Must still be practicing.

I played a thousand or two hours of Skyrim… never completed the main quest… but it was always there as an objective that I was maybe heading towards. Elder Scrolls have usually struck a good balance between “here is a big world to wander around” and “here are some key objectives and narratives to drive you forwards”.

Sure, that’s not to dismiss the valuable work and high effort you’re putting in to having these conversations that otherwise wouldn’t happen.

I can’t stand open worlds with no clear goals, the shine quickly wears off the world itself and I’m just left wondering what I would even want to do it. Mile wide, inch deep content deserts just switch me off immediately.

I play games to escape the purposelessness of life, not simulate it.

I don’t particularly agree with their conflict of interest comment on the quote, no. I guess it could be said that interviewing individuals that you have a personal relationship with could be a conflict around expectations of unbiased article writing, but this isn’t exactly the New York Times.

Not so much a conflict, but “my friend says his software is amazing” comes off as something of a fluff piece.

I imagine he would, yep.

I suppose we can be reassured that the Obscene Yacht industry is still going strong despite the cost of living crisis.

Mass Effect but now Cerberus is unequivocally the good guy.

At the very least, spoil the data that they hold on file for you.

“Our values have always been terrible. Expect no change.”

I couldn’t be ​more ​excited about ​what’s ​ahead,” said Jared Kushner, Chief Executive Officer of Affinity Partners.

Because it just wouldn’t be a story without a Trump family angle.

It doesn’t exactly scream “Shariah Compliant”, no.

Holy shit, that is a lot of debt… EA is going to be absolutely gutted. I imagine the ones gutting it will be paid generously for the trouble though.

Most AI companies will die quite dramatically, but the big players will weather the storm and soak up all the rewards that come from monopolising on such technology. The ultimate product can turn to slop if you’re the only game in town.

No one will ever stop chasing AI. It’s the holy grail of corporate efficiency, just you… your shareholders… and some unpaid robot slaves. The dream.

$2000 gets you just a high end graphics card. >.>’

Everyone without a 5090 should immediately refund the game and use these remarks as the justification.

Yeah… victory belonging to the person with the widest reach and deepest pockets rather than the originator of the material/idea is one way to ensure that all creatives become paupers. This is one of those many on-paper ideas that, without the upheaval of pretty much every other established human social structure, would be awful in practice.

They’re communing with Satan, I hear!

Oh wow, we’re really hitting all the classics.

Well, the roguelike format is quite different too.

Gris.

And here we go… the inevitable conclusion. If you deviate from a fundamentalist ideal of the norm then your existence is pornographic by its very nature.

Oh wow… an anonymous complaint that is complete nonsense… whatever will they do. I at least expect the EU to correctly dismiss this pathetic attempt.

I wouldn’t really care if Steam decided to crack down on porn games, its their store. Payment processors being the ones to force Valve’s hands simply doesn’t sit right.

I’m not going to burn your house down, rest easy knowing that. :)

I have mine, I used it a few times, I did not care for it. I can’t stand using a touchpad in place of physical sticks. I found it to be worse than a mouse for mouse needs and worse than a standard controller for controller needs. All just felt a bit gimmicky.

Sooo… Gamepass is one of the services that is driving up the price of the non-gamepass versions of those games, right? They’ve got to recoup costs somehow, and then the rest of the industry takes that as an opportunity to consider these inflated prices as the new baseline.

It’s fun how when you could really most use a reliable distraction you start to not be able to find joy in things you used to.

Funny how that happens when people don’t have any money.

Smite the Reich?

Why would anyone have that strong a view about what you said…? I’m not clamouring for sequels particularly for those games, though I’d love more games like them. Then again, whatever gets me more beautiful soundtracks from Darren Korb.

It’s annoying that it isn’t at least on GOG, it’s such a prime candidate.

It adds more complexity and distinction between planets, at least.

Depending on what you want, Freespace 2 and all its mods/updates are still excellent. Wing Commander Saga is a standalone game based on it of remarkable quality.

Where can you get Freelancer these days…?

Because it’s badly reviewed and sales have dried up…?

Also because it is loaded with microtransactions, so they can make that back and more if they get you hooked.

Do you seriously think this is a Trump administration move…? The fuck does he care about extremism, he creates it.

I’m sorry that you had to find out this way.

Steam discussion forums on every game are a complete dumpster fire. Someone needs to do better, whether it is Steam themselves or moderators.