I was actually thinking about playing x4 recently…I bounced off of it forever ago but the comment seems neat. I have so many other games to play though and Satisfactory is my current fixation D:

Man warframe is such an interesting game. I bounced off it twice. When it first released and then again in like '17, but not long ago I fell into it hard for 3 months. So much so it was my #1 played game for my steam recap lol.

It goes: Thunk. KA-CHUNK. bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww

It is indeed the alien power augmenter. The upper structure is basically just made up of some circular foundations and mk1 pipe though.

The rest of my factory doesn’t look nearly as nice haha

No, and i don’t actually play either game. But I recently saw my husband playing OW2 and I got mad all over again at how it’s identical to the first OW and the only reason for it was to more aggressively monetize.

My friend and I were just talking the other day how Marvel looked like a carbon copy of overwatch, and we both agreed we’d still rather play it over OW because Blizzard sucks.

I wonder how many people have jumped ship just because of that.

You can use any controller with a steam deck though. I use our ps5 controllers to play cult of the lamb with my husband and I have a wired Xbox controller I’ve used as well. Both work flawlessly.

Sometimes I’ll watch videos for build inspiration, especially for survival crafting games

10 out of 10 dentists agree, not pressing the button is good for your teeth.

They can afford to keep trying, and it only takes one live service hit to print infinite money.

Ahhhh! I didn’t know this was happening woo!

It also seems if you can’t get it to run on linux at first, setting compatibility to proton experimental bleeding edge will do the trick.

That’s unfortunate, I was really looking forward to this because the setting was so cool and I loved the mystcraft and rf dimensions mods for minecraft. Unfortunately the developers made some…interesting, design choices that just killed the game for me, and apparently everyone else too.

Not only did the DLC just come out, but the base game also got a free major 2.0 update

So up until very recently, the monster hunter games had a theme of living in balance with the environment and monsters were only hunted to help control manageable numbers or if some had gone out of control. Then they were apparently specifically told to tone down their environmental messaging to appeal to a wider audience.

I usually have a pretty bad attention span with games so it’s wild to me that I’ve been playing warframe almost exclusively for nearly 3 months now, and I’m super excited for 1999 later this year.

I also really need to get back into the satisfactory server I’ve been hosting for some friends and finish the turbofuel power plant for them.

Finally, Monomyth came out in early access recently so I’ve been savoring it. Arx Fatalis had the absolute coolest fantasy setting I have ever seen, as well as just being an awesome game. Monomyth is a love letter and I couldn’t be happier.

I believe the things you are calling out are an integral part of the ARPG genre so there isn’t going to be much change to the core without fundamentally changing the game you’re playing. Plenty of people enjoy the wanton clicky destruction and seeing numbers rise, just look how popular stuff like cookie clicker is.

Have you tried monster hunter? (Or god eater or wild hearts) Those games sound a lot like what you’re describing. At its heart the core gameplay is ‘Hunt monsters to gather parts to make better gear to hunt more powerful monsters’

Instead of mowing down tones of small things though, you take down a single large and dangerous foe. As you progress, new and more powerful foes appear, but despite the large roster of monsters, they all feel unique. And while better gear certainly helps, a good deal of skill is also required.

I lived the collectibles in Anacronox, they were little golden taco trophies and their lore was that they used to be highly sought after until it came out that TACO stood for Totally Arbitrary Collectible Object and it tanked the market.

You meet a guy that held on till the bitter end but finally had to sell off his collection because he needed the money, so you give him any you find for trinkets and stuff to help him rebuild his collection.

Kerbal space program 2 was somehow both rushed and delayed :(

I don’t know if I’m opposed to store exclusives exactly, but epic was paying out the nose to drive people to their store that didn’t even have a shopping cart.

They launched a store without a feature every online store has had for decades

I feel like the Ghostbusters reboot was the first big example of this. It was rightly criticized for being an actually bad movie, and Sony dismissed it and doubled down on the misogyny angle.

Oh…so I dug further, and apparently the only in-house game to their name is a blade runner title that’s still in development.

Annapurna was both, this article is saying that the development side broke off from the publishing side.

I was so looking forward to this game because the aestetic was so cool…and then I played, and it was a buggy always online mess with a convoluted crafting system. So disappointing.

I’m probably in the minority here but the realistic style is the least of my issues with the movie. I’ve only played modded minecraft and shaders give it that weird realistic look too lol

Oh snap, this update may just make no man’s sky the best game ever

It looks like a super novel combination of elements and genres which has me intrigued. If the dev can pull this off I’m going to have to explain to my friends why I’m plying a porn game lol

I had heard that term before, but was hoping there was some other meaning revolving around something in their steam inventory

The thing that really irked me too was his edit after he was banned said something like “I guess valve did have a problem with me playing with my friends” completely ignoring his blatant ‘fuck you valve’ tone of the article

From my understanding it allows malicious code to be installed in protected memory on the CPU itself, so you can’t get rid of it once it’s there without a lot of extra work

I’ve not played it myself, but I was curious about it before it launched. It ended up releasing to poor reviews as well as being an epic games exclusive.

If I recall, the devs made some curious design choices and left out a lot of quality of life things that are standard to the genre now, so the game just ended up being frustrating to play.

I guess way back when microsoft said than win10 would be the last version of windows, what the meant was it would be the last anyone wants to use.

The older monster hunters were more about being a village protector and the hunter guild actively worked to maintain a natural balance…I saw in a video recently that in the newer games though the developers actively shied away from environmental themes

So far I’ve really only played the Alters. It seems like an interesting blend of base/resource/personnel managment with some exploration and base building, plus the story seems pretty neat so I’m probably gonna pick it up when it releases.

I think, also if I recall both games were genre defining

Typically valve only puts out games that showcase something new, so might be interesting

Didn’t take two poach a bunch of private division devs to form intercept as well? I remeber a lot of drama around that time.

Remember when it was first announced, and they said it was gonna come out like 6 months later? And then it finally came out in a barely playable state like 2 years later

I didn’t refund it because I was patiently hoping the dev team would make the game that was promised, looks like I patiently waited for the whole dev team to get fired so I don’t think there’s really anything left to wait for.

I still vividly recall sneaking through one of the levels in NOLF 2 and hearing one of the henchmen yell “Who ate my chili mango chutney?! My mother made that for meeeeee”

Also the man-handler machine and the cubed henchmen later on.