What game are you playing?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Hi-Fi Rush is ok but it Marvel tier writing, extremely unlikeable main character and “muh capitalism is bad” detracts all it’s positive aspects in its art direction and good soundtrack.

[Finarfin]

@Finarfin did you get further into Granblue Fantasy Relink? Thoughts? Likes? Dislikes?

No unfortunately not. Other games kinda got in the way and I thought I'd finish the games that are quicker to complete.

[MC_Sea]

I've been having a great time with this game. It's about racing your penguin to the bottom of 4 different courses and getting points based on your ending position. It seems simple enough but there is a surprising amount of strategy when it comes to timing your dashes properly in a race. Sometimes it's better to save your dashes until some penguins are in front of you to chain dashes together or get to shortcuts you wouldn't get to otherwise. Even after 80+ hours, I'm still finding new strategies and ways to optimize the way I race.

[You will need to sign in to your Epic account but only once. The reason for this is because the developers tried to enable crossplay on Steam but refused to work for whatever reason so they had to resort to using Epic servers instead.]

[Breathe]

I've been having a great time with this game. It's about racing your penguin to the bottom of 4 different courses and getting points based on your ending position. It seems simple enough but there is a surprising amount of strategy when it comes to timing your dashes properly in a race. Sometimes it's better to save your dashes until some penguins are in front of you to chain dashes together or get to shortcuts you wouldn't get to otherwise. Even after 80+ hours, I'm still finding new strategies and ways to optimize the way I race.

[You will need to sign in to your Epic account but only once. The reason for this is because the developers tried to enable crossplay on Steam but refused to work for whatever reason so they had to resort to using Epic servers instead.]

That description sounded like Mario Kart. In that vein, are there any balancing mechanics similar to the blue shell or lightning?

[MC_Sea]

I've been having a great time with this game. It's about racing your penguin to the bottom of 4 different courses and getting points based on your ending position. It seems simple enough but there is a surprising amount of strategy when it comes to timing your dashes properly in a race. Sometimes it's better to save your dashes until some penguins are in front of you to chain dashes together or get to shortcuts you wouldn't get to otherwise. Even after 80+ hours, I'm still finding new strategies and ways to optimize the way I race.

[You will need to sign in to your Epic account but only once. The reason for this is because the developers tried to enable crossplay on Steam but refused to work for whatever reason so they had to resort to using Epic servers instead.]

That description sounded like Mario Kart. In that vein, are there any balancing mechanics similar to the blue shell or lightning?

Sadly, there are no items besides a parachute that pops up once you fall behind enough as a sort of "Bullet Bill" in order to give you a winning chance. That would certainly help the game become a lot more dynamic though. More sardine cans pop up the slower you are as well so you aren't completely screwed for a false start.
Everyone has a fair chance at winning although people who are experienced in the course layouts + strategies have a clear advantage.

[Tinky Winky]

Finally finished BG2:ToB which is better than what I had expected. A solid 20 hours long boss rushes with trash mobs filled mini dungeons in between, but those were short enough to not be too bothersome at least for me. The whole BG2 took me over 80 hours to finish which makes it the longest singleplayer game I've ever played for now, almost twice as long as Underrail and The Chronicles Of Myrtana: Archolos.

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for some reason I still got the evil ending even with a Lawful Good character and 20 reputation. I assume the ending cinema is determined by dialogue choices instead of your character's actual alignment. I was playing with the original version anyway.

[Gunnar]

I decided to play the warcraft remasters. What a waste of time. All the new stuff they added is bad and the gameplay of the originals has been improved upon by later instalments.

[Humbaba]

Dominions 6. Finally figured out how to expand with LA Marignon. Noticed several good changes, like blood hunting no longer being **** easy and sieges taking a lot longer, unless you roll up with 300+ troops. Forts also take a lot longer to build it would seem. The new glamour path is a good change, because it means that there are many new cool magic items you can forge. 50 doolers is still extremely steep but I paid it anyway because I'm desperate.

[Roguey]

Finished Robocop: Rogue City. Plays a lot like Terminator Resistance, only not as good on account of all the changes they had to do to make it feel like a Robocop game. It's about as good as a Robocop game can be I suppose, though a bit padded, a bit too much wandering around in the Detroit map you keep returning to. I was surprised to see that, unlike with Resistance, they didn't make Robocop 3 explicitly non-canon, and in fact set it up, given that I don't think anyone even likes that one. I guess the license-holder may have actually refused to let them to do that for whatever reason.

