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Yeah, that definitely sounds like something that I'd love to sink a bunch of time into. On to the wishlist it goes!

Oh, now that looks interesting! Immediately wishlisted.

Thanks for letting me know about that!

That's that procedurally generated detective game, right?

I really need to try it because it seems right up my alley. From what I understand, it can get pretty intricate when it comes to the detective work which seems really interesting.

Got some stuff in my cart, but need to play some demos first before I hit the "buy" button. Surprisingly quite a few games I'm interested in have one available, which is nice.

In the meantime, I've started Case of the Golden Idol because I loved Return of the Obra Dinn and I know it's highly recommended for fans of that.

Don't know if I'm really feeling this as much, though. I'll carry on, of course, because I still enjoy the detective puzzle aspect. But it isn't drawing me in the way Obra Dinn did for some reason.

I remember first trying the original when I was like 11 or something.

At the time, I didn't really understand much beyond "shooty shooty" when it came to games with guns (it would be shortly after this that I'd find stealth games and have that passion ignited), so I was given guns, used them how I usually did at the time and proceeded to get obliterated in the first level and gave up.

A few years later, after I'd gotten into stealth games, my love affair with immersive sims began.

Along with playing the Thief series, I went back to give Deus Ex a try and it all just clicked. I think it and Thief II were instrumental in cementing my love for the genre.

After playing and enjoying the first one, I played them all over the next few years and Mankind Divided is probably my second favourite after the original. Loved every moment.

Then fucking Square Enix does their bullshit, and then fucking Embracer ruined it for good.

All in all, I love Deus Ex and I'm super glad I found myself getting into stealth games and immersive sims, otherwise I would have missed out on it so many other of my favourite gaming experiences, Deus Ex being one of them.

What's weird is that it's like the only Looking Glass/Ion Storm/Eidos Montréal immersive sim franchise that doesn't have a clear spiritual successor. For System Shock we got not only BioShock, but Prey (2017) as well. For Thief, we got Dishonored. For Ultima, we got Arx Fatalis/Libertatis (and early Elder Scrolls to a very lesser extent).

But for Deus Ex, we've got... I don't know, Cyberpunk 2077, maybe? But the whole open world thing doesn't really fit in with the usual gameplay loop of Deus Ex. There are a fair amount of great cyberpunk games, but none seem to really scratch that immersive sim itch. I guess Prey is pretty close as well (in addition to its System Shock influences), if you consider some of the body/power upgrades, but it's not all that similar thematically.

I'd love for someone to come around and pull a Thanos by just going, "fine, I'll do it myself". If the franchise is dead, maybe now there's more motivation for that, since, before a few months ago, we were still clinging to what little hope remained for the third Adam Jensen game. Or maybe someone already has and I've missed it.

~~Think I might be in early stages of a hypomanic episode, but not sure.~~

~~Need to chill somehow. Running with assumptions, though. Might just be a bad few days; just haven't had them this suddenly in a while.~~

~~Might end up making this comment and by the time next week's thread is started in a day or two, I'll be feeling fine(-ish) again. Wouldn't be the first time.~~

Could really do with something interesting like the Olympics right now, but that's still almost a month away.

I don't even enjoy most sports, but it's a nice distraction. If I'm being honest, all I'm really interested in is the women's football portion, although there's at least more Euro 2025 qualifiers and a handful of friendlies in a couple of weeks to hold me over until then.

Edit: Lol, never mind, already feel better.

Was getting all set up for another playthrough of New Vegas, mods and all (even made my own, though I ditched it last minute), and then I realised, "Wait, why am I doing this? I don't actually feel like playing this at all right now, even with the new mods."

So, now I've downloaded some stuff in my backlog, but don't know if I'll play any of it at the moment because I'm kind of burned out a little.

Lol, my mother comes into my room and says "Kiefer Sutherland died-- No, wait! Wait! I'm so sorry! I'm sorry! I meant to say Donald Sutherland..."

She knows that I enjoy watching the both of them (and she also enjoys him, especially on that show Dirty Sexy Money), so it was oddly funny.

Anyway, I'll miss him, but I'm glad he got the long and critically acclaimed career he deserves.

Always gave 100% to every role and somehow made the films and shows he acted in more enjoyable with just his presence alone.

Yeah, then they fucked up and trained EddieAI 2.0 on some new art and we got the Dance of Death cover.

They had to roll back to 1.5 after that, unfortunately.

I feel kind of bad.

I really don't like killing things, but ants have literally invaded my home, so I've had to do something.

Sprinkled some diatomaceous earth today. Watching a few stragglers just kind of meandering and basically not knowing what the fuck to do while they dehydrate and succumb to death has depressed me a little.

On a basic level, the way it works, it's just cruel. Yeah, they're not "sentient", they're mostly drones, etc., but still. Seeing this lonely ant kind of just... slowly dying and not knowing what to do is a bit heartbreaking.

Not exactly playing, but learning my way around the GECK to create a few personal radio stations for New Vegas. I've learned how to do most of it, I just now need to sort the audio files and add them. Too cold to sit at my desk and finish this, so I'll do all that later.

(Before anyone says "why not just use the mod that lets you add your own music files", it's because I need separate radio stations with unique names that I can switch between, each with their own chronological order, rather than one giant one which basically works by saying "random bullshit go".)

As someone who used Sync exclusively in the reddit days (and uses it here as well), while the dev is generally open to suggestions, he tends to take loooooong breaks, even between betas.

That means bugfixes and features do eventually come, but sometimes not before someone has moved onto something else with more active development. The funny thing is that when those updates do come, they come in speeding. Like multiple updates per day on some occasions.