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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2371 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 17, 2025

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Vidya thread.

I finally finished Clair Obscur this week. Well, I didn't beat every optional boss, but I'm too old for this shit. I must say, my earlier criticism about the game's incongruent mood has been invalidated when the game provided an in-universe explanation for it.

Now I'm looking for another game to use my shiny new GPU with. Something I can beat before EU5 comes out in November. Any recommendations?

Now I'm looking for another game to use my shiny new GPU with. Something I can beat before EU5 comes out in November. Any recommendations?

The really obvious one is Baldur's Gate 3. A new mod that aims to fix the "aesthetic" problems of the game came out recently and looks pretty impressive.

Other suggestions that jump to my mind are all the recent Resident Evil games. 7, 8 and the remakes of 2, 3 and 4.

Helldivers 2 is pretty cool with friends but the installation features a mandatory rootkit.

Elden Ring is a "love it or hate it" type of game that came out relatively recently. I personally liked it, with the exception of the toxic fans.

One thing that made me roll my eyes at Nexusmods was their decision to remove a BG3 mod that replaced the default narrator (female) with an AI generated track of the wise old man from Civilization 5 voicing all the lines. I heard a bit of it on youtube and it seemed to work well. So I wanted to try it, but couldn't because it was removed almost instantly for, I guess, its horrible misogyny!!!

Is that mod (or similar) available anywhere now?

Yeah, same site. A lot of the "forbidden" mods end up there.

Thanks for the link. Do you happen to know if it works? There are posts calling it outdated (in the newer thread too).

No, sorry, I couldn't find a newer version. And I can't test it because I don't have the game installed right now.

For your future reference: I haven't tried the Civ5 narrator mod, but I'm using the White Wizard (Saruman) 1.1 narrator mod now, and it seems to work fine with the latest GOG version of the game. At least in the tutorial area, haven't played further.

A new mod that aims to fix the "aesthetic" problems of the game came out recently and looks pretty impressive.

With only a few exceptions, androgynous, purposefully made plain-or-ugly, Kara-Turan or Chultan heads were replaced.
https://f.rpghq.org/rH4UBq34Ajtg.gif?n=TIEF-BOTH-GIF.gif

Yeah, right, now everyone looks like they have an Instagram. A plague o' both their houses, I say.

God forbid fantasy races don't precisely meet the beauty standards of The Most Boring Fantasy Race(tm) aside from the superficial non-boring parts.

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