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Nice. I’ve played two of these (Schedule I and Abiotic Factor).


I need to actually try this mod one of these days. Jedi Academy is one of my all-time favorite Star Wars games. Jedi Outcast is pretty damn good too.


I watched a video of someone trying to 100% this game as fast as possible.

He was doing pretty good at first, then he started talking about the fossils…




The first game is so incredibly atmospheric. Walking through the empty snow-covered New York streets, looting through abandoned houses, apartments and offices; exploring the subway and other iconic NYC locations.


That too. Even though my Game Pass has been cancelled and I haven’t had Xbox Live in a couple years, I can also still go into the Xbox PC app, install any game that I’ve bought that’s also PC compatible or stream whatever I own that isn’t (but still has cloud workability).

It’s how I’ve been playing Halo Wars 2 lately. And I’ve seen the Fable games are cloud compatible, but I haven’t tried those on PC yet.


From what I understand about this subscription (I never looked into it before) it’s basically like a reverse Game Pass? So you pay the monthly subscription, and you can play the games that are on the service, on different devices aside from just a PC?

While that does sound pretty cool and impressive, I can’t imagine most people, or most anyone that calls themselves a gamer would touch this service with a 20’ pole. Like at that point, just own the game and system you want. You can play whenever and for however long you want.

Also, this may sound weird, but after reading the article I have a strong urge to start a game and just let it run idle, racking up playtime. Out of spite for Nvidia I guess.


I was never a fan of CoD but this feels kinda big. Like if the person who created Halo were to die.


I played through 4 and liked it enough. I skipped literally every cutscene, and it felt like a natural progression of the series (all the weather control crap and crazy mechanics).


I’ve been listening to the Halo 2 soundtrack (classic version) and it sounds very 2002-2003. Like you can hear the cheap early-2000s equipment and software that was used to make it.

The drums in almost all the tracks really remind me of the old Jak, Tak, and even Crash soundtracks because of it. And it just takes me right back to my childhood playing games on an old box tv with nothing but those speakers.


Why do you think there’s so many?


I mean the Fallout show is honestly giving great. Imo you should at least give it a chance. Especially if you’re even a tiny bit of a fan of the games.

It’s all still based on a video game though. Fallout was never a show first so it’s not “based off a TV show”


4 is actually pretty fun too. Have you played the DLC with the jetpack and weather weapons?


Imo 2 was just a little too rough compared to 3. I never finished 2, but I moved right onto 3 when it came out and I had a blast.


It’s like getting upset over the free choice in Knights of The Old Republic. It’s a story that technically by movie POV, should have already happened exactly as it did in the history books, yet in-game we can do whatever the hell we want, up to killing pretty much whoever we want and just running purely dark side. Technically, we shouldn’t be able to make our own choices and it should be a very linear game; but that’s not what the developers wanted to do.

Same thing with Fallout.


Huh?

It’s a few games and one season of a show (yes I know the second one started, but we’re only one episode in). It’s nowhere near the amount of bullshittery that is the MCU or Disney Star Wars.


All they really need to do for ES6 is bring Michael Kirkbride back and let him run wild with the lore.


I’m not sure about games personally, but there’s the Mantella mod for Skyrim which is pretty much exactly what you’re looking for.

Check out this video if you want to see how it works in practice.


I was also disappointed by that.

Thankfully RTGame has a full playthrough and stream VOD uploaded. It’s actually who I watched play it first and I instantly fell in love


That’s why there are different kinds of trailers. You have announcement/teaser trailers, gameplay trailers, cinematic trailers (for showing cutscenes and story content), character trailers…


Goddamn YouTuber influencers made me get Megabonk the other day, and it’s pretty fun. It reminds me of Risk if Rain 2


The Cyberpunk 2077 announcement trailer was barely even a trailer. Just a moving jpeg of a woman with swords coming out of her arms.

Elder Scrolls 6’s announcement trailer was literally just a super quick flyover of some landscape then a title card.

Don’t suddenly start acting like it’s this huge problematic practice when it’s literally how every piece of media uses announcement trailers - hell, even books will have announcement trailers extremely similar in style to this.


Ego Draconis or Original Sin 2? I’m not a diehard fan or anything, but I know some people online like to make the distinction known.

