What games are y’all playing? Suggestions/Reviews/Thoughts? Hyped up for anything and want to share? I’ve been devouring Dragon Quest XI and Little Witch Nobeta, needed an RPG fix badly! DQ actually greatly benefits from whatever graphic engine they are using, the cartoony style for Toriyama design is great (although he keeps reusing the same faces/archetypes for everything). Nobeta actually harder than dark souls for me, I can’t parry to save my life and am still stuck at the second boss. Also picked up SinOAlice because why not, peeps are still in quarantine here anyway.
Also, can we get a Vidya tag, please?
Dota, because I didn't think I hated people in general enough yet. Minor venting but climbing out of shit ranks as support is a harrowing experience and finding people to play with is just overall terrible. I can only take so much feel good, eternal positivity bullshit and passive aggressive blame shifting you find in discord groups for the like. I'm probably going to have to suck it up and accept that people in my games expect their support duo to be pos 5 + the other pos 5 and play accordingly. Bad habit formation be damned.
Tried the Kingmaker turn-based mod. It slows the game down way too much, you can brute force a fight by RNG faster than it would take to finish it with turn order half the time. It is agonisingly slow for little to no benefit.
Feels like I haven't played anything good in a long time. Certainly nothing this year so far unless you count a rerun of Legend of Dragoon.
I know it's silly and not going to happen soon, but I hope a dota2.win site pops up. I'm going to miss that banter and analysis.
I've had to stop playing Dota finally after this bullshit cancel culture on Tobi and Grant.
Motherfucking GrandGrant, the heart and soul of NA Dota, canceled over drunken sex and literal handholding. Dude worked his way up out of alcoholism and working at Walmart and now he's completely fucked by some fucking thots.
Allowing women into gaming was a mistake. Especially esport scenes when all they offer is their body (cosplay), because they're not good enough to play or even analyze at the high level
The Redeye one annoyed me most, they brought the wife and kids into it. Social justice is mob justice and mob justice can go fuck itself.
dota2.win would be absolutely dope. The sub has been a shitshow for the past month and intermittently for the past couple of years. They ran Drakus out of town (ironically, for posting on The Donald).
I was getting back into playing more and then the Battle Pass pissed me off and I quit again for a while. They're asking for too much money for the content they're offering. The first couple hundred levels are basically empty in terms of what they offer vs what I want.
I transitioned to mostly playing Ability Draft for a while just to mix things up. It was a bit of a palate cleanser.
Yeah, I skipped the BP this time because the only reasonable thing within the amount of cash or grind I'm willing to do was the map. It looks so clean compared to the default, it's great. I don't think there's even anything of value up to that point and then another large gap.
I might be some sub 2k pleb but down in this shit every core is playing carry in every lane, including the offlane carry jugg who dives spec under tower at level 2 while I go and stop/interrupt a pull. Yet somehow it's my fault they died. Or the pl that jungles at 10% hp for 10 minutes while pinging everybody who dies telling them to stop feeding Bloodseeker. I could go on for days with this shit. BP tends to make this shit worse as players come back but it'd make that grind even more unbearable if i did buy it.
I ended up playing nothing but Arcade section games in Dota before uninstalling (since I had to crank up the studies). I'm never quitting Dota proper but the occasional month-long break helps when I get that 10 streak loss in a single day.