The early hours of Monster Hunter Wilds are spent in the more muted colors of its 'Fallow' season. As I choose my starting weapon and the early hunts kickstart that specific flood of endorphins only Capcom's flagship RPG can bring, I can't help but start to miss the brighter tones of World and Rise. But then comes the 'Inclemency' - in this case, a raging sandstorm that floods the desert accompanied by vicious lightning strikes. Then, midway through my tussle with a giant Alpha Doshaguma, the storm clears as quickly as it came, and the world bursts into vibrant, gorgeous life; the 'Plenty' has arrived. It's a stunning moment that is everything I dreamed of and more. In many ways, it feels like an allegory for Monster Hunter as a series. If you can push through the struggle of those early hours, and survive to the 'spark' of finding the weapon that clicks for you, you'll reveal something truly beautiful. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Monster Hunter Wilds' director wants to let players discover its best tricks Monster Hunter Wilds beta start and end times All Monster Hunter Wilds monsters View the full article
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Monster Hunter Wilds is both a return to meat-and-potatoes monster combat and a dramatic revision of the hunting format. It's a more approachable lizard-slaying sandbox, and it's a tangle of multiplayer quirks that still feels like something out of 2007. It's the cleanest Monster Hunter has ever played, and it's a temperamental piece of software that might ****** if you tab back in at the wrong time... Read more.View the full article
Monster Hunter Wilds feels a lot like its predecessor, 2018’s Monster Hunter World. The fifth mainline iteration of the franchise definitely plays like an evolution of its predecessor, which made the jump to serious hardware after the series’ humble beginnings on handhelds, and not so much of a reinvention or revolutionary step forward into something different. But that’s not to say that Wilds is an exact copy of World because there have been several improvements this time around that have made the experience much more satisfying and worth every second. View the full article
Monster Hunter Wilds is very different. Even after playing both of its open betas, I was shocked by how different the final game was from everything I had been expecting. Not that I expected it to be an exact clone of Rise, with its small-but-mighty world and acrobatic combat, or even a direct follow-up to World, which brought mass worldwide appeal to the Monster Hunter franchise at the cost of its characteristic difficulty. Wilds isn't anything like classic Monster Hunter, either - the series has come much too far in the 20-something intervening years to go back. View the full article
Mortal Kombat 1 teases new gameplay of T-1000, showcasing one of his fatalities while also teasing a surprising new Kameo fighter. After a ******* of discontent from fans, Mortal Kombat 1 has been enjoying a ******* of renewed interest from fans, thanks in large part to the most recent Conan update, which also added a secret fight with a new character. View the full article
Do you have a favourite travel destination? Somewhere you just can’t stop going back to, even though you know there’s a whole world out there to see? That’s Monster Hunter, for me. It’s a holiday. A fantastical sabbatical from a real life that is often painful, exhausting, and overwhelming. Even though you’re carving up dragons, covering your ears from earth-rumbling roars, eating thunderbolts on the daily, and getting your nice new armour burned to a crisp with alarming regularity, Monster Hunter is a recess, a break, a sojourn. Read more View the full article
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Yuri Lowenthal, who voices Peter Parker in Insomniac‘s Spider-Man series, has suggested the character won’t play second fiddle to Miles Morales in the next series entry. While Spider-Man 3 has yet to be officially announced, that didn’t stop Lowenthal from teasing Peter Parker’s role in the game during a recent interview. After both characters had their own solo outing, Peter Parker and Miles Morales shared the spotlight in Spider-Man 2 (beware, spoilers follow), with players swapping between the two heroes as they teamed up to save New York from villains including Venom, Lizard and Kraven the Hunter. Read More... View the full article
In recent years, many have proclaimed this the ‘golden age’ of Capcom – and with good reason. The Japanese publisher’s impressive run of form arguably began in 2018 with the release of Monster Hunter World, a game that is now Capcom’s best-selling game ever. Now Capcom is back with its sequel, Monster Hunter Wilds. Wilds is a game that’s not only an absolutely first-rate action experience, it’s also the most approachable the series has been while achieving a spectacle not yet seen in the two-decade-old franchise. Monster Hunter Wilds is frictionless. At least, it’s frictionless for Monster Hunter. It’s probably apocryphal at this point to say that “back in my day” everyone was playing Monster Hunter by clawing their hand around a PSP, but it’s illustrative of just how far the series has come. Read More... View the full article
Remaking an old game in a new engine is a venerable and usually doomed mainstay of the modding scene. Always has been, always will be. They either stay 'in development' forever, get cease-and-desisted, or shrivel up in their incubators. It's the natural order of things... Read more.View the full article
Pentiment, Pillars Of Eternity, and Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says there's enthusiasm at Obsidian for a potential tactics game set in the same universe as Avowed and the Pillars RPGs, but he's not sure the audience is there for it. "Pillars Tactics is a thing that a lot of people at the studio would like to work on, and there are a lot of people that like tactics games," he recently said on a livestream, but they'd need to work out "a scope of development where it feels like it could actually make money." (Cheers, GamesRadar) Read more View the full article
