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  • People will play this like “Fucking hey! I aced that bike segment first time!” all proud of their gaming skills when the reality is you did absolutely nothing, my brother.

    I remember a little indie game predicated on this once. You were shown upcoming game state the player was in, and had to make choices so they’d get the maximum score without doing anything. I was a like Columns or Tetris like game, so you’d have to arrange the board so if they just dropped the pieces they’d get a combo.

    Weirdly fun, interesting commentary.


  • jtrek@startrek.websitetoGames@lemmy.world•Diablo V Teaser
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    14 days ago

    It’s been a while but from what I remember every character woman is either an idiot or a manipulator.

    They took the witch from the first game and made her a conniving lying betrayer.

    The way Leah was written is… Not good. Weird purity issues. And she dies horribly.

    The female follower NPC is… A scantily clad enchantress.

    You start to see a theme and wonder about what the author thinks.



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    15 days ago

    At launch, it was pretty bad. The story was awful. Bad writing. (Whoever wrote ‘How tastes your fear?’ needs to go back to school). Misogyny.

    The gameplay was really bad at launch. The auction house borked it up. The game is essentially a lot of gear checks, and at launch you would slam into that wall pretty frequently. The same tactics would wipe or be a snooze based entirely on the numbers on your gear. Getting good gear was really hard, unless you used the auction house. It was deeply unsatisfying. Also most of the random boss powers were really annoying to play against.

    Even after the expansion and updates, it tends to turn into disco laser rollercoaster. Personally, I’m not a fan of that. I preferred the original’s more sedate, gloomy, mood. Holding down right click to shoot lasers and drop meteors for billions of damage is amusing for a little while, but it’s so tactically shallow it doesn’t hold my attention for that long.

    I played it a lot anyway, because the first two games were favorites in my youth. I didn’t even get 4. Fuck microsoft.








  • Microsoft and Bethesda are creatively incompetent. They don’t really want to say anything. They just want a funny theme park full of kitschy shit so they can pander to fans.

    They’re fucking soulless morons.

    The first fallout was interesting because it was pretty fresh. The 2nd was a bigger exploration, with some interesting questions about remnants. I don’t really remember 3 but it had some weird narrative problems, I think.

    New Vegas actually asked a new interesting question: who rebuilds after?

    And then 4 just shits the bed because Bethesda has no soul. It’s also mechanically a mess. Power armor in the intro, except it sucks? Fuck everyone who thought that was a good idea.