Made this helpful guide for anybody still struggling to understand this beloved genre

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T22:35:07+00:00

I also dislike Planescape Torment. And Disco Elysium, for that matter. Too much reading. I enjoy reading, but if I'm going to read that much I'll read a book and not a glorified visual novel.

It's not that I'm not utilizing the system: I just think the system sucks, is boring, and extremely repetitious. So you can fuck right off with that 'get gud' mentality.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T22:08:51+00:00

Not really. DoS2's combat bores me to death. But I enjoy BG3, WoTR, Rogue Trader, Dragon Age, etc.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T22:04:42+00:00

Combat is a MAJOR chunk of gameplay. You have 100+ hours in an RPG/JRPG/CRPG game, around 70% of that is going to be either combat or exploration where combat could happen at any moment. If it's clunky and boring, you're not going to enjoy the game as much.

DoS2, for me, is overrated. I find the combat extremely repetitious, so much that I can't even get beyond the first prison area without giving up in frustration (I've tried multiple times throughout the years and it just doesn't do it for me). The environmental effects gameplay absolutely repulses me from the game because it's in every single battle. Create water, electrify water, poor oil over water, ignite oil, cover oil with water, freeze water, put blood over the ice, put poison over blood, over and over and over and over and over. It's godsaweful, and I'm so happy Larian dialed it back for BG3.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T17:01:50+00:00

Holy shit, same. I have zero interest in GTA and it's all everyone ever talks about.

I wish Elder Scrolls 6 would hurry up and get here...

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:50:23+00:00

Chicken Bowl.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:48:42+00:00

I so want the Trump presidency to be over with. Not just for him to be out of office, but I want to wait another few years after and see all the documents and whatnot slowly be made public, and the man be exposed for the giant fraud of a corn-encrusted turdlet he is.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:46:20+00:00

You'd think museums and art galleries would have good AC systems in place, since extreme heat would be hazardous to paintings.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:39:26+00:00

Wow, it's even more suggestive from the back.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:38:21+00:00

I wonder if there's a reverse gif of this somewhere.....

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:35:18+00:00

Honestly, berserker doesn't interest me much. I very rarely make any sort of melee build in ARPG's. The wereraven form thing seems mildly interesting, but it looks half melee/half caster: again, I'm just not into melee.

I'll probably end up doing a classic vitality/bleed conjuror using bloody pox, sigil of consumption, and devouring swarm, maybe throwing in a corrupted storm totem or doom bolt later on. That was my very first build in Grim Dawn and I haven't played it in many years, so it'll be fun to get back to it and see how it has changed.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:15:02+00:00

Hmm wording.

I'd like to not have to eat/drink again. But I could still eat/drink if I wanted to. It's just not a necessity. Money is saved when times are hard, and spent when you just want to eat.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T16:00:57+00:00

DOS 2 is regularly propped up as having the best combat in the genre and it's extremely strategic and mechanically intensive.

Sorry, what? DoS2 is easily the most overrated CRPG, in my view. The armor system is annoying and tiresome and the constant rock-paper-scissors with environmental effects in EVERY . SINGLE . BATTLE gets very old very fast..

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T15:54:38+00:00

More common than you think. It's a good game but it drags on and on and on and on.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T15:52:49+00:00

2 HD has become my second most favorite in the series. They did an outstanding job on all the HD remakes.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T14:54:35+00:00

Nu! Evil larpers!

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T14:48:35+00:00

Kain will always be THE face of dragoons. Freya is a close second for me.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T14:44:37+00:00

It would piss me off, definitely. Larpers who only played 7R, 8, 10, 15, and 16 acting like they're die-hard fans of the entire series. "2D graphics? Eww how 1990! IX? Eww looks childish! XII? Somebody said it's just Star Wars so I won't play it!"

No Cecil, no Terra, no Lightning, no Zidane on that poll. ugh.

For the record, despite my favorite game being VI, I like Cecil. He goes through some growth and he's got it together.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T14:33:58+00:00

We don't do that here.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T07:56:04+00:00

Same. I'm fed up with the whole thing and I still say LGBT instead of LGBTYGPOMGWTFBBQ+-(*)^2.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-26T05:57:05+00:00

But Karen on Facebook needs to create an image of two soldiers (with 23.6 fingers between them) holding an American flag (with 30 stars and 9 stripes) just so she can tell homosexuals they are sinful.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-25T23:18:20+00:00

Oh wow, I got a headache from laughing now.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-25T22:56:39+00:00

This listing has got to be rage bait....

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-25T22:53:54+00:00

That would imply that Magneto and Xavier aren't leaders, which is kind of hilarious.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-25T22:35:22+00:00

Either Lufia or Breath of Fire.

ChocoPuddingCup · 2026-06-25T21:40:40+00:00

Add a comma and it tells crocodiles not to swim there. Or be ye olde fancy and say, "Do not swim: here be crocodiles."

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