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Lost Castle - (2016 game) loading screen

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https://www.neondoctrine.com/games/lost-castle/

A basic side-scrolling beat 'em up.

Fair.



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The Elder Scrolls V꞉ Skyrim - (2011 game) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814884/
http://www.elderscrolls.com/skyrim

A somewhat open world semi-rpg action adventure game.

I can see the appeal from back in the day, but it's pretty awkward now. Figuring out a fuckload of mods is mandatory, and even though that community has been going very very strong for a long time it's fucking hard to do so.

  • aka Skyrim



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Baldur's Gate 3 - (2023 game) logo 2

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(on Wikipedia)
(on Steam - on GoG)
https://baldursgate3.game/

Roam around harassing NPCs and accidentally-clicking in combat.

It has some really obvious and fundamental flaws that make it just terrible to cope with. I feel like I have to struggle against its design. The abilities are buckshot across the interface, the inventory is a hot mess, and combat is awkward and unforgiving. The dialog trees are kind of stupid most of the time, and player customization isn't particularly present, which is strange for a roleplaying game. I can only see that this has appeal because there have been no decent AAA games lately, and their variety is absolute shit.


The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk꞉ The Amulet Of Chaos logo

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/970830/The_Dungeon_Of_Naheulbeuk_The_Amulet_Of_Chaos/
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-dungeon-of-naheulbeuk
https://amuletofchaos.com/

A top-down strategy game.

I dunno, it's slow and awkward and has more talking than playing. Maybe I'd just have to wade through for much more time before the real game happens, but I'm not going to give it that chance. A game should be fun immediately.



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Turtle Wow--turtlewow_logo_full

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https://turtle-wow.org/

A classic/vanilla World of Warcraft server with additional modifications.

While it looks like it has hope, it fails because there are no quest markers on the minimap, so I don't know where to find quests. I don't want to re-live that part of things.

  • Abandoned - Nuked by Blizzard



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Ascention logo

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World of Warcraft >

https://ascension.gg/

A heavily-modified World of Warcraft which removes the concept of classes, allowing the player to pick-and-choose abilities to create their own unique character. Another server has a random selection+choice concept which is very fun.

Has various challenge modes and the ability to rework a character back to level one for a reward.

While lacking some bits and pieces of convenience, it's really quite good. Has some expensive pay-to-win. It's ultimately not good because it has bonus experience available to all the players so there's no actual authentic world, it's just a bunch of overpowered characters smashing through everything; fail. Or play it single-player if you'd like..



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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/892970/Valheim/
https://www.valheimgame.com/

An awkward early-access survival game which features wandering around, being killed by boars and trees, and attempting to build structures.

I might have been able to deal with boring and ugly, but the interface is shit; pass. Maybe when this is released I'll care again.

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