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Cool stuff, thanks for the update. That does sound intriguing. I'll keep it on the wishlist and buy it cheap.

I've definitely been playing too many dialogue-heavy games recently. In fact, I set aside Yakuza 6 until my palate is well and truly cleansed.

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I finished Vampyr about a week ago. Atmosphere is cool, albeit not as good as I’d hoped given the setting (maybe a bit too cartoony, for lack of a better word), but story and characters are good. I wasn’t fond of having to run back and forth down the ends of the map because of another god*amn villager developing a morale-diminishing headache, but I still had fun.

This is why we can't have nice AI...

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Xbox Game Pass has done its job.

I've been playing so much State of Decay 2 (free on Game Pass) that I bought the Ultimate Edition at a 20% discount so I can keep playing once my cheap 3 months on Game Pass come to an end.

I accidentally bought Horizon Zero Dawn: Winter Wilds. It's a DLC for a game I do not own.

Guess I gotta buy that main game now.

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I've done that. Bought a Pinball Arcade table pack, then discovered it was for the PS3 version, not the PS4.

Horizon is bound to end up as a PS+ game. You could play the DLC that way without actually paying for the base game.

I'm holding you to this,the penalty for being wrong is purchasing the game for me.

I'll post you the disc if you want. Seriously.

I can't decide if this is significant or not...

A study comparing the effect with flat-screen games would be a start. But in theory, if the affect is marked, there's some game mechanic fun to be had down the line there . (Would you play a game more 'evilly' if depicted as evil? Would you scavenge more readily if your character woke up in rags? Would my bow-legged horse-swagger be even wider in a VR Red Dead Redemption? )

Calling all FMV game fans, which is everyone, right? The revival continues!

The Dr Dekker people have a new game coming out featuring not only some of the cast from their previous game, but also two of the Contradiction crew.



Disclosure: I really like this bunch and chat with a couple of them regularly over the old social medias.

Love it! Wife and I are definitely playing this together.

Totally with you, Tacitus, on loving the fan-friendly and personable cast, and the charming throwback feel to these games. The last one was pretty good just as a game, but those other elements helped it along, and I think the same vibe married to even a slightly better mystery, with a little less running around, would be an absolute joy. Either way, the people involved give these kinds of games such a high floor that I'm definitely in for whatever they do, for the time being. Thanks for telling us about it!

Dr Dekker was the first actual video game the devs have made - Their stock in trade are murder mystery party games - So I'm expecting the new game to be a little tighter, now that they have more experience. I've not played Dekker since release but apparently they've been pretty dedicated in patching and improving it, and the game's now a lot more user friendly.

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Yeah, as a first game, and with such a funky (for modern times, at least) format, that's probably a lot better than it had any right to be. Very excited to see them take another pass at the same concept. Video games are often the opposite of movies in that the second and third installments can very often get better, since they have a lot of the rote foundation work done and have learned a lot from the feedback of the first effort.

Totally. So much of the medium is technological rather than artistic so things often improve even just by familiarity with the tools at your disposal. Look at how much more impressive games tend to be at the end of a console's cycle, where they've learned every trick in the book to squeeze power out of the machine, compared to the beginning.

I endorse this longitudinal trolling...




(I still want a stealth VR addition too tho you bastards )

Looking pretty likely I'll be pouncing on this the next time it gets down under $30, then, to play a bit over the winter.

Yeah Winter sale would be a good spot, they've had a big pass on almost every aspect now. (I wasn't drawn back in to try out the bigger focus on story strands, but I'd still expect that to be the weakest to be honest. Proc gen doesn't really play that nicely with narrative progression).

It's interesting that it's still a flat £40. This whole 'Game As Service' / 'Stealth Early Access' meta is kinda annoying still, but it is a bit more fruity at this end of the cycle. Launch with an excessive price, finally add 'excessive' content for the price over time . It's a weird weird model.

But if they add VR and give me another cross-play option I def won't be complaining too hard

I wonder if the next trend will be 'GAS' games that look they'll deliver for years, but just fold like furtive flowers a year down the line. Wouldn't be surprised.

(PS I'm not calling these damn gaming models GAASes. GAS feels about right for the current meta. Along with ARG )

If only the game on release was 40% of what they're saying now, things would have been so different. I jumped in again a few months ago and, while the changes they'd made were appreciable, there still wasn't nearly enough to hold my interest. This update looks more promising.

This is almost making me want to buy an Xbone X.