#Introduction: Hello, I am #new here! I was on #Diaspora for quite a few years but it was a very small community. Mastodon seems larger and more dynamic.
I'm mainly here to chat about #RPG games. I have been playing #DnD since the #1980s, starting with Moldvay #Basic and Keep on the Borderlands. These days I am mostly playing #DCC, but also enjoy Call of #Cthulhu, Traveller and #OSR games.
Besides #RPGs, I like British comics, especially #2000AD and its spin-offs. And #cycling.
Exactly 30 years ago today, Final Fantasy VI was released on the SNES in Japan. It is one of the greatest Final Fantasy games to ever be developed, and is a personal favorite of ours on the blog.
Our retrospective post won't be ready until tomorrow.
@silellak I'm kind of obsessed!! If you told me I'd be all-in on a 100-120 hour plus social sim meets JRPG game a year ago I'd laugh in your face!
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But look at me now!!
Today I'm wearing my Persona 5 t-shirt at work and tomorrow my Joker miniature figure arrives for my desk at work lolol
Meanwhile, Megs just beat Prince of Persia too. Fun game, but they preferred Metroid Dread.
I've encountered a strange issue where #BaldursGate3 is suddenly constantly crashing on my main rig, but working perfectly fine on my #SteamDeck. I'm not using any mods, my rig is more than enough to handle the game on high settings at 1440p, and I'm not having any issues with any other games. I've reinstalled the game several times. I've verified the integrity of the files via steam, I've even reinstalled my OS. Noting works. It still crashes constantly on my main PC. There;s no discernible pattern to the crashes either--in combat, out of combat, standing around in the world, clicking on something, doing an action, character creation...it just crashes after 5-10 minutes every time without fail. My temps are all fine as well, and no other game is giving me these issues....any idea what's up? I'm running the game on a Ryzen 5 2600 with a 6650 XT, 32 GB of ram, and nvme driven and i'm using #LinuxMint 21.3... #GamingOnLinux#RPGs#BG3#GamingOnLinux#RPGs#BG3
@casey YOU WENT BACK TO IT! lol. I knew you'd do it after a few days. Do you have an AMD system? If so, one thing that could be the issue is that if your XMP is 3600mhz or so, you need to set the FCLK clock the 1/2 of that ratio (so 1800 in this case). This will speed up the system too. That could also provide stability... however, it still doesn't work with xmp, then leave it off... it'll slow things down by like 1-2 fps maybe, but who knows.
@ward After some further testing, disabling xmp really seems to have fixed it. I was worried I would get a steep drop in performance since I've heard people talk about RAM speed being really important with Ryzen CPUs, but I haven't noticed a massive performance hit at all....
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds I was turned off from it 20+ years ago by the voice acting and anime art (which was new to me). I never thought about going back to it, but it gets so much glowing love that I've been convinced to try again.
@scribblemacher I think it was the cliché that drove me off more than anything...A story similar to everything that I experienced up until that point.
As I never heard of Grandia until the remaster was released in the USA in 2019. The glut of samey stories just wore me out, which was sad as I do love the anime aesthetic in games.
Part 1 of our Shadows of Adam livestream is now on YouTube. This RPG starts off somewhat dark and ominous, not unlike Breath of Fire II. Speaking of 16-bit RPGs, there's a ton of homage to various SNES games.
@Laukidh I do like that you can share the load with companions (or get a perk that increases carry weight when solo) - especially when running a mod that lets Dogmeat stay in the party when you have another follower (something that was apparently intended at one point but cut from the vanilla game).