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strongarm, 2 dni temu (edited wczoraj)

Love playformers platformers especially 2D, although Astro’s Playhouse was a favourite too, but mostly for the creativity with the controller.

For 2D I particularly liked the Ori games, so much love in the design of those games and the gameplay yo match

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Hah yes, thanks

strongarm, 30 dni temu

Started the new D4 season, I don’t have the expansion.

This is my second season and my second character, I went with a summoner Necromancer this time, I also skipped the Campaign and went straight to end-game.

I have to say I really find it quite boring.

I’m also getting stuck into Monster Hunter Rise, just passed 5 star missions, I’m playing with Great Sword and I’m enjoying the challenge, I think I’m beginning to understand what MH is all about now.

strongarm, miesiąc temu

I’m trying to focus on Nier: Automata, halfway through the 9S playthrough, it’s an interesting game, not very deep in gameplay, but every so often surprises me.

I’ve also just picked up Monster Hunter Rise with Sunbreak, I’ve never really played a MH game properly and find them really Grundy, but I hear Rise isn’t so bad so wanted to give it a fair go.

Also just finished getting a Druid to 100 in Diablo IV, my first season and I am done with the game in about 2 weeks, I may try another class in the next season but the game seems very shallow and repetive.

strongarm, miesiąc temu

Yeah the music is really nice.

I haven’t seen the anime, I don’t really know anything about the series apart from this game, but I hear there’s quite a bit of other media out there

strongarm, 2 miesiące temu

Well that depends what you have.

Ikaruga for starters

strongarm, 2 miesiące temu

That’s a good point but the OPs simplistic comment is just reductive and is just stirring the pot of casual racism/nationalism

strongarm, 2 miesiące temu

I like this list, but how is Diablo IV on there as the sole representation of an ARPG, it’s so bland.

strongarm, 2 miesiące temu

Yes it’s a great game and I would have liked to see it above D4, I would easily put Last Epoch and Path of Exile ahead too.

I always thought that Grim Dawn was no longer being developed on as the devs were working on a new game, but they keep pumping out patches and content.

strongarm, 2 miesiące temu

I honestly thought the dev team had gone to an end on Grim Dawn, but they’ve kept it going with patches and content.

strongarm, 2 miesiące temu

But Solo Self Found is quite popular and surely that’s entirely without trading?

Or are you also talking about Vendor trading/crafting like the Chaos recipe?

strongarm, 2 miesiące temu

Sounds great!

strongarm, 3 miesiące temu

Steam isn’t DRM

And GOG sells games with DRM.

strongarm, 3 miesiące temu

It’s not a huge threat to the movie and tv industry yet, but it could be soon, from writing scripts, to using actors voices and then likenesses, then eventually crafting scenes and episodes based entirely on prompts and AI its probably only a matter of time, unless regulation and Unions stand in the way.

It’s worth noting too that the games industry these days is bigger than movies, so I think this situation is a good thing for SAG AFRA to stand firm on.

strongarm, 3 miesiące temu

I’d be interested to know more about that.

I played through the game using a couple of mods and reshade plugins that gave it the E3 feel, it was really nice and a great gaming memory of mine.

Just couldn’t get into WD2 or 3

strongarm, 3 miesiące temu

Nice one, thank you.

strongarm, 4 miesiące temu

It’s true, I’ve never gone back, also the joystick is a bit naff anyway

strongarm, 4 miesiące temu

No Hardwar?

strongarm, 5 miesięcy temu

Reckon this is worth picking up on sale? I’m interested in it having played all the previous games, but I’m worried the battle pass and mtx is ruining it.

Now it’s been out for a few seasons what do you think?

strongarm, 6 miesięcy temu

There was an old Spectrum Game that actually loaded up Pacman first before the main game.

strongarm, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah I can’t remember my game either, it might have been something like Joe Blade 3?

strongarm, 7 miesięcy temu

Last Epoch online issues are resolved now.

strongarm, rok temu

I’m not sure the worst year is specific to game developers though, the whole world is under economic squeeze, take a look at the layoffs in the tech industry.

strongarm, rok temu

Am I mistaken or are there loads of games this month for PS+ Essential, where usually there are 3?

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Yes, but you need to work with a porting company or pay for proprietary software

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Sounds like Godot is more for your usecase then

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Isn’t this the outcome from it all?

Rational people who aren’t fanboys or haters buy and play games with low expectations, and are rarely disappointed.

strongarm, rok temu

They should put the money into education instead

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Agreed, the best attempt was the subscription model for mmorpgs, but even that hasn’t been ubiquitous

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In my experience it’s like 2 players have full agency to play independently, unlike other coop games where the experience for player two is often driven by player one.

In BG3 you can run off in completely different directions, engage with your own NPCs in conversation while the other player starts a fight and it’s seamless

strongarm, rok temu

They’re a strange developer are Fatshark, clearly very talented creatively, but their business side needs improvement.

Poor choices but with MTX and their project management is dire

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Ah, I noticed this, I felt the same didn’t understand why the truth, doubt system didn’t seem to match up with the response.

Still a great game though at the time and I felt it hard to play other immersive games where the character face animation was so poor in comparison

strongarm, rok temu

I’ve finished Kingmaker and WotR is in my backlog.

Pathfinder is a really decent RPG system with tons of choice, but the game Kingmaker comes out as quite linear, you don’t really have much choice in how you play the game apart from being good or evil.

The game is split between being a typical adventure explorer RPG and being a kingdom management game, the former is interesting and has good quests, the latter is opaque, difficult to get to grips with and inflexible.

The worse part is no matter your best intentions, it you don’t do exactly the right things with your kingdom you can find yourself in a dire losing position by the late game.

I don’t mind games that have failure conditions, but losing the Kingmaker game after 30+hrs of playtime because your kingdom starts rioting and you can’t complete any events seems too harsh to me.

Personally I had to turnoff all the failure conditions in the options so that I could grind through the game to get through the final quests, it ended up leaving a bitter taste for the game which started off as promising.

I hear most of these issues have been addressed in WotR though so I’m looking forward to picking up that.

strongarm, rok temu

GoG is no longer completely DRM free, one example is the Hitman games that require online connection to play.

strongarm, rok temu

Great game