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G2ThaUNiT on 30 September 2022

Damn that new website is hella tight!



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G2ThaUNiT on 30 September 2022

A former BGS dev is praising the team working on Starfield saying the game is coming along nicely. To think we would've been down to just a little over a month before it released.....but my excitement is still at an all time high! Looks like he left BGS earlier this year to work at Deviation Games, but he worked on Starfield for almost 6 years. 



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G2ThaUNiT on 30 September 2022

Watch Google now go out of their way to try to mess up the deal in any way they can despite not even having a presence in the gaming space anymore

I hope the EU regulators point out Google's hypocrisy on the matter. 



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G2ThaUNiT on 30 September 2022
Ryuu96 said:
gtotheunit91 said:

Watch Google now go out of their way to try to mess up the deal in any way they can despite not even having a presence in the gaming space anymore

I hope the EU regulators point out Google's hypocrisy on the matter. 

I think they will, Google complaining is more concerning to me than Sony and Microsoft/Google are much bigger rivals than Microsoft/Sony plus there's definitely some jealously from Amazon and Google in regard to how Microsoft flies under FTC's radar, I could see Google becoming a major pain in the ass to Microsoft. Just to fuck them over.

These CoD arguments are weak, the Cloud argument is stronger and seems to be a main concern for CMA and EU. Google being 3rd and one of Microsoft's main competitors in Cloud will put them in a better position to argue against the deal, they'll probably say some bullshit about how they had to shut down Stadia cause Microsoft's acquisitions drowned them out and they couldn't possibly compete, Azure has a monopoly, blah blah.

As long as Amazon stays out of it though we should be good, Lol. Microsoft vs Google, Amazon and Sony wouldn't be ideal. It's weird that Google went from having no concerns to suddenly having concerns.

They've actually already done something like that. Harrison tried to justify Stadia shutting down their first party studios because of when Microsoft bought Bethesda. This was from a Kotaku article in February 2021. 

The exact quote from the story is, "In his Thursday Q&A with staff, he pointed specifically to Microsoft’s buying spree and planned acquisition of Bethesda Software later this year as one of the factors that had made Google decide to close the book on original game development."

So if Google was blaming Microsoft as to why they shutdown their first party studios, then Google's about to bring the pain

Here's the link: Stadia Leadership Praised Development Studios For 'Great Progress' Just One Week Before Laying Them All Off (kotaku.com)



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DroidKnight on 01 October 2022



...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.

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Barozi on 01 October 2022
konnichiwa said:
Barozi said:

Gotta say I'm quite a bit disappointed with Immortals: Fenyx Rising.

Roughly 4 hours in and I'm not a fan at all of the constant narration by Zeus and Prometheus. The dialogues in general are awful IMO and the game just comes off as being very childish. I'm totally fine with the artstyle but the characters behaviour and humour is totally out of place.

That's far from the only thing that bugs me though. The open world is just sooooo empty. Wow. Obviously no NPCs walking around as they are all petrified for story purposes. Considering this is a Ubisoft game, it also hasn't that many collectibles. While that's not a bad thing, it makes the huge open world feel all the more pointless.

I'm playing on normal difficulty and some enemies have already proven to be incredible damage sponges. I definitely feel kinda underleveled even though it's pretty early in the game and I already upgraded my sword for the first time. Best combat tactic is to walk around looking for stones to throw which does like 10 times the damage of a normal sword hit. The axe is pretty bad too. It can hit multiple enemies and potentially stun them after a few hits (which is kinda pointless because at that time the enemy will already be down to 20% health or less) but it's soooo slow.

So far it feels like an Assassin's Creed rip-off for kids.

I felt the same way at my first 4-5 hours.  But I kept going and really enjoyed it went so far to complete it.

