Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Next to Baldur’s Gate 2 and Icewind Dale, which will probably take several more months at least, I’ve also been playing through the Syberia series. I’m now on Syberia 3, and I must admit it’s frustrating at times. The controls are awful. As an example: I literally had to frantically rotate the mouse for several minutes to rotate a crank ever so slowly.
It’s a shame because the world of Syberia is one with real character, and even though that’s less apparent than in the previous games, it’s still there.
I have good hope that the next game, Syberia: The World Before, will be better again.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
How are you liking BG2? It’s still one of my favourite games, even though I recognise nostalgia is a big part of it. Was one of my comfort game for years.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It’s great - I love both cRPGs and the Forgotten Realms (ever since the days of Eye of the Beholder and the gold box series). But it’s also a bit too much sometimes. You’ll be doing a quest, and you’re approached by an NPC starting a different quest while party members are nagging to do theirs first and as you’re standing there trying to decide what to do first, a group attacks you for yet another quest.
I’m exaggerating a bit, but I really had a moment where two events happened at the same time, while I was on another quest.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
It can be a bit like that, for sure! It’s one of the spots where it shows its age I think, it was really the first western CRPG with these types of companion missions and I don’t think they had all the scripting and timings nailed down just yet.
Are you using any mods? And what’s your party composition?
zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
No mods, but enhanced edition.
At some point in BG1 I noticed my party was all women, and I decided to make that part of my character’s personality: she will work with men too but given the choice prefers adventuring with women. So now in BG2 she’s doing that too. I have Jaheira, Hexxat, Mazzy, Neera, and Aerie. Main character is a sorcerer.
In BG1 I also said no lawful companions, and no evil, but that’s not possible now while staying all female.