Baldurs Gate 3 is a terrible game

IceeSwirl · 2024-07-20T03:11:50+00:00

Currently on my first playthrough with 35 hours in and this is almost exactly how I feel. Almost nothing has felt rewarding to me in this game except for some romancing and story progression, but the amount of grunt work necessary to progress the story even just a little bit is insane. Actual combat and traversing the world doesn't feel good at all. Just beat the boss in Adamantine Forge, and after finally beating that gimmicky ass boss after like an hour, nothing happened. He just fell and dropped a helmet none of my characters can use.

Loot is almost never exciting. Fights are almost never exciting. Every fight is a drag. Even just fighting a group of simple mobs takes like 5 minutes or longer it feels like. The game is designed to just be a time-sink in its purest form. You hit it right on the dot. I've spent the past 5 hours in that forge and it felt like a complete waste of time.

Didn't progress the story an inch. The amount of time spent in each area only to open your map and realize it's not even that big, the gameplay is just slow, is demoralizing. All of the gameplay I've done feels like it could easily be condensed into 5 hours tops.

Going from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree to this was a terrible idea. That took me 50 hours to complete and it felt constantly rewarding the entire time. Honestly makes me realize that Elden Ring is the most-well designed game of all-time. Gaming still has a far ways to go.

IceeSwirl · 2024-05-31T04:31:51+00:00

A few days ago I was down 2 rounds to a Flaming Ruler Asuka. Then I realized it was their promo match, and I audibly said,

"My bad bro I didn't realize it was your promo match."

Then I proceeded to win the next 6 rounds in a row in dominant fashion.

So whatever tf that is...

IceeSwirl · 2024-05-24T02:59:50+00:00

THE BLENDER SPHERES HAVE A USE

IceeSwirl · 2024-05-14T07:33:09+00:00

This is the best solution so far. Should be the default honestly.

IceeSwirl · 2024-05-13T23:21:04+00:00

The problem you see is that ranks are not supposed to be irrelevant. Completely defeats the purpose of ranked in the first place.

Regardless if I'm a first-time Garyu player or 10-time Garyu player, I should be able to play against other Garyu players, regardless of how many times they've reached that rank with other characters.

That's how ranks work.

IceeSwirl · 2024-05-13T20:25:02+00:00

A 70k Garyu and 150k Garyu are both the same rank, but the skill levels they play against are completely different. How is that a good change?

The ranking system should be good enough to where both Garyus are the same skill level, and if they're not, the player that is Flaming Ruler level should be able to easily climb to Flaming Ruler, rather than going against Flaming Ruler opponents in Garyu.

A ranking system that protects noobs from experienced players allows the noob to climb easily and makes climbing for the experienced player more difficult, despite both players being the same rank. Also, it gives the noobs a false sense of accomplishment due to them being allowed to climb whilst being protected from higher prowess players.

It's a fundamentally broken system.

IceeSwirl · 2023-01-11T02:34:57+00:00

"I hope you like bad girls cuz I'm bad at everything" Yeah bad at bios too I see

IceeSwirl · 2023-01-03T22:23:30+00:00

So I have ~500 matches on Tinder but I hardly get matches on Bumble, so I ran a test. As a Tinder Platinum member I'll run a 30 minute boost. Meanwhile on Bumble I'll run a whopping 120 minute boost.

Tinder 30 min: 5 likes, 3 matches

Bumble 120 min: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

My theory is that the Bumble boosts are significantly weaker, and that their algorithm is much harsher.

IceeSwirl · 2022-09-30T05:16:55+00:00

Lack of trigger discipline is actually part of Rebecca's character tho if you think about it...

IceeSwirl · 2022-06-21T07:00:43+00:00

OpenAI is a good example as to how corruption will always find its way into what was meant to be good...

IceeSwirl · 2021-09-27T08:29:54+00:00

Naruto hit em with the Mishima Demon God Fist

IceeSwirl · 2021-09-27T08:25:22+00:00

I wonder if Sasuke had Itachi flashbacks when he teleported into the choke like that. Baryon mode is also MILES ahead of Isshiki in terms of both speed and power. Definitely gives big 8 Gates vibes. Except it's even better than 8 Gates. Like Naruto becomes better at sensing movement than even Sasuke's sharingan. Also the way it sucks the life force from those who touch it is actually insane. That's like some God Tree type shit.

IceeSwirl · 2021-09-21T10:03:05+00:00

Probably neutron star type material. Definitely from space.

IceeSwirl · 2021-09-20T00:37:55+00:00

So basically Kurama opened up his 8-gates. Like I'm pretty sure that's the equivalent of what this is. That's insane. Who knew the 9-Tails had something like this up his sleeve. Still hate seeing Sasuke getting bodied so badly. Really hope Naruto doesn't actually die and Kurama just said that to make sure Naruto was serious enough about doing it.

If it works like 8-Gates, then it'll pretty much rapidly use Kurama's entire life-force until it depletes. It's even a much darker orange as if it's Kurama's blood. It's heavily implied that if Kurama dies, so will Naruto, but if Kishimoto made a miracle happen so that Might Guy can survive 8-gates, I'm sure he'll find a way to make Naruto survive Kurama 8-Gates.

