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fathom juniper
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i found some before, and i found a new one this run
shot it once at a wall, realized how op it is and never used it again

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few minutes later the main dev told me my save file will have this stamp at the end screen PES_Facepalm

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but man - what an adventure
can't wait for episode 2 to come out

rustic falcon
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Now why would you omit the fact you play as a beautiful woman? I Will Now Play Your Game

fathom juniper
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omit?

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but don't get your hopes up - she's got like three dialogue lines in the entire game
there's no going back
there's last mag (absolute fire btw - good job writers 👏 👏 👏 )
and AAAAUUURGHGHRG HURRRR HURRR HURRR AUGH HUEA when you get hit really hard

mystic wave
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chapter 1 is 22 hours?

mystic wave
fathom juniper
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and i've spent a lot of time looking for secrets

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there's a lot of freakin game in this freakin game

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and they want to give episode 2 for free
absolutely insane

fathom juniper
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but yeah - what a fun adventure
i'm gonna do the thing i did with ion fury and list all the dumb stuff i did this run, so:

  • i befriended a bunch of roombas and even repaired one
  • i took wilson on a sightseeing tour around selaco
  • i flipped about 573 trillion burgers
  • noclipped out of reality by stacking 11 barrels and hopping over the wall
  • clogged up a toliet so hard it exploded, revealing a secret
  • chugged so much soda so fast that made me burp so hard it alerted enemies two rooms away PES_Lul
  • played some snooker, played some hoops, played some space bro
  • and got absolutely rekt in table hockey
  • accidentally wasted 1,5k selaco bucks on a fake microtransaction in a minigame
  • cleaned up my room
  • grew a third arm
  • caused a trash tornado
  • solved a bunch of puzzles
  • threw darts at tim sweeney
  • and recycled about 27 teddy bears which made me hallucinate till the end of the game that all of them were swearing at me constantly PES_Lul
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oh and then there was a lot of shooting, a lot of screaming and a lot of pink blood
10/10

clear python
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has star citizen been released? havent heard about it since some time

fathom juniper
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i don't think it's ever gonna come out

austere wadi
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Star Citizen is the modern equivalent of some super rich dude just endlessly funding an artist (in the many many many mediums of art) because it's cool.

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Except it's people spending money on a promised product.

silk abyss
stable kindle
# clear python has star citizen been released? havent heard about it since some time

no lol its going to stay in perpetual development feature creep hell bc otherwise they wont get the neverending stream of money they do now from people deep in sunk cost fallacy. why do you think they got all these ships costing hundreds of dollars as part of pledge packages (painting your ship costs extra btw) https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/pledge/ships?sale=true&sortField=price&sortDirection=desc

Ships - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.

fathom juniper
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welp - there's a reason they call it the scam citizen

woven breach
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I think it's closer to cult citizen dusa

fathom juniper
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there's much better things you could spend your money on

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you could - for example - buy a copy of one of the best shooters i've ever played (dead serious here) made by like 6 people
three of them are the same person dusa

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and then spend the rest on - i dunno
a brand new car or something

clear python
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they still got crunch time

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also i thought at least squadron 42 released

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prediction: one or more cast members will be dead by the time it releases (if ever)

fathom juniper
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prediction: we're gonna get some whistleblowers about this in about...
a year

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like - someone is gonna come out and spill the beans on how they're never planning on finishing the game and just wanted to get loaded on cash and not invest it into the game

signal kayak
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...Romero Games has closed down

fathom juniper
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Yeah I’ve heard about that

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Ridiculous

fathom juniper
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Oooohhhh

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It’s getting spicy

fathom juniper
ocean iris
fathom juniper
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HANG ON

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selaco comes with a built-in rando mod!?

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oh yeah baby that's the stuff
gimme that on admiral

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so...
there's a turret gunning for me in the intro scene PES_BoiStop

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WEAPONS HAVE RARITY TIERS NOW!?

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and everything is different

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god there's so much game in this freakin game
it's nuts

fathom juniper
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oh what a hilariously broken mess KEKW

clear python
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nice that was my nickname in high school

fathom juniper
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good one

ocean iris
fathom juniper
ocean iris
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i genuinely cant wait until DS2 comes to PC

fathom juniper
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wait

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is that a baby pod on his right shoulder?

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sure glows like one

thick sleet
fathom juniper
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please don't remind me

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this was a perfect me game in the making
and they were like 90% done
and then the hostile takeover happened and the thing just died

thick sleet
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Yeah i got ptsd always i see space in videogames bc of it i just need prey 2 i guess beeing delusional helps qith that problem so lets just say we will get it someday

thick sleet
fathom juniper
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and the best thing is
they got most of the mechanics you see in there in the game

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god i would love to get my hands on that last dev build of the game

thick sleet
austere wadi
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Isn't capitalism so cool, gamers?

ocean iris
ocean iris
thick sleet
opaque garden
fathom juniper
signal kayak
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Ah, they've been salvaged?

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If I had a cent for every time MSFT thrashed a studio and said studio got salvaged at the last second... I'd have two cents, which isn't much, but it's...
...no, it's not funny, screw the trillion dollar company, seriously

fathom juniper
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And this is why SKG is so important

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Like - imagine if this was a company that was already hosting an always-online game

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That thing would be just unplayable

signal kayak
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And screw the lobby that's selling Thor's narrative instead of the real thing, too

green scaffold
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Well outside of...that one mafia Paradox game

fathom juniper
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Yeah apparently they have some super secret project no one dares to mention ?

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Cause th at last mafia game didn’t go too well

fathom juniper
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huh
interesting PES_Interesting

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like a suitcase or something

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now you can take your rev anywhere with you!

fathom juniper
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okay - this is rather unrelated
barely even videogames, but...

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there's... so many jokes i could make about this, i don't even know where to start

clear python
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hi

fathom juniper
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perfect timing

clear python
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happy to help

fathom juniper
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i can just feel mods looking at this convo like

fathom juniper
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god i love this rando mode

mystic wave
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idk bim i thought the game is always like that

fathom juniper
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nah it's usually not that dumb

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i don't remember having to hide under a desk and punch anyone who comes around in the nuts to survive a gunfight in normal mode dusa

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i brought fists to a gunfight!

mystic wave
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must be one sturdy desk

fathom juniper
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i do have a gun that makes enemies bleed money when i hit them with it

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and i do mean hit - not shoot

mystic wave
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woah...

fathom juniper
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borderlands wishes it had weapon randomisation as good as this game has in this throwaway bonus mode

green scaffold
fathom juniper
signal kayak
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Ono

clear python
fathom juniper
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in other news:

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soma on... switch?
the first one?

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that game is like a decade old and it's never looked... worse

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i mean - i'm glad more people will get to experience this wonderful title, but...
there's better ways of doing this

clear python
fathom juniper
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what am i looking at

mystic wave
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erm

clear python
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good texture resolution

fathom juniper
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yeah but

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w-what is that

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OH GOD it's neir automata?

mystic wave
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you guys dont get it. this is retro. retro is cool

fathom juniper
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this looks worse than that super scuffed early pc build that i had to play at like
540p at less than minimal settings to even get a whiff of 60 fps

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COOL SECRET ANGERY

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oh the joys of rando modes PES_Lul

strong tree
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Bro death’s door 100% is gonna be the end of me 💀 💀 💀 😭 😭

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I have to collect 50 things then plant those 50 things

woven breach
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in cyberpunk, sometimes there's a downtime between main mission. It's for you to do side gigs and it's justified with in-game world. It's cool. Thing is... I've already done all side gigs

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and now there's a delay

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I just

strong tree
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Dang

green scaffold
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One of best aspects of Cyberpunk, it allows you to spend some time with the world and doesn't feel forced

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I should replay it one day, especially as I've played it on freaking Xbox One with all patches that console version got which was...not that much

fathom juniper
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You played early cyberjank on an echsbawks one?

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Brave

green scaffold
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Wouldn't call it early, I've played it like 2 years ago so it had all the possible patches rolled out already and it worked fine...most of the time...

fathom juniper
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Still
Brave

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How many FPH did you get ?

