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@someoneproud: As far as FFXVI goes, I'm hopeful for the story, but much less for the gameplay.

Story-wise, the trailers seem to imply a much larger focus on politics and nations at war. Final Fantasy has always been far superior narratively when they choose to do that.

I'm much less optimistic on the gameplay front. What they've shown looks like a generic-as-fuck action game, which tracks pretty strongly with the direction the series has been headed for awhile now. Unfortunately, Square kind of seems to suck at that. It almost always ends up with them making spectacle at the cost of compelling gameplay concepts. People are losing their shit over the scenes of the summons fighting each other like kanji, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that underneath all of that the gameplay will boil down to "mash square to punch."

I got way more interested on the combat once I found out Ryota Suzuki is the combat designer. Dude has Dragons Dogma and DMC 5 under his belt (list also includes some of the best fighting games ever made).

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I enjoyed this game, but it definitely overstays its welcome. The last zones felt like a chore and it doesn't help how completely disconnected most are from the main plotline. Not that the main story is good anyway. Still a great podcast game and I liked some of the characters. The fact that I could finish it already puts it above Rogue.

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Also, I generally hate the right bumper/right trigger melee combat, I found Immortals a miserable experience in large part because I couldn’t feel comfortable with the controls. But here I’ve getting by just fine with the default controls.

I was kinda annoyed they didn't follow Odyssey giving you the option to swap control presets. First thing I did was lookup if someone put the time into remapping to a more traditional layout. Found a pretty good one on Reddit.

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Plex uses very little resources if your streaming without transcoding. I just took a small Dell from my office after a migration, it has a i5-3470s and 8GB ram. Attached a couple of external WD Red drives to it. Does fine on my home network with two blu-ray quality simultaneous streams, especially since I rarely have need for transcoding. If you expect a lot of transcoding, then a beefier CPU will be required (still no need for expensive high-end though). A CPU with integrated graphics might save you the need to buy a GPU.

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I really want things to work out for Anthem. There's a lot of fun in the Ironman aspect of it for me and who knows when we'll get anything like that again. The revival was set to fail from the start though with how small that team is and the pandemic on top of that. Seemed more like PR move to lessen the blows, instead of EA actually putting the needed resources into it.

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Use to like Doug but went back and saw its kinda corny, same with ninja turtles, the mask, Animaniacs, Beetlejuice looney tunes are ok, etc. Loved a lot as a kid.

This is why I don't go back and watch stuff. Went back to Transformers G1 and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as an adult and immediately realized my mistake. My childhood memories betrayed me big time.

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Looking at the Gamespot article they're making a lot of gameplay changes to ME1, which is my favorite of the three. Guess I'll be buying this after all.

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Honestly the constant social outrage has made me desensitized and overall watered down a lot of the impact words like racism used to hold for me as a black man. Admittedly I was never particularly sensitive to these issues. So I guess a lot of the things considered problematic in the game don't register with me.

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A couple of hours into it and I'm not liking the combat nearly as much as I did Odyssey. Also the skill tree padded with all the point something percentages kinda sucks (not to even mention the fog). I'm enjoying the setting though.

This game doesn't have mercenaries hunting you and interrupting what could be a perfect stealthy run through an enemy base, does it? Asking for a friend.

How was that even an issue for you? The bounties are super cheap and could be paid at any moment to make them walk away.

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You kinda get that with the Atlantis dlc for Odyssey, but I feel like their reliance on mythological gods as Isu counterparts has somewhat confined their creativity.

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@bigsocrates: To be fair to Origins, Knight was also unplayable for a lot of people on PC at release and WB had to give full refunds. It ran like absolute trash for me until the patches. Personally the batmobile made strong positive reaction at first, but then it just outstayed it's welcome. It felt like they came up with a great mechanic, but then proceeded to cram it anywhere they could. I was already kinda laughing early on when you had to drive across roofs to go do a puzzle with your tank.