General Video Game Thread
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@lithium Watch me while I WEAAAAB
Sword Art Online had 3 arcs:
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Sword Art Online: 10,000 minds trapped within the VRMMORPG where if you die in game you die in real life. SWO was very D&D.
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Alfheim Online. Ellllves.
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Gun Gale Online. Featured in season 3 of the anime.
Fatal Bullet steps out of swords and sorcery and gets into post apocalyptic gun badasssery. I'm loving this game so far.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@ghost Sorry, I meant second /series/. Since we're being nitpicky.
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I very much enjoy Cat Quest on Steam. It's cute and fun.
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@ghost
If you want expanded GGO stuff, there's a side-story manga that tells about another player of GGO, with some appearances by the 'main cast'. And the fourth and final arc, Alicization is getting an anime adaptation, out sometime this year. -
So, the people who made FTL: Faster Than Light?
It turns out that was not any kind of fluke and they are just really, really good at making games. Into the Breach looks at first glance completely uninteresting but I have been playing it and the mechanics and presentation are just absolutely right in practice. Every single battle is tense, intricate, makes me feel like an idiot when I make a mistake but amazing if everything works just right. A big thumbs up.
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Vermintide 2 is out in beta on Steam for the PC.
I am enjoying it thus far. Left 4 Dead but slaying ratmen and dudes in loincloths with medieval/steampunk weapons.
Quite enjoyable indeed.
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Is Brigitte out on Overwatch? What about now?
Now?
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She's busy wearing Mercy's face on PTR.
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So I have been playing some more Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
I was investigating counter fitters in the town of Sasau and it was quite a cool involved investigation, then when hunting unrelated bandits I found a bunch of them camped outside an abandoned silver mine. After murdering the bandits I decided to look inside only to hear noises of people at work.
It was the hidden workshop, the game actually ran with it and had suitable dialogue. Impressive!
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There's a mod that gives you lightsabers.
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honestly I had a whiff of interest in Kingdom Come Deliverance but a bit of watching gameplay vids and reading the game media left me with the distinct impression this is some completely myopic bullshit where Good White Man's Son galavants around have grand Adventures and choosing which whores to be bathed by.
Picture me making the jacking off motion with complete disinterest.
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@kanye-qwest said in General Video Game Thread:
honestly I had a whiff of interest in Kingdom Come Deliverance but a bit of watching gameplay vids and reading the game media left me with the distinct impression this is some completely myopic bullshit where Good White Man's Son galavants around have grand Adventures and choosing which whores to be bathed by.
It's a lot better than not being able to choose the whores to be bathed by.
“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 said in General Video Game Thread:
@kanye-qwest said in General Video Game Thread:
honestly I had a whiff of interest in Kingdom Come Deliverance but a bit of watching gameplay vids and reading the game media left me with the distinct impression this is some completely myopic bullshit where Good White Man's Son galavants around have grand Adventures and choosing which whores to be bathed by.
It's a lot better than not being able to choose the whores to be bathed by.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@kanye-qwest The writing and tone is definitely all over the place there with things like female characters who have legitimate agency and personality then sort of drop out of the plot or change completely once things move into a different storyline.
The white part though? That is just weird, and I do not mean your bringing it up but the whole situation around the game. There being only 'white people' (of various different actual ethnicity and origins) in a small patch of rural 1403 Bohemia? Sure! I would honestly not be surprised if you checked the same area IRL right now and only found 'white people'. My grandfather grew up in eastern Europe and literally never met a non white person until he was captured by American soldiers at the end of World War 2.
That does not mean that the lead developer is not apparently a racist though.
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I've been doing the alpha for the next World of Warcraft expansion and holy balls, I see a lot of potential for this one. I won't drop any spoilers, but I will say that I think it's going to wind up having a bit of something for just about everyone.
"Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here." - ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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@apu
I am already thrilled with the changes made pre-xpac in the leadup. The scaling zones is pretty much the best thing ever.
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@sunny said in General Video Game Thread:
I am already thrilled with the changes made pre-xpac in the leadup. The scaling zones is pretty much the best thing ever.
I'm pretty ambivalent, even in alpha for BfA.
On one hand I love how now you can basically pick the zone you want and stick around until it's done (or you are done with it); there's no more dropping a questline when it's incomplete because you just outleveled it. Hell, you don't even need to do entire expansions at all - don't like Northrend or Outlands? Don't go there! Which to be honest used to be annoying since you had to fly to portals, take zeppelins, etc.
But on the other hand leveling really is so damn boring these days as all of the carrots are being taken out of it. I don't look forward to the next level up since... well, nothing happens other than that a number changes. Woo-hoo, I dinged 24 to 25... but so what? There are basically no new talents (there are but very infrequently, and they usually don't change gameplay), the mobs don't get any easier since they scale up to you immediately, and if you have heirlooms - which yes, is optional - you rarely even switch to new, better gear.
For all vanilla was annoying in many, many ways every time you dinged mattered. You got better every time you got a level.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Good for you. I enjoy it a great deal.
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Those are fair points to make. I think there are carrots, if you look hard enough, but they aren't as easy to find as they used to be, back when they were dangled in front of your nose.
