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On a funny games journalism related note, Paradox released an update for Imperator, a game set in the classical era, which it had codenamed Marius after Gaius Marius, because it was an update to armies and Gaius Marius was the man who oversaw major reforms to Rome's armies.. Rock Paper Shotgun decided that it was clearly codenamed for a football coach: Archive link to the article.

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And in a hilarious display of lazy copying, other sites repeated this as well.

 

Am I missing something in Valheim? It mostly feels like Viking Minecraft so far. I'm running around hunting deer to summon the first boss so far.

 

Fuck.

A Season Pass is very much not a good sign.

Yeah, gonna be a long wait on that for me now to see is it goes full on retarded with microtransactions. Maybe for Christmas.

 

Say, anybody else ever play Monster Sanctuary? It's a pretty solid little monster collector rpg/metroidvania. There's a good variety of monsters with each species having their own skill trees so that and all the equipment allows for a good bit of customization for your teams.

 

Someone made a song for PS5.

 

Just saw some major updates on several game titles.

First off, in a rare show of intelligence, EA has realized that not only are single player games viable, but making all of the games a "service" was fucking retarded. Bioware has confirmed that Anthem Next, the promised reboot of the studio's...troubled...Looter-Shooter is well and truly dead with the servers being kept up as is for all seven of those still playing. But for good news, after seeing that their company's most critically and commercially successful game was the single player Star Wars: Fallen Order, EA has scrapped plans to make the upcoming Dragon Age 4 a "Live Service" game. Instead it will be what Bioware is good at, a narrative driven, single player RPG.

Moving to another bit of rectal-cranial extraction, Bungie put up a State of the Game address for Destiny 2 with a number of major changes that has fans cheering. To start, the controversial Sunsetting, the system of putting a power cap on gear acquired, is dead. From here on, any gear not sunset will be good as long as you want it with the sandbox team being expanded to handle balancing issues (expect Fellwinter's Lie and Warmind Cells to be heavily nerfed). Also, a promise of not only doing a major overhaul of PVP, including better anti-cheat and removing near cheat exploits, cross play with an opt-in for PVP, Master difficulties for Raids and Dungeons starting with the upcoming Vault of Glass Raid and a full transmog system including a much requested change to shaders back to their Destiny 1 setup. Even the announcement of the next expansion, Witch Queen, being delayed to early 2022 was tempered with the announcement that there will be another expansion post Lightfall (the original 2022 expansion) to act as a FF14 major conclusion to the current Light vs Darkness storyline.

And with Sony's State of Play, they made a big Final Fantasy 7 Remake announcement. Final Fantasy 7 Remake is coming to PS5 along with a new episode starring Yuffie titled Intergrade due June 10th of this year. If you own it on PS4, the game and save data can be brought to the PS5 for free.

 

DA4 is still probably going to be shit anyway

 

I see that you too get your news and your jokes from Layman Gaming.

Sweet. Would have preferred to get that Tifa chapter they cut but a PS5 version of FF7R will be pretty badass.

 

Sadly a most likely because while trespasser really set up a nice little conflict to have in the end I honestly don't have much faith in anything new day Bioware is going to be releasing at this stage in the game.

 

There's no way I trust modern Bioware to make a game in Tevinter which is a shame since Tevinter is really cool.

 

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE – PS5 Announcement Trailer

 

heh, apparently at 2:15, and 2:34 Yuffie is called senpai...

 

So, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes for the Switch got announced, as well as something called Pokemon Legends: Arceus.

 

As a complete outsider to the series, outside of laughing at the complete and total flub the devs made a while back, is Diablo 3: Eternal Collection worth getting for the Switch?

 

No, nothing Blizzard makes these days deserves your money.

 

Do you like Diablo 3? Do you want it on a portable system? If you can answer yes to both questions, then you have your answer.

Although if you want performance and/or graphics, and don't want portability (or already have a laptop), then I'd suggest getting it for another platform if you can; the only real feature the Switch version has that the other platforms don't is local wireless multiplayer.

Otherwise, it's simply Diablo 3, on the Switch, with all that implies.

 

Then my question is: Is Diablo 3 worth getting? Like I said, outsider.

 

No.

So diablo 3, but with the lowest quality controllers Nintendo has ever produced?

 

The western ARPG question is still Diablo 3 vs. Torchlight 2 vs. Titan Quest/Grim Dawn vs. Path of Exile.

TBH, Torchlight 2 and TQ/GD are the only ones I've played (on Steam and they're both great). The Switch port of TQ is notoriously bad though.

