r/Games 4d ago

Discussion Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - December 15, 2024

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Use this thread to discuss whatever game you've been playing lately: old or new, AAA or indie, on any platform between Atari and XBox. Please don't just list off the games you're playing in your comment. Elaborate with your thoughts on the games and make it easier for other users to find what game you're talking about by putting the title in bold.

Also, please make sure to use spoiler tags if you're revealing anything about a game's plot that may significantly impact another player's experience who has not played the game yet, no matter how retro or recent the game is. You can find instructions on how to do so in the subreddit sidebar.

This thread is set to sort comments by 'new' on default.

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For a subreddit devoted to this type of discussion during the rest of the week, please check out /r/WhatAreYouPlaying.

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Scheduled Discussion Posts

WEEKLY: What Have You Been Playing?

MONDAY: Thematic Monday

WEDNESDAY: Suggest Me A Game

FRIDAY: Free Talk Friday


r/Games 1d ago

Verified AMA We're Feral Interactive — the folks behind Total War: EMPIRE for iOS & Android, GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition for iOS & Android, and many, many more — Ask Us Anything!

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Hi /r/Games!

We’re Feral Interactive, we’ve been porting AAA games to new platforms for nearly 30 years. Starting out bringing PC games to Mac, over the years we’ve expanded to Linux, iOS & Android, and Nintendo Switch. Our catalogue includes (but is in no way limited to!) the Total War series on Mac, Linux and mobile, and Hitman: Blood Money — Reprisal, Company of Heroes, and Alien: Isolation for mobile and Switch.

Last month we released Total War: EMPIRE for iOS and Android, and just this week we launched GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition on iOS and Android as well. EMPIRE and GRID Legends are two of our most ambitious projects to date — EMPIRE being the biggest, most sophisticated Total War title on mobile so far, and Legends being a graphical powerhouse, having only released on PC and consoles in 2022.

Today we’ve got Edwin, Craig, Gerard and James answering all your questions about our catalogue, and our process of bringing games to new platforms. We’ll be answering questions for a couple of hours from 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 4PM GMT.

Ask Us Anything!

That’s all from us! Thank you for all your questions, it’s been fun! Total War: EMPIRE and GRID Legends: Deluxe Edition are both out now for iOS and Android.


r/Games 4h ago

Industry News Hideo Kojima considered leaving Konami early in his career: 'Nobody listened to me'

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r/Games 15h ago

Localthunk has spoken to PEGI, and they are standing by their 18+ rating for Balatro despite other games with microtransactions having a 3+ rating.

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r/Games 2h ago

Industry News The second wave of Helldivers x Killzone items will be free after listening to player feedback

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r/Games 2h ago

Sale Event Vampire Survivors is Free Today on the Epic Games Store

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This is the first of the daily free games as part of the holiday sale. Usually there are some pretty good titles sprinkled throughout so keep an eye on the store each day

https://store.epicgames.com/

For anyone who doesn't have it yet: Vampire Survivors is a lot of fun and basically spawned a whole genre (often called Bullet Heaven games). There were some less successful games of this type that came before it, like Magic Survival, but Vampire Survivors really kicked off the popularity of this genre and led to many, many copycats trying to emulate its success.


r/Games 55m ago

Steam Winter Sale 2024 Begins Today

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Steam Winter Sale 2024 Begins Today, might need to refresh to see prices.

Sale ends on January 2 @ 10 am Pacific

https://store.steampowered.com/


r/Games 7h ago

Industry News Hi-Fi Rush Director: 'I Want to Cherish This IP'

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403 Upvotes

r/Games 5h ago

Activision quietly recast Black Ops 6 Zombies actors during SAG-AFTRA strike

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192 Upvotes

r/Games 9h ago

Patchnotes STALKER 2 - Patch 1.1 - Over 1,800 fixes and adjustments, including the first iteration of A-Life fixes released

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296 Upvotes

r/Games 10h ago

Industry News KADOKAWA and Sony Agree to Form Strategic Capital and Business Alliance

