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have you ever got your hands onto a game
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and thought to yourself that it's
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incredibly special speaking for myself
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here
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the last time i experienced that feeling
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was with playerunknown's battlegrounds
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but over the past few days i've been
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spending a lot more time than usual
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playing this brand new game that just
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got released and is bringing that
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feeling back
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and that game's name is valheim a brutal
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exploration-based survival game for 1-10
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players set in a procedurally generated
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purgatory inspired by viking culture
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and despite the fact that the title is
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still in early access and is priced at
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1999 us
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it's easily one of the best gaming
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experiences i've had in a very very long
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time
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and while i know some of you will worry
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about the early access tag attached to
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it
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let me just say after 26 hours of play
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i've encountered absolutely zero bugs
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i also don't seem to be anywhere near
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completing the game itself i can imagine
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another 40 to 60 hours get put into it
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no problem and just to paint that
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picture for you take a look at this
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world map
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this is the one me and my buddies have
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been playing on and now
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let me just zoom out to the full scale i
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think it's fair to say that for vikings
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we
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really suck at exploring the one thing
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they're probably best known for
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but we've been having a ton of fun in
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just that very small space
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we've built a village made of farmland
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tamed boars
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mined oars smelted bronze fought
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monsters skeletons
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massive trolls raided crips and heck
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we've even snuck behind trolls in their
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cave and stole their treasures
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and that's really just scratching the
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surface of the type of things we've done
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so far
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if i had to describe the game to you i
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would tell you to picture minecraft
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dark souls and runescape combine the
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three and there you have valheim
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so whether you're the type of player who
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likes to create and explore in minecraft
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fight challenging enemies and dark souls
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or just likes to grind out stats in old
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scroll runescape this game has you
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covered
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when it comes to exploration and
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creation it's as simple as exploring the
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world picking up materials
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learning new mats and then creating
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stuff based on what you've learned
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the game features multiple biomes with
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different materials in each one
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and as you can imagine the more you have
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the more you can combine the more you
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can create
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that means it certainly pays off to go
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exploring but once you've found a nice
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little place that you want to call home
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that's when the base building comes into
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play my friends and i decided to build
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our own little viking village and we
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even put security around it because yes
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the monsters within the forest will come
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and try and attack it our base is by no
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means the most beautiful thing
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but it works and i'm really happy with
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what we've got so far
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that said i'm already starting to see
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some absolutely
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insane creations on the valheim
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subreddit so if you're really into the
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whole base building thing
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don't worry this game provides in a
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really big way
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my only real criticism about it is that
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the placement of things still takes a
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little time to get used to
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but it's not enough to actually prevent
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you from doing any of your creations
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now when it comes to the combat itself
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there's no better way of explaining it
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than calling it souls-esque
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at its principle it's very simplistic
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but also
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very in-depth in terms of mastering it
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you have a stamina bar
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you have to time your attacks dodge
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parry and even dodge roll
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enemies early on are easily taken out
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but still capable of posing a threat if
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you're too careless
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as you go further along you'll enter an
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area with new enemy types and those are
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much tougher to take on
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you're definitely going to want to build
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up your equipment before you go in there
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but let me just say the first time you
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take down a troll
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man does it feel amazing and soon after
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that
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you'll find yourself hunting them down
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to try and wear them as armor
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but how could it be a soul's ass game
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without the souls-esque bosses
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don't worry they're here too now my
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group and i have only beat the first
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boss so far
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but that's only because we've been
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enjoying the hell out of the rest of the
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game
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with that said it's still an awesome
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experience the first time you bring him
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into the world and you take him on
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he looks extremely awesome and it no
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doubt has me super hyped to see the next
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bosses that follow
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as you can expect they have their own
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special attacks have their own attack
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patterns that need to be learned
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and you really shouldn't be taking hits
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because it won't take many for you to
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die
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now let me talk about the last element
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which i described as old school
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runescape
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and when i say that i'm really trying to
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get at its character progression
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much like runescape you have a whole
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slew of skills that upgrade as you just
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do
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that specific thing like cutting down
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trees with your ex you'll be able to
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level up your axe skill
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find yourself sprinting around a lot
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while exploring and jumping over things
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you'll be able to level up both your
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sprinting and jumping
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or maybe you're like me and just want to
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punch a rock for a good two in game days
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to see how far you can level up your
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fist skill
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i'm still hoping that one day i'll be
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able to cause 1 damage to that rock
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but no matter the type of grind you
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choose to endure that specific
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action or weapon type will continue to
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level up the more you do it
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i would actually love to see them add
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more skills to level up through this
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method
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i find it insanely addicting to just
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push for that next level up but that's
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really only half the story
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because as you're leveling up your
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skills by either woodcutting mining or
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using your weapons in battle
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chances are you're doing that very same
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thing to build up your character or
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build up your base
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so it's really progression on
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progression and that's a loop that i
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hate to admit that i really do
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love no matter what you're doing it
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always feels like you're consistently
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building towards something and then
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you're granted that something
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and then you just build toward the next
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the best part being that when you
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actually
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upgrade into something better you feel
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the benefits of that upgrade
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they're not just purely aesthetic and
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that's a huge deal
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but it's only when you combine all of
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these elements and stuff them into one
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very small package
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because yeah the game's only a gigabyte
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to download
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is when you truly realize just how
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special of a game this
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is open world survival games are a dime
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a dozen
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unlike player unknowns valheim isn't
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trying to create its own sub-genre
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what it's doing is truly more impressive
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to me it's entering an arena full of
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giants and standing up there among them
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the fact that it's still in early access
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and just the start of what's to come
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i seriously can't wait to see how this
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game continues to grow
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oh and before i forget yes there are
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totally viking boats you can make and
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sail in and yes there are sea monsters
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you can battle the only reason i haven't
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discussed
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it is because we haven't gotten that far
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with my group yet either way
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if you have any questions or meaning
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about the game itself do let me know
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down in the comment section below and
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i'll answer what i can
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all the gameplay you've seen in the
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background of this video has been
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captured off a geforce now instance
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so yes you can play this through the
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cloud and let me just say
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