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Steve Bowler
@gameism.bsky.social
25+ year Animation and Game Dev veteran
Done putting where I work in my bio
Sometimes makes cool stuff. AuDHD AF.

“The Greatest Unreal Developer In The World™️”

He/HISM
No, it was the fact to break the asshole prince out of jail you had to do some timed stealth quest in a game that does stealth incredibly poorly, and you're forced into it, for the second time! (Get out of jail 2x)
Just, really frustrating design. Absolutely hated that mission.
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Okay now I need MORE LORE here
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yes. The "escape the prison" progression blocker made me uninstall.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
WELP, will give it a shot for under two hours, I guess, then refund it if I can't take it 🤷
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I should've known from the "9,999" floating number damage amounts but it all looked like it was realtime in the trailer edits?
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Oh no.

It's the turn based shit and "random encounters" that I don't like 😭
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I just looked up how much those trucks cost and, look.

I spend $150 on a lot of stupid shit but I'm not spending $150 on a SINGLE TRUCK in a videogame.

The "starter pack" (an outfit and a single starter ship) is SIXTY DOLLARS.

I am not nearly whale enough to play this game.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Since this is like the third recc I just boughted it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Vought should have stopped with the F4U 😞
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Wait.

Zooms in.

(I have a meme problem)
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Avowed yes, 33 no, bounced off of BG3, will look at 33.
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Any genre, any budget is fine. Just want western or western adjacent/influenced.

I appreciate JRPG quite a bit but I don't enjoy playing them. Hard to explain.
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I've never been a fan of the look, personally, but I get why some folks like it.

One quibble with the OP (but I’m not going to go into their replies and animansplain): it wasn't "rough" pencils from the animators that were xeroxed, it was the clean-up keys and inbetween pencils from the assistants.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
And every year, without fail, the "latest CoD" comes out, and now I have to spend $80 to play the exact same game? But they took away my knives? And some of my guns? And maps?

Why would anyone keep slamming their head in that car door over and over year on year. It's an an absurd business model.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
They're shooting themselves in the foot, every year they do this. Like players eventually learn "it costs me less money to play literally ANY other game with the bros" because Arc Raiders, Density, Apex, Battlefield, PICK ANY, has a less toxic community and costs WAY less year on year 🤷
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It doesn't help that they're trying to make "Call of Duty" a "Destiny" where each "Black Ops" or "Modern Warfare" is an $80 MUST HAVE "DLC" for folks who just want small map/short round PvP multiplayer

No other game costs this much, and has this shitty of UI, per "DLC."
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Kinda out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire feeling lately about it, but I couldn't move to LA/CA to continue working in animation and at the time it was either start storyboarding or directing or find another line of work, because "animator" work moved almost exclusively overseas.
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM