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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 30th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been working my way through the Baldur's Gate series after putting about ninety hours in BG3. BG1 was fun even if the story was a bit predictable and generic, although it did feel like playing through a DnD campaign. Really enjoyed Shadows of Amn, but Throne of Bhaal just turned into a slog at the end. I think the most interesting part of playing through the trilogy was watching Bioware's style develop over the course of the three games. As someone who was introduced to Bioware through Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire I've always thought Bioware's character writing stood out, especially in the old days, so it was a bit jarring to play through BG1 where the companions feel more like hirelings you pick up for their class rather than full-fledged characters. BG2 felt more like a classic Bioware game with banter, romance, and companion quests, although the Real Time advancement system kept glitching out on me. I was hoping to move on to Planescape: Torment after TOB, but I'm feeling burnt out on Infinity Engine games. So right now I'm trying to find something in the Summer Sale to serve as a palate cleanser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, really hoping this is just a misstep from the marketing team. It's such a whiplash inducing shift in tone from all the previous marketing and trailers that they've released. If not then they certainly picked an interesting game to fully shift the tone from dark fantasy to...whatever Veilguard is aiming for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable - Xbox Games Showcase 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fable having this realistic art style still feels weird to me, but at least it seems like they're matching the tone of the other games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the art style definitely feels like a holdover from the live-service days. I could see them having to work with whatever assets were left after that version of the game was scrapped and just having to make it work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how I feel about the art style. Varric and Harding look decent, but it felt like the longer the trailer went on the more the characters turned into something out of a stylized hero shooter. Honestly, the whole trailer felt more suited to a hero shooter than a single player RPG. Hopefully the gameplay looks better, but this was a very odd way to formally reintroduce your game after ten years of scattered trailers and announcements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Accidents happen. Your finger slips and suddenly your game is full of Nazi symbols. Happens all the time. Also, I get the gist of Garriss's response, but mentioning that he had men and women at his house and his mother was always present just makes things sound weirder than a simple denial. Sounds like a horrible situation all around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Xbox Soon Become The Next Dreamcast?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No? Xbox might not be in the greatest place right now, but it's a far cry from where Sega was when they discontinued the Dreamcast. Yeah, Microsoft stepped on a lot of rakes with the Xbox One, but it wasn't a Saturn-style disaster and Microsoft is still doing well enough to buy out a major game publisher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's an impressive battle plan. I'm always a little pessimistic when it comes to these things, but at least this effort is casting a wide net. If even one of them succeeds that could impact the entire industry. Hopefully some government body, somewhere chooses to take this seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire are launching their own "triple-I" Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully this showcase is successful enough to become a tradition. It would be nice to have an indie-focused showcase that doesn't have to juggle their time between the games, advertisements, and sponsors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase is coming April 10th⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No ads? No awkward celebrity cameos? No sponsors? Just video games? At a video game event? Ridiculous.

  More seriously, there are a lot of good studios on that list and I'm excited to see what they have to announce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judas First Details: How Ken Levine Is Building on BioShock With 'Narrative LEGOs'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels like forever since I heard Ken Levine ramble on about narrative LEGOs and game design. It's an interesting concept and hopefully the game lives up to expectations. I'm still cautious that it might all end up being pre-release hype, but he certainly seems passionate about the idea and I'm certainly curious to see what narrative LEGOs actually looks like in execution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an unhealthy cycle of this with Hearts of Iron IV a WW2 grand strategy game. I'll realize the embarrassing number of hours that I've put into the game and then I'll stop playing for a while. But then one of the big mods for it will update and then I dive back in and lose a weekend and then the process repeats.

  The other game I consistently come back to is Threads of Fate or Dewprism it's a PS1 action-RPG with dual protagonists where each one has their own campaign or story to play through. I guess it's nostalgia that keeps me coming back to it, but it really wasn't a favorite game growing up and I didn't beat it until years after I'd gotten it. But every few years I'll just remember it out of the blue and get the urge to play through it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm really tired of politicians who barely understand the internet trying to write sweeping legislation to regulate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's Alpha Protocol is available again thanks to GOG⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuinely excited to see Alpha Protocol available for sale again after all this time. Was not expecting to see it on the front page of GOG. It is such an interesting game, even if it isn't, strictly speaking, a good game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that gets me about this is that it's always some nefarious outside group pressuring devs to make their games "woke" or whatever. It never seems to occur to these people that the people making the games might actually hold those beliefs and aren't being forced to put them in games at gunpoint. Also, did the guy complaining about Ragnarok play GoW 2018? The fact that Kratos isn't the same person he was in the old series is basically the entire point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 10th⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After around sixty hours I finally rolled credits on Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Started to feel like a slog towards the end, but I wanted to see the story through to the end. Those last three chapters had to have the most Yakuza-style plot twists I have ever seen. Overall I ended up liking it a lot more then I was expecting given that its the series first JRPG. I think it handled the switch well, although it did feel a bit grindy at the end. There's still some side content I might end up doing, but for now I feel like I need a break from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quality Assurance Workers at Activision Establish Largest Certified Union in the U.S. Video Game Industry with Communications Workers of America⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. If the last few months have shown anything it's that more workers in the industry need to be unionized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need game recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a dumb suggestion, but since you mentioned older systems, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a PS1 classic that helped create the Metroidvania genre. There's also Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which is a spiritual successor by one the key developers behind SOTN. Dead Cells and Hollow Knight are solid games that have been recommended already, but if you find yourself enjoying the rogue-lite elements of those you might enjoy Cult of the Lamb. Admittedly it's top down 2.5d, but it's a nice blend of rogue lite and town management as your tasked with building up a cult and turning it into a thriving community in between fighting your way through dungeons.