Who cares, it was great

Control? Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West.

The first one was absolutely a game. Definitely need a discount to pick up the second one.

URL-specific and they go to the registrar? What can they do, they don’t manage the hosting

If you’re selfhosting stuff, you easily host Home Assistant, install the app on the phone, and use the battery sensor from the app to turn on and off a smart plug.

Gamers are used to fiddling, so that shouldn’t be a big deal for now

TYRANNY! It’s an RPG from Obsidian that shares the Pillars of Eternity engine, very cool premise and story, main campaign is short so it shouldn’t keep you occupied long, unless you decide to replay of course, the storyline changes A LOT depending on your actions (and even upon choices you make before even playing), so replayability is very high.

So you don’t actually explore map, but lore.

Yeah, got it for free on epic, assumed it was a game on dictatorship for reason… What a trip it turned out to be

Pshh, UE5 when the FreeDoom engine exists

Don’t underestimate the importance of playing snowballs

You could have spared yourself that tangent just by clicking the link.

The update does something that makes the games crash, the reason is not explained, but the “changes” mentioned in the sentence are the ones introduced by the update, not by the games.

“Dive dive dive, hit your burners pilot!!”

“Mean, green and unseen!”

“Ahhh, fresh meat”

Diablo 1

“You must gather your party before venturing forth!”

Well, they started out doing simple fixes and gradually went for deeper ones, I guess this is a signal that they’ve crossed a threshold and are putting special effort into modifying games for current and future machines

The Vatican is essentially Italy, except when it goes against their interests

Godspeed

On the back sucks, with your phone laying on a surface you can’t access the reader… Sony had it right, put it on the side, on the power button

It’s dead, Jim

And even if the game released and was great, what would you do if you already had everything in the game?

It’d be easier to list who Nvidia hasn’t pissed off

Rich asshole being rich asshole

Ok at first I thought the title was about a fake prop from a video game which somehow was worth 50m

You could always become a patientgamer [email protected]

Wine Is Not an Emulator

I wonder why they didn’t make it free-to-play and try to cash in on microtransactions

Shit updates, expensive, terrible marketing (since ever). I used to buy Xperia phones exclusively, the compact ones to be precise, then Sony decided that compact phones and affordable phones had to go, I bought an Xperia 10 (I or II, can’t remember) and it absolutely sucked. When it broke I bought a random Chinese phone from the store, ended up with a Realme. Works better, with worse battery life tho.

Nintendo special features are pushed by Nintendo into its software… PC developers aren’t going to invest into something maybe one customer in 10000 will use

The final battle in the house of hope, with the custom song, was the highlight of the game

I don’t even understand who enjoys them. Just go on the internet for your smut!

100 hours is too much for a game. Let’s say I can play it 1-2 hours a day 5 days a week (I usually have stuff to do on the weekend), it’d take me over two months to finish it! There are other games I want to play!
I did finish it, but only because I had to spend over a month at home using up PTO before leaving my previous job for my current one.

It ended up being too long anyway

Sex scenes in games (and movies) are useless 90% of the time

“We don’t even like running!”

Campaign’s mind-blowing

Yeah well that’s the effect of the modern world, where works can be replicated effortlessly. Sucks if your work is producing physical goods that can’t be copy/pasted.

This is all there is to be said on the matter

I mean, we could argue on whether his work is worth tens of times that of an average person, but I mean, there’s people who make more and whose work is actually detrimental to society, so he’s all right by me.

Anything that is worked on for that long is fair game for versioning. It used to be that you bought a version of a software and it was yours for life, but if you wanted the new fancy stuff, you had to buy the new version.

Now it’s either a subscription or an “app” model, how long can a developer continue to support a 3€ one-time-buy app with new features? Buyers run out sooner or later.