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I literally just came here to mention that. I played the demo months ago and really liked it. Bought it when it went to EA a week or two ago. Great fucking game. My only problem is that they are actively patching and improving, which is awesome, but I don't know if I should just wait for 1.0 or burn myself out on it now before then and potentially never play the completed game.
 
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My advice to anyone who is thinking about it is 1) Definitely play it, but maybe wait on it to develop a little more. They have a pretty aggressive plan for improving it and I don't know how much replay value it will have given that it is a linear, exploratory story. 2) Degradation, mainly wear and tear, battery recharge, but also thirst/hunger, sleeping, shitting, need a little tuning. We've played almost the whole current story at vanilla settings and it is annoying at times. 3) It is a game meant to be played in a group.

Solid EA value though. Aspects of the story I could do without but the level design really well done. HUGE. Just number of balance issues and QoL features that need to be worked out.
 
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I found out the old PS2 classic Ghost Hunter was added to Playstation Network, so I finally was able to play it. The mood definitely has the old early PS1/PS2/PC atmosphere.

The first half of the game is pretty good but it starts to degrade as it goes on. Still not bad for a game I'd always wanted to try. Now I can cross that one off my old list.
 
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Dredge, beat it yesterday. Would have played much differently had I know the number of days past didn't matter. Still got some side shit and one dlc to do, beat The Pale Reach in under 2 hours but didn't do the quest to feed the dude because I can't find him. Hopefully the 2nd dlc is a little more beefy but whatever.

I got it for free through twitch, dlc was cheap, it's an alright game but I feel kind of like it should have been the mini-game of a much larger rpg.
 
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So, my best friend and I were discussing this. He was talking about how he has put in 100's of hours into ER but always peters out around the fire giant area. Never finished it. I was talking about how I stopped and just beat LoZ TotK about 20 shrines short rather than finish all the shrines. I estimated well over 150 hours at that point for Zelda. I feel like games today just bloat up content with "tasks" and tedium that are fun little diversions at first but then the games overstay their welcome. I didn't really have much problem with FF16 except that one slow bit where it was obvious they didn't get Leviathan done in time. I have far less time to game, but now games have (typically) a lot more content. When you think back to most single player games, 15-30 years ago...a slew chocked in at 40-50 hours max. Now that might only get you halfway on some games if you do everything and don't skip story scenes. I'm probably just old.

Now, I've told my buddy he is flat playing ER wrong and shouldn't try hitting it all but he says he gets in this mode and falls into the same do it all rut. Gotta break that.
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I think half the players of ER played it wrong in some way. I've never seen a game with so many bad takes about it online. It's sorta like if we got Dragon Quest (1987) today and got inundated with articles about how it was too hard and people complaining about the difficulty because they went southwest at the beginning and ran into the Axe Knight at level 1 and then spent like 5 hours trying to kill the Axe Knight instead of, ya know, going and fighting slimes to level up while looking around for gear.

Speaking of DQ, ER's kind of like the latest evolution of the original Dragon Quest in a lot of ways. Fallout 3 was an earlier evolution of it as well.

As for what I'm playing... mostly nothing because I can't decide what to focus on, but I'm currently chipping away at, in small doses: Unicorn Overlord, Castlevania Portrait of Ruin, Berserk: Band of the Hawk, The Thing Remastered, and soon I'm gonna try to check out Black Myth Wukong, Visions of Mana, Nier Replicant, and Stellar Blade, in whatever order I find 'em I guess.
 
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Final fantasy Pixel remastered and à tiny bit of DQ3 remake on switch. Not related but I also got this OST vinyl.

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Still putzing around with dredge, bought the early access for poe2 on ps5 a week ago and haven't touched it, thinking of playing dq3:remake. Gotta have something to play on ps5 or else I never come downstairs.
 
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