I recommend reading Chris Avellone’s post about the Mitsoda firing from way back on 2021. Knowing what went into getting the project started, how draining it was and how devastatingly it ended I suspect all those involved just want to forget it. This was our one and only chance at a true sequel, spiritual or otherwise.

I’m long finished with this game (well, playing it at least, I’m still watching others play it) but these are great changes. Battle Retry is fantastic but this:

Autoplay Dialogue: Added an optional autoplay feature for dialogues outside cutscenes.

is also fantastic for an overall smoother experience. Was very noticeable in the (many) camp conversations where having to input “next” all the time made them feel very stilted. Especially jarring since the dialogue in actual cutscenes is so fluid.

This might end up as a BG3 kind of situation: a fine game in its own right but would have been better for everyone involved if it was just called something else. “Vampire Dishonored” sounds fine but it’s not really what I wanted. I’m also very sceptical about Johnny Silverhand “Fabian” and the whole voice-in-your-head trope. We’ll see though.

Mostly I’m sad it likely won’t have the charm of the first game. After his firing we already know it won’t have Brian Mitsoda as the news anchor. I can guarantee you it won’t have Deb of Night. Will we see a Friggen Chicken advert?

The Chinese Room are competent and it sounds okay but I’m sad for what could have been.

Viva New Vegas is such a great community service. It’s incredible what the modders have done with this scuffed ass game over the years. You can get it feeling remarkably modern once you’re done setting up all the mods. God damn you’re making me tempted to fire it up again and fiddle with my mods…

Interesting! I think I was tipped off about this one before but forgot about it. Will bookmark it this time.

Combo button sounds very good to me.

I believe not all apps support showing display names for subs/users. Summit for example only added it relatively recently.

But otherwise yeah, it’s a Lemmy feature and it’s pretty great.

My stalling of Blasphemous continues. Apparently some time saving features - like teleporting between bonfires or getting the good ending while still being able to get rid of guilt - were added in a DLC. You just gotta donate an exorbitant amount of currency to a tithe box that you have no idea the function of without a Wiki. Sigh.

So instead of grinding currency I went back to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to finish the DLCs. Desperate Measures was a huge disappointment honestly. Completely linear, extremely short and just clearly a main story mission shamelessly ripped out and sold separately.

A Criminal Past was an extraordinary DLC however. Solid probably 6-8h playtime, awesome level design, lots of actually impactful choices. The replayability seems high enough that I could definitely see myself going back for another run at some point.

This DLC disables your augmentations at the start, and while I don’t like the “lose all your abilities and equipment” trope (especially since it’s a repeat from the Human Revolution DLC) it didn’t bother me as much here. Probably because I took a substantial break between finishing the main story and coming back, so it didn’t really feel like losing abilities.

Pretty early on the DLC gives you the option of using an item to regain the use of your augs, however, it’s heavily implied that doing so would lead to negative consequences so I abstained. For the most part, this was fine. I was actually extremely impressed by the level design, which was well thought out enough to accommodate stealth without augs… except perhaps for the prison riot. I have no idea how you’re supposed to navigate that unseen and non-lethal without augs. But I probably missed something.

Regardless, it was an awesome experience all told, and continuing the trend from Human Revolution once again a DLC is the best part of the game in the New Deus Exes.

Ooh, I had some fun with 20 Minutes to Midnight back when it first came out. Has there been any major updates? Might be fun to reinstall actually.

The sub changes display name constantly in reference to current events. It’s a great tradition that is part of the fun.

I haven’t, but then again I don’t subscribe to News or Politics communities.

It does actually kind of look like it, but doing it at Lemmy of all places sounds like a bizarre waste of money and time. Don’t think we’re big enough for those kinds of efforts?

I’m with you 100%. Personally I think I even have enough use cases for both depending on mood or the day that I could see myself using both the current behaviour and the toggle behaviour.

Same. I even used to use that as username.

Domus Barista has some reasonably priced single origin coffee that’s more or less priced to be able to be drunk daily. To some extent you get what you pay for, but bang for the buck is pretty high compared to other specialty coffee. I like the Mexico bean the best personally, nice fruity sweet acidity to it.

Otherwise I do enjoy Lavazza the best as a non-specialty coffee brand probably.

Control and Alan Wake 2 also, Remedy flying the AAA banner while holding their artistic head high still.

I haven’t played them but I from what I hear the Batman Arkham games and Insomniac Spider-Man games also count as worthwhile and well-made AAA games.

Could very well be an issue of isolation down the South African deep sea caves messing with my head.

I thought most RTX Remix mods were fan-made and free downloads, which made me confused by you saying you expected this one to be a corpo cash grab.

I brought up the Oblivion Remaster because you ostensibly accused Bethesda of being an example of an RTX Remix cash grab, but I thought that recent remaster was well received, and I don’t know what other Bethesda “RTX Remix” is out there.

Are we talking past eachother?

More or less all of the issues were there from the start. I might have just gotten a lemon, though, like I said. The issues haven’t really gotten any better or worse over time. Except for the one that broke the other day, obviously.

Charging pins might be fucked

I maybe used the wrong terms above but that’s what I meant by cleaning contacts. I think that was swenglish. I’ve cleaned the charging pins with contact cleaner, still wonky. Might just be fucked from the factory though.

Compared to the price and sound quality overall, I knew there would be some tradeoffs but I believe I’ll keep using 1MORE because the competition is just so much more expensive. I was even surprised good earbuds aren’t like 50€, like really, those things are tiny and not super technical

Yeah this is the worst thing tbh. I’m stingy as fuck so I don’t want to put hundreds of euros on earbuds, and when they work the ComfoBuds were great for the price point.

Unironically, this drive prevents something like 90% of players from seeing some of the best moments in the game and inadvertently actively hampers their enjoyment. I don’t only blame the developers though as most player are trained by decades of other RPGs that picking “wacky” dialogue options punishes you.

I think I’ve seen double digit streamers/Let’s Players for example completely miss out on learning about the Pale because “I can’t tell Lena I have no clue about Reality in front of Kim!”.

And the biggest irony of it is that Kim largely doesn’t care, as long as you solve the case thoroughly and don’t behave like a complete asshole (by being racist/fascist/misogynistic for example) you will most likely end up having him truly trust you even despite picking a lot of the completely deranged and unhinged dialogue options.

It’s a weird one because it clearly has its flaws, and looking at it “objectively” it shouldn’t be a 10/10 game. But none of the flaws really affect the impact of the experience as an artwork, so it still feels like a 10/10. Does that make sense?