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PaperclipPerfector  13d ago (text post)   2140 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 6, 2024

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I’m still playing Star Wars Outlaws, primarily out of inertia in the hour a day between finishing with the laundry / dinner / clean-up / other chores and sleeping, and while my SO writes. The thing about Ubisoft games is they’re not exciting enough to keep you awake, but they’re stimulating enough to gently calm you down. Kind of like a mediocre drug, like microdosing shrooms or consuming low-THC weed, except possibly healthier (this is I assume debatable).

I am very much looking forward to the new Dragon Age. I have been waiting for 10 years and will likely enjoy myself immensely even if it is bad. Because I now have actual responsibilities and a social life I am even considering taking a couple of days off to play it, but I will wait for the reviews first in case it’s very buggy.

What makes you think you'll enjoy it?

I’m a sucker for the lore and know literally everything about it. It’s probably the only fictional setting I really know everything about.

And other than Andromeda I’ve enjoyed pretty much every BioWare game to some extent, so I doubt it will be so bad as to be no fun at all.

I don't get the 'knowing about the universe' part at all. Some of the SW games and media are cool- i really liked Dark Forces game and also Tie Fighter, the one game where you could play for the right side, but the closer you look the worse it gets. I used to read the wiki they had to see the lore but it's really ..dire.

These days if I want a decent skiffy game I just play Stellaris some. Real future is just too horrific to contemplate.

But wouldn't that make you even less interested?

Bioware has not released a passable game in over 10 years, all the original or even senior writers have either left or been fired, the game has been rebooted twice with the leads fired, with EA taking more or less full control as well as cleaning house of experienced people after the lastest reboot and the trailers look atrocious.

This game being decent seems like it would be one of the greatest upsets and comebacks in gaming history.

The gameplay footage released over the last week looks pretty good to me.

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