Uh… I mean there’s Halo Wars, which lets you play as Covenant leaders in certain modes (in 2 there’s a DLC storyline where you play as the aliens again, but not against the humans). The UNSC is basically the US Army In Space.

Aside from that I’m not sure. There’s probably plenty of mods for other games though. Like GMod, there are tons of NPCs and such in the steam workshop, plenty of US military characters to choose from. You can then load into a map, set up a spawner (or spawn them in yourself), and start blasting. I did actually do something like this back when the George Floyd protests were going on: I went in the game, spawned in a bunch of cop NPCs and just started blasting and mowing them down.

It actually did feel pretty good, tbh.

I don’t know how

I only played the “first” one, but that one did feel incredibly like Halo to me. Just with the added functionality of portals.

I mean you have an assault rifle, a battle rifle, a pistol, a DMR, and shotguns. I’m sure there are some other ones I’m not remembering.

Edit: I also actually liked the functionality that grenades had. Instead of a crowd control or room-clearing tool, now they’re specifically to disable enemy portals. So now you had an interesting dynamic where yes, you can portal all the way across the map (or try sniping someone through a portal) into the enemy’s base and try to score, but it also presents a nice little counter to that strategy.

Nice. I’ve played two of these (Schedule I and Abiotic Factor).

I need to actually try this mod one of these days. Jedi Academy is one of my all-time favorite Star Wars games. Jedi Outcast is pretty damn good too.

I watched a video of someone trying to 100% this game as fast as possible.

He was doing pretty good at first, then he started talking about the fossils…

The first game is so incredibly atmospheric. Walking through the empty snow-covered New York streets, looting through abandoned houses, apartments and offices; exploring the subway and other iconic NYC locations.

That too. Even though my Game Pass has been cancelled and I haven’t had Xbox Live in a couple years, I can also still go into the Xbox PC app, install any game that I’ve bought that’s also PC compatible or stream whatever I own that isn’t (but still has cloud workability).

It’s how I’ve been playing Halo Wars 2 lately. And I’ve seen the Fable games are cloud compatible, but I haven’t tried those on PC yet.

From what I understand about this subscription (I never looked into it before) it’s basically like a reverse Game Pass? So you pay the monthly subscription, and you can play the games that are on the service, on different devices aside from just a PC?

While that does sound pretty cool and impressive, I can’t imagine most people, or most anyone that calls themselves a gamer would touch this service with a 20’ pole. Like at that point, just own the game and system you want. You can play whenever and for however long you want.

Also, this may sound weird, but after reading the article I have a strong urge to start a game and just let it run idle, racking up playtime. Out of spite for Nvidia I guess.

Australian imo

Nah I realized years ago without anyone telling me that that quote from Monty Python sounds really close to the n-word if you just mumble a little bit.

Never heard about the shorthand for carabiner though.

As a Star Wars fan, it’s a fun tongue-in-cheek joke/reference to The Clone Wars show and Dee Bradley Baker’s absolutely amazing performances as every single clone in that show.

Other than that, I’ve seen it online as a sort of ironic/unironic “derogatory” term to refer to AI and things created by/with AI.

I don’t think it could be classified as an actual insult until the day fully sentient AI is a thing and can think and have feelings for itself.

I’m not sure about games personally, but there’s the Mantella mod for Skyrim which is pretty much exactly what you’re looking for.

Check out this video if you want to see how it works in practice.

I was also disappointed by that.

Thankfully RTGame has a full playthrough and stream VOD uploaded. It’s actually who I watched play it first and I instantly fell in love

That’s why there are different kinds of trailers. You have announcement/teaser trailers, gameplay trailers, cinematic trailers (for showing cutscenes and story content), character trailers…

Goddamn YouTuber influencers made me get Megabonk the other day, and it’s pretty fun. It reminds me of Risk if Rain 2

The Cyberpunk 2077 announcement trailer was barely even a trailer. Just a moving jpeg of a woman with swords coming out of her arms.

Elder Scrolls 6’s announcement trailer was literally just a super quick flyover of some landscape then a title card.

Don’t suddenly start acting like it’s this huge problematic practice when it’s literally how every piece of media uses announcement trailers - hell, even books will have announcement trailers extremely similar in style to this.

Ego Draconis or Original Sin 2? I’m not a diehard fan or anything, but I know some people online like to make the distinction known.

I’ve only really played Ego Draconis (Divinity 2), but I’ve played the tutorial of Original Sin 2.

That’s kinda how announcement trailers usually go though?

I’ve been hankering to play some MCC for the last couple weeks. It doesn’t help that I’ve been listening to the Halo 2 soundtrack basically on repeat.