I will give you my review as someone who is a trans ally. The writing is bad. Like really bad.

I played DA:O when it first came out, bought the Golem bonus release package. It was a fun, dark fantasy game. Same with the expansion and the other DA games. This game has none of that in the story. It’s just a really awful written story.

The chuds, and I despise even typing this, are right. The trans/non-binary stuff comes out of no where. They go full vegan road biker CrossFit attitude with it and just inject it in the most random places. “Let me tell you about all the sets I did!” And then there are some kind of odd non-consenting scenes which make it even weirder.

It lacks ALL the magic and creative writing of BG3 with almost none of the character development. It’s Mary Sue shit from start to finish.

The combat is good, but it’s likely a separate team made it.

I do the same, follow my patient gamer philosophy.

Until that time I can play guitar and likely have more fun repeatedly failing to learn a new rift. It’s sad that sucking at a guitar is more fun than most modern games.

I am the same. Game could take 60 hours to complete, and 50 of them are dogshit. Then it’s not a fun game. It’s all about the overall quality of the entire experience.

I would gladly pay $100 for Subnautica 2 if they could pull off another amazing adventure. Would do the same for another Larian studio game.

It’s probably one of the dentists I visited while in the army.

“Toothpaste! Use sandpaper you bitch. No, I’m serious. Then floss with it.”

Gacha games are like magicians. You know they are total bullshit and there is no “magic”, yet some people still look at it and think there is something else going on.

Total waste of money, I don’t understand how people get sucked into those things.

And none of it is at a loss. People gladly fork over money and are happy getting fleeced. Not even mad at them, anymore.

The issue is not that a good character is black. It’s that “hey, let’s make a token black guy and inject it into this story to show how diverse we are!”

No one care about good characters, but companies are being fed a load of crap that almost feels like sabotage about having “inject this minority” being a lead design principle. It’s not, make a good character first.

A game should not have to rely on mods to be decent. Base Skyrim is still not a bad game.

Base Starfield is molten shit.

Showing my age here, but what’s the difference between hiding behind cover in Gears of War vs what we did in LAN parties for UT or Wolfenstein 3D?

Being able to instantly use moves that required the player to charge was bullshit.

All the decent answers I find are from 5+ years ago. I check the user’s activity and they normally quit the place. Warms the heart.

FTL is so much fun. Finally beating by first run felt amazing.

They don’t have any kind of single player option which turns off a lot of players. It looked really cool, but as soon as I found out to really experience the game you have to play with others, became immediately uninterested.

The Elden Lord needs to kill some more dragons.

My dad did this. Was almost 70k in unsecured debt at the time of his death. I gave most everything away except his fishing stuff. He had so much shit.

Only one credit card company said “it’s good you are taking over the payments”. Told her I never agreed to that, just informing you of his death, and if they contact me again my Saul level lawyer is going to enjoy that lawsuit. Never heard from them.

Don’t ever assume the debt of someone else.

Yeah, it honestly took me back. Gave it a shot single player and had some fun. Tried the multiplayer and the first game had two people drop so it didn’t work out.

The rest of them I got kicked from. “Kick Noob”. Yeah, sorry I don’t have exact weapon X with Y build, can we just play? No? Ok. Uninstall time.

Yeah, I tried that. Unless you are playing with friends the community is really awful. They fell into the same min/max, “kick all new players” that other games fell into. It’s not worth buying.

Make sure to bet the entire balance sheet on one game, and then when it fails blame the devs.

Oh nice. Will check it out, thank you.

Edit - holy shit, read the book and the 2000 Showtime movie synopsis. That is some bleak stuff. Going to read it to my kids for bedtime.

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They should have gone New Zealand. It would be one of the few places likely devoid of direct nuclear strikes yet still affected. Could have done a whole set of lore where a US Carrier group shows up and demands right to port and the conflict from there.

The unpatched version of Fallout Tactics is incredibly fun. There are so many cool bugs that make the game more fun.

Be careful with your lifetime. Mine was “cancelled” after trying to do an account restore, and they gave me a few months free to compensate. Wish there was someplace else for mods that wasn’t run by scum.

Thank you for the honest take. Sounds like I am going to skip out on this one. Rather learn this way than spend money or deal with the refund process.

I might give it a go, all the reviews I read talked about the multiplayer requirements for the missions and gameplay.

How good is it solo? Have you tried it?

They are Russian, so it’s probably a mix of vodka and amphetamines.

I wish the game had single player stuff, it looks quite fun.

Maybe watch Idiocracy and stop commenting like a Redditor.

It’s sad how many of you have not seen Idiocracy.

There are so many good games for the SNES. You are good to go.

Sometimes a mid game is all I want or have time for.

Moonlighter is a solid B+ game. It doesn’t do anything special, just a fun little adventure. I can play it in mandatory meetings that don’t require any attention.

Also, mid games are usually perfect for my kids. They don’t need an epic adventure and ridiculous gameplay. Just something kind of fun.

Might be a shitty Hearthstone mini set in there.

I agree with pretty much everything. I liked the combat a little more, but dad life has taken a large bite out of my gaming skills.

I enjoyed Outer Worlds. It’s one of those games I suggest when it’s on sale in the $20 range.

Have you played Ixion?

It’s a space-city builder that is story rich and your choices affect the gameplay and story. I normally don’t like city builders, but Ixion drew me in to the point I called off work one day to finish it.

It’s not stat heavy, it’s a one and done type of game. I really liked it.

How do I keep ending up on these Mindflayer space ships?!?

Starfield deserves zero modding. The game is trash and was developed with a “modders will fix it for free” mentality. Fuck Todd Howard, piece of shit.

I tip his wife as well afterwards, want her to have gas money to leave.

Yah fausta parents are ded…

Don’t you see, he thought it once, then thought the same thing again. Two data points right there, checkmate!

My dude, circular logic and “because I think it” does not make something logic. That is some Joe Rogan level dipshittery.