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I, too, am a connoisseur of triangular arms.

Eh, as a player I find the Malkavian PC hilarious, but I can picture ten years later a writer looking at his stripper/pimp gear clad whackjob character and wondering what he was thinking. Especially with the twitter mobs and internet pitchforks we have nowadays. Still, I'm neutral-to-positive towards the game, we'll see how things are once reviews start coming out.

You guys are filthy heathens, Alien Isolation is the best thing since the invention of pockets.

Well, God got replaced by the God-Machine anyway, and that thing seemed pretty cool.

As opposed to Requiem? As I understand it, 5E Vampire is based on Masquerade with some setting elements lifted from Requiem, though I've never read up on the latter so I wouldn't know. For what it's worth, Requiem has a tighter setting (especially in regards to the shared cosmology) and better rules. Or so I was told.

And all is well in the world.

Is that the name you gave to your magic 8-ball?

Gaemz:

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I've only seen videos of TitP 2, unlike the first one it seemed to be more about management and XCOM-style combat, though haven't played it myself. SWAT 2 is a strategy/simulator, not a tycoon game per se, but close enough I think? If you're explicitly looking for a Sim Police Tycoon kind of game, I've never heard about one existing.

There's This is the Police 1-2, for starters. The SWAT games to a lesser extent. Beat Cop is, well, about a beat cop.

Total War Shogun 2 is free, also on Steam.

Alien Isolation is 95% off on Steam for whatever reason. Criminally cheap for such a great game.

Blob Marley was great!

"Lake Balaton, world's largest Trump tribute"

Credit where it's due, a pistol blowing up half a wall would at least make sense in a DW game.

Are you not overcome with IMMUHSION?

^ I love this shot, even if it ultimately didn't lead to anything.

As far as I'm concerned, Jotun itself didn't tell me what Jotun is.

If Shadows will be a more nuanced product, I wouldn't mind forking over more, we'll see. And now that I think about it, Coteries of New York? I'd have to squint really hard to justify that title.

Honestly? Not if it costs more than 8 euros.

That too. It's not even you the player not connecting the dots and obvious-in-hindsight clues, the guy is just held back all the time so you can be SURPRISED by the writer's AMAZING PLOT TWIST. The thing is, I enjoyed Sophie's obvious manipulation attempts and would've like to see where that goes. Bloodlines basically did the same. Arguably everyone is manipulating you, barely bothering to hide it if it all, and the challenge lies in telling when they lied and about what.

It's not even the lack of agency that bothers me. Sure, having something to actually do would've been nice, but what gets me is the abrupt finale, scenes rush by like mad, then I get to sit in place and listen to Daddy's Favourite NPC monologuing about how he is in control and all according to keikaku and true power is like a bee getting stuck in old chewing gum in the winter cold or whatever (I rolled my eyes when he started ranting how you-know-who not getting his self-indulgent metaphor means they're stupid. Sure buddy, whatever helps you sleep during the day). On the tabletop this would be the kind of GMing that people were told to stop doing literally decades ago. Plus they could've at least given you the option to resist the "offer" at the end, saying NO U KANT would be admitting to how incredibly on rails the scene is. It combines KotOR 2's unfinishedness with Mass Effect 3's nonsensical, railroady mess. The first apartment attack is also a scene that abruptly happens, a bunch of characters show up out of nowhere, you get to sit down and listen to everyone being a badass, like a good boy/girl because Daddy GM wants you to see how cool and in control his NPCs are. And everything is immediately resolved and it's a footnote in the events at large. Or when you confront your stalker, are forced into reacting to her being insulted for calling her a creep (why?), she says like two sentences and leaves. Wow. Glad we cleared that sideplot up. Some scenes just boggle the mind. PC background's irrelevance didn't bother me as much, because I'm used to playing VNs more on the kinetic side of the spectrum. Ever17 was the most complex one I played, I think. To me, VNs never really take advantage of their medium as much as they could. Imagine doing sidequest x and when you're told your apartment will be better watched it actually is watched better and the vandalism against it fails.