#i do have royal on steam since release but i havent had time to play

[lowpolykirby]

Insane sudden urge to play p5

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i finally caved and bought assassin's creed unity because it was on sale and i had some spare money in my steam account from when i bought a gift card ages ago and holy shit???? like i was aware everyone loves this game and i knew that it was the first game to release in 8th gen consoles, that it had a new engine (compared to the last, what? four/five games that all had the same engine and parkour systems). I knew that the parkour was amazing and the setting more so but oh. my. god. there are so many details in this game and now i fully understand why people say that the franchise has gone downhill ever since ive only ever played older games (ive 100%ed 3 and rogue, played through black flag and brotherhood and played a bit of 2 and revelations) and this is So different from what im used to. the parkour system going back to the og roots of the player having more control as opposed to just pressing a button, but making it much more fluid and quick?? at some point when i was running through the streets i felt that arno was slower than connor or shay but that just encouraged me to parkour more and i definetly did not feel slow when parkouring idk if they changed the combat or not but it feels much more challenging than the combat of the games ive played. in those it was literally never a match, the only enemies that presented any kind of difficulty were special challenge ones or "boss" enemies, but when fighting normal soldiers the character just felt godlike. but maybe they didnt change anything there and its because i havent played in a long while and im still getting used to it idk ALSO character customization?????? I always hated going back to playing 3 after playing rogue because the outfit options of 3 are just. so bland. you have like 4 special unlockable outfits but one is a 100% reward (which means you have to complete the impossible side quests of battle of bunker hill) and the other is literal prisoner clothes; other than that you just have recolours of the main outfit and like, the outfit looks cool but theres no variety. with rogue there are a bunch of outfits and part of the fun i had was changing outfits to fit what i was doing. am i sailing and battling other ships as i go? captain outfit. am i infiltrating a fort during the night? dark assassin outfit. am i looking for buried chests in random uninhabited islands? explorer or tracker outfit. you get the idea. almost every outfit looks cool af and i spent almost as much time changing outfits as i spent in tailing missions (/hj) and dear god???? unity???? it lets me individually select outfit pieces??? i can create my own outfit??? and omg how i love the fact that there are NORMAL clothes in this like the whole point of the assassins is that they hide in plain sight, its RIGHT THERE in their initiation ritual/pledge/whatever. and yet they go around in the most royally expensive outfit youve seen with a 3 barrel gun, a battle axe, a sword, a knife, an axe and a fucking bow and quiver. like his ass is NOT going undetected. its always bothered me, like shay i get because he's a templar and templars are all flashy rich asses who can go around dressed like that. but then you have every single person on the street dressed up in dirty clothes with no shoes and you show up with THIS https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/assassinscreed/images/5/52/ACIII-AssassinOutfit.png/revision/latest?cb=20121216073536

and with the character/outfit customization in unity i can finally dress my character in clothes that, yknow, actually blend in also oh my fucking god the amount of colour palettes i can choose from, i am never playing this game i will spend forever in the equipment tab like its the mf sims 4 cas

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now for bethesda e3

my notes as follows, although i am finger knitting as well so we shall see how this works out

they showed footage from the fallout 76 marketing party in their butt-kissing montage

this year i’m just watching bethesda to see how they cover up the fallout 76 fiasco

pete hines, that’s a name i havent heard from since before fallout 76′s crash and burn.  

the audience is eating pete’s crap right up, have we really completely healed and moved on?

pete hines is in full ass-kiss mode.  like, even more than the xbox and ea folks were.

wow todd howard had the balls to get on this stage.

“incredibly exciting years, given how exciting it was we are surprised you’re still here.”  and that’s probably the closest to an apology we will get.

WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE CHEERING FALLOUT 76.

“we got a lot of well-deserved criticism,” okay that’s a good start, “and now we have an amazing post-apocalyptic wasteland and here’s some more one-liners and ass-kissing and here’s the future and this is all we are going to say on this matter, let’s talk about the other games.” you started out so well todd, where’s the freakin apology for the broken games and shattered promises and doxxing?  how the hell did you take that scenario and spin it as a good thing.

wait, blades is in early access?

blades on de switch.    that’s good, because i really wanted to play blades and i doubt my phone could handle it.

i’m still impressed how giddy this audience is, like not a single shred of bitterness.

more fallout 76

millions of players?

wait that one lady screaming, that is the same lady who was screaming at this crap last year

wastelanders dlc guess what it adds?  human npcs and speech checks!  like what should have been in the game from the beginning!

but....but can we kiss these npcs? 

