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Easy Allies |OT| The New Era
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i honestly didn't like mario rabids that much. it's not a terrible game but i found the gameplay to be too slow and repetitive after a while. seeing as its ubi there's a good chance itll be heavily discounted regularly
I've already blown past my Black Friday budget so this would be a little bit extra on top of that.
Otherwise, I would have gladly added to this to the pile lol
For what it's worth, I paid full price on launch for it and feel it was absolutely worth it. Strategy is my favourite genre though so there's a big bias there but putting aside the game mechanics, it's a charming and fun experience as well. $30 it's a steal.
Now there's a question. Have you played the XCOM2 expansion yet? That's the one to go to first, but Mario & Rabbids is real good in its own right.
Yep, about 200 hours into each. There are a lot of differences in the gameplay but I would say the 2 ones which stand out to me are the reliance on manipulating % in XCOM, whilst M+R depends on combos and being creative with your action points.
Not yet, it's in the pile :P
I have played XCOM 1/2 extensively though and it's a large part of why I was super excited for M+R.
Dammit.
Guess it's being bought...
I play on PC so I just mod them out if I'm not playing Long War mod. They're not that bad, you just need to have a team that doesn't rely on a few turns of positioning on rooftops etc. And make sure a couple of guys have scanners and decoys equipped.
I like XCOM 2 more than 1 primarily due to the timed missions. But I enjoy the tension they bring to each turn and decision you make.
I stopped playing M+R shortly after reaching the final world. It became harder without bringing a lot new to the table. Still wanna finish it one day.
Between that and a playthrough of XCOM 1 I bought XCOM 1 and I'm excited to play it sometime next year :p
Between that and a playthrough of XCOM 1 I bought XCOM 1 and I'm excited to play it sometime next year :p
God I've put so many (well spent) hours into XCOM2, what a game!
Right now I'm working through the Nioh DLC's. Quite a shock dropping back into that game after a few months.
Right now I'm working through the Nioh DLC's. Quite a shock dropping back into that game after a few months.
I've been holding off on Xcom 2 and it's expansion (which looks amazing) because I still need to play one which I own. Once I do that I'll jump in on the sequel
So I was playing Mario Odyssey and the opposite of BotW just happened to me.
I wasn't disliking the game but I didn't think it was that great either. Got to the Wooded Kingdom, the game clicked and I think I'm in love. Which is strange because I don't think it's doing anything drastically new that the previous kingdoms didn't already.
I wasn't disliking the game but I didn't think it was that great either. Got to the Wooded Kingdom, the game clicked and I think I'm in love. Which is strange because I don't think it's doing anything drastically new that the previous kingdoms didn't already.
Wooded Kingdom has great music and is a lot more vertical which leads to better platforming - that might be a reason?
I'd say it's up there with Metro Kingdom as my favourite places to jump around.
Ya know, that might be it. It's really letting me enjoy how well Mario controls unlike some of the other kingdoms.
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Urge to buy... rising.
I can't actually buy anything for now. I just got EW2 and Resi 7 (the Huber special) and I'll have to wait until I'm done with those.
My guess is this one will remain around that price for awhile, 20 is lowest I imagine it goes. It seems to have sold very well and it's not like Assassin's Creed where another is gonna be ready in 10 months.
Also it was the music I'm sure =)
With Odyssey, the general sentiment seems to be it gets better as it goes for the most part. The only exception I can think of is luncheon kingdom that is still great, but I don't think it's as interesting or innovative as the kingdoms that come before it
I have more posts in this thread than the Retronauts one because I heard about the dust-up with Colin and Easy Allies and checked out this thread because I knew there would be some people in here parroting the "Bob is an obsessed murderer" garbage that Colin feeds his fanbase.
A large part of my Twitter account is dunking on dumb, toxic conservatives, and Colin happens to be one of those. I just happen to think he's more harmful than most because he preaches his zero-empathy philosophy to young, male gamers, who need to hear anything BUT that. He's a public figure making public statements on public platforms. The last time I tweeted about Colin, I did it while waiting for soup to cool (so obsessed), and there's no "dummy account" needed. You just have to right click in Chrome. He's also made dozens of bad YouTube videos. Honestly, continuing to call someone "crazy" for criticizing a public figure with influence (admittedly waning influence) is some fucked-up gaslighting that Colin definitely encourages.
