Onystri
16d ago
You mean the attempt to use every pejorative in the dictionary over the ~40ish articles to show how much he hates it? I loved ME2 and it is most replayed game from ME series for me. Gameplay was vastly improved compared to ME1.
Onystri
30d ago
I have a stash of cheap spicy ramen noodles in my house that I get a craving for once a few months. I personally blame this on my experiences in university where after training in the evening the hot cup of noodles just kept me going and now this flavor is stamped on my soul forever.
Onystri
2mo ago
Do Steeler fans still love football or it's just a tradition of punishing your liver on Sunday?
Onystri
2mo ago
I tried, but the buy in for the story didn't work for me at all, even Godclads wasn't that thick.
Onystri
2mo ago
The new Necropolis look is just straight from some YA book.
Onystri
2mo ago
This is all amazing, shame that the game for me was a murderhobo simulator and nothing else. In a way I can see myself and a few friends getting a few beers and discuss after a playthrough (entirely like I did when the Game of Thrones tv show was coming out), but the game seems to not care about delivering it's themes, so I ended up not bothering at all.
Onystri
2mo ago
I seem to think about souls games as a mish-mash of stuff that looks cool. Giant castles with one super lift(with chasm below) that goes on forever is a choice the devs decided on. Kingdom Come Deliverance is western culture and souls games are not.
Onystri
2mo ago
The only thing George wrote for Elden Ring is his name on the cover and incest in the dlc.
Kidding, not Kidding. From Software doesn't do plot, or narrative. The one game where they tried to consciously write was Sekiro and it can clearly be seen that they can't really pull it off. (I will await for inevitable arrival of people that will claim that I'm wrong and Miyadzaki is a genius). Currently playing through Wukong slowly and what I've seen from first 3 chapters is miles above what From Software released in last 10 years, combined.
Onystri
6mo ago
Seconding Mother of Learning, it's truly is a rare gem from RoyalRoad AND it's still available fully on the website, despite the books on kindle. After looking through tens of works on RR that don't seem to have any hint of coherent ending around this decade I bought the books just as a "thank you" for the author. One curious "error" from writing continuously is still present though -
Otherwise a lot of works on RR starts to blend together with each other in my mind, oh berserking skill + healing, daring aren't we?
I just feel like any game that I start these days I have to finish (in a week or so, don't delay) or otherwise I wont ever pick it back up. But what helps I found is to dedicate a 1-2hr time to dive into a game (new or old) and if after that the desire to close the game still there, well......
But I also noticed that there are some game mechanics I simply cannot tolerate these days, so I just skip the game when the reliance on those mechanics increases. Like doom eternal, no I don't want to hippity-hop all over the "combat arena" and swap weapons 1500 times in rapid succession. I loved doom 2016, look how they massacred my boy (
Onystri
8mo ago
got railed by Andrew Tate
so if nothing happened by her own admission, why include this?
Onystri
8mo ago
Isn't those number so high due to conscription mostly? And after 1973 it drops with no sign of recovering.
Onystri
9mo ago
This is only semi-related to the article, but I can see an argument in the comments about how "Claudine Gay job was mostly administrative and scientific/academic credentials are not that important".
Onystri
9mo ago
Eeh, I'm on a nostalgia/clean-steam-library path recently. Nox is the greatest isometric action game, fite me.
Onystri
9mo ago
I tried to replay the game recently but couldn't get over the slow start before you actually get to play with upgraded toys, and the base defense tutorial mission put me to sleep.
Onystri
10mo ago
Richard Hanania recently had a podcast with Russian Libertarian Michail Svetov if anyone wants to listen.
"Talk with Richard Hanania about the American Imperialism in the age of Woke, the state of Pax Americana, triumph of identity politics, ideology in US foreign policy and the great political realignment."
Onystri
1yr ago
That is true, yet thinking about the games I played recently there were only few that I enjoyed/appreciated the sound design(they were mostly single player games, so full headphones and no distractions, or something like 2018 GoW with one person playing and other just along for the ride on a couch).
Looking back at this year with Remnant 2, Diablo 4, BG3 coop games - for me audio is not even top 20 reason why I played them...
Onystri
1yr ago
I've visited computer clubs to play games back in a day and somehow with 20-40 people sitting in a giant room all playing games I've never had the problem you describe.
Just lower volume, enable subtitles so not to miss out on dialog if you get distracted or add headphones that your partner can shout over if you're about to get dunked under t1 tower. What exactly are you playing that you have this......issue?
Onystri
1yr ago
Sea of stars is vastly overrated, Chained Echoes is superior in every way.
Hmm, I'm looking right now at the introduction scene for ME2 Jack and then again for BG3 Karlach.
Neither is really outstanding but my perception is that Karlach is sort-of-YA adjacent, maybe it's the funny fuck word that I did not expect while I was sort of surprised that it takes a while for Jack to swear. Need to think about it more, seems like Jack and Karlach is a interesting pair to compare.
I use Seal for audio downloads.
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