I could certainly use some teammates in a few games my friends dont play, thanks for the heads up :) seems like a nice community

Lies of P seems like it fits most criteria. It’s much less “build your DnD character” than Dark Souls, you have a handful of options but the focus is more on level design and boss fights than customizability from what I’ve played of it. Like Bloodborne but with a narrower focus.

Oooh, thats not long at all! I wasnt expecting it till 2026. Hell yeah

Shattered Pixel Dungeon for some great (truly) roguelike dungeon crawling.

+1 for Unciv, although I haven’t played much yet. I really should…

Also, Balatro

Sorry if these are all super basic

The menu inputs require both hands on console, if it wasnt for that its pretty good for it. I played it a lot when I was holding my baby, bottle in one hand and controller in the other.

God i wish I could map buttons on ps5

I know right? That was like… a lifetime ago. I haven’t thought about it in ages. Im kinda intrigued.

Thanks for clarifying, it had been a while and I wasn’t near a save file

Yeah but you can remove cards as well, can’t you?

Gonna whup my ass i tell you what

Hot damn, not bad

But yeah every major studio sees these games and thinks underpaying devs, union busting, and AI garbage are gonna get them there somehow.

Meanwhile Steam keeps making self-made millionaires who busted ass on a passion project people adore for years. Like the Balatro guy, it makes me happy to think about and I hope he’s doing well.

I know tons of network engineers and sysadmins making bank mostly from home. If you got in when it was good you were set.

They should’ve just made that into a movie, id watch a fun sci-fi heist film

Where had the marketing budget gone, the game was shut down like a week after launch

There was a big run-up in the prior months

Whaaaat

Mfers I bought the phone, I do whatever the hell i want with it

I think my friends and I spent a good week getting super baked and just driving around on moons lol

I know right? Especially back then, there weren’t a lot of games where you could drive around other worlds like that. I loved it, it felt like actual astronaut shit

Driving the Mako (is that what it was called? God its been ages) was so damn fun for some reason.

Nah, Elden Ring got me hooked. I made it through my first run and went back to this and Bloodborne pretty much immediately, now im juggling them haha

Im really loving it now that its clicked

Me over here on my first playthrough like “Yay I made it to Undead Parish!” Lmao

Shoutout to FromSoft still having Bloodborne servers ready for me on my very first runthrough 10yrs after launch

Im on board

Yeah I’ve been on a Soulsborne kick the past few months but Ill pop on for this for a few days at least. I had to show up for the invasion of Super Earth too ofc.

I usually catch up in a week or two and im good for a bit. I love the game but I’ve got a nice rotation going

That’s what I’ve been thinking.

Yeah sometimes their choices are bad, that is like 1/3 of the whole point of government. To stop businesses from just doing whatever nonsense they want.

Omg that was ten years ago

Oh this is quite old my friend, early Gamergate years

Ok

Oh nice, thanks!

Can you tune volume settings per app? All the time im driving to a job with music playing and then Maps SCREAMS at me.

That’s a nice thought, and they should do that, but you’ve gotta do better at picking and choosing your moments

Oh FUCK YES this is such good news

I get that too. There’s an anonymity that’s so bizarre. I was in Manhattan and quickly realized that im just a ghost, nobody looks at you unless they’re selling something. And it’s generally OK, I could identify solo women and minorities and all sorts of people clearly feeling perfectly secure in their day to day business.

It was fascinating. Kinda overwhelming, I’ve spent my whole life in the Southeast. But interesting.

Other than the chemical clean+terrible aftershave smell everywhere, I assume it’s a fad scent post-Covid but god it made me wanna hurl sometimes it was so strong.

Yeah but hey, that finger doesn’t bleed!

Okay that’s fair. I don’t live in a city so I didn’t think about that, but when I visited NYC I was absolutely paranoid about having my phone out when walking around.

Why the fuck would I want a camera in my watch? Am I a spy? Like, that’s literally the only use I can think of, covertly photographing documents.

That’s pretty fuckin cool. I’m an electrician, I could absolutely use an extra thumb sometimes. By the time this stuff hits the market I intend to afford one lol. Robot digits and limbs! No surgery or wifi required!

Yeah, it’s a really shitty pattern. Unfortunate, I was kinda looking forward to Marathon despite the drama.

Dictatorships be like that. You never hear about these problems with co-ops, just saying…

It’s such a damn shame, too. Destiny 2 was some of the most fun I’ve had in gaming over the last decade. Absolutely jaw-dropping environments at times, clever encounter designs, the gunplay, so many things to love. And I have no doubt Marathon will be a hell of a thing from what I’ve seen. These people can design a game.

But GODDAMN stop stealing art from people. Upper management has got to be atrocious with all the bullshit they’ve pulled over the years. And you know that bullshit starts at C-suite and rolls downhill.

Just a damn shame.