Oh, plenty of games were on sale, and quite a few in my wishlist, but I just wasn't interested in buying anything. I mean, that's good for my bottom line (particularly given just how many car repairs I've had to make this past year), but when push came to shove, I just didn't want to buy anything.
Yes, I did have Baldur's Gate 3 on my wishlist, but a) it wasn't on sale, and b) I just don't have the time to devote to playing it. Even if I gave up playing MMOs and all other video games to play BG3, I just don't have the hours in a day to play the game to the extent I want to.
There's also the matter of me wanting to go back and finish BG1 and BG2 once more before delving into BG3, just for continuity's sake.
Yes, I am that sort of player. I mean, you do read the blog, don't you?
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Some months ago I stumbled on an old Blizzard gift card the kids gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago, and given that Blizz was running one of their sales at the time, I used said gift card to buy Diablo II Remastered. I figured why not? I was essentially getting the game for free, so it made sense to try the game that people still say was the best in the Diablo series out before delving into Diablo 3 and Diablo 4.
So.... Does that count as a new game purchase, despite the gift card itself being at least 2 years old?
Eh, whatever.
Now that I think about it, that's the exact same reaction I had when I played it for 4 hours some weeks ago.
Your character is your character, just like if you were playing Gauntlet back at the video game arcade*
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| "Warrior needs food badly!" From the WMS Gaming channel on YouTube. |
And if you don't like your character's appearance, well... That's tough luck.
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Hmm... Now that I think about it, from what I can tell there's not much more story here than what was in that old Gauntlet game back in the day.
Or The Bard's Tale, for that matter.
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| Back when the name Electronic Arts meant something good. Yes, kids, that actually was a thing: EA being a good company. |
I did discover that if you died in D2, you lost all your gear and you have to run back to get it. Which can suck.
But in the end, there's really not a lot of "there" there. Run around, kill things, take their loot, use it. Rinse and repeat.
So.... Gauntlet, anybody?
*Boy do those two things take a body back to the 1980s!
Oddly, it never occured to me there'd be any continuity between the first two Bladur's Gate games and the new one. I haven't seen anyone mention it in the playthroughs or reviews I've read, either. I just googled it and apparently it does sort of follow on but only loosely, since it's set more than a century after the last one.
ReplyDeleteI can remember BG1 quite well, having played it twice but BG2 I remember absolutely nothing about. Maybe I should play that one again.
I was kind of surprised that there was a loose connection to BG2, since I thought BG2 ended on a pretty convincing note one way or another. However, one of my MMO friends told me that yes, BG3 was a continuation, so that gives me an excuse to finish my replays first. (And to wait a bit longer, to be honest.)
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