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I'm aware the dates aren't exactly right but I like to keep things refered to their planned date. They are still weekly after all.
#1 --- 043 - [07 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #43 -- mayflyalt
#2 --- 044 - [14 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #44 -- lc
#3 --- 045 - [21 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #45 -- lc
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#10 --- 052 - [10 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #52 -- lc
#11 --- 053 - [17 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #53 -- Ninjjer
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2023
I'm aware there are previous weekly or so megathreads and I'll eventually add them ( green = official, red = fake, yellow = misc, blue = losercel)
#0 - [22 Jan 2023] - some1 should make weekly vidya threads marseytf2spy
#1 - [28 Jan 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" Thread #1
#2 - [4 Feb 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" thread #2
#3 - [11 Feb 2023] - Weekly Gaming Thread #3
#3.5 - [13 Feb 2023] - [Weekly Gaming Thread 2] You will own no NFTs of video game microtransactions and you will be happy edition-- dramamine
#4 - [18 Feb 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing?' thread #4
#4.5 - [20 Feb 2023] - Welcome to the new weekly vidya thread! Week 1 - 2/20/23 -- robotron2084
#5 - [25 Feb 2023] - Weekly "What're You Playing" Community Thread #5
#5.5 - [2 Mar 2023] - So, what do you dipshits play all day? -- horned waifu shill
#6 - [4 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing' Thread #6
#7 - [11 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' thread #7
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#10 - [1 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing?' Thread: #10: Whooaaaa Those are some HILARIOUS patch notes edition
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#12 - [15 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' thread #12
#13 - [23 Apr 2023] - What're you playing thread #idk
#14 - [29 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What Are You Playing' thread #14
#15(1) - [6 May 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' thread #15
#15(1).5 - [10 May 2023] - marseyg*mer Gaming Thread - What are you playing this week? -- cynic
#15(2) - [13 May 2023] - Weekend 'What've you been playing?' Thread #15 -- he fricked up the ordering here I'll just go with it
#16 - [20 May 2023] - Weekly "What Are You Playing?" Thread #16
#16.5 - [28 May 2023] - Weekly "What are you playing" thread -- carp
#17 - [3 Jun 2023] - Weekly "What have you been playing?" Thread #new one
#18 - [10 Jun 2023] - Weekly "What are you playing" thread #18
#19 - [17 Jun 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing' thread #19!
#20(1) - [24 Jun 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are you Playing?' Thread #20: Modern Warfare III
#20(2) - [1 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #20: Summer Salestice -- same reason as above
#21 - [10 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #21: loli_esports forgot got chudded edition -- basad
#23 - [15 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #I think it's actually 23 -- should be 22 but I'll go with his ordering
#24 - [22 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #24: Lot of stuff coming out all of a sudden, feels like
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@Rescarer0's Darklands Series
Last week's game: Huniepop
Final Score: (10*6+9*0+8*2+7*0+6*1+5*0+4*0+3*0+2*0+1*4)/(6+0+2+0+1+0+0+0+0+4) = 6.62
All Previous Games:
[26. Nov 2023] Hades = 7.60
[3 Dec 2023] Rimworld = 8.93
[10 Dec 2023] Baldur's Gate 3 = 7.54
[17 Dec 2023] Age of Empires 2 = 8.59
[24 Dec 2023] GTA V = 6.62
[14 Jan 2024] Skyrim = 7.25
[21 Jan 2024] Cuphead = 6.97
[28 Jan 2024] Celeste = 5.27
[04 Feb 2024] Planescape Torment = 9.33
[11 Feb 2024] Palworld = 7.39
[18 Feb 2024] Nier Automata = 5.80
[24 Feb 2024] Might and Magic 6 = 5.33
[04 Mar 2024] Balatro = 9
[11 Mar 2024] Helldivers 2 = 7.3
[17 Mar 2024] Heroes of the Storm = 6.79
[25 Mar 2024] Dwarf Fortress = 7.81
[7 Apr 2024] No Man's Sky = 5.96
[14 Apr 2024] Lethal Company = 6.25
[21 Apr 2024] SpaceChem = 6.91
[12 May 2024] Fallout 4 = 5.33
[19 May 2024] Disco Elysium = 7.13
[26 May 2024] Crusader Kings 3 = 6.75
[2 Jun 2024] Warthunder = 3.63
[9 Jun 2024] Dragon Age Origins = 7.69
[16 Jun 2024] Halo: Combat Evolved = 7.85
[23 Jun 2024] Elden Ring = 7.91
[30 Jun 2024] Kenshi = 6.70
[7 Jul 2024] Two Point Hospital = 7.4
[14 Jul 2024] Stardew Valley = 7.43
[21 Jul 2024] Teardown = 6.87
[28 Jul 2024] Lobotomy Corporation = 6.05
[4 Aug 2024] Elite: Dangerous = 6.27
[11 Aug 2024] Enter the Gungeon = 6.92
[18 Aug 2024] Fortnite = 5.87
[25 Aug 2024] Devil Daggers = 7.2
[1 Sept 2024] Hollow Knight = 8.42
[8 Sept 2024] Street Fighter IV = 7.77
[15 Sept 2024] The Witcher = 7.5
[22 Sept 2024] Anno (1404-2205) = 7.1
[29 Sept 2024] Huniepop = 6.62
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This game has a plot, it's actually pretty boring. The game itself is a classic: roll your omnimagnetic ball around, collecting miscellany for reasons, and listening to the killer tunes. Vote often, and early, below in the pinned comment.
