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Pretty much yeah, there is a reason why Madden and FIFA (formerly) were top sellers every year with extremely minimal changes. It’s a safe game that sold like crazy. Same with Call of Duty. If we want something fresh, indie games for the most part try not to fall into the saturated market and stand out above their peers

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Isn’t that the ones with the mech suits? I hated the loot box guns so much. Couldn’t compete with those

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Last one I played a lot was I think Black ops 4, bought Cold War and was disappointed, especially since I needed an Xbox live subscription to even play single player

But last one I enjoyed was probably Black ops 2

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For what it’s worth, the Heroic Games launcher works out of the box for me on Mint, it also handles GOG

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You can yeah, I’ve just had major trouble getting Lutris to work on my system

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That’s actually kinda neat, especially given how popular GoPro footage was at the time and like, stunts in general

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Last I played was Cold War on Xbox, couldn’t even get past “press start to continue” without Xbox Live Gold, the only way I could play single player or zombies was to eithe unplug the Ethernet, or disable the network for the Xbox entirely. Just to start the game.

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Also not gatekeeping modes and content I already paid for if I can’t afford the newest expansion, and just straight up removing content that was paid for

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Minecraft has always got to be #1 for me, most people have played it and there is a near limitless things to do, it really is a true sandbox.

I’m torn on #2 because both games or so dear to me, but it’s a split between Kingdom Hearts 2, and Metal Gear Solid 3. I’d probably give it to KH2 just because you can also do so much to make the game either harder or more enjoyable, and Disney just adds that extra oomph to make it charming

As for 3, I’m not really sure. There are so many games I’ve had really fond memories of, between sleepovers with my neighbor and staying up all night playing Timesplitters Future Perfect on the GameCube, to Black ops 2 and all the fun I had with my online friends. As unsatisfying as it is, I think I’d have to leave 3 open

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Yeah it’s really weirdly paced for a new player. When I started playing, they threw me directly into a late story mission and I had no idea who people were or what was going on. To no one’s surprise, I experienced story events out of order and was spoiled by the game itself

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Doesn’t seem like that fair of a comparison. MGS3 HD is a finished game while the trailer they released of MGS3 Delta is an in-engine preview which mostly just shows what the engine CAN DO not necessarily what the game is going to look like

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and even more DLC in Early Access

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I definitely don’t mind the multiplayer being separate. I typically buy games years after their shelf life and their multiplayer is usually dead, so having that MP component be a separate download would save me space for something I can’t even play

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I’m so glad I can buy the games separately. I’m really only wanting to play MGS3 but already own 1 and 2 on GOG

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Minecraft hands down. I’ve put more time into that game than any other in my life. I constantly go back to it, and almost everyone I meet online plays it or has played it. There is so much enjoyability from a game as limitless as that

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Just picked up Castlevania anniversary on Steam and Symphony of the night for iOS, def gonna be playing those

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69% of my games are played

Also nearly 15k hours of playtime

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Time to pay off my debt to a raccoon and fish all day.

Definitely not a bad way to live. Talk to your animal villagers, the debt doesn’t have any interest and you could just never pay it and I’d get to just chill in nature

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absolutely. Blizzard just had major layoffs to their Esports league, Epic had more than 800 layoffs, Naughty Dog laid off 25 or more developers and Ubisoft let go of 6 more employees after axing 60 earlier this year. and ofc the 9% of layoffs coming from CDPR this year.

The gaming industry absolutely needs union protections to protect their jobs, especially since a job should be steady income, not a volatile workload like developing seems to be in gaming right now. another benefit might be to making big execs actually have reason to listen to workers when it comes to cases of sexual harassment like what we’ve seen at Zenimax and Blizzard

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    from what I remember, the Ratchet and Clank online modes were fairly fun, but even when I played, they were fairly old and took like 20min to find a match

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    Absolutely! Fuck the Chinese government in its entirety

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    tons of indie artists, every sound file you’d want, including flacs for their entire catalog and streaming, it’s lovely

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    Awesome! I was really tired of seeing that site. Definitely not a reputable publication and shouldn’t ever has been listed

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    Fr, you can optimize really well when you know exactly what hardware someone will be running.

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    I remember when I first rented FEAR at blockbuster, that section of the hallway at the start is so memorable.

