I don’t blame Bilbo for taking his mithril when he left. He had no idea Frodo was going to go on an adventure 20 some-odd years later.
I’m not the target audience for this meme, am I?
He should’ve known Gandalf would’ve roped another poor Baggins into some very un-Hobbitlike adventure eventually!
yes…, but that torso piece still saved his ass.
At least twice. Troll in Moria and Shelob both
and the wet armor contest
Your extended editions must be different from mine.
The “Souls” series of games keeps up the tradition: “Wow, this weapon is great! Well, time to beat the final boss then!”
NG+ so you can use it the whole game
For some reason I kind of… trail off… when I get to NG+. I don’t know how people can bring themselves to do NG+7.
I can understand that, I felt that way with my first play through.
I was a little exhausted after finding everything I could (still missed heaps) but I’m on a fresh play through now and knowing what I need to find and what I can skip really helps.
When I get to NG+ on this character its going to be a breeze with taking shortcuts and skips, just sprinting past trash I don’t need to fight and getting to the bosses quickly.
True to life. Feels so stupid when you can finally afford all the cool hobby gear you wanted when you were younger, but you don’t have the time or energy anymore to use it.
Also some CRPGs really rub it in. Finish a bugbear slaying questline, get rewarded with a +5 sword of bugbear slaying. Never meet any bugbears again in the entire game, or alternatively by the time you meet one again it’s just a trash mob so the weapon makes no difference anyway.
See, this is why I like game mods
Bg3 in particular is bad about the really cool and really good gear not being available until the very end, where you don’t have time to enjoy it fully (well, barring some of the gear that’s a tad unbalanced in vanilla unmodded play, but there’s really not much of that).
So, load a mod after your second or third playthrough where having endgame gear doesn’t hurt the experience. Rip through act 1, yes, but by the end of act 2, you’re getting back to being balanced (as balanced as it gets lol) again, and you’re where the story beats are more meaningful anyway.
Get bored with that? Don’t use the mod! It’s a choice your can make even mid playthrough.
I wish more games would have that kind of freedom.
One of the things I liked about the OG Fallouts was being able to just go and get the power armor right at the start which you could do if you knew where it was and what all was needed to actually get it. And Elden Ring/Dark Souls are really good at letting you go to end game areas and grabbing stuff asap, too. Some are behind bosses, but a lot aren’t.
