A “public company” is one that has shares that are publicly traded. Common terminology, but yes it is confusing compared to private vs state ownership.

Edit: you’re right though, using “privatisation” is doubly confusing… That’s not so common. Perhaps that’s what you meant!

The procedural generation is the issue for me. Everything feels the same, even though it’s random. The animals all do the same stuff, they’re just made of different parts… And the “stuff” that they do is basically just walk around. The planets are just lumpy noise. There are no forests, just evenly distributed trees and plants.

Oh man, frog fractions! Been a long time but that is an experience I will never forget.

That seems like it’s only a good thing! Have fun, save cash, I’m jealous haha!

I kinda wish I had. Maybe I still will… 50 hours in I finally got my first escape and I now find I’m struggling to go back to it because it just keeps getting harder lmao. I just wanna tell Dusa how great she is.

Yeah I don’t get it either. Everything is random to the point of being the same… I try again every now and then to see if my opinion has changed. But, well, not yet.

I can believe that. I focus on data science so these things seem (relatively) simple to me… or perhaps not simple, but exciting to work with haha! But then I’ve looked with horror at the things you have to write to get graphics working.

I’m sure there are efficiencies to be found that would make simulating it viable. It’s graphics that are compilationally expensive, far more so than simulation, I think. Shadows of Doubt does it!

I gotta agree, I tried 4 or 5 times and just never got into it. Doesn’t help that I’m not great at party RPGs, but yeah the story was slow and I remember being unimpressed with the dialogue options… It always felt like you were kinda pushed towards and inevitable outcome rather than really influencing things.

I don’t think that making a selfish in game decision means the player is selfish. You might just be curious about how the story pans out. Maybe you want to do it both ways. I’ve played thieves and murderers in RPGs, I’ve lied and cheated my way out of situations, I’ve blown up Megaton… But these don’t really reflect my real self. I’ve often done the opposite, too.

Huh. I had no idea you could play it in VR. Doesn’t really seem like a game which would be at all enjoyable in VR tbh, too much movement - especially vertical and sudden. I do not enjoy the idea of facing a creeper in person lol

“Lovercraftian” is a fun typo. I’m imagining developing a casual fwb relationship with Azathoth. Taking Cthulhu for a long walk on the beaches around R’lyeh…

Fair enough. Personally I find the motion sickness mostly down to the game rather than headset, I didn’t know that the frame rate had an effect!

You don’t need anything like that much for a Quest 2/3. Quest 2 is obviously a bit outdated, but I still have fun with mine.

Doesn’t need direct controller support, just a suitable steam deck controller layout that works well I think.

Westerado is decent and pretty unique.

Worst kept secrets, aka, clever marketing.

Please just give us a “maybe”

One thing to watch out for though, is that if you focus exclusively on mult, eventually the scale tips and chips become more valuable.

You’re always ultimately doing c * m, chips times mult, right? Increasing c by 1 increases your total by…

(c+1)*m - (c*m) = (c + 1 - c) * m = m

And vice versa for increasing m by 1. So, whichever is higher - your total mult or total chips - you should increase the other one. Usually this means increase mult, but building a bit multiplier can quickly make it outpace your chips for some hands.

And my wallet is no doubt thankfully for it. As long as my old GTX1660 keeps chugging on I’ll keep gaming at ?Hz on my ???p monitor lol

I definitely don’t play with anything near 120 and it doesn’t bother me. I suppose it’s something that once you start paying attention to you notice haha.

What exactly is the point of all those extra Hz? I get that in this case it’s just a “because we can” kind of situation, but in general… I’ve never paid any attention to refresh rate and it has never affected me. Is higher really better?

The median is an average. But it isn’t the mean, which is presumably what the other comment was using.

I mean if you don’t like replacing gear for similar stuff with better stats I don’t think looter shooters are for you haha! The story is pretty basic but I do enjoy the random dialogue you get when just flying about once you’ve unlocked HIVE

I would recommend Everspace 2. It’s quite a different game, it’s a space dogfighter first and foremost… But it’s also somewhat a light RPG looter shooter. It’s great, and still recieving updates (slowly).

Depends on the size of screen, surely.

Overwatch is a particularly successful Team-Fortress-like

They find funds and provide marketing, which is astonishingly expensive. I’m not in games, but I do work in a marketing adjacent function. The budgets needed even to do very small marketing exercises are really unbelievable. Campaigns exceed my yearly salary regularly, and we are not doing anything like consumer marketing which I imagine is significantly worse.

Not to justify publisbers’ behaviour, but this is partially why they have such stringent demands, I suspect. I assume they are getting some kind of funding or something from the PSN connection, which funds both the game and the marketing needed to make it a success.

Yeah, I was initially invested in the whole meta narrative, but when we wiped out the bots and they just… Came back again lmao, I lost interest somewhat. I’ll still dip in here and there, it’s a fun game, but I would have liked to see the campaign be more emergent and the missions actually reflect what’s happening more.

The article would be a lot less convincing if it didn’t present the clear evidence provided by those games. They are important in this context because there aren’t a lot of games like them coming out today.

This is great! I have never had much time to pour into it, and tbh when season 4 came out I pretty much dropped the game because I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to play enough to make it feel worthwhile. Now I can go back to the start and just pick away at it! Brilliant!

I don’t know how D:OS2 compares to BG3 as I haven’t played the latter, but OS2 is great and it gets steadily worse from there going back in time.

Fuck yes. The first two games were ridiculous and very easy but fun regardless.

I’m not lying, I’m just recounting information from ProtonDB, if it’s wrong then sorry about that I suppose. I usually find it trustworthy.

Yes, and that is exactly why having a low spec device as a common performance benchmark is useful. It extends the lifespan of low spec devices in general - at least if publishers think it’s worth targeting the playerbase.

Not a hardware issue. It won’t run because EA don’t allow their anti cheat to run on Linux.

So your plan is just to read headlines and make assumptions? I’m sure that will give you a much clearer insight into things.

I haven’t particularly felt mine is underpowered tbh. Obviously it’s a handheld so it doesn’t play the AAA graphics card melters on ultra haha. But yes, introducing a new one would affect everyone who doesn’t upgrade… Plus of course the benchmark being low benefits PC players with weaker hardware, too. Budget players, in other words, who perhaps can’t afford a £500+ upgraded deck. Seems a bit cold to just throw these folks under the bus.

Having it as a benchmark is good, it encourages developers to aim to get good performance on a relatively underpowered device. I worry that an upgrade would muddy the waters… And drive games away from aiming for “verified” on the steam deck 1.

I liked fable 3, but I’d much rather replay 2… Which I also can’t. Annoying.