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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 #27 (lemmygrad.ml)

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Still gonna keep this goings; people from before will be pinged.

Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What did you like most from the recent TGA 2024, assuming you watched it or know of the announcements?

and

What did you enjoy most from the year 2024 in terms of gaming?

Well, a lot of bad news has happened politically IRL, but let's make this thread a good one, and enjoy ourselves here!

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[–] maodun@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I just finished my first (and likely only) playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West+DLC Burning Shores (I loved the previous game Horizon Zero Dawn).

I wasn't prepared to get slapped in the face with sinophobia (the writing re: the Quen) but yeah it really soured my experience. I know it's not like super overt but I understood the angle where it was coming from and what the writing was trying to communicate to its audience. Maybe I'll find it funny in a few weeks (as many sinophobic tropes/accusations are more reflective of the west than they are of china;; "moral lessons" about finding the truth for yourself is much more applicable to westerners "forced" to reiterate antichina-isms than it is applicable to whatever the average westerner thinks about censorship and free speech in china) but right now I'm just unhappy.

At least I didn't spend money on it this time around🏴‍☠️

[–] Makan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, absolutely.

Honestly, that's disappointing.