And I don't @ him or contact him directly because he's an extremely fragile man, as history will show. I think the real reason I got under his skin is that in the past he could simply bully his way out of any criticism. In the past, he's used his influence to threaten people's livelihoods—Greg Miller sacrificed me to his 1.6 million followers and boy was that fun—and sends his own fanbase after critics, in the hopes that they'll eventually be pummeled into submission. But I've been through much worse stuff than whatever a shut-in libertarian could do to me online, and that makes him furious. So he goes on to attack my LinkedIn account (so classy and cool), call me mentally ill, a potential murderer, etc.
It's been incredibly clear that Colin doesn't want these "spirited and productive" debates he crows about so often. He just wants you to agree with him, and to be nice about it. We all see what happens when you don't.
The timed missions are easier to deal with on PC, since there are mods where the timers only start after concealment is lost, but War of the Chosen adds a Second Wave option to double the timers, along with a lot of performance improvements for PC.
Unfortunately, the consoles have garbage CPUs, so the game still doesn't work too well on them.
I fail to see how it's "incredibly clear" colin doesn't want spirited and productive debates, as YOU declined to engage with him in that way and instead take potshots at him whilst actively seeking out a twitter account that's blocked you (if not from a dummy account then whatever workaround you use) just to keep fighting. Saying you don't directly engage with him because HE is fragile? Ok then. And if you can't see the hypocrisy of calling him toxic while you screencap and hurl insults at him, well that's on you.
Anyways. Have a good one. I've liked your work in the past but stopped following you because of the colin nonsense. You could always try just ignoring him and moving on, but you seem to to enjoy the attention it brings you. You say you're not obsessed with him and that you just enjoy making fun of conservatives on your twitter. But there are thousands and thousands of dumb conservatives saying stupid shit on twitter every day, yet colin is by far your most frequent target. So maybe don't try pulling the gaslighting card.
From bob mackeys twitter:
"he came up in another thread because he's desperately trying to work with the remaining people in the games press he hasn't alienated yet"
Colin sent a tweet to Brandon inviting him on. That's not "desperately" doing anything. So yea, bob, you can stop with the gaslighting yourself and playing the victim card.
"he came up in another thread because he's desperately trying to work with the remaining people in the games press he hasn't alienated yet"
Colin sent a tweet to Brandon inviting him on. That's not "desperately" doing anything. So yea, bob, you can stop with the gaslighting yourself and playing the victim card.
Take your derailing to pm's.
You very clearly have an issue with him, and have no intention to discuss anything otherwise
That game Bosman's playing for Fun Game Monday looks like it could be a good one. Only watched 20 minutes of it so far but it seems rather funny. "You little turd!"
Sorry for derailing the thread.
Sorry for derailing the thread.
I know this topic will come back up, but it's getting a bit personal in here. If we could take that conversation to private messages, that would be appreciated. Right now it seems like people are talking in circles and it's not really going anywhere.
I'd rather have the ship the showed in the background of the pre-reveal stuff be the strategy layer hub thing (like XCOM 2 does with the Avenger). I wouldn't mind going into towns and what not if it weren't for the fact that there are Famitsu screencaps of the game using the old "close in shot of a character's head overlaid on a background environment" cutscene style. If it was more like The Evil Within 2's dialogue scenes, then having towns would provide actual value.
I still need to play the Valkyria Chronicles remaster. I guess the reveal of 4 pushes it further up my backlog list. Ben's appeal for it during Hall of Greats is what convinced me to buy it originally.
Since I never played 2 and 3 I'm not sure but I have a hard time imagining how towns fit into it(in the more standard rpg sense). Feels like it's probably just cheaper to have different backgrounds to your base camp menus depending on where you are in the story. Would be fun though to just walk around in hub towns so if they can do it sure.
I def hope for more options to customize/tinker/progress on than in 1.
Playing Night in the Woods right now.
This game is up there alongside the best of the year. Don't sleep on it.
This game is up there alongside the best of the year. Don't sleep on it.
I think I'm going to pick this up after I finish Hellblade. It's another one where I just keep hearing nothing but good things.
I've been really interested in it, but I think I'll end up getting it on Switch. It was heavily hinted by the dev, so I'm expecting to see it announced in a Direct.
I know Huber has done some fighting game reviews like Injustice 2, Arms and For Honor if that counts so I think he would be the next in line and fill all the B-roll with Nappa.
There should be some Dojo sessions by Ben in any case whether he reviews it or not so that's fine. He had mentioned before that MH World was his most anticipated game so it's probably harder to pry from his grasp.
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