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||that’s frames per hour||

fathom juniper
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Guys

rustic falcon
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Wha

fathom juniper
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Listen that production is taking a while they’re probably running out of funds PES_Lul

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God this whole Silksong drama is so fun to observe from the sidelines aPES3_Popcorn

clear python
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wait i thought it was out

signal kayak
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What's going on about Silksong?

clear python
fathom juniper
clear python
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epic pacing... i'm onto the final levels... i pull a lever, and a text appears: "19 levers left"

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my characters keeps saying 'wow so many levers they must protect something crazy'

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now i pulled every lever except one and i have to backtrack through the entire area to find it.......... pacing...............

fathom juniper
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Tf are you playing there?

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Hexen?

clear python
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father forgive me (2)...

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I FOUND IT

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I CAN FINALLY PLAY

woven breach
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Finished Phantom Liberty

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I have... thoughts

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good ones just... thoughts

fathom juniper
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That cat looks like me when I tried phantom fury

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Or phantom pain

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Or phantom in the opera

fathom juniper
woven breach
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Anyway, I tried to lighten my mood a bit by playing Acts of Blood demo

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to my surprise, it's by Indonesian dev

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I found a funny tidbit

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the english voice over is wildly different than the Bahasa counterpart

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EN: "sigh here we go again."
Bahasa (translated by yours truly): "Shut up, dog, I'll kill you."

fathom juniper
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What is it about ?

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Wait

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Acts of blood

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That’s that sifu looking beat them up, right ?

woven breach
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yes

fathom juniper
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Didn’t know it came out already

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Is it… güd?

woven breach
fathom juniper
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Ah

fathom juniper
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i have created a doomba!

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a claymore roomba!

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GO FORTH MY CHILD!
GO FORTH AND LAY WASTE TO OUR ENEMIES!

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god i love those little goobers so much vacbot_love

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im gonna buy myself a roomba and call it gaming merch

green scaffold
fathom juniper
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listen - i will always keep making fun of that release

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i was working retail when that whole thing went down

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and yes - i was there when we had to pull it off shelves

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so - you know
that release is a bit of a sore spot for me

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uh

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should i...

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<@&456908176877551658> ?

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i dunno it's looking kinda sus

green scaffold
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It's legit but it's just some mediocre gacha slop

fathom juniper
green scaffold
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Get out with that

fathom juniper
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he had a cyberpunk shirt on and gave his kid that yellow hat

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and he was so hyped before the game came out

silk abyss
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That is my vow

fathom juniper
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aaaaaand then they told us to take it off the shelves and when people came back for returns - i saw him there, in the crowd

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i felt so bad for that dude PES_Lul

green scaffold
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Gachas will doom humanity

silk abyss
green scaffold
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This reminded me tho to check out CDPR Store, I kiiinda wanted to get some CP77 merch, it looks good

green scaffold
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That crap* is going in there into macro levels

fathom juniper
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but jesus christ - the pricing PES_BoiStop

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150 pierogi bucks for a simple t-shirt?
come on, man

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368 pierogis for a hoodie! PES_BoiStop

green scaffold
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Something something irony something something game themes about corpos bad

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But yeah it do be pricey

fathom juniper
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yeah

silk abyss
green scaffold
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Ha!

fathom juniper
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funny thing - this is another work-related thing i have to deal with now at my current job

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i get multiple angry parents every month being all like ANGERY why is my bill so high!? YOU THIEVES!

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and it's like
15 google play store purchases for vbucks or some crap like that

green scaffold
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Unironically I am scared about Asian countries, I've seen some documentary where people in there already live in a cycle of waking up-checking their gacha games on a phone, spend some money while at it- go to work- come back- check games- sleep- repeat

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But it produces so much money noone will stop it

fathom juniper
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most of us live like that already
just switch gatcha to socials or youtube or whatever gets you doomscrolling

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it's not a place thing
it's a general dystopian future of 2025 kind of thing

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this makes me wonder
how would SKG affect gatcha games?

green scaffold
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Daily touching grass will be mandatory one day

rustic falcon
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@long hearth finished e33 endings and a buncha side content. lay it on me
you can dm me or write spoilered messages here each is fine :)
for the record the ending i chose to see first was ||a life to paint (because i had a feeling thats the ending my friend didnt pick, so he also saw it for the first time||
im glad i saw that one first it was crazy i liked it. then i cried like a baby for a reason unbeknownst to me

dense kindle
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I've been playing Expedition 33, almost finished

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my feelings are kinda mixed I think

rustic falcon
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I’m also interested to hear

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but as maelle often says, parry Spoiler it!

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And maybe I’ll read everyone’s thoughts tomorrow… my head hurts so much and I definitely need sleep -__- ow

dense kindle
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I'm currently deep into Act 3 just running around and doing everything.

The negatives:
||1. It's definitely not the most polished game. Animations while running around are pretty jank, and you'll just get stuck on stuff a lot. The open world attacks will whiff so often, and the attack/shot mechanic just feels kind of stiff.
2. It's an Unreal game that often lacks the unique sauce, so you'll see a lot of these rough rock and metal textures that just feel "generic"
3. The combat is cool but kind of broken. Feels like you either do no damage, or 2 shot them. Parrying is satisfying, but parrying 8 hits in a row is kind of tedious. I also with there were more projectiles instead of slashes, those feel more fair.
4. The UI is kinda bad. A lot of stuff could be streamlined
5. I do enjoy how much content there is in the game, but I feel like it could be spread out a bit more evenly. A lot of areas especially feel underbaked. Walking into a place with a cool name, only for it to give a single item and nothing else is just kinda lame.
6. The reveal of information is, imo, too slow and gradual. The player is kept too much in the dark for too long.
7. Probably budget limitations, but the party doesn't get enough time to express themselves outside of camp. The amount of dialogue when wandering zones is oddly limited too. A lot of locations just won't have any lines, or only a few lines at the beginning.||

lusty pendant
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  1. is why I spent the whole time thinking "this should just have been on the Octopath 2 art style"
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  1. I don't mind because ||I'm basically treating this game as "Rhythm Heaven came out a year early" LOL||
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  1. ||I think pacing is generally fine but act 3 is indeed too lore-dumpy||
dense kindle
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Positives:
||1. Damn, parrying feels really good.
2. The music is good. It's not with the greats, because it's not as catchy or memorable, but it's very atmospheric and gets you emotional at the right times.
3. The customization is crazy. You really can go nuts. I'm surprised a small team even decided to make their combat system go THIS far. Usually stuff like this is saved for an expansion lol.
4. The intro to Act 3 is excellent, and does a really great job of explaining everything. Why the world is so weird, what's going on with Renoir's family and the curator/paintress, everything just clicks together and makes sense. It's also both cliche and unique. The world is the battleground of all-powerful Gods, but they are humans grieving the death of a loved one painting a world.
5. There really is a lot of content in this game. Act 3 is pretty beefy, although spread out.
6. I really enjoy the characters. Esquie and Monoco are just so great, and the Gestrals in general are a really fun concept. The rest of the party is pretty good too, I just wish they had more time to shine outside of camp.||

lusty pendant
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though I'm kind of surprised that so many people were like "omg what an amazing twist" because I caught on pretty quick that ||the world "isn't real" just from how so many doors all connect to the same mansion.||

||i also casually just guessed "oh Maelle is probably the child of Renoir and the Paintress, since they both care about her so much||

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maybe it's just because I've read too many mystery stories for my own good, I felt the hints were so obvious that I spent most of the game thinking those were red herrings and there's got to be another twist, and then there wasn't

dense kindle
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I knew there was a twist, I just couldn't really predict it. ||I thought Renoir and Verso and Alicia were real the whole time, basically, and that Maelle was connected somehow. I also couldn't figure out how the Paintress connected to that family, and thought she was separate.||

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||I really enjoy the idea that there are real and painted versions of each member of the family. It was fun getting my noggin thinking about how everyone fits into this weird double family tree.||

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I haven't gone into ||Lumiere|| yet so idk what happens next.

lusty pendant
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I did luck out with ||the Maelle prediction, because I thought the grey Alicia was actually a smaller form of the paintress, which she uses to move around better when needed||

dense kindle
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Although, is having characters ||realize they're fictional and fight for their existence like, cliche now? I've seen it a couple times now.||

lusty pendant
dense kindle
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Hm idk, it just doesn't have those catchy and strong melodies I'm looking for

lusty pendant
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The first syllable of the Spring Meadows track is literally the same as this one

dense kindle
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Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Xenoblade, Persona, Pokemon, there are so many jrpgs filled to the brim with earworms

lost igloo
fathom juniper
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interesting PES_Interesting

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i don't agree with half of his points, but sure

rustic falcon
rustic falcon
# lusty pendant https://youtu.be/p5ucijrQkMk

This one especially. And I love replicant to bits, but how many times is yoko taro going to make ||a huge boss that wants to be beautiful or human for someone she loves so she eats people.|| girlboss. Idk

fathom juniper
rustic falcon
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wait I have so many messages I want to individually reply to but I just woke up and I don’t want to make a wall of messages

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LOL

fathom juniper
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The opera singer in automata didn’t eat humans

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… mostly because there weren’t any left, but still

rustic falcon
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You know what

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Yah she cannibalizes them sure

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but you get the gist I hope

fathom juniper
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I do
I’m just being smug

rustic falcon
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Anyway I’ll get my opinions down I’m just still ruminating about the entire game… will play it again myself when my controller deigns to arrive, considering I’ve been getting “your package is coming TODAY” messages like 3 days in a row now …

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also my cat is sitting on my computer chair so it is simply not possible right now

rustic falcon
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my cat is right I need more sleep really really bad

signal kayak
long hearth
long hearth
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Okay so, a lot of my dislike comes from a few key things in like... escalating order, to summarise and to a degree simplify them:

  • ||Firstly, the juxtaposition of the endings heavily privileges Verso's perspective over Alicia's. Sandfall are not subtle about which ending they believe to be the more 'morally correct' of the two — even the names of the endings are in on it.||

  • ||Secondly, leading on from that, they are trying far too hard to be clever with the 'Une vie à rêver' thing as 'oh yeah Verso ruined the golden ending'. It makes the entirety of Act 3 into a retrospective farce that was never going to succeed.||

  • ||Segueing on from that, Act 3 simply does not give the slightest f-word about Lumiere or the Lumierans. They get no narrative focus, they get no space, they don't even get to really speak up in defence of their own right to exist — the focus is entirely on the Dessendre family drama and frankly I never liked any of them save Maelle. Sciel doesn't even have an Act 3 character quest and Lune's is literally just a worm in a cave.||

  • ||Which leads into one of my two genuinely very major problems: the game is, at best, only half-aware of just how awful Verso is as a person. If it was more aware, it would not use him as a 'correct' mouthpiece in the finale. I'm genuinely convinced the director is to at least some degree treating him as their precious SI-OC, which I do have some supporting evidence for but that's kind of tangential — why are Sciel and Lune screwing him (at least Sciel and him were FWB beforehand but Lune certainly wasn't) after he genocided their entire people, again?||

  • ||And the last and most important one is inextricably linked to that in that... Renoir and Verso are consistently presented as the 'rational' ones in their grief, they are simply more correct than Maelle and Aline and they are right when they override the agency of the Dessendre women — it is, in fact, for their own good!||

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Combine the last bit with ||Lune and Sciel's inexplicable desire to ride the Verso pony in Act 3, how Verso is fundamentally correct to suppress Maelle's agency one last time in Act 3 — making her storyline into an incredibly frustrating coming-of-age story that never actually allows the protagonist to self-actualise — and a bunch of other little things and this 'complex narrative' starts to look an awful lot like 'contempt for women'||

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anyway that's why it gave me flashbacks to why I loathe contemporary french literature, so much of what it does wrong is exactly what I hate about that, particularly ||the misogyny||

rustic falcon
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i disagree with a lot of this/saw it very differently especially ||about one ending being more favorable|| but i dont want to debate it, i only finished the game once yesterday and i want to process it more + the main thing i wanted was just to hear your opinions about it, because you talked about it while i was still in the middle of the game... so i was excited to hear it all once i was finished :)
im pretty curious about the SI-OC theory tho

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my favorite characters from the game (that are not protags, because that is cheating) were ||lune and clea||
but i like all of them, they make my head hurt

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btw all of the above is about expedition 33 just in case someone drops here to this wall of conversation and has no idea whats going on. so i guess, be warned, if you dont want spoilers dont click em gamers

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by the way, very ironically, this game killed my want to draw so hard, bc i posted my fanart for it online and someone left a comment i thought was so nasty that i got upset and got rid of my entire art blog LOL

fathom juniper
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Is expedition 33 really that good ?

clear python
fathom juniper
rustic falcon
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it is not accessible

fathom juniper
rustic falcon
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i have drawn a total of 2 scraps since last month and its kinda sad bc artfight is going on right now and i was excited to participate for months ron

clear python
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screw that commenter!!!

rustic falcon
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it was quite bleak

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not even mean just gross

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but whatevs 🤷 maybe its for the best and ill learn to create for myself again. without posting for validation, to simplify it

long hearth
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and that sucks AD, hope you feel better :c

rustic falcon
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yeah what you said about avoiding fandoms is very real it seems

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which i knew. but i never learn!

long hearth
# rustic falcon i disagree with a lot of this/saw it very differently especially ||about one end...

anyway the supporting evidence for this beyond how he's written is the following images:

one is very early concept work for expedition 33, the other is a promotional image featuring the director,

||https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/562698780022013972/1387849551318089828/7dmplfzmwa9f1.jpg?ex=6870a35e&is=686f51de&hm=fd1bc67dfc2576b78109f466f957ac07083f849b9c6ae1c6c47c1a1a36fa270e&||
||https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/562698780022013972/1387849720579358791/maxresdefault.jpg?ex=6870a386&is=686f5206&hm=d8ad7ef50f0e90fafa95ffe5f61968213c6bed1a6d84302f1c271623a6370d1d&||

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I think the most interesting thing if you're looking for something to chew on narratively, as an aside

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is that I think ||the game considers Lumiere's story over after Act 2. That's why Act 3 pays them no mind and that is why the game system breaks in half in Act 3, it's entirely intentional||

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||You're no longer playing a brave band of adventurers trying to avert an apocalypse against impossible odds, you're playing as a girl playing god and her imaginary friends. Of course you can trivially defeat everything!||

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(still very major Expedition 33 spoilers for latecomers)

ocean iris
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demon's souls my love

long hearth
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demon's souls being on there feels kinda like signaling ngl like, that game was jank

ocean iris
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you wouldnt get it 🚬

long hearth
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ds1 exploded because they finally made the concept with gameplay that didn't feel like being hit with a brick-

rustic falcon
long hearth
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||see, simon feels like mostly an artorias homage to me?||

ocean iris
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The purist in me makes me say I kinda hate anything after Dark Souls 1 lmao

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At least anything souls related

long hearth
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I do think it's kind of funny that people talk 'soulslike' when they mean, specifically, Dark Souls 3-like

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DS1 was an exploration game more than an action game

ocean iris
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Dark Souls 2 and 3 are asscheeks

long hearth
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(don't get me wrong I adore DS3)

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I see, we must battle to the death

ocean iris
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The duality of man LMAO

long hearth
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like 'oh yeah you gotta play the souls series it's got some great bosses' you mean ds3 does

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'the combat is quick and responsive and there's all these combos' you mean ds3 does

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like don't get me wrong Gwyn is iconic but ds3 is the only souls game that actually lives up to its modern reputation, because the other two games were just not like that

fathom juniper
ocean iris
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As jank as DeS was, the atmosphere and music was so relaxing

God I love PS3 games

rustic falcon
long hearth
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ye that's fair, I assume he played both but putting ds1 down would look like pandering

rustic falcon
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regardless the atmosphere of that entire thing is like okayyyy and i only played elden ring

ocean iris
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But yeah Dark Souls 1 isnt just a game to me

It's a pilgrimage :3

long hearth
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because it has a bit of a rep as a game people who don't play games claim for credit

ocean iris
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It's my comfort game unironically

fathom juniper
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I’ll die on that janky ds2 hill

rustic falcon
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by the way, play pentiment and e33 back to back for an awesome time

long hearth
ocean iris
fathom juniper
long hearth
rustic falcon
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a part of pentiment where you can choose between dialogue options ||can you ever picture someone clearly if you love them/can you ever picture someone clearly if you hate them|| i will literally never recover from this its over for me bro its literally over

fathom juniper
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Although it has equally as many sinkers, I’ll admit

long hearth
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pentiment is so good I wish I actually liked it

fathom juniper
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Anyways
I am legally obligated to post this low

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Now

ocean iris
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Im playing Baldur's Gate 3 legitimately for once

I love this game

fathom juniper
ocean iris
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lmao

fathom juniper
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He was absolutely wasted during that shoot

ocean iris
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My Half Elf Paladin

rustic falcon
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playing it again recently (not for achievements, but just to see it again) had me in shambles ngl

long hearth
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it's genuinely wonderfully crafted it's just a bit too far out of my strike zone which surprised me because I normally can play any game and appreciate it

it wants you to sit and think too much I think-

rustic falcon
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i think focusing so much on completionism right after i finished it made me gloss over a lot. but my god

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pentiment spoilers ||every post i see saying "who is objectively the person who REALLY did it" pisses me off|| when thats like, the point

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its not objective and there are no "best choices/outcomes"

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i was going to make a long message but then it hurt my brain so bad. its a good game... i recommend people play it even if its not usually their thing

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1205520/Pentiment/
you still have a chance... 🕵️

Steam
Pentiment

From Obsidian, this game is a historical narrative-driven game focusing on character development, heavily stylized art, and choice-driven storytelling in early 16th century Bavaria. Players will play as Andreas Maler, a clever illustrator caught up in a series of murders in Tassing and Kiersau Abbey over the course of twenty five years. Players…

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

7575

Metacritic

88

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green scaffold
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Pentiment is absolutely superb

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More like...Peak...ment?

fathom juniper
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boooooo

ocean iris
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that game is hard as hell

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but so damn fun

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I love friendslop

rustic falcon
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i made some last minute sale purchases and i finally got wanted: dead. and also flintlock the siege of dawn

fathom juniper
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did you get selaco?

rustic falcon
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it is not among them no

fathom juniper
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it's good!
you can turn your pet roomba into a boomba

green scaffold
green scaffold
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But anyhow, have fun with it

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It's pretty...okay at best. Combat is flashy and fun tho so that is the most important part

fathom juniper
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is it gonna like...
spawn mirror's edge catalyst or something?

rustic falcon
fathom juniper
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so, uh...

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they just use them as hats

green scaffold
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Well it's technically a "souls-lite"

rustic falcon
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its not a genre i seek out specifically, but the game looks cool yayy

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short is great

clear python
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guh and just as i say it, they publish a new point n click https://x.com/daedalic/status/1943356019444219950

Daedalic Entertainment (@daedalic)

Daedalic is back to the roots? Well - at least when it comes to releasing Point&Click Adventures! 
We proudly present Three Headed Monkey Studios’ debut masterpiece: Ghost Haunting!

Flabbergasted? Excited? We feel you - you can check out a first sneak peak of the gameplay with

X ·
fathom juniper
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point and click adventure like the good ol days

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  • gets flashbacks to crappy point and clicks of the nineties *
clear python
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daedalic‘s been pretty great at polishing them

fathom juniper
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that's good

clear python
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we arent in the verb era anymore, grandpa…

fathom juniper
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cause i wouldn't want to get sierra adventure'd

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or lucasarts'd

fathom juniper
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can i post a replay of a cool fight i just had in a gzdoom boomshoot?

clear python
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back in my days, we needed to film our screens with vhs recorders…

fathom juniper
#

yeyeyeyeye
calm down there, sandy

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look at it
this is in a throwaway bonus randomiser mode you unlock after finishing episode 1

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and it still produces fights this cool

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doom eternal wishes it was half as exciting to play as this thing

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i always save a replay of this fight on my every run
it's that fun to play

silk abyss
rustic falcon
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i dont think its something i can report or is worth reporting i just blocked and moved on

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well i nuked my account and then moved on. its ok

silk abyss
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Do you want me to suggest some characters to draw?

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Just so you can get back into the habit

rustic falcon
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sure! i think putting my tablet away is also not helping with motivation to plug it back in
but i think if i draw anything this month if i manage will be art fight

silk abyss
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Or lune from expedition 33 but I understand if you don’t wanna do that

rustic falcon
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the last thing i drew was still for e33 but i lost motivation. could have been great tho

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fathom juniper
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is this the lofi girl?

rustic falcon
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yep thats what i was going for

fathom juniper
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neat

mystic wave
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and also misericorde

rustic falcon
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i want to wait on this one until its all out

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i know my friends liked it

mystic wave
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oh yeah alma have you checked out south scrimshaw!

fathom juniper
mystic wave
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bim jumpscare

fathom juniper
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boo

mystic wave
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okay

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selaco

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noted

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see ya bim!

fathom juniper
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wtf i wasn't even thinking about it PES_Lul

mystic wave
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do you know how implausible that sounds

fathom juniper
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yeah...
yeah i do

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but i genuinelly wasn't thonk about it

dense kindle
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I'm playing Expedition again and I recalled another issue I have, at least in endgame.

||Pictos and weapons have too much stats, to the point that it makes leveling feel relatively unimportant.
Like 90% of my character power is from my gear and equipped skills, not the leveling choices I've made||

rustic falcon
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||you can hoard so many recoats that the levelling does not seem to really matter when youre really up there||

dense kindle
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||yeah, and the best option most of the time is to just completely pump stats into your 3 dps stats, which I think is just kinda lame. What the stats do is of relatively little importance.||

rustic falcon
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yeah thats real though ||its does seem like leveling is the add-on to skills and not the opposite||
||unless youre playing as maelle and then you can solo anything in one turn no matter what||

dense kindle
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||like Verso got his level 33 weapon. He has about 10.4k power. At level 85, with optimal stats pumped, 9.2k of that power is from the weapon, and the small remainder is stats.||

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||pictos are so important to your survivability that if it kind of removes the idea of equipping Expensive pictos a lot of the time. You'll be equipping bad pictos just because they're level 28-30ish. If you forget to equip a speed one, you just won't get a turn for forever. If you forget to get a defense one, you'll just be oneshot.||

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||It just feels odd to me for my character's health to suddenly plummet by 3/4s because I swapped a piece of gear out.||

rustic falcon
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expedition 33 spoilers ahead (secret boss)! ||if you know what makes up this build i desparately need to know||

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my friend found it randomly today and i just stared in awe no idea what is going on

dense kindle
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doesn't look too crazy. ||You just stack solo, gradient, AP, Follow up turns, and shot luminas on what appears to be Contorso. You can farm enough Gradient to do level 3 every time before the boss can go||

rustic falcon
# silk abyss Did you report him!

you are right by the way and i did decide to report this person just now. all i can do from here is wait and see if something gets done

silk abyss
rustic falcon
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for art? I ended up doing nothing but I want to keep them in mind

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It does bring some cool idea to mind

silk abyss
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No rush or pressure

lost igloo
dense kindle
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Well I basically 100%'d Expedition 33

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I beat ||simon(Using guides and extremely cheesy builds)||

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The only thing I haven't done is do all the fights in ||the tower.||

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I've still got mixed feelings but I think the game is very laudable for having such a small team with so much ambition

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I definitely kinda spoiled the gameplay parts of the ending by doing all the side content lol. ||I was level 85 going into Lumiere. I like, 4shot everything, with 100k max damage and 5x hp.||

signal kayak
ocean iris
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dude

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Dror Ragzlin is such a b to deal with in baldur's gate 3

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i literally liquidate the other boss with all her minions and knock out minthara

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and then this mf

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with his impossible to infiltrate arena

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and his 75 hp ass

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yeah that's it im lowering the difficulty i died like 5 times

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did i also mention he one shots pretty much everyone

mighty orchid
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is that the big barbarian type guy in the goblin cave

ocean iris
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yes

mighty orchid
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i grouped the smaller enemies.up.and dropped the chandelier things on the ceiling down and then 4v1 seemed to work

while also never using long rests so I just used normal attacks and throwing potions to get the downed allies back up

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feels like doing honorable fights is just punished on higher diff

rustic falcon
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also wow idk when you started playing but you really blitzed through the game

silk abyss
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Marvel rivals season 3 is out!

ocean iris
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@mighty orchid are tadpoles worth consuming?

silk abyss
mighty orchid
ocean iris
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i play on balanced

mighty orchid
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spoiler territory so I won't explain further

ocean iris
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i read enough

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all i wanna know is

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what kinda skill check is it

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wisdom?

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ah you know what

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i'll let my party members have em

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i am a pure paladin!

mighty orchid
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that is also a way to handle it

mighty orchid
ocean iris
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Should I have Astarion become my crazy ass tadpole eating bastard?

