Yes, dipshit, artistic integrity. The artists behind a game makes choices for a reason. This crappy ai filter harms the intentions of a designer while adding absolutely nothing.

Oh, idk, destroying artistic integrity? Seems like the biggest reason, but there are probably more.

Hanging, when done correctly, is almost immediate death as well.

It’s fun! There are a few mechanical things that are just better in dark days (people talk shit about pockets, but it’s the best thing that’s been added in years) and the mods hadn’t moved over when i played it last, but it’s generally a better experience.

Edit after looking for the newest update to BN: holy shit the mods. The mods have moved over, they are in a better place, they are more extensive, there is no reason to ever go back now.

Cataclysm dark days ahead. You think a low scifi world set in the close future where 5 (maybe more) apocalypses went off at once? The original developers did, sadly the new guys seem to hate the idea. Every update for years has focused on stripping the fun out of the game, it’s only a matter of time before they remove the zombies for being too unrealistic.

Stellaris wouldn’t be so bad if they finished the DLCs. I love Stellaris, but nomads clearly had missing parts that they are still fixing.

The combat never really matters. It’s more a narrative consequence rather than a mechanical challenge and it stays that way at least as far as i have played, and i can’t see it changing without the game just being insanely frustrating. Owlcat still hasn’t really learned how to make combat challenging without being overwhelming shitty, unfortunately.

That said i still much prefer everything owlcat has put out to BG3

People hate to hear it, but dnd is awful. The lore of the main setting sucks and the systems are horrendous. Pathfinder, shadowrun, cyberpunk, an original system altogether, anything else would have been better! Larian also failed the multiplayer, making it feel tacked on rather than improving on divinity.

I stand firm in the belief that the only sorta good Pokemon games are gen 4 and the originals, and even then it is a ‘good for their time’ kinda deal. The originals are highly flawed and i would never recommend anyone actually play them, but they did at least attempt to design an actual game. Gen 4 was the first generation that could be considered actually good mechanically and aesthetically, imo. After gen 4 the games almost universally stagnated where they didn’t actively get worse.

Once you clear the first planet you’ve experienced everything the game has to offer as far as I’m concerned

It’s way worse about that than Minecraft, imo. I find Minecraft to be exceptionally boring, but building is at least passably fun (or was before hytale completely blew it out of the water), but it feels like NMS doesn’t even give you a real creative outlet. From what I’ve seen even starfield is better than NMS for creativity, although i haven’t played starfield myself.

The severe privacy invasion is literally the entire point

I’d argue 4 is actually better than 3, just not in any way that actually makes it worth playing. 4 is a mediocre S.T.A.L.K.E.R. like, 3 is hot garbage.

Man, i just finished reading a review that spent half the time complaining that this top down merchant sim wasn’t Kingdom come deliverance 2. Professionals really suck.

Yes. I’d rather have hardliners, or even tyrants, that care about humanity over the libertine fash supporters

That would be preferable to staying chained to demons. Conservative hellholes would collapse within a decade, leftists strongholds would thrive long enough to recolonize the ashes and form a stronger union.

I just hope I’m given enough warning to go someplace that wouldn’t be hell beforehand.

You don’t understand, the ‘top level’ of society is almost entirely made of the dumbest animals on earth. If you can get in front of one of these halfwits without a handler nearby you could come away with millions of dollars and an obligation to give them a stick of spearmint gum.

Real moral dilemma. Buying could send a message, but it could be taken either way. Mechanically it’s probably not been/going to be fucked with by the suits, but I’m not sure the developers ever understood the good parts of the first game anyway.

Trade ya, our normals for your deranged. America becomes the disgusting hell hole the conservatives want and actual people get to go live in places that aren’t horrific.

Let’s also remember he led an insurrection and was the second most prominent member of a global cabal of pedophiles. A lifetime in a secret blacksite is the absolute best thing he deserves.