GirlVersusGame

I've been playing since 2024's Early Access, it's gone through a lot of changes since then but this one is really big. I'm definitely running a new playthrough. Awakening will make a big difference too, I need my pals to be Godly.

That was day one, my first pal and my first home. I played all day and night, good memories.

I already game on both, PC mainly for the Mods and the forever games I enjoy do benefit greatly from player created content. I'll buy day one simply because I can, if I couldn't then I wouldn't. I do buy physical to preserve but that goes for retro too so I'll just redirect my efforts to even more retro games. I'm not giving up on a brand that gave me my start in gaming, even-though I don't agree with the direction they've decided to go but life is short and I game for fun, I'll continue to do that regardless of the outcome. Gaming gives me something that none of my other hobbies do, I can't put a price on that. But I understand that others can and do.

@Northern_munkey You know what's funny, when those games did vanish for everyone I was going to say the same thing but forgot how to spell their name. I checked online and all I could find was Bozo. Mine eats shoes, belts, gun holsters, camera pouches, cello bows and people. Then feigns death to escape the consequences. Those white tiny pieces were a book he ate, then he lay down acting like he was dead.

He's been doing it since day one and I don't know where he learned how to do it. I think he sees collectibles as rivals, it's always things I like, maybe I'll try him with an Xbox game. The one I had before him was ex-military, he'd push me out of the way with his back if someone made a sudden movement then turn and down them with one grab to the arm, he was really big too but people were too scared of him so I learned to shoot instead. As far as I can remember he never chewed anything up that wasn't his.

Back home the threat of having things eaten comes from bears. I'd once left chocolate in a vehicle then gone back inside. A couple of minutes later I heard gun fire so I went to the window and saw the guys shooting into the air. Bears have a real sweet tooth and amazing sense of smell. They tear through vehicles like they are nothing, they were trying to scare it off. When I moved to England I couldn't understand why you didn't have bears. It was the countryside too so I spent weeks just waiting to see one, you are missing out they are beautiful creatures, friendly too, sometimes.

I might as well share this, I noticed it after talking to Bear earlier today. One screenshot was taken the day before the bug, now I'm missing thirty-five games including Tomb Raider, Jesus Simulator (yes they took Christ and he wasn't physical) I have no idea what else, I went through a list with Bear and most of their games that were missing weren't missing on my profile. Those were physical too.

I'll try For the King 2. It looks like a mix between Unicorn Overlord and Soulstone Survivors (same engine probably) it seems to have gotten quite a few updates. I like the sound of the chaos meter too, it increases the difficulty over time. I saw a lot of reviewers saying they thought they were getting a calm cosy game, when really they were being murdered by goblins, which sounds great. A lot of the bad reviews seem to be about the difficulty, and the grind, the RNG too. Most reviews cite it as looking like a cosy game but playing as a much harder game. Sounds like it might be a good companion for some audiobooks.

@Mrmarshall53 You probably don't hear it a lot but your country is beautiful and so are the people. I've been a couple of times and everyone is extremely welcoming but like many places people who've never been fallback on hearsay and fearmongering. It's easy to forget that gamers in topical parts of the world turn to gaming to escape governments, regimes and events that they don't always support. I don't think Sony are capable of dealing with the red tape, I understand that from a business point of view but in my opinion people who are unaffiliated have no excuse for ignorance. Have a nice day and I hope things are looking up for you.

@Oram77 Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, The Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d’ Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marini, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, The Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

When I was living in Albania every game I bought was a physical import, Sony kept detecting my VPN. While visiting Egypt recently it flagged my account and it took two-weeks until I could make purchases again. Most of it was either diplomatic/business but time and time again I ran into problems outside of the UK/EU and still do. It's actually why I started playing the Switch and Steamdeck so much, sanctions also affected my second main account, but that's obvious. Most Russian gamers I know VPN their way through it but being out of the region is costing Sony a lot of wasted revenue and now we have State sanctioned piracy too. 80 to 100 million gamers, that's a lot of people and a lot of physical imports. We're a black market economy so they can't really track the numbers but everyone on my other network is VPN'ing the PSN/Xbox/Etc and the stores are stocked with physical imports.

Even in Monaco for the Grand Prix I couldn't use my Portal and when I did get it to work it wouldn't recognize the DLC, so back to the Steamdeck. Geneva was similar, I had to keep restoring licenses. It could also be that my account constantly travels as I do and it looks suspicious so Sony flag it. Either way I don't think I'll be supporting Sony much once the PS6 lands, maybe I'll increase my retro efforts instead. It's not the price it's the principle, regions, restrictions, controlled media, just let people play the games they want to play. A German gamer shouldn't need to buy Dead Island on a UK account to get red blood and some removable limbs. I want to support Sony because they were my first introduction to gaming, but at the same time I'm not sure if I should.

Good, they deserve the backlash.

@MrPeanutbutterz Privet (yo in Russian, it's been a while since I talked to you I hope you've been keeping well)

But at the same time, they're effectively the only gaming retailer left in Ireland. - That's exactly how it felt the last time I was there. Grafton Street had hardly anything even close to a video-game. I was in Pakistan recently and it was game stores everywhere, they had a huge building with many floors dedicated to games and so much retro too, stacked to the ceiling. They told me that most of those stores started when VHS and CDs were smuggled in from the UAE (the 90s) followed by games, games took over and they sell massive volumes of physical because of it. There were so many children running around and they knew more about Sony games than I did. Every new/current game was a physical import. Much like me they learned a lot of their English from games, movies and music, all which get censored or blocked digitally.

Even in Afghanistan I saw game stores and the country was Taliban run, games were everywhere. Iraq was similar, I bought so many PS2 games for my collection and any new games were physical imports. I didn't see any in Syria and didn't venture outside in Lebanon so I don't know what the state of gaming is like there currently. All of these countries hardly exist to people outside of the UK/EU market and so many gamers are paying/playing to escape an often awful reality. They have no PSN, physical is their everything. But I go from London to Dublin and games seem extinct, retail as a whole felt so nerfed?

I thought you might already be getting hammered with prices after Brexit but wasn't sure, I had a look at Smyths and their games seem to be fairly priced, many better than their PSN counterparts so I can see why they might hold that monopoly. I'm not sure what pricing will do to Ireland if PSN only.

Impulse buying is a big part of offline shopping along with a child saying 'buy me this game please!' and then there's Santa/Christmas. Are people going to hand a child a piece of paper with a code on it? The whole thing feels so sterile and lifeless. There's so little room for nostalgia, gifting, or those famous midnight launches if those are even still a thing. Obviously GTA6 won't be getting one.

I've heard so many people say they found gaming by being handed down a console and box of games too, it sounded so wholesome and like it should be. I know some people see the benefit of convenience, I see the removal of a very human element, along with a move to enforce brutal price control, content control per-region, censorship, it's not that easy to VPN the PSN.

I have my tricks for Moscow but I've been caught before and almost lost that account. It's the same for many countries now, I'm constantly playing musical chairs with VPNs and other tricks. Constant travel has shown me how much of the world depends on physical. And all of that is without getting into Sony's ToS concerning non-transferable license (i.e. what happens when a person dies and that ownership/content dies with them) Companies like Apple have been removing the content/purchases of people who they knew died. People aren't looking at Digital Legacy, there are so many moving parts to an all digital future.

@MrPeanutbutterz You've mentioned the retailer Smyths a number of times, would you say they depend heavily on the physical market or is it just something they do on the side? I'm asking because you did work in a game store and if anyone knows how this could affect a retailer you might? Where do people buy physical in your country now? The last time I was there I saw nothing even resembling a game store.

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All listed have either no PSN availability, limited availability or depend completely on the shipping of physical imports. Sony get a percentage of each disc sold, they might save money by not printing discs, cases nor paying for distribution but they still make a lot of money off of the import market. I'm constantly traveling and I've seen all kinds of games banned, restricted of censored for all kinds of reasons, without a physical market the media people consume will be severely affected and even more tightly controlled by governments. At the same time ratings boards like the German USK have gotten a lot stricter on censorship forcing people to import even within the EU.

I might try For the King II, I never heard of it before and that's pretty much what I use Plus+ for, finding those lesser known titles. It's a shame it doesn't seem to have settlement management but we'll see. I'm sure someone wanted to play the (new?) Call of Duty, more power to them and CrossCode sounds interesting but I'm not crazy about puzzle games.

They'll make it easier for me stop supporting Sony made games and go fully in with Indies. If I have to buy digital games I want to focus my efforts on studios who deserve it. I'll probably spend more time PC gaming too. I never thought my physical PS4/PS3/PS2 and PS1 libraries would overtake my PS5 one so quickly but apparently here we are.

It's a really bad move for preservation, not to mention the regions who do depend on physical imports for whatever reason. I wonder how this will affect physical retailers too. And then there's the eradication of competitive pricing. They are making it far too easy to play elsewhere, I'd genuinely start collecting Xbox games, unless they are also going digital. Preservation for me is not about the price, the platform only the principle. I've seen too many countries ban or restrict games, physical was their only option.

Edit: My Girlfriend who isn't even a gamer just sent me this, if she already knows about this? Then this story is probably blowing up. We never talk games, I don't even know how it came up on her radar. And Sony expect to sell a new console while doing this? Good luck to them.

@psmr Did you play the Playstation one game? I did a while ago, it wasn't bad. There were limited copies for the UK, a truckload of units destined for various retailers was hijacked that Christmas and they never shipped enough to make up for it. A lot like the Splatoon hijacking, neither trucks were ever recovered. I was really looking forward to this new game especially if it was sticking to the original 1998 and Guillermo del Toro feel and not Trinity or that awful Sticky Fingaz Blade that was even more of a crime than Wesley Snipes tax evasion.

@Northern_munkey I know Stage Fright well and the same director (Michele Soavi) did a movie in 1989 that though cheesy did genuinely terrify me. Argento wrote the screenplay. It was called The Church and one from the Demons series. The whole movie is crazy and really dreamlike, it sort of slowly pulls you in and makes you question up from down. It provided me with my first ever jump scare too. There's a scene where a demon smashes through a window and I didn't sleep for days. I think England banned it. I know The Vatican tried to ban it and only ended up condemning it.

The box on the left is the original UK cut that went through the BBFC and had a very limited release. The right is the revised Dvd cut, also for the UK. Even the tagline changed from 'it will make you squirm' to 'you haven't got a prayer', I prefer the original.

I like a lot of Soavi's work, especially Cemetery Man. I never really got into Lucio Fulci's work, I prefer the supernatural not so much gorey zombis. The exception being the remake of Night of The Living Dead, which a lot of people haven't seen, or know of. It was directed by Tom Savini (Sex Machine from From Dusk Till Dawn) and stars Tony Todd (Candyman) he's created so many practical effects for so many horror movies, it feels like a real passion project and most likely was. I think Argento stuck because his themes and expert crafting can sometimes be applied to reality. Tenebrae is a perfect example, it highlights the darker side of human nature. I could say the same thing about Deep Red and like Suspiria it features Globlins on the score. I think Suspiria made such an impact because it reflected what I thought my time in finishing school was, I didn't have the words for it, then I saw that movie and 'well obviously they were witches'. It was more than just a movie with beautiful visuals and a perfect score, it was really cathartic.

@Northern_munkey I never heard of Neon Maniacs, it looks to have the same writer as Pumpkinhead, I'll add it to the list thanks. I've heard legends of English attics, of treasure, you just proved it.

@Balaam_ Thank you, I like to try to track-down factory sealed horror too which is easy for USA tapes but harder for UK/EU. America has a huge VHS collectors market but their cases are cardboard so I don't want them. I can't really collect Russian that much because everything has always been bootleg, I prefer the genuine thing. I started with Disney like most collectors then moved onto sci-fi and once I landed on horror I never stopped. The original box-art is beautiful and it's quickly vanishing with 4K releases using newly developed art that pops but feels artificial (sorry Ravix)

Not a great picture, it's from when we were talking about movie collections on the forums. One of my favorite movies of all time is Suspiria, I have it on every format but always go for VHS. The same for The Devil Rides Out, an old and great Hammer Horror movie. I wasn't allowed horror growing up, I've made up for it now.

The weirdest movie related was for your consideration tapes from the Academy Awards, those were my thing for a while. Tapes they'd show the judging panels, many of those tapes made their way into collector circles. I still have the original Spiderman reel Sony ordered to be destroyed after 9/11. I can't find another in the world and I've looked. It's the original promo that featured the towers and the helicopter being webbed between each. It couldn't be screened.

I didn't really understand preservation until I saw books and movies being banned and destroyed in my own country, that's a part of preservation most people won't even experience. It made me more determined. All it takes is a service or App to leave or be blocked and it's all gone. There are ways around everything of course but this way just feels right, digital never does. There's nothing to hand down, one day I'll be gone and I'd rather see my books go to a library, not vanish into some online abyss.

I think also children learn from tactile things, if I did have a child I'd prefer to hand them a game box, let them read it, take in the art, then fire the game up. Tactile things and physical media create a discussion. With digital services I just scroll and end up watching nothing, it happened with Netflix again yesterday. I switched VPNs five times and still found nothing. Then I wonder what happens if you want to watch something specific for the sake of nostalgia and you can't find it on any subscription, take for example @Northern_munkey do you still have a physical copy of C.H.U.D lurking around? or have you not seen it in years?

