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SrRd_RacinG
12/01/19 7:05:52 PM
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Have you played it and can you give us your thoughts?
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tremain07
12/01/19 7:07:33 PM
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Whole lotta walking
Whole lotta SJW pandering

No wonder the game is getting the fire it is
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ultimate reaver
12/01/19 7:08:21 PM
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yeah, 80% of the people who reviewed that game either didnt play it or stopped before finishing chapter 2

its not a perfect game but its interesting and has a lot more in it than just walking around as the most common complaint that gets thrown around claims.

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spikethedevil
12/01/19 7:10:38 PM
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tremain07 posted...
Whole lotta walking
Whole lotta SJW pandering

No wonder the game is getting the fire it is


What's the ''SJW'' pandering? Or is it the usuall characters that aren't straight while males BS?
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hockeybub89
12/01/19 7:13:06 PM
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spikethedevil posted...
What's the ''SJW'' pandering? Or is it the usuall characters that aren't straight while males BS?
But they say Trump is bad!

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ultimate reaver
12/01/19 7:32:19 PM
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spikethedevil posted...
What's the ''SJW'' pandering? Or is it the usuall characters that aren't straight while males BS?


Its an anti-isolationism story and SJW means absolutely nothing nowadays except "not right wing'." also tremain trolls a ton

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MabusIncarnate
12/01/19 7:34:03 PM
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Gamers have ruined reviews. The legitimacy of video game reviews has gone down the toilet. It's all about shock value, politics, and stirring up controversy anymore.

I used to put a lot of stock into reviews, wait until reviews came out to get a general idea of how it was. I don't even bother looking at reviews anymore at this point, it's gotten so childish.

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blablablax17
12/01/19 10:14:06 PM
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I thought it was great.
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FvP
12/01/19 10:16:05 PM
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I watched someone stream it and I thought it was entertaining.

I would rate it positively
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Smashingpmkns
12/01/19 10:17:10 PM
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Game is great. I'm on episode 5 right now. Goty easily.
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sylverlolol
12/01/19 10:17:30 PM
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Lol user reviews on any kind of even slightly controversial title are absolutely useless. Its an absolutely safe bet to make that most of the people who reviewed it didnt even play it.

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inloveanddeath0
12/01/19 10:18:11 PM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
Gamers have ruined reviews. The legitimacy of video game reviews has gone down the toilet. It's all about shock value, politics, and stirring up controversy anymore.

I used to put a lot of stock into reviews, wait until reviews came out to get a general idea of how it was. I don't even bother looking at reviews anymore at this point, it's gotten so childish.
Spot on

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Axiom
12/01/19 10:24:27 PM
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sylverlolol posted...
Lol user reviews on any kind of even slightly controversial title are absolutely useless. Its an absolutely safe bet to make that most of the people who reviewed it didnt even play it.
True otherwise it would be much lower
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Sad_Face
12/01/19 10:40:29 PM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
Gamers have ruined reviews. The legitimacy of video game reviews has gone down the toilet. It's all about shock value, politics, and stirring up controversy anymore.

I used to put a lot of stock into reviews, wait until reviews came out to get a general idea of how it was. I don't even bother looking at reviews anymore at this point, it's gotten so childish.

Gamers ruined reviews? I say the monetization of reviews ruined reviews. I don't trust reviewers from media outlets because they've been proven to have been paid off numerous times or they intentionally inflate scores to get in good favors from the company in favor of getting a job there or they give sloppy reviews due to rushing through the game to get their article out by the time the embargo lifts.