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Excuse me, CONSUMING

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That guy is so excited to have worms crawl inside his brain

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im gonna make him a psychic assassin

silk abyss
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Did yall see the subnatica 2 drama

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I’m angry I can’t lie

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Greed got it delayed

mighty orchid
ocean iris
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to be fair

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only the 3 founders got booted

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this might screw over the rest of the devs

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but then again i doubt anyone really cares that much

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this is not at all a za/um situation

vestal rain
silk abyss
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And pushed it back till next year

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When “coincidence” the dev team was about to get a 250 million dollar bonus

long hearth
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||you grotesquely overpower everything in the endgame even if you beeline straight there, it's only a very slight step up from the act 2 end dungeon and you have painter's power now, so...||

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there's this fake idea people are putting out that you should rush the ending because otherwise 'the gameplay is ruined' and that is just not how it works

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||I beelined the ending precisely because of that and no I still just walked through the final dungeon like it was a breeze||

lusty pendant
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my E33 kinda hot take about the endings, in light of certain current events is ||it's basically a sanitized version of "I fed my dead son/brother's voice and texts into chatgpt to deepfake him", but since the game handwaves over this process with "oh it's Magic™!" it gives an air of organicness to something that a lot of people feel disgusted by||

||like there's already articles of people hurting their irl relationships because they can't stop talking with chatgpt||

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||the people who don't like Verso ending usually say it's because everyone in the canvas is sentient, but modern chatbots also feel pretty sentient. There's probably a rabbit hole in this||

lusty pendant
rustic falcon
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It is not a vn

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Not exactly detective either

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There is investigation and mystery but I don’t think it’s necessarily about that. It’s very good tho

rustic falcon
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Oh wait
Actually I don’t know nevermind

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I feel like what you said is the closest real life analogy as it gets

vestal rain
dense kindle
dense kindle
# lusty pendant ||the people who don't like Verso ending usually say it's because everyone in th...

||yeah I personally think the ending is pretty cut and dry. I wish the Lumierans argued more for their existence, they are pretty passive in act 3. But I just think that the Dessendre Family is more "real" then the canvas. The Canvas is basically a VR simulation with Verso's like, save data in it or something, and Maelle and Aline are clearly horribly addicted to it, which just isn't a healthy way to grieve. I wish there was a middle route, but Verso's ending is the best option for Maelle, who just matters more here than the rest of the party.||

green scaffold
rustic falcon
# dense kindle ||yeah I personally think the ending is pretty cut and dry. I wish the Lumierans...

||I liked from a story point that they don’t get argue for it. Well, that’s because it would have been a different story if they did that aside from their yearly expeditions and also because it is now clearly futile||
||I chose maelle’s ending first, where verso just begs her to kill him. Say what you will but it’s just a heartbreaking performance, it certainly broke mine. But in verso’s ending these companions that you as a player actually got to know and bond with and grieve with and spend the game with them instead of just encountering them in small and nebulous glimpses. they don’t even “protest”, it’s clear there is no point. they just have no choice but to come to terms with their painted existence in the very last moment before they’re erased. not by the gommage that they fought against but knew might catch up to them, but by and for people who they’ve been traveling with||
||so it’s the best ending for the dessendres and verso gets what he wanted and it’s about moving on. But it’s not actually sweet and heartwarming as a player…||

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Maybe I’m talking drivel idk I’m on mobile and I just woke up

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||in verso’s ending, lune’s reaction hurts me the most, he wants to say his goodbyes to her but she’s clearly so upset and unwilling to accept her imminent and inevitable end. She sits down and glowers at him, almost like an upset child, I don’t know why it made me so sad||

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||while sciel’s life philosophy now is just to accept and move with things as they are even if it hurts. I don’t think she was fine with it, but she knew she had no choice at that point and also that it was not her choice to make||

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Idk man I like the other characters as well, I really do, but I came to love lune so much

lusty pendant
dense kindle
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||I guess my hot take is that I think the paintresses have more inherent importance over the painted people||

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||I'm generally all for "fictional characters deserve to live too" but idk bro it feels different this time||

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||The world would only exist because Maelle, basically the new goddess of the canvas, doesn't want to stop existing in a make believe world||

lusty pendant
rustic falcon
# lusty pendant ah I meant that ||it made Maelle's ending feel a lot more palatable. She's not l...

i see I see ||it’s just my perspective but it did not feel palatable to me. For her and everyone she “deepfaked” back, they’re her creation now, they’re not nice and happy by being brought back to life - that’s just the way she painted them back in. But they’re still all happy, except for verso who she’s too blinded by grief and escapism to realize she’s hurting him||
||it also essentially means all of her “real” remaining family lost her as well||

rustic falcon
dense kindle
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||Also poor kid/curator Verso has to keep painting||

lusty pendant
#

or another way ||the ending choices would have been much less contested if that were the case||

rustic falcon
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I guess my point is ||the endings are about dealing with grief with either acceptance or escapism, and while obviously irl too acceptance is better, it’s still painful along the way, all the time. It’s just that on top of that you have to lose more to get to that acceptance in the first place. Idk how to word this, someone smarter than me explain||

lusty pendant
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yeah I get what you mean, I'm more commenting on the general playerbase sentiment, not anything particular to you

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I actually saw a comment that said ||"Verso ending is basically pulling the wifi plug so that your sister can get over her internet addiction" lmao||

rustic falcon
# lusty pendant yeah I meant in a sense of, ||there's a group of people who prefer the Maelle en...

||thinking it’s fine is insane tho LOL it’s straight up frames like a horror movie. It did not even cross my mind that it’s “fine” even if I thought it was a good narrative end to the story. Which idk I think the other ending is the same but when you step back, is that not unfair too? Like I said it’s good for the dessendres, not everyone you started the game siding with and playing as||

lusty pendant
rustic falcon
#

Yeah I decided to step back from the playerbase’s opinions Fast
I use tumblr more than reddit so if you know the different environments you’ll probably get why

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||”fiction does not affect reality” people when they are faced with a game in which fiction absolutely affects reality in many ways, but they don’t want to see it because it’s suddenly inconvenient to apply that logic to real life|| as per usual

dense kindle
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||But yeah in the Renoir fight I kept thinking "wait does Maelle have like, a single good point here?"||

rustic falcon
rustic falcon
dense kindle
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||Still, I've seen stories that do the fictional fictional characters realize that they're fictional, and try to rebel. Danganronpa, Undertale, and Truman Show all come to mind. There's probably others I can't recall rn.||

rustic falcon
dense kindle
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||I wonder if they're talking about painted renoir or real||

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I hate marking spoilers on mobile

rustic falcon
rustic falcon
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I do think a trope can be tired if enough people make stories about it that are all about the same, but I like seeing different spins on the same core concept

ocean iris
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this feels like reading a classified document

rustic falcon
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ALL of the scp-looking document above is about expedition 33 btw for people who do not want to see spoilers for it

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LOL

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I get it

ocean iris
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bahah

rustic falcon
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When I’m on the other side of this and everyone is talking about something I don’t want to be spoiled in, it’s so tempting to click just to see what people are having such a secretive discussion about

austere wadi
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Yeah, I straight-up just hopped on TVTropes.

lusty pendant
lusty pendant
dense kindle
austere wadi
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It's head-and-shoulders Jim Carrey's best movie.

fathom juniper
lusty pendant
fathom juniper
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jesus christ wtf happened here?

lusty pendant
#

video games

fathom juniper
#

you guys got fired from fbi or something?

dense kindle
#

expedition 33 spoiler talk

fathom juniper
#

ah
close enough

lusty pendant
#

bideo gaems

fathom juniper
#

GÆMS

dense kindle
#

whats the tvtropes for fictional fictional characters

rustic falcon
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Bims (short for bideo games)

lusty pendant
fathom juniper
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well look at the bright side
at least you got a day off from me posting about selaco peepoSmug2

rustic falcon
fathom juniper
rustic falcon
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Well. I’m not actually against just getting what you want out of the story or at least engaging in it however you want. I just think some people need a reality check

dense kindle
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I think it's just an extension of one of my usual concerns/criticisms, where people are finding themes and substance where there really is none

clear python
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hey bim we should always spoiler our convos like this

dense kindle
#

Overall I'm not sure where Expedition33 lands on my mount olympus of jrpgs, and I'm also not sure if I'd exactly call it masterpiece tier

fathom juniper
rustic falcon
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the article that called it j'rpg got a real laugh out of me

