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If they have the party members also be into eachother it'll even out. Like how in Baldur's Gate 3 if you turn down Lae'zel she'll be like 'Oh, you're turning down 'this'?! Well fuck you then, I'm shacking up with Astarion.'
I don't recall that happening in DA2. Well, Fenris and Isabela had a sort of friends with benefits arrangement going on. And Aveline's personal quest in Act 2 is to help her get a boyfriend; it was both cringeworthy and hilarious. Anders was too.....Anders to hook up with anyone other than Hawke. And Merill, bless her, was too dim.
 
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Okay so minus the addition of actual boobs and dongs and vaginas, they're returning to the DragonAge 2 template of party fucking? You all remember that right? Aside from the DLC character Sebastian - that very few people liked - it was possible for Hawke of any gender to romance any party member aside from their living sibling or Varric "Bullshit Artist" Tethras. I believe the joke was they were all Hawkesexual.
It's all for nothing if you can't fuck a bear, that's all I'm saying.
 

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You know Ubisoft, I realize AC games are hyper-fictionalized history games so we should expect some inaccuracies, but if you are gonna make a character based on a real-life person, and trying to appease the people whose history is the background of your next game, the least you could do is NOT FUCK UP SOMETHING SO SIMPLE. I mean I can maybe understand the fuck up on the kanji, but FFS you guys seriously didn't have prototype or someone who can read Kanji to ensure details?

I thought you guys were all about DEI; So wtf is this shit?
I'm not remotely shocked at this point. Ubisoft has long since passed the point they care about anything beyond the map design(and it's possible that's gone down the toliet since I stopped playing UBI games).

I'm long since done with AC but honestly even if I weren't my expectations for this game would be pretty fucking low.
 

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Article in Dutch, but the gist of it is that Game Mania, sort of the less malevolent Benelux equivalent of Gamestop and only remaining brick & mortar game stores, is pretty much done for. They're deep in the red and basically have 3 months to find a buyer or they're probably finished. Article is talking particularly about the Dutch branch, but I can't imagine the Belgian one is faring much better. A few months ago my local store closed shop and since then 3 more have bitten the dust.

It's not unexpected. Competition from Amazon and Bol is fierce, both offering a wide range, sometimes at lower prices, and with more frequent discounts. And game stores are suffering all over as physical is fading to start with. Nintendo will likely be the last holdout, but I can imagine even that will in time become limited to release via Limited Run Games or it's like for anything that's not Nintendo 1st party. Which for the record would suck balls.

I was never a huge fan of Game Mania, but I did like that they let you buy second hand games with ecocheques, which essentially amounted to 5 government subsidized games since I didn't really have much other use for the cheques, because who buys an eco-friendly fridge every year? Anyway, I'll miss that.
 

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Another news item about Sweden, in Swedish.

There is talks about starting a culture canon in Sweden, and the video game creators are obviously keen to get onto it. They took in suggested titles from the public and then an expert jury took out the 15 titles they thought were the most worthwhile. They premiered "a width in target audience, format, era, developed by both men and women and made all over Sweden.". The titles are:
  • Stugan
  • BackPacker
  • Europa Universalis
  • Ground Control
  • Battlefield 1942
  • Amnesia – The Dark Descent
  • Minecraft
  • Toca Tea Party
  • Candy Crush Saga
  • Star Stable Online
  • Goat Simulator
  • The Battle of Polytopia
  • Budget Cuts
  • Sayonara Wild Hearts
  • It Takes Two
 

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*sees the title* yay, holy fucking shit, i can finally play this on my modern computer!

*also sees aspyr is involved* boo~ also, no indication on whether this is a simple port or HD remaster touch-up
 
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Holy shit.....

Personally I would've preferred him being a POS with that NFT bullshit. He still would've ben a POS. but not a pedo POS
At least we got a fire diss track out of it
 

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Holy shit.....

Personally I would've preferred him being a POS with that NFT bullshit. He still would've ben a POS. but not a pedo POS
I am not surprised by this, and found out earlier this week. I did put in the web media news thread though. This is the same guy that would run away after screwing over his own audience with NFTs. Yet fans are still trying to defend him, even though he was caught red handed in both instances. Biatch tried running when getting called out on thinking making Halo a battle royale would be a good idea. Act Man called him and multiplayers on that one. The Doc got so scared he actually stopped watching Act Man's video and tried changing subject.
 
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Article in Dutch, but the gist of it is that Game Mania, sort of the less malevolent Benelux equivalent of Gamestop and only remaining brick & mortar game stores, is pretty much done for. They're deep in the red and basically have 3 months to find a buyer or they're probably finished. Article is talking particularly about the Dutch branch, but I can't imagine the Belgian one is faring much better. A few months ago my local store closed shop and since then 3 more have bitten the dust.

It's not unexpected. Competition from Amazon and Bol is fierce, both offering a wide range, sometimes at lower prices, and with more frequent discounts. And game stores are suffering all over as physical is fading to start with. Nintendo will likely be the last holdout, but I can imagine even that will in time become limited to release via Limited Run Games or it's like for anything that's not Nintendo 1st party. Which for the record would suck balls.

I was never a huge fan of Game Mania, but I did like that they let you buy second hand games with ecocheques, which essentially amounted to 5 government subsidized games since I didn't really have much other use for the cheques, because who buys an eco-friendly fridge every year? Anyway, I'll miss that.
Fucking sucks. Game Mania was always good for trading in games, and especially with Nintendo games (which never go down in price) the discounts were sweet. Gave a nice incentive to check out games I might otherwise have ignored.
 

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15 new indie games coming out later this year.

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  13. GRAPPLE DOGS - https://s.team/a/2278790
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  15. FUMES - https://s.team/a/1920430