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I finished Disco Elysyim this afternoon, i enjoyed it very much, way too much lore for my taste, but the game and mechanics is awesome, i didn't finished some quest, but i did most of them.
I just hoped it didn't ended kind of abrupt, or with an out of nowhere culprit, but nonetheless the journey was fantastic
I'm not even that interested in the next Xbox, but that All Access seems like a great option for people.
Gamepass going to $9.99 a month. Still worth it.
Yep, but i´m still unsure if i want to pay full price when the app is still shit.
I think the far more likely scenario is base game in November with "early" release dlcs down the line, this is Koei Tecmo we're talking about, I expect them to have learned their "lesson" with the first game.
Yup. Dicey Dungeons are from the team that brought you VVVVVV and Super Hexagon
which of course VVVVVV has some great music as well
Expected, but still frustrating. Three years of exclusivity deals keeping Tetris Effect off of Steam. Maybe Google will want to make a deal next Summer for another year.
They have taken every timed exclusivity they could have, I find it abusive at this point. I'm not interested in buying it anymore.
So after all this time to figure out why the hell I couldn't get HDR on my PC, wondering if it's my HDMI cable, the GPU, something with the motherboard, the answer was that youtube on firefox which I was using to compare between my pc and the roku youtube app, doesn't support HDR lol.
I think I have an idea of what's going on but will take the final episode tomorrow to know for sure.
game is about child hood trauma and I think the main characters are replacing an abusive father figure with this monster in their memory of the trauma. But the game has a lot of weird fairy tale lore stuff that is hard to know if it's just children's imagination or something more (because they do have a supernatural ability to talk to eachother through their minds).
Fantastic game, can't wait to see the next game of the studio.
Well, Inland Empire did tell you all the way at the start that it was communism that killed him, but love pulled the trigger. There are a bunch of hints like that peppered around the game, but you never really recognize them until the end. I do get what you mean though.
I thought it was quite well executed and fit the overall bizarreness of the circumstances well. My reading on it wasn't so much that it was an until-then unknown identity who did it, but rather something we had gotten to know very well by that point in the game: a personification of all the pent up bile, anger and injustice (current and historical) that contextualizes every object, person and the world around you. Mixed with jealousy of something he thought he could never have, a bullet was shot at an unwitting target that represented another aspect of the problems of Revanchol. In a more literal reading, it still kind of works for me because of how important it initially seems when really it was incidental and done on a whim, a weird emotional outburst that was a catalyst for the confluence of all these people and events.That seemingly stochastic nature of the event even thought it was grounded in layers of history and emotional charge feels very human and real in many ways.
Even so, I felt like solving the case was kind of secondary to the true emotional conclusion of the game, which was the Insulidian Phasmid that you have a second reality lowdown with and helps you to come to terms with yourself, piece a final few things back together after the morale-shattering dream sequence with your ex-wife. It even interrupts you as you are locking down your accusations against the deserter. Such a wonderful moment. Despite the hyper depressing realist undercurrent of the game, you do get bits and pieces of how the world of Disco Elysium is super weird and not at all like our own. And, similarly, as bleak as the game seems at first blush, it is really hopeful, humanizing and warm at its core.
Anywho, those were just my thoughts on it; I get that it doesn't work for everyone. Really hope we get more of this kind of game from ZA/UM. Such an impressive undertaking.
I thought it was quite well executed and fit the overall bizarreness of the circumstances well. My reading on it wasn't so much that it was an until-then unknown identity who did it, but rather something we had gotten to know very well by that point in the game: a personification of all the pent up bile, anger and injustice (current and historical) that contextualizes every object, person and the world around you. Mixed with jealousy of something he thought he could never have, a bullet was shot at an unwitting target that represented another aspect of the problems of Revanchol. In a more literal reading, it still kind of works for me because of how important it initially seems when really it was incidental and done on a whim, a weird emotional outburst that was a catalyst for the confluence of all these people and events.That seemingly stochastic nature of the event even thought it was grounded in layers of history and emotional charge feels very human and real in many ways.
Even so, I felt like solving the case was kind of secondary to the true emotional conclusion of the game, which was the Insulidian Phasmid that you have a second reality lowdown with and helps you to come to terms with yourself, piece a final few things back together after the morale-shattering dream sequence with your ex-wife. It even interrupts you as you are locking down your accusations against the deserter. Such a wonderful moment. Despite the hyper depressing realist undercurrent of the game, you do get bits and pieces of how the world of Disco Elysium is super weird and not at all like our own. And, similarly, as bleak as the game seems at first blush, it is really hopeful, humanizing and warm at its core.
Anywho, those were just my thoughts on it; I get that it doesn't work for everyone. Really hope we get more of this kind of game from ZA/UM. Such an impressive undertaking.
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I missed that Inland Empire told me that, or probably forget, i only played it once, I also failed to figured it out what's going on with the man with sunglasses (my crew) maybe that changes things a bit.
I do agree with most of your points, is a lot to digest anyway, as i said too much lore of the world on it but the journey was fantastic.
> the morale-shattering dream sequence with your ex-wife
I think i didn't have that one, only what my crew told me about my past and why i'm the way i'm because a woman betrayed me.
Is there a way to save more hardy boys or to avoid that bloodshed? (only two survived on my play, and i didn't had my weapon in that part).
I do agree with most of your points, is a lot to digest anyway, as i said too much lore of the world on it but the journey was fantastic.
> the morale-shattering dream sequence with your ex-wife
I think i didn't have that one, only what my crew told me about my past and why i'm the way i'm because a woman betrayed me.
Is there a way to save more hardy boys or to avoid that bloodshed? (only two survived on my play, and i didn't had my weapon in that part).
I also do wants more games from this studio.
A Monster's Expedition looks sweet & charming. I am getting real feelgood vibes here.
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Ah, you get the dream sequence when you sleep in the bed on the island. I think Kim suggests that (if he's still alive anyway). If you have a save from around then, definitely give it a look. Very interesting. You can get through the tribunal with almost no bloodshed. I think one of the Hardy boys will always die, but there are a number of things that will help you resolve the situation, yeah. Among which would be getting a gun, either yours or another one. I want to say gaining the trust of the Hardy boys helps, but I'm unsure. Knowing about Kortenaer's life and childhood also throws the assailants off.
It could be cool if a theoretical new game would explore one of the older cases mentioned in your dossier. Like the square bullet hole murder seemed really interesting.
That and Nvidia's pricing put them on the defensive.
AMD really needs to invest in some kind of synergy with their GPUs and CPUs because I don't see what else they have going for them over Nvidia other than Linux support and mining performance.
the synergy they're banking on I think is on mobile with their 4000U APU series. Seems to be top notch performance and with low powerdraw. Now if only more laptop manufactures actually had AMD models...
Ironically it took me less than 3 hours to drop Fallout 76!
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Finally finished Control today and my opinion about it remained unchanged. I liked the game but that's about it. It totally failed to wow me or impress me in any way. It's a good, polished game but with so many issues for me personally. Can't even force myself to play two DLC expansions, so for now i think that i won't even bother.
Bold price point. Definitely will wait until it is cheaper, but I had my eye on it. I am a sucker for a 3D platformer.
Stadia might as well get in line, push things out to 2023.
Has one game ever has so many moneyhats?
I knew it was a regular here but I forgot it was Jase. Wonder if we can still see the wall of Pat & Mats
Well, think I've about had my fill with The Division 1. Got to World Tier 5. Actually quite impressed, given it's free. If you give it a shot, make sure you turn on 'Neutral Lighting' in the settings. Lovely looking game. One of the better cover systems, and was presently surprised by the verticality during exploration and combat; in-and-out of highly detailed apartments, leading to rooftop parkour and all the way down into the subways. Love the snow storms... speaking of, Wasteland 3 looks like it still news a couple more patches, so dunno what I'll play next.
SOmething I just realized: that's one day before Raji: an Ancient Epic is coming out on Steam.
The week after my birthday will be painful on the wallet.
Bold price point. Definitely will wait until it is cheaper, but I had my eye on it. I am a sucker for a 3D platformer.
That character design holding a big ass space blaster is fucking wild. Looks really off.
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