Gaming

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George Lucas be like:

"And they fight."

Shows pages of otherwise blank pages.

(Nobody's gonna get this reference.)

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kewl

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Some of the comments be like "We have Hades at home" but honestly most of them seem Sinophobic.

Like, China isn't the only one making rogue-likes by the thousand or whatever they call them; America does that well enough.

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Maybe I'll have a reason to play my PS5 now!

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Damn.

10,000 puzzles and counting?

And I love puzzle games, but this seems excessive (but also tempting).

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Original thread.

Title kinda says all.

I'll have my own reply later.

Special weekly question:

What are you most anticipating for 2024 in terms of games?

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Good video.

I really like Dicebreaker.

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Open-world games!

Open-world games everywhere!

...Okay, but honestly, they all look good.

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Reminds me of Wind Waker.

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Looks swell.

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WTF I WANT THIS GAME

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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I think these are the same folk that made Vampyr?

I could be wrong.

Anyway, enjoy the trailer. Lord knows this video game could use more attention. Nobody seems to be interested...

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Looks like a good 3D metroidvania.

Better than more pixel shit.

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Thoughts?

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Neato.

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The "Unending Layoffs" section goes starts at 2:44 of the video.

Lasts about 14 minutes, but it's quite powerful.

Also, I'm at around the 1:00:00 mark and they've mentioned the "live-service bubble" here and there. What can I say? I like Easy Alllies, or EZA, for comments like that. I wish there were more "leftist" gaming podcasts, but I believe that EZA aren't ostensibly "leftist" and I've only started listening to them within the last month.

They avoid politics for the most part, which is why I was surprised to hear all this.

Oh yeah, and they accepted their trans friend and she's a valued member on the show.

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Gameranx is good, but has its fair share of problems, tbh.

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God, I wish.

But probably? No.

Unless we're talking about the longue duree, but for the foreseeable, say, decade?

No.

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We've got games like Black Myth: Wukong, Crimson Desert, Rise of the Ronin (Koei Tecmo hype!), Dragon's Dogma 2, and, I think, Persona 3 Reload, which I think are the ones I primarily want from this list. There's more games shown, of course. Check it out. Video is about 21 minutes long.

I posted a giveaway on [email protected], but would like to create some more awareness in case some other folks would be interested in any of the remaining games. Please click the link for the updated list. :)

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It's a good watch.

I didn't know about the Zelda theme that plays at the beginning of Ocarina of Time till now, for example.

Also, video is 25:44 in case you want to invest; I used the picture-in-picture option to switch tabs while watching it.

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Interesting stuff.

Yeah, I have high hopes for the next Zelda game, but I'm done with the current time-period.

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Check it out.

Anyone see anything that interests them here?

Few predicted that the smash hit video game of 2023 would feature old-school game mechanics, hours of brooding cutscenes and a vexing learning curve.

Yet “Baldur’s Gate 3,” a 20-year-old title based on a 50-year-old role-playing game, has already become one of the highest-rated video games of all time.

“This is a very specific niche of game,” admitted Swen Vincke, the CEO of Larian, its developer. “We’ve never been about the money.”

Nonetheless, since Larian released the title in August 2023, the company has been raking in the money. And it has done this with a rare focus on elements like story and character, upending the industry’s conventional wisdom about what it takes to create a blockbuster game.

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