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ampersandrew, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 is a whopper of an update with an epilogue, two new modes, and more
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I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough.

JelloBrains,
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How's your new playthrough going?

ampersandrew,
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I'm temporarily staving it off by playing two other RPGs.

theodewere, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 is a whopper of an update with an epilogue, two new modes, and more
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Patch 5 also includes improved inventory access, allowing you to manage the inventory of all companions from one single UI, regardless of whether they’re currently in the active party.

that's a nice one

off_brand_, do gaming w Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year

Despite Bethesda being kinda weird and shitty, I remain excited about the game myself. It still blows me away they decided to release without modding tools. But I’m looking forward to that quite a bit

djidane535,
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To be honest, I really enjoyed my run (100 hours in). If you omit the bugs, it’s a nice alternative to Skyrim with a very different setting (space) and some quality of life improvements (eg: having your ship to store shit anywhere you go, instead of traveling back and forth to your house if you have any).

But I admit the game feels very old in general (especially because of those loading screens, which should be a thing from the past in 2023), and is not original at all on its FPS mechanics. There is also this odd feeling that the game does not want to block you access to anything (while the new game plus, which is a very good idea and introduced in a clever way, should have been enough to be more « punishing » with the player).

As an « old » gamer, it was not a big issue (especially because I play ton of retrogaming games, along with recent releases), but I totally understand what a player expecting a modern SF RPG game might feel.

averyminya,

I enjoyed the first playthrough too but I just got so tired of everything the second go around. Not much had changed so I was just redoing quests I’d done but now I “knew” things and made it go by faster. Yay?

It’s so dull, I did everything the first time around so now I just get to watch it again, but it’s “fun” cause there’s one changed dialogue option? Meh. The game has an incredible philosophy, a terrible philosophy for its relationship to the gameplay.

In regards to gameplay, it was fine. I liked the flying, ship building was fun, gunplay felt okay. Walking around areas is mostly pretty. But like everyone else my issue was all the menu diving, and I found a few ways to mitigate how often I used it but man was it frustrating to have to menu dive so much, sometimes in situations where it doesn’t even make sense, like arriving and landing on a planet.

And then again, to lose everything about your character that makes the game interesting (built ship, weapons, etc) during NG+ is just disheartening. I understand why, that doesn’t make it easier lol.

djidane535,
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Yeah, I didn’t bother with a second playthrough because of this. It’s strange because the idea is great, so why not encourage the player to do a second playthrough by not allowing him/her to see everything on a single run ?

Kit, do gaming w Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year

It would take another decade of development to make this game feel anything less than empty.

Lemonyoda, do gaming w Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year

Aka the Game releases Feature incomplete in Beta (early Access) Status.

MS gamepass does hinder Quality Games. Same Story for forza Motorsport, redfall and whatnot…

ampersandrew,
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This game was originally going to release two years ago without Microsoft making sure it got more QA than Bethesda is known for. Microsoft or not, the game design and feature completeness likely wouldn't have moved an inch.

Hi-Fi Rush, for a counter example, was one of the best games of the year.

Lemonyoda,

I have just looked Into my year on Xbox (and Nintendo Switch…) and it turns out, i played starfield around 50h hours.

So, it did something right regardless. You are probably right those

Ich becomes increasingly frustrating to watch all These big AAA Milestones turn out mediocre.

The AA space is where its at, See your example of Hifi rush.

wolfshadowheart,
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I would disagree with your 50 hour Starfield assessment, only on the basis of Todd Howards own comment that the game was made to be played for a long time.

50 hours for a game meant to be played for a long time just isn't very long at all. Heck, I enjoyed my time in Starfield and I had more than 50 hours. However I could not continue with NG+, it was just godawful.

For a game meant to be played extensively it failed in most regards.

luthis, do gaming w Be careful, recording Baldur's Gate 3's adult scenes on Xbox might net you a temporary ban

This is the dumbest thing I have read this year so far.

“Player uses built in functionality as intended and gets banned for a year.”

Jaysyn, do gaming w Switch 2 predicted to match Steam Deck price, $100 more than OG Switch
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I love the Switch, but it's nowhere near as useful as a Steam Deck for the same price & has only a tiny fraction of the Steam Deck's current game library.

Averagegoob,
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@Jaysyn @mike591 I would agree in general but I still do find myself longing for the more compact/lighter frame of the switch sometimes

conciselyverbose,

I definitely don't.

Joycons are the worst controller anyone has ever made, and making it remotely usable isn't any smaller.

kurcatovium,

The price of the library is nearly the same, though… sad

KyoStarr,
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Not sure what you mean. I get deals all the time using sites like gg.deals to cross reference multiple store fronts for PC deals for my Steam Deck, paying a fraction of what they would have cost on Switch.

conciselyverbose,

He was memeing that buying the 5% of the games the Switch has would cost just as much as buying everything on Steam.

kurcatovium,

Exactly this. Steam has one huge benefit for players: it made gaming pretty cheap. If you don’t need every game day 1 and you are patient, you can play dirt cheap. And I mean dirt cheap.

