Let me guess: Selaco and G-String?

Nana, nanana nanananana Katamari Damacy

For other unmentioned hits you have Persona 4 Golden, SMT 3 Nocturne, Tomb Raider Legend, Destroy All Humans, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (ignore Tom Clancy’s garbage politics and it’s a fun, “grounded” military stealth game alternative to MGS).

I loved the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger games as a kid and they all got ported to PC but IDK how well they aged, so….

Aria of Sorrow, Fire Emblem, Minish Cap… yeah

Okay, let me rephrase. They can try, but I don’t think it will work on anyone but the bluedogs who were already eating that shit up.

This really is the best outcome in the event of Trump’s win. Dems eat shit and they can’t try to scapegoat Jill Stein or pro-Palestinians (a la Michigan) like they did Ralph Nader or dissatisfied voters in the 2000 election.

Ze unpromising race pupil

It’s funny to me that for all their massive egos, the Altmer are horrible empire builders whereas Cyrodiilics, people they look down and want to impose their rule on, are literally named imperials for a reason. They can barely keep an alliance with the Bosmer and Khajiit (who are more or less forced to be with them for protection) because their populace is largely too stuck up their own asses to pretend to give a shit about the Dominion’s own stated goals. How the fuck are they going to manage a continent-spanning empire centered on a province of Men whose entire culture is built on resisting Elvish oppression? Even just numerically speaking, it’s impossible.

The Elder Scrolls series has been pretty good at highlighting this as well playing with general tropes involving fantasy Elves; namely how unwarranted the idea that Elves having longer lifespans (by like a few centuries) and “sophisticated culture” grants superiority (see: Ayleids and Dunmer especially). ESO takes this up a notch even if it does give out mixed messaging by at some points unironically YAS KWEENing Ayrenn and giving said ESO guilds their unwarranted admiration for her. She is a massive hypocrite who still holds on to her prejudices when, after everything in the AD questline, she should know better.

Should have kept the original dialogue since it still fits.

“This is a perfectly good moment to throw your life away!”

Kicking myself at never thinking of using cornstarch to fry

They took away his magnificent gloved hands in the RE2 Remake smh

Ah, not sure why I assumed otherwise.

And yeah, Chronicles of the Second War looks like a great modernization of the original, as someone who obsessed over Warcraft 2 back in the day. Human campaign is still under development though.

Personally, I think a campaign interface that’s the Dark Crusade and Soulstorm campaigns combined with aspects of Total War (like unique buildings suited for that province, separate from the main RTS battle buildings) would be ideal. Could expand the scope to be multiple star systems to really get the “grand” scale.

And by guilds, do you mean Avatar Conquest from TW Shogun 2?

FEAR 1 and Wolfenstein TNO were some of my favorite games of all time so it’s only natural their sequels fell short.

In FEAR 2’s case, while it’s a rock solid shooter in its own right, it’s so obvious just how much it was trying to fit in the mold of the “gritty modern military shooter” that was predominant at the time (especially MW2). Stripping the tactical shooter elements like leaning still irks me.

For Wolfenstein 2, they tried to shake up the gameplay formula of TNO/TOB but the end result was something I was never quite satisfied with. To list some issues, Stealth went from being hilariously too easy to being a convoluted mechanic that I rarely ever used after the first engagement. Them splitting the Assault Rifle of the first game into the SMG and StG took away the entire point of the AR being a reliable weapon that was competent in most situations and replaced it with a useless peashooter (on higher difficulties) and cheesable death cannon respectively.

I’d love to buy Reforged just for the fantastic-looking Warcraft 2 mod but I feel dirty paying any sort of money to reward that lousy attempt of a remake (and I don’t think it’s been cracked). Plus, I absolutely despise Battle dot net, so there’s that.

I remember. Relic saw that people generally liked the first game (and expansions) better but could not stick to a direction and came to an unsatisfying compromise between both. And because of that flop, we’re still resorting to modding DC and Soulstorm.

I’ve been holding onto hope for another shot with the successes of Space Marine 2, Darktide and Mechanicus showing that W40K has a future in games, but RTS as a genre has been mired for the past decade. Relic’s less than stellar reception with CoH3 hasn’t helped.

Actually have been interested to play a reformist council republic like this. Maybe as the People’s Republic of Korea.

I remember when people thought it was going to happen around RDR2’s announcement only to get the usual rockstar disappointment lmao

Better 8 years late than never, I guess.

The Raid system seems interesting and might make strategic bombers more useful beyond supply drops and the occasional paratrooper operation.

The special weapons project system has me curious, especially w/r/t nukes. As of now, nukes are piss easy to get as any country and are only really useful as tactical weapons against armies. Now, it seems like there will be an actual challenge in acquiring them and they can be an actual game changer diplomatically (they also mentioned late game content so it would be really neat to see the start of an early Cold War system).

Also, urban warfare is getting expanded to be an actual meat grinder (a la Stalingrad), but idk how much of that is part of the free update.

In fairness, it means “Twilight of the Gods” and is a fancy byword for apocalypse. Funny thing is that the word is commonly associated with Nazi Germany’s downfall in the last days of the war before Addy made his greatest contribution to humanity in the Fuhrerbunker.

Ironically, it was lifted straight from Richard Wagner’s concluding musical act on the Nibelungenlied, which German nationalists used to evoke the “stab in the back” myth (specifically Siegfried’s betrayal at the hands of Hagen).