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What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game General Discussion Thread #24 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4323676

Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I really wanted to like Broken Roads. On paper it looks fantastic: classic Fallout-style CRPG set in the Australian outback and centering heavily on moral philosophy. Somehow they managed to make it so incredibly boring, though. Couldn't even get through it. Loved the visual style, but the quests were so buggy and combat was amazingly dull. Bummer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The most australian game ever made. some of the dialog choices did make me chuckle. there was one where it was like

Yeah, no (no)
No, yeah, (yes)

I also dropped it after about an hour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, the writing actually wasn't bad, and again I really liked the art style. That just wasn't enough to make up for everything else. Unfortunate, because it really did have some charm. All the buff items being different beer brands and the level up noise being a can of beer cracking also made me chuckle, but it's like they were trying to make questing and combat dull. Every quest was a string of fetch tasks with no rhyme or reason and no guidance. "Find me 10 radio parts." "OK good job. Now find me ten books." Yeah, nah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Reviews seem pretty rough for Broken roads as well. There is a lot of smaller indie crpgs that are decen fun though. Just a recent one I heard at least good things about is Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game. Didnt play it myself but it looks cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Big oof. I was looking forward to that game...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was too, and for quite a while. It was really disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Truly disappointing.