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I find the story of the sequel worse but pretty much every gameplay aspect better. Though worth noting that you can stack multiple elemental statuses in the second one but only one can be triggered (most recent replaces the last) and this isn’t made as clear as it should be.

I’ve played a couple of times with a group & I think it starts off super well but I absolutely cannot stand the sailing. It’s well executed looks nice and is slow, painfully boring after you’ve done it once and the wind/current is fidly enough that you can’t just afk or split screen to help pass the time. Also the food mechanic, while initially very cool and well thought out, turns into a colossal pain in the ass. Used to log on and farm (because stuff grows in “real” time over a couple days to get enough food that the group could explore/adventure and we’d just burn through it all in a night. Felt like a part time job.

I’ve been playing horizon forbidden west, I really enjoy the setting and aesthetic

I just started a new Breath of the Wild playthrough

Bug divers are just people who want to play missions against bugs(I forget what they’re actually called) instead of pursuing the overarching community goal.

Sometimes when goals get missed and people don’t get the reward they wanted for it they decide the problem was other people playing for fun instead of pursuing a goal they didn’t care about for someone else’s benefit

Looks like you’d do better in Portland on $22/hr than the rest of the region:

Also this page, while soulless had a lot of semi-useful info: https://datausa.io/profile/geo/portland-or/

As I recall Oregon has an income tax but no sales tax

Clair Obscur is great, but c’mon “It’s like dark souls because it has save points bonfires” of course it is like every game with that level of critique

I’ve been playing Clair Obscur as my solo game and Deep Rock Galactic with my group. Clair is incredibly atmospheric and I’m enjoying it even though it is a JRPG. DRG is not bad but pretty dated at this point, Helldivers 2 does the extraction shooter better imo.

It is there to allow the atmosphere created by the art, music & narrative to cook. From the other comments it sounds like it’s not landing for you but that is the purpose of that design, and really, the whole game. The experience would be completely cheapened by increasing the pacing to story/fight/story in a compressed environment.

Holy shit, the tariffs were good for America! No, I will not be accepting other data points

Which dude?

I think it was the first fps with a decent physics engine so for over a decade it got treated like the second coming of christ. It was a good game, don’t get me wrong but I don’t think the game was near as meaningful as the engine as far as its impact.

Half Life 1 & 2 are the most overrated games ever, rivaled only by Metal Gear

Golden Sun 1 & 2 (3 didn’t happen)