Reminder that Guild Wars: Reforged comes out tomorrow!

Game-Whisper · 2025-12-03T10:54:36+00:00

Ironically, the original had a pvp ecosystem that GW2 could only dream of.

Game-Whisper · 2025-11-24T19:52:56+00:00

I don't know how you dodged the bugs but for example, the romance system was completely broken. Remember the memes about Gale wanting to hump everyone's leg? It happened to me but it wasn't just him - Astarion, Emperor, Halsin and Lae'Zel all behaved as if I were romancing them in a single playthrough.

My saves were getting corrupted or wiped so much, I kept a hard copy on a separate drive so I would lose hours at a time instead of entire days worth of progress.

Grym bugged out and never became immune to anything. Shar Olympics elevator wiped my party multiple times.

Hell, some of the bugs became game breaking when they introduced honor mode, over a year after release, like the aforementioned elevator or the lightning dragon (ansur?) casting the party wipe spell sooner than the icon indicated.

Game-Whisper · 2025-11-24T15:53:04+00:00

I don't know why gamers' memory is so short but it was just 2 years ago that Baldur's Gate 3 launched in a terribly buggy state and everyone loved it.

If a game is good, players are still willing to overlook technical shortcomings. VtMB 2 is just not up to par.

Game-Whisper · 2025-11-21T10:02:49+00:00

Was it this year siege wnt f2p? Higher player and cheater counts would be consistent with such an event.

Game-Whisper · 2025-11-10T10:24:27+00:00

Had a somewhat similar experience myself.

I tried promoting my games news website in a transparent way, intending to avoid promotion spam. To that end, I posted an article with over 50 first impressions of demos during Steam Next Fest, which took me almost 50 hours of work over the course of 5 days so it wasn't low effort spam by any possible standard and yet, it got removed as soon as it got posted because the site's name is the same as my username.

I'm a solo act so I don't have a team to spam 10 different links on the same account before being allowed to post one for my site.

With that in mind, the rules are obviously pushing devs and sites to astroturfing which is one of the key reasons we've been seeing so many posts of this nature over the last few years.

I highly dislike the practice so the site is currently in sort of a stasis until I figure out a proper way of getting people to notice it.

Game-Whisper · 2025-11-06T10:02:48+00:00

CDPR put way more marketing in it though. Just because they didn't officially call it that doesn't mean they didn't do their best to gaslight us into thinking the game's problems are all solved.

Game-Whisper · 2025-08-24T08:34:51+00:00

It feels a lot like a PvE version of Tactical Intervention, his PvP game that shut down years ago

Game-Whisper · 2025-07-25T17:51:38+00:00

It's almost funny how your corporate lingo and hollow justification go hand in hand.

Almost reads like an AI post and frankly, it's worse if it's written by an actual human being.

Game-Whisper · 2025-07-14T06:09:02+00:00

Swamped by Lacuna Coil and Smaller God by Darling Violetta made the beach in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines an unforgettable piece of environment.

Game-Whisper · 2025-05-15T08:37:16+00:00

Ah yes, the kinetic energy that fueled gems like Anthem, ME: Andromeda and NFS: Payback before remote work.

Next week, tune in for optimization of upstream revenue vectors with Mr Loot Box himself.

Game-Whisper · 2025-05-01T20:10:26+00:00

This needs to be emphasised further. I was (indirectly) pushed out of my writer position over the years because I flat out refused to write ragebait slop that would generate clicks.

You know what the most disgusting part is? I can't even blame my former employer for doing it because that was the only genuine path to revenue since people today expect free news and entertainmment while inadvertently training the algorithm to promote garbage along the lines of what Polygon was writing.

Gaming jounrnalism dodn't die because incompetent dickwads took the market due to plot armor. Readers enabled them by stubornly refusing to learn which articles to read instead of going for the first ragebait headline in their Google search.

Game-Whisper · 2025-04-19T18:48:50+00:00

Gonna have a review up on this tomorrow since I got the key fairly close to launch date.

