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Are videogames for children?

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GloryToArztotska said:
FYI there's 3 DLCs at this point. Fair warning, don't be surprised if you need to look up a map for the N'Erud one.
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I opened the game, realized a million things have changed, and that I'm in over my head. Had to read a over a year's worth of patch notes. What builds have you had success with?
 
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I opened the game, realized a million things have changed, and that I'm in over my head. Had to read a over a year's worth of patch notes. What builds have you had success with?
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Challenger/Engineer seems to always be reliable for me, although my current weapons/accessories of choice are buried deep within the DLC so I'm not sure you can optimize as well as me yet.
 
Play Tactics Ogre if you dig SRPGs like Fire Emblem. I just beat the very first chapter and even at this early stage you are making decisions with actual weight, i.e. units will stay, leave, betray you, die, or join you depending on the choices you've made and the alignments you have. Though I'm playing the remaster, it is still all based on a game from 1995, I can believe the reputation the game has - because it doesn't treat you with kid gloves despite coming from the SNES era.

At the end of chapter 1 you must choose whether or not to slaughter your own people in a prison camp (who refuse to fight) in order to galvanize the rebellion against the Nation you've been fighting since the beginning of the game. I chose not to. Here are the consequences from that one little action...

- I've been branded a traitor and blamed for the massacre I refused to take part in. The entire flow of the game has now changed.
- My ""best friend"" betrays me and his in-game avatar gets changed to an evil variant. What a bitch.
- The Judas fuck Duke I saved from execution at the beginning of the game has co-opted the resistance forces I built and puts a bounty on my head totaling near the full amount of war funds I've earned since level 1.
- The hot Valkyrie chick I wanted to recruit gets shot in the gut, and dies of her wounds the very next mission...
- All the towns I had captured since the start have now fallen under the control of the co-opted Resistance, and are now all hostiles...

The MC is now a fugitive and is starting the next chapter in a shitty outskirt town being hounded by bounty hunters out for the reward... holy fuck. But it isn't all negatives, one of the characters I saved in an earlier level (who could've died since permadeath is a thing) vouches for me and gets one of the bounty hunters to begin rethinking her own choices. Which I assess will bring her to my side in a later mission. Real consequences for your actions, I love it!
 
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The Sims 2 Legacy Collection won't launch for me on Linux even though it launches just fine for everyone else and I am A N G Y. reeeeeeeeee.png
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LifeAlert said:
Also linux sucks for gaming. But you already know that
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It doesn't since Valve dumped all the money into making Proton - literally every other game I have played besides this one runs fine. This is an EA being a slop factory problem, not a Linux problem. Most people seem to be able to run the Legacy Collection on Linux better than it runs on Windows, I just appear to be the odd one out for reasons I cannot discern because these error messages are infuriatingly non-specific.

LifeAlert said:
You got what you paid for, should've gotten the original one instead.
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You can't buy the Ultimate Collection on Origin anymore and installing the physical discs in Current Year+10 will give your computer cyberAIDS because of SecuROM. I'll probably get a refund and just play the anadius pirate version since that one somehow runs fine.
 
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I really don't get the love for Mullet Madjack. The writing is obnoxious, the story pointlessly edgy, and when you can disable the protagonist's voice acting with a literal character upgrade, and similarly silence his support girl...yeah, that ain't showing confidence.

I get it's probably not my thing, but I don't understand why people went nuts for it.
 
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Pumpkin Girl IRL said:
I really don't get the love for Mullet Madjack. The writing is obnoxious, the story pointlessly edgy, and when you can disable the protagonist's voice acting with a literal character upgrade, and similarly silence his support girl...yeah, that ain't showing confidence.

I get it's probably not my thing, but I don't understand why people went nuts for it.
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>he's playing it for the story instead of kicking enemies into walls n shit
 
Pumpkin Girl IRL said:
I really don't get the love for Mullet Madjack. The writing is obnoxious, the story pointlessly edgy, and when you can disable the protagonist's voice acting with a literal character upgrade, and similarly silence his support girl...yeah, that ain't showing confidence.

