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_spiffy, do games w Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?
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Honestly, for the most part I really enjoyed the voice acting in Guild Wars 2. But femme V is probably my favourite as of late.

Thrashy,
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Femme V really nails the emotional arc of V’s story in ways that the VA for masc V doesn’t, to the point that I’m truthfully less invested in my current playthrough (male street kid origin) than I was in my original (female corpo).

That said, everybody who did voice work in BG3 did fantastic in ways that have made other things I’ve touched feel hit-and-miss – I nearly dropped Avowed due to some early mid voice work making me worry about the overall quality – but Neil Newborn has been rightfully getting acclaim for Astarion, and you have to hand it to him – they gave him the character, but he was the one who decided “I’m gonna chew the scenery so hard I shit splinters” and made it work so damn well.

NarrativeBear, do games w Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design

Mini Metro and Mini Motorways! Both are great strategy games.

Shortstack, do gaming w Mysterious creature

TIL capybaras are actually coconut shaped dogs

Kolanaki, do gaming w Stop doing path-tracing!
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Even without RTX scenery can look damn near real. But the moment there is a human in the scene, the uncanny valley fucks everything up. I don’t even get it because animals can look perfect and not trigger the uncanny valley effect, but humans always do. RTX won’t ever fix that.

Ephera,

I always thought that was just a me-thing. People will be like “Oh it looks so realistic”, which a) I consider a bad thing, like I’m seeing reality plenty times already, why would I want more of that? But also b) no, it does not? Even the games with the biggest budgets continue to have NPCs that look as stiff as if they’re three days dead. I’d say “with a puppeteer’s hand up their rear” since they do move their mouths, but frankly, even puppets move around more than NPCs do.

njm1314, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

Mount and Blade. Warband is just the better version all around. It works in reverse too cause Warband is better than Bannerlord.

Denjin,

Add Floris and it’s basically the only game in that sphere worth playing at all!

bollybing,

Prophecy of Pendor is legendary. I might get bannerlord if they release a Pendor mod for it.

positiveWHAT,

What do Pendor do so well?

bollybing,

Everything. Map, factions, units, weapons, companions, knighthood orders, horde armies. Its just the biggest and highest quality conversion mod I’ve played.

VitoRobles, do games w Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year

Oh man I just remembered how great that could have been.

Red Dead 2 dealt with racist cults so elegantly.

And Far Cry 5’s “Oh we’re going there!” And making the most surface-level milquetoast bullshit I have ever seen.

rabber, do games w Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year

I remember people complaining about that movie when it came out actually

Stalinwolf, do gaming w Oh boy 3AM!
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One of my staff does this every day of his life. His roommate works with us as well and confirms it. Dude will game until 10am, then crash for a couple of hours and be into work at 1pm. Rinse and repeat. Five days per week. Rolls out of bed with ten minutes to spare, throws on his uniform and starts walking. I don’t know how he survives the lifestyle, but I guess it’s working for him.

Tikiporch,

Definitely unsustainable past a certain age.

GltchInTheGame,

I agree with this 100%. Let the kids have their fun while they still can. Life will catch up and they will learn it’s not feasible to maintain. They will either adapt or fall behind. If they’re doing their work now, no harm.

Solemarc, do games w Upscaling is actually good (as an option)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone say that upscaling OPTIONS are bad but I’m worried about games like monster hunter where upscaling and frame gen is used to make the game playable in most cases.

MoreFPSmorebetter, do games w What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?

Pretty much all the racing games from my childhood. I remember them having super realistic grip and aerodynamics, but playing them again compared to even sorta SIM modern racing games today is just night and day.

I will blame my 1000+ hours in beamNG for some of that. Once you have seen super detailed soft body physics it’s hard to play anything that doesn’t have it. Wreckfest 1 had a decent hybrid soft/ridged system that worked for that game. Seems the second game that just dropped on early access improves on it some, but I’m gonna wait for the full release before I pull the trigger on that one.

B0NK3RS, do games w The struggle is real
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Nothing better than finding a good community server but sadly not always possible nowadays.

lordnikon,

Yeah I still remember team fortress classic servers I would go back to all the time. It was nice to go into a server where everyone knew your name. It was like being a regular at a restaurant or bar.

B0NK3RS,
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I have fond memories of TFC and TF2 too. Good community server and civilised people using their microphone are the dream.

lordnikon,

Yep i also ran my own server with a the sniper war mod. If you wanted to play that mod my server was only a handful servers setup to play it. We had a good group Randos would come in and the ones that stuck around became mods and any changes to the server. We held a vote with the regulars and the mods and myself. There were times I was even out voted and we implemented stuff I didn’t agree with.

MentalEdge,
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I swear, some of the best titanfall 2 matches I ever played were on northstar cusrom servers.

caut_R,

The last time I had something like that was when BF3 was still the most revent entry in the franchise. I knew how the game would go by looking at which side had more names that I recognized lol, good times

baronvonj, do games w Best game ever?
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Either Witcher 3 or Baldurs Gate 3.

PieMePlenty, do games w Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

It wasn’t “my” Half Life but it was a damn good one. It felt true to the series and that brought a tear to my eye. The writing, the environments, the soundtrack all felt very Half Life without compromise. I didn’t like that it was a VR title but I understood why they went that route. In 2D, it would probably lack in depth (in more ways than one).

I borrowed a VR set from a friend to play it and bought the game at 60% off, which it frequently drops to. I’d urge anyone who has a VR capable PC to try and play it some way but VR is always going to restrict access to this. I’ll probably play through it in 2d Mode (via mod) some day in the future to try and relive it. And if non-VR is the only way you get to experience it, at minimum, use headphones… and dont go online saying it sucks after because, remember, it was made for VR.

MazonnaCara89, do games w Day 250 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots
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Old gen minecraft 🥹

MyNameIsAtticus,
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There’s just something magical about it, i’m not sure what but modern minecraft (while great in it’s own respect, at least for me) is definitely missing it. I heard there’s a modpack that helps bring back some of the magic but i’m not sure what

MazonnaCara89,
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I have some nostalgia for the port, tho it was a pretty good port of the game, with the 4j spins added to the game! Stuff like minigames, console exclusive hud, strange mechanics not present in any other version of the game and god damn the tutorials, the tutorial world were the best!

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I love the tutorial worlds. Back before i owned the full game me and my sister would play splitscreen on the 1 hour trial of the Xbox 360 edition and try to milk the tutorial world for all we could, so i have really fond memories of it.

MazonnaCara89,
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That’s what I did too with my friends back in the days 😅

cyd, do games w Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

“But… the future refused to change” – game over screen, Chrono Trigger

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