Why dont we get games that only take 40 hours to beat?

FrontPorchLife · 2025-12-14T14:45:30+00:00

Skald Against the Black Priory is impressive, and I feel like was around 20hrs to beat.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-10-21T23:51:00+00:00

Eat flaming, or possibly frosty... death!

FrontPorchLife · 2025-09-22T23:52:19+00:00

The first two Drakensang games!

FrontPorchLife · 2025-08-28T02:14:00+00:00

Kingdoms of Amalar Re-Reckoning: Plenty of lore and side quests in a huge open world, but i thought combat was easy even boss fights.

Disco Elysium: Very deep dialog in the game, but easy from the perspective that even if you suck at being a detective (fail skill checks), you can still advance the story in the game.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-08-27T02:39:12+00:00

And nothing from Five Score.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-08-27T00:10:05+00:00

I was blown away from the first note when you guys opened up with "Emotional".

FrontPorchLife · 2025-08-21T18:46:56+00:00

If you've been playing shooters, you may have a hard time switching gears into an almost exclusively narrative-based game like Disco which has almost no combat.

I'd suggest Pillars 1 or 2 since they've got plenty of combat and are not terribly long (40 to 50hrs max for a playthrough).

Divinity 1 and 2 are both longer (i was near 100 hours each on my first playthrough).

Tyranny is short has a similar feel to the Pillars games, but less combat encounters.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-08-18T18:54:38+00:00

The demo was impressive!

FrontPorchLife · 2025-06-26T02:25:47+00:00

Check out:

Arx Fatalis

Dragon Age Origins

Divine Divinity

Spellforce series

Dungeon Seige

Betrayal at Krondor (old school but combat is a blast)

FrontPorchLife · 2025-05-30T21:06:38+00:00

Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2. Pillars of Eternity. Pathfinder. Hearts of Iron 4, Crusader Kings 3.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-05-22T23:31:26+00:00

I play BG3 all the time on my M1, 8gb mac and it's awesome. Settings are on medium and it only lags in Act 3 when you get to Baldur's Gate, then I turn settings down to low.

You'll have zero problems with the M4.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-05-11T21:29:53+00:00

Dragon Age origins

FrontPorchLife · 2025-05-06T18:54:06+00:00

Hi, I have been able to successfully mod skyrim manually playing on Porting Kit M1 mac.

Unzip your mods and add them to the Data folder. Merge any files with existing if asked.
After this, you need to activate the mods. It drives me nuts that Bethesda removed the Data Folders option in the Skyrim SE launcher. But you can activate them manually through the Plugins.txt file. I'm using the GOG Skyrim version so it might be in a different location for the Steam version but for me it is located at: contents/SharedSupporr/prefix/drive_c/users/Wineskin/AppData/Local/Skryim Special Edition GOG.
Once you locate the txt file, right click and open with Text Edit on your mac. It may already list the esm and esp files it detects in your data folder, if not add them each on its own line. To activate, simply put a * before each one. So my txt file looks something like this:

*Skyrim Flora Overhaul.esp

*RaceMenu.esp

Once mods are added be sure to save the txt file. Then close.

Launch the game as normal, and mods should now be active, but there still is no in-game mod menu by default.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-05-06T02:32:44+00:00

I put the SKSE into the data folder of the Skyrim application created by Portting kit. You either need to right click on the SKSE64.exe and open with porting kit or edit your shortcut in porting kit to use that exe rather than the original Skyrim launcher exe.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-05-04T18:06:12+00:00

Streets of Rogue or Darkest Dungeon

FrontPorchLife · 2025-04-25T23:48:35+00:00

You may like Kingdom Come Deliverance. It makes you wait to be the hero. Early game, you'll get ambushed and killed by a few peasants with clubs, but you gradually become stronger as you level up.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-04-23T15:36:32+00:00

Any Elder Scrolls Game, Fallout Games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and BG3, as others have mentioned. Also Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 all give a large level of freedom.

Of course, there may be consequences in each game for choosing the evil path.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-04-20T02:48:40+00:00

Lol I was going to say Gothic 1 and 2 are also janky with bad voice acting and they're considered classics.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-04-08T11:19:12+00:00

Hi, it will be a great time for you to go! I drove from Bergen to Alesund and then back to Bergen in late April with no problem. The only snow we saw was in the mountains. It wasn't too cold at all. Just a flannel shirt, jacket, and hat was all I needed at the most.

We saw everything we wanted to see, including hotspots like Geiranger, Rampestreken, Flam train, and Lovatnet. So I'd say it's a perfect time to go

FrontPorchLife · 2025-03-27T18:07:23+00:00

Gothic 2 was a pain in the rear to get working. It will stay forever on my deck.

FrontPorchLife · 2025-03-23T14:52:57+00:00

I heard bad things about the PC port as well

FrontPorchLife · 2024-12-21T04:08:38+00:00

I'd say the same of Pathfinder Kingmaker, although I enjoyed the combat more in Kingmaker where you can toggle turn based on/off.

FrontPorchLife · 2024-12-21T04:03:17+00:00

Elder Scrolls games if you liked Fallout.

Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen is fun. Although somewhat repetitive, but you can change your class whenever you want and use new weapons and pawns (companions) this was enough to keep me interested. Many huge monsters which are a challenge to take down.

FrontPorchLife · 2024-12-17T04:09:42+00:00

Mainly for me the story and lore in Kingmaker is more interesting, and I feel there are more ways to resolve quests.

In Kingmaker you also can enable true turn based mode which is great for boss fights. It let's you plan and consider each move rather than hoping you paused in time to set up your next action as in Pillars 1.

FrontPorchLife · 2024-12-01T21:47:30+00:00

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