This is not entirely true for Nintendo, which tends to hold prices way higher. At least from the quick glance I made couple years ago when I was thinking about Switch.

conciselyverbose,

I don't think Skyrim has been below $30 lol

KyoStarr,
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Ah on a second read I see that now haha.

all-knight-party,
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It does still have an advantage of being plug and play compared to the Steam Deck's "it's like a portable console except you're still PC gaming so I hope you like caveats, changing settings, and troubleshooting"

KyoStarr,
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I very rarely have to troubleshoot games. Maybe toggle a few quality settings to get it to run to my liking but that's about it.

all-knight-party,
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It really depends on the game. I think an important thing to note is that if you're going to mention the incredible library of a PC platform like the Steam Deck that a lot of these older than five years or so PC games will absolutely require more particular settings and fiddling to get them to run perfectly compared to consoles that guarantee you a game running with comfortable controls with no hassle for anything in their library.

Performance notwithstanding, but even then striking the balance between performance and image quality with graphics options is sometimes more of the experiential decision making than a casual console gamer might want to be concerned with. I think you absolutely get used to and probably don't notice the lower level of these things if you've been on PC for a while, but it is a big part of whether I choose to play switch or PC.

And of course, if your only concern is playing modern releases on PC, then this won't matter as much, but it is a factor.

Computerchairgeneral, do gaming w It's taken nine years, but Daggerfall, the huge second Elder Scrolls game, now has fan-made remaster

Glad to see this project finally release. Played it on and off while it was in beta and it is definitely one of the best ways to experience Daggerfall, especially with the modding community that has sprung around the Unity version.

FeelzGoodMan420, do gaming w Be careful, recording Baldur's Gate 3's adult scenes on Xbox might net you a temporary ban

“I can’t play any game that requires a network connection (Basically making all the money I put into MW3 over the last 6 months even more worthless).”

Do people really spend this much money on micro transactions? I bought like 1 csgo skin like 10 years ago and haven’t bought a micro transaction since. What is the matter with people?

technologicalcaveman,

Like 10 years ago I put 4 bucks on my steam account and bought as many dime csgo skins as possible. I don't think I've ever bought any other microtransactions.

ApathyTree, do gaming w Be careful, recording Baldur's Gate 3's adult scenes on Xbox might net you a temporary ban
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Does Microsoft not have the ability to block recording specific scenes like PlayStation does?

Can’t they just block recording that and call it a day instead of “surprise you broke some asinine rule you didn’t know about!”

TwilightVulpine,

This is also bad.

They approved the game to be on the platform, banning people for recording scenes is ridiculous.

To this day I resent Sony for not allowing me to stream Persona 5 to my sister, which is a series we used to play together a lot.

LaGG_3, do gaming w Netflix might add in-app purchases and ads to its games no one plays
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Just absolutely desperate to wring out more revenue lmao

Aurenkin, do gaming w Netflix might add in-app purchases and ads to its games no one plays

Oh wow, I had no interest at all in trying these previously. Reducing the quality of the games by adding ads and in app purchases is exactly the thing that will push me to give it a try.

Risk,

Eh, Poinpy is actually a lot of fun.

BigDanishGuy,

I take it that the word you wrote, is in fact a game on Netflix, and not just some word you made up?

Risk,

Indeed. It’s a good little mobile game.

Igloojoe,

I’ve never even heard of netflix having games on their platform.

Hawk,

GTA 3, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Into The Breach, Dead Cells, Kentucky Route Zero, Oxenfree, Bloons TD 6, World of Goo, …

It’s a pretty decent selection

a_wild_mimic_appears,

an ad every time i fuck up a parry in dead cells will finally motivate me to get better

BossDj, do gaming w Netflix might add in-app purchases and ads to its games no one plays

After the latest Dave Chappelle, I made Netflix walk the plank.

muse,
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That's a shame, just before they were gonna release the Dave Chapelle's Transphobia Simulator

Facebones,

Netflix Presents : Dog Whistle 3: Can’t Be Bigoted If It’s Dave

withnail,

Someone else in my household pays for it so I have it for now… but I haven’t touched it in months.

thetreesaysbark, do gaming w Netflix might add in-app purchases and ads to its games no one plays

Netflix has games?

Thavron,
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On mobile, yes. You can even play GTA 3, VC and SA

vox,
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they can be easily patched to bypass Netflix account requirements btw, you only miss out on cloud saves

Dalek_Thal,
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Really? How? I’ve been wanting to play World of Goo again but the only version available is the netflix one

vox,
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Dalek_Thal,
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Link doesn’t work in Australia I’m afraid - lots of corporations have a big thing for giving us the shitty end of the stick.

vox,
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wait what?
the original port isn’t supposed to be region locked?
but also it doesn’t work on android 14 anymore, Play Store gives me an error saying it’s not compatible with the device.

Dalek_Thal,
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Far as I can tell, the original port’s apk isn’t region locked, so much as the play store page is. Either that, or people who didn’t buy it before the netflix port went up can no longer view the page.

selokichtli, do gaming w Netflix might add in-app purchases and ads to its games no one plays

Well, whatever…

EDIT: Sorry, it’s just frustration.

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