And this is why I'm so adamant about physical, BluRay, Dvd, Vhs, I'll never stop focusing on physical over digital. It really is the difference between owning something tangible and being at the mercy of a service, a system or a server. From my cold dead hands.

It's also very satisfying to look at a wall of movies, games, books and so on, I don't get that by browsing Netflix, just a lot nothing that I'll never watch and then with everything else? it's all on some kind of unseen timer, here one day gone the next. I even collect cinema reels.

None, I can wait.

@Fishmasterflex96 Okay thanks, I have it but haven't gotten to it yet.

@ShadowRJ What's the Alan Wake 2 route?

@MrZurkonKeelYou This a really good point, I wasn't sure if it was lost in translation but then you said what I was thinking. Time will tell.

I'm there for Way of The Hunter 2, the first game had a really rocky console launch. It took them weeks to fix it but I'm excited for the second one. The series filled the gap once Hunter Call of The Wild moved away from hunting and into fishing which I have zero interest in. I do a lot of real life shooting (not animals) and it's impressive how accurate Way of The Hunter managed to tackle realistic handling and ballistics. I'm curious to see how they improve on shot placement and trajectory too. Shot review is a great way to improve on aim, I have faith that they'll get it right this time.

The thumbnail alone sold me on the game. It reminds me of retro box-art where they present the player with enough visuals to make them want to go over there, see that, do this, I'm really intrigued by all of those little details. And that's without even watching the trailer.

Day one. I was always going to buy one and packaging the 2TB model with a controller makes it easier for me to do it all in one swoop. The Steamdeck was the same. Either way I like collecting new technology, this is no exception.

Both of my accounts are fixed now. @BearsEatBeets @Th3solution It might be worth checking your accounts when you get a chance.

@AdamNovice You're welcome, I tried to follow it first with the original Japanese voice acting then had to restart the game. I probably wouldn't have liked the series as much had it not been for the DLC, it's one of those rare perfect pieces of content. If they remastered the first game I'd buy it just for Bitterblack Isle, it might be my favorite setting of any game. The enemies and bosses are part of that corrupted lore too, all Dark Arisen, just in different forms.

@AdamNovice They might be tying it back to the madness from Bitterblack Isle, the cycle of tragedy. I don't know that everyone played the original DLC but it's explained through the Daimon, I'm avoiding spoilers and hoping it carries on from Bitterblack Isle. I don't think they ever said how many Arisen were lured to the island, it may be centuries worth. If that were the case they'd all be Dark Arisen, due to the endless corruption. I played the DLC last year, it had a lot of lore. They could be expanding on all of those original fallen heroes, they were all Dark Arisen, at least once they went over to the dark side and rejected the order. Play the DLC if you haven't, it's up there with Blood and Wine.

@Ajbr8687 Defeat 3000 Milk Elementals in Vampyre Survivors. I had to stop playing it's too addictive.

@MidnightDragonDX I like early theories like that either way, sometimes people get it right. I'm just glad my games are still there. I've lost accounts before and it took weeks to even remember what games I'd had because so many were random purchases and without playing them there were no trophies to check for the listing.

@MidnightDragonDX That doesn't seem right for either of my accounts, both have Russian names and are quite long. One is a UK account, the other is elsewhere and it's the same problem.

There's a before and after, and yes that's over nine-thousand hours on Minecraft. I know the meme, I never turn my Minecraft server off. It's been running for years clocking up hours.

Both of my profiles are blank now, BearEatsBeets just said the same thing too. My trophies are there, the actual games I bought too but when I check recently played it says 'You don't have any games yet, visit the PS Store to get started'. It seems to just be affecting that page, all of my actual games aren't gone.

I ran into all kinds of trouble and people online well before the age of sixteen and that kind of thing stays with you for life but I never blamed my government, regulation, politicians and so forth. Bans don't protect children, there are ways around every system. All it will do is annoy adults, advocates for free speech and create an opportunity for anyone willing to help get around those checks. I don't know about social media, I was never allowed it, I mean online gaming. All I've heard was negativity about social media, I'm not sure if I missed much and have no desire to find out.

Kingdom Come Deliverance is one of the best games ever made, it's slow and a little clunky (combat/armor) but it's extremely rewarding. The writing is fantastic too, it has a kind of edge that not many studios seem to capture. @Ravix tried for months to talk me into playing it, absolutely no regrets.

