"BLÅHAJ is more than just a shark to some people (all of them). BLÅHAJ is a way of life. BLÅHAJ is beloved by people of all walks of life. Young, old, Rin, British people, other people, Rin, my dad laughs at me but he doesn't count, Rin, the president (Rin), and BLÅHAJ love BLÅHAJ. In this way, it could be said that something that provides light and comfort for so many people across all of Society is a necessity, in the same way that food and transportation are. You wouldn't let Rin starve, would you?"Rin Penrose

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Alchemyth

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Here's the livestream for the Wuthering Waves 1st Anniversary on April 29th, which means we are half a year away from my "wait until 1.5 years pass before playing" recommendation last year! Writing this as I watch it live, which somehow is better output than the vast majority of game journalists, I still don't understand:



For all intents and purposes, it's a "filler patch" in between story updates, but they seem to be putting a lot of resources into the event content itself, in comparison to previous "filler patches". (EDIT: confirmed by them saying 2.4 this summer would continue the story of Cartethyia) The main event is Mario Party, a tournament between every single character released in the game so far, but they're cubes. Not Minecraft-like models, no, actual four-sided cubes that you control in the overworld. It's hard to explain without seeing it in action, but expect social media to be flooded with content regarding them because of sheer marketability. (EDIT 1 hour in: they ARE turning the cubes into merch, please look forward to their presence all across xwitter)

Zani and 5 limited-run characters (and their weapons) will be the first banner run, Ciaccona and an additional 5 limited-run characters (and their weapons) will be the second banner run. For the limited run character/weapon banner, you can choose which ones you want, so it's essentially "filling in the blanks" if you're missing anything. Unfortunately, leaks beforehand stated that this would be a 'free' selector because it's the anniversary, but it's paid, and you know how I feel about that sort of thing, so I'll try to prevent myself from fedposting about the fact that there are twelve fucking limited-run characters in these banners-

Illusive Realm is returning, which was an incredibly limited Rougelike mode from the 1.0 version of the game (to fill in the wait for more content), with various enhancements based on their obvious-mechanic-testing events throughout the past year. Now it's permanent, as it should have been, but better late than never? Hopefully they'll keep updating it like they do their PGR game modes! There's another event game mode this patch featuring Ciaccona, and they're experimenting with story delivery where progress in the game mode = more story. All of this alongside standard patch events, if you've played the game since 2.0, you'll know what to expect, but it essentially adds up to at least one (1) guaranteed 5-star divided between the entire patch cycle. Give or take, depending on how good you are at the Endgame, but that's just a difference of a few pulls, so don't stress out over it too much.

They're also introducing a system where you can change the Main Stat of your (unenhanced) echoes, and removing Boss Cooldowns so you can keep fighting them repeatedly for their echoes without waiting ~5 minutes in between. Still waiting on full echo modification, but I anticipate that there will be further improvements as the game goes on, and they keep introducing new echos + set bonuses. As long as they don't invalidate already-farmed sets with future powercreep, there won't be revolts...so the ball is in their court to make sure they do right by their players over time.

Changli (counselor) and Carlotta (swimsuit) are receiving outfits in Patch 2.4 - and since Jinhsi's outfit cost around $50 without the launch discount, I can only assume a similar pricing structure. This may sound obvious, but please do not spend $50 on an outfit for your gacha characters, I am begging you!

Cyberpunk Edgerunners collab in 2026, what the fuck! They better get Rebecca playable, or there will be riots. I'll even take Lucy as a compromise.

Editing this while they play the orchestral melody of the past year's theme music, I'll also do a quick re-watch of certain parts after the stream to make sure I didn't miss anything major that hasn't already been covered. If I have, or if a detail is off by a bit, blame my schizophrenia. Until then, here's the codes from the stream for easy 300 Astrite total:

1STANNIVERSARY
EVERFLOWING
WITHYOU

Stream's over, Chat's complaining about no free 5-star, Total Leaker Death, etc., but that's just standard behavior for them at this point.

As for me, I'm attempting to pull for both Zani and Ciaconnia, which means I'll have to be on-top of running every single event each day so that I don't have to spend $$$. Do not take this as a recommendation of the game, I'm a freak starved for MMO/live service, you should still wait at least another half year like in my original recommendation, if you're not already playing!

Lots of other QOL and smaller event updates from the live stream, but not nearly as important to be written up (in my opinion), this patch already has a lot of major/themed events going on as-is. I would end with Ciaccona's trailer, since her folk music and singing are fantastic, but Wuthering Waves hasn't uploaded it to their channel minutes after the livestream ended, which means the game's obviously EoS any day now. Sad!

12 fucking banners? I hope they're not the typical 50/50 bullshit.
 

John Vtuber👁️

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12 fucking banners? I hope they're not the typical 50/50 bullshit.

They are! One banner for the new character, one banner for a selection of five, rotated out in the halfway point.

Choose which character you want to pull in the selection banner, it’s still 50/50 odds.
 

ScarletCorrupt

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Last Epoch is a very fun game. I've spent quite a bit of my free time the last few days playing it with a friend of mine. Would definitely recommend.
:kiarachefkiss:
 

John Vtuber👁️

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In the worst kept secret of the world, Oblivion Remaster is likely to be revealed/released tomorrow, how does Todd Howard keep getting away with it:

 

PleaseCheckYourReceipts

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In the worst kept secret of the world, Oblivion Remaster is likely to be revealed/released tomorrow, how does Todd Howard keep getting away with it:


The fun question is how do they screw this up. What info we do have seems like the team doing the remake actually put real thought into things, but, well, it's a modern Microsoft product. Keep expectations low.
 

