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    Incline Ion Fury (formerly Ion Maiden) - Build Engine powered FPS by Duke Nukem 3D mappers - now with Aftershock DLC

    Closer to the end of the game now. After the bike crashes and you lose it, the game gets significantly better, the Cemetery / Underground level is one of the best in an FPS campaign. That said, the whole section with the bike is garbage, the level design sucks because of it (all areas have to...
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    Incline Ion Fury (formerly Ion Maiden) - Build Engine powered FPS by Duke Nukem 3D mappers - now with Aftershock DLC

    Been playing through the expansion. It's a little hard to judge as it's been so long since I've played the original so I'm not sure exactly what the expansion introduces that wasn't there before. For me it does seem a bit too "open". The levels are often massive and I got the sense the devs...
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    Starfield - Epic Shit Takes from Bethestards

    Today's culture fears conflict and that heavily extends to game studios where you only have to see a photo of team's like Bethesda's to know what sort of beliefs they have. When a team of people are working on a feature like UI, there will be good ideas & bad ideas. These days no one is going...
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    Amnesia: The Bunker - first-person horror in desolate WW1 bunker

    It just sounds like a "survive until the timer runs out" game that they've tried to market as innovative. The fact that Rebirth only came out 2 years ago should be a big red flag, most fleshed out indie games are not developed this quickly.
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    World of Warcraft: Dragon Desperation

    They'd be lucky to have 2 million players now as we're 10 years on from those expansions. They make most of their money from selling microtransactions to the morons who've stuck around and will defend just about anything.
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    World of Warcraft: Dragon Desperation

    Disagree, MoP actually has great content the theme just wasn't very appealing. It was the opposite of WoD that had shit content but a great theme, hence the spike in subs but with a quick decline.
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    Incline The Lord of the Rings Online - Corsairs of Umbar expansion out now

    Having played some of the Echoes stress tests, it is different. The first thing you'll notice is how uncluttered everything is. The interface is much simpler and the Live game also over designed things probably to help with the lag but that also didn't help immersion. For instance in Live you...
  8. RapineDel

    Microsoft lays of nearly 1000 people, including Xbox division

    It says she took a "leave of absence" for 2 years between 2019 - 2021. Without knowing the context, if you were going through the employee files and had to let people go then it kind of makes sense.
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    Incline The Lord of the Rings Online - Corsairs of Umbar expansion out now

    1 - 50 still has the best zones. The quests also used to be more immersive, most of them had a decent story attached to them but they "revamped" the areas so that every area will also throw in a bunch of pointless kill x mob / loot 10 x quests to speed up the levelling. The gameplay arguably...
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    Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    This game will make some money, but I can guarantee there will be a significant drop off if a sequel is released in the next few years. I think there's a LOT of people who have nostalgic memories about Monkey Island and strange art or not, they were going to buy it. These are the sorts of...
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    Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Just finished this, didn't really rush through and went in with minimal expectations after disliking the art style and especially Ron and the team's typical response to criticism. P&C Adventures are few and far between in 2022 so I'm not going to blast it, but it was pretty middling and I...
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    Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Dominic definitely sounds worse in this, not sure if it's age or because he hasn't done any voice work for 10+ years but I'm not really feeling it, it sounds like he's just reading the lines and isn't really in character.
  13. RapineDel

    Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    The writing concerns me the most, I've heard basically nothing comparable to the first three games and the sequence with Wally was particularly rough. Something about Dominic's voice acting also isn't doing it for me, not sure if he's rusty (given he doesn't do a lot of other voice work) or...
  14. RapineDel

    Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    To me it's looking like movement is always on a straight line to make it more "controller" friendly. Is their any footage at all of Guybrush walking off the beaten path?
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    Return To Monkey Island - MI2 sequel from Ron Gilbert

    Is that actually from the new game? I thought it was some sort of lame intro to a blog or "safe space" to discuss the game judging by the title.

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