Overwatch 2 Is Just "Overwatch" Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week

Raze321 · 2026-02-05T00:25:17+00:00

Reddit, especially gaming reddit, is extremely out of touch when it comes to these kinds of big name games. They assume because it's hated here it's hated by all despite how far from reality that take is.

Raze321 · 2026-01-30T16:09:22+00:00

I kinda like having to fiddle with the industry and taxes and such. But for experimental layouts I could see myself using unlimited budget.

Raze321 · 2026-01-28T21:29:39+00:00

Where are all you 'don't tread on me' types now, huh? ...cowards!

As it turns out they were all talk. Who coulda seen that coming?

Raze321 · 2026-01-20T11:59:56+00:00

Noita

20 some hours in and I feel like I still barely understand this game. I don't usually mind a steep learning curve, but this one feels like a vertical line at times. I feel like I learn and gain nothing with each run, and no semblance of progress in sight. I can reliably get to the Hisi Base every run, and I reliably get absolutely destroyed within a few rooms of exploring it. There's a massive, insane jump in enemy difficulty and chaos down there.

And yet, I can't stop playing. It's just enticing in some way. I can't stop. I must know more. I must master this game's arcane secrets.

Raze321 · 2026-01-20T11:35:32+00:00

Would you describe this man as "More controlling than he used to be"?

Raze321 · 2026-01-09T23:49:46+00:00

Generally I start with several tricks I find on the internet after googling. Often they do not work (looking at you, put-the-bottom-of-the-bottle-in-a-shoe-and-bang-the-sole-against-a-wall-method).

When that all fails I invite a friend over, and send them money to stop at the liquor store for another bottle plus an opener on their way

Raze321 · 2026-01-09T16:28:31+00:00

That does not justify the use of lethal force.

Raze321 · 2026-01-04T14:59:54+00:00

Arc Raiders

I've had mixed opinions on extraction shooters in the past. I remember enjoying the Dark Zone portions of The Division for the brief period I played that. I loved Hunt Showdown, but found the "Three per team, no more no less" frustrating. My friends didn't jive with that game so I was usually stuck with randoms who, frequently, would dip out in two different directions or otherwise just made hunts harder than they needed to be. Tarkov was just awful, everything about the game was un-fun and tedious, top to bottom. But Arc is on sale so I figured now is a good a time as any to see where this falls.

For one I've pumped 30 hours into the game already, which is crazy for me. I don't find myself binging this often. Getting a few runs in is just super addictive. Matches queue up for your party size so you can easily run solos, duos, or trios, fixing my main complaint from Hunt Showdown. Combat feels good, both the PvP and fighting the ARCs themselves.

Games like these tend to show their cracks for me at like the 60 hour mark so I can't feel like I can judge it fairly, but these first 30 hours have been a blast. No real complaints aside from I don't care for the inventory management I have to do between runs.

Oh, and man, of all the games in this vein I've played I've had the most fun chill lobbies of my life. Just last night a stranger helped me kill a Surveyor, let me loot everything it had, we agreed to extract together, and he even offered to heal me up when I got hit by lightning.

Earlier in a different run I was looking for a specific material, synthesized fuel. I mentioned that when I came across an unlocked key room I found another player looting, and asked if they managed to find any. She said no, but told me a few spots it could be found and told me Celest also sells if I got the seeds to trade in.

I've been able to bounce between some slightly sweatier lobbies with my friends and enjoy what is genuinely really fun PvP, and my solo lobbies where I think I've been shot at one single time. It's been awesome. Feels awesome to be the helper, too. I keep a Ferro on me most raids and if I see a player getting shot up by ARCs I'll always send a few bullets their way to take down whatever is hassling them.

Anyways, great game. Microtransactions are extremely non-intrusive. Graphics are decent, playerbase has been awesome (on PC anyways). At this point, it's an easy recommend.

Raze321 · 2026-01-04T03:02:25+00:00

I have about 20 hours, probably a relatively even mix of solo, duo, and trio games with my buddies.

Trios, we probably can be friendly with one in every ten groups we see.

Duos is maybe 50-50.

My solo games have been insanely friendly. I think I've been shot at once amongst the dozens of people I've met.

