Now that I can reflect back to recent years, Death Stranding was easily the most meaningful gaming experience I’ve had in a while. There was something magical about it. I slightly doubt that he can do that again in the same setting, but cool if he can.

Outer Wilds is a game I won’t ever forget.

Me too, but because I mehhed it so hard that I was unable to finish it. Nice vibes though and fascinating premise, but the gameplay sucked for me and the story wasn’t compelling enough to counter that.

And I barely failed to get a refund in time :-|

I think the comparison to cocaine is apt. Therefore I find it increasingly odd how parents purchase their children cocaine-delivery mechanisms, and how society deems all this completely legal.

I see the word Annihilation next to the word Total and I upvote.

What’s predatory about this? This seems like the least forced purchase in the world – absolutely nobody needs the things they’re selling. They are like a definition of a luxury item.

I’m having the exact opposite path. I’m thinking Alan Wake 2 might be a timeless masterpiece, whereas Baldur’s Gate 3 seems like such a rehash of a genre I’m totally fed up with. So even with all the praise, I haven’t bothered to check it out yet, and will probably wait for a >50% sale before going there.

Entirely possible that both games are good though.

If it’s neon colors everywhere and synthwave/punk, I’m in.

I wish they would tease a Steam release so I could actually pay for this game.

Never played Tribes before but looks very interesting. I’m gonna get wrecked in online, it seems.

I guess I’m one of the few people who thought Witcher 3 was a bit bland. I was already getting very bored at Novigrad and at Kaer Morhen I totally lost interest and have been unable to pick the game up since.

What do people like about it so much? I’ve read all the books, and generally speaking thought they were good, so I’m not exactly lacking in lore either.

Dunno if it’s exactly a roguelike, but I’ve been playing Moonring lately. It’s a homage to early Ultima-games from one of the makers of Fable. And it’s free on Steam. Feels pretty great so far.

Based on everything I’ve heard of it, this seems a bit too high.

Sure thing! GTA 5 average game time was 52h (main+extras), so its price is then about $1 per hour at launch. Looking at my Steam library, I’d probably have saved hundreds if not thousands over the last 20 years if all the games were billed like this…

Have fun implementing the payment system that reliably measures and bills this with zero downtime, internationally! And even more fun when nobody mysteriously chooses to subscribe to this shit.

Time.

Personally? Around and after Skyrim.

It’s almost as if people get old and become less efficient at everything, regardless of where they started from.

I loved Undertale, almost entirely because of the story, ambiance and soundtrack. I haven’t touched Deltarune yet, is it worth it?

Do they scale? I seemed to have lots of difficulty in levels 1-10, and now my 50+ character obliterates every regular encounter with its pinky finger with no need to take any cover from incoming fire, and even the named enemies are not really a challenge.

I think that’s good though, scaling is a dumb mechanic in a game like this.

who cares as long as the numbers go up for a bit

Ironically, that’s the motivation with which I play many games.

I have tried to play Witcher 3 in several different stages but I just get incredibly bored and drop it. I genuinely cannot understand what people see in it.

Good thing I didn’t let that lead me to ignoring CP2077 because I liked it a lot. It does have the pointless crafting grind from Witcher 3 but if I just ignore that it’s fine.

I bought the cheapest version a few years ago. Turns out that the game was a tech demo, but a very glorious tech demo. Flying near the cities, to the atmosphere, in space, all were very beautifully done.

As a game, pretty much a failure though. As a money vacuum, pretty good.

I think it was a positive experience as a whole, though. Never experienced anything similar since or before.

Then again, BG3 is behind Ultima 7, which was released in 1992. Time is a flat circle?

Doesn’t BG3 have that “throw the dice” -gimmick? At least we can avoid that horrible joke of a game mechanic in Starfield.

Everything time this dude opens his mouth, I get an urge to wear an eyepatch. But hey, if he’s as rich as he alludes here, that shouldn’t be a problem, right?

If you wanted a realistic karma system, the only consequence of doing shitty things would be shitty reputation, and only if you’re caught doing the shitty thing. A powerful enough metaphysical (stretching “realistic” here a bit) being might perhaps catch every time you do.

And it depends on the listener too. Some people should stomach more shit, while some might drop you from their internal list of “good people” on the first mistake.

But all this is probably difficult to pull off in a story-based game.

Yeah, and now that I think about it, perhaps KOTOR’s moral system doesn’t fall under “binary moral choice bollocks”, since the Yedi vs Sith -thing is a fundamental thing of that universe. Would’ve been silly if that choice didn’t exist in that game.

Ah, thanks. Somehow I’ve managed to miss that series completely although I hear about it all the time.

This video has also the best beginning of any game review ever. The binary moral choice bollocks is a horrible trend that should go away already. I guess Bioshock perhaps started it?

Seems like nobody mentioned Undertale’s beginning. That was pretty good. But I’m easily swayed by when the soundtrack is superb, and Undertale’s certainly is one of the best ones I’ve heard in 30 years of gaming.

edit Yes, Undertale also has the moral choice bollocks in it, but I dare to say it was so central to the plot that it was fine there.

THEY BROKE NEW GROUND