Are they going to patent breathing next?

Thanks for the info. Exactly what I needed.

Random question about Jump Space. Is it like Sea of Thieves or Void Crew where it’s kind of only fun if you’re playing with actual friends and everyone is on mic and isn’t very functional if you’re matching up with randoms?

Been keeping an eye on this game, but have also come to realize that while I like the idea of games like SoT or Void Crew I don’t actually like playing them cuz I don’t like games that require that level of coordination with randoms who don’t know exactly what to do.

To be clear, I’m obsessed with coop games like Deep Rock Galactic and the new Mycopunk. And I’ve spent decades waiting for that perfect space shooter that transitions from ship combat to ground combat. But the bottom line is I’ll always be matching up with randoms and if this isn’t that kind of game then I’m gonna sit this one out.

So I finally found out why every fucking update for this game takes for-fucking-ever despite being installed on an SSD. Basically, it requires free size on the drive equal to the entire size of the game to install an update. If there isn’t that much space on the drive, it defaults to your secondary drive, which in my case is an “old” platter HDD to complete the installation.

So a 30mb update comes out for this game, which I don’t even really play anymore, and Steam takes 45 minutes to install it.

Basically, the moment I need that space for another game, this game is on the chopping block. It isn’t even fun anymore.

Sounds like she’s doing what every bottom feeding streamer can’t do.

Quitting cuz it isn’t fun anymore.

Good for her.

It’s great. It’s early access, so it needs some polishing, but it’s already pretty solid. It can be a little overwhelming at first, so make sure you’re doing one of the easier difficulties. Get your weapons and character leveled up and it starts becoming more engaging. Try out different weapons too. I was struggling until I started branching out. And keep in mind that the enemies are made up of various parts and you can blow those parts off and then other enemies can pick those parts up and use them. So learning how to take off limbs and then make sure the limbs are destroyed so they can’t be re-used is important.

Oh, and it allows gifs in the in-game chat. Something I’ve never seen in a game before. Type “/gif” followed by any keyword and it tosses an appropriate gif into the chat. It’s a lot of fun to mess around with.

I mean I get what you’re saying. I’ve been playing Sven-Coop for 26 years and counting. People are still playing. People are still making new levels for it.

But it’s mostly people on the older side and it’s because it was a mod for a HUGELY popular game and the mod itself used to have a ton of players.

But a lot of these new, good games never get that big following that allow for a small fan base decades later. Or even months later. Because there’s so many other options spreading gamers out.

Yup.

The overabundance of games is killing great games.

Can’t tell you how many fantastic multiplayer games I’ve bought only to find out they’re ghost towns or become ghost towns soon after purchasing. And it’s because players are so spread out over so many games. 20 years ago these games would have been major successes with a huge player base for years, but they’re dead on arrival or within a few months. It’s a real bummer.

That being said, I’m going to plug Mycopunk. Just got it and it’s great. Like Deep Rock Galactic and Risk of Rain 2 had a baby. We need more players though. Came out in July. Currently on sale. But base price is cheap.

Seems to be an unpopular opinion, but 1 was the best in the series as far as I’m concerned.

Yup. Jeremy Soule nailed it in Guild Wars.

Quake 2

Guild Wars 1

Looking at you, Valve.

Once more for those in the back.

You.

Will.

Not.

Stop.

Piracy.

Quake 2 is one of the best games ever made.

I gave up on B4B pretty quickly because after your team dies a couple times you’re sent back to the beginning of the campaign, instead of the beginning of the level, like in L4D. Then everyone just drops out of frustration. Made trying the harder difficulties pointless. Was a really bad design decision.

I hate it because it’s like they’re trying their hardest to make a shitty storefront.

It’s awful.

I get almost none of the information I need when on a game’s store page. Meanwhile, I get all the info I need and then some on the same game’s Steam page.

It’s like they don’t want to sell their product.

I do definitely appreciate the weekly free games. Sometimes, like this week, they have solid offerings. It’s Dead Island 2 this week, btw.

Played it on a free weekend a few months ago after hearing about it for over a decade.

Shit sucks.

Looks pretty, and that’s where the good parts end.

