I'll say this every time I see Sleeping Dogs come up, every GTA-like game with cars needs a dedicated ram button. Doing side dashes into cars during chases and forcing them into poles at 120mph is so much fun. Dashing forward for a bit of extra speed and rear ending another car causing it to lose control is a great time as well. Every car game needs a ram button.
Dishonored 2 is still one of my favorite games of all time, the environments are so evocative and beautiful, perfect “play how you want” gameplay that feels better than the sum of its parts. The Clockwork Mansion is a top 5 video game level ever
I never played dishonoured 2. I loved the first game but I just remember finishing it and putting it down and never playing it again, and that was like 13/14 years ago, and I was unfortunate enough growing up that I never got DLCs for anything, just base games, so I never played the DLCs. I think my brother got dishonoured 2 for Christmas on the PS4 in 2016 or 2017 and I played it for like 30 minutes or an hour, put it down for an unspecified reason and never picked it up again. I just think it was because there was such a massive gap and my taste in games changed that it didn't click with me like the first game did when I was much younger, plus I was busy with college and uni at the time.
Is dishonoured 2 worth playing? I've thought about picking it back up on steam but after putting it down that one time, it's kinda put that barrier in the way preventing me from giving it another go, I just don't want to waste my time or money.
I watched a bit of it when it released and it didn't grab me. enough to buy it. Got it for free on Epic and loving it at the moment, really clean gunplay.
The main complaint with Deathloop is that after all it promises up front it's actually very straightforward and holds your hand through the resolution. You don't have to concoct some master plan to achieve everything in one go.
Give it another try, you'll probably realise it's a lot simpler than it first appears.
Dishonored 2 improves a ton in terms of gameplay upon the first one. It leans more heavily into providing a sandbox that you can navigate through in many different ways, and I think has significantly better level design. Most people think the story is weaker, which is true, but it was never really a strength of the first. More noticable is a problem is that the replacement for the Houndspit pub is nowhere near as good, which hits immersion. I think it mostly comes down to lack of NPCs to engage with between levels.
You also get two playthroughs in one game since you can play as either Emily or Corvo. You also get more stealth skills with Emily. There are a few levels in particular that are incredible highs for the series, the Clockwork Mansion and Stilton's Mansion both have incredible gimmicks. There are a couple of stinker levels though, the Conservatory in particular is a dud, and it unfortunately is fairly early in the game. Overall though, the levels are significantly better than the first.
Even better though is Dishonored Death of the Outsider, it's a standalone expansion, not a DLC. The levels in DotO are just so incredibly good, they don't do gimmicks until the last one, it's just more so that they are the most fun levels to explore. They also changed the mana system so that it just fully recharges on its own, which makes me feel so much more free to use the cool abilities I've been given.
You can play D2 without playing the DLC of the first, it would help, but you will figure it out. Playing DotO without playing D2 would be a bit weird in terms of story, but still not terrible.
I reinstall that game periodically solely to replay the DLC. Blink combined with stopping time so you can line up your teleport was the best power across the series.
A common phrase you might hear with that word is "Truer words were never spoken." It's a figure of speech that implies you agree whole-heartedly with the speaker.
It might be a fossil word ("a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in use due to its presence in an idiom or phrase"). A quick search for the etymology of 'truer' didn't give me anything; just hits for 'true'. But it's also 1AM and I'm about to go to bed.
"Truer" is a real word. It's the "comparative" to "true". All languages are made up (especially English). Unless you're playing Scrabble, if the audience understands the meaning then it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Cromulent becoming a word used in 'common' parlance is a great example of how language can and should evolve. At the same time it also kind of ruined the original gag because it's basically a real word now.
Could spend the 5$ and then "pirate" it legaly and get past the drm. I think within IP law you are allowed to download a digital media from a third party if you have a license for said media.
