The Game Awards 2022: Game of the Year Nominees announced:
From official website, tweet, and stream today. Many other categories are also up for voting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRmtd9PS-gE
https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/1592203204242071552
Game Title: Pentiment
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Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher: Xbox Game Studios
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 87 average - 90% recommended - 70 reviews
Pentiment is a game that will stick with you for a long time after you play it. Its unique blend of thought-provoking discussion, historical accuracy, and challenging a player’s morals all work to push players to consider everything going on in the game and weigh the pros and cons of heavy decisions that must be made with limited information…It takes a very special work of art to make an observer feel as much as Pentiment does, and the game manages to do so consistently throughout its entire runtime.
We found Pentiment to be utterly addictive and would compare our playthrough to reading a great novel that we could …
So long story short, the game’s been having a lot of issues with disconnects, massive gold inflation, and some other issues lately, so the playerbase has been ornery to begin with.
There’s a big update coming this week that players need to prepare for. Skill tripods on gear will have to be saved to the tripod inventory, and the level of any saved tripods will carry over permanently in the new system. Gear with tripods on them costs pheons (an in-game currency), so players have been spending a lot on these to prepare for the changeover.
Last night, players received an in-game mail that reminded them about the coming update and offered a small amount of compensation in the form 10 pheons per character (up to 60-80 for a full roster). Again, these pheons are required for most major transactions on the auction house. You can think of them as an extra dev-mandated tax of sorts (or a cynical cash grab, depending on your perspective).
Players took this as a gesture of …
This is the most annoying thing ever, two different pcs, two different controllers from series X/S, no way to get a smooth experience.
It is completely ramdom, sometimes you turn it on and it connects automatically almost instantly, sometimes you have to hold the bluetooth button, and sometimes you have to remove the controller and do a fresh installation.
Windows-microsoft ecosystem is the worst.