News & Gossip VII: For Blood and Headlines

i remember playing this and at one point i was attacked by a flying tiger and i was too scared to play any further

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This looks like shit!

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fallout 4 dialogue system

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Out next friday

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I thumbed through with the little youtube preview image thing and saw maybe 45 seconds of game footage?

Iā€™ll never watch a ā€œvideogame previewā€ of two dudes talking again as long as I live, you canā€™t fool me marketing departments

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In ā€œhey, I wonder what is going on in Steam shovelwareā€ newsā€¦ this:

There is so much, the game art being a photo that has nothing to do with the game, the description of this very unique game not mentioning that it is directly ripping off a rather famous game in both mechanics and look, that it does so profoundly poorly (I play a solid number of itch games by hobbyists/beginners, many of them are significantly better executed), the utterly absurd user tags (I am unsure whether ā€œ4Xā€ or ā€œInteractive Fictionā€ is less accurate), completed with the chefā€™s kiss that is the asking price.

Games arenā€™t art, thisā€¦ this is art.

EDIT: I neglected to include this final line from the full description:

Truer words.

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huh, this game normally retails for $200 but is now a steal at $19

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hmmm

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the vidmasters are not impressedā€¦

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I canā€™t tell if this means it sucks or if itā€™s my initial instinct of ā€œof course the milsim dudebros arenā€™t going to like the neon scifi extraction shooter, Iā€™m interested in Marathon and would never dream of touching Tarkovā€

Maybe if they asked Battlefield 2042 streamers they would have gotten a better result

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well, of course masochists would jump at the chance to hurt more

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streamers not liking something only makes me more interested

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Escape from Tarkov is really too much of a hardcore game so anyone who streams it on a regular basis is going to have very warped opinions on whatā€™s good or not.

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out today

which btw - i never talked about in the ā€œGames You Played Todayā€ thread, but i played basically all of the way through the first Talos Principle this past summer. havenā€™t played the expansion but it looks like more of the same anyway. but yeah the original Talos Principle really feels like a more chill version of The Witness. the setting is pleasant and less overbearingly Designed feeling than TW, but i never really enjoyed the story whatsoever and unfortunately thereā€™s quite a bit of it.

anyway i expect this second one to be more of the same - which, as a puzzle fan, is fine with me. iā€™ll probably get around trying to play it eventually. and iā€™ll probably actively ignore 90% of the story when i do. the visuals def look a lot more impressive on this sequel.

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@DaleNixon Are we going to play this at exactly the same pace, get stuck on the same level, and reach the ending the same day, the way we did with the first game?

I just have to decide whether I want to play it on PC or PlayStation.

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I really think making marathon a tarkov game is an enormous mistake because itā€™s not actually doing anything that appeals to fans of that genre at all. like us normal people see it and go wow at least the art design is cool and the tarkov man has a giant thought bubble above his head where he is preoccupied about what scope to put on his ar-15 instead

this would have been a great opportunity to make a classic style Bungie game but they are a deeply confused company that needs to chase trends and have a games as a service money printer to feel safe

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Yes! Thanks to Lizā€™s reminder Iā€™m placing my order within the next 34 minutes.

Okay, I got it on Steam because you did (and because itā€™s cheaper). Probably wonā€™t get around to starting it before the weekend, though.

Edit: 70 GB. Must be a lot of graphics in there.

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Yeah. Between this and WRC and two parties I have to attend this weekend, Iā€™m not sure how much time Iā€™ll get in either.

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