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    Why is Gothic series so culty?

    This really doesn't reflect reality in my opinion. If anything it's just a long stroll through stereotypes that really aren't borne out by looking at tastes in American culture. Like... TV shows? Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, while they definitely have their issues, are these known for their...
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    Incline Okay let's be real here... Which games can never be RPGs?

    Definitional wanking has always been stupid. It's like getting very upset that the average person means something different from a 18th century colonist when they say "liberal". You know what they mean, so what does it matter? Likewise, when people talk about RPGs, you generally know what they...
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    Baldur's Gate Larian is moving away from D&D, no BG3 DLC or BG4

    People love to take one or two momentary jokes as the whole thing. It's bizarre. I feel like the people doing it really, really hate BG1 and want to use those moments to attack the whole thing. BG2 is a lot more of an obvious trend towards the route Bioware would take at the time, but even by...
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    The beauty of the Heroes of Might and Magic II soundtrack

    It's funny how "gaslighting" is a term so beloved of the consumerist chatterati when it most describes their own behavior. Yes, they're constantly trying to make you believe that you're the crazy one, that you aren't surrounded by a disgusting, decaying society circling the drain, but any brief...
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    KickStarter Grim Dawn

    Personally I feel the complete opposite. Designed levels have a lot more character. It's one of Grim Dawn's strengths, I'd argue. Lots of environmental storytelling.
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    Incline Path of Exile II - isometric souls with loot (beta coming late 2024)

    Maybe one group of people who hate PoE. I'd say it's more like PoE for people who hate basic ARPG gameplay. Between WASD movement and the general combat flow it's clearly moving away from the Diablo 2 formula.
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    Game News Geneforge 2 - Infestation Released

    Fair point, I guess I am the patient sort and it takes me a while to really come to loathe a whiny bitch.
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    Game News Alpha Protocol gets an enhanced rerelease on GOG after five years in licensing hell

    GoG does this a lot now that the low-lying fruit of actually good old games that needed a DosBox shell are all depleted. Just cashing in desperately on whatever game they can put in the minimum amount of effort to toss out a desktop shortcut, a config file, and whatever dumb-ass extras no one...
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    Game News Alpha Protocol gets an enhanced rerelease on GOG after five years in licensing hell

    I don't see how it's a good thing. If you wanted to just experience the game as it was, you could already pirate it.
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    Anime Honkai: Star Rail - It sucks almost as much as mods changing titles

    UOOOOOOH CUNNNNYYYYYY It's a shame that so many Chinese studios are so coompilled but are completely sabotaged by their own government's policies. It's like a whole nation of edgers.
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    Mass Effect New Mass Effect confirmed

    I think that's actually a type of music that is inherent to gaming. Or at least was back in the glory days of gaming in the 90s and early 2000's; melody-focused to be catchy, but not so much so that it overrides the gameplay itself and distracts you. Some games could be way more distracting...
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    Game News Geneforge 2 - Infestation Released

    Just so gosh darned OLD. You whipper snappers wouldn't understand... Meanwhile, I look around myself and see 60 year olds doing hard labor 10 hours a day for their job. Goddamn, Vogel really turned into a jackass.
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    Hellgate: Redemption (Bill Roper/Lunacy Games) announced

    As I recall the gameplay wasn't bad and somewhat unique for the time, it sort of prefigured looter-shooters, but... it was horribly balanced and a buggy mess. It definitely had potential and if you had told me a year after it went down in flames that a competent studio with the same guys was...
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    Path of Exile is a MAJESTIC incline

    Yeah, but my point is that's a vast exaggeration. You can league start with the final build you want to play. That's what I do every league. Is it slower in terms of making money than a meta build? Maybe, but who cares? Most people are not going to be equipped to use that league starter...
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    Path of Exile is a MAJESTIC incline

    I mean some of those builds in the list are viewed by the chart itself as bad. So it's kind of weird to include them at all I guess? "These are bad and you should feel bad for running them... but the other 200 skill gems not mentioned don't even exist." I dunno, I think people just get way too...

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