Same, I don’t remember anything overt in D3 at all. Cartoon suggestiveness at best. I’d be more concerned about the violence with my 10 & 7 tbh.
So…. 4 is pretty confronting on that theme. Opening scenes are torture, sacrifice and violent bloody murder of a priest.
I have found it much more mature themed, and with the graphics processing such that you can make out spleens and blood soaked mud.
The combat is the same, but maybe more realistic (more gore).
Talent trees are fun, I don’t like the twitch addition (space bar dash) but i might get used to it
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I feared that, seeing the brief trailers (not for me, but for playing with my son).
It really irks me that Torchlight 2 doesn’t have couch co-op. Maybe I’ll hunt down a copy of Titan Quest.
Seconded on the not for kiddies and I’ve just started the game.
ETA: if you like D3, you’ll like D4.
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I am a simple man…I see a character creator and start in a dark snowstorm-ridden mountain area where Wargs howl at me before trying to gnaw the meat from my bones - I like!
Seriously…the only way they can f…udge it up for me is with a bad implementation of the rumored battle pass and in-game shop.
I hope they thread lightly after the initial D3 real-money auction house and the ridiculosity that is Diablo Immortal…
I think I am going to uninstall and refund.
Why? This morning I got super cranky at family for disrupting my gaming, I had made breakfast, done dishes and wanted to play, and got interrupted constantly.
Like, I don’t think it is any different to normal life, but the nature of an arpg does not lend itself to being constantly interrupted.
Great game, want to play, just can’t deal with the mental anguish.
I suppose this I why I can’t have nice things…
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Well, think of the family as the nice thing you can have. And it’s pretty great to have one, and to not expose them to unnecessary grumpiness. The game will still exist in fifteen years, when they’re all too willing to give you time alone.
I mean, probably. Provided we aren’t all dead and civilization hasn’t collapsed.
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Totally agree! Hence why I am going to delete ;6
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For all you Into the Breach aficionados out there - how does Kaiju Wars measure up to it? Any good? Premise is at least crazy enough in my book…
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For anyone who, like me, slept on The Castles of Burgundy, I’ll offer a brief overview:
Basically, each turn you roll 2D6. You have six pots of hexagonal tiles (each of one of six colors), and you can spend a die to take a tile from the matching-numbered pot. Your player board is a hex-map of slots in those six colors, each of which is also numbered. So the other major action you can do is spend a die to place a tile you have onto your player board in a slot of the matching color and number which is adjacent to a tile you’ve already placed. Everything else about the game seems like an answer to a question that basic structure poses, and they’re fucking good answers, which hang together really well. After a few days, I’m finding the hard AI often gives me enough of a challenge that I have to think, but I almost always win, and games take fifteen minutes of so. That’s a nice length to have; it feels meatier than my five-minute Ascension or Honeycomb Hotel games, but doesn’t push me toward the substantially longer Terraforming Mars level (the duration of which is most of why I haven’t played in months). I do wish there were a better AI, but I’ve already gotten my $3 worth.
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Grabbed two Steam puzzle game demos yesterday, and I’m sufficiently impressed with both to write a little about them:
Word Factori: It’s somewhat similar to Opus Magnum and the like–design a “factory” that will produce something given a set of building blocks and machines to manipulate those blocks. Here, you’re building words with a single “block,” the letter “I” (hence the cutesy name for the game). You have several different buildings that change that single letter, bending, rotating, mirroring, and joining pieces to create letters.
LOK: This one’s based off a book of “word search” puzzles (found here) where the goal is to cover all blocks in each grid. That’s done by finding “words” in the game’s grammar, each of which has an effect you can use to your advantage. For example, “LOK” lets you cover one additional block, “TLAK” lets you cover two adjacent blocks, and so on. Really smart game that I think will benefit from a digital adaptation in some interesting ways.
Both games were already on my wishlist, but they’re now definite day 1 purchases.
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For some inexplicable reason I’ve been enjoying some twin stick shooters lately. I was playing some Geometry Wars 3 and Resogun last week and have been playing some Helldivers this week. If anyone has any recommendations on PS4/5 or Switch I’d love to hear.
Most of Housemarque’s catalogue. You’ve played resogun. Alienation, dead nation, and Nex Machina are also excellent.
Helldivers is imho simply the best couch-coop game ever.
bursts of laughter and curses in short intervalls.
when you haven’t played Helldivers in couch-coop, then you haven’t seen/played nothing couch-coop yet.
and btw it’s named Helldivers for a reason: a tough challenge from hell, often thanks to friendly fire/grenade/mortar damage.
dive into it if you dare.
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“free” (you must be picked, but all my friends were picked instantly) beta for Mechabellum on steam.
this game must be the absolute climax of autobattlers (like Teamfight Tactics).
astoundingly deep and very motivating. climbing the learning curve is fun.
and a steep climb it is.
Mechwarrior vibes all over the place.
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Is enter the gungeon a twin stick shooter? That was a good game
I fucking love Helldivers; laying down fields of fire and not killing your comrades is an art.
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and so many kills by drop-pods 
“hey! you forgot to shout FORE again!”
but always the best laugh when someone has killed himself with own ammunition supply pod.
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Does anyone have any experience with King’s Dilemma Chronicles on steam? I can never get the physical game to the table and am wondering if this is satisfying to play single-player. It’s on a little bit of a sale, so I thought I’d ask. Thx!
has anyone played the Diablo IV open beta?
i liked it very much.
we did some crossplay PS4 with Windows PCs. it worked well.