Small tips

- The game has a ton of unlockables and I really recommend to go trough the story for some bit because a ton of unlockables are also coming from the main story quests and are helpfull.
- Their is one missable achievement and considering you are an achievement hunter I recommend to look it up. It is the one that you have to defeat enemies in traps.  Very easy to do but also easy to miss.  (Takes like 5 min of grinding).
- I personally upgraded my sword first to max because then it doesn't feel so spongy anymore maybe even a bit to easy.
- Some trees have amber, I would advise you to be always on the lookout for them when you pass tree (they glow but I guess you know it already). But if you are at the end of the game you can easily grind for them takes 30min or  2 hours.  The game doesn't have enough of them and you need them to upgrade for potions. (Probably will miss around 100 of them at the end) Their is also an armour that gives you 30% extra items but ofcourse you need to find it first and can be late game. 

-If you find those flying enemies annoying if you don't you will later for sure, their is an ability upgrade that you get early on that let you basically like a magnet push to them very usefull.  

My completion time was around 32 hours (all achievements). 

I just passed 32 hours of in game time and I still have to finish 5 myth challenges , find the other half of the mounts, grind for 100+ amber, grind for thousands of crystals (everything but red) to upgrade everything, finish 7 more vaults to get enough of Zeus' Lightning to fully upgrade my stamina and finally finish the final quest.

I don't know how you did it in 32 hours but that is quite a feat.



Angelus on 01 October 2022

This acquisition is gonna be a real drag, isn't it...
Is it too late to go back and buy Eidos and Crystal Dynamics instead?



konnichiwa on 01 October 2022

Honestly if I was Sony I would add 2 points.

- Microsoft can't handle game companies, tons of projects are cancelled/Announced a lot time ago and especially online games are issue just look up Halo Infinite. Well it will not help much but is a nice dig to MS.

-The second more important point that has some value is the use of Military USA propaganda, like the last Halo Infinite Championship showed us MS is not scared to use propaganda with their games. It would be an hard argument for MS to defend and deny.






konnichiwa on 01 October 2022
Barozi said:
konnichiwa said:

I felt the same way at my first 4-5 hours.  But I kept going and really enjoyed it went so far to complete it.

Small tips

- The game has a ton of unlockables and I really recommend to go trough the story for some bit because a ton of unlockables are also coming from the main story quests and are helpfull.
- Their is one missable achievement and considering you are an achievement hunter I recommend to look it up. It is the one that you have to defeat enemies in traps.  Very easy to do but also easy to miss.  (Takes like 5 min of grinding).
- I personally upgraded my sword first to max because then it doesn't feel so spongy anymore maybe even a bit to easy.
- Some trees have amber, I would advise you to be always on the lookout for them when you pass tree (they glow but I guess you know it already). But if you are at the end of the game you can easily grind for them takes 30min or  2 hours.  The game doesn't have enough of them and you need them to upgrade for potions. (Probably will miss around 100 of them at the end) Their is also an armour that gives you 30% extra items but ofcourse you need to find it first and can be late game. 

-If you find those flying enemies annoying if you don't you will later for sure, their is an ability upgrade that you get early on that let you basically like a magnet push to them very usefull.  

My completion time was around 32 hours (all achievements). 

I just passed 32 hours of in game time and I still have to finish 5 myth challenges , find the other half of the mounts, grind for 100+ amber, grind for thousands of crystals (everything but red) to upgrade everything, finish 7 more vaults to get enough of Zeus' Lightning to fully upgrade my stamina and finally finish the final quest.

I don't know how you did it in 32 hours but that is quite a feat.

The mounts are done fast especially when you turn invisible, 30 minutes for half of the mounts. The 100 amber can be done in less than a hour especially with the armour that gives you + 30% chance of an extra item.  You should be done in 5ish hours then. 






konnichiwa on 01 October 2022
Ryuu96 said:

Well that's good news, also almost it to level 100 in the second battle pass, the XP beta thing can't come soon enough.   I really liked Halo's reach approach, you did not had to do the challenges they just gave you some extra credit. I miss scoreattack.