I have the first one calling on my Steam list. I heard it's HARD.

If you take your time and play it slow it’s not so bad but a bit of a grind. If you try and power your way to the ending it’s going to be a struggle.

It's essentially a medieval life simulator in every sense of the word.

When you begin, you're a blacksmiths apprentice son, that is a lazy shit and knows absolutely nothing.

While possible to win the fistfight encounter early, its highly likely you get your ass kicked.

You literally have to train with instructors to learn basic weapon handling. As you master these, the progress made is staggering. You're still not going to want to take on 2-3 fighters at once, but you'll learn to hold your own in single combat pretty well.

You have to eat, sleep, bathe, change clothes, and things you do are remembered by the npcs.

When brewing potions, you literally must get the recipe, go to the mortar and pestle, grind your ingredients, measure your ingredients, and cook for the exact amount of time, or the concoction fails.

It's really fun but you need to really understand what you're getting into and commit.

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Do I HAVE to brew potions? That was one part of Oblivion, Skyrim and the Fallouts I skipped entirely, apart from one set of armor during Skyrim.

You don't have to do it, but it helps immensely. The time consuming brewing process keeps you from just brewing a ton of these things.

It's definitely a game you need to have a lot of time to commit to it. Most of the time will be spent training in weapon handling to get every perk you can get, just so you don't get killed by some asshole bandit on the road. It's definitely not something you want to dive into if you've only got an hour or two here and there to play.

I never did learn how to be worth a shit with a bow. There's no aiming reticle and it's harder than shit to hit anything with it.

It literally gets to a point in the combat where if you land a 3 hit sword combo on someone, you get incredibly hyped. You're literally guarding, specifically targeting the weakness in your enemy's defense, while being careful not to overextended, leave yourself open, or burn your stamina to where you're momentarily defenseless. The first time I took down a trio of bandits, I felt like the king of the world, because in this game that is a massive accomplishment.

I'd heard the original game kind of ended on a cliffhanger, or story felt unfinished, so I never finished the first games main story, but now that 2 has finally come out I'll probably revisit and finish up the story before jumping into part 2.

In typical rpg sequel fashion though, there's a dumbass progression reset that takes place, supposedly Henry gets ambushed and nearly killed, and so you have to relearn everything as part of your recovery process.

I skipped potions in Witcher 3. I just can't do all the micromanagement shit. I don't have the attention span anymore.

Witcher 3 has some pretty cool crafting stuff in there, but on the default difficulty you can pretty much clear the game without ever changing your armor if you play it like a souls-like and are good with your dodges and rolls in combat.

It isn't until Blood and Broken Bones, or Death March difficulty where you really need to upgrade swallow and thunderbolt, and have a full array of oils to coat your blades with, and a decent array of upgraded bombs can get you out of a pinch.

Like, fighting a Bruxa on normal difficulty can be mildly annoying, buy you're never in any real danger. On Death March a Bruxa is the Bane of my ****ing existence.

Going into that fight without vampire blade oil (+10% damage vs vampires) superior dimeritium bombs (300 dmg per second and counters stealth) and Black Blood (15% damage inflicted returned on enemy) while having fully upgraded Swallow and Thunderbolt potions would essentially be suicide.

They're so ****ing fast and annoying as ****, so you really need all of these things just to stop the game from turning your battle into the equivalent of a level 1 trying to fight a level 40.

There's a point in one of the expansions in Toussaint where you have to fight 3 of these bitches at once, and it's one of the most rage inducing moments in the game on Death March.

I have not played any of the expansions but did finish the game on the hardest difficulty (at the time, I believe they patched in an even harder settings later on).

Both expansions are exceptional. Blood and Wine is absolutely epic.

Decoctions, bruh. Set it and forget it once you long rest.

Marvel Rivals is pretty impressive for a free to play game. Just wish it wasn't vomiting neon all over the screen constantly. Just a few matches is enough to induce a massive migraine.

Hawkeye's charged headshots are dirty as ****, but with only 250 hp he's an exceptionally fun glass cannon character.

Nothing quite like catching annoying flyers being ****ing annoying while completely unaware they're about to get Skull ****ed by an arrow.

Queue times are nearly instant, it's pretty great pick up and play 6V6 action if you can stand all the neon effects exploding all over the screen constantly.

I just found out that two of my favorite games of all time: Rome: Total War and Medieval II: Total War will run on my Chromebook. I have the originals on physical media but they haven't worked since Windows 7.

This might be the closest thing to Half Life 3 we ever get. Shame they had to gay up the graphics.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4...biotic_Factor/

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My backlog just never ends because I'll buy games when they go on sale..

I still have sitting in my backlog..
Cyberpunk
Hitman world of assassination
RoboCop
Kingdom Come Deliverance
And about 50 others.