I get it's probably not my thing, but I don't understand why people went nuts for it.
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I haven't played it but it's on my wishlist, looks like an anime-esque fps version of Hotline Miami, which is interesting. I wouldn't be surprised by it not being great though.
 
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Lone MacReady II said:
Play Tactics Ogre if you dig SRPGs like Fire Emblem. I just beat the very first chapter and even at this early stage you are making decisions with actual weight, i.e. units will stay, leave, betray you, die, or join you depending on the choices you've made and the alignments you have. Though I'm playing the remaster, it is still all based on a game from 1995, I can believe the reputation the game has - because it doesn't treat you with kid gloves despite coming from the SNES era.

At the end of chapter 1 you must choose whether or not to slaughter your own people in a prison camp (who refuse to fight) in order to galvanize the rebellion against the Nation you've been fighting since the beginning of the game. I chose not to. Here are the consequences from that one little action...

- I've been branded a traitor and blamed for the massacre I refused to take part in. The entire flow of the game has now changed.
- My ""best friend"" betrays me and his in-game avatar gets changed to an evil variant. What a bitch.
- The Judas fuck Duke I saved from execution at the beginning of the game has co-opted the resistance forces I built and puts a bounty on my head totaling near the full amount of war funds I've earned since level 1.
- The hot Valkyrie chick I wanted to recruit gets shot in the gut, and dies of her wounds the very next mission...
- All the towns I had captured since the start have now fallen under the control of the co-opted Resistance, and are now all hostiles...

The MC is now a fugitive and is starting the next chapter in a shitty outskirt town being hounded by bounty hunters out for the reward... holy fuck. But it isn't all negatives, one of the characters I saved in an earlier level (who could've died since permadeath is a thing) vouches for me and gets one of the bounty hunters to begin rethinking her own choices. Which I assess will bring her to my side in a later mission. Real consequences for your actions, I love it!
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Tactics Ogre is fantastic but I hate how the PC version caps your levels based on story progress. If I want to outlevel stuff I should be allowed to.
 
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Been enjoying GW2, though I was gonna buy GW1 anew and link the two new accounts to actually benefit from clearing shit in GW1 in 2, but guess you can't do that with GW2 steam accounts. I boot up GW2 at random and level a bit and log off, which is hugely short-term and I won't play this game in the future, but still it's nice to have something.

It does however put me off ballsing up to play something else in my backlog, but I'm starting to feel like I know I won't play my backlog if I uninstall GW2. It also makes me miss WoW but every time I log into WoW it's utter shit and immediate regret. The fact GW2 requires no addons and is installed on Steam is a huge plus honestly.

Shit, more activity in this 4chin guild than my old 4chin guild in WoW on release of a new raid. Regret mainstream, embrace niche games with a primarily european audience I guess.
 
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Games that appear in Humble always have their prices absolutely tanked on third-party key sites. No excuse not to pick up Tomb Raider :)

XRESIST is apparently some kind of taiwanese narrative inspired anti-covid thing? Or other such on-the-nose political garbo.

Nova Lands is a cute 10 hour automation game, do recommend. Dredge is an arkham-type backtracking 'puzzle' game, nothing to do with fishing, but has a vibe. Dunno the rest.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
I fucking HATE maintenance in mobile games, why the fuck can I not play the game for 5 hours? Now I'm gonna miss out on some time-limited bullshit...
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I've never understood why mobile games suck so hard and since the release and adoption of the iOS, has gotten worse, not better. Is it because of the control scheme, because of the audience, or because of the pricing structure where someone will refuse to buy a $30 app but spend hundreds on microtransactions over time?
 
So the Switch 2 will be 450 USD, launches on June 5, and they announced a bunch of games, including a new Mario Kart and a new Fromsoft game called The Duskbloods
 
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