[Jordy]

Finished Robocop: Rogue City. Plays a lot like Terminator Resistance, only not as good on account of all the changes they had to do to make it feel like a Robocop game. It's about as good as a Robocop game can be I suppose, though a bit padded, a bit too much wandering around in the Detroit map you keep returning to. I was surprised to see that, unlike with Resistance, they didn't make Robocop 3 explicitly non-canon, and in fact set it up, given that I don't think anyone even likes that one. I guess the license-holder may have actually refused to let them to do that for whatever reason.

How easy are both of these games to drop in and out of? My case being someone who can't dedicate an amount of play time in advance and might have to check out at a moments notice.

[Roguey]

How easy are both of these games to drop in and out of? My case being someone who can't dedicate an amount of play time in advance and might have to check out at a moments notice.

Terminator Resistance has autosaves and savepoints scattered across its maps. Robocop is completely dependent on autosaves. I feel like I've gone as long as 40 minutes or longer before getting a new savepoint in the latter, so not something I started unless I felt like I had at least a full hour to play.

[Jordy]

How easy are both of these games to drop in and out of? My case being someone who can't dedicate an amount of play time in advance and might have to check out at a moments notice.

Terminator Resistance has autosaves and savepoints scattered across its maps. Robocop is completely dependent on autosaves. I feel like I've gone as long as 40 minutes or longer before getting a new savepoint in the latter, so not something I started unless I felt like I had at least a full hour to play.

Very much appreciated.

[1998]

Bioshock 2 Remastered. Never played the originals, the first remasters a few years ago.

I feel like I enjoyed the first a little bit more, but hard to tell after only playing once and some years in between. Still good fun, besides running into one game-ending bug

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[Classix]

Avorion on the PC in the background while I play an R36S my brother got me that has 20k games on it. Had to fire up one of my favorites after 10+ years since my last playthrough.

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Nearing end-game now. Lucavi "Zalera" up next.

[Tweed]

Bioshock 2 Remastered. Never played the originals, the first remasters a few years ago.

I feel like I enjoyed the first a little bit more, but hard to tell after only playing once and some years in between. Still good fun, besides running into one game-ending bug

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The second game's gameplay is better than the first, balanced a lot of the more broken parts by stealing the best element of Undying. The plot is the exact same as Bioshock which is the exact same as System Shock 2 though except more jewish. For games that are "remastered" both need fixpacks to make them functional. All in all though they're playable games whereas Infinity is a festering pile of **** that should be avoided at all costs.

[Tangerine]

Bioshock 2 Remastered. Never played the originals, the first remasters a few years ago.

I feel like I enjoyed the first a little bit more, but hard to tell after only playing once and some years in between. Still good fun, besides running into one game-ending bug

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The second game's gameplay is better than the first, balanced a lot of the more broken parts by stealing the best element of Undying. The plot is the exact same as Bioshock which is the exact same as System Shock 2 though except more jewish. For games that are "remastered" both need fixpacks to make them functional. All in all though they're playable games whereas Infinity is a festering pile of **** that should be avoided at all costs.

I recall reading something about Levine not being a fan of Bioshock 2. It's a lot less Jewish than the first and its commentary is focused on socialism bad instead of objectivism bad.

[Tweed]

Bioshock 2 Remastered. Never played the originals, the first remasters a few years ago.

I feel like I enjoyed the first a little bit more, but hard to tell after only playing once and some years in between. Still good fun, besides running into one game-ending bug

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The second game's gameplay is better than the first, balanced a lot of the more broken parts by stealing the best element of Undying. The plot is the exact same as Bioshock which is the exact same as System Shock 2 though except more jewish. For games that are "remastered" both need fixpacks to make them functional. All in all though they're playable games whereas Infinity is a festering pile of **** that should be avoided at all costs.

I recall reading something about Levine not being a fan of Bioshock 2. It's a lot less Jewish than the first and its commentary is focused on socialism bad instead of objectivism bad.

Wouldn't surprise me, but it's all the exact same elements. Something something The Many something something kvetching.

[1998]

Bioshock 2 Remastered. Never played the originals, the first remasters a few years ago.

I feel like I enjoyed the first a little bit more, but hard to tell after only playing once and some years in between. Still good fun, besides running into one game-ending bug

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The second game's gameplay is better than the first, balanced a lot of the more broken parts by stealing the best element of Undying. The plot is the exact same as Bioshock which is the exact same as System Shock 2 though except more jewish. For games that are "remastered" both need fixpacks to make them functional. All in all though they're playable games whereas Infinity is a festering pile of **** that should be avoided at all costs.

I was about to ask if I should even bother with Infinity Thought as much.

