BG3 Alchemy Introduction You get introduced to alchemy almost as soon as you reach the beach at the start. The more you explore – including deep, dark caves, rotting tomes and obscure vendors – thegreater the range of potions, elixors etc you’ll have access to in a crunch. Potions are one shot, with either immediate […]
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Baldur’s Gate: Act 2 All paths lead to Rome, or at least Moonrise Note first: There are two ways to enter the Shadowlands, via Grymforge or via the mountains, bringing you out in different points. The Grymforge is the best option. In some ways, while meandering, Act 2 is pretty much linear. Clear, move forward,
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Baldur’s Gate 3 This will be a ‘work in progress as it’s a BIG game, and I’m still only in act one. Actually, I restarted as I wanted to play in tactical mode as a bard. Plus, it’s still buggy and more than a little quirky in places due to sleep (or not sleeping) messing
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The Password Game So, here I am, minding my own business, scrolling through Facebook when PC Gamer draws my attention to this: This unhinged browser game about passwords is the most messed up thing I’ve ever played The post directs you to Neal’s Fun: password game It’s not perfect in as much as it can
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How many spoons can you use today? I heard about ‘spoon theory’ for the first time today. It makes sense at the basic level: activities take a certain amount of energy, the coinage for energy is spoons and you only have so much to spend before you run into debt. However, all the charts I
Darkest Dungeon Guide Seeing as Darkest Dungeon 2 is out, I thought I’d have another play of the old version before I decide if I want to buy the new one. Mostly, the game was hard but awesome. Against that, it has the worst, the most annoying inventory management game of anything I have ever
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Diablo IV: progress – or Immortal MK II? Foreword (during beta) There’s an open beta weekend next week so that you can try yourself for free for a couple of days, but here are my thoughts for you to consider before handing over cash to pre-purchase: I am a ‘fan’ of Blizzard games but NOT
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Stardew Valley for dummies “Things I wish I’d known at the start” Intro first The best things about Stardew Valley are its depth and its integrity. In terms of gameplay and narrative, some of the topics touched on are really quite profound, like Pam’s anger issues and her relationship with her daughter, the wild man,
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