Dang, I hate it when they offer a game that I had already paid for a while back, but I've actually been lucky in that regard, Control being one of the very few Epic freebies that I previously gave up cash for, even though it was at a discount. I tried to play Control twice a few months apart, and just got frustrated with it when getting stuck on a boss fight with no motivation to keep at it. Just okay gameplay for me, so I wish I'd waited for now. Genshin was fun for about a month for me, until it turned into a boss grind for rare levelling mats. Might come back some times and check out the new areas added since.

Synthetic Data was played by Brent Spiner. He is singular.

SlimRam wrote on Jun 5, 2021, 20:23:
I've watched this video twice and I still don't know what the hell this game is about??? And that's after reading the damn description...

I'm a kickstarter backer. This game has a fun twist on the usual adventure format in that all the characters, including you, change forms into cats or dogs (other other things, maybe?) so you can explore places and things in ways that are normally not available to plain humans. And yes, it'll be available in English voices and text for us single-linguists.

I used to love playing NFS: Porsche Unleashed, with the classic car collecting and driving, but it got to where it would crash constantly on newer computers and just wouldn't work any more. Love for that one to get a reboot/revamp.

I know Japan has heavily invested in the Olympics being a big success, but I don't think it's gonna happen. Despite being delayed a year, lots of places worldwide still have major problems with the pandemic, and Japan in particular has only less than THREE PERCENT vaccination rate in their country, with things approaching fast. I'm guessing that either it'll draw sparse crowds and have many absent nations, or more likely to me, it'll just get cancelled outright, despite Japanese objections and money. I have no idea why they can't seem to get shots to their people, it's not like they're ignorant anarchists like we've got here afraid of some weird government conspiracy, and we've manage over 50% vaccination. As it is now, if they have a fully attended, fully crowded normal-style olympics, it would probably be a super-spread event that eventually kills thousands. EDIT: It's possible they might just delay it another year, which would put it back in sync with being in the same year as the Winter Olympics, like it used to be years ago.

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Quinn wrote on May 19, 2021, 05:57:
The managing of your faithful bike by modding it and keeping it filled with gas reminds me directly of exactly the same gameplay mechanic in Mad Max. The melee combat has the same level of visceral flavor (though less like the Batman Arkham games than Mad Max was). The claiming of outposts, the sneaking, the resorting to ranged combat when sneaking fails... it all just feels like Mad Max to me. Maybe I am indeed alone in this, but my mind keeps giving me flashes of Mad Max while playing Days Gone. Days Gone also has the same "shallowness" (that I find deep enough to enjoy both games deeply) as Mad Max that is hard to put your finger on what causes it.
So yeah, if you liked Mad Max, you will maybe like this one too!

Dammit, are you trying to make me spend my money!? Mad Max is one of my favorite underrated games, which I've replayed about every 8 or 9 months since I first got it. I was gonna wait until later for this game, but comparing Days Gone to Mad Max might make me pull the trigger on a purchase now. Thanks for manipulating my weak emotions!

Xero wrote on May 18, 2021, 16:58:
I want this but I'm not sure how my aging PC will fair. i7 (unknown processor speed or what gen it is), 16gb memory and a 1070ti... I'm thinking my PC might start shooting flames out the rear at some point.

Right click on the "This PC" (formerly My Computer) icon on your Windows desktop and select "Properties" which will give you more detailed reading of some of your hardware info. There are other ways to get to that screen, but this is easiest.

Heltorne wrote on May 18, 2021, 17:08:
Awesome, sounds fun, where are you grabbing it from for $40??

Green Man has it for 17% off when I look, which is $41 and change. I'm tempted but I just started the Mass Effect redux and have pre-ordered Biomutant which is out next week... so kinda busy. Might be even bigger sale next month.

I have applied a patent for "Object on screen looks like a real world object." Every single game maker, publisher, and player now needs to please pay me $27 per game you own, publish, and/or play. If not, my lawyers will see you in court. Thank you.

Five million? from a large oil company? That's like ten minutes worth of profit, possibly less.

Fishing simulators are like racing sims, the more detailed and complicated it is, the less fun it probably is for most people.

Penguins got this beat through prostitution! Penguin females will trade sex for nest pebbles. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/penguin-prostitutes/559133/

I got WD1 and 2 either cheap or free, and couldn't get into either one of them. Too much GTA, not enough fun, at least to me.

What if my name is NOT Bob? Do they make toys for Dave?

Based on the book by JRR Token.

"60 minute demo" so I guess you still only get an hour of time, you just get a wider number of days to choose that hour.

I assume Richard Sherman is NOT the same as "Bobby" Sherman?

Kinda worried about how the game description says "mixing the free exploration..., and non-linear storytelling" and yet most of the reviews say that it is VERY linear with NO free exploration. Emphasis that it is NOT a S.T.A.L.K.E.R clone. Yet it looks interesting to me. Wish there was a demo.

366 days this year? February two months ago only had the normal 28 days, no leap day so no leap year. Unless we got some other day added out of nowhere? How about two days of Halloween?

"The richest person in North Carolina" is about like being "The best tanned guy in Alaska." It's not a very high bar to reach.

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