Depends, as is the case with all games.

I think it’s very good, but not the second coming of Christ as many people made it out to be.

It’s a better Final Fantasy game, and I think the story is much more interesting. However, if you’re looking for something like BG3 with the freedom, size or character interaction, this is not the game.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

I did finish the game, but it was a complete slog at the end. It was mainly because I still really like the characters and had invested too much time into the two games at that point, so I have to see this trilogy through to the end.

Like you said, there’s just soooo much padding, and I’d even say the world is much worse than Ubisoft stuff. It’s just empty, except for the same five copy & paste “events” in every zone.

Something must be wrong with me though, since I’ve actually been thinking about replaying the game lately. Dunno why, but the thought just keeps creeping into my brain every now and then.

Putting a lot of time into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I’m deep in Act 2, probably close to the end.

Since I cleared a bunch of areas that I wasn’t supposed to yet, thanks to the parry that makes you invincible, I’m massively overleveled. I don’t mind this kinda stuff though, even like it in RPGs like this, so it’s not a big deal, that story bosses die in like three turns or something at this point.

Finally “done” with World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. The final phase is a complete joke and let down. Blizzard in their generosity added two quests and one new world boss. The speed with which your character gains power is also increased, but there is still no account-wide power-sharing, so you’d still have to grind for dozens of hours on each character if you want to get to the part where you’re completely overpowered.

My sub still runs for three weeks or something, so I might check in here and there, like for the Christmas event, but otherwise no WoW for me for a while.

Now that I’m free, I finally continued with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, after a two-month break. I stopped near the end of Act 1, just after getting a fourth party member. Now I’m in Act 2, the world has opened up a bit more, so of course I gotta explore everywhere you’re not supposed to go yet, so main story progress has been slow.

The game has some small annoyances, that make you question what the devs where thinking, like the newly added option to give up in combat (so you can restart the fight), but it’s not a straight reset, you go through a jingle and animation, and then the game asks you if you want to retry. Why not just retry immediately. Selecting no boots you to the main menu, but there’s already a separate button for that, so the only reason to give up in a fight is to try again.

Then the save situation is kinda ass. The game only has autosaves, no manual saving, but it’s kinda random at times and even straight up lies to you if it says it’s saving the game. Sometimes when you change something in your inventory the game saves, but not every time. I think the game has some internal timer, so it only creates a new save every X seconds. After a fight the game saves, but it creates two save slots that are the same. Usually not a big deal, but I suspect it overwrites your most recent save in the process (because if you do a bunch of fights back-to-back you don’t have a bunch of double saves). What I’m trying to say is, just let me save manually whenever I want, and let me manage my save slots.

I also wish there were some custom map markers available, so I could mark merchants or secrets I can’t get to (or add a stat counter to the area or something that tells you if you’ve “completed” it).

Good game otherwise.

PC (Steam) demo as well this time, which I’m looking forward to.

You’re off by about a year, Season 1 came out October 2022. Seasons are also relatively short, around 8 weeks each.

I was like you, the launch (and end of OW1) was garbage, so I had no interest in the game at all. After the new Stadium Mode launched this year, I’ve heard some chatter, that things apparently have been slowly getting better. I gave it a shot myself and have been enjoying the game a lot.

Definitely one of the better startup movies.

My favorite is still the one for Vampire Survivors, because I just love the chest animation in the game.

Definitely, but according to Steam, it looks pretty good.

800+ reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive (95% positive).

According to the Wayback Machine the banner looked the same as for all other big game releases (like right now for Where Winds Meet).

Even on my 1600p screen, with the window on full height, the Daily Deal is halfway cut off. You might as well argue every big game that gets featured on the front page is ruining some sale or another. Where are the clickbait articles for those games?

Saying Valve ruined the sale is weird to me. Are the Daily Deals from today ruined, because there’s a banner for Where Winds Meet on the front page right now?

You can also see on SteamDB, that the game got a (relatively) sizable increase in players, following the sale.

I mean, it’s supposed to have touchpads. If you don’t need or want those, there’s little reason to choose this controller over a more standard one.

Still grinding that World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. New phase started this week, along with the next raid. I’ve been playing so much the last couple of weeks, that it’s definitely getting stale, but I’ve been saying the same thing for a few weeks already, and I’m still playing, albeit a bit less.

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Unsurprising that they find this, since that’s what their business is about.

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I basically skipped Legion back in the day, because of how ass the Legendary system was on launch, and never went back, so I never really did any of the raids.

I guess you mean getting knocked around by some orbs, which might instantly kill you because you fall off the platform? Stuff like that is basically the only thing that could be an issue.

From what I read in different comments, the final raid, Antorus, is supposed to have another boss, that could be a problem, Eonar.

Blizzard has actually changed one boss so far (Il’gynoth, where you have to use some blobs to blow up this big eye), although that was probably more because people deal too much damage and would regularly blow up the blobs on accident, the second they spawn, which was just annoying and extended the fight needlessly. Maybe they’ll do more changes, since you can clear these raids daily for the time of the event.

Still grinding World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. Less raiding this week, I’m only clearing each raid twice every day, instead of three times, but did a couple more Mythic+ dungeons to knock out achievements.

The next phase will start in a few days, along with “new” quests, but more importantly another raid to farm every day. At that point, I’ll probably only be running the raids on the highest difficulty, and skip all the others.

The Finals is rated Playable on Steam Deck and also uses Easy Anti Cheat, just like ARC Raiders.

The latest ProtonDB reports (~3h old) for ARC Raiders also say it works, but I don’t know if that’s old playtest data.

At this point, it would be weird if it doesn’t work on Linux/Steam Deck.

The Copilot part for the Game Bar is a Widget, that you can independently disable.

Even then, from what is written in the thread, it’s not like it actually does anything, unless you specifically use the Copilot feature for the Game Bar.

The only thing that might rub people the wrong way is that the widget is enabled by default.

The source is one single user on ResetEra, that doesn’t post any proof.

Another user refuted the claims and posted logs, that show what gets sent, which seemingly doesn’t include any Copilot data. The AI part only happens, when you actually ask a question to Copilot (duh). So the thread gets closed.

The article omits the second part of course, and everybody in this thread is just foaming at the mouth, because it’s Microsoft, so it has to be true.

True, we’ve seen the exact thing with WoW and Overwatch, after the teams formed Unions. Both games were immediately shut down.

It’s only a matter of time until the Diablo team forms a Union, which will of course also be the death knell for that franchise.

I’ve been grinding that World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. Monk is a lot more fun than Demon Hunter, so I’m glad I made the switch. I’ve done basically everything for now, most of the quests in all the zones, and I’m at the gear cap. For now, there are raids to clear daily, which I’ll do, and clear Mythic+ dungeons over and over for that “infinite” power, which I won’t do. In a few days the second phase will begin, with more quests, a raid and other things, so I’ll keep playing, but wind down afterward (until the next phase).