alphabethunter

I played the first 20h, of which there was a solid 4h where I was not in control of my character, and a lot of immersion breaking bad game design elements (Griffon quest was particularly jarring). So I dropped it and never understood the hype either. CP2077 was yet another reminder that CDPR game design is mid at best.

For the US (which has always been an imperialistic pos country, never the savior of the world), this is not a pointless war. Is the most simple of all modern wars: oil war. Iran has the power to block 20% of the world's oil supply. This is as simple as it gets, you just need to drop the rose-tinted glasses and realize that the USA js not, and has never been, any sort of paragon of morality and justice. It's an Empire built by Oil and Billionaire Pedophiles. It'll always do the shameless thing, because it knows no shame, and it has never known any shame, it just used to be a bit better at marketing.

"Blueberries are fucking purple!!" - Randy Feltface

I was looking into buying an old i5 3570 + mobo + 16gb ddr3 kit to make a nice emulation box using an old gpu that's lying around here, and even that has gone up in price by about 50%...

It's my anecdotal evidence, but Unity games run like shit. Whenever I hop in an Indie game where they used Unity, performance makes no sense. An example of this is the og Hollow Knight, which needs way more resources than it seems it would. Now that Godot games are becoming more widespread, I have never felt that a game made in Godot was "heavier than I expected it'd be", often the opposite. Maybe it's just that most developers using Unity don't know how to optimize in that engine... But it's weird. UE5 I can usually at least see where the performance bloat is coming from, but Unity just makes no sense.

The naval combat is pretty much AC4, plus you get a decent survival game, land combat, crafting and management mechanics for your ship, and boarding combat. Everything people have been requesting Ubisoft to do for years.

Humans are not herbivores. There are a lot of good social and ethical reasons to not eat meat, this is not one of them.

It's 3D indie game made in Unity, and although the textures do look old school, lighting and geometry are not.

It will all just get dumped in the Atacama desert, like they already do. Every year tons of fast fashion wearables get dumped there.

I want the teams that made Grounded and Pillars to split up, the rest of the company can die. Outer Worlds is a mediocre game through and through, same with their new 1st person rpg.

Vampire: The Masquerade is the OG vampire game though, a tabletop RPG written in the 90s that actually does and considers who and what a vampire is. The problem it's all the knockoffs that spawned because of it. You get it all with VTM: politics, intrigue, personal horror, millennia old monsters farming humans, vampires so old that they saw the fall of Babel, biblical myths and Occult lore intertwined, modern world fiction where the darkness runs deeper than you'd think, government agencies that hunt down vampires and other monsters, their very own world-ending myth, and many different kinds of Vampires, from ones so ugly they have to live in the sewers and learn invisibility, from ones so rich and powerful they control mega corporations from behind the scenes. So it's not just a sequel, it's a sequel to THE Vampire game. But they butchered it.

20% Mostly Negative on Steam right now.