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[LadyCrimson]

The "content creator/influencers" - whether they purposely mean to/want to or not, often tend to foster/encourage a contentious, black and white sides audience/environment.

And yes not just with gaming/YT. It's an internet culture thing or something. Did you guys see that jacksepticeye Help video? It's main aim was a mental-health fundraiser thing, but the intro first 2-3 minutes was like...yeah...that's the internet now (or at least how it often feels). "it's just people throwing rocks all the time."

Edited October 30 by LadyCrimson

[marelooke]

5 hours ago, MrBrown said:

Youtube, or internet in general, is full of content where people trash games or developers because that generates easy clicks. Seems like the only options are love or hate, with nothing in between.

So I'm all up for reviews where there conclusion is "it's kinda ok". And that seems to be the case with Mort mostly, which is why I was surprised he praised Veilguard so much.

It's also full of content that avoids at all costs to express an actual opinion in fear of losing viewers, access to preview copies, or because they don't want to sound "negative", or whatever else may be the case.

Does one have to be rude about it? Obviously not, and personal attacks are obviously a no-go. But if a game is bad, or strictly a downgrade to its predecessor, then it's not doing anyone a service (least of all the people actually building the game) by clutching to every single bit of positive news and spending as little time as possible on the negatives, or trying to turn negatives into positives just to avoid being seen as "negative".

With regards to Mort, I don't watch him, so I can't speak to his general tone, but from what I've seen of Veilguard it further simplifies everything about Inquisition (narrative, combat, companions,...), so him calling it "the best Dragon Age ever" (or something to that extent) makes his opinion questionable, at best, from the perspective of someone that enjoys RPGs. Then again maybe he's just not much of an RPG player. Did he review Baldur's Gate 3? That could be interesting to contrast if he did...

Edited Wednesday at 03:08 PM by marelooke

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

24 minutes ago, marelooke said:

Did he review Baldur's Gate 3?

I didn't watch this or the DA review, I just know about Mort from the Owlcat Pathfinder games where he'd do relatively in depth videos about content as released. Tbh I rarely watch videos about games beyond skimming for specific content.

Anyways, I've done a playthrough of BG3 and DAV just doesn't look nearly as interesting nor does it really want to make me give it a chance to just enjoy the story. If I wanted to sit back and watch braindead action stuff I'd just bite the bullet and put on a cape**** movie or shonen anime.

BG3 does a good job of making the most of a janky pnp system and also does quite a lot of out of combat gameplay that is very memorable. Something I'll never forget is failing to intimidate the owlbear and getting attacked by it, in the moment it reminded me of something from Disco Elysium. In contrast, DAV looks like repetitive combat spaced in corridors that is occasionally broken by "epic" cutscenes or very simple puzzles.

[Sarex]

Guess the guy who came up with the "push button, awesome things happen" still works at Bioware.

[BruceVC]

https://rockstarintel.com/red-dead-redemption-releases-on-pc/

RDR1 is finally released on PC this week, Im so happy 

I have waited over a decade to play this game 

The game runs at up to 4K resolution and 144FPS. If you have supported hardware to run the game at such quality and performance that is. This is a huge step up over the original game and even the PS4 port running on PS5. Previously, Red Dead Redemption was stuck at 30FPS on all platforms until a 60FPS patch for the PS4 version (when running on PS5) came out last year.

Graphics settings such as draw distance, shadow quality and more can be changed. Red Dead Redemption on PC will also support aspect ratios such as Ultrawide (21:9) and Super Ultrawide (32:9). There will also be HDR10 support if you have a compatible display. Fans can opt to use a keyboard and mouse over controller if they wish to do so.

 

 

[majestic]

Does the first game have proper horse testicle physics as well?

[Lexx]

10 hours ago, majestic said:

Does the first game have proper horse testicle physics as well?

Nope. Literally unplayable.

[uuuhhii]

 

0.7 of holocure will be out soon

not sure why there are so many form of gambling

but casino seem nice

Edited Sunday at 10:29 AM by uuuhhii

[Wormerine]

Hmmm, I can't recall a console, thirdperson/RTS ever being any good but I still like the concept of this one: