The lighter side of ADHD
This happens with every freakin' RPG. Where's the Origin Potion for life? How do I respec? I WANT TO MOVE MY SPECIAL
The cool thing is life isn't over, you CAN respecc, just ask my cousin who switched from janitor/ gamer to software engineer over a few years of night study at the age of 35
I find it interesting that your view of respecing is changing career paths.
That would probably be the biggest incentive for changing your skill set
Not personal growth?
Yeah its not mandatory in either direction, I think it was just an example
Yeah, only if you can afford the respec fees or absolutely ruin years of your life with grinding.
What a miserable existence to force people to go through. If life was a game, I'd be getting a refund.
Good thing they've got that to fall back on, then. 😅🤓
I didn't start college until I was 27. Didn't get a job in my field until 32.
If only. There's only two countries that I'm aware of in the world that will let me transfer my graduate degree into something potentially useful.
What's your graduate degree in?
Law unfortunately. JDs simply are not worth much outside of this country. Canada has the NCA program I believe, but that takes a couple of years. If you're familiar with this program please feel free to correct me. Foreign council is an option for many countries, but given that the legal system is slowly failing in this country I don't see that as a safe long-term option. I lack general experience in that area anyways.
I have friends struggling to find work right now too. The political and economic climate being awful has contributed to this a lot, and I have to respect having some financial stability over potentially being in an unfamiliar country without such stability. I also suspect Americans may not be welcome in a lot of places at this current moment in time either. So that's how it goes I suppose.
That is so frustrating. That is outside my wheelhouse unfortunately, so I don't have anything to give other than sympathy for the legitimate frustration that we have an economy that cannot seem to employ every talented, educated person. I don't get it, it feels like we've reached like a moment where labor (even skilled labor) is lower in demand than ever before. A hundred years ago we could just walk up to a building project and start adding labor on day one, and knowing how to read and write meant an instant job as a clerk. But now we toil for decades to learn skills that just... suddenly aren't needed? Sure, some folks win big in tech but that's just as fleeting, I know a dozen out of work senior engineers. It's a strange and baffling time to try to earn a living. Something has to give.
I've got 550 hours in bg3 and maybe 5 of them are in act 3
How. I'm still doing my first playthrough and have like 20 hours in act 3 (of 80 total). There's a huge amount of content in there
Cannot get into BG3. I bought it because I was like, "hey, D&D game that supports Mac!" and it's funny, I know how to play it if I play a rogue. That is certainly an advantage. But turn-based RPGs don't work for me. At the table it works because the DM is your friend and you're all having a good time, everyone wants the story to go a certain way, whereas with a video game you have to "beat" the computer. It's adversarial vs friendly, and until a game can capture that, make me feel like I'm having fun... I feel like games don't 'get' D&D.
You want a game that's great for ADHD/Autism? (Well, maybe. I'm undiagnosed. Also, I don't speak for everyone.) I've been having a blast with Blue Prince. It's obtuse AF, it doesn't tell you much. It seems like a dumb puzzle game, build rooms randomly to try to get to the top. Oh, you need a key, that closet that gave you a dead end, a key, a gem, and a coin might have been useful! So you "call it a day" (quit) and start over the next day, all the rooms reset... there's no penalty for "losing" and AFAIK you can't "die" (it's not that kinda game). Note what there's 2 of in nearly every room. Note the relationship between them. Then you get a pad and paper and start writing it down... the stuff you "find" in this game is wild. I feel like I'm not smart enough to play this game. But I don't wanna look up spoilers because I'm afraid they'll give the whole thing away and it'll be over. But I also feel like I learn something with each run. Next time, I think I'm gonna look around outside as well, if I don't run out of steps (that's a whole thing but it's explained in the beginning).
I am obsessed with Blue Prince, myself and some friends have been playing together and it's the coolest game I've ever played. Truly one of the best games of all time
Never heard of it, but you and the other person who replied to you have made me decide to check it out.
Go in as blind as possible. Don't watch a trailer, just start the game and bring a notepad!
One thing that is not a spoiler but might give you a clue to the fuckery this game gets down to: if a note has a black background, it's talking to you, the player, not the character you play. You could think of these as rules of the game, or instructions. It's like in Zelda: Link's Awakening when characters say things like "if you wanna do this, press this button, but I don't know what that means".
That said, it's mostly a chill game. There is one point fairly early on where you might expect a jump scare. There isn't one, but it sure sets you up for one! The game is not meant to scare you, it's meant to inspire your sense of wonder and discovery.