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carp, capy, geto, donger pin please
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Katamari Damacy
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I discovered Katamari last year thanks to emulation on the Steamdeck and even though there only seem to be two good games in the series, We Love Katamari is so good that it singlehandedly elevates the franchise to one of my favorites of all time.
Love this shit to death and I bought both the PS5 remakes and loved them too. I want new Katamari content so bad.
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never played it, gave it a 10 based on the soundtrack alone
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I recently replayed the Steam version of We Love Katamari. It's mostly an improvement to the original but some of the things you roll up are extremely ugly:
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glowing katamari !slots 500
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cursed by redditstrags again
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My favorite game
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This week, I've been playing Against the Storm. It's really close to a perfect game. I just wish there was a longer version of it, more akin to your typical citybuilder. Otherwise I've been playing Touhou Gensou wanderer, which is a pretty great mystery dungeon type roguelike. I'm dogshit at it, but I've enjoyed it thus far. Still have too much stuff on the back burner otherwise.
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So, I haven't really played any video games since my release from prison... what are the best platformers that have come out since 2015? How about the best point-and-click adventures? I play every genre of games, but those are generally my favorites.
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!cuteandvalid which are the ones that turn you trans?
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Celeste
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Hey, if the gameplay is good enough, I can tolerate some shit in the game. I mean, I'd certainly rather not, of course, but I can if everything else is great.
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It's gameplay
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What's gameplay? This?
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Hollow Knight (rated 8.42 on rdrama), Cuphead (6.97) and Celeste (5.27) are the only three we've featured. All of them are probably worth checking out.
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I would not consider Cuphead a platformer, it's a boss rush game with a couple platformed levels.
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Fair enough, all I've played of it is a bossfight. I guess I'd say it has the same basic ideas as a platformer, even if it doesn't have a platformer's gameplay loop.
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Yeah that's a pretty apt description.
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Consolestrags have elaborate terminology for different ways of being a consolestrag, much like how chimpanzees are split up into different troops...
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Sorta platformers, I've linked gameplay to clarify what the games are -
Pretty cool. You play as an anthropomorphic bug thing exploring an abandoned city filled with bug zombies.
Fantastic game, sequel apparently doesn't live up to it. The linked gameplay is from the "hard mode" you unlock after beating it once that redoes all the levels and enemy layouts now that you've got the movement and mechanics down.
You probably missed Factorio while you were in prison so maybe give that genre of games a look. I don't think it existed prior in the same quantity and quality that it does now.
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Pizza Tower is a god tier platformer
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Looks great. Thanks.
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Some people just don't get rehabilitated.
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Sonic Mania, Pizza Tower, Celeste, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Super Mario Bros Wonder, and Metroid Dread (most platformer like Metroid game, but not entirely a platformer) are great 2d platformers. Psychonauts 2, A Hat in Time, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, and Astro Bot are great 3d platformers.
Point and click is basically a dead genre, there are some smaller titles, and the Ace Attorney series has some point and click elements, but otherwise it's not a genre with a lot of good new games.
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holy shit there have been a lot of good butt 2d games in the past decade when you line em up like this. ive played all of them and all of them are a++
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Yeah it's crazy. 2010s and onward are way better than the dismal 2000s for 2d platformers. Now if only the point & click and RTS genres could have some good new games...
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There's more than you would think. Look up my bro Zombra on the Codex. This guy can recommend many titles from recent times.
