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Oneeightnine

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Hey.

I’m Dan. A 35 year old father of two who doesn’t have nearly as much time as he needs to do half the things he wishes he had the time to do.

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I’ve got to be honest, I thought the Dead Space remake was a significantly more impressive return than the RE4 one.

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In the year since I got my Steamdeck it’s become favourite way to play games. The only thing I really have an issue with…is the screen, and this looks to have addressed that issue.

Going to be real hard for me not to splurge on this.

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Serious question. How do you decide if something is garbage or not, like what’s the criteria?

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So I finished Super Mario Wonder and it’s as good as you’ve heard it to be.

And I just started playing Cult of the Lamb. Really digging that so far, although I can already feel the anxiety that usually comes along with the base management aspects of these games; so much to do, no idea what to prioritise.

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How do you take a game that’s already incredibly self-serious and make it even more so without it becoming a cliché of itself?

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This sort of thing is very personal. IIRC 2018 was the last time we had one of these years and I was really meh on the entire year. Not bad, but it certainly didn’t thrill me.

'23 has been wild though, so many games have hit with me.

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Larian are far from the only studio that’s willing to do this. The Witcher 2 features a choice after the first act that locks off one pathway in its entirety. It’s probably 5-10 hours of content that’s locked out until you play the game again (or load and make another choice I guess).

That said, I agree with your point, I wish we had more developers that are willing to take that risk.

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I think it’s probably the most unashamedly enjoyable game I’ve played in a long time.

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Spider-Man 2.

I think I’m in the final act now, and the only real complaint I have is with the >!MJ sections, which just feel stiff compared to the rest of the game, that could be entirely a personal preference thing though!<.

If there was ever a game that I’d describe as a ‘Popcorn game’, it’d be this one. There’s always something fun and engaging to do, moving your character around the world is fun and I never feel like they’re filling for length or that they aren’t respecting my time.

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This game seems almost perfectly designed to frustrate me, and yet at the same time it has me totally entranced.

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I’ve got to assume there’s some dodgy prints going around? I got a PAL version of the game on disc (standard edition) and it installed without issue, and so far I’ve not noticed any significant issues with that installation.

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Did you not read the first part of my relatively short post where I indicated that there’s probably a problem…

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Wasn’t this by design?

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Could be wrong here but based on the URL of the website it’s an industry type site. They’re probably writing for people that make games, or are involved in their publishing more than they’re writing for the average person playing them.

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Spider-Man and this on the same day. It’s too much.

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Having something of a bumper week (yay for annual leave).

I’ve played (and finished) Supbar Pool and Strange Horticulture

Subpar Pool is a golf/pool mashup that is super fun, and SH scratches an itch that I didn’t realise i needed to scratch.

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The 'ol reverse ‘Roy’ move. Love to see it…

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Seems the only downside is that they didn’t necessarily revolutionise the open world bloat problem, but that’s not really an issue for me as I don’t really have the time to engage with most of that stuff.

Might be a day 1 pickup.

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Can’t wait to not be able to buy one of these for the next five years.

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They’re a relatively small company right, I imagine they have to be incredibly careful about how much they commit to making and thus, don’t really have the ability to make large numbers of these things in one go.

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The implication here is that in order to be considered a potential game of the year it has to hit some arbitrary player count?

I’ve played plenty of games over the last decade or so that an awful lot of people would never have played, let alone heard of but that shouldn’t diminish someone’s opinion of its quality.

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I mean if they tell them they want Microsoft to donate four bags of beans each week to a charity of their choosing in order to pass the deal through the UK market then Microsoft can either say no, because it’s ridiculous or they can accept it and donate the beans and get their deal through.

Microsoft needed this deal to pass through the CMA. That gives the CMA serious power over the deal, both in the UK and worldwide.

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Why are you so invested in this?

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Kind of expected this. I’ll likely get it on sale, maybe after a few patches.

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I personally don’t think the games are launching broken because they’re on Gamepass. Redfall was a poor game, it would have been a poor game even if it wasn’t on Gamepass.

Starfield arguably benefited from Microsoft wanting it to launch on Gamepass on Day One, because they were perfectly happy to delay until it was at an acceptable state, not to mention that the dev in question is known for releasing some truly shocking stuff; 76 and Skyrim on PS3 come to mind.

As for Forza, I can’t really say. I’ve only spent an hour or so with it, and it seems no worse than what came before.

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I’ve heard absolutely nothing about this and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

On the one hand maybe the reviews are going to blow me away and it becomes a day one buy… on the other I’m getting a little worried that it’s being sent out to die.

