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On the subject of not letting your kids play games though, that's absolutely a normal thing to do. When I was a kid, my mum refused to let me play Tekken 2 after she saw Yoshimitsu and his attack that stabbed through his own body. I'm pretty confident that I would probably have continued to not stab myself to harm other people whether or not she took the game though.
Just make sure you're doing it because of something you can articulate properly though. There's a lot of validity in the points people are making here that no game has caused a level headed person to shoot up their school. Ready Or Not literally has a school shooting level in it and I'm pretty confident that wouldn't cause one either. Trauma and bad mental health cause shootings, not popularised media. If you think your children are in a position where the game could inspire them to do things like that, then you should absolutely ban them from playing it.
But also remember - they know these games exist. They're probably going to play those games in a setting outside of your control. If their friends get really into Call of Duty or another series that you withhold access to, it will cause tension. You just need to be prepared for that.
Just make sure you're doing it because of something you can articulate properly though. There's a lot of validity in the points people are making here that no game has caused a level headed person to shoot up their school. Ready Or Not literally has a school shooting level in it and I'm pretty confident that wouldn't cause one either. Trauma and bad mental health cause shootings, not popularised media. If you think your children are in a position where the game could inspire them to do things like that, then you should absolutely ban them from playing it.
But also remember - they know these games exist. They're probably going to play those games in a setting outside of your control. If their friends get really into Call of Duty or another series that you withhold access to, it will cause tension. You just need to be prepared for that.
Last week I was a little surprised Schedule 1 was given the top of the Steam front page, but a friend wanted us to play so we all jumped on. Now I've ended up playing my own save when others aren't around and I can't put the damn thing down.
Ironically addictive game, and a good bit of goofy fun. Won't blow anyone's mind from a game design perspective, obviously.
Ironically addictive game, and a good bit of goofy fun. Won't blow anyone's mind from a game design perspective, obviously.
The issue that most people experience with the story is the initial Realm Reborn content, to be honest. It's a massive slog to get to the good stuff.
I do honestly think that you're right, but I supect that what will happen instead is enough crusty clueless MBAs will set up AI game studios to churn out generated live service crud that it will fuck up that part of the industry instead, and we don't get far enough for people to be generating their own games before everyone decides to get away from AI generation in creative industries.
Maybe the last part is more of a hope than a prediction, but I do think that the leeches and chancers will produce enough garbage content before we reach the stage where people are generating their own stuff, and I hope that's enough that we just never get to that point.
It's always important to save all of the best and most overpowered weapons for the imaginary threat that will come after what you know for 100% certain is the final boss!
Time Crisis is my all time favourite arcade game series, and my hopes were so high until I opened that article and read that it's design utilises AI powered cameras to figure out where you're aiming, which I can assume they've only done so they can call it an AI product. I know they'd never work the old way on a modern TV, but Jesus Christ. Over it already.
I've been playing a bit too. It's funny to think how considerable the jank in that game is, even now. You didn't mention the luck-based matchmaking that comes from actually being able to connect to online in the first place, so you must be lucky indeed because for me it takes 4+ attempts!
But why on earth did you go to Disneyland with Louis's wife and daughter?
My brother finally got me to try No Mans Sky last week and it has absolutely devoured so much of my time. This morning I decided to see how the VR mode is and only stopped because my Quest controllers ran out of battery.
I'm still completely beyond sceptical that this will even come out, but the part that's really fucking with me is that one of the DLC clans is Toreador, one of the first edition clans and playing as one isn't going to be like playing a Nosferatu or Malkavian where it should require significant extra story or gameplay elements.
Both of which the original video game managed to include.
As someone who was in the playtest and absolutely hated what the game was becoming, I can understand why you would say it smells like a purity test, but I honestly can't get behind the game at all because of how forced it all feels.
Mechanically it's really good, but it's still just a well-made treadmill designed to keep you coming back every day for challenges to open lootboxes, and the reason for that is first and foremost in the hopes you'll open the shop every day. Every bit of feedback about the game to EA during playtesting has felt completely ignored, and every time you try to vocalise these concerns in the larger community the answer is always either "but it's free" or "it's early access it will be fixed", as if that's ever been realistic.
I'm glad some people are having fun with it, but I really really wish we'd just got a new full priced Skate with an offline mode and a story instead.
Thank you for revealing the existence of this game. This looks like the exact kind of game I've always wanted to make, but never had the talent for.
I'll be beyond grateful to play it.
I just bought it. I'm painfully unsure of whether or not to wait for all of the episodes to come out first. I think if I hit a cliffhanger I might eat my keyboard.
One thing I will say is that the current purchase price is for all episodes - that's available, it's just that the episodes are being spread out over the next couple of months. I'm still waiting for it to be all out before I start, but it's not like the old Telltale games where the original release is just Episode 1 and the others come with an extra cost.
Having coincidentally just picked it up on PS5 I can assure you the controls were clearly actually designed by someone who'd never played a shooter before in their life.
I've never played an FPS before where the default controls and settings are so counter to every other video game ever. Aiming is a chore without massive settings adjustments.
It probably is, but it's fascinating to me that they have as much configuration as they do in the menus, including options specifically to make aiming more like other games in their own franchise, but the default is "aim the gun while also opening a bottle of mustard in one hand to put on the hot dog in the other".
It took me a solid 20 minutes just to make the aim feel like anything other than a random number generator that decides for me where I am pointing.
The combat definitely gets easier as you upgrade your gear at the workbench and get some decent armour.
But for a lot of fights I find the most important thing is replacing blocking with dodging (control, it took me about 10 hours to realise that was in the game) and not locking onto a target when fighting groups of enemies that circle you, especially when you get further and meet the wolves and bigger pirate camps. Dodging is especially good for drowned, pirates, and the boars.
Also, the best piece of advice I can give is to not board an enemy ship until you're very comfortable with the combat. The lack of space to move and the respawning enemies makes those fights more brutal than the first boss.
I can understand why someone who's just started playing would read this and go "why the fuck am I playing this", in hindsight. Maybe I've become a masochist.
I genuinely wish I could do that. My brain is not wired to replay a story without literally years in between. Dispatch is one of those games where I quite heavily wish I could but can't.
Slightly aside but what are those missing elements? I'm a huge survival crafting game fan but Subnautica hasn't been one I've played - I always considered going back and trying it but those could potentially be a dealbreaker.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doV0yq4kAP0
New Fable video, it's long but should be interesting to fans of the old games. Definitely looks like they're following the recipe, but this approach to morality looks a lot less dumb than we normally see in video games, A bit more variety and nuance, as long as they can deliver beyond this demo.
I am assuming the economy will be significantly less easy when it comes out, I imagine it was all scaled up to make the demo work.
E: forgot about the age restriction - I would feel like an ass leaving this as a blank "this video is age restricted" - It's a video from their official channel, 30 minutes long, goes over the morality system in one specific settlement.
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