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A hat in time was pretty good, came out like 2017
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I'd never played that but I watched someone play that and it was actually fun. Because she's cute and does cute things. Something you could play with your daughter if you had one.
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It's a really good game, cute but still good gameplay.
another I know of is DemonTurf but that's even more platforming focused while A hat in time leaned a bit more towards collectathon
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And super Mario maker, the only commercially successful level making game
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A few really weird platformers came out around 2017ish. Ori is really easy and I think was 2014ish? So you may know it but the second games pretty fun, too. Just easy / neat looking.
Why I'm commenting though is to tell you to go play rain world. I could get all straggy and paragraph about why for hours but I'll leave it at this, it's very likely the most complexly coded platformer ever made. The less you know about it before going into it the better, though.
If you're a , the current metroid dread game is a direct sequel to the horror one from the early 2000s, prime fusion.
For point and click shit there actually are a few cool games that came out- one is some really short under $5 horror story about a submarine navigating some moons ice ocean of blood called iron lung.
There was also a neat point and click style mystery game that everyone loved recently called return of the Obra Dinn.
And you know what? I'll throw this in with point and click because it basically is- a puzzle game centered around the tower of babbel. You fit together the languages, it's pretty neat. Name is chants of Sinnaar or something.
And to update you on where tf everyone is, we don't really have a shooter leading the pack right now so all the dota and league r-slurs are trying out a new Valve moba called deadlock, shooters are all on valorant or fortnite, base building neighbors are mostly running it back on satisfactory 1.0 update, and there's a few shitter games like lethal company, dead by daylight, phasmophobia, amongus and dale & dawson law supply (which are both just modern iterations of the mafia gamemode) that the rest of random communities are hanging out on right now. Also modded gta V and red dead 2 RP servers are huge now; around 2020 we all got really straggy with eachother as a collective twitch-viewing society and started doing cringe police vs robbers rp on gta. So I guess there's that too.
That, and like a billion r-slurred butt dark souls reimaginings that culminated in one grand title that made every avengers fan soy their panties for like 2 years straight recently. It's ignorable. World of warcraft still hasn't died even though it was dead when you left. Oh, and someone took HL1 and made black mesa into a base builder survival game where you shit on the floor a lot. Abiotic factor. And that about sums it all up since 2015
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Didnt read
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You still haven't told us what you did time for. Was it arson? I bet it was arson.
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Chopping people's heads off and fricking their eye sockets.
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That would make you a s*x offender though
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No, because their eye sockets consented.
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You don't have to dance around it. Everyone here knows what skullfricking is.
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link?
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Long story short he forgot to say "in Minecraft"
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lol this neighbor needs jesus
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Cuphead is good, Sonic Mania is good (just stay away from the Sonicstrags), Salt and Sanctuary is basically platforming+dark souls.
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I have completed the SHATterred Space dlc for Starfield and here is my opinion !
I currently have a fever and so I apologize in advance if certain things or sentences don't make sense. Wanted to add more Marseys but the word limit reaper got me
This dlc is a standard practice Bethesda does where it tries to flex its creative muscles and prove to you that even if you didn't like the main game, there is still potential within the studio, so don't forget to go and buy our next product, even if you were disappointed by the last. It was first done with the Shivering Isles dlc for Oblivion, which was a peace offering to the older playerbase that was disappointed with the standard fantasy look of Cyrodiil (originally written as a humid jungle) and the lack of quest depth (just follow the pop-ups lmao).
If you go into the archives of uesp (Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages) forums and dig deep enough to find the original reviews from 2006, you will uncover a lot of criticism from the hardcore Morrowind fans and most of the praise being written by actual children without either reading comprehension or knowledge of the previous entry. The pop-ups in particular grinded a lot of people's gears, as they saw it as handholding and lack of faith in the player's intelligence. There was enough fuss about that topic alone, that Bethesda never put a similar style of guide/update mechanic ever again in their games. That is an easy fix - but how do you fix the larger problems with the game world?
Lack of weird or previously-mentioned elements of Cyrodiil and its capital made many proclaim the developers as sellouts, listing the notorious horse armour among their evidence. How do you deal with that kind of issue? Bethesda, quite smartly, chose to give the project lead of the last dlc to Oblivion more creative freedom, as well as encouraging individual members of the development team to add something cool to the game that they didn't have the ability to add. The variety of enemy types is the result of animators and creature artists being given carte blanche in what they could put in the game. Oblivion already got slapped with a Mature rating, so making gorey and visceral enemies was on the table again, while the original game was trying its best to get a Teen rating. A nude model, hidden within the developer files and inaccessible through gameplay itself, was the official reason for the rating change, but it didn't stop urban legends forming around the real reason being Lucien LaChance's corpse model with how gruesome it looked in comparison to the zombies and other undead you encounter in the game.
