So there's a f2p mmorpg called Neverwinter on Epic. 

The trailer looks sooooo bad. Like, if I saw it 15 years ago it would be ropey bad.

wtf.

So that's about 25 hours into Baldur's Gate 3 so far, and it's really great. It takes everything that was great about Divinity and streamlines it. The inventory management is much better and swapping items between characters is easy, even during combat. It's still very buggy and glitchy and whole areas haven't been added yet but it's totally playable. And it seems to be full of actual dungeon crawling. It reminds me a bit of Diablo 3 but as an rpg. I wonder when the next update drops? It could do with a bit more loot.

I need to go back to it, but I am going to wait until
i’m done with Uni incase it eats my life.

There are areas that you can't go into yet because it's still early access, so if you're going to tear into it maybe you should wait, yeah.

From what I played I was highly impressed. Although, I did decide to park it until the full release and come back then. Looking forward to it though. Characters are great!

The skill tree is mental.

Been playing it with some mates but it suffers with the same thing as Diablo in that it's a bit mindless and repetitive. Enjoying coop Div 2 MUCH more.

Anyone playign Baldurs Gate 3? Just wondered what your non-spoilerific opinions are? Hows the combat and is the dialogue/story any good? I don't really like the idea of jumping into a heavily story based game without it being finished, though it is tempting.

I played a fair bit less, maybe 10 hours.  That time was spread over a few different characters, so have really only seen the first couple of hours.  I concur with Kow.  I’ve seen enough to know I’ll like it when it’s finished, but I don’t really want to go in deep until the story is complete.

Combat is hard but it looks like you can get really creative and improvise.  Dialogue is also high stakes.  Like there’s a bit where you can try tp help some people under mind flayer control and it can go really badly for everyone if you fail the stat checks.  It seemed like they are encouraging you not to not jump in and be a hero without thinking things through.

Amazon's New World is out today. Currently watching some old WoW guild mates discuss it on Discord, haven't really given it much thought myself. Might see how launch week plays out. Anyone else been interested?

Is it free to play?

Looks like a lot of people are having trouble getting into the game. Fairly normal MMO teething trouble.

678k players on Steam alone at the moment, says it all though. MMO fans are starved of new experiences! Kudos to Amazon, hope it goes well for them.

Yeah picked it up as well, not had much time with it though. Like the classless system and the horizontal progression systems. As someone who likes to craft and gather there is plenty here for me. Combat seems good too, lots of people complaining that there aren't many skills but to be honest I like it. Noting worse than having 60 skills bloating a huge hotbar, just always seemed like overkill to me.

On the Kinada server but I think there will be free transfers opening up soon!

Which one is this?

Bob.