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Wow. I was wondering what the heck was going on with the compass. That explains that.

Altho I feel the game is an 8, I’m sure having fun with it. It just feels a little padded. Maybe my fault for trying to do everything.

It was kinda late for dlc. But I know some people don’t mind that.

Whole thing was odd. “We won’t do dlc!” “Okay, we’ll do dlc!” “No wait! Not gonna!”

Wish them all the luck on the sequel tho. First was good, tho a bit checklisty, and with that solid base and more time and inspiration, it could be amazing.

@Residentsteven I wasn't into Rare in their Nintendo days even. I always thought the Donkey Kong stuff was highly overrated (except the great soundtracks in DKC). They got lucky with Goldeneye It seems like their older stuff from back when was pretty interesting, though, judging by the Rare retro compilation.

@Millionski I dno. Between GPU and Rewards, I haven't had to buy much/anything in a long time We don't know GPU is going first party anyway. This is all just wild speculation. Just because Sega wants to do their own service and is pulling everything somewhat rapidly doesn't mean it's going first party only.

@Millionski well they’d lose a lot of subscribers then, like me. I have less than zero interest in cod. Gpu has gotten worse for me since the activision buyout instead of better.

If Game Pass becomes first party only, I’ll be done. I like a few of their first party games, but I mostly liked the indie stuff and others, which has been less lately.

Either way, just because sega is leaving all at once doesn’t mean GP is suddenly going to be first party only.

Got more games leaving than coming these days with the sega exodus. It’s going to be sad not having Atlus games come to game pass anymore, but I guess P3R was the last one anyway. Had to buy SMT and metaphor!

What is rare even working on if they’re outsourcing for perfect dark? 🙄

@FarmDog08 it’s a totally different focus and experience, but I think they’re actually even better games overall 😉 Just not as graphically advanced. Still very pretty.

It’s the same as they did with PoE 2 a number of years ago. It’s an option. People asked for them to do it with the first game as well, but the time and money wasn’t there. I guess now it is!

Hoping for a turn-based PoE 3.

@Tasuki I think I burnt out a little spending too much time on everything. Some of the side quests are just okay. Which is totally fine, but I don't want to miss the good ones. I think I'm maybe doing too much exploring and insisting on finding everything. When did I become this way??? It makes me feel like I don't have time left in my life for everything and need to hurry up.

@Fishticon Yeah, maybe I should try that

@Kaloudz I desperately wanted to like it. I was expecting pre-3D Zelda, but I got overhead dark souls and really wasn’t into it.

So when stuff gets added to standard or core, does that reset the 12 month counter? Or can it still leave all tiers 12 months after it first joined the service, or 24 months, or whatever?

I hope it’s not bad. I doubt it’ll live up to its predecessor, and I’m not sure they were trying to make a true sequel. But I hope it’s good.

I feel like it’s gonna be buggy and rushed despite all this time. Paradox wants it done and has been releasing broken stuff lately, cancelling stuff, and disappointing.

I haven’t gotten around to trying it yet. No rush, and it’s probably a lot better now than at launch.

@Tasuki yeah I’m at least 40 hours and finishing up emerald stair. Might be more like 45 hours! Seems like each zone takes me 20 hours. I’m actually TRYING to hurry, but I’ve been doing all the side quests. Don’t wanna take forever but don’t wanna miss stuff either! I’m gonna maybe try spending less time climbing around for loot. The loot gets pretty samey.

I don’t know how other people are getting through the whole game in 20 hours…

Blue prince and tempopo look like guaranteed winners.

Hoping that for Clair obscur too

@Blastfemur I definitely under-budgeted the time commitment! At the same time, I don't really want to skip the side quests. It's odd to me that most gamers apparently don't do side quests?? (and then complain games are too short

I’m finished up the second zone in Avowed and at 40 hours. Is every zone gonna take me 20 hours??? I thought people were saying this game was short!

Don’t forget KunnikuNeko, a game about a weird cat that can turn into a cat-headed muscle man. It’s genuinely the funniest game demo I’ve ever played and a great platformer.

Hmm. Sounds like a neat game. But with so much to play, it definitely would have competed better for my time with some more enthusiastic write-ups.

@LostInBlue0 it looks like a sweetroll! That’s been a running gag since elder scrolls 1.

They wished oblivion a happy bday with a comma splice.

I dno about calling it an RPG, but I’m hoping it turns out.

Chained Echoes for me, followed by sea of stars, baldurs gate 3, metaphor refantazio, and like a dragon 8

SMTV is great. I played it all summer and could potentially play it again if only I had infinite time in my life.

