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I asked whether Starfield and Nightingale were worth buying on the Steam discussions. Both are a consensus of no.

I am getting really tired of EA's and even more tired of full releases that are a disaster. Game in point, Dragon's Dogma 2. I put 100 hrs into it but it was pretty disappointing, especially the ending. It is a perfect example of a game that should have been an EA for around $30, not $70. Before that I played Enshrouded and thank god it was cheap because that game just sucked.

I am currently just starting Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. So far I am not impressed with anything other than the beautiful world.

I really enjoy base building in games. Some of my favorites have included Valheim, Conan Exiles, 7 Days to Die and of course the classics like Skyrim and Fallout 4. There are only so many games that fall into this category and I am in a game hole. It is getting old buying games that end up having massive optimization issues.

So at the moment my favorite game is none. LOL
 
Made my return to Cyberpunk 2077 again, this time I played as a nomad, interesting how this panned out, V even got a chance to get the car back that he started the game with, with this play... Anyway I played for about ten days since the start till I did it all, in this time I had 7 boss fights, the only one that bested me once was Curt Hansen... I even saw a play with the mealstrommers where I got to fight Royce as a boss at the end of that mission think that one was a first for me, I made 1mil+ EuroDollars played a varied DLC ending to what I did last time around, I believe I've seen all four known variations, and three variational vanilla game endings all in the same playthrough.
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Tons of super entertaining gameplay, Cyberpunk 2077, I'll be back into night city one day I hope.
 
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How to make multiplayer games seem popular even if they aren't
How to make MMO appear the same way.

Easy, make AI bots that copy how the actual players play and make them available to the game when the player is offline. I bet they never remove them so a games population will never shrink again. Only grow. More various characters to show new people who may not realise everyone else playing is a bot. They can make fake profiles for the bots so when players look at them, they appear real.

One way to keep WOW alive. Forever.

What am I talking about? Activision patents

Video is about COD but its everywhere. You pay $70 to play an algorithm set up so you only win when they want you to. They rig games so if you buy a gun, the next match will make it seem like the purchase was a good one, to make you consider buying more

this isn't a game any more. Not one I want to be part of.
 
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Had a blast playing NFS: Payback, from the start till taking down the house in an epic Outlaw's Rush, had the settings turned to hard mode this time for the last event, and it's real awesome taking down the 1% club with the side bets... besides making all kinds of bets when I thought I had the upper hand in an event throughout the game, nice sweetener to add on to a win! Taking not only a win but a side bet win as well when possible. That was my favorite game I'd be playing, took me two day's worth of playing...

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Oh, forgot to mention that before this I went for a second playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077, after my last post, but that time I opted for playing from the DLC start point, It's funny how It can still be perceived that playing either way, either from a vanilla start or the dlc start that one can easily get back into the action either way, does take some psychological conditioning for the player to do that right after just having done it all, to just drop in and go for it all again, but I tell you it's great gameplay and certainly most enjoyable.

Working on my latest pc gameplay favorite play right now, I'll post here when I made it through something substantial to post about.
 
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finally have finished Red Dead Redemption 2 this weekend.
well, sort of. ~89% completion @ final credits.

the last 1/4 or so of the game had seemed to become very monotonous with long action sequences just pressing forward and waiting for an action prompt to appear,
no saving allowed for the majority of it,
and annoying cut-scenes taking over for no reason when it could have been a very simple in-game dialogue.
besides that every time a new scene loaded my clothing was reset to default and my back & shoulder weapons would disappear back to my horse.

i really enjoyed a large portion of the story and a lot of the country side was beautiful, though maybe not as nice as the Rockies in Far Cry 5.

could definitely tell this was a console port, more so than GTA V for sure.
the keybinding options were lacking for kb/mouse and most of the button-mash sequences seemed to be a test for babies to tell if their motor skills were developing.
the RPG aspects worked good, i guess the action aspects were just to keep console gamepad users interested.
am hoping that the remastered port of the original RDR will be worth a shot now.

took me almost 6 months to get through and can't wait now to finally get into Starfield.
 
