What Vidya Games R UZ Play'N?

[Rama]

Overwatch 2  is not really and improvement. I wondered why it was  free, but it's not a microtransaction factory now.  You have to pay them to get any of the good stuff in the game now. Not an improvement. Would have rather just paid 60 bucks up front, but even then this is a just an extra large download and not a full new game. Like only 25% changes. 

[jonhammstein]

Finished Signalis. Survival horror set in a dystopian sci-fi future. Visually, it evokes the PS1 era, with some anime AF character designs. Lots of creepy, upsetting themes and imagery. I liked it a lot, even though I found the traversal and combat to be somewhat clunky and frustrating at times. Probably intentional from a design standpoint, but it ticked me off just the same.

Also, it was seemingly developed by mostly just two people? Pretty impressive considering the scope of the game.

I'll definitely keep an eye out for anything else they might do going forward.

[B E C K]

Not playing it myself but am watching some Let's Plays of the newest Fire Emblem game. The gameplay looks cool. I'm really tempted to get a Switch. But ye Gods, the story is freakin' awful. It's a cringey mess. Like the worst Fire Emblem story in the franchise with copious avatar circle-jerking. I like a handful of character designs but most of them are no bueno. The music's great and the character movements are very fluid. The character voice-acting direction wavers between being good, passable, and terrible regardless of the actor speaking. There's tons of bullshit mini-games tossed into this game, too.

The game features past lords of other Fire Emblem games as magical "emblems" (like interactive force ghosts) and I find myself being unreasonably upset at how powerful they've made Roy from Binding Blade. Because he's an awful character gameplay-wise. In the game he comes from, he's a huge liability that you have to protect the entire time because he's force-deployed and weak as hell.

[jonhammstein]

I don't understand why they promoted the game exclusively with the male MC when the female is so much more appealing.

Or is character gender not a player choice and they actually co-exist within the story?

[B E C K]

Nah, you get to choose the gender but it changes nothing for the plot. The girl is cuter, even if they did give her those awful sock-tits.

[jonhammstein]

Right? Like the armorer was all out of breastplates that day.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I'm still playing Ragnarok. Just killed/rekilled the undead berserker king after, like, 50 tries and 50 different Kratos load-outs. Working in Muspelheim now to armor up for the last Valkyrie so I can put the game down pending the release of New Game + in the spring.