I started my protest a decade ago.

While you can argue that nothing happened and we still have loot boxes, I’d argue that my life is greatly enriched for not feeling any motivation to play in those looty skinner box games.

Not me! I got Kingdom Come for either under $5 or free last year.

So I expect to get the sequel at the same price in about six years.

Also the whole Gamersgate backlash that the lead was actively encouraging, and now the dev arguing against the anti-woke crowd… Yeah I’m not in a rush to give them money.

Thanks for the write up! I had no idea this is why Suicide Squad was such a letdown.

Wonder woman is, in my opinion, an odd choice for a video game. I think it could be really good, and her rope would translate well to video game mechanics, but it doesn’t feel like Wonder Womans time to shine right now

Id argue that I felt the same about Batman not being translatable to a game during the 2000s. Video games based on comics were absolutely awful. Superman 64 was a nightmare, and Batman games were beat-em-ups or platformers.

But really smart creatives made the Arkham series work. So I’m optimistic that in the hands of strong visionaries, it’s absolutely possible.

Now, do I think WB has the capacity to make a good Wonder Woman game? Haha nope. Not after what they’ve shown in the last few years.

Here you go chief! And so the withdrawal begins!

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I see you never taken crack away from a fiend. It’s not what’s immediately lost, but the destruction along the way

Will someone please think of the out-of-touch investors who do nothing but speculate and play with other people’s money?

Rumor mill is already spreading like wildfire.

Commenters are concerned about League of Legends and every other Chinese owned game studio without a US backer.

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I dunno about that.

There’s gonna be a bunch of angry Unstable 12yos uncertain what to do now that their gacha crack was torn away from them.

They moved into “dumpster fire” territory significantly more than “fucking amazing”, sadly. Like one good expansion, three bad updates and two bad expansions, one good update.

Don’t forget Path of Exile.

Id argue a bunch of early access games that get constant updates are Live Service games too.

And indie games like Terraria and Minecraft were the best examples of live service.

Would be better if you can earn skibidi toilet emoji dances for Kratos

While playing the single player masterpiece which was God of War, I absolutely thought: “The only way to make this game better is if I had the luxury of buying a battle pass to grind for seasonal cosmetics along with a dozen other people.” 🤤🤤🤤🤑

Thank you! Felt like I was I playing a different game than everyone else.

Everyone mocked Starfield’s Neon for being Discount Cyberpunk. But at least they played it as straight as they could. Like, I could believe people live there and had a life.

It felt like Outer Worlds kept trying to make jokes about how cruel capitalism is versus tell a real story. Like, “Oh boy time to go increase shareholder value!” Or “I love Space nuts. I have to say that or I die.” Like wtf, where’s the subtlety?

It’s not Borderlands 3 bad, no where near it. But it’s pretty bad.

Hell yeah Visual novels on Steam Deck!

I finally got into Steins Gate thanks to Steam Deck. I wasn’t able to keep my attention going when I played it on PC.

Ah, the Facebook owned gaming platform where you can now call homosexuality a mental disorder.

Nah, they’ll just make it a AAAA level game

Is it game devs? Or shitty fans who like to trivialize things for lolz or because they’re assholes?

(subconsciously picks up golf club)

To comment on the story, and SPOILERS FOR ANYBODY.

Yeah you’re not wrong. The last act after killing Andrew Ryan was pretty unfulfilling. It becomes a full blown first-person shooter.

In spite of that, Bioshock holds a special place on my heart. There’s some really really good level design and storytelling (both through the radio AND environmental storytelling) leading up to Andrew Ryan. I ranks up there with Half-Life 2 in terms of telling stories without hitting the player on the head.

Bioshock 2 and Infinite… Not so much.

I played MGS5 about two years ago during the pandemic.

My god. That game shouldn’t be so graphically beautiful, better than most games that were being released.

Shame the game didn’t have a full ending. I want closure. But that’s my phantom pain.

My friend, you are about to see Mini Metro in every metropolitan subway system map from now until eternity. Godspeed.

I only played RoR 2 and i never understood RoR 1.

Maybe you’re right - two different audiences?

What they also didn’t explain is you get 82 Punk tokens, which you can use in reschooch your chumwang in Alfalfa.

Unmetal is a love letter to classic Metal Gear. If you are a Kojima fan and love the wacky world building, this is right up your alley.

Sonic Mania is absolutely worth it to anybody who grew up with 2D Sonic.