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I just got into the Underworld in AC: Odyssey... playing and completing the entire Persephony's Elysium...
That sure is some awesome gaming, my adventure only took a few day's, but the combat and exploration is top notch in this game, even a training montage with Leonidas, and a Head to head with Hermes.
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At the end of that I had to fight Ros that turned into CERBEROS, and I don't know what is the thing here but the game is not functioning as it did when I last got past that point or had it past that fight in one go , so I used a trainer to progress this one fight, because it seemed far too obvious that the game had been altered to hinder players or myself included from progressing with the game, besides I'll continue my play in the Underworld some other time.

Now however I played the Diamond casino aggressive on hard , stealing paintings and by some luck made it out in one sitting, F*cking Brilliant play that was... truly is a great part of the GTA V PC game, after I started the story mode from scratch again and this is what I'm currently playing.
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Spent some of the last week finally getting into Starfield. After all of the reports i'd seen this year about terrible performance i was surprised to see an easy constant 120fps with Ultra settings using DLSS/DLAA @ 3440x1440p.

The Gameplay has brought back nice memories of the Elder Scrolls games with a Mass Effect-style theme. Been really enjoying the storylines and combat.

Had to install a few Mods to help with weapon & suit crafting options. I couldn't believe after collecting ~100 weapons and finally stopping at a weapon crafting bench that the in-game mods attached to them couldn't be traded among the same or similar weapons. Have it worked out pretty well now where looting weapons and suits for parts has become a big part of my playthrough. Much nicer having customized weapons without having to spend so much time/resources on research and crafting accessories.
Haven't even gotten into ship or outpost crafting yet.

Took me over 6 months to get through Red Dead Redemption 2, but Starfield seems to have got my attention more focused. Every day i feel like playing at least an hour or so vs about the same per week for RDR2.

Really can't wait for Elder Scrolls VI now.
 
If they ever make another Elders Scrolls game, it could be quite something going by what can been done to make such a game entertaining compared to what was possible last iteration, speaking of witch I just bested ALDUIN again in Skyrim, real fun and challenging quest taking on all those enemies one after another just to get to the quest objective, then that fight with the guy that holds the guard at the bridge before it all plays out.

Anyway that, I think I made it in one attempt and one sitting (funny that one part comes to mind now, the guy holding guard at the bridge before it all goes down, asking by what right do claim to enter here, I had mine all three done)

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Really is a great game, and one at that, that makes the player awesome simply by playing it!


Besides that, I also played GTA V PC Story mode again, as I said in my last post, one of my all time favorite games, I completed the story mode, but what I had hope to achieve was to make my entire playthrough without dying on any of the three main protagonists whilst playing, got really close, managed to end the game with one death to franklin, but both trevor and micheal at sweet 0 deaths by the end of my playthrough...

After that I loaded up GTA V PC online again, and with a teammate joining me we played the Casino twice, two different variational attempts both making it out with the loot (gold) in one go, and a play of the island heist, all in one sitting, same day, damn was that epic...brilliant play!

Now I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077 again, just landed my 100th GIG after playing from scratch all week.

What's next, I'll post that some other time.
 
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I also played GTA V PC Story mode again
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there's some awesome mods available in offline mode since the last time i played.
online content(vehicles, etc) available and a lot of user created content.

been thinking that i'm going to try it again sometime soon. but, i've got so many games lined up now with more to come(S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 my most anticipated) i doubt i'd bother.
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I just bested ALDUIN again in Skyrim
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also was really thinking about getting into this again.
i did a search a while ago through the most popular mods on Nexus and many look like quite a big improvement visually & all around since the last time i installed it and loaded it with tons of mods.


think i'd need about 10 years with nothing else to do to even get through the games i've currently got installed + games just waiting in my providers' libraries(Steam, Epic, GOG, etc) to be installed + older games i'd just like to play again.

things have definitely changed since all those years ago when a couple good console(SNES, Genesis, Dreamcast, N64, PS1) games would come out every year and we'd just play those same titles over & over again.
 
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I am currently playing Survival Fountain of Youth. I had never heard of it before. It came out around 2023 I think. It is in final release. There aren't many people playing this game which is too bad because it is actually a good game and only around $25 to 30$. I have almost 60 hrs into it and I am probably about 1/2 way through.

It is a survival, crafting, base building game. It has many different levels of difficulty. When I first started playing I was dying of thirst and hunger and almost refunded it. Glad I didn't. I started the game over 3 times experimenting with different sliders to adjust things like day length, thirst, hunger, damage taken, etc.

