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Some excerpts from the Video by Era users Bxrz, Krakenking189 and Almalexia:

A lot of the improvements to the base game, multiple loadouts and changing ammo type on the fly, were already in place when I played it this month. Might be why I had a better experience than some who played the game at launch. As for this expansion. I wasn't expecting sci-fi, and I'm not sure I'm interested. The little Stranger things episode in the main game didn't do much for me tbh.

Coming up to the end of year and some publications are doing their goty thing. Here's one of the more interesting ones. Interesting as in I'm not really familiar with a lot of the stuff on the list and it's got a bit focus on smaller budget and narrative-centric games, so it might make for good reading/gaming over the xmas period https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/best-games-of-2022/ I bought Pentiment the other day, but that is definitely a game that's not for after work gaming. It's all about Bavarian monks and calligraphy and shit, going to give it its due when I take time off. Signalis another one I want to check out (kinda a horror I think, has a thread about it on here)

Looks good.

Looking online it seems that happened in September.

I think Biomutant is getting next-gen patch, so presumably this is the launch of that. Unless it already came out and no one cared?

December GwG... Colt Canyon and Bladed Fury. Bladed Fury looks quite cool to be fair.

When it came out I thought Witcher 3 was the big leap forward for it's generation. I have it loaded up on my XSX awaiting the update and a long planned replay, but I would say it doesn't really hold up to the games on @DisturbedSwan's list as it is now. still great tho.

Technically not. A bit like Vine, Tiktok replaced it. So we went from the USA harvesting data to China harvesting data. It might not be valuable as a company , but the data is valuable enough that a government would pay to float a company like that. If Twitter was to fail, another country would step in with an alternative simply because the data is too valuable for them to turn their nose up at it. It just depends if people are fine allowing a country like China with their data. Spoilers: They are. Most people don't give a fuck about their privacy. Except you think China would allow anti Chinese sentiment on their platform? They won't. Sort of how Elon is stopping people from taking the piss out of him. I personally think Elon got bluffed into buying something he didn't understand and now is trying to sink it so he can write it off as a tax thing to make more money out it it. Considering it was bought with money that wasn't 100% his it might be a damage limitation or it might be a grift, I have no idea. He has Tesla stock up against Twitter as well, so if it sinks hard he will lose that, which might be some proper 5head thinking because it's looking like Tesla might be facing some serious legal shit considering all them vehicles running over people in autopilot mode, or setting on fire and locking people inside. I might end up being cheaper just passing Tesla off to the banks instead of sucking up all those litigations. Who fucking knows right now? All I know is Twitter is fucked with right wing bs and covid misinformation now because Tiny Dick Energy Elon couldn't run a bath.

The Witcher 3, hands down. Honourable mention to FFVII Remake. In terms of artistic achievement, special mention to Outer Wilds and its expansion too.

Toem (Switch) Inscryption (PC) Return to Monkey Island (PC) Norco (PC)

Finished after about 6 hours. I’d give it a solid 8/10. I wouldn’t give it a rapturous 94% like PC Gamer or the kind of glowing review that Eurogamer gave it. I’m not the kind of person who’s into philosophy or intellectual discussions…and I’m not one to overly analyse games that I play. Just give me a good story and wrap it up nicely at the end. Norco does have a cool story but it’s not a concrete story, it’s got a little bit of that Twin Peaks style ambiguity to it As a game, it’s simple and functional, so it all comes down to what you get out of the story. The ending didn’t particularly elevate it for me in any way, which is a shame. If you like games like KRZ and Disco Elysium then it’s a safe bet that you’ll like it I think, but I wouldn’t call it a point and click classic.

Rumour/Leak: DealLabs PS+ Essential for December PS4 - Mass Effect: Legendary Edition PS4/PS5 - Biomutant PS4/PS5 - DKO: Devine Knockout

All the usual suspects really for me: Uncharted 4 The Last of Us Part II Horizon: Forbidden West Horizon: ZD Red Dead Redemption 2 Uncharted Lost Legacy God of War Ragnarok Death Stranding

I'm touching 60% on this and have been seeing stuff (magical dwarves, and hot air balloons to name a few) that I never encountered on previous failed playthrus. The game is compelling, I'll give it that. But to get any joy out of it you really have to accept it's bullshit. For the most part I've knuckled down and let the game be itself - the long horse rides, the monotonous animations and rather overly expositional dialogue that seems to feature in every mission and interaction. (Feck me, these bastards could talk). So what's left to moan about? Sure, you can be laid back about all of its pompous idiosyncrasies, but there's one thing that just pisses me off so much that it's hard to overlook, and that's the constant wresting away of control from the player. In every session my gamepad just becomes this useless hunk of plastic while Arthur enters the influence of some unseen hand. And now, all of a sudden, (and often when you need to most), you can't change weapon or even check what's in your inventory, you can't give Arthur a tonic, you can't run or get in cover, you can't do anything you might want to do because the game knows better. I can only assume this was meant to keep you immersed in the Gameworld but, for me, it does the opposite. I'm constantly reminded that this a game because my fucking buttons have stopped working and I can no longer play it😡. Worse still is that (twice now) the run button is taken away from you without any warning and while you're still tapping the fucker to make Arthur go somewhat faster than a wounded sloth, it's been transformed into the button that skips cutscenes. Who the fuck thought that could ever be a good idea? Rockstar? Cuntstar I say.

Cheers for the heads up, I won’t watch it then.

Will be an “open world, modern reimagining”. https://www.eurogamer.net/witcher-1-remake-will-be-open-world-modern-reimagining That’s good to hear. I loved the first game but I wouldn’t want to play the same thing with shinier graphics.

It'll be curtains for good if Apple pulls it from the App Store. Fingers crossed.

It is cool I agree, but also annoying. It might be largely due to be being under-levelled for it at the moment (I'm Level 5, I think the boss is Level 7) and probably not having the right equipment set up. I think most of them that are shouldn't be an issue but the others might be a pain. I've left it for now though and will return to them after I finish the story and am hopefully a bit more levelled up. I will still attempt others I come across but not this particular fight.

That fight is cool. Lots of projectile parrying is wot i did. All about camera and space management

Square trailers are a joke lol, I won't watch it then. I do roughly know what happens at the end I think but the whole rest of the game is a mystery so I want to keep it that way.

There are definitely a lot of them, it's not something I'll struggle with though hopefully. I think I've got almost all realms at about 70-95% complete now as I've been doing everything I can whilst I'm there (if that makes sense) and have been going back since unlocking certain abilities in-between the story segments to polish some bits off. So yeah, I think I'm going to struggle with the and Valkyrie equivalents more. I fought one last night It's a potential plat-breaker on its own this particular fight, I know I can do it if I just stick with it for hours on end but I'm not sure I want to or can be bothered with the hassle to be honest. I never bothered with all the Valkyrie fights in the last game for much the same reasons.

I know Crisis Core has a bad story but it's hilarious that this trailer just spoils all of it lol Literally everything is spoiled, you don't need to play the game now. You're caught up. 🤣

Spoilery launch trailer below: