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Lurkerish Kandor said:
I'm happy to see someone else finally say they liked FC5 for reasons other than just the "Rifle By My Side" song (it's a good song, admittedly).

Hope County reminds me of semi-rural and rural New Zealand in so many fucking ways, aside from the wildlife and characters' accents. It's easy to pretend it's taking place in some weird alternate reality version of the Heretaunga Plains, up the Kaweka ranges, and out into CHB. Combine that with the great music and the sandbox and combat working for me, it's the one game in the series I enjoy all this time later.
Really hope I get to play thru the story co-op with someone someday just for the chaos.
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It's good it feels like New Zealand because it sure as shit isn't like Montana.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
it sure as shit isn't like Montana.
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That sucks, but I can't say I'm surprised. Japanese AssCreed should've been nearly impossible to fuck up, and they still offended the Zips on at least half a dozen levels.
rocketfueledwheelchair said:
Some of the areas are kind of Lord of the Ring-y, now that you mention it!
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Mental image of Gimli running down a hill and going head-over-ass through a fuckin' barbed No.8 wire fence, just for some goat to come eat his fucking beard.

NZ doesn't really look like LotR though, that's sort of a particular region that has that british "rolling green hill zone" look. Most of rural NZ does almost literally look like the Holland Valley region (including fucktons of red/brownnecks and fruit orchards) and those foresty/mountainy region to the north, just with different trees, and rugby birds.
 
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Getting blackout drunk playing this game is the most fun I've ever had playing a video game.
 
rocketfueledwheelchair said:
Aw man, should I take Montana off of my bucket list?
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No, the real thing is a lot better. The games Montana was generic vidya sludge with the demographics of the Deep South and the culture of Appalachia. The terrain was generic forest mountains. Real Montana is much more interesting, vast plains (including of flowers), monumental snow capped peaks and so on.
 
I booted up For Honor.

Tutorial it auto-launches you into was boring as hell.

Then the campaign launches you into... THE SAME TUTORIAL, WITH A TERRIBLE PLOT.

I became a top-tier player immediately. These motherfuckers made minions be worth 1 point and heroes 5. Minions don't really fight back and can be scythed like wheat. I had a horrible KDR but I started focusing on just clearing the waves, and I wind up killing like five waves by myself by camping their spawn, nobody's paying attention...

Seeing a woman get beheaded was grotesque.

Got this mostly because I had a curiosity about its Titanfall-like design of having trash mooks to kill in among serious tanky player-vs-player duels. I come from Chivalry 2 (which I'm not good at but played a lot of).
 
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My absolute goat Tomodachi Life. Probably my favorite game ever, since I was 13. So wholesome and hilarious with infinite replay value. The long awaited sequel coming out this year will be amazing.
 
Opened up Minecraft and played on a shared realm for a bit. Apparently the Realms service has been down for several people this past week. I knew it was an issue previously, but I split the cost of the realm between a few friends so I don't really notice the dollar or two we each chip in for it. I do think it's completely retarded a company as big as Mojang (moreso Microsoft) can't be transparent about what's happening or reimburse people. They claimed previously to give extra time on subscriptions but I never saw any evidence they followed through.
 
Atomic Heart. I started it up today. Just got out of the tutorial crap. I figured/hoped that this would be a We Happy Few situation where a bunch of assholes saw something that vaguely reminded them of their undying obsession (Bioshock/Fallout), pissed and shit and cummed themselves over it, then when it wasn't the second coming of Christ they raged. Plus Redditors hating it because it was made by Russians (very tolerant and understanding people, right).

So far my big problem is second-guessing constantly if I should be playing on Russian dialogue because, especially in the opening, there's so much atmospheric shit going on around you, you can't read that tiny text, you can't read three conversations simultaneously. Real slow paced but the environment is wonderful. Just that opening boat and walk through town, wonderful vision with the robots and aesthetic.

You can tell that even though the devs are Russians they don't really have a feel for waht the Soviet period is about. I think it's real cool that they're doing the Red Plenty, Soviet utopianism route, but it's little things like having consumerist choices of a bunch of different colors for your brain thingy (Communism: you'd have exactly three options, poorfag, privileged, dictator, just like with cars) or the scientist dude being all me me me. That's not how Communist societies present things, except for chief dictator at the top (maybe he is the chief dictator?). It was a culture that discouraged heroic self-mythologization. But I'm definitely interested to see more of this.
 
