StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I think a vanilla game of XCOM 2 before War of the Chosen might be a good idea, just because of how much War of the Chosen adds
That said, I will never go back to vanilla XCOM 2 now that I have WotC, and a game of XCOM 2 can be very long, so diving straight in might also be a good idea
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Last night I spent an hour on one of the first Grim Fandango puzzles/challenges.
I'm not having great luck with otherwise good PC games that have flawed graphics settings
I just finished up Fallen Order which has a known bug where activating HDR actually washes the colours out
And now I've started Observation which has a known bug where if I open the menu at any point it will stop using my native resolution and force me to use no higher than 1280x800. Very frustrating.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
There’s a flag that says “Trump 2024: The Revenge Tour” flying on the main building, which almost makes me get back on the bus. It’s a pretty hostile message to send to everyone who uses this facility, military and civilian alike. Between that and being told that no one here will be wearing masks, I have my guard up immediately.
Once inside, we’re introduced to the Incredible Adventures instructors who will be leading us through the day’s activities. The four combat veterans are led by a guy named Tosh, who wears a brace with a hook on the end of it wrapped around his left wrist. The event organizer addresses the group by welcoming us to a day of sniper training, but Tosh corrects him. “Let’s call it a sniper adventure.” We break up into groups and spend most of the day learning how to breach a building, systematically move down a street while in hostile territory, and handle a weapon. We’re each given an M4 rifle converted to fire simunition, which has a similar impact to airsoft, and we practice firing them and running various military drills.
As we run drills, no one refers to the people we’re learning to kill as Muslim, Middle Eastern, or Arab. Any time the instructors refer to them, they say enemies, bad guys, or the other guys. Of course, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that “the bad guys” are most certainly Arabs here. At the end of the day, we run a combat scenario where we trade fire with role-players dressed in white robes and keffiyehs. The actors are all white, I think, and I can’t decide what’s worse: white people dressing up like Arabs to be shot at, or subjecting actual Arab people to this experience.
This makes me think of that one Spongbob meme format:
So in this you play United States Military personell?
Yep
And you in the Middle East?
Yep
And your targets, enemies, people you shoot at, are all of Middle Eastern decent?
Yep
And the look like and dress like people in the Middle East?
Yep
So your playing the US Military doing actions against Middle Eastern peoples?
OUR GAME IS NOT POLITICAL!
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
When the Grim Fandango remaster came out on PS4 I burned through it and posted on twitter that I got the platinum trophy like the day of release and Tim Schafer congratulated me.
XCOM 2: Should I buy War of the Chosen? Should I play a vanilla XCOM 2 game before getting into War of the Chosen?
You should get it, but you should also play a vanilla game first. XCOM 1 is valuable experience, but 2 deviates from it enough that you have to learn the pacing of the campaign.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Oh actually scratch what I said earlier
You should play the weird road to XCOM 2 pre-created campaign thing
I don't remember if you need War of the Chosen in order to play that in the first place or not, but I feel like that would give you enough of the new style of XCOM 2 units and stuff to make the transition work
Trying out Iron Harvest on gamepass and they have an option for everyone to speak in their native language with subtitles. Wouldn't mind seeing that option more often.
I am torn between Wildermyth because y’all have been talking it up, Desperadoes 3, or a grognardy ass grognard wargame
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I never could finish Witcher 2. (I barely made it past the prologue in fact.) Should I try to finish it before I get 3? I don't know if that's ever going to happen, come to think of it.
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
I never could finish Witcher 2. (I barely made it past the prologue in fact.) Should I try to finish it before I get 3? I don't know if that's ever going to happen, come to think of it.
Uh, how much do you feel like playing a game with kinda crappy combat/leveling/inventory systems but a pretty decent story?
I never could finish Witcher 2. (I barely made it past the prologue in fact.) Should I try to finish it before I get 3? I don't know if that's ever going to happen, come to think of it.
Uh, how much do you feel like playing a game with kinda crappy combat/leveling/inventory systems but a pretty decent story?
I never could finish Witcher 2. (I barely made it past the prologue in fact.) Should I try to finish it before I get 3? I don't know if that's ever going to happen, come to think of it.
Uh, how much do you feel like playing a game with kinda crappy combat/leveling/inventory systems but a pretty decent story?
This describes far too many games.
I would say the opposite. That games have good combat etc but crappy story. Have things changed?
Man god bless gamepass. I prefer playing on consoles and my pc is pretty much just for total war, but I kept seeing Prodeus and loving how it looked, but not enough to risk a purchase of a game preview game on a platform I don’t play often
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That said, I will never go back to vanilla XCOM 2 now that I have WotC, and a game of XCOM 2 can be very long, so diving straight in might also be a good idea
Hey, hey folks?
I just finished up Fallen Order which has a known bug where activating HDR actually washes the colours out
And now I've started Observation which has a known bug where if I open the menu at any point it will stop using my native resolution and force me to use no higher than 1280x800. Very frustrating.
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Once inside, we’re introduced to the Incredible Adventures instructors who will be leading us through the day’s activities. The four combat veterans are led by a guy named Tosh, who wears a brace with a hook on the end of it wrapped around his left wrist. The event organizer addresses the group by welcoming us to a day of sniper training, but Tosh corrects him. “Let’s call it a sniper adventure.” We break up into groups and spend most of the day learning how to breach a building, systematically move down a street while in hostile territory, and handle a weapon. We’re each given an M4 rifle converted to fire simunition, which has a similar impact to airsoft, and we practice firing them and running various military drills.
As we run drills, no one refers to the people we’re learning to kill as Muslim, Middle Eastern, or Arab. Any time the instructors refer to them, they say enemies, bad guys, or the other guys. Of course, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that “the bad guys” are most certainly Arabs here. At the end of the day, we run a combat scenario where we trade fire with role-players dressed in white robes and keffiyehs. The actors are all white, I think, and I can’t decide what’s worse: white people dressing up like Arabs to be shot at, or subjecting actual Arab people to this experience.
oh, thank goodness, they've clarified that the game is not political
So in this you play United States Military personell?
Yep
And you in the Middle East?
Yep
And your targets, enemies, people you shoot at, are all of Middle Eastern decent?
Yep
And the look like and dress like people in the Middle East?
Yep
So your playing the US Military doing actions against Middle Eastern peoples?
OUR GAME IS NOT POLITICAL!
Don't hate the game, hate the players
I have played one whole game of XCOM 1
It was pretty cool.
You should get it, but you should also play a vanilla game first. XCOM 1 is valuable experience, but 2 deviates from it enough that you have to learn the pacing of the campaign.
You should play the weird road to XCOM 2 pre-created campaign thing
I don't remember if you need War of the Chosen in order to play that in the first place or not, but I feel like that would give you enough of the new style of XCOM 2 units and stuff to make the transition work
D3 Steam #TeamTangent STO
Probably but I think it would also be very funny
I legitimately thought that was a translation error until I looked at the original tweet's source
No you're Uriel
I just loaded up on the GOG sale, anyway. So it'll take a while to figure out what I already have.
Edit: It's back. Time for an hour of comparing lists.
It’s okay there are no new Legacy of Kain games to buy anyway. (I wish that there were though.)
Oh! My apologies, Tallahasseeriel.
(I just thought you preferred the name Uriel.)
Edit: and yeah I do haha but I'm just joking around
colin is good at recommendations when sale season rolls around
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So you're not broke, Tallahassee is clearly the most liquid capital.
Uh, how much do you feel like playing a game with kinda crappy combat/leveling/inventory systems but a pretty decent story?
This describes far too many games.
I'm certainly not the problem
Fucker comes out on gamepass PC and I love it