I recently finished the game on pc and boy am I torn. Firstly I want to go over what I enjoyed.

Combat

It's hard to put into words what parts of combat I enjoyed most. It may be how visceral it is or the fluidity of it. I loved constantly running out of ammo and having to use random things on the ground to win a fight.

The AI was excellent with them constantly flanking, out-maneuvering, and mourning for dead comrades.

And that's if you engage with things head on. The stealth in the game, while not as complex as metal gear, is very serviceable and is a totally viable play style that is extremely enjoyable.

Honestly I had more fun in the rogue-like mode and encounters than I did with the main story. Which brings us to...

The Story

I really enjoyed the story of the first "Last of Us" and I think what made it so great was Joel & Ellie. They had a great dynamic that really held your attention for the breadth of the game.

SPOILERS FROM HERE ON

Spoilers

Killing Joel off is not a bad idea in it of itself. It's a powerful move that did make an impact on me at my first playthrough. But my god they do nothing with it. His death and the vengeance story that falls after is twisted into some sick Zionist propaganda. I really hate how the WLF and Sepharites are handled. I could explain it all but vice made a pretty decent article about it.

My overall opinion on the game is I really disliked the story. Not just because of the propoganda but also because half the characters are terribly unlikable. Abby is described as a piece of shit in the story. And I uh. Honestly agree.

My favorite character in the game has to be Lev. It's crazy what happens when you make a character likable.

This is the end to my semi-rant about a game I didn't enjoy as much as I would have liked to.

Never would have thought I'd see this sort of comment on wallstreetbets

Good Morning c/games

I've posted here once before about my vintage story server. And in celebration of Vintage Story 1.20 finally releasing I have started a server fresh.

The server is vanilla and currently is only occupied by some friends. But if you would like to join please message me on matrix or on lemmy and I will give you the server information.

If you've never heard of Vintage Story, it is essentially a survival game that goes from the stone age all the way to the production of steel.

In Vintage Story every choice matters and mistakes are costly. Farms wither, herds eaten by wolves, your food spoils.

I really recomend it. One of my favorite games

With the current situation in Syria I have realized I'm not very well read on Syria at all and am sort of lost.

I'd be grateful if anyone could recommend some good books on Syria so I don't feel completely lost

Also 89,923 Americans voted for her. This is all according to 270towin.com

So that means a small fraction of Americans are somewhat cool

It is being ran as a council republic, with social democrats in charge (ew I know)

But everyone lives well, not exploiting any countries for it and am fairly peaceful. Only one war with norway really.

Here is Linus's comment

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything. And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing. If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state sponsored spam. As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

And about whether or not he is under an NDA

No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers. I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them

Gamers have made a list of all the WOKE games

https://wokedetector.cirnoslab.me/full-list

Edit: this website is a joke but the data does come from a real place and I find some of the games they have listed as woke so funny

I'd have to read on it but it all seems fairly accurate. I also really like Max Miller's videos, very entertaining and educating

Hello I am currently hosting a vintage story server for me and some friends. It is up 24/7 as long as I have power. It's a really fun game.

If you want the password and ip just dm me on matrix or on here. Didn't realize lemmy supports dm's

Thank you

What sort of watches do you guys wear?

I'm currently using the seagull 1963. It's a Chinese made watch that was ordered into production by the government. So this is a legit commie watch. Plus it's pretty

Seagull 1963 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Seagull_1963.jpg

edit: fixed broken link