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I think the problem with Mimimi's games was the real-time tactics. It's pretty rough out there for RTS-like strategy games.
Heres the article: Eurogamer and Starfield
And the tweets:
Tom Philips (Eurogamer editor) tweeted:
and someone commented a quote from the article:
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Yes, we could talk about the exploration aspect and how the discovery (and hidden options are important there) affect the player's experience, that's absolutely something New Vegas (among others) do well.
But in this situation, it's.... a bit rough, because their motivations are ultimately fairly simple, and here I'd say that New Vegas going with such a fucked up (if interesting) faction as the Legion removes a lot of potential from it.
Because they are, 100% from start to finish, no matter what Caesar says, completely and irredeemably evil. More than half of the people they outright conquered with force of arms are slaves that die in a few years, and their approach to diplomacy is to lie and backstab (like the Khans, barely used) at best, or just outright genocide all opposition.
It's hard to compare with the NCR that is corrupt and cause serious economical damage, and how their ideology has spread and slowly swallows the rest of the old US while removing all the various cultures that spawned after the war (and also the fact that with each game we can clearly see that the NCR will ultimately overtake all of North America, bar a civil war, you can't really create a puppet faction like the Legion and make it a credible threat long term, their economy and industry were strong enough to kick out the BOS decades before New Vegas - they might yet be a minor power in Vegas, but lore wise, it is just inevitable and I'm curious what they'll do with it).
There's a tiny bit of a difference in how bad they are, and I would call it absurd to even try to "both side" them. The real life parallels are interesting, however.
But gameplay wise, I was more talking about how it ends up really flat, since you get the same missions no matter your side... and it's not like it was even needed.
Without talking about smaller factions, the Boomers are just a complete non factor and just one dimensional. Even the BOS offshoot is a simple choice between "we don't like outsiders, fuck off and collect mcguffins in 4 dungeons" and "we don't like outsiders so fuck off gently, collect 4 mcguffins in 4 dungeons", let alone the nice super mutant fan service... that is irrelevant for everything...
Because ultimately, if if you have to roleplay as any character you want... cool, but that's the case in any game really.
Ironically, Fallout 4 had actually far more interesting factions that were not one Manichean archetype each, and in this one you really had to go far to know everything about them, as everyone would openly lie to you, willing or not. And the factions themselves were not nearly as united as they appeared, and were full of spies and traitors.
Way more interesting than Mr House and his libertarian policies that only go so far.
I don't really do Switch emulation so I can't say much about it with the Deck.....but I've done as low as 3 TDP playing FF pixel remasters and a few other low demanding games. Honestly I wouldn't go that low because you do start seeing some fps hangups/slowdowns. I've found 5 being the sweetspot for just about everything that isn't gpu demanding. You can do 4 as well but most of the time there is barely any difference for battery life too between 4 and 5 so both are very similar. And the FPS is more likely to be stable at 5 than 4 from my experience (depending on the game). So you should probably just keep it at 5. But again I don't really follow Switch emulation so you should do that additional research.
Oh SHIT!
New Grim Dawn Expansion coming in 2024!
The key art for the expansion doesn't look horrible
This is from the grim dawn reddit so you can read it if you want but it expands on the information more:
Main Features in Fangs of Asterkarn:
- Ascendant Game Mode: new difficulty, if you are playing endgame now it'll be on that level, with new rewards; like Veteran mode on Normal rather
- A Transformative 10th Mastery: berserker with shapeshifting to beast modes, two shapeshift forms, from items too; not just shapeshifting but melee magic too; focuses on cold and bleed; "Dreadblade" is one mastery combo name
- New Chapter: head west to rugged wilderness of Asterkarn, forest, caverns, snow regions, also hotter areas ...
- Potion Customization: what ingredients for effects, containers, two potion slots
- Affix Transmutation: meet an inventor to allow reroll affixes and seed
- Crucible Expanded: 30 additional waves, new loot
- The Shattered Realm Grows: expanded with new boss arenas, etc., to to realm 90 with loot
- Discover Hundreds of New Items: more MI for older monsters too
- Awaken Epic Items: can turn epic to legendary, make them viable for endgame (procs, modifiers, etc)
- Two New Factions
If you've never played Grim Dawn before there's 9 other Masteries (Classes) but that means you can have a beserker + 9 different things when you reach the level to multiclass so it gets pretty awesome for customization
The expansion is coming sometime in 2024 and the 1.2 patch that is a giant swath of quality of life changes to the game in general is opt in to test right now. It will be available to people before the new expansion launches.
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Redeemed one month of Gamepass to try Starfield, Sea of Stars and Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Picked up Sea of Stars, wasn't really gonna buy it due to a number of different other games I wanna play and Starfield soon, but getting 17% off or whatever it was due to owning The Messenger was pretty great.
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I actually really like the Legion. Like, yes, they are 100% evil, but Ceasar was so well done, compared to what you would normally expect for such a role in a video game. His basic premise is that it's pointless to try to restore our old world order of (somewhat liberal) democracy, as that old world order led to the destroyed world around you. Instead, he is looking further into the past, namely the Roman empire for how to create an empire that lasts and hopefully does not end with the world getting destroyed. I also can't hate on a character that cites fucking Hegel to justify his actions, even if they are admittedly pretty awful. So maybe this is just due to me being a philosophy nerd and falling in love with the writing, but even the game's seemingly most simple faction is actually still really damn interesting.
