I meant, if you really want to play it on day one it will be €11 on Gamepass, otherwise patience gamer all the way down.

Oh, didn’t know, I assumed that there will be some form of DRM preventing it. I’ll check into it. Thanks!

So, could I stream my basic Gamepass subscription games on my PC to the deck or will it be capped somehow?

You are welcome!

Well, I would say that it is just and average history with serviceable combat at best (wonky at worst) and not half bad written characters, even if the dialogue options are normally A, B and C but all they lead to a variation of the same answer. And yet, despite it all, it hooked me for 90 hours. Which it is something, because I very rarely play fantasy settings RPGs nowadays. What got me hooked was the exploration and the sense of being in another world, which is something that I really appreciate in videogames

The world they managed to build is beautiful, it is dark yet colorful if that makes sense. It has this mixture of medieval fantasy with some renaissance and a dash of steam punk and tribal ruins here an there all sprinkled with some phosphorescent fungus. In a sense it feels more like an alien world than a medieval fantasy game and that won mi over.

There is also the exploration. You enter some random ruins and suddenly there is a whole Indiana Jones esque temple with traps and treasure in there. You get the idea. There is one things that many RPGs fail to do and it is to let you explore the world at leisure without worrying about quests. See, in other games you enter a cave with some rotten food and stuff in the floor and chains in the wall but nobody inside. You need to speak to a certain NPC so the quest triggers and then you to go to the cave, again, and see a girl (the NPC’s wife or whatever) chained to the wall and and ugly ogre eating beside her. In Avowed the quests happens as you go, you don’t need to “trigger” them. So you go to that cave see, the ogre and the girl and you decide if you want to talk to the ogre or kill it right away, then you might get a quest item depending of what you did and then, latter on, you may find the NPC and reedem the item for a reward or whatever or maybe you never find him at all and that’s OK. This way the exploration is so much fun and organic.

Just finished the game yesterday, around 90 hours so don’t think I’m going to do NG+ anytime soon but glad they added it for those who will do.

Not need to argue, they have entirety difference audiences and that’s ok.

You’re right I flipped way too much burgers :)

This was actually a strangely chill shooter as it has far more exploration and secrets hunting than I was expecting. Can’t wait for next chapter.

So the fact that I can’t choose between mouse and keyboard or controller or change the FOV in the settings makes me a dog I guess.

Because they are some greedy bastards, that is.

Can’t wait for it to flop hard.

Thanks a lot, what I really like about your posts is the fact that they only talk about games and not all the corporate shit and internet drama that most (if not all) gaming news outlets have become.

I never quite liked Transistor, the game is beautiful and the OST is superb (you can get it in lossless Flac at Bandcamp, and it it totally worth it) but the gameplay was too simple for me. Maybe it’s that I was a lot into Xcom at that time and the comparison between them was inevitable for me. Also I’ve tried Death Stranding twice and no dice so far. I think the stealth on human encampments it was made me quit. But I’m willing to try it again in the future as the world building and weird history/characters have me interested.

I piece of shitty bloatware you must disable as soon as you install Windows.

Don’t underestimate the power of waifus.

Dunno, I played 3 Ubisoft games over the years and only finished one, Far cry 3, and had to rush it mid game because it was starting to feel boring. They are not bad games per se, it’s only that they are only fun for around 15-20h, beyond that the gameplay loop doesn’t hold up well.

Nah, management was too expensive

They gave away Weird West on Epic a while ago. I checked it on Game Pass and had to quit it. The atmosphere is very good and overall looks interesting but the controls were awful for me to get used to. If you are going to get it I recommend checking it before the return window expires, just in case.

Probably Zomboid, been eyeing it for a while. And maybe Heavy Rain, at €2 it’s very tempting.

Of all the games I could ever imagine to beat in pacifist mode Doom will the last in the list to try, or even to considerer it