He didn’t say they were good, just the best.

I was going to immediately mention Hollow Knight but I see someone already did. Second thought: Tunic. It’s been a long time since a game hit me as hard as those two.

For pure fun addictive gaming: Factorio is absolutely nuts. 2D survival craft platforming action: Terraria is still king.

For space empire building check out X4: Foundations, after almost 10 years under development it’s absolutely amazing (but a huge timesink haha)

Oh and if you’re into semi-hard-scifi basebuilding you could give Stationeers a look. Sunk quite some hours into that one.

It’s trickling down folks. If Ubisoft can pocket 20% more profits for their games that means you the gamer will get 20% more updates for your favorite games. Really, that’s how it works.

I looked at an “AAA” game maybe twice in give or take the last decade and both times have regretted it. Indie games are the bomb.

I mean it’s Ubisoft and Disney, if you were expecting anything other than 100% sanitized and wholesome…

Show the actual use case in a convincing way and people will line up around the block. Generating some funny pictures or making generic suggestions about your calendar won’t cut it.

The only 2600 game I have very vivid memories of playing.

Man I need a replay of the whole series. Thanks for the reminder <3

What will keep you safe is not selling your business to a mega corp.

Was I a good processor?

No one ever mentions the MSX. Best of the 8 bit generation as far as I’m concerned, scrolling purists be damned.

I’m around level 5 still mostly, I only joined fairly recently. I’ve only had 1 full ctd so far but I’ve been stuck in geometry countless times, one time the extraction console wouldn’t activate, one time a geometry glitch prevented us from boarding the escape ship. Sometimes my weapons won’t switch and when I go to iron sights it’ll just show my empty hands.

It’s a testament to how great the game is that I still can’t wait to play more though haha

Love the game but holy hell is it buggy. Most nights there are at least two drops I can’t complete due to something game breaking.

Shareholders: you doubled your profit last year, so I expect you to do it again this year.

In just not interested in anything Bethesda any more. I played a ton of FO3 and Oblivion back in the day. A good bit of Skyrim. New Vegas was pretty decent. But the engine just feels so incredibly stale and outdated. The dead eyed characters barking their lines at you. Everything just feels clunky and unimmersive. It feels more like a chore than a fun game.

Who could’ve guessed selling virtual waifus could be this profitable… Actually I guess we all could.

But the base game will still be Starfield :( kudos to those modders though looks pretty amazing.

Neither of those games took more than a year or two to become enjoyable. Not to mention neither of them cost their buyers hundreds or even thousands of dollars to enjoy. Bit of a silly comparison.

Conker?

I’m someone that happily advocates Linux for daily use but for gaming… Some games run great on Linux Steam but there are more than a few that either won’t run at all or for some reason (gpu drivers maybe?) run slow as hell when on Windows they run just fine. I 100% prefer to run on Linux but until there’s a solution for that I’m stuck dual booting.

I take it you’re referring to Boo, the miniature giant space hamster?

I think BG3 showed conclusively that no one will ever play single player games no matter how great they are. /s

Free (as in beer) is never free

I’ll always have a soft spot for mr. Molyneux. Yeah his plans don’t always work out but he’s a real visionary, not (intentionally :p) a scam artist.

I mean I play pretty much exclusively old and 2D games. If you asked me to give up my SSD or my GPU, the GPU would be the first to go.

I mean considering the engine is basically Skyrim in space why not keep rereleasing?

Wow Eurogamer has one of the worst cookie consent banners I’ve seen in a while.

No one would have heard of them if it weren’t for ZP

And Dexter was such a cool ally/antagonist. They really frontloaded all the coolest characters.

I need a prequel where V does his fun buddy heists with Jackie. Intro was the best part of the game for me.

Not to sound mean but it’s people who spend their time on gacha games.

It got so much hate for the jam back in the day (and a lot of other stuff too) but I loved it. It’s still by far my favorite Far Cry. The new ones are way too cartoony.

After the Starfield debacle I can’t say I’m super interested to play the game anyway. 10+ years and they only slightly improved the basic engine. It feels like a game made in 2010 with slightly more decent graphics. So yeah no high hopes for ES6 when it comes out.

No it’s the great cleansing where… checks notes… billionaires crush the working classes by taking away their free virtual pets?

Considering how much stuff people dump on there that probably doesn’t even deserve to be released it’s not super surprising right? I’m more surprised that 8.9% of games, that’s almost 1 in 10, made over $200k.

Also clearly visual novels are not the way to go if you want to make a lot of money

I mean 10 years and 600m dollars later and still not feature complete, that’s decent reason to “whine” I’d say.

This is it. Forget all the tracked on nonsense. The base building, the character management, production chains all that nonsense…

If you focus on the combat/looter aspect of the game, that part is actually pretty good. A world apart from the janky combat of Fallout, it actually feels pretty visceral.

Back to Crusader Kings 3, finally going to get me that Dynasty of Many Crowns :p

I kind of enjoyed fallout but it did feel very shallow for an RPG. I’m hoping this one does a bit better in that regard but I’m trying to temper my expectations.

Love letters to someone you’ve never met are very romantic.

Yeah it’s quite fun.

The pros:

• The setting is pretty and nicely developed.
• Resource gathering is a bit simplistic but fun.
• Nice relaxing game with cute graphics and plenty of small things to keep you busy

Small gripes:

• Grindy but it’s an MMO what do you expect?
• The physics are a bit loose/floaty and movement a bit clunky, but of course that’s par for the course too.
• Does everything (bow hunting, mining, crafting, farming) but nothing exceptionally well.
• Building and decorating your house does not seem to have any function other than purely cosmetic, at least so far