I think I broke "Noobs are Coming" with an Adept build that has a 30% shrunk down arena size, Double (and sometimes quadruple) pentagrams overlapping on the ground so huge they fill the arena that give massive attack speed and other bonuses when standing in them (which is always) and 300% oversize spinning bouncing blades of death that utterly fill every square cm of the arena killing every noob the second it spawns along with bouncing wide laser beams for elite overkill. Wave 47 and counting on an endless game. . The spam is so bad it brings a 4GHz i5 and Radeon R9 with 16gb to a crawl now, lol.

The only weakness is that there's SO much shit blocking the screen that I can't see myself. The only danger is bosses, even elites die instantly to the bladespam but if I run into a boss one hit takes half my health now even with max armour. Almost lost level 45 to a fluke hit before the 3rd boss melted but I only face them every 5th and 10th wave so who knows how long this can go for and how much bigger I can make the blades. I think they forgot to cap the 'size' bonus and with the 'cheater' item I can re-take the unique and limited items that increased my size to this retarded amount in the first place.
 
Just done playing Castlevania Lament of Innocence, the game is mediocre at best, and even that is probably praising it more than it deserves, but I liked it nonethless. The music is superb, and while there ar enot a lot of cutscene, the writing and voice acting is IMHO superb. It feels a lot like shakesperean thatre and really made me hate millennial writing even more. I wish we had still dialogue like that instead of marvel quips and hollywood utilitarianism.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Atomic Heart. I started it up today. Just got out of the tutorial crap. I figured/hoped that this would be a We Happy Few situation where a bunch of assholes saw something that vaguely reminded them of their undying obsession (Bioshock/Fallout), pissed and shit and cummed themselves over it, then when it wasn't the second coming of Christ they raged. Plus Redditors hating it because it was made by Russians (very tolerant and understanding people, right).

So far my big problem is second-guessing constantly if I should be playing on Russian dialogue because, especially in the opening, there's so much atmospheric shit going on around you, you can't read that tiny text, you can't read three conversations simultaneously. Real slow paced but the environment is wonderful. Just that opening boat and walk through town, wonderful vision with the robots and aesthetic.

You can tell that even though the devs are Russians they don't really have a feel for waht the Soviet period is about. I think it's real cool that they're doing the Red Plenty, Soviet utopianism route, but it's little things like having consumerist choices of a bunch of different colors for your brain thingy (Communism: you'd have exactly three options, poorfag, privileged, dictator, just like with cars) or the scientist dude being all me me me. That's not how Communist societies present things, except for chief dictator at the top (maybe he is the chief dictator?). It was a culture that discouraged heroic self-mythologization. But I'm definitely interested to see more of this.
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I’ve been curious about this game, keep us posted with your review and if it’s worth getting!

I tried starting Cyberpunk for the third time, I just can’t get into it. Everything about it seems interesting but the gameplay bores me. At least now I’ve seen the intro for all three classes.

Almost done with Astro Bot. It’s so much fun but the last two levels will be the death of me lol. I refuse to look at tutorials too, I want to figure it out for myself! Definitely a game you should play with your kids if you have them. It’s so cute, rewards you for exploring, music is 10/10 and you can feel his little footsteps in your controller when he runs. I would have lived for this game as a kid.
 
Flatline said:
Is the game that good? The PC port should've happened by now.
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Without the Dual shock controller, I don’t think it would be nearly as good. They’ve done a really great job with the sound effects and vibrations in the controller, making the gameplay a lot more immersive. Without those effects it would probably be in the same league as any other platformer.

ETA: I had to turn off the sound on the controller some nights ago to not wake my friends up and the game lost its magic immediately.
 
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Just started Still Wakes the Deep, a survival horror in the vein of (old) Amnesia and Outlast, developed by The Chinese Room. It's an atypical setting, an oil rig off the coast of Scotland during the mid 70s. Already has its fair share of "woke" pandering not even twenty minutes in, though.
I don't know much about it otherwise, picked it up in a bundle during the Steam winter sale.
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
Playing Red Dead Redemption. Its ok so far i guess.
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Kinda funny how everybody raves about RDD2, I’ve never heard anything good nor bad about the first game.
Pale Empress said:
Just started Still Wakes the Deep, a survival horror in the vein of (old) Amnesia and Outlast, developed by The Chinese Room. It's an atypical setting, an oil rig off the coast of Scotland during the mid 70s. Already has its fair share of "woke" pandering not even twenty minutes in, though.
I don't know much about it otherwise, picked it up in a bundle during the Steam winter sale.
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Is this that Lovecraft-ian style horror game?
 
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