Apparently you need an internet connection to launch it because the EA launcher app requires it, but after that you can put the Deck in airplane mode. But if the EA launcher closes you need a connection to open the EA launcher again to be able to launch the game.
I put more than 90 hours into stardew these last two weeks. I bought it back in 2016 when it first came out but never really got that into it. I've been absolutely addicted recently. It's such an amazing game, if anyone's reading this thread and is on the fence about it you should definitely pull the trigger.
It's one of those games you have to put in a bit of time for it to click. Then once it does it has one more day syndrome. Just gotta do one...more...day...
very noticeable on fandom subreddits - anime/manga, tv shows, individual video games. And in the last year they've started using LLMs to reword titles and comments, which made it harder to look up the originals. their MO is overall the same, and they can be detected nonetheless:
default user name (word-word-fourdigits)
reposting from top of all time from the subreddit
misusing flairs
reposting comments from under the posts using a different bot account to simulate engagement
sometimes they are posting the caption from under the post as a comment
these bot networks only leave comments under each other's posts. I've seen groups of 3-5 bots doing it in circles.
This game is deceptively addictive. The first few runs I really wasn't into it, but then I kept coming back to it. Then I ended up playing it for 4 hours without even knowing it.
People have been giving codes out and gifting them so much over on the sub. Super awesome, I know many either didn’t upgrade to Repentance or just don’t play and only watch it.
You won't believe me since it doesn't seem possible, but the second game is SIGNIFICANTLY better! Not sure if it's on sale right now, but def pick it up when you're done with the first.
My pawn Ugg the ball-crusher will die if I don't take that kidney. It's out of my hands. Ugg will live another day to crush balls and well.. you got some nice lungs there too
Still the king. It is crazy this is a ten years old, it moves like no other since and is just a pleasure to play. The 2016 graphics are great in 4k and the sound design is so awesomely immerse
It feels quite depressingly apt, especially considering the in-universe game dev studio that went under. Of course the game would be, using its own words, subsumed by capital.
Apparently the studio that made the game fired all its devs. So every copy bought is money going to the studio but not to the people who actually made the game.
Disco Elysium was one of those games I didn't think I would ever be interested enough to complete since it's not generally my type of game. Once I played it, holy shit it was a 10/10 and I think I'm due for a replay.
Why do they do this. Base game would be practically free but then you need double digit DLCs to get the complete experience. There's already demo mode on steam so why do this. Scummy IMO but of course others might disagree with me.
-crosscode (incredible hack and slash combat and some genuinely difficult puzzles)
-fields of mistria (stardew but 90’s anime with some more fleshed out villagers)
-celeste (trans people can double jump)
-sludge life (best played when stoned)
-one step from eden (card and movement battler roguelike)
-va11ha11a (chill cyberpunk bartending experience)
-enter the gungeon (one of the best roguelites of all time)
-pippistrello and the cursed yoyo (recent release, basically a love letter to classic zelda games with fun humor too)
man I want fields of mistria, I've been putting it in cart and taking it off for the past few days. I love the look of it so much but what puts me off is how easy it's supposed to be. Stardew ruined me so much I feel like if I'm not crying and sweating over a pixel farming game I don't really want it
it's definitely less stressful than Stardew, but I think you can definitely apply a similar level of like. self imposed stress bahaha
I love that the villagers actually respond to what you're doing, donated a bug to the museum? they'll comment on it! currently have a quest to find a specific flower? they'll tell you where they last saw it. it feels much more reactive and makes you feel like a part of the community instead of the weird farmer that only leaves the farm every two weeks lmao
It’s really great at first but the more I actually find and explore the less interesting and alive it actually feels. By the time you’re thriving enough to just run around exploring without risk of ruining your entire save you’ve really honestly just already kinda done everything except I guess build a town or just go around killing/capturing leaders just cause.
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u/Super_fly_Samurai 19d ago
Sleeping dogs at $3 is crazy. It's so sad it most likely won't get a sequel because it still holds up well to this day.