Forza Horizon 4 has this lovely mechanic known as "Horizon LIVE", basically an hourly event lets players gather at a randomly-selected point on the map, and perform some cooperative driving challenges. The events themselves are pretty tame and can be completed in under five minutes if enough people show up, but the best part of
Small details in gaming.
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Crystal clear waters that shimmy around in unison, two unique shots of a castle at night when starting up a game, the atmosphere itself, and what could be even better when certain instruments/vocals start hitting you through your soul that's always been on for over 20 years and realize you can't modify some settings while in combat/escape phase.
Unreal and its expansion Return to Na Pali
6 months later
Hah, so apparently someone at Ubisoft decided to throw shade at incels. Good call.
Backlash wroteHah, so apparently someone at Ubisoft decided to throw shade at incels. Good call.
A bit on the nose for me though not as bad as Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
Something I did in skyrim a while back (xbox one)
a month later
I love the fact that you can pet animal companions in Far Cry 5. They're all so freakin' cute! >u<
I love reading mini "books" or diaries in survival horror games like Resident Evil or Alone in the Dark.
I look for guides to discover all documents to read and try to figure out stuff i haven't before. When i discovered secret rooms in AITD - The New Nightmare, i totally felt like i accomplished something meaningful.
2 months later
I've always been a huge fan of the Ace Combat series of games, and one of its primary draws is the surprisingly-deep lore they've constructed over the years. See, the games are set in a completely different planet nicknames "Strangereal", and one of the early games (Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere) detailed an event called the "Intercorporate War" which began in 2040. This conflict was especially notable to the player, as it saw widespread deployment of a technology called COFFIN, or "COnnection For Flight INterface", that provided a pilot with full 360-degree vision around her plane.
Starting with Ace Combat 5 (set in 2005), we've seen early prototypes of the technology, first as tessellated displays linked to external cameras...
... to AC7 (set in 2019), which apparently has the first model that interfaces directly with your nervous system.
The "small detail" here is in the paintscheme of an enemy ace squadron that appears in the new DLC missions. Their Su-47s have the tailcode "PE GR032". A curious coincidence, since General Resource was one of the primary belligerents in 2040's Intercorporate War. Combined with a comment by your wingman identifying them as PMCs, and it looks like they've pretty much confirmed where the timeline is heading with future games. Fancy that, amirite? ^_^
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It's amazing how sometimes the best stories can evolve from the simplest of ingredients. I had a pawn in RimWorld that had cancer, right? But she was also pretty useless and our colony poor, so I didn't care even as the tumors metastatized. But then I had a gander at her traits. One of them was "Universal Love", and as a result, every single colonist loved her in turn.
I realized that every single person in that game was really a human being. They had stories to tell, flaws, and loved ones too. As a result, I immediately had our researchers develop a chemotherapy drug and spent our meager coffers on the resources necessary to synthesize it in bulk. There was never more than just enough, and she needed triple the dose for one final, stubborn tumor, but soon she was entirely in remission, and ultimately, completely cured of carcinoma.
It was a good feeling.
3 months later
Even Forza Horizon 4 doesn't seem to save me from having to fight off against the A.I. virus racer himself driving a Lancia against my '98 Subaru Impreza as COVID9BEAN, all caps, twice on both rally attempts with him starting already in the front-mid grid. I defeated him very narrowly by hundredths of a full second on Expert difficulty, with him both on third place. The naming system of A.I. racers can sometimes end up with other meme-related names if I choose specific car categories. "You can't touch my car with that name of yours," I say.
LucianDreamer wroteEven Forza Horizon 4 doesn't seem to save me from having to fight off against the A.I. virus racer himself driving a Lancia against my '98 Subaru Impreza as COVID9BEAN, all caps, twice on both rally attempts with him starting already in the front-mid grid. I defeated him very narrowly by hundredths of a full second on Expert difficulty, with him both on third place. The naming system of A.I. racers can sometimes end up with other meme-related names if I choose specific car categories. "You can't touch my car with that name of yours," I say.