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I appreciate that Dark Souls made the formula popular and made the world seamless, but personally, I still prefer Demon's Souls.
That first Old Monk experience will live with me forever.
I was a bit bummed when Sony put the kibosh on releasing a PC version of the remaster.

Eraser wrote:Horizon Zero Dawn. The "complete edition" was (is?) on sale in Steam. It's like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for adults. Breathtaking game.

That is one fun game! Nice choice.

Mat Linnett wrote:I appreciate that Dark Souls made the formula popular and made the world seamless, but personally, I still prefer Demon's Souls.
That first Old Monk experience will live with me forever.
I was a bit bummed when Sony put the kibosh on releasing a PC version of the remaster.

Never played Demon sadly.
I started Sekiro but got distracted.. now I'm playing Subnautica - excellent survival game with an actual plot - and replaying FFX.

I also discovered Sea of Thieves with my son.. I can't get over how well made this game is. Each session feels like a totally unique adventure.

I hate SoT. It's ruined by the fighting mechanics sadly because the rest of the game is fantastic.

OG Fallout

So I installed Q3 like the rest of ya. As I was digging out the old Q3 box, I found Neverwinter Nights and ended up installing it too. Looked it up, and there’s a new version, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. On sale on GOG for $5, so I went for it. While I was on GOG, I saw some games I bought many years ago and forgot about. Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. I’ve never played any of them. So I jumped into Fallout and I’m loving it. Takes some patience with the controls, but it’s fun…

Finished the main campaign of Horizon Zero Dawn. This game blew me away. What a gem.
Just dove into the Frozen Wilds DLC. Hope it's just as good. Feels like they seriously upped the difficulty though.

Glad you enjoyed

In love with the soundtrack as well

Have you played God of War yet?

No I haven't. That's PlayStation exclusive, isn't it? I don't have a PlayStation. None of them.

Ah damn it :/

Ratchet and Clank (2016)

A little beaut of a game - would highly recommend it

Eraser wrote:That's PlayStation exclusive, isn't it?

Just this week, there's been news that it might be coming to PC.

Would be nice, but I believe that list also included Titanfall 3 and that was considered to be a near impossibly.

It's incredible, so if it does come to PC, please play it.

Finally started Star Control Origins, after having it sit in my Steam library for 3 years. They did a great job keeping the spirit of StarControl II alive with the nostalgic feel and fun gameplay.

Deathloop. Interesting game. Took a bit to grow on me...but now that I've figured out the game's core mechanics a bit, it's fun.

I've been looking at that one, TNF. But I think Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart is next on the play list

Noclip just released a relatively short doc video on Deathloop's development

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I'm playing through the Quake 1 remaster.
Initially just for the new "Dimension of the Machine" episode, which is absolutely amazing. I can wholeheartedly recommend anyone to spend a few hours playing through this. It really takes Quake to a whole new level of detail and amazing level design
I also played through Dimension of the Past as well as the first three regular Quake episodes. I'm now tackling the fourth. I'm also planning on doing the missionpack levels.

I really enjoy playing through this game again. There's something about it that makes it so enjoyable. I don't know what it is, but parts of Quake still have me impressed more than some $100 million budget games from 2021. It's such a gem.

I recently got done with Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
It's a mammoth RPG in the same vein as Baldur's Gate etc., and the Pathfinder RPG ruleset is basically the D&D 3.5 ruleset with a few additions.

It's a very good adventure story with good characters that is somewhat let down by horrendous difficulty spikes, a rather tedious "Heroes of Might & Magic" overworld minigame, and a few bugs.
I'm also not sure I like the party members as much as those in the first game, as a lot are straight-up anime tropes and fan-service.

It holds together better than Pathfinder: Kingmaker, thanks to not having a bunch of invisible quest timers, and it allows for some pretty wild character builds. I've started a second run-through with a halfling "Knight of the Paw", who rides a dog into battle
Seriously, character creation alone can take a couple of hours if you explore all the options available to you.

I just wish the people who make these games would consider that not everyone in their audience is interested in optimising/minmaxing the shit out of their team. The encounters often feel like they've been designed exclusively for RPG Codex grognards.
There's also a lot of gaping holes when it comes to hints and tips that explain concepts, with a lot of tooltips missing and a lack of consistency in what's explained.

If you've got the time and patience to dedicate to an old-school, 100+ hour RPG, I recommend it, but maybe wait for a few patches first.
And don't be ashamed to mod the shit out of it / cheat in order to smooth over some of those difficulty spikes.

Re minmaxing, have you tried Torment:Tides?
Loved that one for its freedom of tackling encounters.

Has anyone here played Back4Blood? Is it any good? Is it basically a new L4D or is it really different?

No campaign versus mode is such a stupid decision.

I never cared about L4D's PvP mode, so that's not a loss in my book