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g40st 02.20.23	Oh, and Mick actually got paid this time (and donated his whole fee to Ukraine aid)
PumpBoffBag 02.20.23	Excited for this for exactly the same reason. Nerded out to an embarrassing degree when the Judas trailer dropped.
Slex 02.20.23	Have been obsessively following Atomic Heart for like 6 years now, I remember when there were rumors the game was fake because it looked too good to be true, and now I'm about to play in a lil over 5 hours, I have an alarm set and everything lol
g40st 02.20.23	I watched some dude from Queens or somewhere in NY play like 10 hours of it on YouTube (I didn't watch all through just skipped around to see performance issues or rather lack thereof) and that shit ran clean as fuck. He claimed it was a solid 60FPS at 4K the whole time but that seems ridiculous, and said it only ever dropped frames slightly during a few cutscenes. He did not have the old dev build from October, but an actual hard copy of the game he scooped at a brick and mortar. It really is as pretty as the trailers made it out to be, which is an incredible achievement for a first time offering from an otherwise unknown studio. Oh, and the twins
teamster 02.20.23	Anything even remotely associated with the game Bioshock is an instant buy from me. Arguably my favorite game and series of all time.
SharkTooth 02.20.23	Game's getting good reviews. Feels good man
Slex 02.20.23	Game is pretty good so far, definitely very very fucking weird lol
g40st 02.20.23	Nearly all complaints I've seen so far have been bugs which will be ironed out after release and some hurt feelings over the protagonist and vending machine dialogue
g40st 02.20.23	And some knocks about filler on the puzzle sections
CygnusX1 02.20.23	Game looks sick, and reviews are pretty solid. Need me some soviet bioshock. And it's on gamepass lets gooo
Slex 02.21.23	To be fair the protag is pretty annoying so far, he's a whiny dick lol The vending machine was very weird but kinda funny
g40st 02.21.23	I accidentally got two copies of the limited edition with the steelcase and artbook because Focus' website fucking blows and it said the order was cancelled cause the card fraud rejected it and then both went through and I didn't pay attention to the confirmation number and thought it was just a redundant email lmao. Oh well, two of those beautiful artbooks isn't exactly a bad thing.
g40st 02.21.23	lol lmao even https://twitter.com/dashiellwood/status/1627655164495634432?s=20
unclereich 02.21.23	is this ghostbird?
Slex 02.21.23	I don't find any of the humor offensive but it is annoying and causes massive tonal whiplash like constantly lol Besides some herky jerky movement at times tho the gameplay is near perfect for me
teamster 02.21.23	No RT? Wtf, what a bummer.
Slex 02.21.23	The graphics are insane, I don't think the absence of RT really makes an impact tbh
MillionDead 02.21.23	Ya'll doing English dub or Russian dub? Some of the English dub sounds hammy from clips I've watched.
Slex 02.21.23	Been doing English but might try the Russian dub today
someone 02.21.23	I'll wait for you guys to go through it first, then maybe wait for summer steam sale idk
Slex 02.21.23	The more I play the more I am massively disappointed but it seems a lot of people are ignoring the unbearable flaws the game has because it has the bravery to tell dick jokes and have a protag say "bitch" every 2 minutes. I fucking hate this game lol, I tried so hard to like it but it just gets worse and more broken.
DocSportello 02.21.23	watched a few hours of gameplay on twitch and like who wrote this horny AI dialogue
Gmork89 02.21.23	Man that's depressing, was hyped for this.
