In the "this probably matters only to Bill" department: Currently, a good chunk of the posts on this site are on Baldur's Gate 3 playthroughs. The sequence of playthroughs, for both me and Real Angela, are complicated enough that it's easy to lose track of what's going on. I've set up a BG3 log spreadsheet. I've added…
Due to various life circumstances, last night was the first time in weeks that I could sit down with A, J, and M to play board games. We played three games. The first two were both Railroad Tiles. We don't often play the same game twice in a single night. Railroad Tiles was a short and fun…
Warning: unlike my previous guest post, where I was trying to be delicate about revealing game information, this one is spoiler city. Spoiler metropolis. This playthrough is called 2/14.5 because it's my second playthrough, and Bill's 14.5th, since he only joined me part of the time I was playing. Characters For this playthrough, my main character was…
Last night, I played Soul Raiders with M and A. As I often do, I forgot to take photos of the game while we were playing it. My usual reaction is to just not write an essay about it. Then I looked at a couple of pictures that M had taken of my cat Shuba as he…
I have a general disclaimer associated with my series of Baldur's Gate 3 posts: Anyone looking for tips how to solo Honor mode is probably looking in the wrong place. For this post, I'm weakening that disclaimer. The disparate topics I'm going to discuss are advanced enough that folks pursuing playthroughs at higher difficulty levels might find…
TL;DR: You can use Larian's BG3 cross-save feature to preserve PS5 game saves onto a desktop system, provided you're willing to purchase a second copy of BG3. Why? Let's get the obvious out of the way first: This article will be useful to you if you own a Playstation 5 and you play Baldur's Gate 3, or…
If you've been following my Baldur's Gate 3 series of posts, at this point my nomenclature may be confusing. When I say "playthrough 3" or "playthrough 12", that's clear enough: It refers to my (Bill's) 3rd or 12th playthroughs of the game, respectively. The business with the slashes may not be obvious. The number before the slash…
Guess what, folks? I just rage-quit another game. You already know from the title of this essay that it was Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. If you've read my other reviews (such as they are), you know that when I typically rage-quit a game like Arkham Knight or Gollum, it's at the end of ever-more-unpleasant experience…
I just noticed that this blog has an RSS feed: https://argothald.com/feed/. This link is automatically part of every post in this blog. It's in the Meta section, with the name Entries feed. I've used Wordpress for this blog for years. Only now did I see this feature. Who says I'm not observant? (Really, who says this? Because…
Yesterday, I told Real Angela that I was going to have an extended afternoon-to-evening game session with J, M, and A. (As an aside, they all knew each other from game events like the masquerade party I threw in 2019.) She asked the obvious question, "What are you going to play?" I explained that I couldn't answer.…