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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 22nd 1 day ago:
Metal Gear Solid. Only had a few minutes to play it -- I mainly just wanted to see how it looked, so I only got through the very first introductory room. Looks just like how I remembered it. I bought the collection with MGS 1, 2, and 3. I've already played a fair amount of the first game (although like...15 years ago), but never beat it. I only ever played MGS 2 on a friends Playstation 2 occasionally, and have never played the third game. So I'm really looking forward to those.
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven will both release in FY2027 or beyond (after April 2026), according to SEGA fiscal report 4 days ago:
Anyone know what "European IP" means? They announced a while ago that they working on new titles for Virtua Fighter, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi, and a few others, so I'm assuming those are the "Legacy IPs." What is their European IP? The Total War franchise? The developer, Creative Assembly is from the UK. That just seems like a weird way to phrase it, if that's what they're talking about.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
It definitely had a lot in common with Onslaught mode. There was some overlap with the types of vehicles, too.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
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TrafficReliesOnThem - Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
It's a very different game, although it does have vehicles, so it has something in common with UT2004 in that way.
Unreal 2's multiplayer only has one game mode. It's kind of like capture the flag with some resource management. There are power generators that you need to take for your team in order to use vehicles. You can also capture respawn points which give your team more choices of where to respawn from.
You choose one of three classes when you spawn, with each class having specific weapons. You don't pick up weapons as you go.
There is a release of the multiplayer that's available for free here: https://xmpcommunity.com. After Epic tool all Unreal titles off of digital stores a while ago, they specifically mentioned xmpcommunity.com in a blog post as a way of still playing the game. So it has their blessing.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
Unreal 2, at launch, was the most absolutely 7/10 game I've ever played. Just a very generic singleplayer FPS, and not the sequel to Unreal that everyone was hoping for.
I say "at launch," though, because almost a year after the game's release, they added multiplayer, and that is still my favorite multiplayer game.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it definitely seems like it was to just make it take longer.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Same here, I always liked SA1 more than SA2. I remember being so amazed that you could pick any character to play next and then you'd find out, in any order you chose, how their stories would intersect with one another. SA2 felt like a downgrade without that. I also liked the art style of the first game over the second one.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Yes, I meant Deadly Shadows. It was liked overall, and moreso as the years went on, but I remember plenty of people thinking it was disappointing at the time. Heck, there's one in this very thread. :P I haven't played the first two (and I know that I need to), but I know that it deviated from those quote a bit, and that seemed to be one of the main things people disliked about it.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Thief 3. I had never played a Thief game before and thought it was great. Apparently, fans of the first two games were disappointed with it at first. I think the criticism didn't last long, though. Everyone now seems to agree that it was good.
- Comment on Invincible VS | Official Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Oof. Marvel Tokon was just revealed three days ago, and is being made by a developer that everyone already knows and loves. This has to be the most unfortunate timing I've ever seen.
- Comment on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Summer Game Fest Trailer 2 weeks ago:
The first two Sonic kart racing games were good, but I heard that the third one was a step down from the first two. (I've only played the first two myself.) I liked the fact that the first games had split screen for couch multiplayer on PC -- that's not common.
- Comment on Street Fighter 6 - Year 3 Character Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Glad to see Crimson Viper come back, I thought she was going to be a new series mainstay after being in both Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
The trailer was definitely unexpected. :D
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 3 weeks ago:
If you really liked the interactions between the characters, honestly I think The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog did that better than any of the other games did. If that's the main appeal for you, you've already played the best one. I haven't read the comics myself, but like others have mentioned, that's probably what you're looking for.
Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 feature many of the same characters as The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, but the dialog isn't really as polished. It's an English translation of a Japanese game at a time when they were still trying to figure out how to do cutscenes in 3D Sonic games. But based on your criteria, I'd say those are a good starting point. They're both on Steam. (The first game is called Sonic Adventure DX because it has the "upgraded" graphics that many fans think is actually a downgrade in art style. There are mods to change things back to their original look. I think this SADX mod installer installs all of them for you.)
Sonic X Shadow Generations has many of the levels from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, but lacks the same cutscenes and characters. The gameplay is great, though.
And if you liked the OST, then you'll definitely like the music in the 2D games, especially Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic Mania.
- Comment on Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US 5 weeks ago:
Android itself does plenty of data collection on its own; I'm not sure if the brand really makes much of a difference here, unfortunately.
I installed Sailfish OS on a Sony Xperia phone a few years ago, and that worked well enough. I had a couple of Android apps that I needed to use for work, and Sailfish has some kind of Android environment built in that lets you run Android apps. I worked for me, but I didn't try any payment apps or others that tend to be picky about what type of phone you're using.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 5 weeks ago:
Calling this a Marathon game makes no sense, and I don't just mean aesthetically. The business case can't possibly be there, either.
Anyone who has a nostalgic attachment to Marathon (👋) won't be interested in this new game, and anyone interested in this new game probably doesn't care about the name "Marathon."
On top of that, there's the fact that Marathon kind of looked like Halo. When Bungie made Halo, they were clearly taking after their own art style from their previous games. Which means Bungie could have announced that they're making a singleplayer first person shooter that kind of looks like Halo. Everyone would have lost their minds. Instead, they announced yet another live service game, and no one is interested.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 5 weeks ago:
In case anyone misread the headline the way I did: The PS5 is selling about the same as the PS4 did at this point in its lifespan. The headline kind of makes it sound like the PS4 is still selling as many consoles as the PS5 today.
Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that it's selling that well at all, considering how much of this generation has just been remasters of PS4 games.
- Comment on The Original Gears of War Is Being Remastered For PS5, Xbox & PC 1 month ago:
With Forza coming out on PS5 a few days ago, and now this, it definitely seems like Playstation owners will be playing Halo soon.