Everything, and I mean everything, is insanely tedious and the inventory system is godawful. After 10+ years of “development”.

Avoid this garbage.

I’ll enjoy buying it in 5 years during a Steam sale.

There’s an overabundance of games out there. I can wait.

This is why I pirate.

I’m tired of companies telling me what I can and can’t do with something I’ve purchased.

Anyways. I’ll be gaming on my PC if anyone needs me.

Yeah, as long as you’re not too concerned about load time, then an old HDD is still fine.

I’m an addict. I have a ton of games on my computer. I have 4 NVMe drives and that isn’t enough to hold all my games. So I have smaller indie games and older games like L4D2 on my old school 4TB HDD. No ragrets.

No they won’t.

And it’s an impossible equation for most Americans to pay more. Especially if things continue to downward spiral.

Where’s my eye patch?

No.

Thanks conservatives, non-voters, and 3rd party voters.

You’re reaaaaaal smart. Give yourselves a pat on the back.

Thrill Kill

Hey look, an “elite” with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who’s just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I’d be doing it.

Anything with the word “premium” attached to it goes on my ignore list.

There are so many games out there these days that I really don’t feel pressure to buy any single title.

Loved the original Painkiller. The battlefield frozen in time was cutting edge stuff to see in a video game back then.

Hopefully this is released on PC too.

The SS1 remake was pretty damn good.

The thing about remakes though is they can lose what made the original good. So while someone who never played the original might really like the remake, a die-hard that’s always liked the original may feel kind of betrayed by the remake.

I never played SS1, so the remake was something new for me and I liked it. But I grew up with and revere SS2 as being one of the best games ever made. So I’m almost kind of glad this is just a remaster and not a remake.

LET’S GO!!!

Built a new killer rig last summer. Have spent 90% of my time with it playing HL1 mods.

Finally gave Star Citizen a shot a few months ago when it had a free week.

It was awful.

It looked great. Everything else was dogshit. The inventory system was trash. Everything, and I mean everything, was beyond tedious. The game felt very empty. Movement didn’t feel good. Bugs galore.

And that’s after well over a decade of development.

Pass on this hot garbage.

I couldn’t do the fetch quests and just clicking on boxes for combat.

That’s literally all MMO’s.

I would hope someone takes this world and updates the graphics

They did at one point years ago. It looks a lot better than it used to. But they’ve pretty much maxed out what that engine can do. It’s not going to get better looking.

It’s the only MMO I play largely for the lore and because it’s the largest non-procedural game world ever created and I love getting “lost” in it. But they’ve already completed the LoTR storyline and while the new areas they’re adding still look great, the stories and quests are getting pretty boring. Gameplay is getting boring too. I haven’t purchased the newest expansion and I’m not sure I’m going to. Been playing for years, so feels a little weird to just quit.

They pissed me off when they completely re-worked the Loremaster class. So annoying to play now.

One of the best ever made. I remember a SS2 remaster/remake being in the works a few years ago, but it got cancelled.

Yeah, the remake was really good, but I’ll warn you, it’s pretty hard. Like, frustratingly hard. And if I remember you can’t change the difficulty mid-game, so you may just want to play it on easier difficulty.

Sven-Coop for Half-Life 1.

I’ve played, almost daily, since the mod was released in January 1999. Over a quarter century. I’ve got admin in a number of servers, so a lot of days I’m just hopping on briefly to make sure the servers are running smoothly and no one is trolling. New maps are still being regularly released, many by people who have been mapping for it for a solid 15-20 years.

No idea of total hours. It wasn’t added to Steam until 2016, but I have multiple thousands of hours logged since then. I’ve got to be over 10-12k hours since the beginning. Easily.

Everything else in my life has shifted. Sven-Coop is my rock.

I remember liking it, but it’s been, what, 20 years?

That’s literally the direction we are headed and we’re picking up speed.

Forced myself to build a new rig last summer largely because I had a feeling Trump would win and everything would get more expensive. I probably should have bought a new used car as well. Any big purchases should have been done before Jan 20.

The older I get the less I care about best lists.

It’s all subjective.