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Tarkov Update:
The devs have been making almost daily tweaks to things. Today they did something like quadruple the multiplier on loot spawning in the world because I'm finding stuff everywhere!
McQuaid was probably best known for his stewardship of the original EverQuest MMORPG at SOE, though of course after his tenure at SOE he went on to found Sigil Games and the much-loved but ill-fated Vanguard MMO. Most recently, he founded and helmed Visionary Realms, which in the last few years has been hard at work on a new and heavily anticipated MMORPG called Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen.
I bought the classic Doom bundle that was on sale during the weekend. This is my first time playing Doom beyond the first two levels. Doom is pretty good!
DOOM was at one point installed on more p.c.s than Windows. More people had DOOM than had the world's most popular and successful operating system!
So this is everything I played released this year for at least a couple of hours, in order from best to lest.
Outer Wilds
RE2
Judgment
Disco Elysium
Control
Bloodstaind
Satisfactory
Hades
Outer Worlds
Oxygen Not
Gears
Children of Morta
Slay the Spire
Valfaris
DMCV
Division 2
Apex
Mk
A Short Hike
Sunless Skies
Supraland
Hypnospace
COD: Modern Warfare
Sayonara Wild Hearts
ISLANDERS
Eastshade
Astroneer
Void Bastards
Sekiro
Ape Out
My Time at Portia
Death Stranding
Days gone
Rage 2
Metro Exodus
Borderlands 3
A Plague Tale
Trials Rising
Wolfenstein
Crackdown 3
Far Cry New Dawn
Anthem
A lot of the stuff towards the bottom of my list are games that I recognize as good, quality products that I just didn't click with, like Sekiro, A Plague Tale or Metro Exodus. Death Stranding is just...I like a lot of it but there's SO MUCH that I loathe about it.
Is Anthem the worst game of the year? Probably not but it's the most depressing. Jason Schrier's article paints the exact reasons it is and it sucks that Bioware hasn't evolved for the better.
I would say everything above Wolfenstein is an ok game with at least some merits to reccomnded it.
Outer Wilds blew me away, I loved it. The music, the vibe, the exploration, the look, the experience. It has one of the best endings in all of games and it launched itself into my personal top 10 of all time, one of only two games from this generation to do so. I still listen to the music weekly, the calming early stuff and that big swell of excitement during the final run.
A few might shift around; I need to play more Disco and I'm quite enjoying Remnant at the moment. Valfaris and Morta need some more time spent in, too. And I'm getting a Switch for Xmas so I'll have some time needed to be spent in Luigi's and Fire Emblem. And if Satisfactory and Hades had their full releases, they would probably be higher but I didn't want to burn myself out on ea games.
I don't even know if I played ten games this year, let's see, in order of most enjoyment:
Disco Elsyium
Control
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Resident Evil 2
Final Fantasy: Shadowbringers
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
River City Girls
Mortal Kombat 11
The New Pokemon Seems Alright
Outer Worlds seems good but I've only put like two hours into it
I played games this year but very few that were from this year. Though, actually let me check my cupboard. Yeah, most of them were Switch stuff. Luigi's Mansion 3, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Astral Chain, and Ring Fit. Then there's stuff like Fate Extella Link on PS4 and Zanki Zero on PC, but I didn't play either very much? It's been a bad year for me actually playing games.
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mosssnackYeah right, man, Bishop should go!Good idea!Registered Userregular
Slay the Spire for me. It was pretty much the only game I brought with me on my last deployment. Being home now with all these new games to check out, I’m still booting up StS.
And I’ll always have a spot for destiny. Doom 2016 is the only game for me that comes close to how good the shooting feels in destiny.
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Started playing Vampyr. I seem to remember someone suggesting a house rule about eating a certain number of people to level up? Not that I even know how to eat people yet.
Really hope Johnny boy finds a clean shirt soon. He looks gross.
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KwoaruConfident SmirkFlawless Golden PecsRegistered Userregular
My game of the year is still Plants Vs Zombies Battle for Neighborville. I love these fucking games. I just wish I had someone to play them with; the PVE Bounty Hunts are way too hard for me.
my plants are so god damn cute it's criminal
after that it's just a bunch of roguelike and survival crafting games; anything I can get with fun gameplay but no story.
