Ok I misread that title, I thought there was going to be a Belgian robot AI church minister going after criminals

Me too

As much as I find distasteful the idea of shipping “mandatory” patches for single player games years down the line to fix issues that should’ve been caught during QA… this might be a decent use case for them

I would super appreciate “Jump Back In” mode…

Oh damn, thats a name I admittedly haven’t heard in a while. This guy had a huge impact on the games I played growing up. Still play the Master of Orion games every now and then. RIP

Ah, I didn’t see the “c” in my sleep deprived state, whoops

I despised it in World of Warcraft, but I actually loved it in The Witcher 3. How I feel about it seems to be at least somewhat related to whether it’s a singleplayer game or multiplayer. But it’s more complicated than that - in TW3 without scaling enabled the whole game becomes piss easy even on Death March so it’s kinda required for me to even enjoy the gameplay at all. There are still many ways to gain relative character power that exceeds the level scaling that eventually you just WILL overpower everything regardless.

Unless it’s basically broken I will play games on the highest difficulty possible, because that’s just more fun to me. It makes each game an epic saga and something that can grip my (limited) free time for many many months. Which is good, because I have issues picking up and putting down fictional universes, I get a bit too attached. I don’t get super emotional about it, I just really don’t have the mental energy to deeply engage with something new unless I’m truly done with the last big thing. (I am also neuro-non-standard, I have heard of a term for this, “inertia”)

I’m gonna watch this, but it’s gonna make me cry man haha

I also had a friend on WoW who also had an incurable illness and eventually passed away. We spent hours together on Ventrilo back in the day

We were Horde though, lol

Der Humorless Toaster ist nicht hier fur dein scheisse!

The linked article says the artificial magnetosphere would encompass the entire planet and points out this includes two critical places where the most atmosphere is lost.

So yes by virtue of it encompassing the whole planet it does cover those two places… I suppose they wanted to specifically mention them

I vastly prefer the visual style of Civ 5 and find Civ 6 painful to look at

I killed him back in The Witcher 2 haha

One thing I loved about the original three games - through save importing you could have a line of unbroken continuity (with only a few strange abrupt departures from the narrative… #TeamShani)

Their revenues are much higher per player now than they were back then. That likely explains why such a large dev team for fewer players

I think at this point maybe Embracer should try replacing Lars Wingefors with ChatGPT instead

Getting flip flopped around like that on a timescale of weeks fucking sucks (I’ve been in that situation but not in game dev).

Just… being totally used and owned by an executive team that simultaneously wants to harness/abuse your passion, while also callously making snap judgements like this without any regard for respecting their people… it’s like “how to destroy morale 101”

Yeah, I figured as much.

What a big brain move from their support team, lol

It’s bad enough when these companies are monopolistic and malicious. But monopolistic, malicious AND incompetent - argh, it’s just too much.

I lost my Minecraft account to this, but that’s because the email address I bought the game with was with Lavabit, and thus never was able to receive any of the emails. Couldn’t verify I owned it either because again, no access to the email address.

I was just a kid when I signed up for that Lavabit address sometime in the 2000s, a kid who was vaguely interested in the idea of privacy and software freedom (I used PPC Ubuntu on a G3 iBook btw). Bought Minecraft Alpha in 2010 for €10. Now because of time passing and some bullshit happening I don’t have access to any of it.

But tbh I never opened a support ticket or anything, because fuck Microsoft. Its the principle of the whole thing

Same. Civ 5 was nice to look at, for example the swirly white clouds for the fog of war. In Civ 6 that gets replaced with… an ugly brown parchment thing

> VPN

> by Google

> Gets shut down

You literally can’t make this stuff up folks

I first reevaluated my perception of him (shall we say) after that AWFUL “let’s try Linux” series, and it didn’t exactly get better from there.

The Microsoft ball gargling is ridiculous on its own

That’s a much MUCH better idea already! I’m disappointed it’ll never happen, heh.

Reading that makes my blood boil ngl

I hate corporate dehumanisation so much

I hope one of them is Revelations 3. Huge fan of Raid Mode

I finished Mankind Divided a few months ago and this makes me incredibly disappointed

Brave to admit you didn’t enjoy Elden Ring! What about it did you dislike?

JFC why use the internet at this point lol. I’d rather return to pigeons

Potemkin content - what a great term and so apt for CP2077

Even after accounting for the usual Sseth shenanigans, this game seems incredibly strange. Interesting.

One of the games of the year!

Man I hate that name. I love terraform and will probably love the open source version of it even more but yuck. Hahaha. Bikeshedding moment, sorry.

Theoretically it’s not a turnoff: for example, I was fine with paying the subscription for World of Warcraft back in 2007. But in practice I know what it means today, and that means being psychologically manipulated and crit in the wallet, so hell freakin no.

I actually am in favour of government legislation against them since they generally appeal to the young, who are essentially psychologically defenceless against most of the trickery. I don’t quite think they’re “spiritual opium” as the PRC would say, but the line was crossed long ago

That’s copium Mr. Howard, and you know it

LinkedIn is the worst. Scummiest platform bar none and it’s not even close

Damn, 10 years too late for me but I do remember the console platforms used to be way more uptight about this stuff

Several hundred years from now, the immortal digitized consciousness of Todd Howard will still be here… publishing Skyrim on new platforms

Damn

The fact it’s STILL 30fps is “hard pass” territory from me on its own but like. Wow. Lazy

Perfectly reasonable IMO. That said I’m still not going to use reddit again

2020s big tech web platforms have a certain language to them that makes me think of a passive aggressive Californian dudebro designing them. It’s not “No”, it’s “Maybe later”; it’s not “OK” it’s “Got it” et cetera

Oh yes please. Metroid Prime Remastered the first was amazing. (is?)

I feel you haha I also played a lot. (I was raiding at world top 50ish level though)

Also quit at the start of Legion. RNG legendaries screwed me twice (“bad luck prevention” gave me bad ones on two separate characters) and I was beginning my corporate career at the exact same time. I hear it got even worse with artifact power shortly after. Super unfun to be so far behind because RNGsus says “no, you in particular must spend a shitton more time grinding”