Soupbreaker

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown looks like a field day for micro managers in its first gameplay trailer⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It does seem like an odd time for a Voyager tie-in game. Reminds me of an upcoming game I saw in my Steam queue the other day that’s based on Mars Attacks!. Flipping Mars Attacks!!? What could be more relevant? Really striking while the iron’s hot with that one.

  Anyhow, I hope it does well. I don’t think it’s for me, but I’m all for more Star Trek games. Resurgence is pretty great, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s inaccurate. Fiction does not require unrealistic elements. There’s just scads of fiction out there—across multiple genres—that’s set in a real time and place, and doesn’t involve anything fantastical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it didn’t really make any sense that they turned into Vulcans and somehow also acquired a Vulcan education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another NetEase-Backed Studio Has Closed Without Releasing a Game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a lot of fun with Eve Echoes for a while, but the steady catering to whales and multiboxers sucked the fun out of it for me. I just want to fly around with friends and blow shit up, without spending exorbitant amounts, or running my own personal fleet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday Merch Roundup — Star Trek: Resurgence Comes to Switch, EXO-6's Next Gen Captain Chair, and More Raktajino Mugs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve yet to shell out for any trek merch, excepting games (ok, one time I bought a bootleg darmok and jalad shirt online, but they’d misspelled tanagra on it, which was a bummer). I did thoroughly enjoy Resurgence on PC, though. You’re basically playing through an episode of Trek, post-Dominion War.

  You shift perspectives from scene to scene, alternately playing as the newly arrived XO of a science vessel, or an enlisted engineer. It’s well-written, with believable characters, and lots of weighty choices. It’s mostly talking and doing science and diplomacy, with some action and the odd stealth section. I, a random internet denizen, recommend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOTR: The fellowship of the ring. The game that people and history forgot.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting! Never got a snes growing up; my parents thought we played the nes too much, so it eventually went into the closet, and I transitioned to pc games. Looking at the screenshots, it seems to be a completely different game.

  I think the pc version is still worth playing, for Tolkien fans that are willing to put up with a bit of jank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOTR: The fellowship of the ring. The game that people and history forgot.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently started replaying the 1990 Interplay LotR game, which I have fond memories of playing as a kid. I also discovered they made a sequel which I never played, but intend to!

  It’s a top-down, party-based rpg with turn-based combat, and a fairly robust keyword-based dialogue system. Pretty clunky by today’s standard, but it’s chock full of loving detail. There are a number of deviations from the books for the sake of gameplay, but it’s quite faithful to the spirit of the text.

  You can find it on various abandonware sites, and apparently someone’s also rewritten the engine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was disappointed by Fetish Locator; I wasn’t into any of the included fetishes, so I rapidly got to the end, and missed all the content. Got an ending screen suggesting I should go back and try something, but like, no thanks! Still, at least it was free!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x07 "What Is Starfleet?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed the episode, but I agree that the documentary framing device seemed to preclude any serious discussion of the ethical problem, like you’d get in the 1701-D’s conference (briefing?) room. Instead, we got a lot of Pike saying “Orders is orders!”

  We’re not privy to Pike’s communications with Starfleet, there’s little nuance to any discussion of the issue we do see, and the Lutani get so little screen time, they’re practically 2d.

  I liked the novelty of the format, and I generally enjoy the way SNW mixes things up. I do think it often leans too far into style, to the detriment of substance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨new Star Trek Voyager videogame: Across the Unknown⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed Elite Force, but it’s more actiony than I want my Trek games to be. My favorites have always been the ones that try to put you into an episode—Judgment Rites, ST: 25th Anniversary, A Final Unity, and Resurgence. I think the adventure genre is a much better match with the franchise than strategy or action. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be the direction they’re going with this Voyager game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree! I think I got a free copy somewhere, years after release, and really enjoyed it. Sure, I wish the characters had been a lil’ more fleshed out, but I had fun with it. I have to assume that the bulk of the negative reaction to it had to do with bugs and/or missing content on launch, that had been fixed by the time I got around to it.

  I often have this experience, since the only game I recall buying on or before launch in the last decade is BG3.