Quoting: JarmerI'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

It's all little kids now. Not sure exactly when the shift happened, but Fortnite's audience has skewed to elementary aged kids.

Source: Am a teacher, and I listen to the kids talk.

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Quoting: Wolfgang RoseIt looks impressive, but its NVIDIA... I'm on a 4070 at the moment and my upgrade cycle is 3-5 years away based on what I play. This will be my last NVIDIA card though, I'm not going to support a company that is actively trying to kill the pass-time I have had almost entire life.

Yep. I'm still on a 1060 and finally hitting the point where I need to upgrade soon. I've always been a GeForce guy, but not anymore. The build I start within the next few months will definitely contain a Radeon.

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Quoting: hardpenguinThis game has kinda fallen into obscurity since they moved to Epic 🤷

Lol, not correct at all.

For years, average monthly player counts were in the 30-40K range. In early 2020 that number climbed to the 40-50K range.

Then in late September 2020, Rocket League went free to play and player counts skyrocketed to 70K+ but only for one month. The influx of new players left and the game has slowly fallen to average player count of 15-20K per month.

So yes, that is correct. This is the lowest player counts have been since 2015.

Source: https://playercount.gg/rocket-league [External Link]

Your confidence outmatches your knowledge.

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Quoting: JarmerYou gotta give #3 a go! It's SOOOO GOOD. I didn't like the overworld traversal all that much, but EVERYTHING else is so well done. The humor is great, and it's got such a good power creep. Mid-game when your builds finally start shining it's just crazy fun to unleash all hell in random encounters.

Oh I fully intend to! It's on my wishlist, just waiting to whittle down my unplayed games a bit more before I pull the trigger on buying anything else.

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Atom just didn't hit for me and I don't know why. I love tactical CRPGs. I love the old Fallout games. I love the first two Wasteland games (haven't gotten around to trying 3 yet). I played Atom for around 23 hours and then quit though, which is very rare for me. Usually I either abandon games within the first 3 hours or I play them all the way through barring game-breaking bugs.

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I thought everyone hated Civ VII? I've yet to read a single positive review. Granted I don't go looking for them, so maybe I'm just in a bubble here, but I'm still surprised to see it nominated for anything.

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Saber Interactive is a hard pass for me, unfortunately.

Why? Did I miss some big controversy involving them or is it something more personal?

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Picked up a bunch of old games that I'd always been curious to try but never curious enough to spend more than a few bucks on: Dishonored, Far Cry, and Alan Wake.

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I've been bottling this up for years: I fucking hate crafting. I abhor every aspect of it and it annoys the hell out of me that every single game contains it now. Doesn't matter if it's an RPG, a shooter, or whatever. They are all crafting games now.

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I fucking LOVE Mordheim (the actual tabletop game, not the video game). The video game version is decent and I really wish they had been successful enough to finish it. I would have gladly paid for DLC that contained every warband.

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