It reminds me of the steam machines from over a decade ago

I assumed we wouldn’t be getting a sequel. I hope they are able to get one out there eventually. 2077 is has the coolest aesthetics I’ve ever seen in a game.

I’m worried about the influx of mobile game slop.

This is the key thing. Publicly traded companies effectively have no head. They are driven by the legal mandate to pursue the profit motive for faceless and litigious investors. Yes the ceo/chairman of the board usually has a controlling share, but some rando who has one share from Robinhood can sue if they think the company is not operating with their interests in mind.

Small businesses and private companies can also be evil, but at least everyone who owns the company knows each other. They may decide to take a loss if they think it would make them look better to the public in the long run. Public companies cannot. They are expected to gobble up as much profit as they can. And when they can’t make more profit they are gobbled up by other more vigorous companies that are owned by the same investors. It’s a sick game that is eating the world and humanity to death.

I like most game mechanics to some extent. Creativity in combining game mechanics is key to making an outstanding game imo.

However, I don’t like things that force a time limit. I play games as an escape. I don’t like feeling stressed by a clock while I’m off the clock. These can be literal timed missions or things like a food/water meter. Escort missions also suck for similar reasons.

I think difficulty in a game should come from overcoming a foe, traversing harsh terrain, or solving a puzzle. If the game is hard because I have to stop what I’m doing to feed myself, or I have to rush to complete an objective on a timer, it just becomes work.

I’m with you on this. Marvel Rivals feels off/ cheap in a way I don’t really know how to articulate.

Skyrim for the mods.

I have read the Subscriber Agreement, most of it is standard legal boilerplate. I don’t see anything about collection of data. Steam is a vehicle for capitalism, no one has claimed otherwise.

They do provide a good service. There’s no subscription fee. They maintain delisted games so you can download games you bought years ago that are no longer available. Not to mention steam OS and other projects like the steam deck that put pressure on other gaming companies to do better.

This could go up in a cloud of smoke at any point and it likely will as soon as Gabe passes on and the in fighting begins. So this is a “good king” situation and the system itself will not be sustainable long term by any means.

I think AI will help reduce the dev costs over time. I mean that it can assist with uprezing things and generative placement of objects and textures is only going to get better.

I do not mean that ai should ever be used to creat me games or assets whole cloth.

Exactly, they keep honest people honest, just like piracy protection.

These things are like door locks. The point is to make it harder to pirate than to pay. This doesn’t mean people won’t pirate. Just like a door lock doesn’t mean people won’t burgle.

If it took a long time to open the door because the lock is too complex, it is the lock maker’s fault not the burglar’s fault. The solution is to buy a new lock.

My main use the disc drive is used games.

And owning multiple of the largest game franchises including Pokemon which is larger than any other media franchise.

People forget that Valve was the first major player to do this.

Tribes 3 is pretty similar if you haven’t played it yet you should.

Sure would be nice to see a game from them. I don’t even care about any of the third sequels we all want. I just want to see something.

I feel like this is “The Room” of fmv games.

It should be standard practice for Bethesda games to wait for a game of the year edition (or whatever they want to call it) then wait for a steam sale on that.

Eh, if you want specific endings you need a guide or you can spend hundreds of hours finding and talking to each npc after each boss fight. I don’t have that kind of time and I don’t like getting locked out of things because I only talked to the creepy dead looking guy five times instead of six.

When they went F2P it pissed off fans. Any change will piss off fans.

There should be servers that only permit paid accounts and/or accounts over a certain age.

That’s because Bethesda is bad at making games not because there is an intrinsic need for the game logic to be tied to frame rate.

The first three are the best platformers on the PlayStation and better than most of the platformers on the n64.

Shazbot

It’s boomer because things go boom it’s a reaction name for looter shooter.

I think they want to avoid the abuse potential. It could be used to make fun of little people.

He is a bastard.

A steam deck competitor or something like Atari’s recent console is more likely than a PlayStation or Xbox competitor.

That’s valve’s philosophy though. It’s the reason we never got a half life 3.

There’s no point in selling out when you make money hand over fist. All going public would do is make him lose total control of his company.

Damn, Genesis does what steam don’t.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0433601/

Damn, too bad I don’t have a cell phone

Have you played daemon x machina?

Yeah, it’s not really a traditional FF game, but it’s a good game regardless.

Overwatch has had an identity crisis since Jeff Kaplan left. It’s a husk of what it used to be and a disappointment of what it could be.

It was supposed to be tf2 with moba elements. But now it’s trying to be left4dead with moba elements. I think it would be better off to return to roots and just keep innovating on the character and weapons and skills.

Anyway fuck blizzard.

A ton of people streamed house flipper 1, and the other game is premised on Pinocchio fighting stuff. I think it has more to do with brand recognition than a shift in play style.

Is anyone asking for this? Sure iron man is cool, but it’s a little late in the zeitgeist.

With EA in charge I expect this to just be fan service, escort missions, and timed missions. Oh and lord of micro transactions for armor variants and the like.