Between Civilization 7, Manor Lords, Total War, and relative newcomers like Into The Breach and Tactical Breach Wizards, the strategy genre is as busy and full as it's ever been. But do you ever feel like it's gotten stuck? There are a lot of great games, but also, perhaps, a sense of endless 'iteration' - tweaking, revising, and improving, but not really driving forwards. Perhaps this is why Age of Empires 2, StarCraft 2, and Command and Conquer Remastered remain some of the most popular RTS games on PC. The new stuff doesn't feel that new, so you may as well replay the old stuff, because it's basically the same and at least then you get the nostalgia kick. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
I played Dredge on an eight hour flight to New York. I vividly remember turning into a tight valley in search of resources, only to be set upon by some terrifying Lovecraftian-inspired leviathan that stalked my little tugboat from below. Paranoia began to set in, the once idyllic ocean warping and twisting, eyeballs swimming before my vision, taunting me. I let out a terrified squeak, not only waking up my snoring dad, but also attracting the attention of the flight attendant, who offered me a bag to breathe into. I'm still not sure whether it's funny in hindsight, or absolutely mortifying. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dredge is one of the greatest PC horror games, and now it's free, if you're fast As if Dredge couldn't get any better, there's some slick new DLC One of 2023's best indies finally dates its next big Steam DLC View the full article
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Pokémon Day is right around the corner and expectations are high following a year of secrecy after last year’s celebrations—and I’m praying that a forgotten generation will finally be acknowledged in this year’s slew of announcements. As fans eagerly await news of the Legends: Z-A release date and wonder whether the rumors of a new ****** and White remake are true, I’m on the edge of my seat wishing Johto is revisited for the first time in 16 years. View the full article
The creator of DayZ and Icarus has announced a massive DLC for the latter game, and it's packed with new content. Originally released in 2021 to mostly positive reviews, Icarus is known for its brutally challenging gameplay and unforgiving environments. Since launch, the survival horror title has received numerous patches to fix a variety of bugs that were plaguing the game. Despite the glitches, Icarus serves as a worthy spiritual successor to the apocalyptic zombie chaos of DayZ for many fans. View the full article
Though Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 doesn't pull any punches early on, the game's economy kind of falls apart once you reach the Kuttenberg region. This may well be getting tuned accordingly, as per some recent comments from Daniel Vávra, the creative director of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. A phenomenally deep and complex RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 starts you off with just about nothing in your pocket, effectively forcing Henry to steal his way to success. That's just how it goes sometimes, after all. The thing is, by the time you've reached Kuttenberg, almost every single encounter will have at least one or two heavily armored foes, and armor sells really, really well in this game. So money is no longer a concern, and Warhorse Entertainment is well aware of this fact. More specifically, Vávra recently participated in a Czech charity livestream with streamer Agraelus, where he offered his thoughts on the matter. [Hidden Content] Expect an economy rebalance update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2... eventually Please note that this information comes second-hand from a Redditor who speaks Czech. VincentVanHades gracefully posted a translation of Vávra's comments over at the Kingdom Come 2's biggest subreddit, as featured above. For Czech speakers, the full VOD is now available on YouTube, and it's a neat seven-hour watch if you're intrigued by the prospect and have some time to spare. Back on track, Vávra said that Warhorse knows Kingdom Come 2's combat and economy are the biggest problems the game currently has. Combat will be difficult to balance, as Warhorse appears to be uncertain whether any changes made should be pushed into existing playthroughs, or perhaps as part of the upcoming Hardcore Mode update. Further, it takes weeks for Warhorse's quality assurance team to thoroughly test things out, which also slows down development. The economy is, arguably, the ******* problem of the two. As soon as enemies begin to wear heavy armor, each fallen foe can net you over a thousand Groschen, easily. At the same time, traders only ever have up to 800 Groschen per resupply, which makes it easy to side-step money-earning activities as soon as you're reasonably well-equipped. Vávra appears to think it's very easy to earn money in Kingdom Come 2, mind, which means the likeliest fix is a massive nerf to armor trade pricing. Since this was just a random charity stream, however, expect to hear more about this in due time. Also curious is the fact that Vávra may have hinted at the fact that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 3 might be on the way. When asked about the possibility of further sequels to Kingdom Come, Vávra did some of the classic smiling and smirking he did back when he was hinting at the existence of Kingdom Come 2, so make of that what you will. Remember, too, that we've got some DLCs for Kingdom Come 2 underway, so there's lots to look forward to if you're a new fan of Henry of Skalitz, too. The post Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s late-game economy may get rebalanced soon-ish appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