[wndrbr]

Bioshock 2 Remastered. Never played the originals, the first remasters a few years ago.

I feel like I enjoyed the first a little bit more, but hard to tell after only playing once and some years in between. Still good fun, besides running into one game-ending bug

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The second game's gameplay is better than the first, balanced a lot of the more broken parts by stealing the best element of Undying. The plot is the exact same as Bioshock which is the exact same as System Shock 2 though except more jewish. For games that are "remastered" both need fixpacks to make them functional. All in all though they're playable games whereas Infinity is a festering pile of **** that should be avoided at all costs.

I was about to ask if I should even bother with Infinity Thought as much.

Infinite has a nice presentation and decent gunplay/shooter mechanics, so you can sort-of enjoy it if you want to play Call of Duty-like game with magic abilities and verticality.

The story is a complete dogshit.

[1998]

The second game's gameplay is better than the first, balanced a lot of the more broken parts by stealing the best element of Undying. The plot is the exact same as Bioshock which is the exact same as System Shock 2 though except more jewish. For games that are "remastered" both need fixpacks to make them functional. All in all though they're playable games whereas Infinity is a festering pile of **** that should be avoided at all costs.

I was about to ask if I should even bother with Infinity Thought as much.

Infinite has a nice presentation and decent gunplay/shooter mechanics, so you can sort-of enjoy it if you want to play Call of Duty-like game with magic abilities and verticality.

The story is a complete dogshit.

Huh..that could work for me. Thanks

[Tangerine]

I was about to ask if I should even bother with Infinity Thought as much.

Infinite has a nice presentation and decent gunplay/shooter mechanics, so you can sort-of enjoy it if you want to play Call of Duty-like game with magic abilities and verticality.

The story is a complete dogshit.

Huh..that could work for me. Thanks

American Krogan's got an excellent video on how subversive the first and third games are. Here's a mirror talking about the first game.

[wndrbr]

You don't really need to watch a video to realize how subversive those games are, especially Infinite. Infinite is so blatant it may as well be a 2024 title that could've came out inbetween Dustborn and Veilguard.

[monkeyfist]

Grimrock 2.

[wndrbr]

Finished the very first Gears of War game, the pc version.

It's really bland. Only three-four enemy types not counting bosses, and they all have a shitton of health so even the regular enemy grunts require you to dump half a mag of ammo into their heads. Small pool of weapons, most of them become useless on harder difficulty levels so you'll end up always using the default assault rifle with an underbarrel chainsaw attachment. The gameplay loop is just the same thing repeated over and over, with a slight change in scenery and enemies. And even the scenery always looks the same - boring grey bombed out ruins.

Surprising this game was big enough to become a series. I did enjoy the whole dudebro macho thing, but back then it was a norm so I doubt it played a role in the game's success.

[WhiteShark]

I did enjoy the whole dudebro macho thing, but back then it was a norm so I doubt it played a role in the game's success.

Hm, I remember its having a reputation for that even at the time; it went beyond the normal standard of video game manliness.

[wndrbr]

I did enjoy the whole dudebro macho thing, but back then it was a norm so I doubt it played a role in the game's success.

Hm, I remember its having a reputation for that even at the time; it went beyond the normal standard of video game manliness.

perhaps, idk. I remember how everyone complained about the overabundance of grey dudebro military shooters, so it could've actually played a negative role.

[fkirenicus]

BG (fear there's no badge for me, though), ToEE now-and-then, BG3 now-and-then, Solasta COTM (great game so far!).

[Roderick]

Trying this out.

[Irenaeus]

Dominions 6. Finally figured out how to expand with LA Marignon. Noticed several good changes, like blood hunting no longer being **** easy and sieges taking a lot longer, unless you roll up with 300+ troops. Forts also take a lot longer to build it would seem. The new glamour path is a good change, because it means that there are many new cool magic items you can forge. 50 doolers is still extremely steep but I paid it anyway because I'm desperate.

@Decline Let's revive the dominions hq multiplayer! I want to kick this west asian's *** in that game

[Decline]

Dominions 6. Finally figured out how to expand with LA Marignon. Noticed several good changes, like blood hunting no longer being **** easy and sieges taking a lot longer, unless you roll up with 300+ troops. Forts also take a lot longer to build it would seem. The new glamour path is a good change, because it means that there are many new cool magic items you can forge. 50 doolers is still extremely steep but I paid it anyway because I'm desperate.

@Decline Let's revive the dominions hq multiplayer! I want to kick this west asian's *** in that game

If you can find us 4 more players, sure.