With the creative freedoms and less pressure about the content, Shivering Isles was released to universal acclaim and at least in that one moment alone, convinced some of the "betrayed" fans of the older titles that not all is lost and it is still the same old Bethesda that can create engaging and wondrous worlds. I can attest to having at least two conversations with people at the time telling me how the dlc improved their opinion on Bethesda and made them give a second chance to the studio. This trick would be repeated with every other major release of 'Thesda games. Fallout 3 would have The Pitt and Point Lookout, Skyrim had Dragonborn and Fallout 4 would have Far Harbour. Each time it was called a "return to form" by a section of the audience and even with not every single player being impressed, the dlcs allowed Bethesda to retain players who would've dropped their titles ages ago, if not being fed this shred of hope carefully placed by Todd in their mouths.
Shattered Space (jesus did I only start talking about it now?) is no different. For some unknown reason, perhaps the general discourse around Bethesda games - they chose to pander to Morrowind again. You have a weird alien world where you have to learn how the culture and religion of the local people works. You have multiple "noble" houses which work more as conglomerates and focus primarily on one aspect of the local society. You even have quests where instead of markers you have to get your directions from books and dialogues and one of such quests specifically focuses on travelling to the wayshrines of the local religion in order to understand its worshippers better and earn their trust, just like in Morrowind guys! Except it doesn't work because the person who wrote the society and its aspects is a moron. Emil Pagliorulo is the king of cringe-ludo, as I have a hard time trying to imagine a more shallow and corny approach to writing a fundamentalist society.
In the original game, House Va'ruun was an uncommon type of enemy with its members focusing on energy weapons and applying poison with their attacks. All mentions of the Great Serpent, the deity that members of the House worship, came across incredibly bland and with a lack of vision to it. You could've given their "god" any name and it would still come across as ridiculous as it does. Giving a reason to why people living in the age of space exploration would adopt an almost animistic faith is quite hard and Emil didn't even try with the original game. The dlc then would be his chance to prove himself, right?
Any attempts to deeply introspect the faith of House Va'ruun lead to a roadblock where the npcs will shy away from giving you info as you are an outsider. The four pillars of the religion given to us are Strength, Devotion, Obedience and Perseverance. Despite the traits being vague enough to be shared with many religions throughout human history, there is no reasoning given as to why these are the traits and why the "Great Serpent" chose to impart them to his prophet. It comes across as a religion a bunch of kids playing around in a sandpit would create - sounds epic with elements of what they know of real religions, but no serious attempts are made to give any reason to it. Why would people choose to worship this deity? What is the ethical framework of the region? Even something as banal as the planet the original worshippers landed on possessing a hallucinogenic effect or the area they landed on being the only good chunk of the planet's surface are not explored or even brought up. I was actually surprised (one of the few times when playing this) that the origin of the religion remains a mystery. You can find audio logs of the prophet who started the religion and see that he was a normal man before forming the tenets and creating the society that we interact with in the game. Eventually he does end up as a genocidal maniac, who throws away decades of civilisation building and intergalactic relations with other factions to appease the "Great Serpent". So was it schizophrenia, the allure of power or an actual visit from an otherworldly being that corrupted him? Emil doesn't know himself, so he doesn't even try to give us any explanation. Or does he?
In the main game, House Va'ruun was shrouded in mystery and its serpent-based culture seemed to be a genuinely original concept. The few non-hostile members of the faction could encounter would have slavic or finnish names with "z"s and apostrophes thrown in to make it sound like a hiss of a snake. Overall, I couldn't actually tell you what inspired this faction, which I would somewhat congratulate Bethesda on, after years of borrowing historical concepts from America and Europe to buff up their lore and storytelling to actually create a new design of their own, no matter how r-slurred it is. Well, Shattered Space provides a different perspective.
One other thing that surprised me is how the naming conventions and cultural aspects of Va'ruun society are predominantly Arabic in the dlc. Characters being bluntly named the likes of Abbas and Farud, honour being of utmost importance and goats being the main means of sustenance made me think. Was Emil trying to depict Muslims as House Va'ruun? It makes some tiny bit of sense, as perhaps the violent and alien culture willing to enter "crusades" against non-believer factions with its prophet being worshipped in equal measure as the deity itself is how a white middle class American like Emil sees Islam and it's followers.
