Any attempt at advice to get them to do more than pressing a single button every 5 second will get you called toxic and/or kicked a lot of the time even if you're carrying their lazy butts through the content. Sad thing is, most of the time, it's long time players that do this so they really have no excuse.
I just leveled a Gunbreaker to 80 and now I'm leveling a Paladin (at 51), and I'm not experiencing the same issues you are. Since my main is a White Mage, I've been offering advice to healers I see in dungeons who are doing weird things. Usually there's silence or some discussion but it's never toxic and I've never seen a kick initiated. Either you're getting into some really bad groups of former WoW players or perhaps the way you're trying to give advice is coming across as adversarial?
One WHM in a Stone Vigil run was using Cure 3 constantly to heal me as I was tanking. I let him know that Cure 3 is only for big group heals and he should be using Cure 2 and Medica 2 before Cure 3. They didn't respond until the end of the dungeon and just said "sorry, couldn't type but I'm learning". That's pretty typical for FFXIV if you ask me, and the vast majority of people in this game are quite nice about suggestions or learning from mistakes.
I've long stopped bothering with sports games. It seems like a nightmare of wading through the worst of the industry when it comes to thieving pickpockets, gotcha obstacles and pay to win that resets every year.
That's why I only play iterations of each sport's game once or twice a decade.
Hadn't played any NBA games since 2K13. Decided to download 2K21 on Gamepass a couple months ago and had a good time. Wasn't aware of any fanboy transgressions and had no need for any microtransactions since it was all new for me.
Just started playing NHL 21 a couple weeks after after ignoring it since probably NHL15. Before that, NHL 08 was the last one I got into. There's enough new features in BAP mode in '21 to keep me entertained.
I'm currently on a hiatus from FIFA. Been about 4 years since I played a FIFA game. Maybe in 2023 I'll hit it up.
Golf games I don't mind playing yearly since they are more chill and less stressful, so I'll play those when they come out if they are free. Same with UFC games.
Madden games I technically I do 'play' them each year. But only to simulate for achievement points. As for the actual game, I think Madden '19 was the last one I really dug into.
Sports' games are dry AF these days and I agree it's not worth getting into them yearly for all the microtransactions involved. I also have sucked at online sport's games for 10+ years now so that's another reason to avoid them.
Just started playing NHL 21 a couple weeks after after ignoring it since probably NHL15. Before that, NHL 08 was the last one I got into. There's enough new features in BAP mode in '21 to keep me entertained.
BAP is a mixed bag, I like that there's more stuff in it but I have to wonder how much it's really adding to the experience right now.
My teammate, management, and brand ratings are all maxed at 1,000 pts and even when they drop 50-100 points because I was forced to respond like a ###### in some random conversation, they're right back up there within a game or two. Nothing particularly interesting has happened as a result of maintaining these high ratings thus far, and I'm over a quarter through the season as the leading scorer on the team.
I got a challenge from a teammate to get 5 takeaways in a game. Okay, let's do that. Well, there's a few problems with achieving that goal. First, the NHL defines a takeaway as any type of pressure applied to an offensive player resulting in them losing possession of the puck, but as far as I can tell the game apparently is only interested in non-physical methods of gaining possession like stick or poke checking, so my creaming someone and recovering the puck didn't count somehow. And okay, after a couple times you should check the stats and see "Hmm, my takeaways aren't going up, maybe I need to stick-lift the puck carrier," except the in-game player statistics don't show takeaway stats. Then I lose teammate points because I didn't achieve the goal, but again it doesn't matter because it gets gained back when I promise the coach to 'play it safe' then score on a risky play anyway.
Pretty neat to hear so much video game music at the Olympics. India walking into Frog's theme was wild.
Uh... excuse me? This happened?
Canada's athletes are dead to me.
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I'm just going to assume whoever got to enter to Song of the Ancients is just going to win every event they're in.
... Although it occurs to me that a game whose plot is based on the entire human race being killed off by a virus is a bit of an odd choice.
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If anyone is looking for a Zelda style game to kill some time Death's Door is super fun and one of the best games I've played this year.
Will be buying it tonight, it looks like a great Zelda type game.
Also Flight Simulator dropped today with a sizeable 97.2gb file size. Time to move one of my games to my external HD until I feel like playing a different game.
I played and finished Ryse: Son of Rome yesterday on my Series X. Yes, the Xbox One 2013 launch title. I remember starting the game and getting so pissed off with the combat mechanics and implementation of QTEs that I got about quarter-way through and stopped playing.
Well, the combat is still a bit tiresome although not nearly as bad as I remembered, although the executions are pretty brutal in a good way, but holy hell, it's still incredible in the visuals department. A game from 2013 has no business looking this good, and AutoHDR on the Series X adds a nice touch too. Allegedly there's a sequel finally in development now after Crytek and MS figured out IP ownership.
Loving Flight Sim on the Series X so far. It features some of the gobbledy#### that you’d expect with a complex sim port to console/controller, but it looks awesome and it’s amazing to finally see a proper flight sim on console at this level of fidelity.
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If anyone is looking for a Zelda style game to kill some time Death's Door is super fun and one of the best games I've played this year.
Death’s Door is good but I’m finding it’s largely carried by its art, music, and atmosphere, which is all excellent. The actual gameplay is merely okay - simple / repetitive combat that there’s way too much of, not enough enemy variety, not very many puzzles, not much to find or explore for in the world, the stat upgrades largely feel pointless. All the weapons and magic feel the same. I’m in the back quarter of it after six hours and am feeling a bit bored of it already.
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