RogueSix wrote on Feb 10, 2025, 11:03:
Apparently they want to put you in the position where you are moving about the virtual tabletop. While that might be cool for novelty's sake for a few turns, I bet this will become super-disorientating once you get past turn 50 or so, let alone when you are far advanced in 'one more turn' binge mode. Your head will likely literally be spinning like 'wait, where is my capital bro?!?'.

Can confirm. I got Triangle Strategy for the Quest, in an effort to find something to actually use it for (after picking one up for somewhat cheap on Black Friday). Similar deal, where you move around on the chessboard and (in theory) move the pieces with your hands.

I just don't like VR games in general. I didn't even enjoy Alyx that much. The novelty wears off so fast. And once that's gone, I'd much rather just sit down on my ass with a gamepad or kb/mouse, than awkwardly wave my arms about, or having to turn my head this way or that way with the FOV of someone trying to peer out of a mailbox and unable to use their eyeballs. It's disorienting and annoying. It also gets pretty damn clammy and sweaty for any 30+ minute session inside in the summer heat, unless you've got aircon blasting.

Not my worst purchase ever, but it's up there.

Just got through ACT 2 and I actively hate the boss fights. They were clearly going for a dark souls vibe and while the combat engine itself is pretty solid for an ARPG, I'm not having fun at all. Bosses just have way too much HP and it's this protracted chip-fest where you get to start over any time you lose focus and fall asleep and run out of flask. And they rarely drop anything.

I have zero desire to continue act 3 at this point, so I'm going to wait and see where they go with the balancing. Community seems split down the middle so, we'll see, but I can't imagine them leaving the drop-rates like they are now. In its current form, it sure isn't for me.

This comment was edited on Dec 9, 2024, 19:44.

Yifes wrote on Jun 6, 2024, 15:36:

Yeah, it’s a card game for people who like card games and deck builders. It’s nothing like XCOM aside from some minor tactical and research elements.

The comparisons to XCOM probably resulted in a lot of disappointed gamers and contributed to the poor sales.

I don't generally play or enjoy card games, nor do I follow the Marvel universe at all, but overall I really enjoyed my time with Midnight Suns. The card and tactics part of it was solid, and really fun.

They went way overboard with the Abbey content though. Not often you see a game where it would so clearly be better if it just shortened or cut some parts, but this is one... The dating minigame and gift matching in particular, ugh.. Had to sit there with the Wiki on my laptop next to me, because I just couldn't be bothered, but wanted to maximize friendships for the combat power Unless you want to do extra laps, i.e. artificially extend the game, you kind of have to make the stupid gifts and conversation choices count, and can't just ignore that part of the game.

FloorPie wrote on May 6, 2024, 01:15:
Well...apparently 200k or so negative reviews in 48 hours got Sony to wake up and smell the roses. Sony capitulates and admits "its still learning" about the PC world.

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/1787331667616829929

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1cl9z62/news_from_playstation_themselves/

The right call for sure.

If they wanted to retroactively get people onto their platform, all they had to do was offer some kind of cosmetic for linking. I guarantee most people would sign up. There'd still be some grumbling from the people who categorically refuse and therefore miss out, but not even a candle next to the dumpster fire they started here.

FO4 is still the only game I've ever refunded on Steam, heh.

In usual Bethesda engine fashion, jank is a given. So when I tried unlocking the framerate (past 60fps), the engine physics and collision went a bit mad and the player character would get stuck everywhere. My urge for playing the game wasn't high enough to put up with it as I had burned out hardcore on FO3 already.

The 3080 MSRP wasn't bad, but it was a complete fantasy figure. Short of the pre-orders who may have eventually gotten their cards up to a year or more later, I doubt a single card was actually sold at MSRP. At least not over here in the EU.

You guys should read their dev newsletter that they send out occasionally to keep us whales in "the loop" (my level of whaledom, for the record, being a mere backer).. Just wall upon wall of nonsensical low-level meaningless details that tells me this thing is never seeing completion. Here's an example from a random mail:

AI (Content)
The Content Team spent January working on early versions of the engineer, hygiene, hawker, and tourist behaviors.

The first pass on the engineer handles maintenance operations for wall panels inside ships and hangars, including inspecting internal fuses and replacing them if damaged. The initial implementation of the hygiene behavior gives NPCs the ability to use toilets, sinks, and showers, while the Hawker is a generic activity that handles various street vendors and speakers. For example, NPCs manning hotdog or taco stands. The first pass on the tourist behavior deals with characters going to and traveling around areas to look at points of interest.