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Didn’t they only just reform after previously being laid off?

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Lies of P. It’s probably going to end up as my game of the year.

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“Man who stands to gain from an increase in game prices advocates for increase in game prices”.

Seriously though I’m not sure there’s much more room to go on the top end when it comes to prices rises. I’ve got to think at some point you’ll just push more people into buying at sale, or waiting for a game to hit their subscription platform of choice.

Maybe it’s time we re-evaluate what makes a AAA worth £75 in the first place? And, what role do micro transactions have in this system, because anyone who’s ever spent £75 on a new AAA game will know there’s plenty of other ways they try to skin the proverbial cat.

Leaked Microsoft Documents Show the Xbox Series S Might Be More Popular Than You Think - IGN (www.ign.com)

Since its release in 2020, the Xbox Series S has been the subject of debate over its value within the current hardware generation lineup due to being less powerful than the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. It turns out, Microsoft's $300 Series S is more popular than the Series X....

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Is anyone surprised? I thought it was common knowledge that the S outsold the X by a pretty sizable margin?

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Microsoft pushing it as the affordable next-gen console didn’t hurt. I’m not sure how that decision will play out going forward for Microsoft, but it’s been a pretty effective strategy so far.

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Really excited for Cocoon. It’s from one of the people that made Inside and Limbo. And I guess this will give me a chance to test Gotham Knights.

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That’s fine. I still feel like we’re not getting nearly as much out of these machines as we could be, another few years without having to worry about stumping out £500 will be nice.

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Having a lot of fun with it, but I’m not really that nostalgic for F-Zero, despite playing a fair bit of it back in the day.

Now give me a Super Mario Kart version of this sort of thing and I’ll be totally sold.

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I absolutely love your description of the game being ‘big empty rooms’. I think I’ve come to the same conclusion in the last 24 hours. The space stuff and the on-planet stuff feels disjointed and unconnected. The way you traverse the universe is incredibly underwhelming (so many menu’s) and the actual game design just feels so 2008.

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Mostly waiting for Lies Of P to land in a day or two. I have spent more time with Starfield, but as I mentioned in a previous comment, I think I’m reaching the end of my time with that one.

I don’t think it’s ‘bad’, but I do think it’s a severely compromised game that underwhelms more than it should for a game of it’s budget and the team behind it. There’s moments where you can see so much potential but it is always somewhat hidden by this mid 2000s design that I thought we’d moved past.

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Absolutely none of that makes any sense to me. What does it (likely) mean for the people who are going to be buying one of these?

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I’ll probably play a little Starfield, and maybe Rocket League with my brother. Other than that I’m patiently waiting for Lies Of P to hit Gamepass on Tuesday.

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I think (for me atleast) the larger issue is the fact that I have to engage a cut-scene to land on a planet. I don’t have an issue with a loading screen in order to get into the system, or even just outside of the planets atmosphere, but it’s kinda weak that I also have a loading screen when landing.

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How does that thing run?

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Good to hear. I’ve already finished ZD on the PS4 but it’s nice to know the Deck can handle that sort of thing.

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Valve’s doesn’t help with it’s ‘Verified’ status. I picked up Dead Space because it’s verified. Within an hour I’d hit the refund button. It ran. It ran at 20fps and looked like absolute ass, but it ran. Not sure that’s what they should be pushing people towards however.

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I guess they’re wanting to show that it can handle the very biggest games? Problem is if people can’t trust the verification process then it’s effectively useless. After my Dead Space issue I’ve already made it standard practise to check ProtonDB before I grab a game.

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I’m honestly amazed that anyone could have completed it more than once already. I’ve played it every day since Friday and I feel like I’ve barely got out of the opening seconds of the game.

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Man, Q3 2024 is gonna be Xbox’s to own…

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I mean yeah, it’s absolutely that.

List of specific video game communities on the Threadiverse, feel free to comment with more (kbin.cafe)

When I mean “specific,” I mean things like something dedicated to a certain genre, a certain video game, to gaming suggestions, to asking whether you should buy a certain game… anything that isn’t just one catch-all for any video gaming topic. So I’m not including the various !games@instance or !gaming@instance links....

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I run both !currentlyplaying and !photomode

Currently Playing is a place to discuss what you’re currently playing and Photo-Mode is a place to share in game screenshots and photographs you’ve taken whilst playing.

Sorry if the links are messed up. I’ve got no idea the right way to link at this point. The whole system seems a bit of a mess.

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