Had no idea this existed. Saving your comment for the future, and that idea sounds kind of fun. If I could get over the anxiety of playing with strangers, at least.

Why take a risk on new IPs when you can milk existing ones for guaranteed profits? That’s just basic capitalism. Speaking of, I wonder if we’re due for another Last Of Us remake soon.

The reason no other alternative has taken off is that there is no other alternative. I hate Discord too, but there just isn’t a drop-in replacement.

Looks like an incredibly generic fantasy game with mediocre combat. I know that Gothic is more than that, but they’ve really not emphasized those bits in this trailer. If I didn’t know about Gothic already from other sources this trailer would give me absolutely zero desire to play the game.

Chaos Theory is an absolute all-timer and a must play for anyone even remotely interested in stealth games. Double Agent (Xbox version) is also quite good.

I never played Blacklist as I couldn’t get over the recasting of Sam and how different it looked, but I heard good things about the co-op in it. Always wanted to try it but never had anyone to play it with, so didn’t bother.

Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly it. It’s very good, and I say that as someone not really all that into anime.

If you’re looking for another roguelike deckbuilder while you’re waiting for STS2, may I recommend Chrono Ark? I am finally playing it right now after having it heavily recommended to me for a while, and it’s really excellent. Very fun gameplay and a surprisingly interesting story, once it gets going.

It’s been really cool watching the project evolve, it started out feeling like a cool kind of “oh yeah, I guess this is public domain now so you can do something like this” kind of vibe, and slowly it evolved and grew its own distinct identity. It’s so much more interesting now than the initial concept trailers.

Ultimately as an FPS it will live and die by its gunplay, but as long as it’s at least “good enough” I think the art direction and creativity will get it the rest of the way. Sort of the same as with Bioshock (which clearly was a big inspiration for the developers).

My backlog is so long that I don’t tend to look forward all that much, I just wishlist and move on and then check in around release for reviews to see if they’re worth keeping wishlisted or not. So I don’t have a huge handle on the exact titles that are slated to be released this year.

I have been following Mouse: PI For Hire for a long time, though, so I am quite looking forward to that one (provided it turns out good).

First time watching that clip and making the connection hit like a ton of bricks. Both Matt and Ilka really knocked it out of the park with the acting in that one, too.

Two of my favourite things in AW2 are the grafitti and

You know I’m usually against Australia’s insane video game censorships, but this time they may be on to something.

Believe me, if I knew I would tell you.

spent up to $10,000 on certain backer rewards from the game.

Dang people have way too much money.

Millennials with too much disposable income who want to recapture their childhood as they’re nostalgic for playing WoW around launch 20 years ago and are desperate for another MMO to release that will capture the magic (nothing will).

Source: a childhood friend who is sadly this exact person, and also got scammed by Ashes or Creation.

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You seem to like Character Action Games so why not give the Ninja Gaiden series a go? You can emulate Ninja Gaiden Black for free on Xemu and even enjoy using save states to save yourself some frustration with unnecessary runbacks (this was removed in later entries). I think NGB is an all time classic, although it leans a little bit more into the adventure game style than later titles, that are pure action. You have some exploration, platforming and even an almost Metroidvania-like hub area you backtrack back and forth through and unlock new branches of.

Or if you want something more modern and pure high octane action you can start with Ninja Gaiden 4. More free flowing combos as opposed to specific fighting-game style strings like in previous games, but still fun. I’m only a few chapters deep but any fan of DMC or CAGs in general would enjoy it I think.

There is a great mod called ACUFixes you should look into.

Can’t wait for Alex Jones future rant:

They’re puttin’ Flourite in the engines turnin’ the friggin’ cars gay!

Shame, I feel like stealth co-op can be a really fun gameplay setup. Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven was the go-to game for me and my childhood friend whenever we went for couch co-op. I also had some fun with Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow back in the day

I’ve heard about people enjoying the co-op missions in AC: Unity, but unfortunately I personally never had any friends to play that game with, and I don’t really want to team up with strangers. But I feel like a co-op Assassin’s Creed could be good.

Damn, a Rooks and Kings reference in 2026? You’re making me want to go back too. Anatomy of a Fight was always my favourite vid of theirs, personally.

You were pretty much there for its peak, then. Those were the good days. I don’t know that I would be up for the time commitment these days, but I still miss those times now and then.

In most cases I can think of using DLSS with higher graphics settings will provide both better performance and a better image quality than turning down graphics settings and rendering natively. Also there is nothing “fake” about the DLSS frame rate. You might be conflating it with Frame Generation, which is a much less useful technology than DLSS and has much more noticeable drawbacks.

Return of the Obra Dinn would be a good fit, I think. A library setting would be a great reason to get players looking up books on nautical history.

Yeah I haven’t played it but I heard the stories. I haven’t played every year, but in general I would recommend either

• FM 2024 The latest “classic” version, has the most support, mods, relevant player database etc. Probably recommended for most players. Most feature-rich while still not being completely fucked like 2026 apparently is.

