I grew up with Maniac Mansion on the NES and never used a guide for it as a kid while managing to beat it. I’d also fail this test, probably. 🤷‍♂️

You’re definitely not supposed to like Harry as a person. He is at best insane and at worst a racist, mysognistic, alcohic drug abusing piece of human garbage. It is also very easy to be put off by even the good people because Harry has already wronged most of them and they have already had enough of his shit by the time you take control.

Well the word “zoom” is such a common word, you probably can’t copyright the name itself and a trademark could be made so vastly different while using the same word that it wouldn’t violate that either.

Well I guess I’m glad I didn’t like it because I just found out about it last week and was checking it out.

It’s gonna have soulslike melee combat?

1984: Elite

1985: Ultima 4

1986: The Legend of Zelda

1987: Final Fantasy

1988: Mega Man 2

1989: TMNT & Golden Axe

1990: Secret of Monkey Island

1991: LOZ: A Link to the Past

1992: Wolfenstein 3D

1993: Doom

1994: X-Com: UFO Defense

1995: Chrono Trigger

1996: Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo

1997: Goldeneye 007, Final Fantasy 7

1998: Ocarina of time, Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, and Starcraft

1999: Planescape Torment, THPS, GTA2, Unreal Tournament, System Shock 2, Smash Bros, EverQuest, Homeworld, and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

2000: Deus Ex, Diablo 2, The Sims, Baldur’s Gate, and Majora’s Mask

2001: Halo, MGS2

2002: Vice City, Morrowind

2003: Wind Waker, KOTOR

2004: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Halo 2, and WoW

2005: RE4, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus

2006: Bully, Wii Sports, Saints Row, Just Cause, and Dead Rising

2007: Bioshock, Portal, TF2, and Mass Effect

2008: Fallout 3, MGS4, and GTA 4

2009: Demon’s Souls, Arkham Asylum, