Adam Arcanum

Reviews and critiques video games, hardware, software, and the curios of the physical media era with a humorous twist from the bygone era.

[Wario64 @Wario64]

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@dismas_404 @Gbay99 Even the definitive edition graphics have people divided. With vanilla, they don't just invoke the era from which they spring visually, but also mechanically and in animations. If we were to get classic+ graphics, it should've come with forever.

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@schizothotep >night lords help blind children
Oddly specific act of malice, but to each their own.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Collector's Edition cost $269.99, included the usual expected knickknacks, and the game as well. I thought it was a bit pricey, but Rockstar's version is somehow worse in every way.

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Rockstar just announced a $400 premium Collector’s Box packed with merchandise, but it doesn’t even include the GTA VI game disc.

Is this some kind of joke so they can pack all of this into a $400 box, but they can’t even ship the fucking game disc...

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@CrystalChloe5 -and another that most people hated (the meta game). So, they just chose to make historical games with AC's gameplay.

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@CrystalChloe5 Ubisoft was always making three different games with Assassin's Creed during the height of the series, the historical, the meta, and the ezio. Once it lost Ezio, and never replaced it with another charismatic character (closest would be with 4), they had an okay game-

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@Alison_is_lost PC lacks defined eras like consoles, entire console generations can be declared retro or classic gaming. Even though PC also tends to follow the same technological and mechanical trajectory, if a bit ahead of their console counterparts.

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@innxcence_ Blizzard is gonna have to try harder to pry my undead priest from my cold, bloody hands. 2026 is the new 2004, and I am going to be forsaken in the world

of warcraft.

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@WomanDefiner *Vanilla

It wasn't all bad, the problem is they started leaning into the internet culture surrounding the property. You see it starting in TBC with characters like Flintlocke making an appearance. By the time of cataclysm, it started to go off the rails with no one at the helm.

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@siyahsancakx Firm grip, thumb the clip, twist/pull the pin, grenade out.

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@viniciussmunhoz It should be mentioned that the mixed is due to the controls being more awkward to wield than not, and a heavy reliance on gimmicky side activities and obscene amounts of ubisoft-style collectibles. The core is fun, but a lot of surrounding elements are not.

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@Terak404 The greatest failure of DmC is calling it Devil May Cry.

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@Shoedonym @CrapCody @geoffkeighley I kind of hoped there was an alternate ending if you manage to survive some waves, or that it would get progressively more difficult to make the point. Just a bit disappointing is all.

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@KazUwU__ I am turbo dead.

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@MorrowindGOTY I know everyone likes their symmetry, but any game could replace Killzone 1, and the list would immediately improve. Even looking back, it's aggressively mediocre. Like, DOOM 3, Fable, or Ninja Gaiden, something.

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@Aedrareforged In vanilla, Hunters were known to roll need on literally everything. It became a meme from Thottbot before it merged with WoWhead.

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@UESP_net Not a fan of siholing, but this makes sense.

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@Shoedonym @CrapCody @geoffkeighley You fight a battle you are meant to lose for story purposes. However, anyone with some amount of skill can effectively fight the oncoming waves forever. They never escalate to the point of you becoming overwhelmed, most likely because the engine can't handle it.

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@Usmjn_ I have a similar problem, but it's time bound. If a game has great replayability, then it's a non-issue. If the story is the most forefront, then I may need several years in between, I remember the beats and details, so it bores me. Cinematic games are completely unreplayable.

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@CrapCody @geoffkeighley I liked the first one well enough, more for the technical side of things and moments in the story more than anything else. It does an annoying gaming faux pas at the end that is a major turn off. The VR port is also kind of neat, especially in the flashbacks.