Games and Game-Related old and new

All PCs are now inferior. I lose so many hours of game time taking a break to make a latte with my espresso/milk steamer thingy (i so know the names of coffee machines :p) this would allow for so many more activities.

Though going up and down the stairs is exercise i would certainly lose out on. The pros and cons on this one are tricky.

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I’m still going to play it, I’m probably going to enjoy it, but this to me seems like a bad move, and their reasoning doesn’t make much sense either.

This is a core piece of Fables identity…

They could have easily introduced a more complex morphology system to equate for the grey areas of being; a charming prince with tentacle postules, some sort of curse from the sacrifices they made for good etc… Nope, just get rid of it.

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Seems like a good decision to me, but then, I never understood fable in the first place. It touted itself as this “Immersive fantasy life-sim adventure” but was an average, mostly linear hack-and-slash with a cooky-cutter story and flat morality choices thrown in that in the end only served cosmetic character customization, which is the most uninteresting aspect of a game for me. I was so utterly appaled by the first game that I never touched anything in the series ever again.

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I am okay with the change. I never wanted to grow horns and look hideous so I was forced into always being good so I could keep my looks. :joy:

Seriously, I think this is more realistic but will have to reserve judgement until I have actually played the game.

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I don’t remember much about it it. I know I played it, back in the day, but there was nothing particularly outstanding or memorable. Did I have the opportunity to get married, or am I imagining that?

Clearly the original didn’t make much impression on me.

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You had, but it was entirely pointless. A busy-work mini-game completely divorced from the actual game in all aspects. It had no impact on neither character or story or anything. Didn’t even come with a romance plot, as annoying as those sometimes tend to be.

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Same here.
I am however quite interested in this new reboot of the franchise & given I have no memory of the earlier versions I’ll happily give it a chance on a stand alone basis.
It looks good, so fingers crossed it is.

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I remember crude jokes and the ability to furnish homes and yes, you could get married.

The game was really a question of what kind of hero would you be? A saint or an evil bas**rd? Though, I think you were the latter no matter what road you chose…

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So this may seem a weird game to post here but I follow The Charismatic Voice on YT and she voices one of the characters in this game.

There are over 130 songs in the game. When you start the game you can choose how you play. Don’t want comabat? ok Don’t want puzzles? ok

But really, the battles are where the fun is. You battle to the music.

She sings popera

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This could be good but I worry it’s going to have the same problems that all modern musicals have had :face_with_peeking_eye: Lets hope theres some diversity in those 130 tracks and some actual story craft within the music (I feel modern musicals have abandoned that vital piece from its music in favour of standalone catchy streamable pop)

On the plus side, it’s given me an excuse to dig out my Rocky Horror Vinyl and jump around the house

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Dunno if it’s enough to get me into this game, especially since I am still buried in Terra Invicta…but The Charismatic Voice is terrific.

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I am leery of the whole K Pop thing but it does seem to cover many genres of music.

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I follow her too (and some others), but had not seen this one yet. I don’t think this game is one I’ll enjoy though. Funny I actually watched this video a few days ago :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I love the fact she is not afraid of singing in the lower registers. I have sung standing near some men who say, “you need to raise your voice. You should be singing higher.” :face_with_raised_eyebrow: I am an alto, not a soprano. Needless to say, these are men who really know nothing about singing. So I love the fact she sings the game character in a very low register. It’s awesome!

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I was really big into a k-pop turned k-whateverHeFeelsLikeDoing star (Seo Taiji) in my teens and I couldn’t get anyone to join me on the band wagon.

I’m kinda envious of this younger generation of kids who’ve embraced it now, I wish that was my generation in that regard.

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So funny. We were at the local college last week and they had music playing across the campus from the main tower. My daughter was like, this sounds vaguely familiar…and I said, it’s K pop Demon Hunter Golden. :smirking_face:

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I believe this is this generation of the bible belts Harry Potter.

Digital Music is a little harder to throw on to a bonfire though. Which, they should know, is a very Pagan thing to be doing, darn book burners!

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DLSS is getting ridiculous now, the UI being this crisp was not something it could do very well in the past… And at these extreme low resolutions, that’s even more impressive.

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It happened again. Another senior creative team left due to the behaviour or requests put on them, by upper management.

Can we start calling this the ZA/UM effect?

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Ps5, PC, Nintendo, Xbox, or VR. what are some of your favorite video games to come home to after a long day of work or school? my personal favorites are the Marvel spider man trilogy or red dead redemption 2, sometimes even god of war or baldur’s gate 3. I also love an indie horror game. what are some of your favorites?

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