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The parallels are so ridiculous you’d almost think they made it on purpose.

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The Paradox one looks garbage though, and given their history with DLC I don’t have much hope for it. Paralives looks interesting but the development is glacial to the point where by the time it’s out I’ll be in a retirement home if not seven feet under.

On the other hand, I also have no hope Sims 5 won’t be insanely predatory and anti-consumer. Sigh.

Israel Not Complying with World Court Order in Genocide Case (www.hrw.org)

The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s genocide case, Human Rights Watch said today. Citing warnings about “catastrophic conditions” in Gaza, the court ordered Israel on January 26, 2024, to “take...

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Of all the things, vtubers? Really dude?

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Let’s say the PC doesn’t count and you aren’t taking into account backwards compatibility, emulation, online play, homebrew games, and the cost/availability of games.

I’d rather quit gaming altogether at that point.

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Because I don’t like consoles, plain and simple. Everything they can do I also can on my PC, except better and for less.

Caligvla,
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Same people that made Sonic Mania, huh? I’m not a fan of the looks, but if it has that sort of pedigree then it must be decent at the very least.

Caligvla,
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Soon we’ll have anti-anti-anti-fascists.

Caligvla,
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Say what you want about Lula, but he has some balls.

Caligvla,
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Play victim as usual.

Helldivers: We'll "never" add a PvP-mode. This is to reduce toxic elements from the community. We want an environment that's supportive, fun and where we all are fighting on the same side. (twitter.com)

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lol

I guess they’ve never heard of toxic positivity.

Caligvla,
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Sure. They should’ve just said that instead of that dumb excuse though.

Who, in your opinion, is the most annoying character in any game?

Personally, it’s Faith from Farcry 5 for me. Uninteresting dialog that can be summed up to “I was bullied once” and that’s it. Literally every other character is so much more interesting. Jacob gives you a sequence where you run through a gulag which he then uses against you, John tries to kill you and is openly hateful...

Caligvla,
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That’s a tricky one, but if I had to pick, maybe Ashley from Mass Effect. She’s very insubordinate and disrespectful towards you, I hate her speciesism and (fittingly enough) she’s a Bible thumping Christian, whenever she opens her mouth I wish I could eject her through the airlock. It doesn’t help that you can’t deny her joining the team or even kick her out, safe to say that whenever I get to Virmire I always kill her without even thinking twice.

Caligvla,
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What a shame, he was a good man. What a rotten way to cancel a series.

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Tencent, now Disney… Who’s next, Satan himself? Hitler resurrected from the dead?

Caligvla,
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… Why is the Steam UI on the device in Portuguese? Are they implying something or am I reading too much into it?

Caligvla,
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Oh the irony… SimCity sucks, now Cities Skylines sucks.

Can we get a good SimCity now EA? It’s your chance…

Caligvla,
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This seems like a major trend with modern management games. Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, Cities Skylines… They all have great creative features but they all lack depth and challenge their predecessors had.

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So this is Kenshi but even more jank and chinese?

… I’m sold.

Caligvla,
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Super hyped for this. Hopefully it’s everything Kenshi always wanted to be but didn’t have the budget to achieve.

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Hopefully it’s cheaper than WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT…

lol, lmao even.

It’s $70 fam, better pirate it if you value your money.

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GOG Galaxy is such a massive letdown. The stores plugins are barebones and they barely work, they keep disconnecting all the time, not to mention they didn’t deliver most of what was promised (cross launcher chats when?).

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Honestly? I’d like to see a second videogame crash. Kill off most of the major publishers, start over from scratch… Ain’t happening, but sometimes I wish.

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Say what you want, but not having your entire party and every NPC you meet thirsting to gobble your dick the moment you meet feels like a positive to me.

Caligvla,
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I never thought I’d hate a gaming publisher more than EA or Ubisoft, but here we are…

Caligvla,
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I get that one of devs worked on Stardew Valley, but this looks like a carbon copy. Some of the sprites look straight up lifted from Stardew.

