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I've seen some people online dislike Life is Strange but I personally enjoyed it more than a fair amount. It is at its core little more than a walking sim where you talk to people, but the MC has save-scumming powers and that's actually really fun since the temptation of save scumming dialogue-heavy games is always present for me. It's a teen drama with some supernatural twists so enter at your own risks, but if you don't mind stuff like going back to high school or dealing with angry parents, the game has a lot to offer and, for me, really sold this little bit of Oregon has a place that felt real. If you liked it, there's also like 3 sequels that I have not played but they're probably okay.

A lot of people have discussed Spec Ops: The Line on the internet already, and for good reasons I think as even 9 years after its release, I don't think there has been any other good deconstructions of military shooters. I will say however that if you watched like a video essay on it, you can avoid playing the games as a lot of twists and punches the game throw at you will feel quite weak, and I will add that the gameplay itself is simply that of an average third person cover shooter from 2012, nothing bad but nothing amazing either. Either play the game on easy to not lose like 10 hours of your time, or crank the difficulty to the max and try to find some challenge.

A lot of my favorites have been posted here already and I'd recommend anyone who is longing for good stories to try them out. Here are a few other games that I haven't seen mentionned but deserve some attention imo

Catherine.is a really intriguing puzzle/platformer game where every night in your dreams some fucked up shit happens. The crux of the game happens there, but you also have a social phase at the bar with your friends, where you can see some echoes of what happened last night. As far as stories go, this was definitively one of the most unpredictable ones I've had the pleasure to witness.

Transistor is a cool little turn by turn tactics sorta game (its been a little while so I don't remember everything) with a lot of options for building your character in a way you like as the game progresses. The game isn't something I'd call "story-rich", but the story is as much told to you as it is gathered from taking in the environnements and enemies designs (who are all pretty cool). It's a fun little game, lasted for like 4 hours for me, and replaying at least once now that you know some stuff is also pretty nice.

Being able to approach and pet an unknown cat without it getting spooked.

I dodged my own birthday dinner to scrim once.

sigma grindset predicted ?

hey, I don't know if those count as minor issues or they were intented changes, but the removal of the spam angles in left lobby (small gap behind the shelf thing next to the small health bottle) and under the tower on last kinda bug me as I don't think there were anything wrong with them, especially the first one. Would love to see those reverted or to understand the reasons behind those changes.

Thanks for all the other tweaks and improvements you've been doing otherwise still !

(also am a bit sad that you removed the ability to shoot rockets between the plank pile and the wall in saw before I was able to get a kill with this extremely niche spot).

I remember at some point ETF2L ran a 9 map season with some maps only being played one week. It was a bit more of a hassle regarding like maptalks but I did enjoy the variety and it made for some interesting pick/ban decisions

You could also try to make your own team, but that's a pretty tall task, especially for HL.

I'm sorry you had to learn about your role switch like this

Production was really nice as always, but I am wondering if a B stream would be possible, so that more games could be streamed. I'm aware of the difficulties it might cause but maybe it'd be easier if the B stream was only there for playoffs ? I'm just saying that cause the way the double elim was setup, a lot of juicy, must-win games did not get seen unless you hopped on a third party stream.

so you're telling me a shrimp fried this rice

dude are you like, okay ?

It was the name of my first D&D character, I just smashed two suggested names from the player's manual into one

I don't know if that's possible but I think the spoon could be tweaked rather than banned. I'm thinking about adding a longer deploy speed (like the caber, probably not as long though) cause it definitively takes some skill to use the spoon, but I feel like in some situations the exchange of one rocket (maybe not even shot by the player with the spoon) for 195 damage is a bit too strong. At the same time, the spoon has seen semi-widespread use only recently I think, so maybe I just need to get used to its presence more.