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  • I just started Deathloop over the weekend.

    The VA work is amazing, and it controls a lot like Dishonored, but there’s less emphasis on stealth and more on playing how you want. I’ve been able to blend stealth and regular gunplay, and it still feels nice and balanced. The AI seems to have much more awareness and combat ability, so picking how and where to pick people off or start a gunfight is fun!

    And since the game is based around time travel, choosing not to kill some people might open up future paths. It’s great!








  • Yeah, and it’s not that I think Fallout is bad, it’s just…I think it feels too cartoonish? Like, people are supposed to be struggling, but despite the post-apocalyptic setting, each faction has their own little kingdom and seems to be doing alright. Medicine and stim packs abound, and nobody is really living on the knife’s edge.

    And while that’s at least partly by design (supposed to be satirical sometimes), it doesn’t feel completely satirical, like Saints Row, or completely serious, like the Metro series. It’s caught somewhere in the middle, and I think that’s what doesn’t appeal to me; I want it to be silly or not silly, and it rides that line in a way I don’t like.