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Video Game Critic Wager 2023

You can't believe how upset I was that you stole my Space Marine

Most underrated video game OSTs?

The Commandos 2 soundtrack had some absolute bangers and is a soundtrack I don't think people really talk about very much.

And Uniracers for the SNES also had some very sweet tunes. But I think everyone who played that game can agree with that. Just that maybe not very many have played it.

And I'll just drop this Worms Armageddon theme song here while I'm at it.


How many items do you like to be able to carry in an RPG?

Inventory Tetris is everyone's favourite puzzle minigame!

Video Game Critic Wager 2023

Time to go look at what games got delayed from last year... And then only pick Strategy games and Warhammer games!

Need your own. What are the characteristics of steam cleaner extractor

or, you know, let's not

Video Game Critic Wager 2022

I thought for sure Darktide would get a lot more points than it did. I mean the hype was almost as high as for Cyberpunk 2077!

I'm still a bit bummed that I didn't read the tactics ogre game page closely enough though. I would have had an additional 15 points there!

And technically the game is not over yet. The league rules allows you to drop an unlimited number of "will not release" games and you could replace them with whatever is coming out in the last two weeks of the year for a bunch of points!

Turn based cinematography

In some ways the new XCOM and Battletech games try to be cool with cinematography in their combats but the fact is that so often I'm more annoyed by it than not and try to minimize the cinematography in the options. Usually because you are fighting so much that information efficiency feels more important than cool camera angles.

The one game where I really liked the cinema camera though was in Frozen Cortex (I'm gonna link it because it's a game more people need to play) and that's because of the simultaneous turn based system it used. So a turn is planned out and you press "execute" and both teams move at the same time which is the perfect time to also make it look cool. Because regular turn based cool camera doesn't look all that cool because everyone else is just standing still doing nothing. (See XCOM where your guy does a dash and jumps over an obstacle and through a window and it's badass but... nothing happens around him while he does that)

Best City Map?

One city I remember even though it might not be visually too interesting it had a feel that I've never really felt in other rpg cities. And that was Tarant in Arcanum. It's the biggest city in the game and is sort of a hub world for a bit.

But the thing I remember about it is that it's a city that is just put in a grid with nearly identical buildings. But I seem to recall (it's been a while) that each street has a name and thus you could navigate it by actual addresses. But also because the buildings were so samey it was actually possible for me to get lost in that city. I ran around back and forth in those streets and even after hours of gameplay I felt like I stumbled upon a location or character I hadn't seen before.

In my head (again it's been a long time so some of this might not actually exist in game) it also had areas that felt more slummy than others. There was a harbor and as you closed in on that there seemed to be more beggars lining the streets and despite the fact that I think just about every building used the same tileset it still managed to feel more run down in certain parts of the city than others.

To me this was just a marvel, especially considering how... visually uninteresting it technically was.

Video Game Critic Wager 2022

A massive mistake I did though was that I didn't know Tactics Ogre: Reborn was just a remaster when I looked at what to pick for my last slots. I thought it was a regular remake. And I can't drop it and replace it either so that's a 0-pointer for me.

Is AI generated art ethical?

It's as unethical as tracing