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I don't mind actual changes of scenery or introduction of new characters. What I take issue with is when the character or setting gets a makeover. IE. They are supposed to be the same people or place but look or act nothing like they did in the previous game. Of course reboots are exempt from this as the purpose of a reboot is exactly that. So I have no problem with games like Tomb Raider (2013). An example where the character changes is Max Payne. They modelled the protagonist on one of the developers for the first game, but in the second one they used an actor who looks nothing like the guy in the first game. It makes zero sense. It bugged me to no end. And Max Payne is also a good example for when they change the nature of the character. As for Max Payne3 they changed Max Payne's personality completely, if it wasn't called Max Payne it would be impossible to tell that the game is supposed to be sequel to the other two. Another bad makeover I disliked was Anna Grimsdottir in Splinter Cell series. She was an analyst sitting behind a desk for the first 4 games, then suddenly they turned her into a highly trained field agent for the fifth game, completely changing her look too. Made no sense. She even went from having light brown or blonde hair to a redhead. For a makover of a setting a "good" example is DeusEx Human Revolution, that is supposed to be a prequel to the original DeusEx, yet the world it presents seems much more futuristic, DeusEx was set in an alternate dystopian near future for 2000. Yet Human Revolution feels like it is set in the far future even from now, let alone for 2000. By the looks it is set in the same time period as Cyberpunk 2077, yet we are supposed to believe events in the game take place many years before the original DeusEx.

XCOM2: War of the Chosen - This totally overhauls the base campaign of the game introducing new factions, new storylines, new activities. It's basically as if you got another game on top of the old one. That you can switch on or off. Mass Effect 3: The Citadel - Quite a long storyline for a DLC, with a ton of fanservice included. Which was needed after the botched ending of the triology.

I did it while working in Belgium, although it wasn't yet legalized there then, but still was easy to get next door. I didn't do it to help, it was just for unwinding daily after having to work 7 days a week for months (LOL, tell that to those who think crunch only exists in game development)

For me these have been sitting in my library unplayed for the longest time: 21 Jun, 2012 Deus Ex Human Revolution: The Missing Link DLC (just the DLC not the whole game) 27 Dec, 2012 Sniper Ghost Warrior Gold base + 2 DLC 29 Dec, 2012 Assassin's Creed 29 Dec, 2012 Assassin's Creed II: Deluxe Edition 31 Dec, 2012 Far Cry 2 (full disclosure I've tried to play this but couldn't get it to not crash during the intro cinematic) 22 Jul, 2013 Tomb Raider Collection (All Tomb Raider games up to Underworld - bought more out of nostalgia than any real intention of playing all of them) 4 Sep, 2014 Rage 29 Jun, 2015 Gone Home 24 Dec, 2015 Call of Duty: Black Ops III 21 Jul, 2017 Life is Strange Complete Season (Episodes 1-5) 21 Jul, 2017 Alien Breed Complete Pack 21 Jul, 2017 American Truck Simulator 11 Mar, 2018 Amnesia Collection Jul 5, 2018, Frontlines: Fuel of War Jul 5, 2018, Full Spectrum Warrior Jul 5, 2018, Darksiders Jul 5, 2018, Darksiders 2 Jul 5, 2018, Titan Quest Anniversary Edition That's about all of the games I never got around to playing. And most of these will probably remain in my backlog indefinitely.

Mad Max came out in 2015, and it's a pretty good game, you are missing out.

I play games to escape reality, and I want total immersion. Other players don't fit into that picture. There are just too many idiots in online gaming doing stupid things and acting out of character for me to enjoy online gaming. Heck, some online games are immersion breaking even when players don't act out of character. Like when there is a crowd of 30 players around a single npc all taking on the same quest. Or when you see a player running the opposite direction to you every 10 seconds who has just completed the exact quest you are going on.

It remains to be seen how this new president handles things. I hope it will be based on sanity and reason instead of feelings. And he addresses the isseus instead of trying to treat the symptoms.

Mass Effect - No, honestly I wasn't convinced on my first try that it is a good game, it took a lot of insisting from friends to try again. And now it is one of my favorite franchises. Portal 2 - Never played the first before this, got it free with the Orange Box bundle, so I tried it and it was quite enjoyable, so I later bought the first one as well Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer mode - I'm not into any multiplayer nowadays and this game forced you to play multiplayer as part of the single player campaign, which I loathed, but I ended up liking it and played more than the requirement. Defiance - Probably the only MMO I enjoyed. I only tried it because it was a tie in game for the similarly named tv show. Since I'm not in the habit of buying games I don't think I'll like that's the end of the list I believe.

It's nostalgia. When I get that longing for the past, thinking about the mistakes I've made, the road not taken, or simply good times that'll never come back. When I'm not in the mood for anything I usually juts browse the net clicking on forums, looking for a topic to distract my mind. So thanks for creating these, I enjoy them even when I'm not down.