It didn’t click with me at all. Guess I’ll have to give it another try. It’s probably just not my thing tho.

@themightyant I wouldn’t get your hopes up!

Banner Saga was great, but I’m not sure I’m going to be into a looter brawler.

Glory. That’s a lot. I hope they’re finished with the thing before it leaves game pass.

Microsoft paid for 3 months of exclusivity (or 6 or whatever) and it’s been months of bugs they paid for.

@Westernwolf4 it definitely got some updates. I’m gonna give it a try before it leaves. Paradox games normally stick around longer, so it’s odd to see it go. Maybe the devs got the rights back from paradox.

Edit: won’t have time to finish it before it leaves tho—looks like it’s at least 40 hours. I’d been meaning to play since it came out but was turned away by the bugs like you were.

@Ryu_Niiyama yeah, I have yakuza 7 on ps4, but I was gonna play it here before June (expected it to leave in June). Woops!

Depressing to see sega divest entirely. I’m surprised they didn’t take P3R as well; guess that one was an 18 month or 24 month deal.

KinnikuNeko is actually great and hilarious. I might get that day one. The demo was a blast.

I don’t know why square keeps trying to figure out the western market. Just make your games.

I do feel bad for deck nine and life is strange tho. I really wanted to like this one and support it. But there’s too much to play. If it had been on game pass I’d have played it day one.

People must keep a lot more installed than I do.

Blue prince and expedition 33 will be in my wheelhouse if they turn out.

Tempopo also looks like it might be neat.

@VoidPunk Check out Daggerfall Unity. The GOG version of Fallout 1 should run just fine on modern PCs, too.

@VoidPunk Have you not tried Daggerfall Unity? It plays on modern PCs! Not modern consoles, though...

Obviously people are going to say Morrowind, but I worry they would throw the baby out with the bathwater there. Todd has said many times how there would need to be too many changes for modern gamers. Unfortunately, that's the policy, to try to smooth the edges for modern gamers.

What I'd really like is to see them do something with Daggerfall. But, again, if it was too heavily remade, it wouldn't be the same anymore. Instead they'd want to add voices, do it in Unreal 5, overhaul everything...

@themightyant I've been waiting/hoping for some kind of Oblivion anything for ages now. My expectations are pretty low, but I'd probably also be happy just replaying Oblivion, and, in fact, I was thinking of at least replaying the Shivering Isles. I do think that if they streamline and improve/fix Oblivion too much, they might lose Oblivion in the process. But I could be wrong. There were a lot of aspects of Oblivion that were the strongest in the whole series. Daggerfall and Oblivion have always been my favorites.

It's crazy to me Bethesda hasn't employed groups not just to remake/remaster stuff, but to do side games. Obsidian or someone could have done a Skyrim side-game easily. But I guess they wanted to just keep going with mainline Skyrim, and the live service stuff, as is the trend.

@themightyant Yep, all that you said above. I also think the leveling system needs fixing, BUT, I hope they don't "fix" it by just giving it Skyrim's system or something.

What I hope they DON'T "fix" is the radiant AI. How wonky the game's AI and characters worked was part of what made the game great.

But, if they don't fix anything, then we're still going to have a bunch of people having inane conversations about mudcrabs and whatever else... Which I'm fine with, but.

The persuasion wheel minigame is a little awkward, but maybe it can stay. I kind of like it. I'm just thinking people are going to complain.

@themightyant I remember hoping for something Oblivion-related on its tenth anniversary in 2016 I've waited a long time, so I hope it's not cruddy! Oblivion is one of my favorite games, so I'm going to be easy to please but also hard to please. If it changes too much, I might not like it; and if it doesn't change at all, that won't be so good either... I don't think there's this wide gulf between Oblivion and Skyrim that people seem to think there is, though. A lot of Skyrim's changes were kinda blah, not to take away from how amazing it was at launch.

@Rob3008 they did add a few more ability points. Did you do the side quests?

I was wondering why my game rebooted. I wonder why they don’t put patch notes on the system or notify you of updates.

@themightyant 19th anniversary 😂 not much ring to it

April is an odd time. I don’t see the advantage. Avowed kind of overshadowed the rogue trader drop, and oblivion will overshadow Clair obscur: expedition 33.

But whatever. I’m just hoping the remake is real and is somehow good yet still faithful to the 2006 game!

@Rog-X Ah, okay. It's worded a little confusingly! Depending on what all it can do, I actually do need to replace my PC. But I guess it depends if it does windows stuff as well, or if that'll be the next one (or the NextBox). Could be an option for me.

Time waits? I thought it said Tom waits. For a second I was like, wow, something I might have an oz of interest in? But nope.