Slex 02.21.23	It's just more and more and more OBVIOUS that this is the company's first game: the bugs are AWFUL, the text is way way way too small and can't be changed, there's weird deceleration in movement at completely random times, the elevator sequences are hilariously long (no joke, like 3 minutes each), the upgrade system is broken and annoying which makes combat, one of the few bright spots, worse because it just devolves into mindlessly dull and repetitive loot grinding. I think I might be waving the white flag, this is probably the biggest gaming disappointment of my life lol
CygnusX1 02.21.23	Biggest gaming disappointment of your life, for real? You missed some real good ones in the past decade or so. Glad I spent only $1 on gamepass to play it
Slex 02.21.23	I had been obsessed with this game for like 6 years haha, this probably is the biggest disappointment for me yeah I am also very grateful I used GamePass to play it
DocSportello 02.21.23	i've made a point of watching sponsored twitch streams at launch for callisto protocol, forspoken, dead space, hogwarts legacy and now this and it has taught me things about the state of gaming :(
Colton 02.21.23	i heard dead space and hogwarts are actually good
DocSportello 02.21.23	they do seem to be the best for sure the absurd price tag complicates em tho
Colton 02.21.23	there have been really good games lately though like Elden Ring and Ragnarok
Colton 02.21.23	games are pricey yeah but they’re also a lot longer than they used to be it kinda evens out
Slex 02.21.23	Gamefly is pretty much the only option now besides GamePass And ye Colton those two are great
DocSportello 02.21.23	only souls can reliably suck me in for dumb long amounts of time i don't think that's the worst fate
Gmork89 02.21.23	Im enjoying Hogwarts WAY more than Ragnarok, Ragnarok became such a slog, the traversal in general became a total chore by the end of it.
Colton 02.21.23	on my second playthrough of the 2018 one right now, liking it a lot. does Ragnarok have a little more variety in the combat? if so it’ll be a perfect game for me
DocSportello 02.21.23	oh yes. i also wasn't hot on ragnarok for my own reasons but objectively there's just so much more combat variety compared to 2018
Gmork89 02.22.23	Agreed, combat is great when its actually happening.
g40st 02.22.23	haha slex went from "beautiful graphics and perfect combat" to a dark place on this real quickly, just got mine (PS5 version) today but won't get to play for another week because of work stuff. Neither bugs nor text size bother me cause both are easily fixed via patches. Also has 9 languages so you can have fun with whichever dubs you prefer, the German one actually sounds sick.
g40st 02.22.23	"is this ghostbird?" Who else mang
unclereich 02.22.23	Damn sup gay boy
Slex 02.22.23	That's because the game just gets worse and worse the more you play it lol I'm uninstalling and moving on, bitter disappointment
CygnusX1 02.22.23	Game has a certain charm to it, I had extremely low expectations but it's decent. The campy, awful, too-cool-for-everything edgy writing is kind of funny, in a "no way somebody actually thinks this is good" way. The horny upgrade machine is definitely pushing it
PotsyTater 02.22.23	This just looks like Bioshock, fallout, and outer worlds rolled into one shitty rehash of the same tropey bullshit we’ve been playing since 2007 sorry
Mort. 02.22.23	only games worth playing are slay the spire, sudoku, chess and conkers (not the shitty platformer the nature game with string)
Mort. 02.22.23	everything else is bourgouisie
PotsyTater 02.22.23	Slay the spire was fun for a few hours
Ryus 02.22.23	yea a few hundred
PotsyTater 02.22.23	About 3 hours
PotsyTater 02.22.23	There wasn’t enough meaningful progression between game overs for me to keep it up. If I don’t feel like I’m making any kind of gradual progress in rogue-likes they get tedious too fast
DocSportello 02.22.23	Sts is one of those games I dabble in for days at a time, usually in the wake of a flight or boring drive or something, and then don’t pick it back up again until the next cycle hits a few months or year later. The Defect deck is v fun
PotsyTater 02.22.23	Based
Mort. 02.22.23	ive played slay the spire for several hundred hours, for me the progression is playing at the highest difficulty and getting better win streaks i understand thats very different to in game progression tho. Hades really scratched that itch for me. every run got me closer and closer to much stronger runs, and it took ages to win a single run
CaliggyJack 02.22.23	Fucking live this game. Horny refrigerator is my waifu
PotsyTater 02.22.23	Yeah hades is a good point of reference for the type that can keep me engaged for longer, but even then the replay value is lower for me than it seems to be for other people. Eventually I just get bored.