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FREAKIN MUTANT

i mean i am glad that full dialogue trees are back, also halfway decent speech checks. 

free trial on the game for everyone from june 10-17.  that’s nice.

also, battle royale mode.  but here’s the great part, it seems that it is hosted by a cold-voiced AI.  i’m on-turned, personally.

i’m tempted to give the trial a go, but i also just wanna wait until it comes to steam.

speaking of, are you guys gonna say when it comes to steam?  no?  ok.

todd kissing his company’s ass some more.

and the audience’s.

a new game out of nowhere, ghostwire tokyo.

the girl doing this announcement is adorable and doing really well seeing as how she apparently doesn’t speak english, and she has sold this game for me and i don’t even know what it is about.

more asskissing!  hey, how about instead of making us forget your mistakes and distasters from the past year by buttering us up, you fucking apologize.

elder scrolls online, and the guy who worked on the game can’t even call the khajit by their name.

i still like how they went against the lore they came up with by having dragons just show up even though the skyrim lore says they shouldn’t have been there at that point.

also the dragons are just mindless beasts instead of the nuanced warrior kings from skyrim.

the khajit looks astounding though, so thats good.

THIS KHAJIT SHOULD BE A MAJOR CHARACTER IN A SINGLEPLAYER GAME, THEY’RE WASTED ON THIS MMO TRAILER

audience needs to shut up, none of this is THAT exciting.

“scalebreaker” ONE ASSHOLE LOSES HIS MIND EVEN THOUGH NOBODY KNOWS WHAT SCALEBREAKER EVEN IS ABOUT

new game to be premiered, right now.

“classic saturday morning cartoon in free to play mobile game form?”  okay, impress me.  “ITS COMMANDER KEEN”  wow, i didn’t even play commander keen as a kid and this is hurting my childhood.

what the heck is this gameplay?

“at bethesda we, like you, enjoy  mobile games.”  ummmmmmm, yeah not really.  i uninstalled shelter a while back.

and now legends, with a really stupid looking live action trailer.  they spent money on this.  money that couldve have been used towards game making.

dragons again.

if you’re looking for a card game that is a bit more difficult, you could friggin play artifact but everybody butthurted out of that so nvm here’s our overhyped card game instead.

rage 2.  that game came out already?

lol iits so quirky and funny, it’s great love us love our game

wolfenstein.

the two games they announced last year, let us just remind you all they exist.

the vr game and the co-op game with the guy’s twin daughters.

coming out a few days before my birthday, though.  thanks bethesda?

wait its the dishonored devs.

wait the hell is this?

is that dave fennoy again?

so is this a time loop battle royale?

Deathloop. two people constantly fighting, story-driven, and lots of ways to approach things.  but nothing else even explained about it.

more.  ass.  kissing.  now they are saying about how games made them less introverted and dumb stuff.

the director of bethesda publishing is saying that they’re the inventors of the fps, when really they just freakin bought the people who invented.

also they were low-key bragging about creation club.

new tech for game streaming called orion.

it is an integrated streaming device?

they’re streaming from the computer to a mobile phone, and honestly that really looked like it could be easily faked.  i am filled with doubt.

doom eternal now.  this is apparently the highlight of the conference, but i’ve never cared about the doom franchise so i can’t bring myself to care.

holy cow, gameplay???  at e3??????

i just hear doomy ternal instead of doom eternal.

walked away to put up dishes, came back and they are still on doomy ternal.

doomy ternal releases in november 22, for those of yall who care about it

preorder the collector’s edition, that went so well with fallout 76!

also doomy ternal battle mode

and that’s the end of the bethesda conference.  and it kinda sucked.  i went in with low expectations, and i’m still kind of disappointed.  although fallout 76 may have added a new psycho AI husbando for me so at least i have that