I really want a version of Bejeweled to kill time with on my phone. But all that seems to be available is the usual heavily monetized mobile slop.

This is like one of those parody commercials. "Coming soon for the Microsoft Xbox, the Sony Playstation, the Nintendo Switch, the App and Play store, the Nokia N-gage, the Samsung fridge, Netflix, Nintendo Famicom, your toaster, Kindle, as a shadow puppet theater, "

What honestly surprises me the most about Bethesda is that they managed to release a remaster of Oblivion instead of yet another Skyrim version. They must have tied Todd to a chair in the basement for the whole development to let that happen.

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon

Steam is the very, very rare case of a major company that is both not beholden to shareholders, and has a preety good guy at the helm.

A year from now they’ll be wondering why their games are so buggy.

The biggest crime is that he’s calling them thr SouljaGame and not the SouljaBoy

Am I the only one who doesn’t need real-time raytraced lighting? Show off the skills of your artists with some fancy pre-baked stuff instead.

I think all Blizzard games have that. IIRC WoW does too.

I’m enjoying it a lot. It scratches that itch for a Bethesda RPG pretty much perfectly, with the added benefit of an Obsidian roleplaying focus.

“Shoot at it until it dies”

I want to enjoy the game, but I keep getting got by campers spamming grenades or that one submachine gun. I haven’t even been able to unlock any new weapons or gear beside the base ones because of that, or another map to play on. I’ve played for an hour and 52 minutes, and I really don’t know if I should keep trying or just give up and refund it.

Try Proton Experimental. I got massive frame time improvements after doing that.

“Should we take this as a lesson that the players want more originality in their games, to the point where they’re turning to other sources for it?”

“Nah, just get rid of the competition.”

The problem with new MMOs is that nobody wants to sink time into something that has an 80% chance of being shuttered in a few years

Big shoutout to PirateSoftware, without his help none of this would have been possible.

He worked at Blizzard*, don’t you know?

*he got a job as a playtester there due to nepotism, he didn’t actually make anything

I would argue but I get the feeling that your library consists of Call of Duty and Fortnite.

If you wanna make it as a game dev, the trick is to not sign up with a major publisher (unless it’s like Larian or Devolver or something), because it’s only a matter of time before you get laid off or given some impossible demands to satiate the shareholders.

God I hope they did something to lessen the PvP. It will only hurt the game over time if it’s in the focus. It doesn’t even make sense narratively.

Well, it’s better than the alternative of humans suffering in those conditions.

Probably because it doesn’t have to run all the bloatware and spyware.

Yeah, unless they move their focus towards more casual gameplay as opposed to the sweatfest that is PvP, the game will only alienate PvE players and be reduced to a swarm of toxic PvP-players.

I played it for 2 hours and enjoyed it thoroughly. But I only ran into a player once, the other times I extracted early. But that one time was enough to sour my mood. I hope they do something to limit the PvP.

It’s a game based around starting a round that loads you into a map, completing X objectives on that map, and then leaving the map alive to make progress, all while being swarmed by enemies. It’s a bit rouge-like in that way.

I feel like the “PvE-only was too boring” argument doesn’t even work. Just add a special kind of extra-dangerous enemy that’s more alert to your presence and acts more tactically compared to the dumber robots, to add the same tension players would add.

I’ve had my eye on Forever Winter for a little while, but the mixed reviews put me off it.

Also, I really like Arc Raiders’ aesthetic.

Well, Dune does have a player-run auction house. I haven’t checked myself, but I don’t doubt that you could get end-game mats on there.

Right. But as I mentioned you can put 100 hours into the game without fighting another player. And all the end-game stuff is for is the final tier of gear, which mostly change stats and resource gathering rates.

As someone with about 120 hours in Dune, I will say that I got all the way there without once fighting another player. The main map is PvE except for a few spots. I only set foot in the end-game PvP-enabled area once for about 20 seconds, and I think that since then the devs implemented a PvE-only part of that area. And most of the problems people have with the game stem from the end-game content, which I haven’t touched yet.

Common Microsoft L

It’s a good time to invest in room-sized faraday cages.

And now we can’t trust them whenever they say that again.

Oh nooooo whatever will I do now

Yeah those guys

They didn’t want to alienate a good part of their market.

I imagine I’m gonna get downvoted for this, but I have no idea what F-Droid is.

Looks like I’ll be going from not playing EA games to not playing EA games.

Wow, now it only looks 20 years old

FFXIV has certainly earned it over the years, and in the case of WoW, isn’t it only the most recent expac that costs extra? I think you get all the previous ones, and WoW Classic, for just subscribing.