Lord Of The Rings Memes

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.

True to live. 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.

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?

yes...., but that torso piece still saved his ass.

The "Souls" series of games keeps up the tradition: "Wow, this weapon is great! Well, time to beat the final boss then!"