I agree that the mission structure is ultimately very samey, but that is really only true for the main story. When you consider the myriads of side quests that you can find in many different ways and give you tons of options, it's hard for me to really call the game simplistic.
I think it is also worth considering that this was Obsidians first take on a truly open world game with the kind of reactivity that their games usually go for. I find it easy to forgive some issues like that, and hope Obsidian gets the chance to make another Fallout game at some point. Now that it's all under the Microsoft umbrella, there is at least a remote chance of that happening.
Announcing Fangs of Asterkarn!
Building upon the foundation of v1.2’s massive changes (now in public playtesting!), we are proud to announce that Grim Dawn will be receiving a third expansion: Fangs of Asterkarn! (Download art here) In this latest massive installment of Grim Dawn, you will journey West into the rugged...
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This is one of the games I've been waiting after playing the demo in the latest Steam Next Fest
Immortals of Aveum has an all time peak of 751 players on Steam. Yikes.
One thing that I will be doing in Starfield will be looking at these 3D weapon and costume models for hours. Just insanely detailed. It is easy to tell the artists really put their effort during the past 7 years into making these.
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Grim Dawn's never really clicked with me in a "I want to play this over and over again and dig into endgame stuff" sort of way like some other ARPGs have but it's probably my favorite in the genre as far as just world feel exploring through it as a one off, looking for secrets, reading the lore books etc goes so always nice to see a new areaHere's the official post on it by crateAnnouncing Fangs of Asterkarn!
Building upon the foundation of v1.2’s massive changes (now in public playtesting!), we are proud to announce that Grim Dawn will be receiving a third expansion: Fangs of Asterkarn! (Download art here) In this latest massive installment of Grim Dawn, you will journey West into the rugged...
I couldn't get into it. Falling asleep though some of the stuff I want is from the DLC class wise but even on sale here in my region the DLC freaking expensive.
Ah, I suppose that ups the chances of a Raikou face. That's a big hand tho...RAITA RAITA RAITA RAITA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
It would be nice to pick up F/Samurai Remnant as my 1000th game, but at $90 it's a bit much for me. 
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Delayed but I don't mind because this year seems pretty stacked already.
But now Eiyuden Chronicle and Suikoden remasters are probably releasing next year. 2024 LETS GOOOOOO!
Do it for the waifus.It would be nice to pick up F/Samurai Remnant as my 1000th game, but at $90 it's a bit much for me.
Not even. My integrity is worth more than that!
Also, it requires an active Humble choice sub so nah.
So Starfield pre-load is up on Steam. If only AMD would be kind enough to release damn keys XD
Feels somewhat similar to inXile, Double Fine and Ninja Theory, who also probably would've gone under eventually had MS or someone else not picked them up.
Maybe they just didn't want to get acquired by a big corpo but if I was Phil Spencer these are the kind of low risk/medium reward deals I'd make. You get a "prestige" developer for peanuts who can consistently release bangers for Gamepass. Sure, they won't make the next Fortnite but let them keep iterating and maybe they'll stumble into something special eventually. That's how you cultivate studios like Larian and Fromsoft.
I'm having so, so much fun with Sea of Stars.
And I'm kinda annoyed now that they never got to officially translate Chained Echoes to Spanish instead of having to rely on a third party deepl translation patch that almost got lost to time because the main fan translations website said goodbye a few months ago. And that I can't use on the Switch where I'd want to play it.
I made an OT for Starfield. I've never done one of those before, so if anyone has some suggestions/additions, please let me know! I couldn't sleep tonight, so needed something to zone out doing. I went with a popular thread title that wasn't used on Era, but if anyone has something better I am happy to change it. Finally, if someone else was working on one already, I'm sorry! I can delete it.
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Is out, the first one was pretty decent as a resident evil 2 fan project. This is made as a prequel.
Honestly, I'm only interested in MSF's Deluxe Edition content (Assuming they aren't just generic wallpapers), and based on Rune Factory 5 being abandoned by Marvelous without a single patch in sight, I don't feel confident enough to buy RF3. The other games look good.
Honestly both Marvelous (Although they have the added baggage of refusing to make new entries in several game series) and IFI have such a bad track record on PC with no plans to fix their act, which makes it incredibly easy not to support them.
Marvelous also essentially gave up on patching RF5's issues when Lyall and I essentially worked together to patch the majority of issues with the PC release of the game. It took them a while to even patch No More Heroes 3 to be in line with the PS5/XSX/MS Store versions, and they still haven't patched NMH1+2 either. Virtually none of the Senran Kagura games have had patches.
From my time testing MSF's PC version, emulate the Switch version instead or play them on PS4. Less bugs and port jank, runs at full speed on the Deck, no janky looking Xbox 360 era prompts that clash with the UI, and video playback actually works on the Steam Deck. I'm not gonna be fixing any new IFI PC ports from now onwards, especially with 2 and Finale's ports where there's fundamental issues that would require porting them from Square 1. Preferably using the PS4 version source code. I tried to help, but it's clear they don't want it.
On another topic, this is an orange flag if I've ever seen one. Any game with this warning usually launches in a poor state.
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