I don’t think I understand. They’re selling the rights to streaming the game, as in, Ubisoft’s the only party that’ll be able to stream or host streams? Does that mean that the game won’t show up on Twitch or Youtube unless Ubisoft gives the thumbs up?

I can kind of get that, if they kept 1 as the hard cap on AC. But they have 0th rate as the reference point, and then bizarre instances of negative AC. A minus third rate ship reads like a dingier third rate ship, not better than a first class ship.

all these years later and i still cant fathom why they went with an inverted dc scale

Angry dogs hate spooky basements i guess. It’s pretty haunted down there

If you’ve never played Fear and Hunger, it’s really easy to assume that there’s no tutorial. At the very start of the game, a pack of angry dogs appears and mauls you to death. If you go through the front door, the pack of angry dogs follows you and mauls you to death. You can escape from the dogs in battle, but they’ll keep chasing you on the overworld until they maul you to death.

The lesson the game wants to teach you is “Hey, don’t stick around and fight enemies that will maul you to death”, and “Hey, you should actually check out the side passages instead of the obvious way forward” because the dogs will not maul you to death if you dip into the side passage in the very first area. The game has a lot of such side passages that you need to look for later on that will save you so much grief, but you have no way but to intuit that this is something to look for in the first place after being mauled to death by dogs a few times.

ah man. I kind of liked paladin’s hussle as the overwatch lunch-stealers. Now who am I supposed to root for? TF2 again? Is that game even still alive?

these arent new or noteworthy features for a bethesda title? Even morrowind had housing and jail

Revisiting Oblivion after playing through the MSQ of ESO.

edit: saves corrupted lol

What do you mean “dont turn it into a weapon,” i have a dedicated spot on my action wheel specifically for turning things into weapons. My barbarian buddy can do it as a bonus action

human interaction, mostly. I get a lot of my new music from a guy who scours bandcamp for stuff he likes as a hobby.

no, i mean more empowered to interact with the game world. They have more agency in more arenas of play. You can play a goober of any class and have fun, i agree, but a goober who picks a “better” class will be able to create more comedies of errors beyond “Player fails to hit thing with a big stick”.

That’s actually my biggest criticism of D&D. Bards are better choices than rogues or fighters or wizards. Same goes with clerics or druids. sprinkle on a bit of paladin, a couple feats, and some magic gauntlets, and they can invalidate whole swathes of staple fantasy archetypes entirely.

Origins and the Awakening expansion. The rest are just kind of bad to play, imo. Not to say you wont enjoy the experience, I just think they’re unfun.

Huh, rimworld is kind of like sims 2 if you think about it. You control a bunch of hapless goons, build nice houses for them, and orchestrate their tragic demises.

i cannot express how disappointed i am that hes not a killer

ESO, picked it up because it was free and I have some friends who play it. The difficulty spike from literally anywhere else in the world and the imperial city is nuts, kind of wish every zone was this tough. I could do without the PvP though, I got floored pretty much any time another player showed up. Worth it for those extra skill points though.

I think you’ve nailed it by outlining the worry of kids without an income of their own - if you can’t buy what you want whenever, game length is a plus, but when you’ve got disposable income, summer sales, the odd free game, and new good titles coming out all the time, brevity’s more valuable than each game being a forever-game.

https://invidious.io.lol/playlist?list=PL57hJfweW_2uqAdRACg-s5Siq_SBEwi2L

SBFP suffer through Omikron the nomad soul. This LP is definitively the best way to experience that game

I need a high-fantasy dungeon crawl… in the immersive sim genre.

The first party nintendo series are worth checking out across the board; Mario Odyssey, Zeld 1&2, Metroid Dread, Smash Ultimate, Fire Emblem 3h, etc. etc. *edit: except pokemon, those ones are trash. Play Casette Beasts instead.

Indie titles like Hollow Knight, Stardew Valley, Celeste, and Gungeon I end up liking more than their PC versions since you can lounge in bed and play them.

Skyrim, Dark Souls really don’t need me to sell them, pick em up if you haven’t played them before, or just want to play them again. Wondeful 101, Astral Chain and Bayonetta 1 & 2 are fun.

I like Warframe, so I’ll plug that too, even though you’re probably not going to want to play it undocked since it’s an online thing.

ah man, ive given up on AC a while back, is Valhalla worth the time? I was under the impression they were all mostly the same with a different coat of paint

It’s gotta be a mix of both. If there aren’t frivolous side tasks I can do, a game feels empty to me, but without a primary set of goals, it feels aimless. Immersive sims that combine the two are my white whale. I want to defeat the big evil with fishing minigames and trading quests.

i’m definitively done with WoW, but i remember having a good time with the classless private server Ascension. The gimmick is that you put together a build of not just talents, but spells too, so you could be an archer that uses frost effects instead of snares and a pet, or a sword and shield combatant that uses shadow magic. I think they’re on the TBC expansion, but using a Wotlk client atm, which means it takes up very little harddrive space.

can’t believe musk also twittered the night sky. That’s fucked up

I believe it, I think that panning shot of rocks and grass was probably all they had, made public just to confirm that they weren’t finished with the elder scroll series. Other projects took priority.

wait like, not as a metaphor but an actual cage match? Why-- actually nah, i’m all for it, sure. I’ll be rooting for cage to win.

I think it’s less of an age cutoff and more of a binary “do you base your identity around this” sort of deal. You’d never catch me calling myself a gamer, even though I’ll play video games fairly regularly

2 or 2000 with very little variation.

That’s a perspective I haven’t heard before that makes the idea click, thank you.

I’ve never seen the point, personally. Maybe this is just one of the things i’m too poor to ever understand.