TIL these games are based on 3E and 3.5E. Neat. I might have to give a remaster a go just for that.

Eh. Well, opinions.

I thought so too after that first trailer, looked really rough. The combat looked absolutely terrible.

They released another trailer awhile ago that seemed drastically improved so I’m moderately interested in the game. I’m not on the edge of my seat and preordering or anything, but I’ll look into it when it releases.

Yeah, I always viewed it as more of a city builder except on Mars. More akin to Cities Skylines than Rimworld. I haven’t played it to be clear, but that’s why- I liked Rimworld, but do not particularly enjoy city builders.

Brighter Shores is interesting, but I think it was too early to really grab me. I think it just needs more time to cook.

Parry and riposte mechanics make me happy. Idk why exactly, but something about timing a parry and making the enemy entirely helpless for the followup is just great.

Yeah sounds about right.

This is the first I’ve heard of this- did Veilguard do badly? I thought it was reasonably popular.

… fuck that’s actually convincing.

Endgame is basically non-existent, it’s literally just grinding the same exact bosses infinitely to fill out collection log or get a specific pet. That’s the entire end game.

A lot of people absolutely love collection logging and pet hunting.

It ain’t for me either, to be clear, but what exactly do you want out of OSRS end game? I can’t really come up with what I’d actually want it to look like.

Yeah. At least OSRS, I’m not as certain about RS3.

Google RSPS- Runescape Private Servers.

I have no idea how much effort it would be, but it’s clearly possible.

iirc it was a bit of a controversy when Epic was newer that they would- without asking- just grab a bunch of information from a Steam install on the same PC. Stuff like your friends list and your play history. They did it by directly looking at local files, too, so it wasn’t even through Steam’s API.

I’ve sort of generally moved over to coop games in general nowadays.

Or even if I’m playing something that’s a versus sort of multiplayer- like Civ- I just try not to focus too much on winning. I’m there for the journey, not the destination. If I end up winning, cool. If I don’t, that’s also cool as long as I had fun along the way.

I will now be that guy:

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