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Are videogames for children?

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The Ugly One said:
This looks utterly retarded, and by that I mean it looks exactly like what a Street Fighter movie should be. Surprised they didn't make Chun Li black.
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It wouldn't be as bad if the special effects were decent. Like, thick floaty but slightly cartoony hadoukens. This is just.. adobe after effects "metal sparks flying everywhere".
Miller said:
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
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Dead on arrival, already balls deep in that new DRG that is uh... DRG but, roguelite? It's genuinely a wonder DRG ever got as popular as it did. It barely has the numbers of a C-list indie.
 
⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Dead on arrival, already balls deep in that new DRG that is uh... DRG but, roguelite? It's genuinely a wonder DRG ever got as popular as it did. It barely has the numbers of a C-list indie.
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Survivor is the vampire survivors one, rogue core is roguelite that isn't out yet... it's in the names.
Why did it get popular? That's easy; 1) the actual mining/destructible environments work really really well and 2) crossed into 1.0 with overwhelmingly positive steam reviews right as friendslop was taking off. Reddit having a hardon for the game and Sseth making his video right around peak popularity helped out too. It would probably still be super popular if the devs kept up with demand but they have their sights set on other projects and the game has since been handed off to some other studio.
 
⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
It wouldn't be as bad if the special effects were decent. Like, thick floaty but slightly cartoony hadoukens. This is just.. adobe after effects "metal sparks flying everywhere".
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I expect a movie this stupid to look like it was made cheaply.

⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Dead on arrival, already balls deep in that new DRG that is uh... DRG but, roguelite? It's genuinely a wonder DRG ever got as popular as it did. It barely has the numbers of a C-list indie.
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It's one of the most fun games I've played in the last 10 years.
 
Mouse P.I. for Hire was an enormous disappointment.

Fun tip:
Don't have a Nazi party stand-in if you're doing a murder mystery. Makes it real obvious who the culprit is going to be. They even had the leader of it make a Fake News comment before you fight him.
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The tone of the game doesn't work at all. Hardboiled noir murder-mystery clashes heavily with FPS murder-thon and even more with goofy cartoon. It tries to ride the line of the three and succeeds at none. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is a classic and they weren't up to it by a wide margin. One of the main plots revolves around the shrews (what could that be referencing?) being holocausted and I just don't care.

General nitpicks:
The tommy gun outclasses the other guns by such a margin there really is no reason to use anything else. Enemies can shoot through walls and corners. Enemy variety is terrible, there are only 6 or seven types really and those overlap heavily. Enemy usage also doesn't make sense, with different faction enemies showing up together. Hell the faction genociding shrews has a bunch of shrews fighting for them for some reason. The environments are covered in invisible walls and "teleport you back to last spot" areas. There are tons of secrets but no way to track them or redo missions. There's a weapon hidden behind a card game that has two innings, even if you can't possibly lose the game makes you sit through the entire damn thing every time. The shrews have a underground city called Zion Thatchetville that is on the kidnapping route and full of enemies that want to genocide them but whatever.
 
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WaltherPPGAY said:
Fun tip: Don't have a Nazi party stand-in if you're doing a murder mystery. Makes it real obvious who the culprit is going to be. They even had the leader of it make a Fake News comment before you fight him.
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That's what you're mad about? At least use the spoiler tag to avoid exposing spoilers.
 
Did you miss the rest of my post? If I'm mad about anything it's that people are mindlessly championing a mid game full of flaws because of a poorly written review when it doesn't deserve it. It's disappointing not enraging.

And I didn't spoiler that because the game spells it out to the point that I thought it should be evident to anyone with a pulse by the second mission, after which everything plods forward in the dullest way possible. I haven't discussed the only two plot points that I thought could be considered at all a twist, in consideration for anyone who actually wants to slog through the game though even those are trite little cul-de-sacs. that add nothing.
 
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Dante Alighieri said:
I would've thought you enjoyed puzzles, since it's an activity you can easily do with your favored group for dating.
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Funny you say that, I've played video game adaptations of board games and met a few people before. Take that what you will.
 
The expansion for Super Robot Wars Y comes out tomorrow so that's likely to pull me back into that franchise for a while even if I think it peaked in the PS2 era.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Luckily nobody took Luna as a serious platform and it’s about to have the plug yanked. Sucks to be the people who got rug pulled. But I hope Amazon gets slapped with a lawsuit and that bald headed faggot had to pay up.
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These companies are pushing for more streaming when the infrastructure is not there yet, not everybody has fiber, and it's also a worse experience.

⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Dead on arrival, already balls deep in that new DRG that is uh... DRG but, roguelite? It's genuinely a wonder DRG ever got as popular as it did. It barely has the numbers of a C-list indie.
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Dead on arrival?! I'm talking about this game:
 
Miller said:
These companies are pushing for more streaming when the infrastructure is not there yet, not everybody has fiber, and it's also a worse experience.
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I don’t think the structure will ever be there. Not everyone will be able to get fiber and it’s expensive to lay. Plus how many resources it will be required to build and upkeep these data centers with faster and faster servers.

Feel that everything is trying to leave anyone who doesn’t have money behind.
 
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Vampire Crawlers, a spin-off of Vampire Survivors, just released today and its very good. If you enjoy VS, you will like VC.
 
Captain Quazar said:
Wait, he worked on VS?? Didn’t know that.
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He did the bestiary entries, which is why they're so cringey compared to the subtle Italian humor in the rest of the game.
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Peter Molyneaux makes his return with a new game.


It seems he can't quite shake the Fable series from his head either.

From the description on the Steam page for Masters of Albion:

Old Albion is gone - swept aside by the advance of modern technology.

But magic was never truly lost...
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Considering the industrialization in Fable 3, it's safe to say this game takes place in the same Albion but further into the future. And check out these location names on the map:

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"Bandit Camp"
"Oakridge"
"Briar Lakes"
"Spire"
"Eastcliff"

While these aren't all one for one locations from the Fable franchise, they're certainly reminiscent. I find it funny that Fable haunts this man like a spectre and that he just can't let go of it.
 
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