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Oh damn
I played pump with a new friend today. He approached me at work, and we talked, and I asked him out, and then we spent an evening playing games and chatting, and now weāre friends! Yay for āsocial gamingā
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More Way of the Samurai 3 stuff:
Cat interactions discovered, I got a job where I had to get something from a guard post so I hired a cat with dried fish to get it for me.
You can actually leave at the very beginning of the game depending on what you do, itās a non ending sort of leaving but still neat that you can do it, and also provides an easy means of farming points which are used to unlock stuff perhaps most notably the upper difficulty levels.
The hardest difficulty being Instant Kill which works exactly the way it says and is amazing, one hit from a weapon is all it takes for anyone to drop. Makes some things easier actually, like jobs to take out somebody in many instances means you can run up and cut them down (or knock them out depending on your disposition and the job requirements) before they know whatās happening, but once a fight starts shit gets tense.
Makes group battles very harrowing, while everybody is nice and honorable enough to only fight one on one and wait their turn, you really have to watch your placement both in regards to your immediate target and their allies, since as soon as you defeat your current opponent if somebody else is right near you they may attack before you can really respond, especially if youāre in the middle of a group and canāt be sure which direction the next opponent is coming from. The mode really should have been available from the start IMO.
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Damn, shit.
hope thereās a new wots someday
Trying to get through Detroit and, regardless of its wobbly qualities
Find myself a sucker for the sort of things it it does at the main menu.
āMs. Calming Serenityā as I will call her, like a more angelic version of Talulah Riley welcoming people to Westworld, casts her gaze out toward whomever might be playing, with concerned looks, comments, questions and compliments. I was once asked to take a sudden survey, obviously with questions that relate to every day or near future matters in AI and technology. Thereās probably a good few games that have this kind of questioning built in, but my only example atm is Catherineās. Iām very intrigued with world stats on personal takes in this medium.
She went on to matter of fact share a MLK quote, another time mention the Underground Railroad, both served as tidbits trivia. As Iāve left her in the background sheās cycling through plenty, mostly light fare.
Itās not like, stuff that makes me write everything else off, just protruding hamhands
Of course itās pretty. I didnāt know Lance Henriksen was involved so thatās alrightly neat.
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iām 40 seasons into six ages and have undoubtedly ruined myself and my chances at a decent ending numerous times. it seems slightly shorter/less substantial than kodp so far, but according to the devs it has a longer word count, so iāve probably just missed more stuff, which is cool.
the most immediately noticeable change is that farming is no longer a separate activivity ā it is subsumed under magic and so is less directly manipulable.
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hi t
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I played through half of Dog Days with a friend that had not played Dog Days and then it froze halfway through! Oh no.
8 years later Dog Days is still incredible. Itās fucked I hate it.
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Was it your PS3 we were playing on at sbcon? That one started freezing up too after a while
I beat that Gears of War 4 game over the weekend and I was left wanting more, as is usually the case with the Gears series. Itās almost like after I beat one of these things that I immediately forget that I didnāt have as good of a time as I thought I would.
This series has tricked me more than any other modern franchise I can think of. I always start out super hyped but then I just end up nonplussed somehow. 4 might be the best game so far because the only thing Gears ever has done well is be a visual spectacle, and on a 55-inch 4k TV this game really pops. Iād caution anyone who plans to play it, not to play it on inferior technology because it doesnāt make sense to do so.
The game literally fizzles out towards the end with NPC dialogue along the lines of āoh boy, I hope another locust horde doesnāt pop out of nowhere and attack usā ironically; which is sad because theyāve indicated to the audience that they canāt do better.
Some of the environments approach cosmic horror, which is cool, but the gunplay doesnāt feel essential; they still havenāt managed to make more than 2 interesting guns and the game is essentially the logical extension of whack-a-mole and space invaders.
I donāt know what the way forward is for Gears. Maybe they already made it and itās called Vanquish. Maybe itās completely exhausted itself. Maybe they should license out the characters to Firaxis and make an X-COM clone with Marcus Phoenix and the boys; maybe I should stop playing theseā¦
fuck it, is the one that Tom Bissell wrote any good? Please tell me itās good, itās the only one I havenāt played yet.
no that was mine
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thatās just dog days
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hey SB Iām playing a real honest to god video game these days
its called DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN and Iām like 4 years late but this game rules
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Borrowed Dying Light from work, competent, but nothing special.
I hear thereās a sequel, so good for you!
and in three years Iām sure Iāll enjoy it a great deal
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Iām bad at Sonic Mania Plus
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judgement is awful, donāt bother. and not interestingly so either. i posted my impressions on it a while back