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but that aside, what are your favorite games? rpg or not

fathom juniper
dense kindle
silk abyss
dense kindle
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it's very

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unique

silk abyss
dense kindle
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yeah I have no idea what to put on my top 5 or top 10 lol, there's too many

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my sheet says I've played 260 games that I recall and most of them were at least good to great

silk abyss
ocean iris
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or Fallout 1

austere wadi
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Hades, Hollow Knight, Paper Mario 64, Mega Man Legends, Final Fantasy X.

rustic falcon
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can i plug the beginner's guide again even tho i probably do that in every conversation about video games ever

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and its not even an rpg

dense kindle
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I guess I'll try to go with games people haven't said yet:
Ace Combat 7, Resident Evil 4, Balatro, Undertale, Monster Hunter World Iceborne

dense kindle
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Another 5: Sekiro, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The Finals, Black Mesa, Factorio

green scaffold
green scaffold
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I am surprised that after success of Stanley Parable more people didn't check it out

dense kindle
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stanley parable was funny though, and beginner's guide sorta isn't, it's much more trying to communicate a message

austere wadi
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I need to play Ultra Deluxe still.

dense kindle
#

Stanley Parable is kind of a perfect streamer/reaction game

green scaffold
green scaffold
dense kindle
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I mean I think Outer Wilds and Undertale are also perfect reaction games lol, people love watching people play those for the first time

rustic falcon
rustic falcon
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LOL

dense kindle
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I would say you should play some normal games first, and maybe learn a smidge about the gamedev world, before you experience the Beginner's Guide

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and I think the word "experience" is better suited than "play"

hybrid jetty
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Ultra Deluxe was good but I can't imagine playing it without having already played Stanley Parable when it came out like 10 years before

austere wadi
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Anyone who has played it: I think I've only got like two hours in classic, should I play that more or just get Ultra Deluxe?

rustic falcon
dense kindle
hybrid jetty
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UD has all the original game's content

dense kindle
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it'll tell you in big bright letters where the UD content is lol

austere wadi
silk abyss
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I like what I like

dense kindle
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man it's still kinda wild that I can play games like Halo and Final Fantasy straight from steam

silk abyss
dense kindle
#

why is the destiny 2 preload 330 gigabytes

austere wadi
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Because modern AAA gaming stinks.

clear python
dense kindle
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game is so unserious

silk abyss
clear python
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i would refund at that point

next patio
silk abyss
dense kindle
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yeah they shot JFK with a black hole gun

silk abyss
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Crazy

dense kindle
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oh I see it's because of how steam does patches

clear python
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even 150gb......

dense kindle
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that's just how it be

clear python
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man it's just too easy to make fun of......

dense kindle
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it's a first person MMO that's been running for like, 8 years now? I mean just imagine how many textures that must have

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FF14 is like 140 gb

clear python
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that's true!

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checks tf2

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phew, just 28 gb

dense kindle
#

World of Warcraft is over 100 gigs

clear python
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also zamn destiny 2 is that old.....

dense kindle
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almost a decade actually

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2016 launch, I believe

austere wadi
dense kindle
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ah yeah 2017

austere wadi
#

I remember when Titanfall 1 came out in 2014 I and a bunch of more experienced PC gamers were shocked it was 50 GB.

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Anyone ever hear of the conspiracy theory Storage Wars?

dense kindle
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uh ain't that just a tv show

austere wadi
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There is the TV show, yes.

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But the theory is that AAA publishers are manipulating the development studios they own to push out bigger and bigger games so that people can only have one "competitor" on their console at a time.

dense kindle
#

I see

austere wadi
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Want to play Black Ops 6? Better uninstall every other AAA game you have because it's such a bloated lumbering mess unless you've splurged on a system with a ton of extra space or external storage.

dense kindle
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I don't really agree, but I guess it's hard to know the truth

austere wadi
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It's a very cynical take, I'll admit.

dense kindle
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I just think that it's modern day game dev with high res textures and cutscenes. These are games with hundreds of people contributing to it, it's gonna be pretty big

austere wadi
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That's true. But Expedition 33 is less than 50 GBs.

dense kindle
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yeah it can vary a lot

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I also do think Expedition 33 used everything like, a ton

silk abyss
dense kindle
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I wonder how much that rough unreal rock texture was used in the game

austere wadi
dense kindle
#

was infinite before or after BO3

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I played BO3 just to try out the zombies

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I also played MW4 remake I guess

clear python
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should've played ghosts.... fish ai.....

dense kindle
#

ghosts really was something else lol

austere wadi
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BO3 was the trainwreck Titanfall rip-off. Infinite Warfare fixed most of BO3's issues.

dense kindle
austere wadi
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Oh, god, that's the best part about their games.

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Their campaigns are bad.

dense kindle
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the only fps pvp I've ever played is like, Destiny 2, TF2, and Counterstrike lol

austere wadi
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Black Ops 1 had a decent campaign.

dense kindle
austere wadi
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They're enjoyable.

dense kindle
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Cod 2, MW, MW2, BO1

austere wadi
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They are not well-designed.

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They're like Dark Souls without any of the quality of art but still with all the gamer-grabbing.

dense kindle
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nope but they are popcorn fun

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playable action movies

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MW2 might be one of the greatest campaigns ever with pretty bad gameplay lol

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is the gameplay as like, elegant as Doom? No
Do I remember every single level in MW2? Hell yeah

fathom juniper
#

i just shot a robot spider in one room and an inactive enemy in a different room just...
fell flat on his ass PES_Lul

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slipped on a banan

green scaffold
fathom juniper
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i'm... not the biggest fan of MW2
considering how it set the direction the entire series followed

dense kindle
fathom juniper
#

but even i have to admit
that campaign has A LOT of really, really cool moments

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shame that half of it doesn't make any sense PES_Lul

dense kindle
fathom juniper
#

yeah pretty much

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it just kinda sucks after mw1 being rather critical of the industrial military complex and US actions in the middle east and what not

dense kindle
#

gulags, favelas, oil rigs, nuclear subs, snowmobiles, the white house, all crammed in like, 5 hours

fathom juniper
#

it was critical of that and somewhat respectful to people who lost their lives for that

dense kindle
#

yeah MW1 and MW2 are very different

fathom juniper
#

and then mw2 came along and it's like DUAL WIELDING!
SLO-MO SNOW MOBILE JUMPS!
CRAWLING ON YOUR BELLY with a... knife... sticking out... of your chest...

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yeah mw2 doesn't make much sense

dense kindle
#

mw2 reminds me of transformers for some reason

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same era I think

fathom juniper
#

yes

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exactly

#

ramirez!
get tf off the roof!

#

ramirez!

  • the most violent coughing fit ever *
dense kindle
#

they were always kind of working with "rule of cool" though, I believe. MW1 struggled to get greenlit until they realized that Special forces is as cool as Halo supersoldiers

fathom juniper
#

oh yeah they wanted to get modern warfare going even before cod 2

#

i just...
i just can't get behind mw2 plot at all

dense kindle
#

and then they were like, "you know what'd be cooler? world war 3, russians fighting americans in DC!"

fathom juniper
#

the idea that russia invaded US from the east and took it by surprise is just too dumb for me to get behind

dense kindle
#

that really is the whole game basically, it's trying to barrel its way to that specific Scene, all other logic be damned

fathom juniper
#

like
they got all this hardware, all this massive army flew above all of europe and no one asked any questions?

#

they just go "oh we got this thing that had spoofed data on it and that's how we didn't notice"

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ridiculous

rustic falcon
dense kindle
#

I think MW2 was also kinda in the era where people believed the Russian military was secretly op

fathom juniper
#

yeah i guess

dense kindle
#

industry people tried to hype them up so they could get more sales and investment

fathom juniper
green scaffold
dense kindle
#

the way I think about it would be, would this game be fun in an endless horde mode against the regular enemies, not zombies

fathom juniper
#

yeah and that's my biggest issue with mw2
this series wasn't just that before mw2

green scaffold
green scaffold
dense kindle
#

the modern fps had always struggled with getting some enemy variety I think

fathom juniper
green scaffold
#

And then we hit 2010's where big bad was Middle East

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And...China in BF4

fathom juniper
#

like - no other country in europe raised an eyebrow seeing the biggest military operation just flying above their heads?

dense kindle
fathom juniper
#

no one was like now hang on a sec

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mw2 is just full of dumb moments like this

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why did shepard shoot you and ghost?

