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You forgot Tilda!

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Swinton?

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orson

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Was Sable ‘fixed’? I remember there was an impression it needed a pair of updates, it released a bit too rough.

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The major issues were fixed yes. I haven’t played it much recently, but all the frame stuttering has largely gone. Steam forums suggests there’s still a handful of mostly minor / workaroundable bugs remaining, but I’d say it’s safe to jump in. I was having a good time with it, just paused while they fixed the framerate issues and unfortunately haven’t been back yet.

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Game Pass games I want to play more of before we vote for Game of the Year in the Quarterlies:

  • Sable
  • Lake
  • Genesis Noir
  • The Forgotten City
  • It Takes Two
  • Unsighted
  • Psychonauts 2
  • Halo Infinite
  • Unpacking
  • Omno
  • The Artful Escape
  • Moonglow Bay
  • Age of Empires 4
  • Exo One
  • Curse of the Dead Gods

List taken from the Best of 2021 Games thread, as each of these has made it on some list or another for 2021’s best games.

Oh, Forza Horizon 5 is also on a lot of those lists, but I already played the heck out of it! :)

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I’m starting Sable and The Forgotten City now. In fact they are the last two I will play from GP for now, I have other games in Steam and EGS pending to try.

4279

I keep getting invites to play Minecraft, a game I don’t have installed, from a “friend” who isn’t on my friend list.

While I can easily dismiss them, it is a nuisance and there should be a way to block these invites, no?

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An update today, they read my mind!

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I can only speak to Exo One, which is a pretty cool, meditative (though sometimes frustrating) experience.

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I’d move these to the top of your list (I would start with Unpacking, but that’s my GOTY).

From your list, I also played Sable, Genesis Noir, Moonglow Bay, Exo One, and Lake. They all have things to recommend them, but I don’t think they’re in the same ballpark, personally.

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I really liked Genesis Noir, I dug its whole jazz thing and its weird take on the big bang. Another upside is that it, as well as Unpacking and the Artful Escape are super short games. Like a handful of hours. Easy to blow through and, in my opinion, worth the minimal time investment.

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Hey cool, I think you’re the first person at Qt3 to say they’ve played Unsighted, I think? I could be wrong. I don’t think we have a thread for it. The other three, I actually have started and I am making my way through. In Forgotten City I talked to the head honcho and explained to him how the Roman morality system sucks compared to modern standards of the future where I come from. In the Artful Escape I went to my room and did my first musical Simon-says repeating of notes, and in Unpacking I’ve now reached 2015 or 2018 where another big person and another small person seems to have moved into my house.

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You’re really blending up your gameplay experiences!

I am admittedly not far into Unsighted, but there’s a lot of good stuff in there.

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It’s come up in the Metroidvania thread, and I talked about it a bit in the GotM thread after finishing it. Highly recommended in my book, and definitely my favorite out of that list.

4287

UGH.

Now Game Pass is telling me I need to connect to the internet. When I’m already connected to the internet.

I have learned the #1 thing that pisses me off is when tech just doesn’t work for no reason.

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Looking at the rest of the list, I’ve at least sampled most of them, and enjoyed Psychonauts 2 and Curse of the Dead Gods enough to actually finish them.

A lot of that list is the sort of artsy, mechanics-light indies that I feel like I always want to like more than I actually do. They’re pleasant in the moment and I appreciate what they’re doing, but I just find myself losing interest and drifting away. Going to try and wrap up a few more of those short ones (Artful Escape, Unpacking, and Sable in particular, all of which I got a couple hours into) before the end of the year.

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Curse of the Dead Gods is a very chunky game. Not much variety, but it nails the basic combat mechanics pretty well.

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I’m gonna say it again: ARCHVALE!

For some reason, this game grabbed me. I’m eight hours in and loving the bullet-hell combat plus light, grid-based exploration, crafting, bosses, shrine challenges, weapons, upgrades, and badges.

Anyone else tried it yet? Is it just me??