Jaded

Monthly Update: September 2023

I managed to beat Baldur's Gate 3 this month, and then moved onto Starfield.
Starfield is a severe drop in quality after BG3... I want to 100% Starfield first (if I can get through the boring quests) and go back to 100% BG3...
We'll see how I go.


Played


Played

Half-Life 2

Baldur's Gate 3

186.2 hours
48 of 53 achievements

Amazing game honestly.

Already planning to replay it for the 100% achievements (5 to go..) :D

Half-Life 2

Starfield

77.4 hours
37 of 50 achievements

I have a whole review on why I don't recommend Starfield on Steam…

I'm struggling to finish it to be honest - but I'm going to power through :/

Coming from BG3 where everything seemed to be handcrafted, to Starfield, where everything seems low effort, copy paste… I dunno. Very lackluster game I was hoping would be better.

Half-Life 2

Halls of Torment

0.2 hours
14 of 243 achievements

I've played somewhere between 1-3 hours on the steam deck while I was away this month. (Wasn't keeping track..)
Great game to be able to pick up for 5-20 minutes at a time!

Also brilliant being able to play offline - we had no internet in the middle of nowhere at the time (Horrific, I know!)

Backlog

Nothing added this month!

I'm getting better at avoiding purchases! Maybe one day my backlog will actually be manageable....
Naaaah... 😉

Zelrune

Congratulations on your assassinations! Also ooof about Starfield. I noticed a lot of people play it for 30-50 hours then kinda drop off, Best of luck finishing it! Everyone is playing BG3, maybe I should be too? I kinda wanna poke at Elden Ring first.

Jaded

I definitely recommend BG3!

I wasn’t interested at all until friends convinced me to buy it for release… now I think it is my new favourite game.

It’s definitely strange going from the quality of BG3 to Starfield which does feel pretty bad in comparison…

I’ve been playing the quests in Starfield today, and the sheer number of times I have to follow a character somewhere (slowly..) is crazy. Things like this seem to have been used to artificially pad game time a fair amount 😆

I can’t really remember a generic fetch quest/kill 10 specific enemies in BG3…