The last game I played gave me the option to remove the vocal chords of tens of thousands of people because they annoyed someone I’d just met. That was not a “bad guy” choice.
Idk if you’re familiar with Owlcat, but it is a very typical Owlcat game. Shitloads of bugs, but a great core.
If you’re on the fence, give it 6 months or so for them to clean it up.
If you like 40k at all, I consider it a must-buy. If you like crunchy CRPGs, I’d also consider it a must-buy. In both cases, if you’re not a big-time Owlcat fan who finds some of the bugs funny, I’d advise waiting around 6 months.
Big 40K fan, only really got into crpgs with Baldurs Gate 3, so I’ll probably wait around. Although FOMO does have one eyeing that bonus if you buy before January 31.
Never played an Owlcat game, tho i did hear that they stuck around to iron out bugs in Pathfinder, so one can probably expect the same from Rogue Trader
Owlcat Games is a team of developers united by a love of RPGs. From our beginnings as a small group of games industry veterans obsessed with the idea of making our dream games a reality, we have grown into a truly international company, with our headquarters and development in Cyprus and more than 450 employees spread across offices in various countries. We are continuing to expand and take on new hires from around the world, and we also get together every week to play tabletop games in the office and on Roll20 online.
They pay taxes to Russia through their russian substudios - they are funding the war in official tax records. You cant really bs your way out of that, you useful idiot. Dont Buy Russian Made Products Unless You Want To Fund The Killing of Ukrainians.
That’s like saying you give money to Russia any time you buy anything because credit processors have subsidiaries in Russia or own capital in Russia (even if current NAV is 0). It’s just not realistic to worry about.
So yeah, enjoy being a “useful idiot” every time you swipe your credit card, I suppose.
Play it out. Mario is a game where a plumber from New York visits a land of mushroom people who’s princess is kidnapped by a dragon turtle, and he must eat mushrooms to get stronger and eat flowers to spit fireballs. In the most recent iteration, there are piranha plants that jump out of giant pipes, walk around, and do a whole song and dance number for you.
Clearly, there were a lot of drugs involved in its development.
SNES was my favorite console because it was technically primitive enough the devs had to design around it’s limitations, but advanced enough that the gameplay itself could still be complex.
Hundreds of SNES games still look good and play well. With PSX/N64 generation onwards, the drive to make things look “better” resulted in visuals aging horribly.
Link to the Past still looks and plays great. Ocarina of Time (while a great game) looks like crap.
The SNES is an amazing console, I actually had a dream last night about discovering a long lost secret level in super mario world. In the dream it turned out that the level in the final area that has a secret ending creating a path directly to bowser (bipassing the castle level) actually had a second secret ending leading to an entierly new short path ending in a ghost house.
I’m also old. I grew up with an Atari 2600 and then an NES, plus an Apple II at my parents’ house and a C-64 at my grandparents’ house. When I want to play a game for comforting fun, those are the games I most often turn to because they take me back to a simpler time in my life while being generally simpler themselves. And sure, there were some games for those systems that were complex and dark, like some Infocom games and Wasteland, which I thoroughly enjoyed and even enjoyed the modern sequels to… but honestly, I’d rather play Snake Byte on an Apple II emulator most of the time.
Unless you want a phone game, there are so few games out there now that you can just pick up and play for five minutes and then do something else. Most of them are indie edge cases (which admittedly can be good games sometimes) or quickly made web games that pretty much suck. Everything has a complex storyline. They’re not games to me as much as interactive movies sometimes. And that’s fine when I have a couple of hours to devote my time to it, but not all that fine when I want a slight distraction while watching a YouTube video on the other monitor.
I swear, they’d give Tetris cut scenes if it existed today.
I also really liked some game (whose name I can’t remember) where you’re both cowboys and trying to shoot each other through a moving barrier in the middle.
I personally don’t mind games being like they are now so long as the story and gameplay together make the game enjoyable. It’s why I, for the most part, avoid online games.
Also, I don’t know about the antihero part, but the downtrodden hero trying to survive in a dystopian world immediately made me think of Brok The Investigator.
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