Yeah, I hope you keep at it. If you are fighting blood knights it shouldn't take too long now.

Either way I recommend Carbot's Diablo 1 cartoons for everyone new or old to the game: https://youtu.be/Odi5iR9Ni50?si=i7LIEWEwzN73foZN

I'd say you can try the Witcher 3. It's story rich so could be interesting to just watch too. Lots of violence though, but most of it is quite cartoonish imho so maybe it's still okay.

I think Diablo 1 is much more punishing than Diablo 2. I don't think you can get away with not chugging potions. The sorceror is even worse than the warrior because he's completely dependent on mana. So until you get the mana shield spell you'll need to have both mana and healing potions ready on him.

The best you can do is try to get as high resistance and armour values as you can so you don't take as much damage when you get hit.

For example, if you find a high lightning res ring that you don't have much use for now you might want to keep it and put it on when on a later level has enemies dealing lightning damage. Stuff like that.

For ARPGs if you feel burnt by Diablo IV, I can recommend Path of Exile. Arguably the king of the genre today.

Others mentioned Grim Dawn, which has a bit slower gameplay, but a good choice nonetheless.

If you're looking for indie ARPG, then there's Chronicon. Nice little game that I really want to go back to again.

The first two sound fun. I feel like they should've made Shifting Stones crazier since it's voided anyway. I may play through campaign in the first two, but one week is way too short for me to do any meaningful progress.

Good luck to people playing.

Morrowind and FTL. Both I revisit every couple of years.

I suspect Stardew Valley might become something like that too, but I only had one cycle of stopping and coming back with it so far.

Are you sure that's Outer Wilds? https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds

Maybe what you are thinking of is Outer Worlds, which is a common mix-up. https://store.steampowered.com/app/578650/The_Outer_Worlds

I don't think Outer Wilds is on GOG unfortunately.

For me there are a couple.

Hades (2020) - I'm not in any hurry with this one. I'd get it if GOG starts to sell it, otherwise I'll wait a bit more.

Outer Wilds (2020) - I'm getting impatient with this. I'd like this more on GOG too, but I think I'll just buy it when Steam winter sale comes.

The Guild III (2022) - quirky trade/life sim game and I have some fond memories of the second one. But that had quite a few bugs even long after release and I hear the third game still looks unfinished so I'm patient.

Yeah even when I played EA Elementalist I felt safe to just run and place totems, run and place totems. Especially with additional projectiles the random misses would often impact the next pack and by the time I'm near them those missed shots explode and most of the trash mobs die (alch and go, nothing fancier).

Btw, do people consider EA ballistas as bow builds? To me it feels nothing like a regular bow build even if you need a bow technically. It plays mostly like other ballista totem/spell totem builds.

Honest question, what's the scam here? You are pricing in divines and they spam you with lowball offers in chaos?

I didn't try anything with Guardian's Blessing so I don't know the specific mechanics of it, but it might be something to use with Minion Instability. Or an Animate Guardian with ES buffer can potentially be a good target for it. Just spitballing, I'll probably never use it.

Exactly true with it not being a primary hobby for most people who game.

When I was a kid gaming wasn't as widely considered as an acceptable hobby in general, but as a kid you just didn't care what grown ups thought (games make people violent anybody?). By the time I hit university, people got shamed for it by non-gamer peers and I did a computer science degree too so it wasn't a group of non-tech people who did the shaming either. By my early twenties I learned not to talk about it and just mention gaming as a hobby if asked and never elaborate further...

I've just reached maps with my General's Cry Shield Crush Berserker and umm, it's not too great. Not for league content and not at all for the first sanctum I've tried. At least it's going somewhere. I still plan to take it to tier 16 maps, mid 90s and getting the first two voidstones. It'll be a challenge, but I had worse.

I'm afraid I'm a victim of algorithms because I pretty much only look at stuff from GOG and Steam front pages or games that are recommended as 'similar' over there. And of course youtube.

As a side note. I should even stop checking those because I just keep playing the same games nowadays instead of chipping away at my backlog.

Good for you if that's your experience, but I cannot say the same. The difference I found is with the way those people ignore arguments and insult you.

I can talk to a person from a technical field and come out of that conversation feeling like shit because I was called all kinds of stupid indirectly.

I had this too. I decided that I'll get the max rating from Grampa and the everything will calm down, but after reaching that point in game I was sort of burnt out and stopped playing.

Also I never could get into the island part of the game. I felt like I abandoned what I worked for all that time!

Papers, Please just turned ten recently. It's a simple concept (just check the papers!) getting progressively more difficult as you get further. The bleak setting with the colours and music gives that very "nice" 50's soviet vibes. Definitely recommended.

"Oh hidy-ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day..." Definitely a good watch.

And that's the way it should be.

I'm actually tempted to say Snatch too. City of God (Cidade de Deus 2002) is up there with it. Some time ago I probably would've said Donnie Darko, but I've grown out of it over the years.