Reading this thread makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This game was mediocre as fuck. The open world was practically empty. There were like five characters with anything but a superficial motivation. Combat is point and click nothingness, there is no strategy whatsoever and the AI is practically nonexistent. Constant bugs and graphical issues. The big fixes only fixes the very last thing.
Neelix is basically the only character on Voyager, the writing is so wildly inconsistent or not present at all for the human characters other than maybe B'ellanna. The writers so clearly did not give a shit on VOY.
ETA I guess it does become the Seven of Nine show eventually, hardly an improvement, but she is technically a character (mean Data with T&A and PTSD).
if you want to help bring the game to its uncensored former glory please help by signing the petition. www.change.org/p/free-stellar-blade?recruiter=103…
This is all America's fault even though they aren't there and have nothing to do with it
Surely if left to their own devices, a woman and LGBT friendly paradise would be there
America Bad even when an independent country makes its own decision somehow
You realize that by reducing all political activity in Iraq to the invasion of Iraq, you are posing the Iraqi people as puppets with no will of their own?
They will make him one no matter what, deciding not to carry out justice out of fear of an angry and uninformed mob just puts decision making entirely in the hands of that mob.
So, apparently you can make as shitty a game as you like, as long as there's a streaming tie in people will eat that shit up. - the lesson publishers will get from this whole thing
What do you do when you have prepared for nothing but peace and someone else brings war? That's what the idiom means: you don't prepare for war because you want it, you prepare for war because war literally never happens when you would like except when you are the one invading. If you want peace, you have to be prepared to defend yourself against people who do not desire or understand peace.
Please don't continue to beat this dead horse. What made Mass Effect great was Drew Karpyshyn's ideas and world building, a solid cast of characters, along with a lot of superb visual design. Mass Effect had such an interesting, detailed, lived-in universe. The quality of writing in the games after the first is perfectly proportional to the amount of Drew Karpyshyn's involvement, and it sharply declines after the first. A fifth game made purely out of a corporate desire for profit and not to tell a story is unlikely to yield better results, in my mind - see Mass Effect: Andromeda for evidence on that.
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
No thank you, the VII remake feels like they are making the rest of the game in the next room. "No, you can't do the next part, you have to collect flowers for orphans and have a motorcycle chase." Constantly buying time with stupid crap.
The original was well paced and fun, they would undoubtedly fuck it up and have Tetsuya Nomura write it.
I decided to try this game, almost 4 years after the PC release and 5 years after the PS release. To me it felt like this game got released a year ago, truly a patient gamer....
Everyone who is really amazing at art started out pretty sucky, people just don't see the starting work of the amazing artists they see online. I totally agree with your points and this applies to writing, working out, anything needing sustained effort for improvement.
Work on it, OP! You will be surprised at how quickly you improve after doing something consistently for a year.
It’s a free-to-play mobile gacha game. Therefore, it is trash. That point simply cannot be argued. It’s not up for debate. If you’re here to debate that point, please don’t even bother. All mobile games are trash. All free-to-play games are trash. All gacha games are trash. Again: there is no debate about that....
Solid Snake, the recurring protagonist of the Metal Gear franchise, is making his Fortnite debut as a bonus skin offered in the Chapter 5, Season 1 Battle Pass. But the hunky assassin is no longer sporting his once-thick booty.
It was entire alternate playthrough with a female main character, new characters to build social links with, and a lot of new insights into the other characters of the game. The characters you fight with have different relationships with the female MC than the male MC. The PSP version had both playthroughs on one disc, though they had to make some adjustments like turning it into more of a visual novel style than 3d environments for the "town" segments of the game.
"IP" feels like such a weird term here. It's not that I disagree, it's just weird to think about. Oh no, he will have to be mad at games with an English accent to slightly different clipart. He may have to find a new nu metal riff for his intro.
You know you could also make a post about how much you like it, right? The world would not end. A post being on the gaming board doesn't mean it's the objective truth, it's a forum. Both of your posts could be up at the same time, even!
Also it's hilarious to go "at least it's not buggy like the game this expansion is literally for"
I just replayed DAO last year. It holds up in a way Cyberpunk didn't manage on its first play through. The rest of the series is a trash fire though. Mass Effect is forgettable outside of the excellent world building of the first game.
This is such a weird take because Cyberpunk's storytelling was a series of Grand Theft Auto phone calls occasionally interspersed with "UR DYING V, I'M KEANU REEVES AND IM GONNA TAKE UR BODY LOL". There wasn't anything interesting about Cyberpunk's storytelling. I believe a Bethesda game could be more boring than that, but it doesn't retroactively make Cyberpunk great as a result.
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I wish hexbear was like this, instead they fellate capitalist imperialist autocrats like Putin because it feels cooler to be a contrarian than class conscious to them.
It's because people aren't idiots like developers have thought for years. People don't mind a game where you need to read and learn as long as there is a payoff for reading and learning. We have been paying the price for devs thinking everyone is braindead for over a decade now as more and more mechanics and features are removed to please people who were never going to give the genre a chance anyway. By way of example, Dragon Age II didn't get the Call of Duty audience to play Dragon Age, it just convinced most who liked Dragon Age that EA only accidentally published one of the best RPGs of its decade.
Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 3, which was so massive Larian held it back a day to test it properly, will release today, and it'll add an RPG feature many of us have been requesting since we stepped clear of the Nautiloid - the ability to change a character's appearance. Alas, it comes too late for the Wood Elf Druid I rolled during...
It's so refreshing to see an RPG that isn't afraid to be an RPG. It's not trying to twist and contort D&D into Call of Duty, it knows what it is and is proud of that. Games don't have to be dead simple and text free to be successful. Games don't have to have big in game stores or battle passes to be successful. They just have to be complete, an earnest attempt at a creative vision. I would take a game that tries something ambitious and very occasionally stumbles like this one over the most competent trend chaser any day.
Expected to arrive at the end of the year, Cities Skylines 2 increasingly shows what is his goal: after some promotional trailers, the game seems to aim for
Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam (www.eurogamer.net)
The Ten Forward Hot Take Thread
Lets say contentious things about Star Trek! I’ll start!...
Stellar Blade was unfortunately censored by Sony but gamers around the world create a petition to bring back its originally glory (sh.itjust.works)
if you want to help bring the game to its uncensored former glory please help by signing the petition. www.change.org/p/free-stellar-blade?recruiter=103…
Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail (www.theguardian.com)
Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison...
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Biden administration restores protections for gay and transgender Americans seeking health care (www.cnn.com)
Milei trumpets quarterly budget surplus in TV address | Buenos Aires Times (www.batimes.com.ar)
Live Updates: Prosecutors Say Trump’s Attacks Are Threat to Trial (www.nytimes.com)
Other coverage for comparison:...
Fallout 76 Is More Popular Than Ever On Steam, Thanks To The TV Show (www.gamespot.com)
NPR editor who alleged left-wing bias at network resigns (thehill.com)
Former armed forces minister James Heappey says UK must prepare for war despite being 'long way behind' (news.sky.com)
On the bunker drill, the former minister said that all secretaries of state - not just defence - have a desk and a bed ready for them in a bunker....
They could have just TOLD him they'd rigged the transporter like that, and he would have gone willingly. He was sort of the trusting type. (lemmynsfw.com)
Mass Effect 5 is in good hands, as its director confirms the long-awaited RPG sequel is being led by four BioWare veterans (www.gamesradar.com)
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Final Fantasy music legend Nobuo Uematsu thinks modern ‘movie-like’ game music is uninteresting | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Legendary video game music composer Nobuo Uematsu says he doesn’t think some modern video game soundtracks are as interesting as those in older games.
Chrono Trigger Director Asks What Fans Would Want In A Remake (kotaku.com)
How does FromSoftware release AAA games so frequently? Elden Ring boss says "we are just blessed with a great staff" that the studio empowers and retains (www.gamesradar.com)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Video Game (PS1) - Undue Review (www.youtube.com)
Britannia RULEs The Waves (feddit.de)
Stolen from BlueSky
Detroit Become Human caught me by surprise
I decided to try this game, almost 4 years after the PC release and 5 years after the PS release. To me it felt like this game got released a year ago, truly a patient gamer....
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Can someone explain to me why Honkai: Star Rail is treated as something other than trash? I keep seeing posts about it, all over.
It’s a free-to-play mobile gacha game. Therefore, it is trash. That point simply cannot be argued. It’s not up for debate. If you’re here to debate that point, please don’t even bother. All mobile games are trash. All free-to-play games are trash. All gacha games are trash. Again: there is no debate about that....
Former Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters says the success of the Legendary Edition helped convince him to leave BioWare: 'I don't want to do any more Mass Effect after this' (www.pcgamer.com)
New Skyrim mod feature pulling the mod community apart (www.polygon.com)
Will it work this time? We’ll see
Fortnite Players Are Peeved About Solid Snake's Flat Ass (www.ign.com)
Solid Snake, the recurring protagonist of the Metal Gear franchise, is making his Fortnite debut as a bonus skin offered in the Chapter 5, Season 1 Battle Pass. But the hunky assassin is no longer sporting his once-thick booty.
Persona 3 Reload — The Eternal Protector | Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC (www.youtube.com)
I believe I have solved the problem! (lemmy.world)
Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division (aftermath.site)
I fixed the meme the more accurate way (lemmy.world)
The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours (twitter.com)
Fired or resigned, extremely incomplete list:...
Cyberpunk dlc sucks. 10 side missions and like 5 story missions for 30 bucks.
That’s half the main games price… Just don’t buy it...
Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient (www.eurogamer.net)
today's rule is: hexbear summarized (lemmy.ml)
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Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient - Opinion (www.eurogamer.net)
Baldur's Gate 3 patch 3 releases today and lets you change your appearance and pronouns (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 3, which was so massive Larian held it back a day to test it properly, will release today, and it'll add an RPG feature many of us have been requesting since we stepped clear of the Nautiloid - the ability to change a character's appearance. Alas, it comes too late for the Wood Elf Druid I rolled during...
Bethesda: Thank you to more than 10 million Starfield explorers for creating the biggest launch in Bethesda history (twitter.com)
Baldur's Gate 3 is PC Gamer's highest scoring game in 16 years. Here's why (www.pcgamer.com)
It's been a long time since we've been this excited by a new PC release.
Cities Skylines 2 has realistic economy, layoffs and even homelessness (gamerkick.com)
Expected to arrive at the end of the year, Cities Skylines 2 increasingly shows what is his goal: after some promotional trailers, the game seems to aim for