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  1. Any good metroidvania recommendations?

    I'm only a few hours in, but: It's 60% puzzles and 40% exploration. There doesn't seem to be any proper combat, the enemies are obstacles to be avoided or overcome by using your items(which so far have been unusual by genre standards, and have multiple applications). It feels like almost every...

  2. Assassin's Creed Shadows - Afro Samurai in late Sengoku period Japan - coming November 15th

    I am going to be a contrarian and side with the soulless corporation. If anyone actually buys Asscreed: Shadows of their own free will, Ubisoft should be granted the legal right to automatically drain that person's bank account of $70 every year, without needing to resort to the pretense of...

  3. Assassin's Creed Shadows - Afro Samurai in late Sengoku period Japan - coming November 15th

    Damn I was so excited about the latest open world Ubisoft sandbox game until they revealed that the MC would be BLACK

  4. Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks shut down by Microsoft

    Given that Starfield had a budget somewhere between 200 and 400 million, it would have had to've sold a minimum of what, five or six million copies to have turned a profit? I very much doubt it did anywhere near those numbers, and unlike most RPGs it won't have a 'long tail' of slow & steady...

  5. Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks shut down by Microsoft

    As consumers we tend to side with creatives and blame poor decisions on unreasonable and incompetent executives, and this is true a lot of the time. But there are certainly plenty of cases where studios receive a fortune on good faith from publishers, only to waste time, attempt to drag the...

  6. Anime Your Unpopular Gaming Opinions

    I don't really believe in the concept of 'decline'. Video games are a young enough medium that there isn't much danger of large swathes of games being lost to time(yet). Emulation is easy enough that any halfway intelligent person will have access to almost every game every made. Whatever your...

  7. What do You Pay for New Games?

    I usually wait for a sale on Steam or Gog before buying something, but I'll pay full price if I'm especially interested, and only pirate for emulation purposes. I'll go against the popular opinion and say that $70 is a perfectly reasonable amount to expect people to pay for an AAA game. (Sure...

  8. On Dishonored and the inherent inferiority of the stealth ImSim.

    IMO the "boring parts" of the stealth genre are, in a good title, a necessary and useful component of the experience. I think there are probably two essential differences between good and bad stealth that make this true. The first is linear vs nonlinear levels. When I'm tucked away in a safe...

  9. Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 RELEASE THREAD

    The revelation changed very little about so despite that, I can't be too mad at it

  10. Hollow Knight: Silksong

    Let them take however much time they need. I'd rather play a good game in 2028 than a mediocre game tomorrow. I have no idea what's going on at Team Cherry, but if the effort put into Hollow Knight is any indication, they are probably not sitting around with their dicks in their hands but...

  11. World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 - VTMB sequel from The Chinese Room - coming Fall 2024

    I think much of the appeal of the VtM setting was the fact that it was definitely not a straight up power fantasy. Yes, you were a lot stronger than ordinary humans, but there were all sorts of hostile factions like werewolves and mages who were deadly and poorly understood, and had to play...

  12. The Thaumaturge - supernatural RPG set in early 20th century Warsaw from Seven: The Days Long Gone devs

    Hmm, doesn't look like something I'd want to play. Having shitty combat is probably worse than having no combat in a narrative-driven game like this. Though the thought occurs to me - demon binding sounds like the perfect setup for a Disco Elysium clone. Imagine if instead of personality...

  13. The Thaumaturge - supernatural RPG set in early 20th century Warsaw from Seven: The Days Long Gone devs

    I am less interested in the developers' politics and more interested in whether or not they depict the setting faithfully. I want to play a game set in partitioned Poland, full of mutually resentful Jews, Slavs, and Germans, and not in a millennial hipster cafe with a Polish coat of paint.

  14. I can't think of a single RPG that depicts sex in a healthy way.

    Romance in RPGs will always suck because your character is a blank slate, and you can't have a believable romance between an NPC with a defined personality and a self-insert avatar who has whatever personality you can imagine for him within the confines of the plot and dialogue options. There...

  15. Codex was buck broken by gay bear. Ass all open, head empty.

    So far I'm enjoying it. The maps are detailed and full of content for you to find, and more crucially, content to miss - you can easily skip out on a sidequest by failing a check or being rude to someone. It doesn't shove everything in your face, which is rare for AAA games nowadays. Even the...

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