That’s the first and biggest step in it being lost to history.

It’s not me wanting everything. It’s me not wanting fucking MTX and FOMO mechanics in games I paid for.

I wasn’t referring to the DLC, I was referring to their login bonus cosmetic skins, and trying to sell me paid cosmetics in a game that I already paid for.

I loved the game, but fuck tencent, and klei for selling out

Given how much ONI in the past couple years leaned in to the MTX plague, I’m staying away from this one.

Threat? Have you not seen Nintendo suing their customers the last 4 decades or so?

Sounds like the kind of player who complains about missing game features, then it turns out they skipped the tutorial.

No.

It’s perfectly possible for a TCG to be a deckbuilder, I’m sure. Especially video games that get to do all sorts of stuff to break the rules. My comment was directed at classical TCGs like MtG.

Stacklands looks pretty interesting, might give it a whirl

That’s reasonably close to what I was thinking, yes.

TCGs are not deckbuilders, at least not as they’re commonly understood today. See the other comment thread for the discussion.

More traditional boardgames like dominion aren’t rougelites

I was referring to video game deckbuilders. I couldn’t think of any, but I’ve had a few pointed out to me.

For a peek into the history of the term - https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/693430/magic-the-gathering-and-dominion-which-is-a-deck-b

Apparently the shift was more than well under way by 2011.

Probably because before that it was at ‘it works on MY machine sometimes’ levels of quality.

Inscryption just defies categorisation, it’s a unique everything. But yeah, I wasn’t aware of the other non-roguelite deckbuilders. Wonder how they get balanced? What’s stopping the player from building a monstrously strong deck?

I’m not sure when or about the original meaning, but in the modern context deckbuilder usually refers to games that let you build or modify your deck during gameplay itself. Dominion invented, or at least massively popularised, the genre in 2008. By the current definition of the genre, there is significant inherent overlap with roguelites. In the boardgame world, games like Frosthaven would be an example of a deckbuilder that’s not a roguelite, though the deckbuilder element there is pretty thin. Slay the Spire was probably the first, or at least first successful, computer game deckbuilder that I’m aware of.

CCGs like MtG are very different from the current meaning of deckbuilders. I’m not sure which castle / turret defense games you’re referring to.

Are there any other types of deckbuilder? I can’t think of any

It’s pronounced very differently though, just in case you didn’t know.

What’s the connection between souls-like and trannies?

Makes sense I guess? It’s not like they can do anything about that cost.

Review bombing requires

1. A scandal, and there’s no indication Half Moon was involved in any such.
2. Coordination, which is easy enough to find on Google or elsewhere. Again, no indication of such.
3. Most of the time, at least some reviews in the bomb will state why they are downvoting the game. No indication of such.

Sometimes bad reviews are just bad reviews.

I mean, whether it works as clickbait depends on your perspective. I don’t disagree it may be intended that way, it just didn’t hit that way for me in particular.

Huh. I guess that’s a matter of perspective? I wasn’t interested in the name, and even after reading the article I don’t recall what the name was. I just found the story interesting.

Is it clickbait if it’s a pretty accurate summary, though?

No, that’s not the game

What game are you looking at? That screenshot isn’t dune, it’s some other game.

No, that’s an entirely different game screenshot, no idea what parent comment is smoking.

Pfft. It’s not like you can buy a house from Sears or something.

Edit: Guessing I got downvoted by somebody too young to understand the reference

Discord is too big at this point for people to leave it.

Never seen a ‘too big to fail’ platform fail, huh? It happens more frequently than you’d think

Tldw?

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It to the best of us

Are the demons the DRM?

Did you mean DRM free?

I’d love to play WoW with this.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920/Tempest_Rising/

Since the article doesn’t even link to it for some reason.

Isn’t that precisely the point of the steam deck, it provides a console-like target for game devs to develop against.

What’s the reasoning for this? Why wouldn’t you want to pit players against other players of a similar level? Genuine question.

Best I can say is this is a small step up from the Pinkertons debacle

Unless you’re arguing that the criteria are too strict, which it doesn’t sound like you are, the system is obviously doing its job in this case at least.

Doesn’t that make it even worse for the game, that they couldn’t even pass a ‘joke’ rating system?