Ok, interesting point, but what does he make of it? Does he explore the premise of integrating and tolerating violent societies and cultures with the rest world? Does he explore why the faith is so hostile to infidels? Does he propose an alternative to their serpent-worshipping? No, motherlover literally gives us two options:
the
JihadCrusade is great and should continueor
it is bad and we should focus on the good in our society instead
How the frick do you fumble this? An exploration of an interesting, and some hat taboo topic? Just give the most basic opinions and hope that it is enough? I have no clue when the dlc development started for real, but what I experienced showed a total lack of learning any lessons from the launch of the game and its initial criticisms. Usually that is what these dlcs are for, the last chance to draw you in, and yet I saw the same incompetence as I did a year ago with the launch of Starfield. The dlcs higher up in the post were made roughly 5 months, half a year after the base game. Shattered Space took one whole year and a month to show the same sheltered and self-indulged design philosophy that made Starfield fail on launch. I am aware of the main studio forming a union around middle of the summer to gain some independence from Microsoft and its r-slurred policies, so the dlc development was probably affected by it, but the nonchalant way Bethesda dropped this dlc as a solution to the base game problems is troubling.
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A few months ago they released an update that included a new faction you can join. The entrance quest is free and you can hang around their HQ, but each subsequent mission in the faction storyline has to be bought with Bethesdabucks, which can only be bought with real money. That is the future I see for TES VI and it is not looking bright at all
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Seriously? That's a new low for bullshit. Anyways, is Bethesda releasing any further DLC for Starfield, or is this the end of the line for the game?
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Todd claims that there will be at least one more major DLC coming, but it will take some time, so probably only in 2025. Crazy, considering that Skyrim has its final piece of content released a year and one month after the game came out. Now we are squeezing our products for years and I have no clue how many of the TES resources are being spent on these. Since Emil is writing it, I assume it's a core team effort.
Yeah, seeing no major pushback on the Bethesdabucks stuff is really concerning, as it will probably encourage the suits to push that shit in future games. It's weird, since I thought /v/ and the likes would have a field day with a clusterfrick like that, but seems Bethesda knew what they were doing, releasing it stealthily as an update instead of adding it with Shattered Space, where it would be on full display. It does, unfortunately, make sense that they are beginning to view their games as platforms for content, both theirs and the community's. Release the empty and bland open world space and then drip feed content into it while charging for each little bit. I hoped that breaking away from Microsoft oversight would mitigate this sickness, but seems like Zenimax itself is the problem. After the old guard with Todd leave, then Bethesda will truly be over.
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I'm surprised they're releasing more DLC tbh, given the mixed reactions to the game and this DLC. I guess it's expected to sell, still.
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Good job bobby, here's a star
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Butt Creed odyssey, ⚓🚢 ship ramming simulator, I'm grinding resources for my mobile Greek sea ⛵ shanty wooden missile
Also this was probably the last good Ubisoftt game, I was shocked 😲 to realise 2018 when the game 🎮 released was 6 years ago
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Finished up hitman absolution.
Definitely earns it's ire from fans as the "splinter cell conviction" of the series but it's still better than conviction
Started yakuza 3. It's meh
Trying to unlock all the dog tag rewards in mgs2 rn. Wish me luck.
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Apparently the Silent Hill 2 remake is good? I'm not complaining, that's one of the few remakes that actually deserves to exist
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Silent Hill 2 Remake
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I'm still on that Crossout grind. Gotta' grind that battle pass so I can get the mech legs with boosters on them, that way I can be a little shit hoping around the map and blasting people.
I've also developed a haterd for helicopter builds and take great satisfaction from bullying them in matches.
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DBZ Kakarot is pretty fun
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Well I have been playing Drill Core a lot recently.
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My Darklands playthrough hit a rough patch. The quest I was planning to demonstrate for you guys turned out to be too hard for us, so I had to do some grinding. It's an incredibly complex game so there's a whole lot of stuff going on that I can't tell you about because it's too confusing or just not interesting if you're not actually the one playing. I'm trying to both tell a story and explain various gameplay mechanics (we haven't begun to start) at the same time but sometimes your plans don't work out.
I went to Soest and got some better armor. !germs I've been a fan of Westphalia for a long time but maybe it's just because of that scene in Der Krieger und die Kaserin where he's doing the tracheotomy on her. More romantic than actual s*x.
