General Game Discussion for May 2026

[Kaamos_Llama]

My main problem is that I can't play it when my wife is around because she doesn't want spoilers and it's too gory for my kid. I played it for a while when my wife's sleeping schedule was different from mine, but that's no longer the case.

My wife is going on a trip for about 5 days soon though, so maybe I'll try to finish it then.

It definitely has some narky moments but thankfully its warm enough now that my kids outside a lot of the time in the yard so I can sneak it in more easily.

Would that my wife had any interest in BG3 at all, nice problem to have in a way. I remember act 3 was a little too meandering until the last hours which I had quite a bit of fun with the first time. Its never bad but a little maybe unfocused, but that could just be me.

 

[Frindis]

I remember act 3 was a little too meandering until the last hours which I had quite a bit of fun with the first time. Its never bad but a little maybe unfocused, but that could just be me.

It definitely felt a bit rushed the first time I got to Act 3. It has become a bit better with the patches, but I actually would not have minded another act. It would have made perfect sense to have a full Act 4 in the upper city of Baldur's Gate, and if they had done that, Act 3 would have been a bit more compressed and most likely added a bit more quality to it.

That said, Act 3 has some of the coolest boss fights and secrets (not to mention deadly traps), so there is a little bit of everything. You also get some nice weapons and armour, which ovbiously you would since it is the last Act, but there are a lot of them, and when you add in the different utilities you can get, Act 3 feels like a candy store if you have the coins. It adds a little flavour for touching up on particular builds or perhaps getting that final spell one wants.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

It definitely felt a bit rushed the first time I got to Act 3. It has become a bit better with the patches, but I actually would not have minded another act. It would have made perfect sense to have a full Act 4 in the upper city of Baldur's Gate, and if they had done that, Act 3 would have been a bit more compressed and most likely added a bit more quality to it.

That said, Act 3 has some of the coolest boss fights and secrets (not to mention deadly traps), so there is a little bit of everything. You also get some nice weapons and armour, which ovbiously you would since it is the last Act, but there are a lot of them, and when you add in the different utilities you can get, Act 3 feels like a candy store if you have the coins. It adds a little flavour for touching up on particular builds or perhaps getting that final spell one wants.

There were some great moments but without wanting to spoil it for Pifanjr some of the other boss fights that should have been epic were a little easy with a max level party as I remember.

Took me about 150 hours first time and I was about done with it by then, it was long enough for me. I do tend to want to be done with games before they end though.

Best CRPG yet all round, dont want to make it seem Im complaining much.

 

[Zloth]

However, combat is fun as hell, graphics great, traversal around the levels is mostly amazing and most of the puzzles are good fun too. They just could have done with either a fast travel within the levels or smaller maps IMO. havent finshed yet though, and Im also praying that the second game works better for me as this is a format I think has a ton of potential.

Jedi Survivor DOES have fast travel between any save point you've been to. The place is far too huge to make you run around between all the points. (You hear me Outward? TOO BIG TO NOT HAVE FAST TRAVEL? <grumble grumble>)

Ps: Have you guys done the optional Phase Spider Matriarch boss? The one before Auntie Ethel. That one has a little nasty suprise

Oh yes.

I'm not sure what the surprise was, though.

In Fallen Order the directions are clear. Theres timing needed and it feels exciting and powerful to be sliding then bouncing and wall running off of stuff. But most importantly if you do fail theres no loading screen, it takes a second or two to put you back at a checkpoint not far from where you were before. I dont know if this became possible due to SSDs or some other technical reason but it really makes the difference.

The second game has some special (and very much optional) challenges you can do with particularly hard ones.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I have previously recommended KMPlayer over VLC. I'd like to retract that. It is genuinely a great video player, but today I was fiddling with it (it's not open source, but whatever) and discovered that it was opening as a multilayer app and that hidden behind the first layer is a video player silently playing commercials one after another, presumably for as long as you have it opened.

It doesn't do anything harmful (except use your limited PC resources), but it's dishonest, and I'm not going to support that. It has run ads in the sidebar before. I guess people complained so he hid them. Sure, he deserves some money, but this isn't the way to do it.

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Thought this was kind of funny. I was playing a shop sim, and I heard loud footsteps, which was weird, so I looked around and no one was there. There was an update this morning, so I made a note to tell the developer, but then more noises started, and they weren't pleasant. I thought, maybe he's working on something for Halloween?

Finally I found out that I had YouTube open and it was playing a 'sounds of horror' or something video. I have autoplay turned off, so I'm not sure what triggered it.

 

[Johnway]

Still plodding along in HW😀oK and we've just finished mission 6. Not exactly a difficult mission, but i played it cautious and decided to inch along to the enemies bases and just sitting on top of elevated ground most of the time. i have to say that units can blow up very quickly so preserving units is a tough challenge at times and painful to see your a vetern die. Its got to the point however that i've reached capacity as i carefully look after my units.

So far i have a crack team of Heavy armor and rail gun support. Admittedly, just 2 so i need to get more of those fast. But yeah not being able to position units is annoying. Although i hear there is a way to do it, but the game never tells you... So i'll try it the next time i play.

onto other steam knows, you know me, i love those desktop simulator puzzle games. So when i discovered the InterfaceX26 sales page, i went sort of nuts and added a hell of a lot of games on my wish list. it will be ages before we'll play any of them, but add them to the list.


Doom 2 news and i've finished the second episode of the space cats saga, a cracking great time. Ends on a real high as you switch to slaughterfest mode and end up crashing your ship into mars to stop the hell forces. Anyway, playing episode 3 so we'll see how the new character and episode shapes up. The good news is that its a lot brighter so i can actually see where the hell i'm going.

 

[Frindis]

I'm not sure what the surprise was, though.

Spoiler: This suprise

Gossamer Tomb. Not super dangerous, but could potentially wipe out an unaware party with bad positioning.

 

[Zloth]

Ran into a zeppelin playing BattleTech Advanced today! Some army guys in little mech outfits, too. The game is choppy as can be with all those mods, but there's a ton of variety.

Spoiler: This suprise

Gossamer Tomb. Not super dangerous, but could potentially wipe out an unaware party with bad positioning.

NASTY!! And Legendary only, thank goodness. <shudder>