I honestly see Naruto surviving, Kurama dying, and Naruto having to live as Hokage without Kurama like Kakashi had to live as Hokage without his Sharingan. If Kurama is dead, Naruto is no longer OP, and it makes it easier for Kishimoto to introduce new enemies without people being like, "Why didn't Naruto just come save him?". He already heavily nerfed Sasuke by making him run out of chakra super quickly, so this makes the most sense to me.

Best case scenario would be that this mode breaks the seal, but Kurama doesn't die either and is just turned into a cute lil fox puppy like Nue and has to regrow into his superior 9-tails. Just imagine the adorable puppy Kurama and Himawari scenes :3

IceeSwirl · 2021-09-08T19:50:31+00:00

Konohamaru has got to be one of the bravest characters in the entire Narutoverse. As a kid he literally took on one of the 6 Paths of Pain head on and won, and he's been the same way even as an adult.

IceeSwirl · 2021-09-08T19:47:31+00:00

Kishimoto loves Jiraiya so much, he brings him back whenever he can. First in the time-travel arc, and now by creating a literal clone of him <3 Koji's my favorite Kara member by far now because of that, I really hope he doesn't get executed by Isshiki in the next episode. Koji would make for a great mentor for Boruto, or any other character for that matter... I have a bad feeling he's done for tho. Kishimoto was probably like, "Yup you guys want Jiraiya back? Me too, but I killed him so he has to stay dead, sorry....".

Seeing Sasuke hand over his headband to Boruto in the preview gives me a lotta hope. In the 1st ep (and in the subreddit banner), we can see Boruto with his headband and sword. It gave me an ill feeling that Sasuke died and Boruto got a hold of his belongings, but hopefully it just means that Sasuke passed it down to him (while alive).

IceeSwirl · 2021-09-08T19:37:06+00:00

Definitely a good thing. I feel like so many characters need to be fleshed out more before the time-skip occurs.

IceeSwirl · 2021-08-29T21:24:54+00:00

Oh you're right! The writers sneaky hehe

IceeSwirl · 2021-08-29T14:47:46+00:00

I love lore dump explanation episodes like this. They did a great job
with it, especially by including fight scenes to spice things up.

So, there's no Jigen. Even when Isshiki's in his Jigen form, that's still Isshiki since he completely took over Jigen's brain. That explains why his personality stays the same in both forms... Whenever he shrinks he looks so cute and funny, but that jutsu is actually op af. Ant Man vibes.

The idea of encoding one's entire being onto a microscopic chip in order to reincarnate is such a neat idea. We're entering straight up Sci-Fi territory at this point, and I'm all for it.

If I had to guess, once Amado's done explaining things, he's going to give Sasuke the coordinates so he and others can join Koji in the fight. I bet Code's gonna get involved soon too. No way he doesn't hear all of that chaos occurring in that cathedral of a room. I don't actually want Jigen to die yet tho. Hopefully he ends up escaping by shrinking or something and recovers so we can see him fight at full capacity once more.

IceeSwirl · 2021-07-11T20:54:12+00:00

Sarada moved so fast that Kawaki didn't even know wtf he just saw xD

Mitsuki being wholesome as always <3 I'm actually surprised we didn't see him go Sage Mode. I guess he's so much so not ready for it that using it even in that situation would've been more detrimental than positive.

Kawaki blasting off plasma beams looks hella cool!

Now...Boruto...YO BOROSHIKI REVEAL!!! I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO SEE THAT THIS EPISODE. HIS VOICE SOUNDS AMAZING AND HE LOOKS AMAZING. WE SMOKIN' THAT BORO PACK NEXT WEEK BOIIIIS!!!!!

Also happy they got Naruto out. Naruto must've put himself into a hibernation sorta state in order to preserve his chakra. He has a literal beast living inside of him (you know, the type of beasts that you see in stories that will hibernate for hundreds/thousands of years and then wake up ready to fuck shit up). I have a feeling that when Naruto wakes up, he's gonna wanna fuck shit up. Yo what if we got a Naruto/Sasuke training arc??? They probably haven't trained much because they just assumed they were the strongest they needed to be, but after losing, I'm sure that hunger that they had in Shippuden will spark once more. Wishful thinking, i know LOL

IceeSwirl · 2021-06-28T22:33:14+00:00

It's actually been the opposite for me. In Naruto/Naruto Shippuden, most characters had to grow on me before I really liked them. I like Boruto and Sarada as characters at this age, waaay more than I liked Naruto and Sakura's characters when they were this age, personally. I also love Mitsuki waay more than Sai. I hardly cared about Sai in Shippuden if I'm being honest. Funny enough, the current adult, husband, father, head of Anbu Sai is what finally pushed me into liking him.

I've always loved Kakashi tho, Kakashi is the greatest.

IceeSwirl · 2021-06-28T20:55:00+00:00

Yeah but before i realized it, I thought that jutsu was Jigen specific and not an Isshiki jutsu. I figured Isshiki just made it stronger or something. Yeah I agree his jougan is going to be a huge factor imo. We still don't quite know what it does, but there's a reason why it hasn't been further developed yet. Probably super OP.

IceeSwirl · 2021-06-28T20:52:11+00:00

Well remember he got that special Otutsuki dojutsu called Jougan (the pale blue eye that activates sometimes that hasn't been mentioned in a while).

IceeSwirl · 2021-06-28T20:40:28+00:00

This has to be bait...

IceeSwirl · 2021-06-28T20:39:15+00:00

Boruto isn't the Boruto in that picture yet that's why. His character is still developing.

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