Today we will discuss which games should win our award for "Best RPG", who should win our "Zoe Quinn Award" for engaging in degeneracy for influence, and who should receive our "Golden Pooh" award for being the most subservient to the Chinese Communist Party.
Once again, don't forget to leave videos of walk-throughs, useful reviews, and/or links to sale pages.
For the Zoe Quinn award, I remember that an American politician made a porno to try and win an election, and there was another that was literally an OnlyFans model. Then again, we could nominate the entire transgender movement for basically this, but in every industry.
As for the Golden Pooh, we could hand it over to John Cena, or LeBron James, which would be traditional. But on the other hand, the WHO and Dr. Fauci might have earned it too. Alternatively, we could set 10% of the award for "the big guy".
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Elden Ring I guess, I think it’s the closest thing to a RPG I bought this year. FromSoftware finally perfects the formula they started with Demon’s Souls, even though there are a few problems with balance and enemy scaling in later areas, and input delay I still loved it and have sank an embarrassing number of hours both into playing it and modding it. After a shitload of patches it actually performs pretty well on my rig now, and looks damn good with reshade. They just released a free update with a bunch of multiplayer shit I don’t care about, and I would guess they’re going to release some actual DLC pretty soon.
I nominate the big guy. The others were more blatant, but the big guy probably had the biggest impact in his subservience.
I'm pretty sure I just went back and played Baldur's Gate 2 for the umpteenth time. The current market doesn't have anything that can hold my interest. I'm not sure if that says more about the quality of games coming out or my dwindling ability to enjoy things that aren't already familiar.
Have you played Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous? I think it came out last year and it’s the closest thing to BG2 that came recently that I know of.
It's vaguely on my radar as something I've heard good things about but I've not checked it out. I think part of my problem is that I'm in a different stage of life and just don't have the same amount of free time to commit to a game that I don't already know is going to be excellent. When you're a kid its easy to sink 100 hours into a bad game, but as an adult if I'm sinking even 10 hours into a game to find out it's not for me it's a much higher cost.
Yeah I know what you mean, my steam library is full of shit that I bought and played for a few hours and then forgot about.
Do you ever play 1? I had 2 as a kid and never played 1 until recently, and I just can't get into it. It doesn't seem like a very good game, at least in comparison to 2.
I played the original back when it first released. It doesn't hold my interest as much these days but it was excellent during its time. It suffers from living in the shadow of its sequel which took everything it did and improved on it.
Also: low level adventures just have a stupidly high mortality rate in that engine.