The game looks PS1 as all hell and I love it. Kinda like a mix of Vagrant Story and Parasite Eve, I guess?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3014650/45_PARABELLUM_BLOODHOUND__Cyberpunk_Active_Time_Action/

The what to what that what?

You think you do but you don’t

Stardew Valley. No greater power fantasy than owning a piece of productive land

You’re getting significant lag with Generals? I never got anywhere close to that on a ~2012 mid rig, even on a 4v4 match

The game is all about skirmishes. If you’ve ever played total annihilation or supreme commander, matches’ length are close. On small maps, anywhere from 15-40 minutes. Huge maps can take way longer

Where can I get 8 5 1 friend for LAN play? :(

Tools like Project Genie could genuinely help here, saving developers time they’d otherwise spend in the early stages of the game, before level design is locked in.

But in that way, AI is the solution to an artificial problem that should’ve been solved without it; for all that matters, devs could still find a way to balloon productions out of control even with Project Genie and a hundred other generative AI models at the helm.

The more likely end result is that devs will find it so easy to start something that they’ll start 100 projects, or try 100 different ideas, but be completely unable to lock on and focus on any one, because there’s always a greener grass a single prompt away.

Step 3: market remains irrational, loops back to step 3

killedbygoogle.com’s already polishing the new tombstone

Same reason nobody, not even Sony, sued M$ for buying Activision-King and Bethesda.

JRPGs have their charm and, depending on your age, will feel a lot more relatable and “easy to get started” than most western RPGs. I don’t remember when I started caring more about WRPG over JRPG, but I think it happened when I was 17, I suspect Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft played a significant role in that.

A time honored tradition of getting lost because of misreading the journal. I don’t remember which quest it was, but it was one that asked me to find something heading south. The first time I went south I got pretty much to the end of Vvanderfell. Next time I tried doing the walk, I kept to the road. It didn’t take more than 1 minute from the city (Balmora? Can’t remember) to where I was supposed to go.

But how will Jiub become Saint Jiub the Eradicator if nobody is hassled by Cliff Racers with infrared vision locking onto them from the other side of the island?

You can even have full 3D movement without dual analogs! Not ideal, but it works

I last played it to completion in 2021 I think? Via OpenMW, too, so with a lot less bugs and glitches. Yes, I want to play it again

Landlord Justifier 3

Now that you mention it, the only way to be a good king in that game is by owning all the property, which is the only reliable way to get the money needed for the choices that don’t fuck the citizens. One of the biggest letdowns is not being able to kill that filthy mr industrialist

I wonder whether the card game will be any good, or if they’ll make a mix of pokemon with yugioh just to spite konami on top of nintendo

I played Fable 3 around 2017 I think? Ok game, but Fable 1 was much better. Felt like they veered too much on making it linear. I wish M$ would release Fable 2 for PC, but that’s unlikely

Rakuel’s post on steam is very interesting

I made this game during the summer in couple months and thought to use AI because in university there is so much brainwashing on students and all the tools are given for free, so I could generate unlimited images for free and so.

Emphasis mine. Universities playing a role in this annoys me a lot.

Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people.

I think this part alone is incredibly important and the real eye-opener for him.

HB was good when you could set the entirety of your purchase to go to developers. Now they greedily force you to divert a minimum to themselves

Linux isn’t the thing that’s driving Steam’s profits, tho.

I keep forgetting to check it every week to grab a game. Never installed a single one via EGS, but pirated a few later on, though it’s no longer piracy if it’s a game I legally own :)

The main advantage of not seeking profit at all costs is satisfied customers who are very likely to return, who’da thunk?

They can’t even fix their stupid engine to make it not shit on graphics anymore. Seriously, UE5 makes great graphics look like shit because of a bajillion forced effects and filters, like temporal antialiasing.

Been fucking around with pals in Palworld again. Also trying to get matching free time with a friend so we can play Space Marine 2

Like a gambling addiction if you think about it. “No no no, THIS will be THE game that will make us Fortnite money!!!”

Speaking of DLC happy, hi, I’m the blood DLC for Total War games!

I made a review on Steam as well, not as lenghty as this one. I also wrote a giant whole ass essay (>11k words) that might serve as script for an hours-long video review in portuguese, if I ever come around editing the footage. Should I finish that, I’ll be sure to try and contact the devs so they watch it, even if it looks like they’d rather never touch the game again

Does the game still have denuvo nowadays?

I’m willing to bet the fault lies with Epic and their shitty store app

Sega relies entirely on Sonic fans’ goodwill to remain “reputable”, everything else they’re absolute assholes. Good time to remember that Sammy, a pachinko business, saved Sega with a merger back in 2004. Execs knew damn well that it was much better for their PR to be called Sega, despite Sammy calling the shots.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Whether they bothered to load them is a different matter.

4k textures that crash the game

“They will be made redundant” Corpospeech is a fucking cancer.

I never heard of that game. Seems like a mix of fall/stumble guys and light dungeon mechanics

That’s despite a multi-million dollar marketing budget for the game, which included a dedicated video from Mr Beast’s Gaming YouTube channel with a custom set and dozens of content creators.

Great job, you guys, you really know your target audience.

/s

You might want a pirate steam copy if it’s one of the games that isn’t properly updated on gog, which is unfortunately common with newer (2016+) games

Buy on gog if it’s there. Buy on steam otherwise. Keep a pirate copy handy either way.

Also, sometimes games on gog don’t receive DLC or patch updates because the devs/publisher forget or don’t care. I remember seeing an extensive list of games, ~250, explaining what they had missing. I think A Hat in Time was one of the worst offenders

Here’s a gog forum post on the problem - https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_is_it_truly_more_difficult_for_developers_to_update_their_games_on_gog/page1

ping 103.224.182.241 gives me a “general failure”. At least I can still find stuff via qbittorrent’s builtin search

A lot of devs stopped giving a flying fuck to disk space and performance a long time ago. “32GB of RAM and 500GB of disk space? Don’t mind if I do!” - for a pixel art 2D platformer