The team are also looking to introduce new behaviors into the ‘leisure’ and ‘eat and drink’ activities, such as vending and arcade machine use.

Important stuff getting done, boys and girls.

Don't be. In many ways, Poland is deeper down the populism hole than the US, along with their friends in Hungary...

Slick wrote on Oct 13, 2020, 21:50:
Who is paying to play a SP RPG in an unfinished state? You only get one crack at it.

I think for a lot of people who do EA (me not being one of them, for the record), part of the fun comes from being "part of" the development process. I.e. discussing things on the forums at a point in time when the devs are very likely to at least read some of it, without necessarily answering... Or just being involved with the community in general. Probably not too dissimilar from being part of a modding community as a non-modder, where most of the releases are janky-ass unplayable messes But it's fun to check out updates, follow project progress etc and discuss with other people on the forums..

Looks exactly like Odyssey and Origins in all the key ways. Could almost be a Viking reskin. Might pick up on a 75% type sale eventually but I'm completely burnt out on Ubigames and have been for years now. For the people who still enjoy the formula though, it looks like it should be great.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jun 8, 2020, 15:12:
I am not proud of it, but I also did them all.. like really all, I did my once-100% run .. exactly once (and discovered there are quests you can silently fail.. not amused). But I had a mod to make carrying all the stuff possible without going back anywhere, don't think I would have done it otherwise. So I can see why the devs would want to change that

Honestly, being able to install a mod and delete carrying caps has to be THE best part playing on PC.

For anyone in the market for a twin stick shooter, I can't recommend Nex Machina enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29JfyVQroTY
Underrated&forgotten gem with a kickass chip tune soundtrack, awesome graphics and gameplay if you like twin stick/bullet hell type games. Eminently playable across all skill ranges too. Main negative is it's pretty short if you don't have any interest in scoring/achievement and just want to run through the campaign once or twice.

Bought the EA version immediately upon finishing Subnautica, but I'm waiting to play until it's done

Slick wrote on Apr 30, 2020, 01:56:
Anyone else just absolutely fed up with theses so-called "open world" games?

It's like the first time anyone discovers something that works, everyone has to overuse it till they run it into the ground. Happens to basically everything, but jesus I'm so sick and tired of having to find the game within the game.

Me too. You just know you're in for 60 plus hours of big beautifully crafted (and I'm sure very expensive) worlds, but almost universally shallow gameplay mechanics, plot and story line stretched way too thin, and the overwhelmning feeling of "I've played this game before".

Looks pretty good. Considering testing it out since XCOM Chimera has been pissing me off with a certain bug that keeps eating my squad members' items between missions. While you CAN fix it with console commands (or reloading) it's getting oh so tedious at this point...

Delay huh? First time for everything.

Amazing soundtrack. Nothing like music to evoke nostalgia

Think I'll give it another listen on Spotify rather than play the game again though. Really enjoyed it back in the day but not a fan of the AC series anymore. I've pretty much overdosed on the type of open-world game that it is in general.

Recommend watching the latest Noclip podcast - Designing DOOM Eternal with Hugo Martin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBHIalb01ew

Along with the positive previews it's looking like a day 1 purchase.

Bill Borre wrote on Dec 10, 2019, 18:47:
Predators are mammals?

Ground breakingly generic!

Straight for the chainmail bikini trope.

Glad it's doing well for them and I hope they get to make another where they get to apply what they've learned.

Enjoying it so far, close to the end but haven't quite finished it yet.. Weak 8/10 for me at the moment. I enjoy both Metroidvania and the From games but I have to say CJ is pretty spot on. The story and characters are weak. The game starts strong but starts dropping off the closer you get to the end. Backtracking for treasure and upgrades is one of the main things in these games but:

1. 90% of chests just have cosmetics. These should have just been story unlocks or something.
2. The game is screaming for fast travel. Going back for that chest you missed is too much of a chore when you not only have to walk all the way out there, you also have to walk back to your ship when you're done. And not every passage you see on the map is traversable in both directions because.. leveldesign...

Aside from that, there's some jank but I haven't had a crash in 20+ hours. Combat feels a bit wonky and not crisp at all. I hear the parry window is tied to frame rate which would explain some of my frustrations in tougher encounters. Star Wars atmosphere on point and some of the environments are amazing (kinda wish it was a CRPG with these production values... oh well).