I’ve only really played Ego Draconis (Divinity 2), but I’ve played the tutorial of Original Sin 2.


That’s kinda how announcement trailers usually go though?


I’ve been hankering to play some MCC for the last couple weeks. It doesn’t help that I’ve been listening to the Halo 2 soundtrack basically on repeat.


I just want another Dragon Knight Saga game.

Being able to transform into a fucking dragon at will practically whenever the hell you want was a massive plus in the game’s favor. Hell of a lot of jank though.


I was about to ask you where the hell to find it, but I just realized I could use Google and found it myself.

It’s on the actual website TimeplittersRewind.com in case anyone else was a little lost like me.


They’re fun and campy, taking most of their inspiration from those old sci-fi B-movies. Some of the humor might not have aged very well, particularly in the second one, but there’s a disclaimer at the beginning of each game that says as much.

For instance, the second game takes place in the 60s, and in a couple levels some of the thoughts you can scan are a little questionable.


Arkham Asylum but not the rest? /s

I loved Spider-Man and Miles Morales, I need to play Spider-Man 2 but I’m waiting for a better sale on steam.

Also, Guardians of the Galaxy blew me away with how fun and awesome it was. Like I honestly feel bad for waiting so long to play it.



Halo 3 Theater was the best, imo. Idk why, but I never really bothered with it in the later games, aside from ODST.


Hell yeah. I spent a few hours playing with some friends too, all the way back when Labs was the farthest you could go.


I finally finished Abiotic Factor, and yup. I need more story and places to explore already. And I haven’t even done everything there is to do yet.

I’ve also been playing some more Enshrouded. Finally got to the mountains, and now I just need to make some warm armor. I probably need to take a day or two to expand my main base, as it’s getting a little cramped. I have pretty much all the crafters and some villagers in the main building with all their stations shoved into different corners, but my farmers actually have a house that I built for them with a separate bedroom upstairs.


True. And I do like the games, it just kinda felt a little strange the first time I played the first one.

Baranor is one of my favorite side characters in anything LOTR too.


Idk, I felt like the story for the games was pretty complete once I finished it. It’s a little weird with the whole “Shelob can shapeshift and helps this Gondorian guard get his petty revenge on Sauron” noncanonicity though.



I started a playthrough right before they released the 1.0 update and wiped my progress (which I was aware of, and I’m not upset about). How are you liking the full release? I’m kind of excited to get an airship and be able to fly it around.


Abiotic Factor. I finally made it to the Residence Sector and am working my way through the last bit of story content now. It’s taking me a bit because I’m kinda taking my time, but also cause I’m playing solo. I’m sure I could do more to make it more smooth/faster, but I like playing at my own pace.

Other than that, I’ve been picking away at 100% Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 and a second run of DC Supervillains.


I bought it and played through the tutorial.

I haven’t touched it since. But I do think it’s a cool idea/game, as basically just a single player DnD campaign.


How Do You Deal With Thumb Stick Drift?
So I like to use Xbox controllers (doesn't matter if it's first- or third-party) because I like the layout, it's just comfortable to me. However I've noticed that on all my controllers in the past few years, the left thumb stick will start to "give out" over the course of a couple months. For instance I'll be pushing it forward all the way, but it won't register for some reason and my character will only move a little bit. Sometimes wiggling it a bit will fix it, sometimes it doesn't. And it's not like I'm squeezing the hell out of the controller or mashing the stick constantly; in fact it's made me try to be more delicate with my controllers, even though I'm just playing the games normally. Is it just how controllers are, or am I just getting the shit end of the stick?
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How Do You Deal With Thumb Stick Drift?
So I like to use Xbox controllers (doesn't matter if it's first- or third-party) because I like the layout, it's just comfortable to me. However I've noticed that on all my controllers in the past few years, the left thumb stick will start to "give out" over the course of a couple months. For instance I'll be pushing it forward all the way, but it won't register for some reason and my character will only move a little bit. Sometimes wiggling it a bit will fix it, sometimes it doesn't. And it's not like I'm squeezing the hell out of the controller or mashing the stick constantly; in fact it's made me try to be more delicate with my controllers, even though I'm just playing the games normally. Is it just how controllers are, or am I just getting the shit end of the stick?
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