Cliff Bleszinski: Palworld's success kinda validates my pitch that was turned down at Epic many years ago - medieval Pokémon with baby dragons instead. (twitter.com)

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Oh shut it, Cliff.

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Yikes. I knew EGS wasn’t good for business, but those numbers are awful, no wonder most devs either don’t bother with Epic or only put their games in the store when they get an overflowing bag of cash.

Caligvla,
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Nah man, that’s just entitlement. Wanting your $50 game to work well when you buy it is peak entitlement, you should be happy your game is running at 10fps with your 4080 RTX.

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First the change from brawler to bog standard jrpg combat, now they’re pulling shit like this. Yeah, this series is going downhill fast…

Caligvla,
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Honestly the whole “putin bad” spam posting (not to mention scare mongering like this post) on the daily is getting tiresome to say the least. 😐

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Square Enix Wants To Make Fewer Games

Oh please, go ahead, your garbage won’t be missed!

Caligvla,
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I really dislike the new look. The first one had a simple but sleek aesthetic, this one just looks cheap and generic.

Caligvla,
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I know you’ve said you don’t want Skyrim, but the first thing that comes to mind is Oblivion, I can’t think of a more generic, stereotypical fantasy RPG than that game.

In fact it makes me sad considering they retconned the lore of Cyrodil to a super generic LOTR fantasy land.

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Gestures widely at Larian whose games are not traditional isometric CRPGs.

Caligvla,
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I’m a bigger fan of the PS3 grill…

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/ps3grill.jpg

Caligvla,
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… Those aren’t the devs or discord mods, they’re literally random people that just joined their server.

🤦

Caligvla,
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I don’t always play female characters, but I can think of a few reasons:

  • With rare exceptions I just prefer how the female characters look, be it prettier or cuter, they usually have way better character customization than the male counterparts.
  • Female clothing and equipment in games also just look more stylish and flamboyant, especially in Japanese ones.
  • And honestly I just like playing as someone different from me, if I can’t choose to be an alien or whatever, then the next best thing is a woman.
Caligvla,
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Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to let those genocidal zealots have nukes? For fuck’s sake…

Caligvla,
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I had completely forgotten about this. Such an interesting idea, especially considering Fallout is so “American”, I wonder if it’ll work out and still feel like Fallout or just a derivative.

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It’s just another round of excuses for the lackluster state of modern RPGs, and I don’t even think BG3 is that good, it’s just that the bar is so fucking low that something decent like BG3 gets touted as the best RPG in years, because in truth it sadly is.

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Eh.

Nowhere near as good as the old Bioware and Black Isle CRPGs, and if it’s going to call itself Baldur’s Gate then I’m going to hold it to those standards like it or not. It’s a fine game, but it’s ridiculously and disproportionately overrated by both the media and players alike, especially when it looks, plays and feels nothing like the original games that it claims to be a sequel to.

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No, I’ve played it alright, just didn’t finish it. If anything it’s you who probably never played Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 or, in fact, none of the CRPGs of old, because if you did you’d likely agree with me instead of calling me a contrarian.

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Make a game with heavy nudity and innuendo, put some crypto shit on it, make them deal with it.

Caligvla,
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I’ve had this on my wishlist for a few years now, so that’s nice. Might give it a try later today.

Caligvla,
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Not surprisingly, it didn’t gain much traction - I never got the impression Beths. was happy with FNV’s reception (good and bad).

Getting absolutely humiliated by Obisidian’s spin off game being miles better than their mainline games couldn’t possibly have been the reason, right? /s

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I wouldn’t describe FNV as being miles better than FO3.

I mean, you’re entitled to your opinion even if it’s absolutely wrong.

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I agree with you, they’re fine the way they are. But if they want to splurge on a new version, then why not, you know? I wouldn’t mind seeing the cast of the game rendered in full 3D. The one Falcom game (two really) that I think actually needs a remake is Ys 1 and 2, those games are just horribly dated by modern standards.

Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)

A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.

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I wonder if in 100 years we’ll be looking at Israel like we look at Nazi Germany nowadays.

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