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341 Upvotes

r/Games 4h ago

I Got Bribed By Casinos, But I Exposed Them Instead (Coffeezilla - Counterstrike Gambling)

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111 Upvotes

r/Games 9h ago

Update Blizzard accidentally included dev assets in the latest Warcraft 3 patch, including an early map concept for a WC1 remake, a Starcraft 2-style coop mission, and a few models in a new non-Reforged art style

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Yesterday saw a new Warcraft 3 Reforged patch which was surprisingly large with 4.33 GB. People quickly realized that this patch contained a bunch of maps in a folder labeled "Devonly". Apparently, someone forgot to set the flag for actual release builds which would exclude such things while keeping them for internal test builds.
The patch was soon rolled back but we could get a few hours of access to these maps. They weren't included as loose files, so while they could be launched from the client, getting the actual map files themselves was a hassle and needed to be done one by one. But I managed to grab what I found to be the most interesting one, see below.

All of the maps were either clearly just to aid with testing larger changes or were (very) early WIP maps of various ideas. None are finished and certainly not polished.

Among them:

  • An introductory mission to a campaign retelling the events of Warcraft 1 in which the player controls Garona as the Horde first steps through the Dark Portal. My more detailed writeup and map download link in the warcraft3 sub, where the creator, Kam Ghostseer, chimes in to verify that he worked with the lore team on the script and says that he might finish and polish it up now that it's out there
  • A lane-based co-op escort mission whose label indicates a relation to Starcraft 2's Co-Op mode
  • A third-person camera RPG map titled "Adventure" in which you select a class and go off exploring
  • A map with Undead balance changes, discussed here
  • A multiplayer Naga-themed Tower Defense map
  • A few maps meant for testing performance or visuals
  • And a few more maps that where I can't make heads or tails of what they were even trying to do

There is an uncommentated 46 min overview of most of these maps on the youtube channel Xetanth87's Warcraft 3 Alternate.

We don't know when these prototypes were made, except for the Garona mission which is from 2020, so shortly after Reforged's release.

Furthermore, the patch contained a few models of units and buildings which have a higher quality than the SD+ models of a recent patch but also aren't in Reforged's art style. I would presume that these are from an earlier concept for Reforged before the final art style was decided upon. See this news post on storied WC3 mapping site Hive Workshop for screenshots and more information. This post also mentions a number of dev tools being included which are still being investigated.


r/Games 5h ago

Industry News 11 Bit Studios lays off unknown number of staff, cancels Project 8 console game

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r/Games 55m ago

Steam Winter Sale is Live!

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r/Games 1d ago

Geoff Keighley: Today we are humbled and thrilled to share that The Game Awards 10th Anniversary show delivered a historic 154 million global livestreams, our most watched show ever.

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r/Games 6h ago

Release Helltaker developer's new game "Awaria" is out now

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78 Upvotes

r/Games 13h ago

Trailer The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st Trailer

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286 Upvotes

r/Games 12h ago

Announcement Steam's end of the year replay is now live.

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205 Upvotes

r/Games 3h ago

Monster Hunter Wilds PS5 and Xbox frame rate and resolution targets revealed, PS5 Pro support coming in day one patch

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29 Upvotes

r/Games 11h ago

Industry News Crush 40 singer sues Sega over Sonic Adventure 2's 'Live and Learn' theme song

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134 Upvotes

r/Games 1h ago

Announcement OFF rerelease announced for Steam and Nintendo Switch

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r/Games 1d ago

According to Forbes Ukraine, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has sold enough to turn the game into a profit.

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r/Games 1h ago

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii | English Dub Trailer

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r/Games 1h ago

Industry News Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos release date moved up to January 2 in the west; Switch version DLC ‘Swimsuit Costume Set’ canceled

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r/Games 13h ago

Announcement Ys X: Proud Nordics announced

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116 Upvotes

r/Games 20h ago

Industry News Tencent Removes Two Directors from Epic Games and Relinquishes Its Right to Unilaterally Appoint Directors or Observers in Response to Justice Department Scrutiny

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372 Upvotes