Coelacanth @ Coelacanth @feddit.nu

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The Talos Principle series are probably the biggest and best 3D first-person puzzle games out there, together with the Portal series.

I think Blue Prince needs to be added to this list going forward.

I assume you've already played Final Fantasy VI?

It's a damn shame because Sync is absolutely excellent, but it's already had several quite severe bugs gone unfixed for over a year now, and it will stop working altogether with Lemmy 1.0.

If you're looking for an alternative Summit has been great, and the developer is super active and responsive. It's without a doubt the best alternative, in my opinion.

So my impatient gaming is over for the moment. I'm finally finished with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Well, I say finished but that is a bit of a lie. It still lives rent free in my head and I'm still watching people play it to relive those first playthrough moments. But I'm done playing for now. I was actually tempted to go straight back and do NG+ immediately after seeing the credits, and that is a very rare feeling for me. Last time I had that feeling was Alan Wake 2. Anyway, the game is great: play it, wishlist it, whatever - just don't miss it. I think it will be a shoe-in for Game of the Year, and it's one of the best games I've ever played.

As my repentance for being super impatient two months in a row with Blue Prince and Expedition 33 back-to-back, I've gone back to an old classic for my next game: F.E.A.R.. I never actually played it back in the day, I remember trying the demo but my PC at the time couldn't handle it and it fell to the wayside later as I played other games. I've installed a couple of mods: upscaled textures (didn't get the actual Rivarez Mod, just the textures) and the Echo Patch for stuff like HUD scaling and FPS fix. I'm also playing on DLDSR 1.78x and with RTX HDR.

With all that said, the game holds up incredibly well. The lighting and atmosphere is phenomenal, but what is really striking is the gunplay and enemy AI. This really doesn't feel like a 20-year-old game. Even if you completely ignore the horror elements, the game is just an incredibly enjoyable shooter, with every engagement feeling thrilling as enemies flank you, hide, flee, sneak and flush you out with grenades. The bullet time is cinematic, but a little overpowered. Though you can just elect to not use it.

If you haven't already, pick it up on GOG and play it. You can probably get it for like a dollar on sale and that's an absolute steal. Now if only I could get EAX emulation working...

Bookmarked. Great initiative.

That's what I thought. I bought it recently on a GOG sale but haven't played it yet. But all I hear about Prey (2017) is people raving about how great it is.

Isn't Prey (2017) well liked?

Okay I need to stop commenting before coffee.

No PC eh?

EDIT: I'm blind

Next time you guys are on the phone, can you tell him to go fuck himself for me?

Appreciate it.

I just assumed it was fake. Is it real?

We should probably start compiling a megathread.

Yes, she always goes through the portal. It's what happens after that varies. She either becomes a Witcher (looks like that will be the canon ending considering Witcher 4), becomes an empress or she doesn't come back. In the latter ending it's implied (but left up for debate) that she dies. It's also very heavily implied that Geralt dies in that one.

Ciri enters the portal in all endings.

Remember when he got back in record time from that accident and did the Bahrain race zonked out on painkillers and it was actually one of his best drives? Maybe they'll need him back in surgery to unlock his powers again.

Damn good seeing Padre putting in a lap like that.

Fire Yuki or Liam, give Hadjar a go in the Red Bull and promote Lindblad to the VCARB.

Yuki 😭

The game is not for everyone. That's okay. Rothko paintings are worth tens of millions of dollars and I completely do not get them at all.

I will give you that there are two soft locks early on that are a little too easy to stumble into and it is for sure the game's biggest flaw.

Oooooh I like that question. I feel like it would have to be some kind of Call of Duty, right? Some absolutely mediocre slop that still has enough mechanical satisfaction and mind-numbing explosion-and-cliché-filled story to keep you somewhat entertained, yet still remaining completely forgettable.