Be aware there is a discussion on Steam with people who are seriously PO'd that the publisher added an EULA after people had been playing the game. If you don't agree to it you can't continue playing and can't get a refund. I don't have a problem with EULA's. People are saying it gives the publisher permission to change the EULA at any time with no liability and they can send you targeted ads and snoop in your PC files. Not likely. It doesn't require signing up with an email address or anything at all.
 
I'm playing Blasphemous on/off these days. Best described as "If Dark Souls was a 2D platformer"
Tight controls, beautiful artwork, very grim vibes. Love the soundtrack.

Why Dark Souls? The difficulty, save points that restore health and respawn enemies, lots of patient combat sometimes relying heavily on counters, and the boss fights. Oh the boss fights...

It's perfect. Easy to miss game but i recommend it largely because of how good the controls are. It feels so good to play it. But visually i think it will be off-putting to some.
Also, it really is blasphemous for whatever that's worth.
 
I've been playing Ghost of Tsushima almost daily for the past two weeks. The last game to grip my attention like this was Hogwarts Legacy; and I'd say both games are similar in the sense that neither feels too heavy on the RPG aspects, which I'm starting to realize is something I really appreciate in video games.
 
I've been playing red dead redemption 2 since 2021 and i must say. I love it. Almost everything about it is perfect. The more i play the less i get bored literally. It's just a perfect game i can play for hours without getting bored.
 
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I've been playing red dead redemption 2 since 2021 and i must say. I love it. Almost everything about it is perfect. The more i play the less i get bored literally. It's just a perfect game i can play for hours without getting bored.
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I was OK with it until there was a MAJOR story change, at which point it became very depressing. There was also literally zero warning all the work I'd put in to 100% the camp could not be continued.
 
I finally got into Horizon: Zero Dawn and it's been quite nice.

I like it when I can do everything, except the main story and I don't get penalised for it.

Definitely looking forward to Forbidden West next.

Regards.
 
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I was OK with it until there was a MAJOR story change, at which point it became very depressing. There was also literally zero warning all the work I'd put in to 100% the camp could not be continued.
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I kind of agree about that one. The ending got me depressed for a long while cause i got so used to arthur morgan. It was like a friend to me lmao.
 
When I wiped the wrong drive I stopped playing for a while (was Assetto Corsa).

Then played the crap out of Ghosts of Tushima. Tons of fun but took a small break with Steam summer sale.

Played the hell out of Prey, sooo underrated. That game is a gem where your decisions do matter and creativity gets you places (literally).

Now without my main rig at hand ivr been playing Ratchet and Clank which is some old school fun. Feels like back when games were games.
 
Starfield asks for load things in 10mins at every door. Uninstalled that as it is already abandoned.

Reinstalled The Witcher 3, having a blast again. Downloaded Cyberpunk 2077, entire game is SO depressing / sad so Uninstalled that as well.

Now enjoying Windows XP memes.
 
I’ve been playing Hellblade 2 lately. It’s the most graphically impressive game I’ve ever seen, but it feels more like an interactive cinematic, or a walking simulator. It’s quite demanding, even for my 4090.
 
finished Starfield recently and really enjoyed it.
i keep seeing comments about how the game is broken, has terrible performance and terrible gameplay.
i didn't have any issue with it at all. no crashing or game breaking glitches, ran great with maxed settings + extra tweaks/mods to up the graphics slightly, gameplay was pretty much just an improvement on the Elder Scrolls & Fallout games so played great.

afterwards i reinstalled Skyrim SE/AE to stick with the game style but even with ~100 mods installed including every graphics improvement option(textures, models, shadows, lighting, weather, etc) i could find it still shows it's age and feels very dated.
still fun but i just have gotten used to much better visuals these days.

started Ghost of Tsushima this week and the first couple hours have been disappointing.
maybe 20mins of actual gameplay out of that 2hrs with just constant cutscenes interfering with the gameplay.

keep thinking i'll get the latest Elden Ring expansion and give that a try again.
i enjoyed it when it first came out but just moved on ~1/2 way through and never got back into it.

i hate buying games now because i've got so many backlogged and so many others that i feel like replaying sometimes. feels like i'm wasting money, but new awesome looking stuff is always around the corner.
currently installed:
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