Game Title: Deathloop
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Developer: Arkane Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
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OpenCritic - 88 average - 94% recommended - 74 reviews
ACG - Jeremy Penter - Wait for Sale
“Deathloop is fun but it has a ton of problems identifying what it is, hedge wizard assassination game or slim wallet gun runner assassination game. nevertheless, the story is insanely good as it progresses.”
Areajugones - Víctor Rodríguez - Spanish - 9 / 10
Deathloop is a video game that maintains the characteristic elements of Arkane games: an outstanding level design, exceptional gameplay, …
Coming from someone who is not familiar with any MMOs (I’ve only played Guild Wars 2 for a bit), I got interested in New World primarily because the combat system didn’t look like it requires a macropad.
Tha being said, the game’s combat is easy to follow and execute, but I found myself annoyed at the animation lock, which I suppose is the intent of the game - you take a conscious decision to make yourself vulnerable when attacking most of the time, as there are some skills that lets you animation cancel them.
Although the combat is enjoyable, something about the weapon skill system made me actually miss the huge number of builds and skills from typical MMOs, as there is very little build variety per weapon that I can imagine, based off the beta.
Other than the combat and gameplay, New World seems fairly generic to me (again, not an MMO player). Graphics looks better than other MMOs I’ve seen, but not great in general. Crafting and resource gathering seems …
Hey r/Games!
‘Against the Storm’ is a game for which we dropped our daily jobs (sounds super cheesy but that’s what happened) and started a 5-people full-time studio.
It’s a roguelite city builder set in a fantasy world where it never stops raining. As the Queen’s viceroy, you’re tasked with venturing into the unknown wilds and building new settlements inhabited by intelligent beavers, humans, and lizardfolk.
Gameplay Trailer: https://youtu.be/qq2cS-mrkJ4
Demo: https://www.epicgames.com/store/p/against-the-storm–royal-woodlands-demo
Your goal is to survive long enough and gather the valuable resources necessary to rebuild and upgrade the Smouldering City. It’s the only safe haven against the Blightstorm — a vile cycle of destruction ravaging everything in its path
A couple more words about the features:
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I am tired of this ugly and shitty chromatic aberration effect in every single game that releases lately.
Life is strange True colors and Tales of Arise have both this thing on and you can turn it off unless you go to the ini files which is something I should not have to do!
Nobody wants Chromatic aberration, please stop forcing it for God’s sake!
RE5, MCC and Borderlands are all games I want to play splitscreen with a friend at my place, PC on TV. All of them support splitscreen on console, but on PC I need to use a mod that makes each game run twice and in some cases (like MCC) lose some features to do this, because they don’t have official support for splitscreen on PC. What gives?
Skyrim, which is about to be a 10 year old game, has seen increased regional pricing in countries like Turkey, Russia, Argentina, most likely due to the upcoming Anniversary Edition. They have also done this before with Special Edition.
For some reference, relatively new releases like Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, Pathfinder WotR costs 249 Turkish Liras which is only 49TL more than Skyrim.
My go-to’s used to be Gamespot and IGN but both seem to have been on a gradual downslope in recent years. Especially Gamespot which used to be better than IGN but now seems almost like AI-generated reformats of content from elsewhere.
I still check in on Eurogamer, Polygon, Ars Technica, and Youtube (Skill Up, ACG, Gamer’s Nexus, Hardware Unboxed, dudes that make 8 hour retrospectives, etc..).
I peek at RockPaperShotgun once in a while but feel like I’m not quite hip enough.
PCGamer is closest to my daily driver nowadays, maybe b/c they still use an old-school site layout that’s not mobile-focused.
What do you find worth reading?
So I’ve been doing some research and I discovered that Bandai Namco is the 3rd largest video game publisher in Japan after Sony and Nintendo.
Now, of course I expected Sony and Nintendo to be #1 and #2 but I did NOT expect Bandai Namco to be #3. According to Wikipedia, they are doing 250 billion yen in revenue per year.
But their video game franchises include Pac-Man, Tekken, Soul Calibur and Dark Souls. Now, I have nothing against any of these franchises but these aren’t exactly Call of Duty level of sales franchises. I think Tekken is their best-selling franchise as of today with 55 million units sold.
But how is Bandai Namco bigger than SEGA, Square Enix, Konami, and Capcom?
SEGA: Total War, Yakuza, Sonic, and their successful arcade business
Square Enix: Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Tomb Raider, Kingdom Hearts
Capcom: Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Mega Man, Devil May Cry
Konami: Metal Gear Solid, PES, Castlevania, Silent Hill, and the …