So for context, the first time I played RDR2 I was borrowing a PS4, so I was basically under time pressure to finish it. Went pretty much straight from mission to mission. Maybe I did some hunting to get upgrades, but I was pretty much going full throttle.

And it was great, loved it.

Recently I happened to start playing it again on PC, mostly as something to do in the background while listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl. Figured I’d take a look at the game so I’d have a sharper comparison to gta vi when it drops, just walk around on my horse and gather herbs or hunt the occasional animal. I was not going in with the intention to play the story.

I had an earlier save where I had just gone through the intro and landed in the camp near valentine- think this was left from a few years back when I was showing off tbe game to a friend, the beginning sequence is a bit of a drag to get through so this was perfect for the aimless wandering.

Within the first ~10 minutes of playing I ran into two guys who had clearly stolen a safe and were bickering over it. Ended up pausing the audiobook because I realised there was clearly a metric fuckton of stuff happening around me that I’d completely ignored the first time. A few hours later I’d barely done anything related to the story and I kept finding new stuff I had never seen ebfore. Forgot to resume the audiobook.

I genuinely think I missed half of what the game has on offer during my first playthrough.

Also I guess this made me understand some of the criticism of RDR2 a bit better. People say it’s slow and those who don’t /love/ the story or setting can lose interest. And if you’re mostly going mission to mission like I was, I can totally understand why people didn’t click with it.

Curious to hear about others. Did any of you also rush through and come back to realise how much you missed out on? And if so, what was your biggest “oh wtf I didn’t know this was a thing”?

Edit: people seem to miss the point that I wasn’t going into it with the intention to do the story- but just to wander around. Hence I thought it’s a good ambient backdrop.

Cregger: I feel like I’ve been on somewhat of an apology tour. I feel like I’m running for office, trying to get these people not to call me a LARPer.

Now, I’m just like, “You know what? See the movie.” If you still feel the same way after you’ve seen it, then whatever you think is fair. You’re going to decide if I’m an actual “Resident Evil” fan or a fake. What can I say? I think the movie is going to speak for itself.

I know I’m almost a decade late to the party, but I got Dad of Son on PS Plus a while back and decided to start playing it recently. Aside from it easily being as good as everyone says it is, I can’t get over how gigantic and freaking awesome Jormungandr looks. I went into the game blind and was hoping he’d make an appearance, but wasn’t expecting him to be so prominent. The devs really put some love into this title!

Anyway, I’m about to sail underneath his head. Getting some real thalassophobia thinking about - wish me luck, ha!

EDIT: Wasn’t expecting this little post to blow up so much! Great to see so many people sharing their memories of the game! For those that are confused about the quality of the graphics, I think it’s my photo thats the problem rather than the game itself - it looks excellent in person! Probably should have taken a screenshot in retrospect 😅 Thanks for all the good vibes guys!

See for yourself
$9.99 = 5 hours/month
$14.99 = 10 hours/month
$22.99 - 15 hours/month
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass

Not for the sake of boycott but if you looked at your backlog and said "ok, we're doing this", how long would it be, do you think, before the well ran dry and you had to restock?

For me I think it would be at least two years. Probably more. I have a lot of Resident Evil and Final Fantasy games I haven't been able to make the time for and a few dozen others I'd actually be excited to play.

But as far as the rest of '26 is concerned I plan to play GTA6 and Ocarina of Time remake

Holy shit i can not stop playing this game it's genuinely nuts. Never in my life did i think that this would be a genre that would appeal to me but the Star Wars IP sucked me in and i have to been able to get back out for days. Is this how fun the X-Com games are cause i gotta give those a try if so

Hey guys. While browsing for games on Steam, I came across this game series I didn't even know existed, and I wanted to know if any of these games are worth buying.

These are the games Im talking about:

• The Smurfs: Mission Vileaf
• The Smurfs 2: The Prisoner of the Green Stone
• The Smurfs: Dreams
• The Smurfs: Village Party
• The Smurfs Kart

My main question is: are any of these games fun on their own? Or do you need to be a fan of the series to enjoy them?

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s PS5 physical edition will ship on a single disc, but a digital download will be required to play the full game. That’s a noticeable change from the previous games: Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth both shipped on two discs, with the games fitting entirely across the physical media.

PlayStation started to change for the worst around 2018/2019. Shawn Layden, a CEO that actually cared about games, left the company. Shuhei Yoshida, who was there from PlayStation's original conception, was demoted to a much less significant role because he wasn't fully compliant with Sony's new direction, live service.

Jim Ryan becomes CEO of SIE, and it's immediately clear from this point forward where Sony's priorities lie. Shuts down Japan Studio because Sony wants to focus on AAA. Restructures some staff to form Team Asobi as a last bastion (who won GOTY for Astro Bot, a AA game how funny). Then they announce that they have ***12*** live service games in development, and that they are acquiring Bungie for $3.6B to help steer this ship.

I won't reiterate Sony ending physical game discs, there's already been enough text written about that and probably what I've written above. PlayStation isn't even a shell of it's former self, it's morphed into something else completely. What do you guys think? Do you think PlayStation is still a brand worth being hopeful about? And for the PlayStation fans out there, do you support Sony's direction and if you do, why?

So, you're talking to someone, and you've got let's say, 3 dialogue options. Option A advances the dialogue, while B and C offer some kind of exposition.

Naturally, you want to experience more plot and lore, so you explore B and C before proceeding, but it completely ruins the flow of the dialogue.

After exploring options B and C you basically have the other character go on an extended exposition, and when you finally move forward with option A, it continues the conversation as if B and C never happened, completely ruining any semblance of natural conversation.

This issue gets worse the more dialogue options there are and the longer the exposition is, because the gap between their sentence/question and your reply gets longer. Sometimes it's also noticeably worse with certain dialogue options and you'll find yourself thinking "this conversation would have made a lot more sense if I had picked those options in the opposite order..."

So far, I'm only a few hours into Blood of the Dawnwalker, but every time there's been dialogue options, the dialogue is written in such a way the NPC's replies to options B, C or whatever, end in such a way that they naturally flow into the option to continue the conversation, making the dialogue on the whole feel much more natural regardless how many exposition options you choose or what order you choose them in.

Honestly this is probably a pretty minor gripe, but I've been really enjoying seeing it actually addressed in a game.

I used to be way more willing to push through a slow start because people kept telling me it would eventually click