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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Slay the Spire is incredible but sometimes I feel like I don't fully understand it, even though I have won multiple runs.

    Slay the Spire is incredible but sometimes I feel like I don't fully understand it, even though I have won multiple runs.

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  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    So, at some point I would like to explain my review system, because my wife constantly harps on me for being too harsh with my scores. like, FFT and XCOM Enemy Within are 9/10 games for me, and...

    So, at some point I would like to explain my review system, because my wife constantly harps on me for being too harsh with my scores. like, FFT and XCOM Enemy Within are 9/10 games for me, and they're both on my top games list.

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  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    The voice recordings were great, I just felt like after Alex locked me in Deep Storage until I reopened all of the locked doors, the game was very tedious. Maybe I missed some logical way to do...

    The voice recordings were great, I just felt like after Alex locked me in Deep Storage until I reopened all of the locked doors, the game was very tedious. Maybe I missed some logical way to do whatever I want. I really liked the lore when it came to history, but I felt like they added some things that tried to make the world feel more "Alive" and it was just boring. I don't know how to describe my feelings I guess.

    The only combat abilities I really bought were typhon skills, health, and psi, only because it was more annoying to babysit those resources if I ran into invisible flames; I didn't take anything that increased damage that didn't increase CC really. The game basically drowned me in grenades and ammo resources.

    The skill tree check was "how you proceed through the game" for me. The ending difficulty spike was absolutely negligible if you used emp grenades and hacked the enemies.

    I actually really liked the main plot more than anything, but I felt like System Shock and Deus Ex did it better, maybe I'm just a different gamer than I was when I first played those games.

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  4. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I have been playing Prey (2017) and it has given me a lot to think about with how I interact with modern game design. I love the concept of "Play your own way" advertised in the game, but really,...

    I have been playing Prey (2017) and it has given me a lot to think about with how I interact with modern game design. I love the concept of "Play your own way" advertised in the game, but really, it feels like it's more akin to "Play based on your skill point path (or lack thereof) and the challenge proceeds from there".

    After about 16 hours into my play through I have realized a few things, and maybe this is a reflection of what I want out of games and not the game itself:

    1. Why am I essentially an engineering intern performing chores for like 4 hours? I get that I can read books of "lore", but I am uninterested in your home brew D&D campaign and it's rules. I know I can skip this, but the 4 hours of chores makes me feel obligated to engage with something, or else I'm just doing busy work.

    2. Realizing that the "multiple routes" don't actually make the experience more fun. Maybe this would benefit me if I had a self imposed challenge, or was the type of person to replay games, but I am essentially checking out every route at the same point.

    3. the game wants you to play in a "correct way" (the same flaw I saw with the Dishonored games, I don't want to call it good and bad though), but is way more fun mechanically to engage with the "not correct way", in which I get achievements for being a terrible person (but good for science!).

    4. I started this blind play through on the Nightmare difficulty with all survival options on, and I still feel like I am given unlimited resources to do with as I please.

    I thought I was going to be coming into a game that would be more of a brain twister, I guess this is what fans of the immersive sim genre had lead me to believe. I am having fun, but that comes from ignoring what the game wants me to do, rather than engaging with it. I do like the sci-fi aspects of the game though. As of right now I would give it 6.5/10, definitely worth one play through, I'm hoping the ending makes up for it, and I am kind of excited to try Mooncrash, which seems to be focused on the game mechanics.

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