Dusting off the ol' account to say: Fuuuuck this. I'm starting to think Blight Club actually is cursed. I knew the Fandom buy would end poorly, but come the hell on, man.
I loved the 8th gen. Not the trends that emerged, per se, it was just a great era of gaming, and desperately welcome after the seemingly neverending 7th gen. I expect similar with the current gen once... y'know, everything... settles down. As it is, it still feels like the PS5 and Series are freshly launched and trying to find their space, so it's hard to predict.
Nope. I like my energy drinks, but I already have my preferred brands. About the only weight the GFuel name carries for me is my enjoyment of Mutahar's GFuel tower. Other than that, no interest.
@shagge: The first two hours is a handholding tutorial. I found it really frustrating. But once your through that it gets much better.
I didn't mind it, but now that I'm in the game proper, it really all comes together beautifully. Haven't had any weird issues since my last post, either. (also, to update on that post, I think the raytracing *is* working, as I caught some reflections that looked too good to be baked in, the art style is just deceivingly simple)
I'm still in the guided tutorial loop (I think... it's weird because there's an explicitly tutorially sequence at the start, but this section is super guided as well, so more of a two-torial?), but this game captured me instantly. The story has me intrigued, the mechanics all feel good as expected from Arkane, and while sometimes it feels almost *too* much like Dishonored, the familiarity does help with the huge mechanics dump at the start. I can't pass judgment this early on, but it starts off extremely strong.
Definitely needs patching, though. On PS5, I was surprised to have two huge mid-gameplay hitches that I thought were going to crash the game. Some minor to moderate graphical glitching as well in a couple of sections (it was very noticeable in the tutorial area, there's one spot where the effect on the water changes drastically as you move the camera, like something is culling way too early). I'm also not convinced that the raytracing is working properly, unless the effect is ultra subtle here... a lot of the lighting feels sort of flat.
It's at the point where I just assume all internet content is sponsored by one company or another, including this reply. But yeah, corporations have absolutely recognized memes as the future of advertising, it's a marketer's wet dream.
I've embraced the "play a game until you no longer want to play it, whether that be 20 hours or 20 minutes in" approach lately, and it's so much nicer. Instead of having a backlog, I simply have options.
@unclejam23: Yeah, I'm finding that videos mash up better, it's bizarre.
And of course, a bit of forethought to BPM and theming helps, like in actual mashups, but the AI gon' do what the AI gon' do, and I'm addicted, haha. I hope there's not a daily upload cap, because this is going to be my whole day now. :P
Edit: True music crime (Big Pun - Still Not A Player x Korn - Play Me) https://rave.dj/lueYfHCbatMUfQ
@unclejam23: Haha, right? I wish I could tweak it juuust a bit to get rid of the vocals running into each other, but holy shit, I actually want to listen to this mashup more than once, can't say that about most of my experiments so far, hahaha. (and yeah, jesus, that video)
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