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What are your options?

Cemu or original hardware? I love playing the original on the Wii U but it’s cool upscaling to 1440p

Picked up Paper Mario TTYD on Switch to see what all the hype is about, and yeah honestly all the OG fans were right about it. It’s the best one I’ve played in the series by a longshot.

Without context, I would assume Sticker Star and Color Splash released before TTYD - as if they were still figuring out where to go with the series, and would eventually evolve into something better as technology advanced. Then TTYD comes along, and not only has more mechanical depth, but also so much more life and creativity in it.

Genre mismatch might be a factor? Don’t Starve is not an action-roguelite like Binding of Isaac; it’s a survival-crafting game. They are aiming to be vastly different experiences.

I’ve had Kenshi on my wishlist for a long time, and I haven’t pulled the trigger. What’s your favorite part about it? Most of what I know is that it’s punishing and has deep roleplaying opportunities, but I don’t know a lot of the specifics.

Most of the story criticism I’ve heard fall into a handful of categories:

• Overall plot seeming convoluted and hard to follow (which is understandable when you throw both time travel and parallel universes into the same story)

• Whitewashed portrayal of racism used for story aesthetics

• Ending feeling confusing and/or unsatisfying

• Certain story moments feeling out of place and/or undermining things that other story moments set up

I haven’t seen much in the way of players expecting/predicting plot twists.

The amount of time to build something like this seems like it would offset the amount of effort it would take just to write good character dialogue. AI tools are basically word calculators, which means you have to provide data for the LLM, which means time to produce this data, time to build guardrails, etc. Even in this implementation, they say they had to build guardrails so that they don’t say anything “harmful.”

There are also a number of lawsuits going on that will set a precedent for how training data can be utilized in commercial products. While I expect them to take the side of large corporations with vast resources at the expense of ethics, there’s the possibility that they will do the right thing. This will affect how AI tools wil be used in such contexts.

Their next game, Chicory, is currently in my backlog and should probably get kicked up to the top.

Wandersong is $7 USD right now and it’s a real gem if you like more casual games. It’s a 2D adventure game where you interact with the world by singing. It’s cozy and heartwarming, and I’d recommend it to anybody who might be into that kind of experience.

Also Prey is the opposite of heartwarming but it’s one of my all time favorite games (easily top 5) and it’s somehow $3 right now.

Same goes for the whole Dishonored series.

FWIW I can’t speak to the pre-2.0 update but I’m having a lot of fun with Cyberpunk 2077. Solid AAA game, and it seems like they hammered out a lot of the performance issues from earlier in its life.

I’m waiting for them to remove Denuvo DRM before I buy. I’d love to play it on PC with higher resolution (and hopefully framerates) but that DRM is a dealbreaker for me, unfortunately.

Their Twitter page also clarified literally the next day that it wasn’t a serious tweet, and they weren’t expecting the media to run with it like they did.

https://twitter.com/cultofthelamb/status/1702091821273461176

Even if they did delist it, though, I fully understand. They sold over 1 million copies in their first week or something? They would behave been overwhelmingly affected by this pay-per-install issue.

I found the intro to be really obtuse but dang if pushing through didn’t pay off. That game is great.

I’m not a big fan but my SO is really into it. They have the audio/visual presentation down but I feel like there isn’t enough depth to the gameplay to keep my attention. Plus I don’t like microtransaction games; it makes me feel like I’m playing a game that keeps reminding me it’s actually a storefront. All the customization options I want but don’t have keep turning out to be paywalled or require excessive grinding.

Playing multiplayer makes it more enjoyable though. Having a partner who is super into it helps me have fun by proxy.

It is made by the same team!

It is a mobile game. They ported it recently IIRC.

All the hype I’ve heard about the original, I’m excited to try this! I played Sticker Star but none of the other newer games, which I understand isn’t the best representation of the series

I’m hoping they do a Steam Controller 2.0 at some point that has the same inputs as the Steam Deck - two sticks, proper D-Pad, etc. In terms of compatibility, it can’t be beaten.

Fallout 4

The changes they made to the game mechanics ripped a lot of the roleplaying out of the experience. I kept hoping to find a lot of what I loved about Fallout 3 and New Vegas in it, and never did.

It’s not even necessarily a bad game, but the aspects of the games that I found fun were either heavily reduced or removed completely, leaving behind an open world shooter with a bad story.

If somebody can point me in the direction of a $20 1TB NVME for my Steam Deck and a free transfer tool please hmu