#

ah - right
for melodrama

dense kindle
fathom juniper
#

also that

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it is a pretty powerful moment until you stop and think about it for all... 5 seconds

green scaffold
fathom juniper
#

maybe 6 if you haven't had your morning coffee yet

dense kindle
#

did help make for an awesome mp level though so can't complain too much

austere wadi
#

No, heck Terminal, that map stinks.

green scaffold
#

I never played MW 2 MP so I cannot make a statement on that

fathom juniper
#

mw2 lobbies were something else, let me tell you

silk abyss
fathom juniper
#

mw1 too

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there's a reason people meme about this stuff even to this day PES_Lul

silk abyss
dense kindle
#

TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING

fathom juniper
#
  • midi enter sandman starts playing *
green scaffold
#

I wanted to play it when I replayed MW2 on PC in like...2020? But I've heard it's very hacker infected and straight up not safe to play so I prefered to back away

silk abyss
fathom juniper
#

oh yeah

fathom juniper
dense kindle
#

yeah cod mp ages poorly unfortunately

fathom juniper
#

or however that goes PES_Lul

dense kindle
fathom juniper
#

funny thing is
we can't post any of it here

silk abyss
fathom juniper
#

okay we can post that

clear python
rustic falcon
fathom juniper
#

really?

silk abyss
#

But I getcha

clear python
#

transistor…

silk abyss
dense kindle
#

ben sharpo

fathom juniper
#

the mw2:2:2022 villain PES_Lul

rustic falcon
silk abyss
dense kindle
#

Destiny 2 is probably up there for most beautiful game I've played, some of those vistas are really hard to beat

silk abyss
fathom juniper
dense kindle
#

yeah

clear python
silk abyss
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It has baby dinosaurs

dense kindle
#

I was gonna wonder what my 2025 goty was gonna go to and then I realized silksong will definitely, definitely release this year

fathom juniper
# silk abyss https://tenor.com/view/spelling-mistake-minor-spelling-mistake-meme-gif-23650588

sorry - it's mw3:2:20whatever
https://youtu.be/zwQvkj2lsiQ?t=511

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green scaffold
fathom juniper
green scaffold
#

So far my GOTY is Blue Prince

dense kindle
#

oh yeah blue prince is pretty good

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I think I kinda played it too long though

green scaffold
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Because apparently as my friends say "Logan you moron you always pick smaller games you hipster"

green scaffold
lusty pendant
#

I'm also silkcoping

dense kindle
#

yeah that's the thing, the endgame is kinda... meh for me

green scaffold
#

Yeah, like that store which just wants you to grind coins is...eeeh

dense kindle
#

you run out of nice and simple puzzles to solve so all you got is the hardcore and super cryptic ones

green scaffold
#

Cannot deny it does fullfill it's purpose to have to stick around for longer

#

But after a while it gets tedious to have runs with zero progress

dense kindle
#

yeah

green scaffold
#

And unlike Hades you don't have any good combat to enjoy, unless you go "Hell yeah I placed that room in here so nicely" I guess

dense kindle
#

like one of the biggest motivators for me was finding out more about the story and seeing new rooms/locations but it just became a trickle

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which is kind of inevitable, I just wish the game had a cleaner end

green scaffold
#

Same

silk abyss
#

GOTY so far are

Blue prince
KCD2
Split fiction
Doom the dark ages
Expedition 33

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I feel like I’m missing one

dense kindle
#

idk, maybe mh wilds

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Khazan, Pirate Yakuza, Citizen Sleeper 2

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Rematch

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(Uma Musume)

green scaffold
#

Elden Ring Night-whatever it's called counts or it came and went?

dense kindle
#

it's almost like monster hunter where they're doing weekly rotations of hard bosses

green scaffold
#

Death Stranding 2

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Ah, okay

dense kindle
#

Oblivion remake even though it's just oblivion again

green scaffold
#

Nothing else hits me, there is plenty of "great, not GOTY tho" games like Atomfall or South of Midnight

#

At the end of the day it's only a title and there will be always someone complaining about it so whatever

dense kindle
#

Hades 2 probably will be goty contender for people if it does release this year

fathom juniper
green scaffold
#

Hell it will be mine if it does

fathom juniper
#

yeah remind me what doom came out this year?

#

there's rumours of a new half life floating around

dense kindle
#

dark ages, pretty good from what I've seen

#

also why did no one tell me a new zachtronics game is releasing

fathom juniper
#

who

dense kindle
#

zachtronics do engineering puzzle games

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very specific niche, but very good

#

They did Opus Magnum and Infinifactory, most famously

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they also made infiniminer which inspired minecraft

fathom juniper
#

i know some of these words

dense kindle
#

zachtronics closed down though because the guy, Zach Barth, went to go teach in college

fathom juniper
dense kindle
#

and now he's back I guess

fathom juniper
#

anyway
i'm off

#

got to get up early tomorrow FeelsTiredAF

dense kindle
#

painge

clear python
#

tucks bim in

fathom juniper
#

f this week, man

clear python
#

thank god its friday

fathom juniper
#

well i've got work tomorrow so PeepoShrug

#

it ain't friday for me

#

THAT SAID
since it is friday - i have to do an obligatory post

#

you guys want the black mesa version or the doom version?

clear python
#

you should just let us tuck you in...

#

good sleep...

fathom juniper
#

never!

clear python
#

miko, tuck this poor fool in!

mystic wave
clear python
#

aww man i gotta get up early-ish tomorrow as well

fathom juniper
strong tree
lusty pendant
#

idek if I have a top 10 games since I don't play much

#

more like Games I Liked More Than Usual

Gameplay good:

  • Rhythm Heaven
  • Pokemon mystery dungeon explorers
  • Pokemon Conquest
  • Age of empires 2
  • the old Warcraft 3 before blizzard ruined it
  • Hollow Knight
  • Celeste
  • Ori 1

Gameplay ok, carried by good overall package

  • Hadeses
  • the Nier games
  • Octopaths
dense kindle
#

More games for me I guess:
The Great Ace Attorney duology
Baba Is You
Shin Megami Tensei 4
Devil May Cry 5
Halo The Master Chief Collection

hazy bronze
#

Wario 4 Gba

lusty pendant
#

viewers vote in one deck
it's black
runner goes "black isn't the hardest for speedrunning"
proceeds to repeatedly die

rustic falcon
#

oh no LMAO

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it always makes me sad when theres a speedrun event like this and something goes wrong mid run. its so scary

fathom juniper
#

yeah but that's what makes it entertianing

#

like - to this day my favorite speedrun was the 2014 run of deus ex on...
summer games done quick, i think?

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and so, so many things went wrong in this run and seeing the guy coming up with weird im-sim strats on the spot was super fun

rustic falcon
#

mayb but getting to the end of a run and then messing up something critical is probably devastating

fathom juniper
#

oh for sure

#

but - you know
such is a nature of a competition

#

you can't win them all

fathom juniper
#

this has to be the fugliest shotgun i've ever seen

#

literally we have spas 12 at home

clear python
#

idk brother we didnt have spas 12 at home

hybrid jetty
dense kindle
#

New company but zach barth is in it

dense kindle
fathom juniper
#

wood?

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this thing has no wood

#

nah man i mean the one at 16:12

#

kinda missed the timestamp there

lusty pendant
rustic falcon
#

i see, thats great

#

i want to watch the titanfall2 speedrun i obviously missed it because i have not been keeping track of time whatsoever

lusty pendant
#

I only watched GDQ live once, when I was packing to move and needed random background noise

winter mica
#

i've started playing fields of mistria. very fun! it's very engaging and cute, the character portraits are great and i love how distinct everyone looks and acts. there are so many designs i really love. the characters also have interactions with each other, which i feel makes them and the life inside the town more dynamic and interesting.

there's some good qol aspects in there; i like that you can save without going to bed (tho you can still only dance on your home), you can buy items from stores without the npcs being there, items that go toward the museum are marked and then checked off when you've given a sample to the museum, multiple talking interactions available a day and the game indicates when the character wants to talk, stuff like that. there's also a bug catching mechanic that i haven't tried yet but it seems like it'll be fun.

