Tobolds

I am currently playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Great game once you understand it, but with a huge barrier to entry from the highly complex Pathfinder ruleset. It is the Paradox of Choice turned into a videogame: A CRPG with too few choices for classes and skills would b...

I am now 20 hours into Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, reached the end of Act 1, and am enjoying myself a lot more than I did in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. While Wrath of the Righteous sure is to a good extent scripted, it gives you a lot more freedom to play, you're not just watching the story in cutscenes. I increased the difficulty level of the game to core, but modi...

I decided to put Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth on hold, and restarted Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous instead, to play a roleplaying game that gives me more player agency. The hurdle to that is the Pathfinder system, so I'll talk about a bit of pen & paper fantasy RPG history.
Around 2007-2009, a major schism occurred in the world of pen & paper fantasy roleplayin...

I am now 7 hours into Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, in the middle of chapter 3. So how does it play? Well, it doesn't. I don't have the feeling that I did much playing in those 7 hours. I mostly watched cut-scenes. I was occasionally able to move freely and do some random trash mob fights, and gather random loot on the street. But up to now there was only a single small "dunge...

I decided on which game to play next, and it is Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. That is the 8th game in the Yakuza series of games, but I haven't played any of the previous ones. Mostly because the previous games were beat 'em up action adventures, and this latest game is a turn-based roleplaying game, which is much more the kind of game I like.
Starting this right after...