In terms of gamers' opinions, I stopped by a few topics about DS on a few sites and the general sentiment is that Kojima's ego is bigger than the moon but the game is a comfy hiking simulator as there's a lot of nuance in traversing from place to place. If "gamers" are turning you off, you need to get a better filter. There's tons of info to be gleamed, and depending on the topic or field, an almost literal goldmine of information that you can profit off of, via sifting through garbage discussion forums.
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Juhanor
12/01/19 11:19:52 PM
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I finished it the other day. Thoughts from a purely offline/single-player perspective:

Pros:
Little/no bugs, only found two cargo pieces in rocks (still able to be picked up) across 81 hours.
Characters were interesting, mo-cap was good and voice direction wasn't too bad despite celebrity status.
Walking was conscious/active, it isn't a TES style game where you get bored of sliding along and just fast travel.
Figuring out paths and figuring out how to navigate Sam up and down them was cool.
Tech design is top notch Yoji as always.
A couple wicked fun boss fights and good scenes relating to BB in them.
Mules are good to goof around with and beat up.
Floating carriers and speed armor are great fun.

Cons
Amelie's voice actress had terrible direction.
Twists were fairly telegraphed/easily guessed.
Except for the pair of wicked fun boss fights, the remainder were kind of boring. The human cast being weighted heavily towards Sam's side precluded any kind of cool or interesting antagonists like the Cobras or Winds, and if you aren't a games journalist (or aren't intentionally trying to lose) you very likely won't see any boss monsters outside of story events.
Vehicles are kind of useless unless you build roads, which cost a lot of mats and back-and-forthing.
Killing is punished, which is OK but might have made for a cool mechanic with increasing craters/BTs in the world.
Low Roar, Low Roar, Low Roar. 90% of the music is from Low Roar so I hope you're a fan of Low Roar. I wasn't before and I'm not now

So overall, no I wouldn't rate it 5/10. It's a solid setting, an OK story and fun to play if you don't go in expecting a shoot em up or the second coming of Metal Gear.
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008Zulu
12/01/19 11:26:29 PM
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I suppose it's a good thing players have a voice now. Back in before-fore times, we had only magazines to guide our purchases. And even back then, we suspected the magazine companies being paid for favourable reviews, because when we rented the game at Blockbuster, it turned out to be absolute trash.
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KINDERFELD
12/01/19 11:26:56 PM
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Juhanor posted...
I finished it the other day. Thoughts from a purely offline/single-player perspective:

Pros:
Little/no bugs, only found two cargo pieces in rocks (still able to be picked up) across 81 hours.
Characters were interesting, mo-cap was good and voice direction wasn't too bad despite celebrity status.
Walking was conscious/active, it isn't a TES style game where you get bored of sliding along and just fast travel.
Figuring out paths and figuring out how to navigate Sam up and down them was cool.
Tech design is top notch Yoji as always.
A couple wicked fun boss fights and good scenes relating to BB in them.
Mules are good to goof around with and beat up.
Floating carriers and speed armor are great fun.

Cons
Amelie's voice actress had terrible direction.
Twists were fairly telegraphed/easily guessed.
Except for the pair of wicked fun boss fights, the remainder were kind of boring. The human cast being weighted heavily towards Sam's side precluded any kind of cool or interesting antagonists like the Cobras or Winds, and if you aren't a games journalist (or aren't intentionally trying to lose) you very likely won't see any boss monsters outside of story events.
Vehicles are kind of useless unless you build roads, which cost a lot of mats and back-and-forthing.
Killing is punished, which is OK but might have made for a cool mechanic with increasing craters/BTs in the world.
Low Roar, Low Roar, Low Roar. 90% of the music is from Low Roar so I hope you're a fan of Low Roar. I wasn't before and I'm not now

So overall, no I wouldn't rate it 5/10. It's a solid setting, an OK story and fun to play if you don't go in expecting a shoot em up or the second coming of Metal Gear.


I'm a huge Low Roar fan and honestly, one of the few reasons why I'm interested in the game to some extent.

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LordFarquad1312
12/01/19 11:40:40 PM
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Garbage game.

If Kojima wanted to deliver a story he should have made a movie or a TV series.

Except no one would give Kojima the chance because everyone knows he's a hack. He just likes to abuse the fact that the game's industry standards are slighlty above "garbage".
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hockeybub89
12/01/19 11:41:12 PM
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Captain_Qwark posted...
I don't care how good the story is

If that's all the gameplay is it can be nothing better than a 5/10 honestly
I don't know what "that's all the gameplay is" even means. What do you consider gameplay and how many versions of it or whatever need to exist in a game to be worthwhile to you? Would you say all games with "more" gameplay are automatically ahead of of games with "less" gameplay regardless of story or any other components?

