the entire weekend after release

Have you tried the Rogue Trader playtest? I put in about 10 hours, which doesn’t cover all the content at all, and I really enjoyed it. The combat was a bit hit and miss for me, but the story and the characters were the real standout.

I’m much the same when I usually make my characters lmao. Oh, you’ve given me a smorgasbord of different races and classes to choose from? Cool, I reckon I’ll roll a halfling rogue or a human fighter, thanks.

It’s so crazy, you can have entire conversations with some animals. I haven’t tried speaking with all of them, but it’s possible there are even sidequests given to you by animals. Players who don’t have the ability to cast Speak With Animals will just miss that content on their playthrough.

As far as I know there’s no Lone Wolf equivalent, although you can just choose to not travel with any companions. It is easier to do stealth in BG3 - for starters, they added a Group Sneak key (something that was sorely missing from DOS2), and there are plenty of times you can use stealth and/or exploration to circumvent combat encounters while still gaining XP.

I’m so hyped for this game! I’ve put over 100 hours into the early access content and I can’t wait to see the full version.

I’m curious - what kind of characters are y’all going to play? I usually go with a rogue for my first playthrough in RPG games, with decent persuade/deception skills so I can try out some of the dialogue options to influence other characters.