Good? No, definitely not.

Meanwhile, Indie games: Yeah, we fixed the wonky balancing with that super niche strategy and we’re working on 3 new DLCs (all free, btw)

HAHAHAHAHAHA

The Elder Scrolls fans: First time?

Loads of child-like characters and few thicc women, in non-weebspeak.

What I love most about Godot is that it doesn’t give a fuck whether you want to use python-like code or write your own libraries in C#/C++. 10 minutes and you’ve got something working.

Of course they did. Godot is a freaking dream for most game genres.

Genshin is literally Loli-land with a couple onee-sans, what are you on about?

Funny how most of these companies are only a shadow of their former selves, with most of the old guard leaving to form their own studios and focus on good games instead of cashgrabs. I absolutely recommend playing Bloodstained – Igarashi is a genius when it comes to MetroidVania

TPC*

“The Pokémon Company” (actual name) is a separate entity from both Game Freak and Nintendo.

You’re confusing Nintendo, the company, with the people who work at Nintendo (minus the corporativist scum). They absolutely have some of the best game devs in the world. They also suck and degrade the gaming sphere on a regular basis.

Cheating in games isn’t illegal, though.

Japanese copyright law is literally insane. It’s simultaneously completely lax and unapplied (doujin, i.e. derivative fan works) and so constrictive you can’t breathe.

Here comes another Atari Jaguar.

Yes, actual gamers do care about this. I suppose casuals and other Nazis don’t, so your notion is flipped.

It doesn’t, but go ahead and delude yourself.

It’s available on Steam, as well as the Zero series of games.

Skill issue on your part, you got duped by pretty lights. Super Mario is to this day playable. Megaman X is still one of the thightest platformer games ever made, the controls nearly feel like they read your mind.

Also notice how the few games that are better than these classics were either made by the same people (Igarashi’s “Bloodstained” reboot of Castlevania) or were HEAVILY inspired by them (Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, 30XX etc)

Fallacious reasoning. “Indie” isn’t a genre of games. I don’t claim AAA games are garbage because of a preference – they’re objectively slop made without passion as a cashgrab.

When said “major players” only pump out trash that’s not fun to play, yes, I will ignore them gladly. The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order, which I promply refunded after finishing, since it was more of a walking and climbing simulator than anything else – and that was one of the better AAA games to come out in the past decade.

Indie devs and studios are the ones actually carrying the industry forwards.

Nope. Godot, a fully free Unity-like Engine is shaping up to be the defacto standard for good games (AAA garbage is being ignored purposefully)

Oh, shit, people are calling Dragon’s Dogma 2 “DD2”? This will get very confusing with Darkest Dungeon 2 having released last year.

We’ll watch From Software’s career with great interest.

The issue was never having the set, you can make one in an afternoon with scrap wood. The problem is having other people who want to play whenever you want to play.

happy that MegaMan is dead

Oh, but it isn’t! They keep releasing collections to test the waters. Also, there’s a Megaman gacha game! A fucking gacha!

For my part, I’ll never forgive them for Megaman X 6 and beyond. The story was clearly written to end with Megaman X 5, then transition into the Zero series of games, but Capcom was too greedy to leave it alone.

Exception to this is actual extras, like the game’s soundtrack or access to concept art.

The very fact it’s called a “review bomb” is an attempt at controlling the narrative. Fuck game “journalism”.

Yay, I’ve found another illiterate person!

hasn’t put any barriers in place to stop competitors nor have they forced exclusivity on publishers for their platform.

How good is it? I’m on the fence about buying it, since I’ll probably not play for a while.

How the hell do you find fulfillment in that (unless they’re super small games)? I don’t think I could speedrun something like Cave Story in 10 minutes, much less roguelikes - Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon, Balatro etc, where the gameplay loop takes hours and hours.

Bethesda really hit gold with Skyrim. I truly hope TES6 isn’t a huge disappointment.

I’m not a masochist, why would I do that?

Personally, I’d say it’s a fair price at £3.50, but not worth more than that. Fallen Order should’ve been called “climbing simulator” instead, as that’s what you spend half of the game doing.

It’s unfair how fun Balatro is. You’d think someone would’ve thought of the concept years ago.

I’m very tempted to get Dead Cells’ Castlevania DLC, but I haven’t been in the mood for metroidvanias lately. The base game is fantastic, though, and I absolutely recommend.

And that argument is idiotic, as proven by the fact that even bribing people to their shitty Epig Store, Epic can’t compete with the value Steam provides.

Differently from Apple, Steam hasn’t put any barriers in place to stop competitors nor have they forced exclusivity on publishers for their platform.

It is not.

Do you think the payment processing, storage, content distribution, content delivery, social & communal aspects are free? Think for a second before writing your nonargument.

Epic has admitted they’re taking a loss at 12%. Also, Epic’s store is shit, complete barebones, barely works as a way to buy games.

Point me to one service that provides as many benefits as Steam without taking a larger total cut than 30%. I’ll wait.

Brainless take. “I want all of the benefits of a huge storefront with free advertisement and countless features that attract customers, but I don’t wanna pay for it!”