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.

I think you’re misunderstanding the concept of priority.

Sounds to me like you’re not considering that they likely have a massive list of priorities to address and a flashlight attachment is simply not even close to the top of the list.

Nothing exists in a vacuum.

Downvoting posts in different languages makes no sense. Just move along. No need to suppress languages here.

Why is this being downvoted? Its a well reasoned and written review.

Or you just let players get their face smashed in by a high level enemy when they trespass somewhere they shouldn’t so they learn that they’re not ready to face that challenge yet. You also craft a world that gently guides them in a viable direction to level up to meet that challenge, ideally with multiple options to pursue.

Man, that’s so sad. HLD is my favourite game of all time so I’m heartbroken to hear Heart Machine is struggling with Breaker.

Where did you hear about the issues? I’m curious to know.

I run GrapheneOS on my phone and reject all biometrics on principle not because I have anything to hide.

Try Cogmind, Caves of Qud or Dwarf Fortress maybe?

Nice. I’m on Nobara for about a year and a half now. Love it. The community is amazingly helpful.

If that’s the case then that’s fine. It gives gamers agency over how they experience the games they pay for.

Yeah, but requiring payment for a mod is the modder’s decision for AC. For AC EVO, I’m concerned Kunos is going to make that their decision.

That price is insane when the Miyoo Mini+ is under $100 CAD.

Art Of Rally!

If you ever want to try a privacy respecting alternative, look up FUTO Keyboard and their voice-to-text service.

This is an opportunity where if you’d used your brain you’d have come to a different conclusion.

Imagine trying to moderate that shit?

Honestly, AI companies should be focusing on making AI into a good moderation tool so that human eyes don’t need to be the filter for the heinous shit people post on the internet.

Thanks for the context. I did read the article after I posted my comment. My order of operations is backwards and needs to be fixed lol