[Video Games] What are you playing? (Omikron Edition)

Yeah I just love KCD so much, and I'm annoyed that it's now taking heat from both sides of the political spectrum, which I feel like is pretty unusual. Most of the time there's a consensus of either the right or the left hating a game for dumb reasons. Both sides don't usually give the same game crap.

100% agreed and, as a side note... I'm pretty sure we're quickly approaching the point where literally all actual games journalism on Earth is done by Jason Schreier, and every other outlet just quotes his material and does editorials based on it.

 

Anybody on Marvel Rivals? And want to hoop on console + ranked? I'm bronze though after the update (was Gold).

 

I think it's just another iteration of people wanting to encapsulate their lives with politics they support and insulate it from politics they don't. That includes entertainment.

It kind of reminds me of the features that say "Latino owned business" on grocery products or "LGBTQ friendly" for a barbershop or something. Some people would just like to buy woke games made by woke people, or vice versa. I think it genuinely makes the product better, or worse, for some.

Tell him, @Salvy

 

Ok but after the game...

 

I hear Avowed will not require to play PoE1 or PoE2 to understand the story or the world. That being said, if you like CRPGs with isometric POVs, they are absolutely great games worth playing. Just don't expect Baldur's Gate 3, that's a nearly impossible bar to surpass.

 

Yeah. I feel like BG3 might have ruined a lot of other games, but that's good to know. I am sure I could enjoy the games.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...LhsiFNDef1RlL6IxoCIQes&leadSource=reddit_wall

 

I made a horrible mistake and researched the controversy. Ever since then algorithms have given me stupid recommendation after stupid recommendation. I guess pre-release there is some stupid rumors and turmoil.

Daniel from Warhorse has been somewhat conservative in posted views. He also is Jewish or has Jewish ancestry. There is a rumor which doesn't seem to be confirmed that KCD because there is a ban in Saudi Arabia. Speculation is that was a homosexual scene. A person who is a self professed Nazi started talking about blasting Daniel.

I've seen people people claim there is no DEI in the game and others saying it's woke and Warhorse has abandoned whatever it was that made these folks love them.

My take: Warhorse doesn't care about anything but making a historically plausible game. That caused some folks to hold them up as anti-woke heroes. Daniel's own social media posts led them to believe that was accurate.

Folks that focus on that stuff and not the game lost their minds and turned on Daniel for whatever was in the game. But anything in the game is not made for appeasing either political side.

The controversy was like a snowball into an avalanche. Once the game comes out, it will go away.

Other notes. One of the biggest fans of the game and who makes YouTube videos about it is a trans gamer. On some message board the company doing PR made a rule about not allowing homophonic or transphobic language and this inflamed people that hate that stuff more than they like playing good games.

I wish I had never researched. Just because of the suggestions for videos I keep getting.

 

So I really want to like Helldivers, but I played with some coworkers and they are much higher level than me. They were killing everything or completing whatever task before I could figure out what to do. Later I tried playing solo and that was way too hard.

Went back to Battlefield 2042 and enjoying that even though I'm not good at it.

 

Unicorn Overlord has been a great game. Highly recommend for jrpg fans. You think you mastered a matchup, but there's just enough changes in the stage for you to rethink and change everything. Or like you breeze through something like Coloseum, only to get flattened because your lineups weren't good enough.

Technically some of the matches could be considered repetitive, but in terms of The Grind you find from jrpgs, it's a blast.

I think my flaw was that I wanted all my lineups to be one turn killers, but playing right would mean a few support teams to heal or shoot from behind.

Also, there is a "new game+" mode where the stakes are raised with perma death. My teams rarely died in normal difficulty, but only being able to use 5 items instead of 10 would make me play differently. That challenge is for someone with a lot more time and sleep to burn.

I dug this thread up because of this, and what a big eyeroll for whoever caused the stink. I'd say the tried and true B- story is worse than the localization

Who cares if the words were flowery? The localizers had a vision where the characters acted like watered down shakespearean characters, and some loser snobs decided they wanted to barf then tell anyone who cared about it rather than play a game. It's mainly the royals who talked like that while mostly everyone else had their own regional style. Ofc, they wouldn't know because they shat on a demo.

I was expecting All Ur Base levels of bad, but everyone has to plaster a dumb hot take to feel self important and relevant these days.

I'm not as tapped into games as I used to be, so why is the industry is influenced by this guy for whatever reason?


Is he like Woj for Video Games or something?

Looks like Subway Jared's penpal...

 

This is fun

 

Let me know if you want to give Helldivers 2 another go. I have a couple friends I played with pretty regularly for awhile but haven't dipped back into it for a bit, and might be fun to do so.

 

He just kinda seems like the only one who wants to actually spend time investigating stories. Everyone else covering games is doing low-effort reactions, editorials, top-10 lists, etc. Because hey, that stuff generates a lot more clicks per hours of effort.

I wish we had 50 more Jason Schreiers, but I guess I gotta settle for 1.

 

what console are you on? you can hoop in the marvel game?

 

I tried it, wasn't for me.

 

Just saw it pop up on game pass.... Might try

 

PS5 (but competitive mode is open to any console or PC but not both at the same time). By "hoop" I mean "BALL".