#

but by god does this game suffer badly from having an enormous map

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it's just these huge tiles where you're not really zoomed out enough to tell exactly where you're going so you spend a lot of time wandering and getting lost. which i think this game sort of wants, to an extent, because it seems to be kind of pushing itself as low consequences type thing so it doesn't matter if you don't have the most optimal farm or the highest relationships the fastest

#

but it's a lot. it's somehow even worse than stardew's giant map problem.

#

at least stardew had the mining carts

fathom juniper
#

good news!

#

weird... news...

#

you can now play doom in discord dusa

clear python
#

send the gif, brother

fathom juniper
#

but then only i could play it

#

wait
can i send this?
or is this considered spam? dusa

dense kindle
#

idkfa

ocean iris
austere wadi
#

@rustic falcon Spent an hour or two yesterday reading a bunch of spoilers for E33 and ||I don't know how anyone sees "A Life To Paint" as anything but the "bad" ending. Like, if what I read is correct it's spelled out very plainly that Alicia is running away, to say nothing of how it's apparently foreshadowed that she'll end up being as destructive for Lumiere as Aline was.||

#

Am I drastically missing a point I can only get actually playing the game?

rustic falcon
#

i saw someone say today that ||they dont see many downsides to it because they do not empathize with suicidal ideas, so verso's request to die is "unreasonable". i disagree with this!||
||aside from alicia's escapism which means her family loses another child, verso is condemned to 100 More Years In The Piano Mines even though everyone else gets to live. i guess we also dont know how everyone elses lives look outside of this one cutscene||
also, have you watched it? chilling cutscene. this gifset of it from tumblr (MASSIVE E33 ENDING SPOILERS) was insane to see after finishing the game because i did not remember this
i guess the biggest point of contention about the endings is ||that you basically start the game in lumiere and the paintress is this mysterious entity. that is basically the only advertised premise of it, on steam page and so on, you know. only later on in the game it becomes clear that its a Real family drama in the larger scale and that lumiere is painted (which i dont think makes it less real). so by destroying the canvas, verso essentially destroys everyone living in there. and while facing grief and healing is a correct process for the dessendres, its not for... everyone else. and i guess we also dont know what the future holds for them||
||i found that ending also very upsetting to watch even if it doesnt have the "unsettling" feel to it||
hope this all makes sense i always feel too rambly and unclear when i try to explain myself

austere wadi
#

Makes perfect sense.

#

||I agree a little with your point about how Lumiere being Painted doesn't make it less real, but I think that Painted Verso and the Young Boy are the closest thing they have left to the real deal and both of them want to destroy the Canvas.||

rustic falcon
#

yaa i get u. also a point i did not take into account ||is that alicia is much more personally traumatized outside of the canvas, physically and mentally. she also iirc has a target on her back from the elusive writers faction who started the fire after deceiving her. out there she really will be very alone and still have a much tougher life than she will in lumiere, way more than the rest of her family (whos functionality as a unit is still very debatable - especially as people that should be able to take care of alicia and help her heal alongside them)||
i dont know, at this point i really want to replay all of it while keeping everything i know in mind so i can really think about it more. theres a lot to to consider and digest. @__@

austere wadi
#

I bounced off Mass Effect the very first time I played it and came back after getting some spoilers I really wanted to see, and now it's my second favorite space opera.

dense kindle
austere wadi
#

I've heard some things about E33's gameplay design that throw me a little (apparently the QTEs in battle matter a little too much compared to turn-based RPG conniving) but it remains on the radar.

rustic falcon
#

i also got my brother to continue the game, and i hope he likes it. i think it already has potential in his eyes because he says that he didnt mute the music in it, which already means a lot because he always does this for everything. :P

austere wadi
#

The Legendary Edition fixes some things.

dense kindle
#

yeah E33 reminds me a lot of Bug Fables, where the QTEs are insanely important to survival and damage

austere wadi
#

Doesn't really fix the maps or the level design.

rustic falcon
dense kindle
#

it was only in the crazy endgame where I yoinked an immortal build that I could kind of ignore the QTEs

dense kindle
rustic falcon
#

no

dense kindle
#

damn

rustic falcon
#

but story mode makes the window for parry and evade much more lenient (and i think they made it even more lenient in a recent patch lol)

#

and if you want even easier parry windows, i think theres a mod for that as well

#

yay for PC

dense kindle
#

I played on Geforce Now so no modding lol

rustic falcon
#

i snee

dense kindle
#

otherwise I would do the "better tooltips" mod

rustic falcon
#

i have such a collection now. a lot of them are just visual or for performance (or to remove the starting screens that are apparently nearing half a minute)

dense kindle
#

I'm not gonna play E33 much anymore, maybe in a few years or so

#

I basically 100%'d it already

rustic falcon
#

the friend i played with is also very close to 100%, just collecting all journals

dense kindle
#

it's basically collectibles for me too, but I don't feel like doing em. Also the tower

rustic falcon
#

i got this mod that changes up the ||sirene|| outfit. the original is great but this one is so cool looking :)

SPOILER_image.png
dense kindle
#

I just kept everyone in their default costumes

#

I did do the ||Maelle Obscur costume ||though, it looks like it fits in sorta, and looks really good

rustic falcon
#

i love dressing them up :) ||my friend just put everyone in swimsuits with the clea hairstyle. everyone matching so cutely so verso and his short hair look so out of place. somebody didnt get the memo||
if i knew how to mod the game (or be bothered to learn) i would give the guys cool long hair 😎

dense kindle
#

I'm not really a ||swimsuit costume|| kinda guy, it just feels kinda weird

#

even the ||hairstyles||, changing them up was funny for a sec and then I'd always immediately go back

rustic falcon
#

interesting

#

i like that you can disable outfits in cutscenes so you can just play around looking silly but the serious moments are serious. but why do that when you can experience the most emotional moments in oldtimey swimsuits?

#

i also like seeing gifs for the game because i like seeing what outfits/hairstyles other people like

silk abyss
dense kindle
#

I still think it's kinda weird.|| Maelle and Sciel have those wide-eyed Mass effect andromeda faces|| in game a lot of the time

rustic falcon
#

i need to lock in and learn how to make gifs like this again

#

not sure what u mean by that actually? i have not played it

dense kindle
rustic falcon
#

i think the problem is that everyones heads are just slightly too big for their bodies. hard to unsee when you notice it LOL but once again mods save the day

dense kindle
#

I think it's the eyes and stiff faces myself, mostly outside of full cutscenes

rustic falcon
#

i like how different everyones face is actually, some are definitely more expressive than others

#

sciel's expressions seem flatter to me than other characters but she has such a strong personality, it shines through :)

dense kindle
#

I disagree with ||Maelle's choice being the natural one though. I think given all that the game presents, it points to Verso and Renoir being right, that Maelle seems to be using the Canvas almost like an addiction to grieve. When she said she would use it responsibly to Renoir, I personally think it's pretty clear that she's lying, and that she will be here forever, until she dies in agony, without ever really healing.||

rustic falcon
#

My brain is too fried to watch a smart video rn LOL but thanks for the recommendation, how long is the video?

#

50 minutes my god

dense kindle
#

46 minutes

rustic falcon
#

Maybe I can put it in the background sometime

#

I had a speedrun in the background earlier and it was actually extremely impressive how you can finish the game in less than 3 hours while also being very very powerful

mystic wave
#

I still haven't finished e33 but is it just me or is putting roulette on every party member really strong lmao

#

Dialogue when getting roulette was really funny

woven breach
#

roulette... kinda like a wheel don't they?

#

and you might get a fortune out of them

fathom juniper
woven breach
fathom juniper
dense kindle
#

I love posting a 5 star tempered Steve only for my sos guys to triplecart

fathom juniper
#

whoa there now that's a...

#

could you dumb that down for me a bit?

#

i don't speak balatro PES_Lul

dense kindle
#

monster hunter

fathom juniper
#

ah

dense kindle
#

I randomly got a semi-rare quest for the hardest and most rewarding version of a new monster

#

posted it online for people to join

#

they died 3 times and failed my quest

rustic falcon
#

at long last! controller arrived. cat to scale

image.png
fathom juniper
#

im sorry but that's just a really funny name for a controller PES_Lul

#

game sir

#

HE

rustic falcon
#

imagine it with a little top hat

fathom juniper
#

hm yes

#

yeyeyeye

#

and a monocle

#

cool orange cat too

clear python
rustic falcon
#

interesting. i havent held a controller in years but i can see how it could be more intuitive in some cases