Journotards are scoing it really well for the most part, you know they like their walking sims because it's a art, but it really looks like boring, annoying slog.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/senuas-saga-hellblade-ii/

Metacritic score is sitting at 81%, not terrible in most circumstances but Xbox could really use a smash hit, not a polarizing walking sim RN.

Some quotes from the Reddit post:

Puzzles and combat are too easy and there is no variety in either

That sucks. Especially the part about the puzzles. The lack of puzzle variety was my main gripe with the first title. Pretty presentation can only carry so far.

I just got to the first puzzle and it's the exact same "find the symbol in the environment" puzzle from the first game.

Remember to recycle kids

Gene Park of Washington Post reports in his review (Which he scores at around 2.5/4) that apparently, the sequel feels a lot smaller in a sense than the previous game, such as how the combat seems to have been simplified quite heftily:

The sequel is a lesser game than its predecessor. There are fewer combat mechanics in play, removing the melee button and directional attacks and replacing them with nothing. Perspective puzzles to make background details match rune symbols return, unevolved from the 2017 model. The scale of the puzzles are also smaller, as the game's level design has shrunk. The former game had larger areas with vertical structures. This game's level design is mostly a straight line, with a few small puzzle areas to break up the pacing.

The first game had a surprisingly large variety of moves you could pull off, but they were mostly unnecessary and poorly explained. From the little I've played, the sequel seems to have cut them out completely in favor of cinematic fighting. Blocking counters light attacks and dodging counters heavy attacks. That's it for both you and the enemy.

Just played 2 hours of it. Its like a really long cutscene with gameplay segments. Like really this is more of a visual experience than an interactive take that as you will. Even the combat feels more like a quick time event than actual free form combat. The game is one continuous shot with no cuts no loading and no clear barrier between cutscene and gameplay.

After a few hours of this, I'm starting to feel like the game lost the special touch of the first game's voices. Now they're usually just spouting exposition or pointing out the obvious, as if they don't have anything interesting to say and the devs just needed to write something to make them talk non-stop.

From the little gameplay I've seen, it really does seem like endless ASMR-like yapping. I know that " it's the point of the game dude it's supposed to emulate psychosis thay consulted with real psychosis patients!!" but if the point of the game is to annoy me until I turn it off it doesn't sound like something worth playing

My husband has a cyst on his arse. Over the last two weeks it's got bigger and inflamed. He's on oral antibiotics and has an appointment to remove it next week.

Tonight it BURST. Omg it's amazing. He let me squeeze it but best of all, once all the skank came out I had a look and I saw THE SAC AND HE LET ME GET IT OUT WITH MY TWEEZERS.

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I was this excited.

The sac came out just like on Dr Pimple Popper - a little empty balloon with a little flap where it burst.

I will cherish this experience truly.

marriages are so romantic

Telling us all about it - but no photos!

You're soooo lucky 🤣

Fortunately there are no photos.

jk here's pics of the arse cyst

Once The skank was out I gave it a squeeze and could see the edge of the sac.

I asked him if I could try to tug it out if I could grip it easily. I didn't have to dig (and wouldn't have either as even I have limits when it comes to other people) and the sac was nice and sturdy but it did need a tug.

keep talking I'm almost there

I gave it a good bathe with dettol, we've put on savlon and I've given him a Tena Lady to use as a dressing 👌🏾

lol what a pansy

Well done op. Great job, that must have felt amazing (for both of you).

you know it

Can we have a look at his arse?

I'm really sorry but I promised him I wouldn't post pics of his arse anywhere.

https://old.reddit.com/r/hingeapp/comments/1cucfng/after_two_months_still_0_matches_in_d%C3%BCsseldorf/?sort=controversial

I’ve said from here to Colorado that it’s in the best interest of voters to have a choice in the race for president. I’m also duty-bound to follow the law as Ohio’s chief elections officer.

