While everyone is raging on about how a woman looks in video games, I find it even crazier that it changes the fantasy feeling of Oblivion with a hyperrealistic look. Fuck art directions, every game will look the same now with DLSS 5.

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Thanks, this is an exact description.

Still the best game in Exploration, really excited about what Morbius Digital is cooking.

Blame marketing research, CEO Sharon Tal Yguado thinks Gen-Z + sandbox + live service = authentic.

This along with Blood Dragon, are the best Far Cry games for me, that was when Ubisoft was still the good guys...

Hearts of Iron 2

When I realised Aurora 4x, a free space 4x game with an ugly UI, does ground trooper even more in-depth than a specialised WWII game, it starts to feel like a toy; there's just no contest between these two when it comes to complexity in terms of moment-to-moment decision making.

This game kicked my ass back then. I think 5 mins was my max.

What the fuck...

Dark Souls 3…it is a bit hard to jump in after its slower predecessor, for some reason unknown, I just like the legacy combat system better, can’t find the rhythm in the new one…

Why do I feel like Beyond Good and Evil is on the list....

I am a native; it's a very multicultural island, but I have never seen an American coming here.

"Without some benefit of the doubt, many good games would be dropped and deemed bad. Wanting to like a game is a really important factor."

That depends on what game and what crowd you are talking about. 4x/Grand Strategies/management crowds are much more patient; 70+ hrs/playthrough is common with a steep learning curve, and this is where a reputation for being complex overrides the need for intuitive tutorials, so people are much more forgiving.

Highguard is not one of those games; it was doomed to be Concord 2.0 at the beginning, but then again, I don't really understand those crowds either, since I hardly play PVP shooters.

Bringing Star Citizen up is a race to the bottom.

I still remember they put Deus Ex in the freezer, handed it over to Embracer, then they murdered it before the final chapter.

Pentiment is the only game I like made by modern Obsidian.

It's very sluggish compared to Steam; everything is slower in GOG client. I wonder if it is a server problem or my region.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

I spawned as a nun in-game on the rooftop of a cake restaurant. I've got nothing but a bible to wreck zombies. And there are so many, there is no tutorial, the controls are tanky, the devs are out of their mind.

0/10

Oops, I didn't even notice.

Off topic, but I read books, and I can tell publishers leverage " judging a book by its cover" extremely well, because it is true, otherwise I couldn't tell an academic edition or a general edition. A book with an AI cover is, in general, a bad idea, and it conveys low quality to the reader. Some open source books use AI to format an epub file; some use text recognition without professional formatting, and it is a disaster to read. You are better off getting an old pdf edition or paying a premium for a publisher's modernised version.

Still one of the best games with a story that subverts its own genre alongside KOTOR 2, definitely worth experiencing.