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ampersandrew, to gaming in Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 5 is a whopper of an update with an epilogue, two new modes, and more
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I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough. I will not start another playthrough.

JelloBrains,
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How's your new playthrough going?

ampersandrew,
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I'm temporarily staving it off by playing two other RPGs.

Yepthatsme, to gaming in Starfield's planets are an illusion: you can't land on them

This article is for idiots. What a dumb test. This isn’t SC or ED or SB2.

If you want to fly around space in a sim buy another game.

If you want a quest and story rich world buy this game.

Gorejelly, to gaming in PlayStation Project Q leak offers a very rough look at the handheld in action
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Why couldn't this device have been the one to have "360" in the name? It would have worked (for once!).

"Why do they call it the PieceShyt360? Because you throw it away and it boomerangs right back to you!"

Seriously, though, how am I going to catch the Joker with this thing?

For reals: looks like it has bad ergonomics, the software (just stock Android?) looked to be performing poorly in that one video, it will be super overpriced probably, and we don't know how locked down it will be. If it is cheap and we have play store services, it might be an ok emulation device?

WowMyNameIsUnique, to gaming in PlayStation Project Q leak offers a very rough look at the handheld in action

So… could someone explain to me what makes this better than just using the Remote Play app on whatever device you want? That has existed for years and has always worked great.

QuarterlySushi,
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Probably not much, especially if you already like the controller. I have a crap controller that I use with my phone, so it would probably be an upgrade over that... but even so, I’d rather just buy a better controller.

WowMyNameIsUnique,

Yeah… Even then, it basically just uses a PS5 controller with a tablet in between it. If someone likes the controller here, they can use literally any other PS5 controller. They can’t even use the argument that it’s more portable when it’s a hefty 8" tablet lol. What a strange device…

Lemonyoda, to gaming in Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year

Aka the Game releases Feature incomplete in Beta (early Access) Status.

MS gamepass does hinder Quality Games. Same Story for forza Motorsport, redfall and whatnot…

ampersandrew,
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This game was originally going to release two years ago without Microsoft making sure it got more QA than Bethesda is known for. Microsoft or not, the game design and feature completeness likely wouldn't have moved an inch.

Hi-Fi Rush, for a counter example, was one of the best games of the year.

Lemonyoda,

I have just looked Into my year on Xbox (and Nintendo Switch…) and it turns out, i played starfield around 50h hours.

So, it did something right regardless. You are probably right those

Ich becomes increasingly frustrating to watch all These big AAA Milestones turn out mediocre.

The AA space is where its at, See your example of Hifi rush.

wolfshadowheart,
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I would disagree with your 50 hour Starfield assessment, only on the basis of Todd Howards own comment that the game was made to be played for a long time.

50 hours for a game meant to be played for a long time just isn't very long at all. Heck, I enjoyed my time in Starfield and I had more than 50 hours. However I could not continue with NG+, it was just godawful.

For a game meant to be played extensively it failed in most regards.

Kit, to gaming in Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year

It would take another decade of development to make this game feel anything less than empty.

off_brand_, to gaming in Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year

Despite Bethesda being kinda weird and shitty, I remain excited about the game myself. It still blows me away they decided to release without modding tools. But I’m looking forward to that quite a bit

djidane535,
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To be honest, I really enjoyed my run (100 hours in). If you omit the bugs, it’s a nice alternative to Skyrim with a very different setting (space) and some quality of life improvements (eg: having your ship to store shit anywhere you go, instead of traveling back and forth to your house if you have any).

But I admit the game feels very old in general (especially because of those loading screens, which should be a thing from the past in 2023), and is not original at all on its FPS mechanics. There is also this odd feeling that the game does not want to block you access to anything (while the new game plus, which is a very good idea and introduced in a clever way, should have been enough to be more « punishing » with the player).

As an « old » gamer, it was not a big issue (especially because I play ton of retrogaming games, along with recent releases), but I totally understand what a player expecting a modern SF RPG game might feel.

averyminya,

I enjoyed the first playthrough too but I just got so tired of everything the second go around. Not much had changed so I was just redoing quests I’d done but now I “knew” things and made it go by faster. Yay?

It’s so dull, I did everything the first time around so now I just get to watch it again, but it’s “fun” cause there’s one changed dialogue option? Meh. The game has an incredible philosophy, a terrible philosophy for its relationship to the gameplay.

In regards to gameplay, it was fine. I liked the flying, ship building was fun, gunplay felt okay. Walking around areas is mostly pretty. But like everyone else my issue was all the menu diving, and I found a few ways to mitigate how often I used it but man was it frustrating to have to menu dive so much, sometimes in situations where it doesn’t even make sense, like arriving and landing on a planet.

And then again, to lose everything about your character that makes the game interesting (built ship, weapons, etc) during NG+ is just disheartening. I understand why, that doesn’t make it easier lol.

djidane535,
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Yeah, I didn’t bother with a second playthrough because of this. It’s strange because the idea is great, so why not encourage the player to do a second playthrough by not allowing him/her to see everything on a single run ?

seaneoo, to games in Blade, big Marvel game from Microsoft studio announced, yet Xbox hasn't claimed it as an exclusive

I hope it’s not an exclusive but they need something to compete with Spider-Man/the plethora of outstanding PlayStation exclusives

Omegamanthethird,
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I’d love if xbox invested in great exclusives instead of just buying exclusivity through acquisitions. So yeah, if exclusivity leads to more investment and polish, I’m all for it. But so far, xbox seems to have gone the opposite direction by pushing for greater ROI at the expense of quality.

shiroininja, to games in Blade, big Marvel game from Microsoft studio announced, yet Xbox hasn't claimed it as an exclusive

I’m sick of marvel. They over saturated the market as far as I’m concerned

Pratai, to games in Blade, big Marvel game from Microsoft studio announced, yet Xbox hasn't claimed it as an exclusive

Surprising. It’s what they do.

RagingInside, to games in The Embracer curse continues: Insurgency dev suffers layoffs as unannounced project is cancelled

Fuck Embracer.

Voroxpete, to games in The Embracer curse continues: Insurgency dev suffers layoffs as unannounced project is cancelled

Fuck Embracer.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, to games in Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC

phew they Didn’t do the forbidden paradox

Phegan, to games in Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC

Absolutely not

Mr_Dr_Oink, to games in Blizzard is reportedly asking Diablo 4 players if they're okay with $100 DLC

After reading a story about bg3 patch 5 adding an epilogue set 6 months after the games end with over 3500 new lines of dialogue, new cutscenes which is based on the thousands of decisions you made in your playthrough and different for everyone and its just a patch and its free. This makes me so mad that blizzard have become this shit hole of a company.

BigBananaDealer,

that was probably going to be in the base game but they released it without itanyway. wish obsidian did that for new vegas instead of a stupid slideshow 😂

Mr_Dr_Oink,

Maybe it was but you know if it was any other comapny rhry would have charged for it and it woild be broken still.

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