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just replayed portal 2- it's so close to being perfect.

there are just a few too many useless pixel-hunting segments in the middle section. remove a few of those and I have literally zero criticisms

Also, replaying this made me realize that the stanley parable was almost a direct parody

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Red Dead Redemption 2 (PC)

it's a mixed bag. i wouldn't have bought the game if a friend didn't also get it simultaneously. the contrast between the ultra-scripted story missions and open world is almost too much

the context-sensitive buttons are another weak point. "See interaction options" is the same button as "Aim Weapon", and it's periodically unclear which will occur when you hit L2.

The game also loves to cap your movement speed- either forcing you to walk or your horse to trot, and you won't know if tapping X will speed you up until you try. I found this one maddening.

But despite this, I was in the mood for western-themed episodic stories and happy going with the more linear flow. I went in with low expectations and they were exceeded.

The online is fun so far, even if my friends and I spend most of our time driving our horses into each other. I imagine it would be miserable to buy into the grind.

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A Way Out (pc)

That was super fun. I wish more games were like this, and/or they were more commercially viable

It's cool that if one person owns the game, their friend can play with them for free. Should really be the standard

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Middle-Earth: Shadow of War (PC)

I'm not sure where to start. I loved the core gameplay in the first game. I still love it in this one.

The combat is more challenging because it'll throw more enemies with more variety at you, but you also get more powers.

The stealth and traversal is easier. In some ways I'd compare it to the jump from Arkham asylum to Arkham city.

The plot is broken up more distinctly into arbitrary quest lines, some of which might bore you. Or at least confuse you. Enemies and allies die and come back time time and time again for vague lore reasons, yet play off each death as important

There's a pseudo twist near the end and a climactic final boss. Far cry from the quick time event in the first game. Shadow of War really should've ended there, or at least more strongly indicated that the postgame had begun. I played another few hours of typical gameplay just to get a cutscene.

Anyway, I didn't notice any microtransactions, even though there were obvious places where they could be plugged in. I think there were microtransactions upon release which is horrific. Thankfully they were taken out and the game rebalanced.

The forts were obviously designed to be money sinks. The upgradable gear with power levels were obviously designed for that as well. I didn't do anything with either system, except equip whatever I already had with the highest level, and I was fine.

I'm not sure if I'll do any true postgame stuff. I could upgrade gear by essentially trophy hunting. Each item has a repeatable mini quest to unlock new powers and bump up its power score.

Dumbest part of the game? The battle arenas, where you watch your minions fight and your character can't interfere, kind of like in pokemon when your friend trades you a level 100 blastoise that won't do what you say. I also ignored this mechanic

I dunno. I got this through a humble bundle, have nothing going on in my life and I enjoyed it. I am on the defensive because my friends gave me a lot of crap for even installing it

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scythe is a very demanding game

i think it has the least intuitive control scheme out of any board game i've played. when i have any new or fairly casual players, this one needs to stay in the box because they're going to be frustrated and walloped.

i imagine it's pretty good if you have a group that regularly improves at it

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simulacra: pipe dreams (pc)

the live action 'fake ads' were worth the price of admission. maybe i'd like it more if i or a close friend were addicted to candy crush

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great list, and thanks for making it

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i played The Witness in parallel with a friend and it was a great experience. it's probably the most fair and immersive puzzle game. it has a beautiful production value, too.

it gets a little bit of that adventure game/myst aesthetic without any of the bullshit. the ability to just wander to a different part of the island and make progress when you're stuck is wonderful.

i never went for any of the difficult stuff that i would consider to be "postgame" because i wasn't prepared for that level of intensity. the "main" stuff was perfect.

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I have a friend that plays hanabi online almost daily

What an interesting community that is

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Ugh, am I really going to reinstall crosscode? I think I quit just before the good part.

I like your writing style. 100% going to make my friend play spy party now

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Apparently it only takes 30 to beat, which isn't too bad, so what do I know. I was probably playing inefficiently


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I have some strong feelings about CrossCode. I absolutely adore the premise, aesthetics, and gameplay.

The puzzles are good and the boss fights rewarding. The platforming and exploration is complex, if infuriating- as you mentioned.

The reason why I abandoned the game after maybe 20 hours was because of the pacing. Both in story and gameplay loop.

The overworld grinding and exploring and dungeon puzzling and boss fights are all good to great, but once you start a dungeon, you're stuck in there for the next few hours. Once you're done with a dungeon, you're not going to see another one for even longer. When you want to explore a new area, you'd better kill robot rabbits for 30 minutes first and maybe craft some armor

I didn't like the dungeon vs sleep time mechanic in the persona series- it was always to your advantage to burn through a dungeon in a single game night- but it at least gave you a choice

There are about three or four different games in cross code (grinding and crafting, dungeon puzzles, dungeon bosses, exploration "puzzles") , and I don't get to choose which to play when I boot it up

Lastly, and this is a design choice meant to simulate the doldrums of mmo play, the story is just too slow moving for me.

Everything is pretty interesting for the first few hours. It sets up a premise and a lot of mysteries. The organization of the theme park's history vs the real planet's history vs all the players' real lives vs the protagonist's predicament is intriguing.

But at about 2 hours they dump you in the mmo and say "play", and nothing related to the main plot happens for the following 15.

Maybe I quit at just the wrong time, or I'm at the wrong stage of life to get sucked into such an involved game, but I felt like the game was not respectful of my time and agency

Man, I want to love the game. It gets a lot right and is rough in these few ways. I'm really glad it exists. It's the modern adaptation of getting lost in a SNES fever dream where you're six years old and only allowed to play an hour a day and the game just goes on forever and you wish you could burn through the game faster because you like the characters and world and want to see where they go.

