They won’t get any kind of reckoning that we’ll understand. They’re rich, powerful, and insulated from pain. They’ve all got golden parachutes via their weaselly networks. There will be no karma, unfortunately.

The piss filter is back baby!

Oooh, might have to give them a look then. Thanks for the recommendation! 👍

Oh I remember the original Sniper Ghost Warrior!! Fun game but I found it felt a little cack-handed, in my experience - altho it is plenty old now. What do the Contracts games feel like? I assume they’re much more modern?

I’m surprised to not see the Sniper Elite games recommended here, if we’re talking single player. They’re definitely a bit formulaic by now, and story/dialogue is not worth paying attention to, but they’re slow, methodical, and a lot of fun!

There’s a bit of a Hitman vibe to the later ones, approaching objectives almost however you’d like, and they can absolutely get hectic if you find yourself in a compromising position.

You can run, the sprint is on the clicked movement stick (on controller) like CoD. Not super fast but definitely faster than walking!

Good choice. I haven’t really kept up with new releases for a few years as the mainstream of the industry started to feel more and more like a scam, but I wonder if anybody’s ever done studies comparing the percentage of people with short term memory issues, and the percentage of people who play video games – because video game consumers seem to forget getting screwed over and constantly get surprised when they reward bad behaviour lol

This happened with Helldivers, everybody forgave them and immediately rewarded them by continuing to play/buy, and then they turned around and stuck PSN account requirements on a tonne of other games. Looking forward to the same cycle happening again very soon 🫡

I still get goosebumps from that song for this reason! Nick Drake’s Three Hours gives me a similar feeling.

Oh wow that is actually what they’re saying.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Jonathan Dumont, creative director of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, said that “Naoe’s the fastest Assassin we ever made,” following up that “She runs super fast”

Really running on empty for these games, aren’t they?

As in, the ninja will run really fast…?

Just a heads up, it’s fine. It’s a fine shooter. It’s not more than that, the story isn’t brilliant, the online is a bit tedious (and customisation is limited at best for loyalists and almost entirely non-existent for heretics). The gameplay is fun enough. I’ve got like 20 hours out of it, I would say 14 of those were fun. I gave in and bought it too early 😂

The fun is not in human creativity for you?

Anything that makes marketers sad is a win for the world, honestly

Oh no is it?? :(

I’ve never played this, but wanted to say I appreciate your posts and am always happy to see this series of posts continuing!!

Oh I do bloody love a bit of offal tho. I think that AAAAA screaming might be my guts, cos it’s deffo not my gob

Wait, we’re doing quadruple As now?

starm war

Yeah I just think the allegory doesn’t work at that point, but I do understand what you’re saying. I honestly still think it’s bullshit, but it is definitely a case of each to their own!

But if you don’t pay for late checkout, you can still check out. If you don’t pay for extra DLC, you just don’t get to use whatever is in the DLC full stop

Yeah that’s true, you’re right. Altho, I am still skeptical of it - if you have DLC ready to go before launch… Why isn’t it in the base game?

the emperor is nickel and diming me to build his golden throne 😭

I’m still pretty gutted about there being a season pass and DLC and stuff, but… I might be a week 4 customer 👀 it does look fun!

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Looking forward to paying more for the “base” game, and then a bit more for season passes cos why not, and then maybe they could make the season pass not include all the DLC so I can pay more for that too, and maybe they can fill the “base” game with adverts for the DLC, and maybe they can release the “base” game as a shitty buggy mess 🤞

Thanks for these posts dude, they’re cool! How do you feel about Jedi Fallen Order? There’s a sequel out, right?

I’m just generally pretty skeptical of DLC; I feel like sure, there are some good examples of actual “expansions” but that a lot of DLC is just cynical nickle-and-diming pushed by publishers.

I’m even more skeptical of season passes, which feels like pre-ordering DLC. I don’t pre-order anything, and barely keep up with modern gaming, because it feels like disappointment after disappointment.

I also feel a little negative about a developer releasing something and even months before launch having one eye on DLC. I understand it probably works that way in terms of development timelines, and I understand that it can be a good way to keep employees working on something productive, but I can’t help but feel like I’m not getting as full a game as I could have.

It’s just my opinion tho, and I’m definitely not saying everyone has to agree!

I did try ESO for a few weeks but it just felt a little bit… Not TESy? Like the actual movement feels different, the combat feels different, it just feels like a bit of a different beast! It’s fun for what it is though, for sure. What do you play as? :)

This is the only game I’m currently excited for. I was excited for Space Marine 2, until I saw it had a season pass and comes with day 1 DLC if you preorder. I am crossing my fingers that the publisher doesn’t somehow weasel a season pass or DLC into this!!!

You’re telling me a week of “protest” followed by gamers immediately forgiving the big corporation because they eventually backtracked didn’t really change anything? :o

See you next week, when PSN accounts are required for Helldivers 2 again lol

Oh my god Crossfire!!! I used to play that so much as a kid, didn’t realise it was particularly big though! :o