• FM 2017 I have this game still installed, though I haven’t played it in over a year now I think. I have my longest running save on this edition. Often comes up on top in votes for which FM has the best match engine. It still has some exploits if you look for them hard enough (every edition does), but for the most part all tactics are viable, the match engine feels good and you’re not forced into any one archetype.

You can rage against the machine if that makes you happy, but DLSS is patently not a useless feature. It lets you sacrifice visual fidelity for performance, that’s it. Many people find it useful. Any hardware you buy will be obsolete at some point. You may be able to play new releases in native resolution now, but in a few years your card won’t keep up anymore. Instead of buying a new card, you can keep using your old one and turn on DLSS. That’s useful. DLDSR is also a fantastic use of AI that is especially impactful on older games, but will make almost any game look better if you use it, particularly games that don’t have good native anti-aliasing.

DLSS is also a very minor part of the AI landscape - in fact I think the only reason Nvidia hasn’t scrapped selling gaming cards entirely is that it’s part of their “legacy”. If you want to hate on every scrap of AI in existence because of a dogmatic hatred of AI in general then that’s fair enough, but then say so instead of calling a technology useless and inefficient when it’s neither.

Like the other user said, DLSS is literally more power efficient than native rendering if you care about power draw or whatever. You can harp on it all you want for not achieving perfect visual fidelity, especially on modes like Ultra Performance, but efficiency is literally the whole point of it.

Interesting. Will have to look deeper at some other comparisons but I guess preset K is still the go-to for Quality and Balanced?

Very sad. He is a visionary for sure. Having recently played The Last Express I think what impressed me most about him was his writing. I hope he gets the chance to make another ambitious game at some point.

Does anyone have any ideas for games where you can have shorter or longer term “projects”? Like building a character in an ARPG or building a base in a base builder? Or grinding for something specific? I want to have my brain locked in a project for leisure. Sorry if not the right place to ask, thought I’d throw this in here.

Build a dynasty at a lower leagues club in Football Manager. That’ll be the next few months of your life sorted.

I’ve actually played three games this past week, so I think I will split up my ramblings into spoiler tags to not fill out the entire screen with a wall of text.

I like Team Ninja and the way they do character action, so I’m happy both Ninja Gaiden 4 and Nioh 3 were well reviewed and successful. Probably won’t jump into this for a long time due to my backlog (I’m working on Ninja Gaiden 4 at the moment, though!), but will most likely tentatively wishlist this for a future sale.

I’m afraid you’re conflating “Fallout” with “Bethesda”. Fallout 1&2 are peak Fallout, and they are neither shallow nor janky. Well, maybe slightly janky but more in the sense of “dated” than Bethesda type jank.

Pentiment isn’t perfect, but it shows there is still some talent, artistry and vision kicking around in Obsidian.

Well, part of why they want to follow the latest monetisation trends is that the idea of a subscription-based game is a much harder sell these days than it was 20 years ago. The landscape is just different.

Not surprised. I had a friend who was all hyped up about this years ago and I didn’t want to tell him then that it looked like pipe dream that was never going to pan out.

The MMORPG genre is dead, you have the big existing titles that exist simply because they’re too big to fail or already have an entrenched user base, but I just can’t see a new release - especially a new IP - breaking into the market.

You’re surviving on the Finland-Russia border in a post-apocalyptic setting, the army threat kinda made sense to me.

Been hearing about this game for years now, even played an early test build of it a year or two ago. Glad to see it’s shaping up, and glad to hear he has a small little team working on it now and is not just a solo developer. What he was doing on his own was impressive, but it still felt like a massively overambitious project for a solo dev, and when I played the previous test build I was left with the feeling that it was a lot of cool gun-related things in a neat setting in search for an actual game.

I’m glad to see the trailer include both some new stuff like seemingly emphasising the survival elements more with hunting and fishing and also developing the setting further and leaning into the post apocalypse thing. Not the most original concept, but at least it’s looking more like there is an idea of what the game wants to actually be now, gameplay wise.

I meant in video games, of course. In films there are a ton of examples. I usually go for Ingrid Bergman’s accent in the Murder on the Orient Express movie, although that one - while accurate - is slightly exaggerated for effect, I think.

(…) complete with rubbish accents (as a Swede, we don’t sound like that here in the Nordics)

If you want a better viking game with much better Nordic sounding accents, Banner Saga is out there. Though there is only like 10 minutes of voice acting per game - but what is there is good! They used an Icelandic VA studio to make sure it’s authentic.

The best swedish accent I ever heard was that one blonde knight in Witcher 3 - Blood & Wine. Which is funny as I don’t think it makes sense for the setting at all, but accent voice direction in that whole expansion is a complete clusterfuck with zero consistency.

I mean, probably? Don’t expect a masterpiece but probably is alright if you don’t have too high expectations and would enjoy a vampire power fantasy.