    I don’t remember specifics but it’s when you’re going through the building and keep seeing the little girl, then you get to a cluttered hallway and I think it was set ablaze and you were thrown back by her

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    The body horror has always been one of the best things about Dead Space, the creatures are just horrifying

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    maybe, idk, don’t require servers for every aspect of your game

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    yeah, it had solo. you’d case the area by yourself while 3 bots stayed behind, until alarms triggered. you could also configure who the bots were and what their loadout was

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    same way they monetized Payday 2 since it was already pretty live-service-esque in it’s monetization, at least on PC. if they wanted to, they could have just added a battlepass with limited cosmetics alongside the steam marketplace cosmetics of Payday 2

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    that’s pretty great that a big release like this supports Linux

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    I’m really disappointed by their absolute blunders when they had a working formula with Payday 2

    Can’t play offline

    Can’t play solo without queuing. ???

    You can lag if you have a bad connection while playing SOLO

    Long queues that go upwards of 20+ minutes

    Challenges being the only way to level up, instead of actually doing content you want to play

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    My money is on Series Z(ed)Xbox

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    Pass. As much as I dislike PlayStation after the issues I had with the ps4, I’d sooner swap back than use a cloud console

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    As much as I like Microsoft, I don’t want them to touch Nintendo. I have no faith that they would continue doing what Nintendo does well.

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    Nintendo is successful because of their games, not because their hardware is the best

    I agree, their first party games are usually extremely polished and accessible for everyone in the family. their concepts overall for consoles are typically really good though. just about every console since the Wii (except WiiU) has felt great to use, even if they all have some kind of gimmick. But I think the gimmicks help in their favor, it makes them stand out from PS and Xbox

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    I really wish we could. for me, it’s not just OP, I wanna block GameCensor too, just clickbait nothingburgers

    blocking OP is just a bandaid fix, not a real solution

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    If you’re counting the one with astarion that I’m thinking of, then I think the one at the very beginning after truly starting act 1 with the mind flayer could count

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    EXTREMELY EARLY ACT 1 SPOILER

    spoilerit’s when the ship crashes and you find the dying mind flayer in the wreckage. he will attempt to control your parasite and make you give yourself unto him and if you fail the checks to stop it, he’ll eat your brain and if you don’t have any other party members then it’ll game over

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    I gave it a try a few weeks ago and it just felt really floaty, like there was no weight to the drifting or steering

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    Ik you edited your comment but I also really want a steam controller 2 The first controller is great although running into modern problems like micro usb being trash and rechargeable AA batteries get stuck in the battery compartment. But a new controller with dual thumb sticks would be fantastic! Even if it would make the controller a slight bit more bulky

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    I’ve heard really good things about the remake of 12, basically improved on everything wrong with the original game

    Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun?

    Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.

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    most multiplayer shooters to me, they’re typically filled with the most vile shit you’ll ever hear coming from an 8 year old, and the adults are just as bad and should know better.

    competitive shooters like Rainbow Six Siege or Counter Strike are also really bad in casual modes, especially if you’re a new or lackluster player. You’ll be flamed, team killed, and your teammates will try their absolute best to ruin your entire day over a hobby

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    same here. I typically buy games on super deep sales a few years after the games comes out just so I don’t end up disappointed by the product, but this game feels properly polished. a few bugs here and there but none so far that I’ve encountered that are game-breaking

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    As someone who has barely put any amount of time into BG1 and only played Larian’s previous title, Divinity Original Sin 2, if you are okay playing turn based RPG, it’s absolutely worth the money IMO. The interactions and way you can traverse through the world is pretty amazing. Almost every encounter or area has a large amount of opportunities on how you can approach or avoid

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    It’s such a good expansion!

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    It’s be so great if they all formed a new studio and just started a new franchise as the spiritual successor. After the disaster of Andromeda and the middle of the road game that inquisition was compared to its predecessors, I don’t have much hope about the fantastic writing of previous games coming back.

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    That really seems like an ai article.

    “ Larian had difficulties becoming a split-screen co-op to function…”

    “… Microsoft’s apparent belief that full feature parity between Xbox Series X and Series X versions was required.”

    It could just be slip ups, but given the rise of ai written articles, I’m not so sure

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    I’ve been playing Divinity Original Sin 2 with my partner, we both never really got that far into it in the years we both owned it, so we’re trying to get more into it in anticipation of playing Baldurs Gate 3

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