Going back to the LAN Party days. We played from Friday afternoon until about Sunday midday. We maybe slept intermittently one or two hours. I don't know how we managed to stay at it that long. My longest solo gaming session was with Half Life, the original, even before that. From 2pm to 5am, so about 15 hours.

I don't know how many. They are spread among so many platforms and launchers that even counting it would take a while. I usually uninstall games when I finish them, but not always, there are plenty of leftover installed games that I'll probably never touch again. I'll probably wipe them when I run out of space.

I don't know which of my opinions is most controversial. You decide. Cell shaded and cartoon like graphics should not exist, every game must strive to look as realistic as possible Do not hide gore and blood, if there is killing depicted it should be depicted with all consequences Games are not a platform, don't use it to preach to your audience

I didn't have a gaming console until I started doing jobs on the side before dropping out of college.

Trespasser. I liked the idea of a fully physics based environment. But I don't think technology was good enough to implement it in 1998. If it was made now it could be mutch better, they could even make a VR version. Now that I think of it it was basically like HL:Alyx the way you interacted with the environment in it.

On my first time with a new game I always focus on the main quest while doing only minimal side activities, just as much as maintaining 100% immersion in the story allows. But if the game is good enough after finishing my first playthrough I'll start a new game and focus more on side missions

A demo is not supposed to be 100% the same as the final product especially if it's years before release. I doubt QA testers even got the time to test the latest version before release. It was a scramble. Gamers were already on edge due to covid sending death threats for the last delay, I don't think further delaying the game would've been the right move. Except on last gen. Here we go again. Jason Schreier is a known zealot, out for the blood of every company who as much as just thought about overtime work. i wouldn't trust him if he was the last person on earth. He obviously has an agenda. I mean he literally pivots to talking about the overtime work in the first paragraph after the introduction. And he claims mismanagement and focusing on "marketing" instead of development, because they made a rolling demo in 2018. Yeah that's the cause of all the problems, for sure! Then he goes on to prove that he has zero clue about game development thinking switching from fantasy to scifi is a cause for the game's problems. And then he just goes on to squirm about mandated paid overtime, which is a common practice in Eastern Europe and perfectly legal. His so called anonymous sources are either fictional, or a bunch of low level QA snowflakes, who probably know less about management than some outsiders.

I hate commentary on walkthroughs, if I accidentally click on a video that has commentary I either mute it or search for alternatives without commentary. I only watch walkthroughs when I'm stuck in a game and can't find what to do, or where is some item.

You think in terms of groups not individuals. It's a terrible way of thinking and it leads to terrible things. You should not do that. Just because there are males who are bad doesn't mean males = bad, or being male is the problem. What you are doing is trying to prevent house fires by demolishing all houses.

This is ridicilous. I mean this is like choking the golden goose for laying 10 golden eggs instead of 11. And the whole "oh but the demo was faked" issue is stupid. I mean if the game was in a finished and playable state in 2018 they'd have been releasing it not demoing it. Of course aspects of a rolling demo is rigged, there is nothing new there. The purpose of a demo is to show their vision of the game, not the 100% actual state of the game. But what they are aiming for. This is like calling a concept art of an upcoming car "fake" because it doesn't show the real car before it was ever made.

No, but I'd love to have something like google glass that could record every minute of my waking life so I can go back and replay any part at any time.

I'm usually only upgrading specific components at a time, I don't think I've done a completely new build where everything was replaced since 2010. My last upgrade was going from 32GB to 64GB RAM in October, of course I don't need that much for gaming it's more for work than anything else. That was a relatively cheap upgrade for $150. Before that I got a 2080TI in 2019 for $1000.

I hate gamepads, they serve as nothing but a gatekeeper between me and most console games. I've struggled through a few games with them but it really was a struggle. And not for lack of trying, I'm no better at it than I was the first time. It's just not for me. I had hoped when they added kb+mouse support in killzone on the PS2 that it will be the new norm, but no such luck. i won't even use them for driving games, because driving games deserve a proper wheel plus pedals, flying games deserve a flight stick. I broke many dualshock controllers out of frustration.

I think you are very wrong on that. Gender roles are much more ingrained on the old continent. There might be small move away from it, but honestly I think most people are still very sexist here in central europe. I swear my mother is one of the biggest sexists. Constantly remarking what women should and shouldn't do. It drives me nuts sometimes. But I don't want to argue with her so I just let it go. But I also don't think that being male is toxic, some men are toxic, but simply being male and having male instintcts is not toxic. I'm sorry but I'm an old fashioned guy and I'm biased towards females. I don't think that makes me toxic. I Show preferential treatment towards women. I know some girls don't like it but they can ask me politely to stop it.

One of the first games I Ever played already had female player characters. It was Giana Sisters. But for most games I preferred to play male characters. I don't actually remember why if it was peer pressure or not, but I felt uneasy with female PCs. I only started playing primarily female characters since about 2010. I even seek out games with female protagonists now. So if a game has one, they already halfway there in winning me over.

The only game I enjoyed playing in Multiplayer in the last decade was Mass Effect 3, maybe because it had zero interaction with other players.