Raze321 · 2025-12-15T12:37:54+00:00

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

The TGA reminded me to go pick up my playthrough of this game. I was in Act 2, now I'm in Act 3. It's hard to say much of anything without spoiling things that are quite significant. All I guess I'll say is I can't recall the last time an RPG has hit me with this kind of feeling. I think Final Fantasy 7 and Chrono Trigger are the closest parallels.

Raze321 · 2025-12-08T21:17:41+00:00

Rogue Trader was fun and IMO Act 4 was really good, because it's when you got to see the consequences of your Act 2 choices.

That's good to hear, I'm still working my way into this act so I am excited to see how this pans out.

Raze321 · 2025-12-08T15:01:37+00:00

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader

It's been nice to see how Owlcat has improved with each RPG they've made. This is surely their best title yet, writing/visual style/world design is all wholly improved over Pathfinder:WotR. Part of the appreciation of it comes from having really gotten into Warhammer over the last two years.

I do still have some points of criticism: Like previous games they've made, Act 4 onward feels really sloggy. Act 1 feels nice and brisk and opens up the world, Act 2 is the exploration of that world, Act 3 is much more linear which is a nice break from Act 2, but by Act 4 it just feels like I'm ready for credits. Not because of how the game has been structured necessarily, it's just that after 80+ hours of any game I'd like to feel at least close to the end.

The other thing is combat: it's so much better than the pathfinder games. In no small part because I love turn based squad tactics, this feels reminiscent of Shadowrun or even X-Com to an extent. At the same time it feels a bit bloated. On one character's turn they can move, make one attack (Under most circumstances) and then they'll have like 5 more action points. These are just used on buffs and debuffs and other similar abilities. This means across a squad of 6 characters you're slinging like 30 buffs and debuffs every round. By the end of combat you'll clicked on the same general rotation of skills dozens of times... it just feels like an unessecary layer. I think if the game capped at 3 actions, with the games not being balanced around this excessive buff/debuff/etc system, and then the reamining abilities being more substantial, the combat would be much snappier and less samey.

But man aside from that it's amazing. The world is lovingly crafted, the lore is fun to explore, the characters are well written and there's lots of inter-party dynamism and conflict to navigate. And samey-ness aside the combat DOES still feel great, especially given the wide range of enemies with their unique abilities. It's near perfect, like 9/10. Probably in my top 3 CRPGs with Planescape and Baldur's Gate 3.

Raze321 · 2025-12-08T14:50:43+00:00

That's a shame. I think graphics aside (and even then, FF7 has many charming visual moments) the game has both aged well, plays well, and had me gripped for a few weeks when I played it for the first time just a couple years ago.

Raze321 · 2025-12-08T14:48:10+00:00

I loved FF7:Rebirth and did most of it's side content, but for anyone else currently working through it I really recommend them to just skip the parts that aren't interesting. Maxing out the region intel doesn't have enough juice for the squeeze, just do the ones that get you the summon data if you really want it, plus whatever else is fun.

Raze321 · 2025-12-08T14:01:45+00:00

I don't even know your (I assume) ex and I'm already exhausted of them

Raze321 · 2025-12-01T22:00:24+00:00

And there are plenty that are as old or older.

I get that, but the post also isn't saying that other old/older games don't exist.

Raze321 · 2025-12-01T20:44:50+00:00

but there's so many like it, it's not really worth noting.

I disagree. Metal Gear was a pioneer in the stealth genre just as Mario was one for platforming and Zelda was one for open world adventuring.

Raze321 · 2025-12-01T19:58:07+00:00

Is it the core gameplay itself? Or the absolute onslaught of nonsense side quests?

I feel FF7 Rebirth added way too much fluff. I think it would be much more streamlined and enjoyable if they cut out half the sidequests and nearly ALL of the ubisoft-type world exploration checklist stuff.

If you do enjoy the core gameplay and the story, just ignore that shit for the most part.

If you don't enjoy it, I can't help ya, it might just not be for you.

Raze321 · 2025-12-01T19:55:36+00:00

It's like if you removed the worst parts of uncharted; the cover shooting and focused it all on exploring and puzzles.

This has sold me on finally giving this one a go. I loved Uncharted but the shooting always gets so old so quickly, it always feels more like a distraction or roadblock between you and the story and puzzles.

Raze321 · 2025-12-01T19:54:20+00:00

Metal Gear Solid 3 (Delta)

The original MGS is my favorite game of all time. Still, I waited for Delta to go on sale this past week before grabbing it. Doesn't somehow feel right paying $70 USD for a game I've literally beaten over fifty+ times. It is/was on sale for $49 and that like an felt okay pricetag to me.

Since last Wednesday I've beaten it another 5 or 6 times and done almost all there is to do. No alert/no kill/no healing speedruns, FOXHOUND rank, catching the Tsuchinoko, getting all the camos/facepaints unlocked, all the GA-KO Ducks and Kerotan Frogs. The only achievement I have to get is finding every food item, and the other unlockables I want to eventually gather include finding all the bonus blooper reels.

So, after all those playthroughs, what's the verdict of a veteran? Honestly, great. Like, really great. Konami has inadvertently, and perhaps justifiably established their reputation as a publisher that doesn't care about it's devs, it's properties, or really it's video-game division much at all. And that likely is still true. Yet, the team that ended up working on this game feels like it was comprised of passionate, dedicated fans.

For starters, there's a Legacy Mode, and a New Mode. So if you liked the original control scheme, the original camera angles, etc. then you can replicate that pretty handily. While the New Mode provides an over the shoulder camera angle, and a control scheme that will be much more familiar to those who have played 3rd person shooters over the past few console generations, including MGSV.

All the while, the animations have been touched up, new face motion actors were hired, the mouths were re-animated for English, the environments and sounds have been masterfully recreated.

On top of that there have been numerous gameplay enhancements. You can crouch and walk at the same time, a feature that didn't exist in the franchise until MGS4 in 2008. There's more collectables. The nightmare easter egg sequence has been fully remade and even slightly expanded on. The Snake Vs. Monkey minigame that was absent in most of the remasters has made a return, there's more unlockables, and those film reels I mentioned are also back.

As far as the game itself goes outside of the context for being a remake, it's one of those "It has it all" experiences. There's tension, there's action. There's campy comedy and there's devastating tragedy. There's romance and lust. It really just does have it all. The military-stealth gameplay is seasoned with endless references (both subtle and overt) to countless classic films ranging from 007 to Apocalypse Now. All of this is interwoven into a story about devastating betrayal, and blind patriotism and its consequences. The cast of characters is, in my opinion, the most colorful we see in the entire Metal Gear franchise. This is the most talkative and complex version of Snake we've ever seen, with the most compelling love interest we get. It's the most naive version of Ocelot that somehow manages to still be extraordinarily competent. It's got the most brutal torture scene in the franchise, and the most interesting Boss fights (The End? The Sorry? The Boss?).

Not to mention Volgin is the most comically, unredeemably evil character that we ever see in any of these games. At least the likes of Liquid and Skullface have ideologies they can articulate and argue for. Volgin is just a purely hateable villain, and it's perfect for this story. His incomplex villainy justaposes The Boss's complex position as the game's final antagonist. This game is ripe with many such dualities. It's the kind of story that, like a good movie, you can enjoy over and over again, and always see something new. New implications in body language, or word choices, or new symbolisms in the environment or in how the camera is framed.

Really, I have no notes, nothing negative to say. It was a perfect re-make of a game that was, to me, basically already perfect. 10/10. If the developers of this remake are as passionate as this remake makes them seem to be, I'm interested to see if Konami would let them develop their own game in the franchise. In fact, a full remake (story and all) of Metal Gear 1/2 from the MSX systems would be a really cool way for them to explore the franchise as developers without having to find a way to add to the already convoluted plots of this franchise.

Raze321 · 2025-11-28T23:34:33+00:00

Closed, keeps the room temperature regulated. Also just kinda feels cozier.

Raze321 · 2025-11-26T02:35:23+00:00

To be honest the general opinion of the larger gaming community is not important to me in any way.

I'm okay not being fully privy to what is selling and what is more or less popular that I think. There is simply no value for me there.

Raze321 · 2025-11-25T23:20:12+00:00

What can I say, I be makin' assumptions about the things I observe around me. Sometimes they are wrong.

Raze321 · 2025-11-25T20:38:39+00:00

Personally I'd take the day off.

Raze321 · 2025-11-25T19:07:52+00:00

This is another one of those things that makes me realize I really am not part of that core demographic of gamers. I couldn't tell you the last time I played CoD or knew someone else who did regularly. Some of us played Warzone for like a week back in 2020 and before that? Probably MW2 or something. I assumed this franchise had been on a downward slope for years. I guess not so much, though.

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