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?

Don’t know anything about the game, but from the article it sounds like it was a commercial flop? Which would make it understandable that a lot of the dev team got laid off. This would be a different situation from those companies who had successes and then proceeded to lay off their dev teams anyway.

See other comment thread for a bit of context

There were many people who worked on dota back then. There was no official version to begin with, you could find a dozen variants in bnet on any given day. Slowly it got centralised. Some of the modders ended up at LoL, others ended up at Valve. The name wasn’t copyrighted, nobody really owned it. Valve kinda inherited it by virtue of hiring the guy running the mod team at the end.

Crazy how?

League of legends is two decades old now, so if you’re thinking it’s new, yeah that’s on you 😜

Ah, I see you’re one of those basement dwellers who’ve never done your own grocery shopping in your life.

The same way your grocery can be selling something for $10 one day and put it on sale for $6 the day after.

For that kind of profit margin, anybody would happily become an expert

I agree with most of it, but most players generally would just save and respawn a new map in D1 to get more resources?

Newer cooperative games mostly avoid the quarterbacking issue by having secret info, or just making it complicated enough that it’s impractical for 1 person to track everything.

The strategy is to avoid Monopoly. It’s not like the game gets any funner if you’re playing by the rules.

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Regarding your question, it’s hard to say since you don’t mention any mechanics, or complexity level, that you prefer. Based on the couple of examples you provide, you seem to like cooperative card games. If so, you should check out ‘The Crew’. It’s the most popular of that genre in my game club.

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Just… don’t pay attention to it? It’s something that interests other people. Imagine if somebody said that about something you liked that they had no interest in.

I don’t want to read entrails for clues about the future

But, you don’t have to. This is them hinting about a upcoming announcement of a release date. For the average player like you and me, it’s just the announcement itself that we need, and we’ll get that.

I believe there’s a Tabletop Simulator version out, but I don’t have TTS so can’t say for sure.

Dune Imperium: Uprising. Gotten my whole group into it. Might organise a tournament for the heck of it.

If Frostpunk is their idea of a “narrative-driven, story-rich game”, I can see why they have concerns.

That may have been true a decade ago, but nowadays unless you’re trying to squeeze out top-tier graphics performance (which isn’t the case with this game) you only need to worry about the control scheme. The code can be compiled for multiple platforms.

IMO, it does. Awards showcase and highlight ‘best of’ games, but what’s the point of highlighting a game that is inaccessible to a significant portion of the gaming community? You could potentially make the argument that their purpose is more towards recognising the efforts and success of the devs, but that’s not the aspect of awards that are being discussed in this context.

And also a PS5 exclusive. Eww