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Ok maybe I'm being really dumb here but how do you use your gun in Vampyr? And how do I switch between the three weapons I have for my main hand? According to the control scheme I have a button that should cycle through them but it does nothing.
Ok maybe I'm being really dumb here but how do you use your gun in Vampyr? And how do I switch between the three weapons I have for my main hand? According to the control scheme I have a button that should cycle through them but it does nothing.
I remember this being a little wonky. I think you have 2 weapon sets. A weapon set can either be a main+offhand, or a 2-hander. For the majority of the game I had scalpel+stake, and something+gun.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Yeah I get that. In my inventory I have 3 weapons under Main Hand, 1 under Off Hand, none under Two Hand, and 1 under Firearms. I can't figure out how to change between the 3 weapons in my main hand, or how to use the gun.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
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You can have two main hand and two off hand weapons equipped at a time, there's an equipment menu (which is different from the item menu, where I think you currently are) that should let you choose which two each of those are. Firearms are equipped as off hand weapons, so you should be able to set that there.
If you're playing with a controller, you use the D-pad to switch between your equipped weapons, if I recall correctly, pressing left on the D-pad switches between the two main weapons and pressing right switches between the off hand weapons.
Two handed weapons presumably fuck this whole thing up, I never used them because I loved scalpeling folks too much.
Started playing Vampyr. I seem to remember someone suggesting a house rule about eating a certain number of people to level up? Not that I even know how to eat people yet.
Really hope Johnny boy finds a clean shirt soon. He looks gross.
The house rule that I know Tube has suggested is that you need to eat a person in order to rest. Resting is how you spend your experience, and you'll probably level up several times during the process (especially if you're following this house rule).
This rule can be pretty tough to follow early on, to be quite honest - you don't have a lot of options for people to eat until you level up mesmerize, which is directly main story related. Later in the game you'll have your pick of easy victims, but especially because you generally want to complete all of a character's sidequests and secrets before you bite down, those first areas might be a bit rough.
Also note that this will bar you from at least one ending to do, because the game was inexplicably made with a pacifist path even though you have to murder hundreds of people in order to do anything in it.
My house rule was eat someone every time you want to rest, to force you to engage with that mechanic. It locks you out of the best ending, but gives you the best content.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
edited November 2019
Yeah, one of the best parts of the game is seeing the cascade effect of your decisions, and the only decisions that you can really make that effect people involve murdering their friends and family (this is one of my complaints about the game as well - aside from the main story stuff, non-violent quest resolution doesn't really change anything).
Some of them will be very bad, even if they seem like they should be good, but hey, Jonathan is a piece of shit and maybe he deserves a bad ending.
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I swear I checked every screen repeatedly earlier but I guess I'll look again next time I play. The fact that it's been this difficult to figure out has not left me with a great first impression of the game.
I started up Forgotton Anne last night. I want to like it, I'm amused and intruiged by the messed up world they've introduced. But I'm finding the controls a pain and I'm getting stuck pretty quick on some of their puzzles.
Going to try and push forward see if it clears up.
You're in a land where all the forgotten objects end up. Like it opens with a sock lost under a bed disappearing from the real world and materializing screaming and falling into this new one where he's quickly reassured by a bunch of other animate objects and assigned a job in a factory and they all work for/serve and older looking human man. Then someone sets off a bomb at the factory, there are rebels. You play as a human woman who is the Enforcer and tasked with I guess keeping order. You also have a wristband that can drain or imbue things with anima. When teaching you how to use this thing I apparantly killed a scarf. A scarf bursts into your house and tries to come up with an excuse but you're pretty sure he's one of these rebels. So I drained his anima which basically kills him on the spot and a message popped up that it didn;t have to go that way. Whoops. In all your conversations with the various objects in the world they give you dialogue options that are usually split between being friendly or basically yelling I am the Law at them. Most of them are terrified that you're going to drain them. Based on the scarf incident they probably should be. Interestingly enough, the energy you drain from them is the same stuff that powers all the machines in this place, so it's giving some pretty strong "We're the Baddies" vibes right now. Everyone seems to be working under the promise that we're gonna manage to send everyone back to the real world when we finish up some project.