The Intimidating Feline Codpiece is one of the many Treasure Map quests you can solve during your adventures in Avowed. If you're not sure where you find this one, here's the solution for it. How to solve the Intimidating Feline Codpiece Treasure Map in Avowed Your treasure hunt begins right at the beginning of your adventure in Avowed. In Claviger’s Landing, the bustling beginner hub in the Dawnshore region, you'll meet various traders hawking their wares at every passerby, yourself included. Among those merchants, you'll find Lynna, a merchant with an eye for the unusual and the cryptic. Speak with her and gaze upon her wares. For a modest sum of coin, she will sell you the Intimidating Feline Codpiece Treasure Map, to get you started. Screenshot by Destructoid The map itself is a cryptic, hand-drawn sketch depicting a ravine flanked by towering cliffs, with a small arrow pointing to a cave entrance. While it might not look like much at first, this scrap of parchment will lead you to one of the early game's best armor pieces. Once you have the map in hand, it’s time to decipher its clues. Your destination lies southeast of The Rise, northeast of the Yellowband Camp, where towering rock formations and eerie skeletal remains mark the entrance to a well-secluded cave. Image by Destructoid The easiest way to confirm you’re in the right spot is to look for a moss-covered natural archway leading into a secluded path. Screenshot by Destructoid Beyond this, a barricaded cave entrance waits, where you'll find a chest and the reward to the treasure map inside. Intimidating Feline Codpiece Treasure Map Rewards inside the chest, you’ll find the Stelgaer’s Pride unique chestpiece. This sleek medium armor isn’t just for show as it comes with some powerful but specific perks that may be a great addition to your build. Its core stats are: 18% Damage Reduction 3 Additional Damage Reduction -35 Maximum Stamina -30 Maximum Essence In general, Stelgaer's Pride is for builds that don't rely too heavily on Stamina or Essence to function. The damage reduction is typical of most armor of medium build, and the same can be said about the negatives as well. However, Stelgaer's Pride, being unique, has two additional perks that should not be overlooked: Bloodied Fury (Major Passive): Automatically casts the Barbaric Shout ability when you take a heavy hit, giving you a combat boost right when you need it.Barbaric Shout - This is a tier two Fighter ability that interrupts smaller enemies and empowers you against large ones when cast. You'll also gain the 'Uninterruptable' buff, preventing your attacks from being interrupted while providing you additional Stun power. Lesser Relentless: Increases stamina regeneration by 5%, keeping you on your feet and moving just a bit longer. Beyond the armor itself, the chest also contains extra coins and crafting materials, making this a worthwhile detour even if you're not planning to make use of this unique armor. Crafting materials are especially useful, as having an abundance of them means you'll never run into a scenario where you cannot upgrade build-critical gear. The post Avowed Intimdating Feline Codpiece Treasure Map solution appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article
Given the series’ history, it’s only natural to wonder if Monster Hunter Wilds will support crossplay and cross-progression. Wilds is the newest installment in Capcom’****** monster-hunting series, which made a breakthrough in the Western market with the release of Monster Hunter World in 2018. Since then, the main series expanded with the arrival of the Iceborne expansion for World in 2019 and then the release of Monster Hunter Rise for Nintendo Switch consoles in 2021. In 2022, players saw the release of Monster Hunter Rise for PC and, a year later for current and past-generation PlayStation and Xbox consoles. View the full article
Every Fisch update adds new secret fish for players to find, but they’re rare. While these usually don’t have any specific purpose in the game, you need some to open a mysterious door in Mariana’s Veil this time. Here is everything you need to know about getting these secret fish in Roblox’s Fisch. View the full article
You have weak equipment, no sanity, and a ghost ready to hunt you down right away on one of the toughest maps in Phasmophobia’s Gotta Go Fast! challenge. This is by far one of the most difficult weekly trials you can tackle. Even if you’re a ghost-hunting pro, there’s a good chance you still won’t find this challenge easy since it’s designed to be one of the toughest ones you can face. If you’re struggling to get it done, here’s how to complete the Gotta Go Fast! challenge in Phasmophobia. View the full article
Mecha BREAK provides plenty of customization options, both visually for your pilots and Break Strikers and for tweaking your loadout with different weapons. Corite is one of the three forms of currency in the game. The use of Corite can be confusing in Mecha BREAK because it doesn’t show as a purchase form for the majority of upgrades and cosmetics in the game, so it’s not always directly clear how you utilize Corite. It can be equally confusing how it’s earned, as it doesn’t appear as a standard reward in many places. View the full article
It's ZineQuest month on Kickstarter, and indie RPG creators are pulling out the stops to bring weird and wonderful little RPG 'zines to the world. "It's What My Character Would Do" is a one shot comedy RPG about RPGs, with every player taking on the role of a self-absorbed DnD player ready to throw the party under the bus because "it's what my character would do". Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: All DnD 2024 backgrounds explained DnD stats explained Fan sourcebook gives DnD new, brain-eating monsters from African folklore View the full article
Dubbed "Faviconic Pong," this unusual implementation comes courtesy of developer Nolen Royalty. It builds upon another unusual implementation in which a version of Flappy Bird was played solely within a single favicon. While that was impressive in its own limited way, Faviconic Pong takes things several notches higher with an... Read Entire Article View the full article
The open source and cross-platform evolution sim Thrive has added in some even more advanced gameplay elements, making it a whole lot more interesting to attempt survival. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
The Blood of Dawnwalker dev Rebel Wolves is partially owned by NetEase, but the studio wants you to know its upcoming game is fine despite recent reports. Read more View the full article
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Here we go again. One game I was excited about was the upcoming Mecha BREAK, which currently has a playtest demo on Steam but they've added in anti-cheat. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article