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I must say, so profiles are so light on content I wonder why they even bothered. They state the most obvious things, while filling very little of the backstory. It's as if they thought "oh, we should do the overwatch thing" but forgot to develop the characters.

Makes sense - kinda assumed it is the case, once the first trailed mention that death of a squad member will mean failed mission.

Grounded comes to Early Access on July 28th.

Looking forward to it. It looks like a neat spinoff. I am curious if intertwined turns will be for better or for worse, but overal it should be an interesting experience. My main issue with XCOM1&2 is that pod activation swings the advantage so heavily toward the player, if they initiated the combat on their turn, pretty much tramping all other strategies. Breach seems to include "the ambush phase" by design with combat encounter as a continuation, rather then one or the other.

Part 3: How Obsidian Designed The Outer Worlds’ Quests

What if PoE3, is an adaptation of Josh's table top system?

I liked PoEs more then Tyranny, and PoE3 could legally happen, while Tyranny not, without some deal with Paradox.

1) They would invest in a solid, top down 3D engine. For all the things I don't like about D:OS2, I am amazed by engine it is powered by - As big of a hub as you want, with moving inside and outside without any issues, multiplayer maps etc. I wouldn't necessarly want the structure of D:OS, but lack of gameplay interuptions. Yup, yup, yup. 2) I would like to have Josh back at the helm, and use Microsoft money and hopefully lack of interference, to appeal neither to publishers nor fans. Make best Pillars game he can make. Is it even possible? Pillars as a world and game was created to appeal to IE game fans afterall. But I like to think there is a game he wants to make and we want to play. Or maybe I would hate it... who knows.

I don't know if news but news to me. Old World - 4x game from CivIII and IV designer, which looks live Civ but aparently isnt. Between this, and Humankind, we seem to get multiple "like-Civ-but-not-really" games, which I dig. A lot. XCOM Spinoff - I am a bit confused but not unintrigued. EDIT: Gameplay Overview. EDIT2: Only 17 pounds, and 50% off before release?!

Part 2: Writing the Characters & Companions of The Outer Worlds

As platformers go: I see you have Celeste, though with suspiciously low hour count. If that is something you enjoyed, you can't go wrong with good old SuperMeatBoy. On a less manually demanding front: Rayman: Origins and Raymen: Legends two superbly enjoyable games - the latter does come with Ubi-thingy and has some online components. Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove - don't recall seeing that in your list. A superb and content rich game. Freedom Planet: I recently played 2 supposively good Sonic games, and I thought they were terrible. Freedom Planet was like Sonic but good. Mark of the Ninja - superb 2d stealth game. More unusual but still: Snake Pass - an original and super enjoyable platformer. Played with with keyboard and mouse, but controller recommended. Not too long, but very novel. Played through Hollow Knight recently and I thought it was superb. It's combat is very deliberate, but quite simple, and if you don't go for 100% and optional hard bosses, it should be too hard. You do get bang for you buck. Spelunky. Excellent roguelite, and a replayable platformer. Steep learning curve. RPG: Fallout New Vegas- must play RPG. Other: I wouldn't be me, if I didn't recomment Supergiant Games - Bastion is a classic, Pyre is the weird one and my favourite. Transistor is pretty, but not as engaging.

Very timely as I have been thinking about it, due to some info revealed in todays Noclip documentary. I am "in main game expansion" kind of guy, rather then a new adventure. According to the documentary early in devlopment they cut content multiple times as they realised that the compact RPG they drafted was too big for what they can do. L Boyarsky expressed a sentiment of "one cut too many". If so, I would love for them to use expansion to inject at least some of it's content back, if they feel it's possible, or if game in it's current state would benefit of it (I doubt it could be reimplimnented in the way originally planned, but perhaps those ideas could be used as a basis for the expansion).

Well, for some games controller, for some keyboard&mouse. I have been eyeing Elites. Pricey but they look solid.

He's a human being. Isn't that enough, you monster?

Part 1: From Concept to Creation

Any preferences regarding controllers? After some research I bought Dualshock2 for my laptop, and outside having to use it while wired I had mostly a great time with it. Quite quickly I started to gave issues with left sticks deadzone, which I wasn't able to quite solve by expanding the deadzone in steam settings (it tends to put forward imput by itself) which was disappointing. It feels good to use though.

All of the spoilers.

Also A higher quality of the same gameplay demo.

And.... I watched it all. Ready for the part 2. I must say, it's been quite chaotic. I admire his commitment to exploring reactivity even including seeing through what will happen in Witcher 3 if he allows Thaler to die in W1 😬 Meantime I am still to start the Netflix show.

According to the most recent trailer Early Access release is July 28th

July 28th

Meh. The overall "story" didn't grab me, though it had potential. The only parts that annoyed me, were pretty obvious attempts at recreating "Tormement" - the game has it's "What-can-change-the-nature-of-the-man" moment, which falls so very very short. I felt the game got better once you reach the flesh city thing. Overall, it's full of irrelevant wall of text, which while sometimes entertaining don't add up to a cohesive whole.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/02/gears-tactics-will-appeal-to-xcom-fans-and-classic-gears-of-war-fans-alike/ Huh... Gears Tactics... Due to IP this one completely flew under my radar.

Noclip is to release 5 videos long documentary series on The Outer Words. I shall update as they become available.