I also recently met an animated magnum hand gun that works security and who's very excited to hear stories about the things I've killed. It's a weird story so far.
Every day is the same on the faraway Bento space-lighthouse - until a mysterious radio message breaks through. Evade the past, welcome oblivion, make the perfect Italian coffee. Still There is a psychological adventure game about grief, technical puzzles, wacky AIs and dark humour. How far is far enough?
Nov 20 - Still There (Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Space)
MAKE DRUGS - Program your molecular synthesizer (MOLEK-SYNTEZ) to convert ordinary industrial chemicals like benzene, acetone, and hydrochloric acid into a variety of small molecules with various pharmacological effects.
Nov 19 - Molek Syntez (Zachlike, simulation, puzzle)
It seems like... another Shenmue? I don't know, I haven't seen much on the actual gameplay but based on what I have seen it looks like another one of those games with slightly better graphics. Which, well, some people are super into those games!
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
Shenmue 3 is a Shenmue-ass game. Everything about it, from the controls, the VO, the animations, looks like it was made 20 years ago, just on UE4.
If you're a Shenmue fan looking for a fucking shenmue then it's probably just about ideal, but I seriously dunno for people who never had any nostalgia for the series.
Anyone have any idea if Shenmue 3 is any good at this point of time? I didn't play the previous games, just curious due to it's legacy
The snarky answer is no, it's not good, because Shenmue was never good and they just made another of those.
The less snarky answer is that Shenmue is a very acquired taste and they made a game only for people with that taste. If playing an incredibly dated (small) open world, (dated) immersive sim with questionable voice acting, graphics, controls, animations and...EVERYTHING sounds like it worth a shot, take it.
For better or worse, you'd be better off picking up 1 and 2 on the cheap (I think they might be on Gamepass right now?) and if you like them, this one will be another of those.
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I watched like 15 minutes of Shenmue 3 on a twitch stream, the village I saw that the streamer was exploring was very pretty. It obviously looked like an older game, but it was very colorful, with a nice skybox, lots of nice flowers, etc.
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The devs have been making almost daily tweaks to things. Today they did something like quadruple the multiplier on loot spawning in the world because I'm finding stuff everywhere!
DOOM was at one point installed on more p.c.s than Windows. More people had DOOM than had the world's most popular and successful operating system!
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Outer Wilds
RE2
Judgment
Disco Elysium
Control
Bloodstaind
Satisfactory
Hades
Outer Worlds
Oxygen Not
Children of Morta
Slay the Spire
Valfaris
DMCV
Division 2
Apex
Mk
A Short Hike
Sunless Skies
Supraland
Hypnospace
COD: Modern Warfare
Sayonara Wild Hearts
ISLANDERS
Eastshade
Astroneer
Void Bastards
Sekiro
Ape Out
My Time at Portia
Death Stranding
Days gone
Rage 2
Metro Exodus
Borderlands 3
A Plague Tale
Trials Rising
Wolfenstein
Crackdown 3
Far Cry New Dawn
Anthem
A lot of the stuff towards the bottom of my list are games that I recognize as good, quality products that I just didn't click with, like Sekiro, A Plague Tale or Metro Exodus. Death Stranding is just...I like a lot of it but there's SO MUCH that I loathe about it.
Is Anthem the worst game of the year? Probably not but it's the most depressing. Jason Schrier's article paints the exact reasons it is and it sucks that Bioware hasn't evolved for the better.
I would say everything above Wolfenstein is an ok game with at least some merits to reccomnded it.
Outer Wilds blew me away, I loved it. The music, the vibe, the exploration, the look, the experience. It has one of the best endings in all of games and it launched itself into my personal top 10 of all time, one of only two games from this generation to do so. I still listen to the music weekly, the calming early stuff and that big swell of excitement during the final run.
A few might shift around; I need to play more Disco and I'm quite enjoying Remnant at the moment. Valfaris and Morta need some more time spent in, too. And I'm getting a Switch for Xmas so I'll have some time needed to be spent in Luigi's and Fire Emblem. And if Satisfactory and Hades had their full releases, they would probably be higher but I didn't want to burn myself out on ea games.
