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  • Eh, hundreds of other people worked on the game, too. Borderlands is not Randy. I’ll give you something to look for as you attempt to sink your teeth in: the skills and skill trees are sort of based around a meta game. If you choose to engage with its systems and optimize, you’re not just mindlessly shooting stuff. For instance, I played the Gravitar, who gets feedback loops going around “entangling” enemies; by endgame, my ability was basically never on cooldown, and I had incentives to pick weaker guns because they fed into my gameplan better. My friend that I co-oped the game with played the Siren and had a build where he could loop Kill Skills into one another so they’re all proc-ing all the time. I hope you like it! (The story’s not great though.)


  • I’ve heard that a lot as a reaction to BL3’s writing. I only played through this series in the past year, and BL2 was good, but after playing the sequels, I think it would wear thin for me by comparison over extended periods of time. Especially once you get a new computer down the line that can get past the performance problems, I’d recommend trying out BL4. The story won’t be as good as 2, once again, but man, the encounter designs and class designs are so good.



  • Skullgirls, for sure. Steam has me at over 1800 hours, but I’ve also played at locals and tournaments. It had 14 characters for the longest time, but now it’s got 18, and the ways you can combine them are nearly limitless, so there’s a high chance one of its most powerful strategies hasn’t even been discovered yet even though it’s now 14 years old. Now and then I’ll see a tournament match where someone brought out something brand new that I’ve never seen before, and I love it for that.

















  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldResident Evil Starting Point?
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    The remake of the first Resident Evil is where I started, and it’s where I recommend you start. To me, the series never topped it since. It gets hard to make apples to apples comparisons given all the ways that series changed over the years, but that first game is a really good escape room, where combat measures your ability to manage resources and risk/reward.

    If you have the patience for some of the ways that FF7 may have aged, start with the original FF7. FF7 Remake, without spoiling anything, is sort of about the legacy of the original FF7.


  • It’s all fun until my wife or I can’t connect to the internet for work or leisure! But I’ll definitely run my experiments on a weekend where there can be the least disruption. Thanks for the tips. Do you have links to a handful of devices you’d recommend in place of what I was shopping for based on this guide? Also, I picked one of the ones from that Amazon link at random, and it says it only pulls 6W; dedicated devices can beat that?