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Probably Dark Souls series. Can't put my finger on it. Dark Souls always felt sluggish to me, never got excitement from the combat. For a long time I thought I just didn't like Soulslikes, but turns out I unexpectedly loved Nioh 2 and went on to enjoy others since. But Dark Souls 1 in...

I was born in '92, but I had two older brothers born in '85 and '87, so I managed to piggyback on their gaming endeavours. I have memories of a lot of different games from when I was very young, but I struggle to place them in order - but whatever it was, it was definitely on either a NES or PC...

Big shoutout to Robin for going through that pain; I'm miserable even just thinking about EA and Ubisoft's launchers. Maybe it varies from PC to PC, but I find the Xbox app on PC to be the most insufferable of the launchers I occasionally have to use. Game Pass's offer of a substantial library...

I don't have particularly strong feelings on it, I definitely don't hate it. I get that it can clash with a game's aesthetic and seem totally incongruous in-world, but like you say it's just another bit of game-design shorthand, much like how all explodable barrels must be red. I think there are...

I don't play any competitive multiplayer games anymore, but I do recall back in my days of playing CS:GO or Overwatch really regularly, I would start to get stressed and frustrated if my rank started to drop. I enforced a self-imposed rule: two losses, and you're done for the night. I realised...

Full size for me. It's all I've ever known, and desk space has never been an issue for me, so I've just stuck with it. Currently rocking a Corsair K70 MK.2 with Cherry MX Brown switches - it's my first mechanical keyboard, and I like it a lot. But I'm also not a massive keyboard/mouse enthusiast...

I recently saw some online discourse with people arguing over the differences between roguelike and roguelite and taking massive issue with Balatro being labelled a roguelike ("it can't be a roguelike if it's nothing like the original Rogue!!! REEEEEEEE"). If you ever catch me on this forum...

Being totally honest, in the 10 years that Steam reviews have been around, I have written a total of maybe 3 reviews; two being silly meme reviews for Goat Simulator and Madballs, and one legitimate review for Rocket League back at launch. It's hard to believe now, but back at launch I don't...

I've installed a small handful of Next Fest demos but admittedly haven't actually got round to playing any of them yet 😅 Between having a busy week or so, I've just been sticking to some safe known quanities with my free time lately: Vampire Survivors, Lethal Company, Enshrouded. But the two I...

I'm firmly a desktop gamer, love my desktop set-up. I have hooked it up my TV as well, so I can already play my favourite PC games on the sofa (also have a lapboard if I'm really stubborn and still want to use keyboard and mouse whilst on the sofa 😂). But all that being said, I recently got a...

There's two categories of speedrunning videos I love watching; games that I have personally put a lot of hours into, and games that are broken janky-ass nonsense. Generally, I think it's always fascinating to listen to people talk passionately about anything they know inside and out. I love the...

I feel like there are hundreds of games we could shame here, just by the sheer omission of any sort of tutorial when they clearly should have one (my pet peeve in practically every single survival crafting game I've ever played). I'm sure survival elitists will claim it's to 'discover everything...

GOTY prediction: I hope we get something that comes out of nowhere and takes everyone by surprise. Something that we haven't seen much of in 2023; whether that's something experimental and innovative like Return of the Obra Dinn or Case of the Golden Idol, or perhaps a resurgence of a genre...

It's not Christmas without a random box of Matchmakers that's appeared out of nowhere.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what I'd like to do, but I know that I want to get immersed in the world; to believe in Night City. I enjoy any RPG where you are given the option to explore from early on in the game. I kinda love breaking into buildings and fully scoping them out, looting them...