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playing SMTV:vengeance after putting it on hold for a while, doing a physical crit damage build.
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Ghost of Tsushima. Near perfect combat and story. I finished the story and I don't want to ruin the ending by playing the apparently mid DLC but I also don't want to leave.
Holy shit the ending was good. Can't remember the last time I was legitimately impressed by dialogue in a video game but the entire final exchange before the last fight nailed every line.
Also the combat is fricking awesome. I swear I'm going to develop a blood fetish with how fricking fun this game makes slitting a motherlovers throat.
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I bet not as fun as irl
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A new twin stick shooter called Kill Knight, which so many people have been gushing about but for me it's falling in the "good not great" category so far. Too many mechanics. Whether it's a shoot 'em up, top down twin stick, or whatever, IMO there should be your main shot, a special or two, and maybe something for movement like dash. This one has like 6-8 different attacks and powerups you need to use, which is a pain in the butt in such a fast game. I'm sure I'll get more used to it though.
Also chose something at random out of my backlog called Rogue Glitch Ultra that I'm having a lot of fun with. An action roguelike with autoaim, but the game is more about platforming than shooting. Enemies are on platforms of different heights an widths, so using jump, double jump, and wall climbing, you have to maneuver close enough to the enemies to shoot (or stomp) them. Lots of powerups, secret rooms, etc. Quite cool for $6 on sale.
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Should I make a joke about adding you to my block list for being an r-slur or save it for the platformer guy?
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What's wrong with the descriptor? It's a widely used one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-stick_shooter
https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Twin-Stick-Shooter/
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It's not the description. It's actually enjoying that instead of more intellectual entertainment like PC games.
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These are all PC games. If you mean more complex strategy games, I love RTS and some 4X, city builders, grand strategy and the like, but rarely have the time to get deep into them. Arcade style games have been my lifeblood for decades. Short bursts of intense gameplay while aiming for the top of the high score list never gets old.
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If that's what you want, you can do Paris Metro rush in Battlefield 4.
Very intense constant action but you've gotta think about what you're doing, how you're helping your team, am I gonna step on a mine.
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Contraband police
Communism simulator where I refuse to help the freedom fighters
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I gotta back to that. It's like Papers Please but if it was made by a German.
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Pirated the SH2 remake a few hours ago. It's enjoyable, but a total stutterfest on my PC but I got it for free so I can't complain too much.
Aside from that I've been replaying Amnesia: the Bunker again as part of my October horror binge. Good game.
I also recently beat Cyberpunk 2077 and its expansion after like a month. Good game but I was honestly burnt out on it by the end so I'm glad to be done with it. Also, I'm pretty annoyed that I got locked out of the kino Don't Fear the Reaper ending because I didn't choose the required dialogue options during a side mission I did 30 hours ago.
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Shin Megami Tensei V.
A fine game you can play without having to give your full attention so it's ideal for burning through podcasts
I also installed silent hill 2 EE, it's been over a decade since i've last played it so im keen to try it out before the remake.
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Back to Dark Souls 3. At some point the Souls series became comfort games for me, I'll pop one in on a whim instead of finishing BG3 or whatever. Dark Souls 3 is a little hard to restart because almost all the good bosses are in the second half of the game, but if you know what you're doing it doesn't take that long to get there.
Traditionally, DS3 has been my least favorite of the trilogy, but this time I'm appreciating that it lets you feel like a badass in a way that the first two don't. But you still have to earn it.
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Love that Sister Friede fight!
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Just beat her last night. Definitely a fun fight, at least if your damage output is enough to keep up with her. I'm really looking forward to Gael, but a part of me wants to skip Midir
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tarkov tf2 spelunky 2 eatventure minecraft
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Obviously still playing through Satisfactory. They did a really good job with the full release.
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Cataclismo finally came out, base builder tower defense RTS
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Severed Steel. Seems decent so far.
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Rethawed (Tony Hawk American Wasteland mod), and NFL 2K24 mod.
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I've been playing Katana zero, and I have to say, that I expected more of it. It's not bad, but I expected a side-scrolling Hotline miami, but it's just a good side-scroller.
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I'd like to finish it at some point.
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I've been having one of those 'don't really feel like games' patches. I've mostly just been trying to finish off all the collectibles in Nine Sols and doing Limbus Company stuff.
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I have Iratus: Lord of the Dead installed but can't bring myself to play a gayme right now.
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