Underrated because the game itself was often kind of lacking in terms of solid foundational RPG systems…

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Pretty good attempt at putting a Middle Earth type world ahead a few hundred years in the midst of an Industrial Revolution.

Really thoughtful stuff like the labor exploitation of certain races like orcs, with quests like a half-orc you can help start a labor union or help the shop boss shut down the nascent union.

Twice now I have tried to make a top level comment and accidentally responded to a thread instead… Anyway…

Instead of leaving this deleted I will agree wholeheartedly that while I personally am not the biggest fan of the TES series they have some of the most deep, complex and (somewhat) organized lore there is.

I just wish they would hire better script writers and weren’t so afraid of locking content behind player choices. Always having every option available just feels a little silly.

Wait Raft has lore and world building?? I love that game but I never even paid that close attention. Guess I need to go look now.

Probably a somewhat popular opinion in the Linux crowd already, but I think we should be pressing companies to find better ways to manage anti-cheats than kernel-level anti-cheat anyway. I’m glad I don’t play games like that because I don’t like how it works at all.

If the SD865 is the undisputed champ does that mean that the Lite version is actually the best for Switch Emulation since that’s the one that ships with SD865?

Damn it can play Mario Odyssey?? I am a little surprised it can emulate Switch games, but damn that’s cool.

I understand why it’s Android but that also feels so limiting in a way…

I mean… I would too, which is why it was on my mind.

I’m just waiting for the release of Bubsy’s Wild & Woolie Racers

Super hot.

Assassin’s Creed: Django Unchained

What?

In the US at least, AT&T shut down 2G in 2017, Verizon in 2019, and T-Mobile started shutdown of 2G in 2022 but has it still hanging on but on it’s final way out by the end of this year likely.

Even for Europe, a lot of 2G shutdowns started in 2022, and most places in Europe will have 2G phased out by the end of this year.

Civvie11 and Warlockracy are about the only YouTube channels I consistently watch. Good old men times.

Yeah but it’s hard for me to pass up my meangirl frog wife.

Baldur’s Gate 3: I can fix them all I swear!

The thing about this shit is…

Microsoft, like Google, is now a user-data driven company and they have already made loss/profit ratio analysis on this long before they released the price increase. They’re absolutely banking on people cancelling but making up the difference and then some from the people who stay.

For a thought experiment let’s consider how many subscribers they were reported to have in Feburary: 34 million. Let’s assume that everyone is paying for the highest tier to make the math easier. So current income would be 34 million user x $20 a month and thats $680 million a month. New income of 34 million users x $30 a month is $1.02 billion. The difference is $340 million a month. Let’s divide that by $30 a month. That gets us about 11,333,333 users. So they can hemorrhage over 11 million users and still break even. To make sure, let’s subtract 11 million users. That gives us 23 million users. 23 million users x $30 a month is $690 million a month, a cool $10 million a month above current profits.

For final context, 11 million users is roughly 32% of their entire subscriber count. They can afford to lose a third of the people subscribing and still make money.

The math doesn’t bode well for us who vote with our wallets.

You had me at “pet the cat.”

Sometimes its over an hour of spoilers.

Most of the time though he seems to be reviewing stuff like Fallout 2 restoration of previously cut content.

I mean I understand why it’s more of an issue with a game that just came out but a game that came out in 1998 I think is fair game for spoiling.

Civvie? No, I’m the other guy!

Well played. Especially since these two are about the only youtubers I even bother to watch.

lol.

lmao even.

You get what you pay for.

I actually quite enjoyed Dread for what it was, imperfect as it may be.

I’m skeptical as well but they already restarted the game once when the original development team wasn’t producing a quality game. I suspect at worst it won’t be the worst game ever but it would be subpar for a Metroid game. Nintendo is usually pretty good at taking chances and making it work. Hell, I never thought Metroid could work in 3D and they proved me wrong. I guess my main issue is that Metroid traditionally is a cramped corridor style game, the opposite of an open world.

I, for one, fucking hated Jack yapping in my ear for half of Borderlands 2. I still don’t understand the love for that chode.

I still don’t get why the second one is held in such regard over the first. I actually couldn’t stand characters like Handsome Jack talking in my ear non-stop. Whereas the original dispensed the majority it’s humor via text and flavor text.

I really appreciate not having to wait months or years or decades (looking at you Bethesda) after first hearing about a game.

That’s actually hilarious that you mention this in regards to Silksong, which was first stated to be in development so long ago that people thought it was never going to release. It’s actually a prime example of having to wait years and years after announcement to get any updates.

What others have failed to mention is how Expedition 33 is much more of a linear story where BG3 is comprised of a multitude of non-linear branching paths where “save-scumming” is important for new players.

Skyrim has the non-linear branching paths, but Bethesda doesn’t like cutting you off from content based on the path you choose so usually you can still continue to pursue other paths. Baldur’s Gate 3 is much much less forgiving and makes your choices matter and impact the paths you can take deeply. This can be daunting for new players.

I personally love games in the style of BG3 with non-linear branching paths and decisions that force specific paths, but they can be tricky to get used to if you haven’t experienced them before.

If you are more comfortable with the more linear stories, Expedition 33 is probably closer to what you’ll be comfortable with. However they are both worthwhile in many differing regards.

I think that’s exFAT.

I know SA members were called “goons” but does the modern “gooner” really come from that?

You can’t stop him, you can’t reason with him, you can’t kill the boogeyman.

And you obviously couldn’t afford a decent Donald Pleasance soundalike yeesh.

Also this game company has an abysmal history of post-release support.

I mean, from the little bit of gameplay I saw, it seems like all his moveset from the original Bubsy is back and they’re leveraging it well for 3d platforming.

What could possibly go wrong?

Totally agreed. Kyle Crane is pretty forgettable, I had to look his name up, in fact I had to look both the protagonists names up.

The funny thing about the Kyle Crane stuff is that for anyone with even a passing interest in media other than video games… you’ve heard Roger Craig Smith’s voice everywhere for over a decade now! He’s one of the most prolific and easily forgettable voice actors there is! Not only was he the voice for Sonic the Hedgehog in a litany of cartoon and video game iterations, but he’s just in nearly anything you can think of that requires voice acting. He literally was in 122 episodes of Cartoon Network’s Regular Show playing about 170 different characters, including Thomas, a character whose entire arc is based on a joke about how shows add new characters and then focusing on them so they constantly avoid focus on Thomas and make him ridiculously boring! In fact, episodes where he played Thomas were airing during the time that Dying Light released.

I don’t know how they ever thought Roger Craig Smith was going to be remembered as the action hero everyone loved. I mean, I love me some Roger Craig Smith, but way more for being a fucking goofball than being a gritty action hero.

I thought DL1 protagonist was Kyle Crane? Was Aiden even in DL1? I’m a little confused by what you mean.

That seems like a big change to be making 3 and a half years after release.

AI this, AI that, why not just hire that geoguessr guy?

I’ve been curious about LISA: The Painful for a long time.

Rock and stone, brother.

From my youth:

Mega Man 2
Super Metroid
Fallout

Current, as games have grown as a medium:

Borderlands
NieR Automata
Baldur’s Gate 3

My favorite type of games were really always the story-rich non-linear storytelling of the Baldur’s Gate/Fallout style but in my youth I was far more attracted to Fallout than Baldur’s Gate. However, there are no modern iterations of Fallout in the same style. New Vegas is fun and all, but what I would give for a modern fallout in the style of BG3.