Daezuel
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Rabbit_Games
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Hekotat
FoH nuclear response team
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TheBeagle
JunkiesNetwork Donor
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I bought a new gaming rig for POE2 andnow that I'm getting bored with it decided to try out some of the newest, first person bleeding edge games that I've missed out on. Between Gamepass and Steam there's a lot to choose from. Holy shit, everything is a giant steaming turd. 30GB dowloads and I either get bored after 10 minutes of cut scenes with zero gameplay or I'm completely stuck super early on and don't feel like getting gud so early in a game that I'm not even sure I like yet. Probably went through 400 GB worth of games today and all but one (Borderlands 2) got uninstalled. Spent more time downloading than playing.
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Talos
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For this reason I have been playing old games lately. Dusted off the PS3 and currently doing the God of War series pre-2018 reboot.
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Caeden
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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I’m still playing poe2, but I’ve realized, other than BG3 which I haven’t touched yet, I built a new PC to just play backlog from 2008-2018.
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Hekotat
FoH nuclear response team
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The shooter market is in a horrible spot. It's all the same Tarkov/CSGO/COD loops and it sucks. I really want a good battlefield game again.
Battlebit devs took the money and ran and delta force completely fuxked the TTK from beta to launch. Market is open for the taking for a good battlefield type shooter.
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rhinohelix
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I sadly have a few on my list like this: Space Marine 2, BG3, and RDR2 to name a few, ones that maybe I started and didn't stick with/bounced off of, or they were long slogs I didn't feel like sticking with for 100+ hours at the time, or I wanted to do Space Marine 1 before I played Space Marine 2. I have kind of hit a slump where I will bounce off a game if I am not careful, and its just easier to ADD on Twitter than to spend time learning a game that either I previously knew or just struggle to enjoy the early going. I started POE2 and a bunch of my folks are still playing but between GGG being super nerfing bitches and the trade system shenanigans; I am just going to wait for them to get settled a bit more, i.e. stop fucking around with the game so much. It really does count as a bounce off.
I don't have as much time and don't have as much patience as I used to with these games. I guess I am becoming shakes my fist at clouds meme dude.
Caeden
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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I’m turning into a dad gamer. Before PoE2 I was playing FF14 and Soul Blazer (on an actual fucking SNES and CRT…in my basement). Time is the problem but I’ll be damned if I turn into that dude that spends $600 on a console to just play an updated football roster. Things like Souls games are daunting at times though knowing I only get a couple hours to slam my dick in the proverbial car door nightly.
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rhinohelix
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I would like to come back to FF14 but haven't played in like 4 (or more now) expansions, and this is also an issue I have with many other Live Service games, first found with EU4: They keep changing the fucking game trying to keep people playing forever. It's to be expected I guess with MMOs but it feels like many games now are these ever evolving content creation churn engines that never stop dribbling out new things, rather than making/selling Sequels.
Launch GW2 was my favorite MMO of all time but since then they have, even in a game with flat progression and level cap, ruined the game FOR ME (others may love it/comes to terms with it) with the expansions since. I hated what they did with the story, the Living Story, Mastery points, general mob level outside of the Central continent, etc. That's another 80-100+GB wasted I keep on my machine.
This feels very much like the same affliction Hollywood has now, and its the death of creativity. Big corporations with rather selling a steady stream of BS than make new games, because new games are risking and expansions have a built in audience/more predictable rate of return. We are stagnant as a society, one step from Tech Priests and having technology we can't build any more, just like WH40K, except what we can't make is anything creative, Games/Music/Movies/TV.
Both of these things are true at the same time: I am an old man gamer, and we have become a politically correct dead zone of content, choked with engagement metrics and ROR forecasts. I mean, really that's just Blizzard but all of the best comics are coming out of Japan, many/most of the best games are coming out of Asia, bands are almost all dead in many music genres, etc.
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reavor
I'm With HER ♀
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Absolutely.
Full on Dad life is enjoying a handful of things. I get to relax with books, games, weightlifting, and the occasional beer at home. I used to not touch a game until I finished the one before it. Now? Fuck that, I'll put 3 hours into a game and see if I like it, play it more when I can then go play something else. Ever so slowly getting through a backlog. It's interesting to talk to younger dudes stressing over the shit I remember stressing on and now I'm like? Yeah whatever, I spent $2000 to play old games so what? Explaining that I have an excess of money but no time to 22 year olds today is lost on them just as it was lost on you and I.
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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I really don't understand how shitty FPS games have become. Literally almost every release up through 2010 or so was at least fine if not great. UT, CS, BF, CoD, etc. I could pick up any title and happily play it for a while. Now they are just steaming piles of dogshit with everything focused on hyper competitive matchmaking, or grinding progression before you can even start playing the game, toxic as fuck "kill streak" bullshit to make retards feel good. I hate the entire genre now.
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