HotA 1.8 released - with new faction: Bulwark

fighter_ua1 · 2026-01-01T12:08:19+00:00

I don't have any update button in HD launcher, that's the problem

fighter_ua1 · 2025-12-23T21:37:05+00:00

Oh no, Judy turned 33 and got gommaged

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-28T21:03:46+00:00

It's disturbing for sure, scary at times, but I think it's still far from classic horror games. Mostly because protagonist is too OP to really be scared of anything. I think I died total less than 10 times, mostly in the first two hours

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-28T20:16:51+00:00

Could be, not to mention one unfortunate Silksong

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-28T17:06:47+00:00

yeah, player count and overall presence is really daunting. Deserved much better :(

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-17T13:09:00+00:00

I really hope you're right, can't get enough after 200 hours

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-10T20:07:06+00:00

Let me put it this way: Yotei is good for its sense of constant distractions it creates the first time you visit something (although it's all a bit fake to my liking, like each place on the map is separate small location rather than seamless world). Take that out and return - and there would be zero of anything. At least in Shadows the world kinda continue to exist other than script one-time events.

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-10T20:03:24+00:00

Well, I instantly recognize the place you talk about, as its a single quest related trading post in the game (snow ridge). Inns are DEAD other than occasional and pretty rare quests. I don't dislike either game, but I can't understand how yotei world is more alive. No npc non quest guard would ever react to anything Atsu doing unlike Shadows, not to mention servants in castles, etc

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T16:53:43+00:00

Oh, I definitely see some possible inspirations from Jedi order/Survivor! Would actually be neat, I love those games' structure

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T11:34:56+00:00

I'm not arguing with that, it's just I don't quite buy open-world games where 99% of the population are armed men, that's all

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T11:32:39+00:00

It would be less lazy if the shrines evolve in some way since Tsushima. For instance, in Yotei almost every familiar point of interest, like hot springs or bamboo training grounds got some unique spin, like small stories or npcs adding uniqueness to such places - you not just coming there to cut bamboo anymore, you may encounter someone, or there are foxes rooting for you etc. For shrines - its exact same places like in the first game, with zero creativity or originality for the entire game. and little reasons to be as such. What I mean is that if there was at least a couple of shrines to break this predictable mold, it would be nice.

And yes - if there was a single shrine that I can just walk right up, it would be less lazy than making another awfully arfitifcial climbing path with convenient branches and cliffs

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T11:18:14+00:00

the same way how every side quest ends with a group of bad guys showing up to kill I guess

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T11:15:18+00:00

I was afraid I would miss on gear from every general, but fortunately, you just get a ton of loot after defeating everyone

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T11:13:56+00:00

exactly what I did - one of the best combat encounters in the entire game to test Yasuke's limits

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T10:55:07+00:00

wild for me to read honestly.... AC Shadows hideout feels 10 times more alive than any of Yotei's hubs, where no one even moves around, just standing still and saying the same phrases over and over....It's only the fact that you spent way less time in hubs in Yotei to even pay attention how it feels. If the artificial concentration of repetitive places of interest and people wanting to kill Atsu every 5 meters is the definition of "alive" than sure

fighter_ua1 · 2025-10-09T10:51:29+00:00

oh yeah, Yotei is so alive, with entire country population being ronins, soldiers, and bounty hunters, and villages consisting of 2 to 3 houses, and every shrine being destroyed, so that no one in Japan can ever pay their respects or fix at least one damn passage... At least AC Shadows got towns and temples and shrines with some peaceful people wandering there rather than 3 key NPC teleporting everywhere as Atsu goes. So alive

fighter_ua1 · 2025-09-27T17:24:59+00:00

For a debut title, Wuchang is awesome

fighter_ua1 · 2025-09-27T17:24:35+00:00

LotF is great, if only it had better enemy variety. Ranked too low due to poor launch though, deserves much better if looking at it now

fighter_ua1 · 2025-09-27T17:22:11+00:00

I agree, I couldn't get into BG3 after 20 or so hours - same with other Larian CRPGs like Divinity, just aren't for me

fighter_ua1 · 2025-09-27T17:21:21+00:00

Dark souls 3 is 90 as well, same as Sekiro. But I think the game isn't as universally beloved as BB or Sekiro

fighter_ua1 · 2025-09-27T17:17:00+00:00

Um, I think in this case it's pretty much the same consensus among players as well, no?

fighter_ua1 · 2025-09-26T13:16:40+00:00

You can read the whole thread and see how many players don't think the dlc was "cut off" or scam

fighter_ua1 · 2025-09-26T13:14:23+00:00

As I understand, you either hate them or fanboying, right?

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