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Some things I like about the game:

• It's got a good story

• The gameplay loop scratches the itch for anyone who likes dungeon crawlers

• It does a pretty faithful job of simulating playing an mmorpg and interacting with other players playing it too (town npcs are players and you can freely trade items with them)

Some dislikes:

• Enemies tend to be spongey or have gimmicks like confusing Kite and making him kill the entire party by accident

• So you have to grind a bit, it's not too bad though

• The english game's dub is kinda poo poo (thankfully they included the JP dub you can switch in the options)

Anyway else play the IMOQ titles or have any other PS2 games to recommend to me?

damn, no wonder how SEAL Team 6 turned out like they did with a guy like this as their founder

: tweet: many angry crackers here

i'm kind of struggling to put this into words but I've replayed a bit of Far Cry 2 and was amazed by how much the enviroment reacts to the firefights. The fire mechanic, obviously, but even beyond that sparks fly when you hit metal, sheds or other structures get destroyed, explosions make the plants react to the shockwave and form some little craters.

Then I played Control which has very different style and pace of combat but it has the same thing going on. It's easily legible but you can feel like there's a lot of, like, destructive potential filling the air here currently.

Contrast this to something like even Modern Warfare 2 (pick any of the three there is, really) and while it is THE bombastic shooter it still feels flat. Yeah maybe you get a broken window and some bullet decals on the walls but outside of scripted sequences any CoD level looks basically the same at the start and once you're through it having shot 800 rocket launchers at the place.

So I'm wondering, what other games do this sort of enviroment reaction / cinematic shooting the best, where you can really feel that a lot of very fast objects are hitting a lot of different things and breaking them?

Red Faction: Guerilla and it's sequels are obvious, I'm thinking Stranglehold and at least Mafia 2 also did this really well. What else is there?

Hello everyone. This week I've been playing more Balatro and Nightreign. I've now completed 50% of all decks in Balatro, and just need to find one more joker for 100% collection. Hope everyone has a good week ahead

My first impression is I would rather have a steamdeck

The new Mario Kart is fun.

On one hand, RE9 finally got announced

On the other, the MC is a