TheMightyEthan

Been playing Deserts of Kharak. I'm really digging how they treat the desert like an ocean. I did experience a bug on the 3rd mission where the last objective became impossible to complete, and the only way to fix it was to restart the level (this was after more than an hour spent finishing it the first time). It's a testament to how much I'm enjoying the game that I did restart the level instead of quitting for the night.

Good list, though there were a few that didn't strike me as particularly British (such as plastered for drunk, although here it specifically means really really drunk). Does "up for it" really mean up for sex specifically? Because we'll say up for it about being willing to do things in general. "Does anybody want to go to the movies?" "Sure, I'm up for it."

Too bad the other two didn't have full cutscenes, I probably would have had a better time. I came here because I just finished Mad Max. It definitely feels like a game in the Arkham/Shadow of Mordor lineage, and honestly I may have even liked it more than Shadow of Mordor. It obviously doesn't get as many points for the universe as SoM does, but the game world felt much more like a real place than SoM. I don't mean that in the sense that it was more realistic, because obviously the LotR is fantasy and inherently less realistic in that way, but more in the sense of scale. SoM had that thing that some open world games have where the world seems packed together, like the theme park version, but in this game everything was big and open and seemed like an actual huge area. Obviously some of that's down to the cars, so they can spread things apart without it taking forever to get anywhere, but it really helped the world seem more real. The only other game I can think of that pulled off the sense of scale as well was Assassin's Creed: Black Flag. Red Dead Redemption is close, but even in that game things felt too close together for how far apart they're supposed to be in the world. It also didn't create quite as bad a feeling of busywork. There was some, but not nearly as bad as other open world games I've played. Other than the minefields, which I resorted to looking up the locations of, all the objectives in the world are big and obvious and easy to find just going about your business, and most types only take a few seconds to deal with so it's easy to hit them while you're driving past for some other objective. The camps and convoys are the only ones that really take much time (and the minefields, those are really the only side objectives that bothered me), and there's not so many of them that they get tedious. Overall I thought it was really good, and would definitely recommend it for anyone looking for something in that vein. *Edit - I just read a piece about how the game is actively anti-fun (which surprised me which is why I clicked on it) and it was written based on the first couple of hours (early enough that the reviewer still could have gotten a Steam refund). It was 41 game hours ago so I'd forgotten but yeah, the first hour or so is oddly paced and I can understand why someone wouldn't want to keep playing at that point. I'm glad I did though, because it get so so much better. Also, the reviewer seems to have just wanted a completely different type of game, which I think is kind of on them. They wanted another Just Cause. One of their complaints was that after clearing an enemy camp it killed them to just jump off they side, instead they had to go down the stairs.

I agree that people should be entitled to keep their views private, but I feel like when you're wearing a mic connected to recording equipment that you don't have control over that's probably not a situation in which you can reasonably expect to be able to speak candidly. He knew he was wearing a mic, it's not like they secretly bugged him. Of course my opinion would be different if they told him the mic was off and it wasn't (maybe that's what happened, idk, right now we only know what Sky says).

My initial reaction is good, politicians and the media are too much in bed together, it's bad for the populace. Though it probably will impact Sky's ability to get interviews in the future (not that I care about that).

I'd read about that but didn't realize he was British.

Yeah, I think those delivery missions should have been presented more as time trials than actual time limits. At the very least they should have had a longer time limit and then also had leader boards. Honestly, my biggest complaint with the game is that there's no way to go back and replay missions to compete for times.

I kind of use "follow" that way on Steam. Interested, but not enough to put on a wishlist.

I wanted to like Titan Souls so bad, but from playing the demo I just couldn't stand how far back it set you after you died, it was tedious. If you make a game that's going to kill you that often don't make me walk for 30 seconds each time I do before I can try again.

In accordance with my new 2-out-1-in backlog policy, after my 2 out (Dragon Commander and Shadowrun Returns) this is my 1 in. Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

Is that a general Targaryean ability?

Why do you need a fake email to get the audio books?

This fucking game is really making me want a sequel to RDR...

I don't think it's something that needs explained, so I think an explanation (or at least one more complicated than "it is a gift given us by the many-faced god" which is effectively what Sexy Jesus said about it) would make the show worse because it's narratively unnecessary. It's related to the idea of Chekhov's gun: everything in a show needs to be there for a reason, and there's no reason to need an explanation.

lol, okay, that's what I thought, but then the article listed it just as adhesive tape so I just thought I was crazy.

Durex totally sounds like a brand of condoms. *Edit - Or a Klingon admiral.

Yeah, I figured the Dothraki would pretty much be passengers, and the ships would be being sailed by people who know what the fuck they're doing.

I don't think it's important, and think the show would be worse if it were explained.

Yeah, Saran Wrap is a brand name, as is Elmer's Glue. The generic term we'd usually use for Saran Wrap is "plastic wrap". I've only ever heard a generic term for Elmer's once, and they called it "white glue". I've never heard of cynoacrlayte, the usual term would be super glue.

I didn't catch Varys being back in Meereen, when did we see that?

What are the $15 and $25 tier goals? Are they just defaults or do they represent something real?

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