Chet_Awesomelad

No you’re correct, that’s exactly what they did.

I’m still unreasonably mad that they marketed the first game as a remake - even literally titling it ‘FF7 Remake’ - and then it turns out it isn’t a remake at all, it’s some poorly-written Kingdom Hearts nonsense about how bad it is to be restricted to telling the story you’re fated to tell and how you need to break free from the shackles of destiny. I can’t imagine a bigger “fuck you” to fans of the original game. If they hated the idea of having to remake the original story so much, then they should have just not made it!

I fucking love Next Fest, it’s such a great way to find new games from smaller developers. I’ve already queued up 7 demo downloads, can’t wait to try them!

I’ve been trying to play Starfield but I’m just not feeling excited about anything that I’ve seen so far. I’m still playing through BG3 on my second character. Also been playing Sea of Stars, which has been surprisingly good.

Ayyyyy this patch finally fixed the bug that stopped me from finishing the game! :)

How shitty do you need to be to make your workers complete a ton of work on a project and then only credit the executives who didn’t even do the actual work? Altagram is run by garbage people.

Lmao I’ve also taken the day off. I’ve also told my partner that I will essentially be uncontactable for the entire weekend after release

Have you tried the Rogue Trader playtest? I put in about 10 hours, which doesn’t cover all the content at all, and I really enjoyed it. The combat was a bit hit and miss for me, but the story and the characters were the real standout.

I’m much the same when I usually make my characters lmao. Oh, you’ve given me a smorgasbord of different races and classes to choose from? Cool, I reckon I’ll roll a halfling rogue or a human fighter, thanks.

It’s so crazy, you can have entire conversations with some animals. I haven’t tried speaking with all of them, but it’s possible there are even sidequests given to you by animals. Players who don’t have the ability to cast Speak With Animals will just miss that content on their playthrough.

As far as I know there’s no Lone Wolf equivalent, although you can just choose to not travel with any companions. It is easier to do stealth in BG3 - for starters, they added a Group Sneak key (something that was sorely missing from DOS2), and there are plenty of times you can use stealth and/or exploration to circumvent combat encounters while still gaining XP.

I’m so hyped for this game! I’ve put over 100 hours into the early access content and I can’t wait to see the full version.

I’m curious - what kind of characters are y’all going to play? I usually go with a rogue for my first playthrough in RPG games, with decent persuade/deception skills so I can try out some of the dialogue options to influence other characters.

There was also several people at the studios who confirmed to the press that the studios were planning to, quote, “allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.” These people are scum.

Game marketing is a bit like when someone tells you they’re going to quit smoking. Okay buddy, I’ll believe it when I see it. No no, I’m sure you think you’re going to quit, I’m not saying you’re a liar, but also I absolutely won’t believe it will happen until I see it.

The publishing side of their business has always been their greatest strength anyway imo, so this makes sense

Oh also, another one to check out is a game called Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles. It’s a really cool twist on the settlement game where you don’t deal with resources in numbers, instead the resources can only travel a certain distance away from the harvesting location. It’s also got a cool system where you switch between building mode and an exploration mode where you can fly an airship around and discover new locations / new resources / events with other factions.

Yeah I’m much the same lmao. The other thing I struggle with is when your resources get too low and workers start dying/leaving/whatever so that it becomes even harder to get the resources you need! SteamWorld Build avoids this - instead of punishing you for not having resources, instead it just rewards you for having excess resources, so for example the citizens will work faster if you have excess resources but if you don’t then they still work at the default speed.

Everyone should try the SteamWorld Build demo, it’s super fun. It’s a pretty relaxed settlement builder / city management game set in the same universe as the SteamWorld Dig games, with a focus on synergising and exploration rather than on spinning plates to balance resources like you see in more hardcore city management games.