 

You say that, but I find that the Pro Controllers hold up well (although I think they're not quite up to the standards of the beasts that are Wii U PCs). And yes, that was what I used to play Switch D3. The only other times I've played D3, I was using a 360 controller... because it was the 360 version.

 

So, got a new PC so I can finally play Cyberpunk- it was about time anyway, the old one was about five years along. Decided to go big and got one with an RTX 3080- pre-built this time because parts are flying off the shelves. Even the pre-built I had to put on auto-notify. Got an e-mail about it being in stock around midnight, woke me up- by 2 AM when I next checked- after ordering it- they were out of stock once more.

Game runs waaaay smoother. Not a single crash yet. Decided to start over so I could do the first part less frustratingly, so no new progress yet.

Having to go with Win10 had some frustrations- spent quite a while arguing with Dolphin over the memory card and figuring out that all the programs that will run a PS3 controller on Win10 are two years out of date at least, or take five programs and screwing with the registry. Then fought with Dolphin to see if the Steam controller would work- which it only did poorly because it's a shit controller. Then finally realizing that the PS4 controller will just plug and play, problem solved- once I fixed the controller settings for it. Steam took it too, after some finagling with settings, so that's good. Benefits: Dark Mode, so I'm not being blinded with whiteness. Audio auto-redirects when I plug my headphones in and when I unplug them, instead of having to fix that manually.

 

Glad you have the new pc my guy, hopefully you get even more games to enjoy your time.

 

Originally not really. But in it's current state it's decent. You don't really have to grind for good gear unless you want to since now the game is pretty good at giving you drops relevant to your class.

 

A Legend of Mana remaster? I'll go get my hair sticks and incredibly arcane crafting systems!

Edit: Apparently there's also gonna be an HD LoZ Skyward Sword with optional button only controls. Not sure how that's gonna play out but it gives me hope that a Metroid Prime series port could possibly come to be.

 

I finished Outer Wilds for the first time earlier.

My god, that game is a fantastic mystery and exploration game I regret not picking it up sooner. I heavily recommend it to anyone who hasn't played it yet.

The soundtrack is perfect, I'm in love with the menu theme and the tracks that play whilst exploring and progressing the story add to the games atmosphere brilliantly. The solar system is a joy to explore and each planet adds something new and different, I think that Giants Deep is my favourite of the set. The art style is lovely, the slightly cartoonish style they have going on was an excellent choice and the games story gripped me and kept my attention all the way through.

Slight criticisms, the spaceship is slightly clunky to fly even after you get used to it. That's probably because it's a literal heap of scrap and alien artefacts taped together. Some of the puzzles were slightly obtuse and I spent longer than I'd like on the Interloper comet before figuring out how to progress.

All in all it's definitely worth a play.

 

I have seen a number of videos on Valheim and the appeal seems to be it being very polished for a Indie game that is in early access and has been out for like a month or so? It works, there is no real bugs that have popped up apparently, outside some performance problems if you play too long and check too much of the map. (But hey, it is out for like a month so that is not too big of a deal.) Has destroyable surroundings, lots of freedom for building and a pretty respectable if not particularly extraordinary fighting system. It just hits all the buttons of an exploration game with survival elements...

It was also built over 2 years by like 2 people with them only now really expanding the team. If I remember right, I read one of the two was part of a major game company, gathered experience, left to do personal projects and built this from the ground up over that time. Its a game that was made.. for being fun and as a passion project...

I really liked these two particular videos describing it. Honestly tempted to buy it even though I am not really that much into that type of game and don't do much online gaming anyway. It just sounds like a real experience...

 

Ya know, I really hope they let game companies have fun with the IPs they're given again



Make this the norm, not the exception

Bring back the days of letting games be easily moddable and you can play them your way instead of a one-and-done experience

Give us a serious story, sure, but then give us a sandbox where you can go "fuck it" and have characters that don't exist in the same time period start beating the shit out of each other for the players' amusement

 

Got a new Evil Genius 2 trailer, this time for one of the new masterminds: Emma. A former spy-mistress, and apparent mentor for John Steele (who somehow survived the events of Evil Genius), who has gone to the dark side.



And to make things even more awesome, Emma is voiced by Samantha Bond who played Miss Moneypenny during the Pierce Brosnan era along with playing Lady Rose, the sharp tongued foil to Dowager Countess Violet Crawley in Downton Abby. Now I am hard pressed to pick which Evil Genius to play on my first run between Emma, Maximilian and BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!!!