looks great! Definitely adding to wishlist. I too have some wonderful memories of lemmings.

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Wow, what a wonderful article, thank you for going so in depth Liam! This is so the type of game I wish I had time for (I don't) but will follow along and live vicariously through all you all who get into it :)

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LOL that's a great analogy :grin:

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omg yes!! Love a good nextfest :) Are there just a ton more this time around than last time, or am I just imagining that?

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^ Prey is probably up there in my top 20 games of all time. It was just SO SO SO SOOOOOO good. I can still vividly remember the station, the big huge monster scaring the absolute SHIT out of me that first time, reading all the little notes on the mimics, etc... Just masterfully done.

Ambrosia feels very different. Still great! But just different. It's a lot about the comfy feeling of powerwashing goop off of stuff + cool scifi setting + figuring out what happened to the station (so that's the part that's probably most like Prey). But the entire demo is pretty much powerwash goop, collect samples, read interesting lore, try to piece together what happened. There's no combat at all that I saw. (I quit after the first bit, so maybe there is after that? I had seen enough to know I wishlisted it!)

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Wartales started out awesome for me. I love turn based rpgs. And the overworld is SOOOO well done with the unique graphical style, and exploration, etc...

What killed it for me was the insane difficulty + permadeath of squadmates. It took me SOOOO long to get a good squad built up, like in terms of real life hours spent, and then the game would hit you with scenarios where it's pretty much impossible not to lose a squadmate, which in terms of "winning" is still totally fine. BUT that person is gone forever, and often times was important, so now I'd have to go spend another forever finding and recruiting a decent replacement with the right perks, etc... To me it just felt like a massive FU to the respect of a gamers time investment. For a while I tried to play the scenarios with no deaths at all, but the frustration levels got so high I just gave up entirely.

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damn are we the same person?!?! LOL. Same here. I tried it maybe 2/3 yrs ago and it was SO HARD I just gave up. And I too beat it as a kid!

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Y'all should really go try the Ambrosia demo ....... that was super fun! Definite purchase for me now.

And @scaine - I had never heard of planet of lana, but due to your comment I took a look at the first game, and one of the top comments says "If your old enough to remember "another world" on the amiga, you will love this."

Insta buy.

Seems like it'd be neat on the Deck too.

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Ahhhhh yes I see Microsoft hasn't changed one bit. Still on with their absolutely brain dead naming schemes for things. This is a marketing/pr NIGHTMARE of a name.

So .............. this is an xbox ............. that doesn't play xbox games .............. AND THE WEBSITE IS EVEN WORSE!!! It literally says "Xbox anywhere" ......... BUT YOU CANT PLAY ANY XBOX GAMES ON IT. AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS?!?!?!??!

Xbox's are already a nightmare for family members to shop for due to the naming schemes. This is even worse now!!! I can just see Grandma and Grandpa going to get little Billy an xbox for christmas, and Grandpa goes "hey this xbox is portable! Billy can play in the car on the long road trips!"

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hooooooooooly shit there's so much goodness here. Phew. Let me see:

Hollow Knight ......... BAHAHAHAHAH you got me there. Releasing this year. BAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Phew!!! Gotta have a good joke to start off right?

Now for the list of actual real things that exist:

Clockwork Revolution - YES. Absolutely loved Wasteland 3 so super hyped for this.

Neverwinter Nights 2 - going back to Faerun & the Forgotten Realms feels like going home. Comfy old school rpg goodness. Yes please.

Expanse game - It's owlcat. I'll buy anything they develop. Plus even past that, this has got major Mass Effect vibes which is just awesome.

Outer Worlds 2 - It's obsidian. I'll ALSO buy anything they develop. Avowed was AMAZING. Can't wait.

Ambrosia Sky - sounds/looks cool! Never heard of it, but there's a demo!!! Trying that out today.

Resonance - Plague Tale series is wonderful, so sign me up for more of a great thing. Yes please.

Garbage Country - looks like a perfect Deck game!

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