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Bethesda didn't want to make a proper CRPG with actual dialogue trees and speech checks so this is what they came up with instead

Even making random townspeople like you by impressing them with massive farts in Fable makes more sense

Got tired of all the game's mild survival elements being just set dressing you could mostly ignore so fuck it, now Arthur has to worry about hunger, thirst, temperature, sleep, weapon carry weight and pissing while another mod promises to add limb injuries that give you specific debuffs

I tried adding hunger and thirst meters to my horse but she kept collapsing from thirst with no body of water or trough in sight and there's no way to give water to horses

I also drastically limited my ammo limits and tried making combat more deadly for both the player and the NPCs. I would love to do something about the economy too but those mods seem a bit janky

Word of warning: RDR2 is held together by duct tape and dreams and adding mods may make wildlife, NPCs and trains stop spawning, especially mods that add or change models and textures

Elon DMing women on Twitter:

I refuse to believe this magazine existed, this is just cursed

ULTIMATE PC GAMING AUTHORITY

For a magazine from 2007-2008 it's interesting how dated and 90s these covers feel. Like who the hell was still saying "frag" when Bioshock was coming out?

Orange Box? Left 4 Dead? These aren't even GFWL titles, come on guys

Edit: Link to archived .pdfs if you're morbidly curious https://archive.org/details/games-for-windows-2-jan.-2007/07_Games_for_Windows_007_Jun_07/

Hey, did you guys hear about the one about the console gamer and the girl? Neither did we. A little lesson in love, gentlemen: chicks don't dig guys who are behind the times. Sorry. But the good news is, when enhanced with a 3dfx Voodoo graphics accelerator, the performance and effects on your PC will kick the snot out of your console. Thus bringing you ahead of the times. So pick one up. Oh, and lose the headgear. They hate that too.

Imagine if Nvidia or AMD still made ads like this nowadays. If you don't buy an RTX 5090 that means your DICK is SMALL

Just when I thought I had acclimated to the high school visual novel part of Valkyria Chronicles 2, I get the classic anime trope of accidentally falling on someone's boobs with a side of possible transphobia

For context, the character being groped is male-presenting with their sex being listed as male in their bio and is referred to with male pronouns. I did notice his voice actor sounded female and wondered if that was going to come into play in his subplot. With the huge amount of squad mates in this game I was expecting to see at least some queer ones since I vaguely remember the first game having a few. I wasn't expecting this (though maybe I should have)

Anyway, he admits to being a woman at the end of this scene so I wonder if this is more of a Mulan situation than an instance of a trans character. Guess I'll see how this character's subplot concludes.

There's also a pair of female characters where one seems lesbian-coded and is the target of some vaguely homophobic abuse from fellow students though they seem to just be "close friends"

I guess 2010 was a pretty long time ago

I'm not saying it will never happen but just wait and see where we are in like 5 years. People are acting like they'll be able to play the new Mario Kart on their computer this time next year

Who knows what kind of nasty DRM they've got running this time around even if people can find a way to hack the console and dump games

Between Kuja from FF9, the protag from Vagrant Story with his assless chaps and the male protag from FF12, Square was very fond of barely-dressed dudes in the late 90s and early 2000s

The game here is Threads of Fate, a 1999 platformer/light action RPG from Square. I'd never even heard of it until I saw it highlighted in one of Sean Seanson's videos. Visually, it's pure late 90s PS1 Square greatness, with gorgeous and colourful graphics, with the character models looking especially lovely

The soundtrack is very nice as well as expected, and playing this I'm once again reminded of how much I love the sound effects in PS1 Square games. Instead of samples, every single sound is some type of synthetic chirp or warble from the PS1 sound chip.