TBF, this thread and the citizen journalism thread are how I get much of my mobile gaming news. The bottom really fell out of mobile gaming journalism (in our preferred genres) with the rise of F2P and the death of affiliate links.
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Itās where I get most of my news too, which is why I feel weird posting a lot of stuff. Seems like everyone who would read it (you guys) already knows. 
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I still buy on your recommendations:)
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Whew, hey guys, have you heard about this game called The Banner Saga? Seems pretty cool, I just started it.
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Itās what year?
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The best part is I Kickstarted it. You can use my recreation of King of Dragon Passās Raven Banner in-game as your banner:
I was playing a lot of KoDP at the time.
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I think it is so easy to miss things these days, that I depend on this community to help fill the gaps on what I might miss.
For instance I saw Nowhere Prophet a few hours ago on my Steam Homepage, came here to post about it in citizen journalism, and saw we already had a main post about it. Cool, no need for me to post now. We all have each other covered.
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I agree; itās a virtuous circle.
The days of multiple iOS gaming news sites are long over (at one point, I had 18 sites bookmarked, although some were borderline useless), but thatās not necessarily a bad thing. It just means the ones that are left are focused, dedicated and user-driven to a point. Thereās value in that.
Has anyone played Shards the Deckbuilder in iOS (or possibly another platform is available)? It is apparently the non-IP digital version of the DC deckbuilder, though I havenāt played either and am in no position to comment.
Iām getting back in to painting after about 2 years. Does anyone have and easy/cheap methods of rehabbing old brushes and possibly removing paint from minis that my 4-year-old painted?
Iāll be working on some Reaper Bones minis in preparation for the Transformers line that Wiz Kids is working on.
I want to paint one of my games but I am so uptight about the quality of my game components that if I donāt paint them well Iāll be really, really irritated.
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Civ6. iOS. Multiplayer.
And Warframe + MUA3 on Switch.
Dark Souls 3. Sooooo much Dark Souls 3.
After playing a ton of Sekiro, Iāve been itching to play another FromSoftware game. I just havenāt decided whether to start Dark Souls 3, or finish one of the 3 other Souls games I never finishedā¦
I have played them all, but this will be the first one I finish (unless you count Bloodborne, which I would recommend over any of them).
I just canāt seem to get in to the series, but donāt they tend to get progressively bigger and better with each game? As a general rule, when Iām approaching a game series I like to finish the earlier games first because if I play the newest/best and then go back to the beginning, I am sometimes let down by the lesser of the games.
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I have a confession to make, and that is that since the soft launch of Call of Duty Mobile (Australia and Canada), my whole gaming time has been consumed by that. Theyāve captured the feel of what I remember playing the game like 12 or so years ago, and itās an FPS game that needs precise control, yet theyāve managed that so well on mobile. Iām genuinely surprised.
I know itās not exactly a āstrategyā game, but there certainly is tactics on the battlefield to be found.
Terraforming Mars beta has taken a back seat from my rounds, but Iāll be backā¦some day soon I hope but really donāt know with how lost in CoDM I am at the moment.
Send help.
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Sekiro takes everything I didnāt really care for from the Souls games (stamina, weapon and armor selection and upgrades, assigning stat points, long trash clears to the boss) and replaces them with a more streamlined skill tree, a secondary weapon system that reminded me of Bioshock 2, and an even better combat system. Once beating the game, I immediately wanted to start a new playthrough to show those early enemies how much I had improvedā¦
I have actually played them all for variable amounts of time, and I think theyāre all still quite viable, if you like the general formula.
Demonās Souls has, still, the most internally consistent and coherent story, and is probably the bleakest. I just played it a couple months ago, and it still holds up quite well after a decade. Each of the worlds is quite distinct from the others, with environmental storytelling not rivalled until Bloodborne. The combat is not noticeably different from Dark Souls.
Bloodborne has the most homogeneous world, but itās a well-realized one with great environmental storytelling. The gameplay is more focused and fast-paced than the other games, and actually even though DS3 came after, BBās combat feels better, more fluid (with half the frames, if you play DS3 on a PC).
As for the DS games, Iāve not played any of them to completion (yet), with about 20 hours in each. They all seem about equally vast, and there are few people who will say that 2 is better than 1, although it does have its partisans. The combat in 3 owes a debt of speed to BB, with the others being more methodical.
Probably all are worth playing, which is saying something for a series this long-lived (in an industry of mayflies and retreads).
Since I canāt edit my post for some reason (is there a time limit now, or perhaps itās just because Iām on a different device?), what Iāve played (not a lot) of Sekiro suggests to me it is not really the same kind of game as the other From games at all. Itās much faster paced even than Bloodborne, much more focused on aggression and timing, and the RPG aspect is all but gone.
Iād say it is the same kind of game as the others, but it is definitely faster paced and does drop a lot of the RPG elements. I just find that as my available gaming time has decreased, Iām happy to lose some of these RPG elements for streamlined gameplay.
Iāve got nothing against Call of Duty and I put my fair share of time into both the original and then Modern Warfare and itās immediate successors. I think the game got a little too bloated with all the perks and everything, and the community is awful, but there is a ton of fun to be had. I always played in hardcore and we always played objective-based games. That experience is so different from deathmatches that it is hardly the same game. Youāve suddenly got me excited for the mobile version.
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