Wormerine
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Elena dropped for Street Fighter6 and with her season3 patch. So far she seems great. Probably my favourite addition this year. I am a bit disappointed by s3 patch though… it being 2 years since game release, many were hoping for something new and exciting, but all we got was a very conservative balance patch. To be fair, Capcom seemed to put a lot of work upfront this time around, but with slow drip of new characters and little changes in the meta things have been feeling a bit stale for a while.
Shame! All the best to Carrie and thank you for her work at Obsidian. Sagani was one of my favourites of PoE1 cast (and that's a pretty stacked companion cast). I can't say I expect DLC for Avowed, but lately they tend to be lead by a different creative lead team anyway (so was true of PoE2 DLCs and Outer Worlds DLCs, I think).
Finished original Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Pretty cool, but flawed game. I really enjoyed the setting and an immersive nature of the game. I also liked characters, though felts fairly bored by the plot, especially by the end. In general, I enjoyed it more when the game allowed me to roam free and offered a more freeform way of solving objectives. I really liked the early and mid game, but I felt the game overstayed its welcome. The nature of leveling system means that about halfway through the game, I was an unstoppable force of violence and charisma. Not having to specialize always dampers my enjoyment of an RPG. Also, I also felt that the better my character got the worst the game became. There was something appealing about vagueness of the early game, and once I understand how the game works I was far less invested - gameplay wise, those are not exactly great systems. Still, looking forward to the sequel, though I will take a break from the IP for now. Modded my arcade stick a bit - put in larger actuator and a mid tension spring. I am still getting used to it, and while it didn't solve my most common input fumbles, it made double tapping for dashing and certain specials much much easier due to shorter stick travel distance. Very helpful in SF6. My hand is getting tired again, though, after longer play session.
Yeah, similar thing in SF6. What you would think would be a relaxed experience tends to be the opposite. Battle Hub (social space with virtual arcades) tends to be populated by Master+ players and it was hopeless to find a good matchup for there for the first 100 hours of play. Casual has very lax matchmaking so level of opponents varies. You also tend to run into a lot of experienced players trying out new characters. Ranked on the other hand tends to match people based on ranking so especially initially it is the most approachable mode as you will tend to me matched with other new players.
I think MK are far more newcomer friendly. From what I played of FF beta it seemed less forgiving than SF6 is, and in that game I also had to get my face smashed a lot before I started putting up the fight (and that's after 80h long World Tour tutorial). Inspired by your stick modding 😋 I decided to do some of my own. I have been recommended to install stronger spring and larger actuator, so I ordered some options and will see how it will go. Frankly, more tactile feedback and less movement might just what I need. Or maybe not we will see. I also ordered a bat top as I had to pay for shipping anyway, but I am quite happy with the ball top at the moment.
Silksong has a release date for September.... as part of ACMI's Australia's national museum of screen culture exhibit. That that means for the actual release.... who knows. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/silksong-got-a-release-date-for-an-australian-museum-exhibit-before-anything-else-and-i-wish-i-was-kidding/
I mean it's Elder Scrolls and Bethesda. I am sure Starfield obliterated both of those. I am sure Fallout76 obliterated both of those. I am sure we could list a staggering amount of truly excellent titles, that didn't come close to Bethesda level of success. So I wouldn't use that metric against "Avowed" and "Veilguard".
Yup. However, I still really, really like it. ME3 weakened it quite a bit for me - I found myself getting annoyed when talking to Tali and getting her backstory, and recalling how botched it will be in two games time. I don't think ME was ever an RPG pinnacle - I think many of us liked ME2 so much because they ditched the poorly implemented RPG systems, and went for more streamlined narrative action game.
