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This is the first year EUIV hasn't been my top game in probably a decade. I need to reevaluate why my life has become less colonial this year (He says as NMS and HoIV are in his top 5).

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28 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

My kid asked which was the best year of videogames. I wanted to toss out something in the 90s when Sierra, Origin, LucasFilm, etc. were peaking…and 1990 could be a strong contender..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_in_video_games#Game_releases

But damn, 2004 was huge in terms of influences still being felt today,

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2007 was also a banger: Portal, Halo 3, Skate, COD4: Modern Warfare, Rock Band, Oblivion....

It really was the best time to be a kid with an xbox

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On 2/26/2023 at 9:38 PM, atomheartbevo said:

I was in Discord playing WOW with a friend's group.  They are all casual gamers and not doing hardcore raiding or anything approaching that.

Anyways, one of the younger players asked me if I was using WASD to move around "because it's so obvious you're stuck in the past with WASD".

So apparently that's a fucking thing, because you know, having a little gray hair doesn't peg me as old-school I guess.

I told him I was playing Tribes, Quake, and Half-Life with WASD before he was born, and I have no intention of changing.

He seemed to think I was joking, but I basically had this expression.

Jim Carrey Reaction GIF

Real talk.

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16 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

Apparently "Avowed" is now the rage bait topic du jour for the culture war grifters.

Yeah, a friend does the CRPG reviews for a gaming site, and said they catch shit from the incels in comments/social media when they write about it, and the main thing apparently pissing these people off is that it has pronouns in the character creation tool.

Which Baldur’s Gate 3 had.

But apparently none of these people played BG3.  Or a tabletop RPG. 

When I talked to him a few weeks ago, he had played a preview build a few weeks before that. He said it was “competently made” (which is high praise from him) if you are a Pillars of Eternity fan, but it felt like at times they just checked off a bunch of boxes on a list of RPG elements.  I’ll wait until it’s on sale (heavily discounted) because I haven’t even finished POE II.

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If you are a big fan of IndyCar Racing II, somebody has put a lot of effort into a wrapper that upscales it to modern resolutions.  Only $10 for the wrapper.  Here's hoping they make enough to work on some of the expansion tracks.

 

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CES is generally all crap, but there were some interesting tech announcements around Nvidia and their RTX accelerator software. Using neural encodings for textures achieves way higher levels of texture compression, and they're also bringing radiance caching to "store" previously traced rays and include them in the render.

Gonna be a while before we start to see benefits from the tech, but I'm particularly interested in the possibility to upscale and uprez old games

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Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap just came out and it's on Gamepass. If you like all the other ones you'll probably like this one.

It adds a sort of roguelike style to the old formula, but all the trap carnage is still there.

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On 1/30/2023 at 7:04 PM, atomheartbevo said:

My kid recently got into World of Warcraft, and got me to reactivate my old account.

We stopped playing for a long while, but I just got a notice that Blizzard is adding housing later this year or early next, and we will have to come back.  Only 21 years after everybody asked for it, and 27 years after it was in Ultima Online.

Building in Azeroth: A First Look at Housing

And they are doing it right.

  • Easy and cheap to get - they want everybody to have a house.
  • No maintenance costs - once you get it, it's yours, even if you take a break and your subscription lapses, it won't be demolished.
  • You'll be in instanced neighborhoods (sounds like you can change neighborhoods) with up to 50 other houses, so you won't be scattered across Sosaria Azeroth - there is a zone for the Alliance and one for the Horde.  This is good because it won't lag the shit out of you when you are running around various areas.
  • Groups can cluster together and build their own neighborhoods.
  • Meant to be a social aspect.
  • Extensive decoration/building features with new content added all the time, and all of your characters can access it, even if they are from different factions.  Some cash shop items, but most items are earned/bought in-game.

Sounds like a mix of UO and FFXIV (which has a nice system except it's shit for costs and maintaining it and it's a pain to get and keep).

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10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

We stopped playing for a long while, but I just got a notice that Blizzard is adding housing later this year or early next, and we will have to come back.  Only 21 years after everybody asked for it, and 27 years after it was in Ultima Online.

Building in Azeroth: A First Look at Housing

And they are doing it right.

  • Easy and cheap to get - they want everybody to have a house.
  • No maintenance costs - once you get it, it's yours, even if you take a break and your subscription lapses, it won't be demolished.
  • You'll be in instanced neighborhoods (sounds like you can change neighborhoods) with up to 50 other houses, so you won't be scattered across Sosaria Azeroth - there is a zone for the Alliance and one for the Horde.  This is good because it won't lag the shit out of you when you are running around various areas.
  • Groups can cluster together and build their own neighborhoods.
  • Meant to be a social aspect.
  • Extensive decoration/building features with new content added all the time, and all of your characters can access it, even if they are from different factions.  Some cash shop items, but most items are earned/bought in-game.

Sounds like a mix of UO and FFXIV (which has a nice system except it's shit for costs and maintaining it and it's a pain to get and keep).

Man I wanted some property in the UC, sigh....

 

Also is Foundation like a modern Banished? That's right up my alley if so.

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On 1/13/2025 at 4:06 PM, CurlyDumps said:

Apparently "Avowed" is now the rage bait topic du jour for the culture war grifters.

I'm hearing good things from the reviews. I can't wait to check it out.

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On 2/6/2025 at 10:12 AM, SimonBolivar said:

Also is Foundation like a modern Banished? That's right up my alley if so.

Well it’s still medieval, kind of in the style of Settlers, but more a solid city builder.  The style is kind of like World of Warcraft in a way. It’s very polished and the animations are great.  If you liked Banished and you like city builders sim general you’ll like it.

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On 2/13/2025 at 8:57 AM, SimonBolivar said:

I'm hearing good things from the reviews. I can't wait to check it out.

Rad. As an Obsidian fan so I'm rooting for it. Not sure when I'll get around to actually playing it. So many games in my queue including KCD2. And I'm hoping to upgrade my 2080 but inventory and prices seem like a total shitshow atm.

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I am only like 2.5 hours into it, but Avowed seems pretty cool so far. Combat is fun and the game is really pretty.  I'm trying out a ranged weapon kind of build first, but the different possible classes seem interesting.

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