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hockeybub89
12/01/19 11:42:41 PM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
If Kojima wanted to deliver a story he should have made a movie or a TV series.
We all know a video game has never had story or been praised for its story before. Hideo Hackjima invented it to find an industry he could be hailed as a genius in. Today I learned all RPGs are garbage wannabe movies .

I don't know if gamers this allergic to story can really be trusted to evaluate any games with story, Kojima or not. It's kind of like saying you hate metal and wish it would disappear and then reviewing a metal album.

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LordFarquad1312
12/01/19 11:47:06 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
LordFarquad1312 posted...
If Kojima wanted to deliver a story he should have made a movie or a TV series.
We all know a video game has never had story or been praised for its story before. Hideo Hackjima invented it to find an industry he could be hailed as a genius in. Today I learned all RPGs are garbage wannabe movies .

I don't know if gamers this allergic to story can really be trusted to evaluate any games with story, Kojima or not. It's kind of like saying you hate metal and wish it would disappear and then reviewing a metal album.

When the gameplay is literally walking from point A to point B in the most akward, unfun way imaginable just to watch the next cutscene, there's no point in it being a game.

Death Stranding gains absolutely nothing from being a game.
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Smashingpmkns
12/02/19 2:41:43 AM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
LordFarquad1312 posted...
If Kojima wanted to deliver a story he should have made a movie or a TV series.
We all know a video game has never had story or been praised for its story before. Hideo Hackjima invented it to find an industry he could be hailed as a genius in. Today I learned all RPGs are garbage wannabe movies .

I don't know if gamers this allergic to story can really be trusted to evaluate any games with story, Kojima or not. It's kind of like saying you hate metal and wish it would disappear and then reviewing a metal album.

When the gameplay is literally walking from point A to point B in the most akward, unfun way imaginable just to watch the next cutscene, there's no point in it being a game.

Death Stranding gains absolutely nothing from being a game.


You literally have never played the game and dont know what you're talking about
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Tenmyouji
12/02/19 2:45:55 AM
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I liked it, though the BT respawn rate is annoying though.. kill dolphin go back to bike and its already raining again. How the hell am I supposed to use the bike?

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Juhanor
12/02/19 8:29:47 AM
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KINDERFELD posted...
I'm a huge Low Roar fan and honestly, one of the few reasons why I'm interested in the game to some extent.
You'll love Death Stranding, pretty much every major location has a trigger to play a track. They aren't bad of course but I was expecting some artist variation <_<
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DKJ
12/02/19 4:05:50 PM
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Positive - 8292
Mixed - 509
Negative - 9170

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Chicken
12/02/19 4:13:24 PM
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The users shitting on the review system here would be singing a completely different tune if it were highly rated.
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Unknown5uspect
12/02/19 4:13:50 PM
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Well if we're not on the bullshit 5-10 scale for video game scoring and actually used a 1-10 scale as it is intended, then 5.2 is above average.

It isn't an above average game.
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Smashingpmkns
12/02/19 4:16:53 PM
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Chicken posted...
The users shitting on the review system here would be singing a completely different tune if it were highly rated.


It does have a high critic review score though. The game got review bombed to hell.
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Unknown5uspect
12/02/19 4:18:04 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Chicken posted...
The users shitting on the review system here would be singing a completely different tune if it were highly rated.


It does have a high critic review score though. The game got review bombed to hell.

For being boring as shit. No one cares about a deep or interesting story if the gameplay is ass.
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ultimate reaver
12/02/19 4:19:05 PM
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thats bullshit and you know it

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Smashingpmkns
12/02/19 4:19:19 PM
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Unknown5uspect posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Chicken posted...
The users shitting on the review system here would be singing a completely different tune if it were highly rated.


It does have a high critic review score though. The game got review bombed to hell.

For being boring as shit. No one cares about a deep or interesting story if the gameplay is ass.


