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Evil Timmy
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I'm an electro/glitch/bmore/breaks DJ and long-time avid gamer from Hong Kong. BitTorrent is another one of my hobbies, and I've been an active part of the community since early 2003.
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This game has solidly improved since release, and in particular the switch to full deck at the start + buyable random cards in the world made the game much more fun and dynamic. Trial of the Worm seems to further that variability, and I especially like the choose-your-corruption option, so I can tailor the difficulty for more rewards rather than the occasionally punishing un-fun combo of cards that makes a level a slog (I'm looking at you, Cost of Avarice). Pet Tallboy is just icing on the cake.
Jack Thompson is in the news using video games as an excuse for unstable murderers? I thought we had at least a full decade separating us from the Aughts and his having any slight relevance whatsoever by now...
Absolutely nobody asked for more story bits or anime elements, they're always the worst parts of these games. A heavy dose of garishly amateur filmmaking with Hellow Fellow Kids wannabe-cool scripting that adds nothing to the game, hard pass. A solid roster of cars highlighting classic rivalries, heavy customization, a bunch of slightly silly but awesome tracks/areas, and a banging soundtrack, that's what NFS is about. The story should be limited to: you drive fast(er) /or/ you cop catch fast car. Done.
The public is clamoring for sequels to Wacky Wheels and Jazz Jackrabbit, when will you listen?! Though TBH I'd kill for a sequel to Tyrian, the SHMURPG is a woefully underrepresented genre, only Jets'n'Guns has really scratched that itch since.
Haven't seen that much blown-out bloom since the early 2000s.
Game Ready*
*Readiness may vary from release to release, talk to your doctor if your high clock speeds last more than four hours
*Readiness may vary from release to release, talk to your doctor if your high clock speeds last more than four hours
As usual, no love for Dropmix, a fun party/partner game with intuitive card-based DJ-mashup remixing as the core gameplay element.
El Pit wrote on Nov 21, 2021, 14:42:Still 35 years ahead of that other beta.
Battlefield 2042 - the date when the game will be ready for release.
If you want to try the beta hotfix that seems to fix problems for a lot of PC players, go to the beta tab and use password juliannashotme
So say we all.
The Commando (starter character) sucks, I really dug the Engineer, who's unlocked by completing 30 total stages. You get a pair of turrets that mirror the bonuses your character has, so they can get quite powerful after a few upgrades. Haven't dived back in since right around release, so I think I'll give this another run. Or two. Or three...
It's map-view top down, so no, not really side-scrolling. I've put over...*checks*...wow, 40 hours into this game already, and it's a ton of fun. The semi-demanding gameplay and delightful consomme of boiled down roguelite tropes and RPG inventory management, and getting the balance of difficulty right for your run with how and when you place cards, deciding whether to risk another round and only go home with 30/60% of your loot, or call it at the campfire with all spoils intact, it's involving without needing you to do every second of the clicking.
The first two definitely got the world-building and story right, but I must say I loved the adventuring in Gothic III, mostly due to the diversity of the environments. Emerging from the dense forest into deserts or snowy hills amped up the sense of progression and depth. It also seems the publishing world was rattled by CP2077's shaky release and resulting backlash, and PB has nothing to do with this game, so it might be the first Gothic game that actually gets released in a solidly playable state.
"The Medium cannot run with constant 60fps on the RTX3080, even at 1080p/High/RT Off settings" DSO Gaming is pretty unimpressed with the performance, this seems to be well into "wait for a few patches" territory.
GTA 6 rival 'EVERYWHERE' set to come to PS5 & Xbox Series X|SYep, because to be a GTAV rival, it'd have to come to three different console generations.
I remember downloading the Wacky Wheels shareware from a local BBS, and realizing that the maps that looped behind the menu to entice a purchase were stored in the game's directory, and I could play them too by renaming them to the name of the actual demo circuit that was included. In the single digits age-wise getting most of a game for free was a huge win, so thanks for the fun Apogee! Now where's my ray-traced version of Tyrian?
It's got a weird lofi pixel art style where the scale's inconsistently applied, so it looks more alpha patchwork WIP art rather than an intentional style choice. Dabbled in the Postal series here and there and this doesn't resemble the oddball small town USA setting or style whatsoever, nor the style of combat.
It seems like this is the kind of tech the UE5 demo is relying on, and given that game assets have generally been packed and streamed based on spinning platter HDDs (and in many cases, have a strong legacy from discs, with ~100ms seek times and sub-10MB/s transfer rates at best), we were due for a generational leap. Nvidia's already got their own branded version with RTX I/O, and being able to rely on NVME-level random IOPS and overall speed combined with video cards that can do more of the decompression work themselves should start to change assumptions about the level of detail and scope we can put into gaming experiences. Dwarf Fortress depth, Control visuals.
Deathloop's trailer in the PS5 State of Play showed some of the strongest personality among a bunch of generally gorgeous looking games, and I hope that carries through in a NOLF kind of way, where even the small design decisions have that bit of added flair. Glad they're taking time to get it right, but it seems like the console launches this holiday season are getting more and more barren, and it'll be a tougher sell with a minuscule library of new games to get people excited. My next PC upgrade will definitely be steered by what next-gen games are starting to require, but if there's not much out there to demand it, why bother?
If what you're after is "SUPERHOT, but more" this is exactly it. The roguelite semi-randomness and increased variety of skills and enemies means there's just more to sink your teeth into.
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