And it's beautiful.

@Ravix I don't think I've heard the actual television character speak, I saw only season one of Game of Thrones, I didn't like the end so I tried a different show instead. The game has dragon in the name, she has baby dragons in all of those pictures so that was my choice. For Taylor Swift I was probably listening to her at the time. For the first game either the character creator wasn't that in-depth or I rushed mine just to play, I used a big hat so it mustn't have been great. The armor is really similar, and that move is the one I used for most of that island, I don't remember getting far without magic. The best way I could describe it would be is the first time you play the original Demon's Souls on PS3, it hurts, it feels unfair but there's room to grow into the pain and then the pain feels great. That might be why I liked it so much, it was really difficult. I died so much on the island, I usually collect up a warehouse of consumables in most games, for the DLC I kept using wakestones.

It looks like I played it on PS5, I don't remember any performance issues.

I can't remember the story for the first game only that it ended just as fast as the second one. As soon as I felt like I'd started questing the credits rolled, I had to check that I hadn't spaced out for a couple of hours while the pawns played the game for me.

The DLC with the island was better than the main game, it didn't even seem like that big of a location but there was something really addictive about how they put it together. I remember farming something to trade with an NPC at the entrance and I think they dropped from bosses. I know I never beat Death, I haven't beaten him in Vampire Survivors either, he shows up and I'm dead. I didn't beat the boss at the end of the Dark Arisen DLC either, I didn't want to use someone else's pawns to do it and mine kept dying. The bosses themselves were really well designed, I think you'd appreciate the aesthetics. It's darkly decadent, very Fromsoft too.

As far as I can remember you can't go to that island until you are a certain level so you'd have to do the story. It's harder than the second game too, bandits seem weak but they aren't and that's what killed me the most. I have a clear memory of going left after the starter town and being frequently murdered, so maybe don't go left.

I'm not sure if it was NG+ I'll see if my trophies give any kind of a clue. I'm missing 'complete the adventure a second time', I must have gone straight to the DLC after the story. I didn't reach level 200 or finish speed-run mode either, but really who has. If the main game is open and focuses on those vast landscapes the island is best described as darker, tighter, restricted (pathways do open) it's a lot like what I said about Control, a dream for an agoraphobic. Just talking about it makes me want to play it again, the only downside is constantly being stalked by Death, that's a nightmare for anxiety, once you balance the two it becomes highly playable. Just run when you hear the toll of a bell, when you start to hear the whispers it might be too late.

@Ravix I'm also ready with my Khalessi and Taylor Swift. Though I'll probably delete my save and run through the game and DLC fresh, it's going to be hard to beat the previous Dark Arisen DLC. I have faith so we'll see.

@Onearmbandit Stranded Deep can really make or break a person. I remember setting off once with the biggest raft to date, all of my containers were carefully stacked, every item I had was on that raft, I'd found a new island and it was perfect for a new base so I was headed there to relocate. It was all going great until I fell overboard and watched as that raft and everything I had sailed off without me. There was no catching up. It took maybe forty minutes to swim back to the original island and even finding it was a fluke. I think it's the only game where I had to draw a map of the islands myself, I played without a compass. I lost Wilson that day too and was left with a pet rock for company.

That was the last time I saw him.

The mistake was putting an engine on my raft, once I fell overboard it shot off like the Fast and Furious. I'm there day one if they ever make a second game.

@Northern_munkey Oh I enjoyed the difficulty, even went for one hundred percent. It was one of the hardest and most janky survival games I've played and became the kind of foundation for future survival games. I can't think of any other game that really pushed me harder to just live. Finally setting up a base in the forest was a really rewarding experience, the desert was just a brutal hellscape and those hyenas were such an obstacle. The real game began further into the map. I have a real soft spot for that game, it was a first for so many things, the first time I died by having my own base fall on me (structural stability) the first time I was raided by other players, the first time I heard a grown man rage and lose it, the first time I heard a controller hit a wall (then saw the remains) it broke so many people. In the end I was the last of my clan to leave the game, I think we went to Day-Z after that but Conan is full of memories for me, Ark was around the same time.

One thing that will always stand out about Conan was what my friends did when I'd log off, they'd move items and storage around, for weeks. I'd come back on and think 'I could have sworn I put this somewhere else'. Then it escalated to removing parts of a wall, hiding items and I thought another clan had raided us, so we went to war with them and they were as confused as I was. I was convinced they'd been breaking the treaty and taking my things, it's still funny thinking of it now.

