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  • [OpenCritic] Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Reviews (85 Top Critic Average 91% Critics Recommend)

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  • Okay, would people recommend playing 1, 2, then 3, to get the experience as it was first given? Or going 3, 1, 2?

  • Deus Ex director Warren Spector thinks that 'if someone made Deus Ex today it might be perceived as a documentary,' so if he made a new one it would be pretty different

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  • I wonder if people realize that cyberpunk is meant to be a dystopian satire, and not just a cool aesthetic. It should feel like a condemnation of a number of modern practices (including our over-commercialization and hypercapitalism). I guess the issue with Deus Ex is that reality has jumped the shark so hard that it doesn't even look like much of an exaggeration in some spaces, and more like the logical outcome of another decade or two.

    I'm sure there are some weird tech bros out there that see it as a utopia, and that's where I stop being able to see eye to eye with them. Who would want to live in a world where the cycle of poverty is more vicious than ever, where literal under-cities of people have to subsist on artificial light and synthesized foods that keep them alive, but only barely?

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  • Oops. I did all of mine like 8 hours ago.

  • Final Fantasy 14's next big challenge: Making players feel like they're getting their monthly sub's worth—not just funding Square's flops while WoW stacks value

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  • You're right, I guess I wasn't thinking it all the way through. Guess it's up to SE to decide if they want to hire more artists and spend their time polishing bits of older content.

  • Final Fantasy 14's next big challenge: Making players feel like they're getting their monthly sub's worth—not just funding Square's flops while WoW stacks value

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  • Usually when a dev studio says "budget", it's primarily a time budget, not just money. Yes, money can be used to hire more staff, but everything we know about software development says that output doesn't scale linearly with man-hours.

    Fixing hats in the way they would like (which isn't just the modded method of having ears or parts of heads clip through whatever hats/helms exist) would require them to go through every headpiece created so far and rework them for the races' head shape. Is it possible? Yes. Is it the best use of their time and effort? Probably not. It's a live game; they're always pushing on for the next bit of content.

  • Former PlayStation exec says console arms race has plateaued

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  • I can build a new PC or whatnot, but one thing that has helped the Deck along is that it's established a clear standardized set of specs that some developers have chosen to build for. Obviously there have been plenty of games that won't run on the deck, but sites like ProtonDB basically create a sticker for "this runs well on the Deck."

  • [Discussion] Kaette Kudasai! Akutsu-san / Please Go Home, Akutsu-san! - Ch. 187

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  • I do find myself commenting more on smaller communities, mostly because they're more aligned with my niche interests. And larger communities get toxic really fast; politics and news just get so, so messy.

    If I had to guess, half of my posts are just on the MtG instance, which doesn't quite have critical mass for discussion yet.

    I should probably tune in for weekly "What are you reading/playing/watching" threads a little more often.

  • [Discussion] Kaette Kudasai! Akutsu-san / Please Go Home, Akutsu-san! - Ch. 187

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  • I remember spending a long time (probably 2-3 years) on Reddit as a lurker before starting to comment on things. Posting was an even bigger hurdle to get over.

    There is no karma system, so there isn't any "reward" for submitting posts other than getting to inform people and potentially spark discussions. Similarly, comments are basically only good if you actually get responses. When there's such little activity going on, it gets pretty unlikely, unless a group of people just start forcing themselves to respond to others.

  • A California police department spent $153,000 on a Cybertruck for school anti-drug events

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  • It's a real shame; Irvine has lots of great food, and it's another large east-Asian population center within the LA-OC metro area, but it's also so staunchly Republican that I can't stand to watch local news down there.

    That's nothing against the university, though. I have family who got their degrees there, and I even took summer classes on campus once. I dig the school and it was my fallback when I applied for colleges (back when it was possible to have a fallback).

  • Gmail is making it easier to track packages and manage reservations

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  • PLEASE revive Inbox!

    I've subscribed to Shortwave to help bundle and manage my emails, but it's not quite as clean as Inbox was.

  • "Compromises were made": Space Marine 2 devs admit the shooter's story was limited by its 3-player co-op, and they "could have done way more"

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  • I haven't delved into this game much, and I'm not well-versed in 40K lore, but do you only get to play as the Ultramarines, or do they have other legions/chapters to customize as?

  • Epic Games is now 'financially sound,' CEO Tim Sweeney says

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  • I dislike the Epic Launcher and almost every move they've made as a company, but I'm glad that competition exists. People should have choices of where to get games, in ways that make sense for them. Unfortunately, I don't really see a reason to choose EGS other than exclusives and freebies, but hopefully they actually develop it into a valid candidate.

    In general, having more publishers and storefronts and developers in a place of stability is good for the industry. It sucks when studios have to get shut down because the funding isn't there.

  • Turn-Based RPG Fest 2024: Official Trailer

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  • Any big finds in this list?

    I've personally really enjoyed Sea of Stars. I don't know if it's too short or too long, because it did drop out of my attention for a bit, but the good moments are great. One of 2 games where I actually teared up/cried last year.

    I like Into the Breach a lot! I'm not much for roguelike/roguelite games because I feel like I'm not improving/learning at the rate that the game expects, but Into the Breach is just so cool and fun, and it's the tactics-based game that has made me think the most on every individual move. Each team plays so differently, and they do make use of the run-based system in interesting ways.

  • Drinking 3 cups of coffee linked to preventing multiple diseases

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  • The study isn't from Oxford. It's from a team of Chinese scientists (likely in China) who used a large dataset collected in the UK.

    The study is published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, which the Oxford Academic collects and reproduces for their academic press.

  • Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii | Announce Trailer

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  • If you care about story, I'd recommend going 0, Kiwami, Kiwami 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7 (Like a Dragon), Man Who Erased His Name, and then Infinite Wealth (8).

    If you specifically want turn-based combat, you can start on 7 and honestly be pretty OK.

    If you just want to have an enjoyable time, you can jump in on any side entry, like Judgment/Lost Judgment, Isshin, or this new Pirate one.

    Overall, the mainline Yakuza games have an earnest and serious plot, with moments that take it over the top. But all of it is interspersed with moments of random goofiness and levity. My cousins have spent months on Yakuza 0 because they got really into learning Japanese Mah Jong and enjoyed the slot car racing.

  • Google TV Streamer review: The new 'big hub' of your home

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  • The Chromecast with Google TV^(TM)

  • Turkey's Erdogan says Russia must return Crimea to Ukraine

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  • I believe Erdogan (and Turkey in general) were big players in getting the wheat trade deal settled, as well as the prisoner exchange, though I could be misremembering. It's just a weird situation of Erdogan having a history of centralizing power, but also making moves to be more relevant on the global stage.

  • Card Emulator/Alternative NFC payment options.

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  • Is it covert if you know it's happening and have agreed to it?

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    How ancient India shaped the west

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  • Why is this a news article? Why is this posted to this community? It's a well written article, but it carries no new news, and is just an article by the author of a book that's about to go on sale.