I was absolutely part of the KoL community in the 2000s-2010s, and left when I aged out of their KoL Radio/podcast stuff.

I remember hearing about it during West of Loathing launch and definitely one of the reasons I avoided the game during release. But I came around during the pandemic and I wonder if there was an aftermath.

I’m digging through the internet right now. This was one of their apologies, also from that 2019 time.

Would you happen to know of any recent updates?

My wife and I bounced after the brutal difficulty and made it to the next biome.

It was kind of fun that every fight was a life or death experience. But we never felt like we were getting stronger or things ever got easier.

I didn’t mind, as I play Dark Souls. But for my wife who like to max-level then steamroll things, this was driving her crazy.

Was in a thread recently where people talk about heavy story games being popular because of Watcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Disco Esylium and Baldurs Gate 3.

I’m going to recommend some fantastic story-rich/story-heavy games that people might have missed during the 2010-2020 era.

Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun Hong Kong: RPG tactics. if you’re not familiar with Shadowrun, it’s Cyberpunk but with Elves/Trolls, and Dragons as president. Story is dark and fantastic.

West of Loathing and Shadows of Loathing: RPG tactics. Really great and funny writing. One reviewer said they smiled ear to ear during their whole play. I did too.

Danganronpa series and Steins Gate series visual novel territory. Starts really slow but sucks you in. Paradise Killer was my introduction to this world.

Rusty Lake games Puzzly. Rusty Lake Roots storytelling is so good. Don’t sleep on Rusty Lake Paradise and Rusty lake Hotel. Those stories are a bit more abstract, as are all the Rusty Lake games.

Firewatch this is the game that made me sit up and pay attention to Walk Simulators. There’s a lot of good ones to name, but Firewatch is top tier.

All on sale for a few bucks. All of them will make you think about them while showering and reflecting on life.

Bone’s Cafe and Kingdom 2 Crowns is right up my alley! Thank you

As a hoarder, I’m frequently finding games I bought 3-4 sales ago or through the many bundles I buy. I’ve accepted it.

Only because often, I’d read about a cool game, look for it, only to find i own it already. And then I play it immediately and have a lot of fun.

For the more chillax remote co-op, these are the games I’ve played with my family. (Wife and kids)

Valheim - survival building stuff.

Grounded - survival building stuff but it’s Honey I shrunk the kids.

Raft - survival building stuff but on a raft.

Dinkum - building stuff like Animal Crossing but Australia

Enshrouded - survival building stuff but Zelda Breath of the Wild

V Rising - building stuff but vampires and MOBA

My wife and I loved Escape Academy. The narrative structure made it more interesting. And the puzzles were more sillier in nature, like solving things while escaping a flood. Or trying to land a airplane.

We bounced off of Escape Simulato.

Isthereanydeal.com is also down.

There are some new surprises that I found before everything went kaput.

You’re not wrong at all.

Baldurs Gate 3 was a surprise success. But then again, it took them many years and many Divinity games.

Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk also are narrative darlings. But CD Projekt took a lot of chances over the years to get here.

A bunch of my favorite heavy-story games are sitting at under 2000 steam reviews. While Meme game for Twitch Streamer hits 10k-100k reviews.

I’m currently playing Shadows of Loathing right now, and I can’t believe it took me this long. Next up is Beyond Shadowgate.

The “Go woke, go broke” man babies who believes that failed games were because of politics™, and any attempt to help those people is a act of aggression.

Not certain if it holds up. I tried to replay RE 2 and the controls drove me nuts.

Funny enough, I was able to replay RE 4 (before the remake) and it was pretty good.

You activated a core memory.

Used to host Power Stone 2 Dreamcast parties.

Project Justice… I loved every single character. Swimmer guy. Bat guy. Tennis preteen. Akira. Dom girl. Teacher who had enough of your shit. Batsu. Guy who did Guile moves. Sakura. I miss it.

But Okami… 😥

I worked there in 2017-2020.

You have a link to the details?

Legal threats are a dime a dozen and I can see what type of action was made that gave the record companies a win.

Death Stranding, on paper, sounds like the most boring game ever.

And yet I didn’t just finish it, I chased after achievements! I built all the highways! I 5-starred all the bunkers so I can get dumb little bookbag attachments and get digital Guillermo del Toro to approve of me.

I look forward to the yawn fest that will be Death Stranding 2 and how boring it is. And then I will play it for 100 hours.