@Onearmbandit You might like Raft if you like Grounded. It's a lot more forgiving than games like The Long Dark, Stranded Deep and the ones you mentioned. Abitioc Factor too, which I think I mentioned before, easily one of the best survival games I've played. It's really balanced and most of the jank has been ironed out.

@FinneasGH Congrats, now you get to play through it again with the new update that just launched. They added randomized nodes, higher requirements for the space elevator, trucks that can carry liquids, improved vehicle pathing, and more. I'll probably start fresh for the randomized nodes, I know the map too well all the way back from early access.

Feeling three hundred pounds of pressure while trying to keep my feet in motion (when you know you know) The announcement at State of Play was just the nudge I needed to finally finish both games, I'd love for them to land on Plus+ so everyone can relive them.

Just like Tokyo Xtreme Racer I'd forgotten that Stuntman had DVD extras like the making of and an interview with Vic Armstrong the stunt coordinator for many mainstream movies like James Bond and Indiana Jones, I don't know if he's involved in the new game but it's doubtful. The Youtube channel called Zippyduda uploaded all of the DVD extras if anyone is curious. It's such a unique series, I'd been hoping for a remaster or a remake but never expected it to happen. Fingers crossed for Driver.

Other than that I'm getting some more work done on my most recent Rimworld colony. It's been an interesting playthrough so far and I'm really liking how my new mountain base is coming along. I just have to work on the always inside debuff and then they'll all be happy and more productive. Mountains naturally provide strong defenses, I haven't used them much before now.

Years later and the game still manages to surprise me with unexpected developments. It must have been all of that time working together, producing completely harmless candy. I'm not sure what the odds were but those two hooked-up out of fifty other colonists. I imagine a marriage proposal will be next. Followed by Kim throwing a tantrum and either breaking something important or trying to unalive Jessie. Either way it will end in tears, violence or both, such is the game. That's about it, happy gaming weekend Folks.

@Northern_munkey I was thinking Conan when I saw the desert part and the dragon but I've been trying to erase that biome from my memory. Those hyenas at the start are still to this day one of the most brutal enemies I've faced in any survival game. I don't know when you played it last, or if they were patched but they would lock-on then chase me from one end of the desert to the next. It was like that scene in Blues Brothers where the State police join in with the local police, more and more hyenas. I know so many people who quit before they reached the forests, and mainly because of hyenas. Without masochism there was no finishing that game. There were a lot of funny moments too, but those hyenas wanted to watch the world burn.

@Werehog Two of your favorite things Sonic, and Godzilla.

I'll definitely be trying it for the survival aspects and the base-building, the visuals look beautiful too they remind me of No Man's Sky. It's definitely not a colour starved palette, it ticks all of the boxes for my kind of game.

I'm there for that newly announced Palworld update. I've been looking for a reason to get back into the game.

I genuinely thought this 'Tupac game' was a windup from Ravix in chat. I only caught the last twenty or so minutes of the show and the odds of a Tupac game being real aren't all that high, but apparently here we are.

Mixed feelings, I love open-worlds but Spiderman 2 had one and there was so little to do there there. What was there felt completely inconsequential. Those drone bird things were such a waste of time. In the previous game and in Myles Morales showing up to events gave me the opportunity needed to test new unlocks. Spiderman 2 felt like side content was so toned down, there wasn't even the tapping of a button to stop a car, it was automatic. Instead I focused more on the story which wasn't great (until the second half) then thinks got gritty/raw and brilliant. If Wolverine is gritty/raw and brilliant from start to finish? then an open-world is a small sacrifice to make for a memorable experience. I'd imagine he already has abilities unlocked? those claws and hairy arms, I don't see what else he needs.

I don't in any other games that offers the feature but I might this time, I just hope they don't add an option to remove his hairy arms.

@SuperSilverback Maybe it's Eclectic Paganism, it was an accepted belief long before Monotheism and then other religions separated that blending of deities to reinforce their separation of people in the physical. I haven't played the God of Wars game but if it features the Romans or Ancient Greeks? then it's most likely Eclectic Paganism. Back then those deities were known to share space, but not physical space as we see it. Like many things other emerging religions and events caused that separation, if the game is mixing those pantheons it's honoring the older ways. Historical Syncretism is really interesting but quite buried now, I haven't seen it in a game before but have read many books about it.

@DennisReynolds At first I thought it was a new Outward game, I'm tempted to try it.