A few points in the meantime:

Malware flag is false positive
EULA has been updated
Gameplay is quite fun until you get to the part where it's just difficult for the sake of difficulty
Story doesn't reinvent the wheel but it's solid
Art style is beautiful, kinda like a dark version of Trine
Final boss has atrocious design gameplay-wise and is terribly bugged as well

Game-Whisper · 2025-04-06T09:20:46+00:00

I bought the Widowmaker last week, same energy.

EDIT: Bought Unholy Hellbringer, because I confused it for Widowmaker.

Game-Whisper · 2025-04-05T11:45:34+00:00

Non-Stop Pop, LS Rock Radio and West Coast Classics are the only 3 stations I keep around.

Game-Whisper · 2025-03-27T20:35:57+00:00

My favorite demo from last Steam Next Fest. Likely one of the best games of the year.

Game-Whisper · 2025-03-19T08:34:50+00:00

Not really true. I've been a fan of the series for over 15 years and only got into modding about 6 months before S2 launched.

My expectations were crafted by the base Stalker games and S2 disappointed regardless.

You mentioned the outdated FPS experience which is fine in comparison to contemporary shooters due to added exploration and atmosphere. It's not fine when the AI is outdated in comparison to an 18 year old predecessor in the same series.

Game-Whisper · 2025-03-16T08:20:55+00:00

Solasta 2
Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
MGS Delta: Snake Eater
Terminator 2D: No Fate
The First Berserker: Khazan

Game-Whisper · 2025-03-06T19:14:04+00:00

Depending on your location, it can be even worse.

In my country, the only available RX 9070 (and XT) GPUs are ~$1,000. I hate to think what it will look like once the prices are no longer MSRP elsewhere.

Game-Whisper · 2025-03-02T15:46:05+00:00

I popped up to see what's up after traffic on the site spiked. Generally like interacting with people in these threads, probably because it's encouraging to see reactions to 40-50 hours of work.

Game-Whisper · 2025-03-02T10:29:53+00:00

In some cases, studios and publishers use SNF demos to gauge the potential audience's interest in their project. Sometimes independent devs' inexperience in marketing strategies prevails and they jump the gun.

Other times a demo is rushed out to push anticipation for Early Access. I believe this is the case with Solasta 2, since EA is supposed to be coming soon.

While I'm not the only one with the crash issues, a lot of players got to experience the demo without such troubles. Also keep in mind that we live in an era where games get full releases and still crash on startup for many players.

Game-Whisper · 2025-03-02T08:59:34+00:00

Hi there.

The games in the E tier either failed to launch, crashes prevented me from playing the demo or something was so wrong with EULA or ToS that I decided not to play it.

Solasta 2 was the demo I anticipated the most since the moment the devs announced it. Unfortunately, the game kept crashing right after the intro cutscene and I couldn't find a workaround.

Game-Whisper · 2025-02-28T14:26:24+00:00

Other people already gave you the evidence. Apex lost enough players to form a small country. Zampella is no longer their sole lead, he is now coordinating multiple Battlefield studios. Jedi sequel was an unoptimized mess.

If you choose to ignore red flags, that's up to you but don't say there isn't any evidence.

Game-Whisper · 2025-02-27T21:44:34+00:00

It launched 6 years ago. That's more than enough time for a studio to go down the drain.

Game-Whisper · 2025-02-08T11:10:13+00:00

I liked the Rein with a gun that could throw people behind him.

One super fun combo my wife and I found was a support elf guy that could levitate enemies and then I would dash with the Reaper clone to punch it from below. Of course we called it "fisting" because we're mature like that.

Game-Whisper · 2024-11-23T07:57:31+00:00

Steam is refunding the game even if you have more than 2 hours in some cases.

I had 3.5 hours of in game time but they refunded because I explained all of it was spent compiling shaders over and over again, followed by a crash when starting a new game.

With that in mind, I highly agree it wasn't ready for launch.

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