... with the dropping of the coin ...
shivers
one of the best scenes in any game I've played
Makes me think of the first time starting Darkest Dungeons, hearing the narrator with an exhausted and despondent voice on the verge of tears:
"ruin has come to our family"
Yep, this is I. I have a terrible min-max disease. Also, sometimes I forget to play a game for a while and then I don't remember the story line leading up to where I am in the game, and then I have to play from the start again. That's why it took me like 3 years and many restarts to get through Witcher 3.
More like your build would be fine if it wasn't PTW and the admins not only do nothing about rampant cheating they actually encourage their buddies to cheat and they announce that the next patch will make the game great again and they break features that were fine but now you have to pay for basic shit to function at all and for some fucking reason idiots keep paying for the next battle pass that is the same shit but worse as long as they can shit on those that can't or won't pay for the battle pass and it hurts because it could have been great, it has deep lore and there are many that greatly care about the world building and now they require photo ID for no other reasons than targeted ads and invasion of privacy and you have been permanently banned for the crime of reporting evidence of a child predator and your neighbors are being swatted.
First two BG3 runs finished no problem. After the second run, though, I had experienced the joy of Berserker Barbarian. Lost interest in every run after. “Sure Bard is cool, but I really want to chuck this guy in a pit right now.” “Oh this shadow sorcerer gets a demon dog summon! Shame I can’t hit a dude with another dude though.”
You could always run a push caster with Thunderwave and Gust of Wind to push people off cliffs while you're ramping up. Then when you get Telekinesis, you can throw dudes at dudes with your mind.
I finally got the idea to install BG3 again and finish my Wyll origin run. Only to discover the game crashing every time I load the save.
Started a Gale origin to see if the whole game was bugged. Got halfway through act 1 until I found a way to fix my Wyll save. So I'm back there and accidentally started one of the quests I hate the most.
This is why there should never be a level cap, and when I learn that I've built my character all wrong I should be able to just grind a bit more and fix it by spending points somewhere else.
I couldnt make it past that first goblin cave. And I beat BG1&2 . I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I shouldn't have this big of a problem!
I swear a huge part of it is the action economy. You have four people vs 12. If you aren't taking out like one each turn you end up in a slow ass death spiral.
The game also expects you to do a shit ton of the side content, but doesn't always sign post it well, and it also clearly has an idea of the order the side content should be tackled in that there's no sign posting for at all.
I can see the bones of a great game, but I don't understand why I don't see more people complaining about the abysmal combat balance.
Idk, I played without guides or anything and had no issues, elden ring was the only recentish game I played with difficulty, needed a map online with reccomended levels and another to check off what ive done and see whats nearby, I hate missing stuff and so much was easily missable
for bg3 just go down every path, never go to far without backtracking and checking the others, I often would seperate my team just to not miss stuff, could usually tell what would be easier to do first
I mean... I am down to play Baldur's Gate if you ever are. Not a joke or anything. I am dead serious. I love to play Baldur's Gate with people and I am generally good about helping someone learn how to play a game without overshadowing them. I have about a thousand hours in the game. I have been the main character enough. But seriously, if you do want to play at any point, just send me a message.
I got it on family share, if you can teach me something, I'm willing to learn. You should find me underneath the same name.
Sorry, took a nap. Added.
No apologies required! Thank you in advance.
Of course. Feel free to message me literally anytime to either chat or set up a time to play or whatever else
I have like, 600 hrs into it and haven't beaten it.
It's not wrong if you enjoyed it. Minmaxing kills the fun a lot of the time too.
Key words
If you've enjoyed it
I think you'll find most have not enjoyed the rat race thus far...
This happened IRL
It wasn't so much building the character wrong but convincing the people around me that it was a legitimate character. The magic potions are also a game changer.
Whaddya mean dumping all but Luck is sub-optimal? Pfft. Hold my coffee.
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edit: just to be very fair about this: if you could go back in time by 10 years and tell people who are just about to start studying IT (for the sake of making a lot of money later on in their life) that they're going to be replaced by AI in a few years, would the people really listen to you and think about that possibility?
Or would they rather go "nah man that's absurd, a computer program can not write software like a human does, and pay in IT is always good". (i mean, lots of people are still saying this today)
What i'm saying is that it's not the future's fault of happening, but the people's fault for being infinitely stubborn about the fact that progress does not exist and nothing can ever change. the way the world works today must inherently be how the world will still work in 50 years from now. there is simply no other possibility. and also go fuck yourself for proposing otherwise.
Hahahah… I have like 1200 hours and four different characters in Skyrim. Still haven’t finished it. The only game I’ve actually “finished” is AC Valhalla. And I’m now going back and doing all the DLCs.
I have 450 hours in BG3 and have not yet finished the main storyline