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What video games are people playing?
I just finished the Outer Wilds after picking it up on sale, and wow, that game was incredible. The ending actually made me cry, something I haven't experienced in a video game in almost a decade.
I usually don't go for narrative driven/mystery type games, but Outer Wilds is truly in a class of it's own. I've heard Return of Obra Dinn is similar quality, as well as Disco Elysium, so I'm curious to check those out.
Just finished XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. It fixed the gameplay issues I had with vanilla XCOM 2 + minor DLC, the voice actor selection was a fun surprise, and the additional story and gameplay elements were fantastic; my only complaint is that they should have tried to actually integrate the Alien Hunters DLC rather than just tossing its boss baddies into regular missions. My playthrough was longer than it should have been, but that was probably my fault for being too paranoid of the possibility of speedrunning myself into a corner. (In the first XCOM remake I made it to the final battle and then just couldn't beat it). It was also very clever of them to make the canon XCOM 1 ending "the player loses",
notjust because this made me feel better about being a loser,but because it gave them a good diagetic excuse for not going too wild with the story and gameplay changes.(edit: strikethrough added for accuracy)
I actually really hated this and it's one of the reasons I prefer the first game. When I finished the first game I was really interested to see where they would take the story. But then they threw out the intriguing foundation they laid! It was very disappointing to me.
If you like the first game, have you tried the Long War? I've heard great things, and I like the fatigue system + longer campaign, but never gotten around to setting it up.
I've never done Long War but have also heard great things. I actually never finished an Enemy Within campaign either! I'm a real slacker, lol.
Hah it's ok. Enemy Within was pretty lackluster imo.
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