Gaming Under the Influence
[Podcast]E.73
The Outriders Episode
A masterful deployment of looter-shooter mechanics that blows the formula wide open and enables radical theory-crafting… bogged down by an always-online requirement.
Drinking this week: All kinds
Playing this week: Outriders, Monster Hunter Rise
Mike & Alex are pleasantly surprised by Outriders. Despite an always-online requirement that has severely hampered it in the launch period, People Can Fly has developed one fine third-person shooter. All the best parts of Destiny and the Division are here, dissected and made available for experimentation; this all takes place within a refined gameplay loop absent any map-wandering or useless flourishes.
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