Thanks, but I’ll skip the lawyer. So far I have only worked with games that openly welcome modding.

Right, I confirmed UnityModManager looks different when I change the GTK theme.

Then, instead of Kate, I tried changing the GTK theme like you showed in Lutris and that works.

So the issue seems to lie with Mono. I found this old issue https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/9998 Mono seems to ignore the GTK_THEME environment variable. However there is a workaround: GTK_DATA_PREFIX= mono ./UnityModManager.exe makes mono default to a classic window theme.

Thanks for your help!

Unfortunately doesn’t work for me. I launch Unity Mod Manger with mono ./UnityModManager.exe but I also tried it on Kate, both with the commandline and the Menu-Editor shown in the last post. Both Unity Mod Manager and Kate launch, but do not change how they look.

Well you do defeat the big bad at the end. The fate of that NPC doesn’t constitute a cliffhanger for me.

More importantly: all features were done. Personally I don’t really care about the story in ARPGs anyway.

Grim Dawn was completed before the devs started releasing DLC. Last Epoch, apparently, still has severe bugs and unfinished content.

Additionally 2 of 3 DLCs in Grim Dawn are more akin to olden timey expansions rather than modern cash-grab DLC.

The official GoG listing definitely mentions the Linux version. Just like every other game on GoG that has a Linux versions available.

Sure, the presentation is better than 20 years ago, but that is true for basically all games.

I found all companions to be painfully one dimensional, they all have exactly one gimmick and that’s all they ever talk about.
So the game never managed to make me care about their emotions, but I get where you are coming from.

For me the retcons aren’t even the worst part. There were zero logical reasons to name that game Baldurs Gate 3. It doesn’t continue the story and the mechanics are completely different. They just misused the big name, to get people hype up, and sadly, it seemed to have worked.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s an absolutely reasonable game, if you haven’t tried any other CRPGs. But there is a nearly endless number of CRPGs that are better than BG3 in every way, including all the points you listed. Except maybe for the cinematic part, I’ll grant you that, mostly because I don’t know what makes a game cinematic or why you’d want a CRPG to be cinematic.

Baldurs Gate 3: people hype it up as the best CRPG ever. When in fact it’s not even close. It loses in every category that matters to several dozen contenders (including Baldurs Gate 1 & 2): build diversity, story, writing, the UI.

Loki is another ARPG. Titan Quest is definitely the better game, but in Loki you actually get to choose the god you are associated with.