Smelliest007

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The fun question is how do they screw this up. What info we do have seems like the team doing the remake actually put real thought into things, but, well, it's a modern Microsoft product. Keep expectations low.
Wrapping Unreal over a different engine, I've already been burnt by Like a Dragon: Ishin!, I do not have high hopes there won't be severe issues due to it.
 

PleaseCheckYourReceipts

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Wrapping Unreal over a different engine, I've already been burnt by Like a Dragon: Ishin!, I do not have high hopes there won't be severe issues due to it.
This is the one time where it makes sense. Though everything around the Creation Engine is it's own discussion point. I've never quite figured out why they have so many issues with it. I get the value of the modularity, but they must have built too many internal tools around old versions and just didn't want to update things. Or they just never wanted to pay enough to hire in guys capable of doing the cutting edge work.
 

UberSoldat

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In the worst kept secret of the world, Oblivion Remaster is likely to be revealed/released tomorrow, how does Todd Howard keep getting away with it:


Allegedly 120 gigs, over 20 times the size of the original. The absolute state of things.
 

God's Strongest Dragoon

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Allegedly 120 gigs, over 20 times the size of the original. The absolute state of things.
I wish games would make downloading 4K textures just an optional free DLC download.
 

Brosnan Pierce Brosnan

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Remember back when we could load games off of discs. That tended to be faster than modern equivalent on ssds. Technology is fucking hysterical
 

CalciumAnimal

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Remember back when we could load games off of discs. That tended to be faster than modern equivalent on ssds. Technology is fucking hysterical
because advances are not decided by what keeps the costs low for sane users.


every game must use unnecessary lighting engines for every lightbulb because god forbid we have a sane framerate.
 

God's Strongest Mozumite

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Allegedly 120 gigs, over 20 times the size of the original. The absolute state of things.
It's a real tragedy, because Oblivion was a perfect candidate for a remake/remaster that could address its shitty combat, poor leveling system, and general instability. Now they're either not going to do any of that, or overcorrect by watering the gameplay down into Skyrim 2, all the while turning the once vibrant land of Cyrodill into overfiltered brown slop:
gokzkbwxqaa7uca-webp.7222872

Who the hell decided to revive the tried-and-true art design philosophy of making it look like you smeared the player camera with shit, anyways? Why are we going back to 2011? I'm supposed to pay full price and sacrifice 120 gigs of space from my hard drive for a remake that sucks all the soul and charm out of the original product? And is it seriously just going to drop tomorrow? With basically no advertising? If it weren't for the leaks, I wouldn't even know this game existed.

What were they thinking? :fishmandispair:
 

CalciumAnimal

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It's a real tragedy, because Oblivion was a perfect candidate for a remake/remaster that could address its shitty combat, poor leveling system, and general instability. Now they're either not going to do any of that, or overcorrect by watering the gameplay down into Skyrim 2, all the while turning the once vibrant land of Cyrodill into overfiltered brown slop:
gokzkbwxqaa7uca-webp.7222872

Who the hell decided to revive the tried-and-true art design philosophy of making it look like you smeared the player camera with shit, anyways? Why are we going back to 2011? I'm supposed to pay full price and sacrifice 120 gigs of space from my hard drive for a remake that sucks all the soul and charm out of the original product? And is it seriously just going to drop tomorrow? With basically no advertising? If it weren't for the leaks, I wouldn't even know this game existed.

What were they thinking? :fishmandispair:
the screenshot actually illustrates what the intent was look at the top image from the 2025 version.

I would say that looks far better then oblivion.

but then you get to the lower image.

Because the visuals were tweaked to make one area "look better" now a completely different area looks all cruddy brown.
 

Horo7618

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Who the hell decided to revive the tried-and-true art design philosophy of making it look like you smeared the player camera with shit, anyways?
Because everyone knows a pseudo-medieval setting has to look like this:
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Not this:
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Smelliest007

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Haven't thought about this series that only made it out of Japan once in years.

I see the graphics have barely advanced, good.
 

John Vtuber👁️

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Smelliest007

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RIP steam servers, it's out now - 125 GB:


Ok, I am confused. On the main store page, Deluxe Edition seems to imply all the original DLC need to be bought again through it. But the separate deluxe edition upgrade for buyers of the normal 50USD version only says horse armor and the new cosmetic armors DLC.


Upgrade* from the digital base game to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition* to receive:

- Unique digital Akatosh and Mehrunes Dagon Armors, Weapons, and Horse Armor Sets

- Digital Artbook and Soundtrack App

*Base game required, sold separately
 

JMForte

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Ok, I am confused. On the main store page, Deluxe Edition seems to imply all the original DLC need to be bought again through it. But the separate deluxe edition upgrade for buyers of the normal 50USD version only says horse armor and the new cosmetic armors DLC.


Upgrade* from the digital base game to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition* to receive:

- Unique digital Akatosh and Mehrunes Dagon Armors, Weapons, and Horse Armor Sets

- Digital Artbook and Soundtrack App

*Base game required, sold separately
Steam has a compare edition button which I would recommend always pressing if you have the options, it's really a Godsend for this. 50 Bucks for all the OG content, and ten bucks for a few quests + art and soundtrack. I was genuinely expecting worse pricing.
EditionsCOmpared.jpg
 

Smelliest007

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Steam has a compare edition button which I would recommend always pressing if you have the options, it's really a Godsend for this. 50 Bucks for all the OG content, and ten bucks for a few quests + art and soundtrack. I was genuinely expecting worse pricing.
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Thanks, I didn't see the button. That's pretty good pricing indeed. I expected much worse.
 

TwoBit

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Currently downloading the Oblivion deluxe edition because I am literally cattle when it comes to Elder Scrolls. :vesperfacepalm:
 
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