The gameplay is great though. I suggest you rent it and see for yourself.
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Unknown5uspect
12/02/19 4:20:59 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Unknown5uspect posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Chicken posted...
The users shitting on the review system here would be singing a completely different tune if it were highly rated.


It does have a high critic review score though. The game got review bombed to hell.

For being boring as shit. No one cares about a deep or interesting story if the gameplay is ass.


The gameplay is great though. I suggest you rent it and see for yourself.

It really isn't.
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Smashingpmkns
12/02/19 4:21:35 PM
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Unknown5uspect posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Unknown5uspect posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Chicken posted...
The users shitting on the review system here would be singing a completely different tune if it were highly rated.


It does have a high critic review score though. The game got review bombed to hell.

For being boring as shit. No one cares about a deep or interesting story if the gameplay is ass.


The gameplay is great though. I suggest you rent it and see for yourself.

It really isn't.

It really is. Play it and see for yourself brody
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AlecSkorpio
12/02/19 4:21:46 PM
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You have to remember you need a really high IQ to enjoy Death Stranding
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darkprince45
12/02/19 4:22:12 PM
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The best part about the game is that its so easy to see who is lying about playing.

Theres a ton of shooting, action, raiding camps. Fighting monsters. I actually got annoyed from fighting so much because I wanted peace time walking
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Unknown5uspect
12/02/19 4:22:27 PM
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Stop saying "play it yourself" like I haven't played it, you patronizing jackass.
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TheDreadedWave
12/02/19 4:22:50 PM
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Do you regret your words and deeds?

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Smashingpmkns
12/02/19 4:23:04 PM
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Unknown5uspect posted...
Stop saying "play it yourself" like I haven't played it, you patronizing jackass.


Well you should play it before you criticize it
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CruelBuffalo
12/02/19 4:37:25 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
It does have a high critic review score though. The game got review bombed to hell.


gears 5 is higher, not sure 83 is something to say is a high score
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Kaldrenthebold
12/02/19 4:39:18 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Game is great. I'm on episode 5 right now. Goty easily.



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Smashingpmkns
12/02/19 4:43:46 PM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
It does have a high critic review score though. The game got review bombed to hell.


gears 5 is higher, not sure 83 is something to say is a high score


Of course 83 is a high score lol Gears 5 is at 84 with almost 30 less critic reviews.

Side note, Gears 5 also has 15000 less user reviews lmao
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CruelBuffalo
12/02/19 4:44:49 PM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
Of course 83 is a high score lol Gears 5 is at 84 with almost 30 less critic reviews.

Side note, Gears 5 also has 15000 less user reviews lmao


so Gears is a highly rated game and GOTY material?
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Zack_Attackv1
12/02/19 4:47:10 PM
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lol

I can't even believe my girl, Sphere Hunter, dedicated two videos to that crap.
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Smashingpmkns
12/02/19 4:47:41 PM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
Smashingpmkns posted...
Of course 83 is a high score lol Gears 5 is at 84 with almost 30 less critic reviews.

Side note, Gears 5 also has 15000 less user reviews lmao


so Gears is a highly rated game and GOTY material?


I don't see why it shouldnt be. Outer Worlds is a Goty contender at 86. Control is at 82. Jedi fallen order is at 80.

Also Jedi Fallen Order has 16k less user reviews.
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Rika_Furude
12/02/19 4:49:06 PM
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User reviews are almost completely worthless for anything other than something that can be rated objectively (a physical product or review of a business). Most users rate shit like call of duty high every year
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creativerealms
12/02/19 4:52:55 PM
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spikethedevil posted...
What's the ''SJW'' pandering? Or is it the usuall characters that aren't straight while males BS?
It can mean anything. It's complete BS.

When you don't have a real reason to dislike something, blame SJWs.

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ImCallingYouOut
12/02/19 4:54:07 PM
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wow people hate walking simulator: the game by an aging egotistical douche bag? color me surprised

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Collat
12/02/19 4:55:39 PM
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Games definitely not for everyone, but anybody calling it a "walking simulator" didn't get very far into it.
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