Video Game General

@Jarkes  
COTM is Classic Castlevania, and ROTN is Metroidvania Castlevania.

Speaking of Bloodstained, do you have to have played the previous game in order to understand what’s going on in this one? Or is it like Castlevania, where the games are mostly independent of each other?

@Silent_Witness  
the other game is a completely different story, they are not connected at all, beyond using the same characters,

Played the Iceborne beta. Was gud.

I played a bit of PoE. Got the last two companions, including Maneha, a character Thanotos would bend over for. I also completed some more DLC quests, and since the DLC is relatively compact, I don’t need to worry about spending too much time travelling between locations. Good so far, and since I plan on beating both DLCs (the second part takes place after the first part since they take place in the same village) before continuing the main story, I expect to be quite a high level and be able to take on whatever the third and final acts will throw at me.

@Mikey  
So, a sequel? Or a suspiciously similar offspring?

@PonyPon  
I’m guessing a game with the series’s mindset.

Now that Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled is released worldwide, there is going to be added content for post-launch. New additional tracks, Tawna, Trophy Girls, Baby T-Rex, Baby Crash, Baby Coco, and characters from Spyro the Dragon.

I think some people are turned off by Dark Souls because of its reputation as a really hard game.
 
It’s not that hard. As long as you don’t do anything stupid, you should be fine.

The amount of fake outrage against Cyberpunk 2077 just makes me more inclined to preorder the game out of spite.

@Mikey
 
The only thing that I could ACTUALLY understand people getting mad about would be how apparently they’ve started “non-mandatory crunch”, and the way the CDPR guy talking about it described it basically sounded like guilt-tripping.

@Jarkes  
I know about that and crunch is horrible but that’s why the industry needs to be unionized.  
I’m talking about some shit a rock paper shotgun article said about the game being transphobic and racist even after Mike Pondsmith who defended the game who’s pen paper RPG CDPR is basing the game on.

@Mikey
 
Oh yeah, that was stupid. What surprised me the most about that one is that even the folks whom I would normally see deliver some ridiculous hot takes about that sort of thing were calling that article out.

@Mikey  
Yup.

So it seems my earleier comment about Bloodstained being a bit unfinished was an understatement, especially on the Xbox version. The Xbox version is a patch behind the other versions and wont be getting the update till next week, I would strongly advise waiting till then to buy it on Xbox. The Xbox version is missing several end game items added into the patch, and a lot of the materials for creating the most powerful weapons in game. There’s also a potentially gamebreaking bug involving chest not containing the right items, this can make it impossible to continue the story with a save file forever. Luckily I didn’t encounter that problem in my game, but I do seem to be missing some other semi-important items from chest.

Played a bit more PoE. Decided to complete half the main quests of the first DLC (the DLC has four main quests, one needing two of them completed before it can be finished) and some of the side quests. I want to fully explore the area needed to progress the main story of the first act of the DLC, as well as the area in the DLC that I have never travelled to yet. I also learn of a merchant in the base game area who sells soulbound weapons, so I plan on going back to grab them tonight.

@Jarkes  
Many people are to eager to jump on CDPR treatment of workers things than any other studio.

@Meanlucario  
Corporations say they’re people. Now it can be proven. Texas, please execute EA. And Wilson, while you’re at it.

@ExtreVile  
Oh no..the baby characters are invading Crash now. What’s next, Pink Gold Coco?

I may not like hes playing style on fighting games, but Holy damn captain americas theme on Marvel super heroes VS street fighter is Just ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING <3

@Meanlucario  
Oh piss off EA.
 
 
@DreamSoda  
Beenox is not going to do that, although they’re still planning more post-launch content.

@ExtreVile  
Apparently Epic Games is on EA’s side in this case.

@Meanlucario  
And they can piss off too.