They’re utterly bereft of original ideas anymore. The AI era is going to make this orders of magnitude worse.

Hey man, we don’t all keep up with controller news. This is your opportunity to provide good news about this to someone. No need to be harsh.

Yup. I could tell by the trailers that it was completely different and super arcadey. I waited to play it at a friend’s house before considering buying it and once I felt the driving for the first time, I never touched the game again. It just killed so much of the fun for me.

100% agree. The ending made zero sense to me as a kid, but playing it again last year and seeing how borderline prophetic some of its themes have become was absolutely mindblowing.

Yet so prescient. It’s wild how well the themes blend in with our current society.

Are you a Fanatec user? If so, that’s a bummer that Bazzite is causing issues. I’ve been on Nobara for a couple years and have had no issues with my CSL DD.

The amazing vehicle everything physics.

The best driving there was in any game outside the simcade titles like Gran Turismo/Forza.

It wasn’t crazy realistic but it was realistic enough to be believable and very fun. Poor driving had consequences in that game. Felt legit as hell. I loved the floaty commuter car suspensions haha

The dialog and worldbuilding text in Caves of Qud is a masterpiece of writing. What a fantastic game.

I always liked the time-based skilling in EVE. You don’t have to grind for skills. I really enjoyed that game for a few years.

Exactly!

When do we start boycotting any companies that behave like this? We need a fucking class-action lawsuit against this behavior.

Oh man, I played Carmageddon so much as a kid.

I miss EVE. 2010 to 2015 was when I played. It was excellent.

This actually made me laugh out loud. 😆

Hyper Light Drifter.

Not a word in the entire game. Still a masterpiece of storytelling.

Derivative over generative any day if you ask me.

What a huge disappointment after the masterpiece that was Hyper Light Drifter.

I’m genuinely sad about this one.

You thought EA was shit before? Just wait and see what they have in store…

I know what you mean, but they’re going to abandon it eventually, right? What matters is how they abandon it; what they leave behind. Currently, they leave nothing for the playerbase.

If they need to retire the live service to move forward, so be it. But if I wanna boot up a server for a night of gameplay with friends on some retired game I should be able to do so.

Allowing dedicated servers after said live service retirement is the fix.

Exactly this. It would obviously be disappointing to lose leaderboards or any other massively multiplayer elements like that, but just being able to fire up the game and have fun with friends after the live service has shut down is basically all that needs to happen.

“It’s a weird, challenging problem, though, because I think that at the same time, if we’re going to have any games that are sincere live services, it seems mutually exclusive to have something that’s going to be a living thing that can’t be allowed to die. I don’t know how to get around that.”

Dedicated servers. Let people host their own servers. How is this so fucking hard to understand? When the company is ready to move on and retire their official servers they can do so without invoking ire from the playerbase.

This was a great read. What a monumental effort to emulate that device. The perseverance is inspiring, honestly.

I’m glad they re-made the worst entry in the early era of the series and didn’t fuck with Sons of Liberty. That game is literally perfect. MGS3 is tedious AF. Still fun and better than a lot of games, but massively overhyped. Also, worst fucking camera system in the history of gaming in the original PS2 version. Truly atrocious.

I hope it turns out well, but I still doubt that I’ll play it.

Sons of Liberty is the most cohesive entry in the series IMO. Best story too; prophetic, really.

Add Nobara to the list too!

Exactly. Maybe I could have given more context but I wrote that comment right before my flight took off.

I played in a Halo 2 tournament at my local theater when I was a kid. Got second place. Won a wristband 👍

Hyper Light Drifter’s soundtrack is truly a masterpiece. Same guy did FEZ too; another excellent soundtrack.

I highly recommend Nobara.

In a similar vein I expect people will be able to generate their own media; specifying everything from the plot, actors, music, ip, etc.

No one sits around a campfire telling stories to themselves. No one wants to have to put labour into their own entertainment time after work.

That’s literally the game the sim community has been begging for for ages now. What a shame.

Nobara’s not going anywhere regardless of how this goes down. At least on Nobara you won’t have to worry about your distro going tits up any time soon.

Nobara is likely the best candidate for you. https://nobaraproject.org/

Bitburner is pretty cool too.

Yeah man, all of this except for the balls part. Shit’s a bit too much for me bro and I was there in the 90’s. You do you though, I guess. 🤷

The day is coming, my friend. I’m in the same boat. I have to admit that its because I’ve been too lazy to sort things out on Linux for my Fanatec gear.

All my time is dedicated to home studio recording lately so I haven’t played games in weeks anyway.

Gamers, Windows is an AI-polluted cesspool and NVIDIA is actively abandoning you for AI.

Switch to Linux, sell your NVIDIA card and buy an AMD card instead and enjoy home computing and gaming again.

I think when people refer to"arcade" it conjures up visions of the 80s and 90s of being present in an arcade and pumping quarters into machines.

I think if you’re gonna talk about modern arcade style games you should probably make that clear.

Arcade games are meant to turnover “plays” as quickly as possible to make the most profit in a given time. This logic doesn’t really apply well here.

Good deals that deliver fun.

If that’s what you’re buying in a single month, I’d hate to know how much you’re buying in a year.

The sad truth is that you’re spending this money but you’re never going to have the time to enjoy more than the upper crust of what all these games have to offer. You might dive deep on a handful of them, but you’re just lighting the rest of that money on fire and likely condemning a lot of good games to the digital equivalent of rotting on a shelf.

Unless this is some roundabout way of supporting dev teams this screams unfettered consumerism to me.

I’m not trying to offend you I promise. This is just very odd to me. I don’t even think I’ve played 200 games in my life and I’ve spent a fuckload of time immersed in games of all kinds for ~30 years.