This is the risk of big, complex games like this. Pacing is the easiest thing to sacrifice.

I will probably go back to the game someday and hack my save file to skip the grinding and crafting. I'm just not ready yet

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Disco Elysium (PC)

the best writing in a game, i think ever. extremely dense. reminds me that i am happier when i'm reading a lot of books.

the tone shifts as the game progresses

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Hotline Miami 2 is worth playing. I wouldn't say that it misses the point, it's just different.

The main thing is that the difficulty starts right where 1 leaves off and only goes up from there.

Hm1 was ultimately an easy game, and in hm2 it takes more practice and familiarity with the levels to get into the flow state the first game was renowned for.

On the other hand, if you liked the gameplay of hotline Miami 1 more so than the story I would consider 'ape out' a must play

Lastly, I've recently stopped playing rocket league. Not because it's a bad game, but because I realized I had hit 900 hours on steam and felt embarrassed

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Tag

Yep, pyre is my favourite as well. But it's obviously the most unique/ different, so icould understand being turned off

Some great characters, art, and magic basketball


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Doom 2016 is the good shit. Best single player shooter ever made. Raw fun.

Mass effect 2 was a great experience, but I don't know if I can ever play it again. The gameplay is long and kind of tedious. My enjoyment of the game came almost completely from my investment in the world, characters, and story, and since I already know the twists I dont think it'd be the same.

Doom's lore is silly although I like the high level concept. At least it doesn't get in the way of the actual game

Didn't play nioh.

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HaRRicH posted...

I heard ME's sequel didn't fix ME's issues and that is a shame -- still don't have another 3D series that nails running like this.

I actually recommend dying light as the closest thing, although the first 90 minutes are a little scarier/ slower than you might like

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Wysiwyg editors are indeed development hell

Hopefully they're using a third party library, at least

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Body shedding? Ugh

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Originally saw it as an ampersand for sure

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Speak for yourself, I love the Netflix show

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Sm64 is a perfect introduction to 3d gaming

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Nancy Pelosi

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Huh. I assumed the planet of the apes movies were garbage. I'll have to do some research

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Apparently the US launched strikes on locations in Iraq and Syria believed to be controlled by Iran.

Ugh. Two nights ago a friend and I were ruminating that w did so well in his midterms because we were at war, and Iran seemed like trump's most likely target

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But I can't remember a conversation where it really mattered.

You'd have to specifically ask if someone beat it on hardcore legendary if you only wanted to count hardcore legendary difficulty or whatever

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linid0t posted...

Do you consider this type of victory the same as someone who didn't need a handicap?

Beating the game on easy is not the same as beating the game on hard, so no


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Does beating a game on "easy" count as beating the game?

Of course it does.

Therefore, I believe beating a game on "ez rewind" mode also counts as beating the game.

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I was so confused by your post until I noticed the post number skipped from 310 to 312

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It's like mass effect w no party members

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what sports do you care about?

i honestly think it might be cheaper to just go watch the games at a bar or something

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I'm sorry you have to go through that.

I had insomnia for a while, and the worst part was knowing I was probably going to miss my obligations the next day(s)

It really is a curse

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Nice troll

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I recommend one of those things that pipes the internet through your electrical socket

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Tagging for later

Our two main game owners moved to another state, so we're trying to figure out what games to replenish our stockpile with

I'll be keeping an eye on this!

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Waluigi1 posted...

Cause it's definitely not Rian Johnson's fault for purposefully shitting on everything JJ was trying to set up and leaving him with a mess to clean up.

I think it was a team effort. JJ could have handed him the spark notes had they existed

It's really easy to create threads. It's harder to resolve them all in a logical and satisfying manner

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Anagram posted...

Didn't Rian Johnson say that nothing was planned and all of the mysteries were just mysteries to be decided upon later?

Yep. Not sure why Disney thought it would be a good idea to hand the guy who wrote himself into a corner in both Lost and Fringe the responsibility of setting up a trilogy in this way

He is famous for creating plot threads that are impossible to resolve


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celeste is a great game, but after a while it gets to the point where it doesn't feel like i'm playing the game. rather, the game is playing me by requiring such specific inputs

yeah, i'm a casual

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red13n posted...

Firefox handles having a billion tabs open better while Chrome handles certain individualized pages and tasks better.

I personally took a break from firefox for a while beause of the memory issue.

Gave it another shot a year or so ago, and I can confidently say they've resolved it, or they're both close enough that it feels more like personal preference

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JonThePenguin posted...

Hyperspace has always had tangibility included.

Yeah, there were a few "science-based" complaints i could've had about the film, but after a few things in 8 i completely gave up

it's a fantasy series, poe has pilot magic, it's really not important exactly how they got away, they could've just had him fly up and do a normal jump

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The nice thing about the witness is if you get tired of one section of the island, you can make progress elsewhere for a while and maybe pick up some new skills

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He's trying to be funny, and maybe some people will like him for it, but he'll always just be gross to me

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I'm planning on watching it at some point. Friends say it's great

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I hate the part where he steps on a foot long nail so much that it pretty much ruins the rest of the movie

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I liked the movie.

Now that I can't be spoiled, I guess I'll go read why people seemed to not like it

The movie is miles ahead of every prequel movie, and imo is more fun than 7 or 8

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Sekiro really wasn't worth it, given that I've already done the formula 5 times.

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This guy are sick.

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I think my parents let me know it was just a fun pretend tradition from the start, so I never had to deal with the betrayal

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Season one was my favorite remake of fight club, and I felt like the show was basically over by the time season 2 was underway

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it's all right, if a little rough

it's not on the same tier as portal or the witness, but it's not a large step below

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