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Deafheaven - Revelator, Black Brick

It’s Minecraft on a 2D plane with a heavier focus on combat and survival. There’s not much of a story. It’s up to you to go as far as you want too. The progression is basically learn the systems. Learn how to survive above ground. Learn how to survive below ground. Start collecting gear. Start challenging bosses. It’s pretty easy to get into. The real challenge is in the bosses. You need to think outside the box early on because you’re not just wacking a boss to death like you will the normal mobs. Mobility and verticality are key.

It’s not Elden Rings level of difficulty. It’s like a harder Minecraft survival mode. There’s a lot to do and it’s not hidden from you. In Minecraft because you’re in first person view and there’s stuff all around you, you can miss a lot. And the crafting system is similar too. You don’t know what you’re getting until you put the ingredients together. With Terraria you can see everything because it’s all on one plane. So you’re not playing a guessing game. Crafting is the same way. Once you discover gold ore you know all the things you can make with gold now. So discovery isn’t a hey I found this let me search for more in hopes I can make an item. Its more of I know exactly where I can find some ore that corresponds to the item I want because I discovered it at this depth and I need exactly this much to make that item I want. Does that make sense? The real sense of discovery comes from there being so much to craft.

You have it. Try it. IMO it’s one of the best video games ever made. It has a bit of everything. Survival. Crafting. Metroidvania aspects. Platforming. It looks great and sounds even better. It’s one of a handful of game I ever put more than 100 hours into as an adult. It basically got me through college. I still pick it up every once and a while to let my mind veg while I listen to music and fight mobs while I build a pretty base.

Delivering on delayed promises is more than most game companies will ever do. Their actions in fixing and adding to the game is the apology. Every update does bring bugs but you say this like the game is in an unplayable state. It’s perfectly fine 99% of the time and the 1% it’s not is usually fixed within the week. As a day 1 owner who could barely run the game on launch it’s come so fucking far. It literally took half an hour for the game to boot during those early days. There wasn’t much to do on top of that. The systems were confusing and the game would crash almost every time you booted it. Everything has been fixed and refined for FREE!

Compare this to a company like Paradox and Colossal Order who killed Cities Skylines 2. That game released in the sorriest state I think I’ve ever seen in my life(including SimCity 5). The graphics are ass. The simulation didn’t actually work. The traffic was worse than the original. Every system in that game was fucked beyond belief. On top of that they charged people on day 1 for additional content. Content that took almost 2 years to deliver. Now their original dev team got fired and a complete unknown with two games is supposed to take over the current king of a genre for a redemption arc. Cities Skylines 2 was murdered and set the modern city builder genre back almost 2 decades by continuing the reign of SimCity 4 as the best Modern City Buider ever.

When you compare that to what Hello Games has done with No Man’s Sky you will see why we celebrate them. This isn’t some exaggeration or accident. It’s years of steady, consistent work that has turned a broken and potentially career ending product into the recommended space sim of this generation.

Go Birds! Fuck Ice! Free Palistine! Dickhead!

Oh I know there’s so much more than GW. I got my start with Warmachine. I had a group of 6 that met bi weekly for years until the game imploded. Then we scattered. Infinity was the next big thing. That got two of us and another from the store I frequented that wasn’t apart of the Warmachine group. Then that dwindled and all that’s left is GW.

We tried converting some of the 40k players to Infinity. They all like the look, like the idea, see the elaborate tables we cook up, and show enthusiasm for the game. None of them pull the trigger. There’s never a right time. It’s like trying to pull Artax out of the mud.

I understand both sides because I had a friend try to get me into Otherside and iirc that game doesn’t even exist anymore.

The predatory FOMO nature of Games Workshop is real and harmful to the hobby as a whole. The editions of the games could last for years yet we’re on a 3 year cycle to adjust stats and change rules that don’t need changing. It creates a cycle of I liked this edition but everybody moved on so I’m forced to move up or give up on the game.

Luckily there’s a million other games but they’re micro in comparison. You’re stuck either creating a community on your own or hoping there’s a group within a reasonable distance that you can help with. If not… Sorry about your wasted investment.

If you do get sucked into it and you end up investing into every GW game system with multiple armies across every system, you’re gonna run out of space. Unless you live in a multi story house or have a shed with nothing in it, these things take up space.

Yeah, considering my best friends older brother had an ongoing historical WW2 wargame on his floor for 3 years in highschool, movies could step up the metaphor.

How to get PTSD flashbacks in an instant.

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Now that I think about it, that is a pretty neat name.

Erase Facebook/most social media from the collective consciousness and go back to forums.