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2024 E3 Season Takeaways

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               Whoa, easy there Philly, you know you’re promoting games right?   “ It’s just not true that if we go off and build great games, all of the sudden you’re going to see console shares shift” is what you said. What a strange take, also; THAT’S EXACTLY HOW IT WORKS…   Hello, the “E3” season is mostly over with the ever mysterious Nintendo waiting to drop whatever they’ve got tucked away on us at some point in the next four months but surprisingly what I saw got me excited about gaming for the first time in a while and more surprisingly it was mostly from the Xbox showcase.             I haven’t really been genuinely excited about games for a long time because Sony and Xbox’s first party stuff haven’t really done anything for me and everything else has been hero shooters, other multiplayer focused crap or soulslikes. Nintendo always delivers which is fine but it’s nice to see the others doing SOMETHING for a change. Just recently I’ve been playing Astro’s Playroom in betwe
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Slow NPCs, Infinite Xbox Controllers and PS Missing IPs

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              Hello. Nothing really going on at the moment, some exciting news has been popping up here and there with the “E3 season” upon us but nothing I really have comments on. Monster Hunter Wilds is looking pretty hype, 40k Space Marine 2 looks fun, Mechanicus 2 was a pretty cool announcement, Tactical Breach Wizards demo, Zenless Zone Zero is almost here and who knows if that’ll be any good. A lot of single player/co-op stuff on my radar are releasing soon so that’s cool but I have a ton of stuff I’ve been sitting on that I haven’t played/finished so I’m kind of trying to do that. I got Animal Well on my Steam Deck to play at work on breaks, I’ve been playing Astro’s Playroom and Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Hellblade 2 and Ghost of Tsushima (on PC) just came out so yeah. But there have been random things I’ve noticed that I wanted to blather on about for a bit.             I don’t understand in games when you have an NPC talking and walking with you why they can never finish
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Ghost Recon, AssCreed, Switch 2, Oh My

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                 Hello. All sorts of things and rumors I can talk about today. Eh, I’ll just get into it, I’m sure the title will be enough to tell you what’s going to be in this.             Some new info on a new Ghost Recon game has come out. Possibly just rumors and there’s probably more out there I just heard about two things I think. One being the plot is set during a fictional war, that’s all I really know. If I remember right Breakpoint takes place further in the future then our present and obviously before Future Soldier so maybe this new game will be after FS? Could be cool. The other thing I’ve heard is they want to go back to a FPS view which I’m on the fence about. I like the third person view myself and the only time I ever played Ghost Recon when it was an FPS was way back when on my family’s first iMac that had a demo of Ghost Recon. In the game you controlled three squads that you could switch between and you played a unit from that squad. It was a little weird and a
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Personality

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                Hello. I don’t really have anything going on right now, there’s this idea I’ve been sitting on (whoops, hold on, not double spaced. There we go) so I don’t know how long this will actually be but let’s just roll with it. I’ve been watching, and have watched as I’m sure most of you have, a lot of fantasy anime lately. Delicious in Dungeon, Jobless Reincarnation, I’m in Love with the Villainess, Redo of Hea - I MEAN Re:Zero, Frieren, etc and in these shows characters usually have a personality type or something they value more than anything. Some are obsessed with money, others strength, cooking food, finding rare things and I see that and then I look at video games that give you conversation choices and I think “why?”                When we play Monster Hunter, for whatever reason, I usually decide my character really likes money and if there’s a bonus objective for the mission that rewards us with more zenny then that is what I go for. Aside from making the personal cho
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Wait, People Like Co-op??

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            Hello party people ! It’s yer boi! There’s been a lot on my plate recently aside from Splatoon, Helldivers with the boys, some Star Wars blunders and Ghost Recon rumors. My first thoughts with Helldivers, “this is just Deep Rock” and it is, and I’m like why’re we playing this when we already have Deep Rock but like most things, if it’s the only thing we can get @PoeTomic to do then that’s what we do. It has grown on me though, it can be ridiculous and it’s popular which makes me hope that investors and developers will see that and realize again (re-realize?) there’s a whole ass market for coop games. You could almost just pick any sci-fi franchise and do this exact formula. I mean Helldivers are basically Halo ODSTs and Warhammer 40k would fit right in as well. If they did a Halo one though I would really enjoy it if they went with the Elites instead, there’s an opportunity there. Same with 40k really, we always play the “Space Marine” in everything, give me something els
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Mostly Splatoon, Some Other Stuff

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                 Hello! It’s been a while. Not much to report really, just wanted to talk about some things on Nintendo’s front. So let’s just dive right into it.             Let’s start with Pokemon. There was a trailer recently for a new Pokemon Legends game, Z-A, ZA, Z through A, however they decide to pronounce it. I think it’s pretty cool, from a title prospective; we’re actually getting a “Pokemon Z.” Not a whole lot is known but either in the trailer or the devs themselves said that the whole game is going to take place in the city of Lumiose , which I don’t quite know what that means. Actual cities are ginormous and have all sorts of shops and restaurants that would probably take you months to visit all of them but how does that apply to Pokemon? How are we going to go about catching, leveling and battling in this game? Maybe the game is going to be completely different. Maybe it’s going to be about us clearing areas so they can build Lumiose City , who knows? I liked X/Y f
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WoW Times 5 SoD Times

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                 Hello! I lied! I’m sorry! I’ve got my mains pretty much where I want them to be aside from my priest. She’s 30 right now but I’ve got a 60 boost that I think I’ll use when War Within comes out because I really don’t want to do Dragon Isles again. If we could level in Zaralek Cavern or the Emerald Dream that’d be one thing since I haven’t done those THAT much but I’ve done the other zones about five times. I’m more than over it. So since I’ve been less busy I’ve been playing Season of Discovery here and there and it just makes me happy. Just running from place to place makes me grin, I don’t know why. It’s fun picking up items, like for runes, or coming across an asset that looks out of place and being like hold up, what was that? When doing some quest in Mulgore I came upon a bush by a cage hanging in a tree. Weird . I can click on the bush, I can attack the bush but nothing happens. Wave, kneel, dance, nothing. Google it, it’s for hunters, oh okay, bye bush . I was r
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