General Video Game Thread
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So I have gotten pretty much up to date on the Trails series. For those who are not aware, it's a pretty lengthy series of JRPGs that has 3 arcs with another game out that bridges this 3rd arc with a new 4th arc.
Basically the arcs are:
Liberl: Trails in the Sky > Trails in the Sky SC > Trails in the Sky the 3rd
Crossbell: Trails from Zero > Trails to Azure
Erebonia: Trails from Cold Steel > Cold Steel 2 > Cold Steel 3 > Cold Steel 4Anyway, the two Crossbell games are not out here in the US so I used translation patches to play them and oh man, do hope Falcom ports them over some day. Finished Zero much earlier than Azure to make room to play Cold Steel 4, but I did want to talk up their battle themes. I love good battle themes in RPGs:
Zero: https://youtu.be/-azjB3lsUTU
Azure: https://youtu.be/s358AQzHMCUAside from Persona 5 Royal's battle theme (https://youtu.be/rJ2KB5LVdqA), they're two of my favorite themes in recent memory.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omyoJ7onNrg
Crowbcat came out of YT slumber to make a Cyberpunk video. It's excellent and also incredibly damning.
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Mass Effect 2 is ten years old today.
You're welcome.
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“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede Just another month or two until the ME Trilogy Remastered for next-gen consoles is released.
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@runescryer said in General Video Game Thread:
Just another month or two until the ME Trilogy Remastered for next-gen consoles is released.
My partner's reaction to me buying a next-gen console for the game:
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https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/01/27/gamestop-stock-surge-reddit.cnnbusiness
Love it.
Edit: As I read more about it... apparently this is no small thing, but a huge financial fucking deal that has the potential to break big aspects of the market. A lot of people are going to be out a lot of money when this is all over. Others might be much richer. The market is a gamble. I don't know much about it so I have no idea how it will play out.
I have always had a place in my heart for game stop for being there for me before I was financially stable enough to afford full priced games or game systems. But this doesn't really seem to be about boosting or saving the store.
I'm not so sure I love it as much anymore.
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@testament But I want it now.
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TANGENTIALLY RELATED to Video Games, and I'm too lazy to search for the other thread this is more relevant to...
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Is it any good?
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@jennkryst Shit, I'd buy that for the box alone.
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The geek gives it a 7.3. My personal cut-off for trying a game I know little about is nothing below 7.2 with the rare exception for things that are right in my wheelhouse, and that has worked well for me and a few of my friends who have also adopted the 7.2 rule.
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@cassite said in General Video Game Thread:
Please prove me wrong. I'd love that sphere to be taken more seriously.
I really liked Werewolf: the Forsaken's system, where going into werewolf-mode was a last-ditch, really bad idea, but then people got really mad about that, and the CoD version is just --
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@cassite said in General Video Game Thread:
That Werewolf: The Apocalypse video game is coming out soon. I'm waiting to hear just how bad it is, because if the trailers are the best they can pull up, I am far from optimistic.
Being forced to play the absolute most boring tribe as a white, bearded old man trying to FiNd HiS BrOtHeR would not have been my preference.
Please prove me wrong. I'd love that sphere to be taken more seriously.
This reminds me that Bloodlines 2 was supposed to be out like a year and a half ago and now you hear absolutely fuck all about that game and what's going on with it.
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@cassite said in General Video Game Thread:
...Wait, shit, you're right.
Fucking Paradox. 'Maybe the second half of 2021?'
Yeah... 'maybe'
The game seemed to run into some issues. I recall hearing they got rid of a chunk of the writing staff or something. I don't know, I went from being really excited for Bloodlines 2 in 2019 to barely giving a shit in 2021.
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@cassite I'm probably going to buy it anyway just for the giggles.
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@cassite said in General Video Game Thread:
@cassite said in General Video Game Thread:
That Werewolf: The Apocalypse video game is coming out soon. I'm waiting to hear just how bad it is. Please prove me wrong. I'd love that sphere to be taken more seriously.
Currently a 55 on Metacritic. Welp.
Paradox clearly cares about the direction of the IP, lol.