Disco Elsyium
Control
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Resident Evil 2
Final Fantasy: Shadowbringers
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
River City Girls
Mortal Kombat 11
The New Pokemon Seems Alright
Outer Worlds seems good but I've only put like two hours into it
Like remember when they had that section on Roberta and Ken Williams?
That was really cool!
And I’ll always have a spot for destiny. Doom 2016 is the only game for me that comes close to how good the shooting feels in destiny.
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Really hope Johnny boy finds a clean shirt soon. He looks gross.
my plants are so god damn cute it's criminal
after that it's just a bunch of roguelike and survival crafting games; anything I can get with fun gameplay but no story.
I remember this being a little wonky. I think you have 2 weapon sets. A weapon set can either be a main+offhand, or a 2-hander. For the majority of the game I had scalpel+stake, and something+gun.
If you're playing with a controller, you use the D-pad to switch between your equipped weapons, if I recall correctly, pressing left on the D-pad switches between the two main weapons and pressing right switches between the off hand weapons.
Two handed weapons presumably fuck this whole thing up, I never used them because I loved scalpeling folks too much.
I wonder if Brad ever predicted that EQ would survive him.
The house rule that I know Tube has suggested is that you need to eat a person in order to rest. Resting is how you spend your experience, and you'll probably level up several times during the process (especially if you're following this house rule).
This rule can be pretty tough to follow early on, to be quite honest - you don't have a lot of options for people to eat until you level up mesmerize, which is directly main story related. Later in the game you'll have your pick of easy victims, but especially because you generally want to complete all of a character's sidequests and secrets before you bite down, those first areas might be a bit rough.
Also note that this will bar you from at least one ending to do, because the game was inexplicably made with a pacifist path even though you have to murder hundreds of people in order to do anything in it.
Some of them will be very bad, even if they seem like they should be good, but hey, Jonathan is a piece of shit and maybe he deserves a bad ending.
Going to try and push forward see if it clears up.
You're in a land where all the forgotten objects end up. Like it opens with a sock lost under a bed disappearing from the real world and materializing screaming and falling into this new one where he's quickly reassured by a bunch of other animate objects and assigned a job in a factory and they all work for/serve and older looking human man. Then someone sets off a bomb at the factory, there are rebels. You play as a human woman who is the Enforcer and tasked with I guess keeping order. You also have a wristband that can drain or imbue things with anima. When teaching you how to use this thing I apparantly killed a scarf. A scarf bursts into your house and tries to come up with an excuse but you're pretty sure he's one of these rebels. So I drained his anima which basically kills him on the spot and a message popped up that it didn;t have to go that way. Whoops. In all your conversations with the various objects in the world they give you dialogue options that are usually split between being friendly or basically yelling I am the Law at them. Most of them are terrified that you're going to drain them. Based on the scarf incident they probably should be. Interestingly enough, the energy you drain from them is the same stuff that powers all the machines in this place, so it's giving some pretty strong "We're the Baddies" vibes right now. Everyone seems to be working under the promise that we're gonna manage to send everyone back to the real world when we finish up some project.
I also recently met an animated magnum hand gun that works security and who's very excited to hear stories about the things I've killed. It's a weird story so far.
Nov 20 - Still There (Adventure, Puzzle, Point & Click, Space)
just looking at those screenshots made me feel like a mouth breathing dope
goddamn you
That'd be a good way for me to feel like a complete dunce on the go
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
If you're a Shenmue fan looking for a fucking shenmue then it's probably just about ideal, but I seriously dunno for people who never had any nostalgia for the series.
The snarky answer is no, it's not good, because Shenmue was never good and they just made another of those.
The less snarky answer is that Shenmue is a very acquired taste and they made a game only for people with that taste. If playing an incredibly dated (small) open world, (dated) immersive sim with questionable voice acting, graphics, controls, animations and...EVERYTHING sounds like it worth a shot, take it.
For better or worse, you'd be better off picking up 1 and 2 on the cheap (I think they might be on Gamepass right now?) and if you like them, this one will be another of those.
why don't you put the whole world in a ball, superman