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— Frank LaRose (@FrankLaRose) May 21, 2024

Reminder this will only get worse because you cant install Mint from a usb stick

!codecels Disscuss

!fellas !kino !historychads

First of all it forces me auth? Frick you! This is a local set up strag! "Oh buh muh pryvit trackers done did demanded it!" private trackers are for lifeless losers

My next issue is it demanding read/write to my media libary. Frick right off. You exist to send links to my seed box. The end. You don't need to know what i have much less be allowed to fiddle frick with it. But sonarr won't even let you add a show without first giving it read/write somewhere on your system to make a folder.

Then we have the "Download client" issue. Sonarr thinks I want it to download things, this is an r-slured assumption born of ego. I want an rss feed I can plug into my existing solutions. As far as I can tell sonarr literally cannot do this. A rss reader can't take some rss items, combine them into 1 feed and expose it.

inb4: "Buh it support clients!!!". That's nothing but useless. Oh I can set up a fricking webui on one of the handful of supported torrent clients? That's SOOOO much better than being able to use an rss feed which would work with ALMOST EVERYONE IN EXISTENCE

Look at this! "Oh a feature that would actually make our toyware useful? Naw we're not gonna do it and won't merge your code if you do it."

All I want from this is the ability to add shows without needing to set up regex and all horse shit in a million rss feeds!

Well lets read the docs I guess, maybe I can strongarm it into being less useless.

Webdevs did this.

Well lets look at the 'blackhole' option, it's the only one that isn't obviously dumb

Downloading and importing is where most people experience issues. From a high level perspective, the software needs to be able to communicate with your download client and have access to the files it downloads.

The frick you do. My client of choice can handle all that, you just serve as a front end!

And the words "torrent blackhole" aren't mentioned once on the page I was linked to, from the 'more info' button ON THE TORRENT BLACKHOLE OPTION

Lets google

That's kinda what I want! But it still demands read/write to write the peepee sucking files! Oh my god why is every dev on the earth so much worse than me?

Well I guess I can have it write the files to /tmp/whatever, copy them to my nas and have my client copy them from there. Hack, but it will work

Then make the folder!

Whatever, /tmp it is

WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND i DON'T CARE. I DON'T WANT THIS FEATURE, FRICK OFF!

/dev/null it is!

/var/empty it is!

Ignore this and saving anyway it is!

AIDS

!codecels why are we like this

Tweeter/Da Newz

The Mayor of course is ready to talk about the biggest tragedy, the passengers of wrecks of stolen cars who sometimes get hurt

TMJ4 brought the crash video to Milwaukee mayor Cavalier Johnson for his reaction.

>"The passenger in that video that you just showed me, he couldn't even get up, he couldn't even move," Johnson said astounded. "He tried to get out of the car and he collapsed. You don't want that to be your kid or a kid you care about. Let's have these conversations and let's put a stop to this."

Apparently I was deceived into coming here. I was under the impression that I would get some kind of mental health care but instead it's just detox from alcohol plus telling you to think more positive and stuff. I'm actually more hopeless and suicidal now than I was coming in.

At least it's a really pleasant place. Someone gave me some advice on a place that might actually be viable but I would have to switch my fricking insurance which I don't know is even possible. And kind of difficult to do with a phone available 1 hour/day. Of course the basic information a person would want to know is unavailable on the internet.

I saw an article claiming Fallout fans want them to ditch building mechanics for future games...

Let me just chime in to say...

YOU BEST FUCKING NOT.

— Jez (@JezCorden) May 21, 2024

I would actually go as far to say the next elder scrolls should have more of that stuff too. I think proper mining, foraging and managing settlements can work

It will no longer be Fallout if they remove it.

this is the average fallout fan now btw

"I want our games to be worse!"

Yeah that sounds like the fallout fanbase ngl.

I doubt it.

They only expanded it for Starfield.

Why would they get rid of all that work.

>the fallout games will be worse without building

wtf am i reading