Games You Played Today: Actress Again: Current Code (Part 1)

the original strand-type game

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Sure, I donā€™t love Overwatch but I can respect a lot of the work.

I meant that literally, though ā€“ Blizzard is well-known for preferring to hire mega-fans, and Riot explicitly patterned their hiring on Blizzardā€™s style.

Thereā€™s a four way tie for third*! Will that tie hold?

*Two votes have been switched to another game so the tally in the poll is not accurate.

It might be a five way tie now, whoops. Voted for Onimusha

If they all get tied that means you have to play all of them.

sick edit burn on no manā€™s sky ooooh sick

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:eek: good thing Cookie and Cream are there to set an impossible lead.

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outer wilds, baba is you, the under presents, elsinore, astrologaster, itā€™s a long long long list

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Iā€™ve only played a little of death stranding so far but is this gonna be like phantom pain where the most interesting part was the prologue and the rest is a mostly plotless game. at least just walking across the world and delivering things is more interesting than mgsvā€™s far cry 2-esque funneling you through narrow canyons to armed camps afghanistan map though

The lore dumps are most dense near the end, but thereā€™s plenty of little character development between parts that feel huge in a plot sense. I was kind of bummed by the lack of story in MGSV, but I felt pretty satisfied by the cadence in Death Stranding.

Ace Combat 7

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no offense but i played about 10-15 minutes of that game for judging and i viscerally hated everything about it. truly one of the most cringey and unpleasant experiences iā€™ve had with a game. it was soooo twee and obnoxious. i just have a hard time conceptualizing what other people like about that game because i found it so utterly grating.

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none taken, thereā€™s just something about an incompetent doctor who is harangued by italians and inadvertently sleeps with half his patients while giving them terrible advice based on false credentials that speaks to me

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Doom 2 was $2 on switch. This game seems to have WADs. And a quicksave!

Seeing some enemies that werenā€™t in Doom 1 or 64. Hard/ultraviolence is a lot of fun, tons of tightly packed enemy groups to mow down with limited ammo. Iā€™ve actually had to use the chainsaw at least ten times now. I was playing 64 a level at a time, but just now I ran through five or six.

Also picked up Dark Souls so I guess Iā€™m finally playing that

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Double Impact is a Doom 1 wad they included as an add on that I would recommend. It does ammo attrition well and the maps are pretty interconnected(It was made by 2 deathmatch mappers). If you liked ā€œCat and Mouseā€ in Doom 64 make sure to check out map 8.

iā€™d also super recommend No End In Sight among stuff thatā€™s included as an add-on for Doom on the switch, which is a wad for Doom 1/Ultimate Doom (like Double Impact is). one of my favorite wads in general.

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based on your description that sounds far, far more appealing than the game i actually played, lol. it contains nearly every trope of the hyper-twee ā€œpolishedā€/ā€œprestigeā€ AA indie game of the past few years in the book. what i played felt like watching someone on stage and all theyā€™re doing is doing a stage wink to the audience over and over again for 10 straight minutes. i honestly donā€™t need a game to remind me in the loudest possible tones how clever it is every single second iā€™m playing it.

nsfw update on dark souls, i would like the game better if my character didnā€™t sound like he was getting fingered

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Rhondo of Blood is really cool on original hardware. Thanks SD Supersystem 3.

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Lightning Returnsā€™s final bossā€™s final form is, after about 9 hours worth of tries, very nearly making me just watch the ending on YouTube. I donā€™t want to, but I donā€™t know what else to try.

Iā€™ve loved just about everything about this game save for some shitty, dopey writing in some of the side quests. Like, Iā€™ve adored this game. Leaving a real bad taste in my mouth now though.

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