I don't know that it will ever be the game people wanted it to be, but at this point it's a really good and fun game with a great story and characters and a visually stunning beautifully realised world (in terms of aesthetics and art direction at least).

It's most definitely worth experiencing in my opinion, and doubly so for half off.

From looking at the GOG store it doesn't seem to be bundled with any patch, which is actually unusual for GOG. If you're interested I heartily recommend Restoration Project, Updated or RPU for short. It's a combined unofficial patch/cut content restoration that's very vanilla friendly and tidies up a lot of stuff left unfixed in the last official patch.

Yeah those Wanamingos are scary in the early game, definitely a place to come back to later. Armour can be tough to get as it doesn't typically drop as random loot. There are two leather armours for sale in Klamath I think if you've gotten a bit of money now.

I'm glad you're enjoying Fallout 2, it's probably my all time favourite Fallout! Are you playing with the Restoration Project?

I know exactly what you mean by that early game bottleneck. FO2 can be rough in the early stages between lack of equipment and the comically unbalanced random encounters. It usually swings the other way once you can survive big encounters and sell the looted weapons after.

How far have you gotten?

Instead of jumping on the Elden Ring DLC I've continued to be addicted to Esports Godfather to an almost worrying degree.

It's the clear standout surprise hit of the year for me so far, coming out of absolutely nowhere and ending up being my favourite game in quite a while. It's a MOBA-themed deckbuilder/autobattler/team management game, and while that sounds like a hot mess it actually plays really well - at least once you get past the initial information overload.

There are lots of fun interactions between cards, items, hero abilities and player abilities which in itself creates great replayability, and constantly changing rulesets keeps things fresh even during a run. The Backpack Battles esque training minigame itself is super fun to optimise when you start getting deep into a run and have more complex blocks to play with.

I heartily recommend it if you like deckbuilders (some passing knowledge of MOBAs might help). It's only €16 on Steam, and there is a free demo that covers the first couple of hours of a run. I recommend playing with AI difficulty on maximum for both card playing and ban/pick for the best experience (the game is a little too easy by default).

Can we not go after one of the few good guys in gaming? Please? If you want to hound someone Nintendo is right over there.

Are you familiar with Bethesda games? The best way to describe it is that it's a Bethesda game that sacrifices what makes Bethesda games great (the handcrafted open world) in exchange for an illusion of scale and scope by way of procedural generation.

What you're left with is mediocre writing, boring characters and uninteresting exploration of copy-pasted points of interest.

...putting microtransactions, paid character edit vouchers, Denuvo, and anti-cheat into a $70 single player only game

This reads like satire wtf

There is no way they actually gave "Most innovative gameplay" to Starfield. And on top of that Best Soundtrack to Last of Us Part 1? Did they change the soundtrack for the remaster? How is it even nominated in 2023?

There are ways! Have a look at these:

https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Also worth noting is Lemmy only counts posts/comments as "active users". Lurkers who only read and up/downvote aren't counted.

It's generally when you're stuck in a loop of reading negative posts/articles. I think the phenomenon comes from how when you read a negative article/piece of news you feel down, so you want to scroll further in the hopes of seeing something positive to lift your spirits. But then of course it's only more negativity, and so you keep going. And the algorithms of Twitter/Facebook knows this, so they don't tend to help you find something positive.

I'm not sure any Lemmy-specific admin would have been invited since I'm still of the opinion that Zuckerberg barely knows or cares what Lemmy is and is mainly concerned with Twitter and Mastodon.

However, if Fosstodon admins were contacted then it's likely Ruud/his team were too seeing as his Mastodon instance is significantly larger than Fosstodon.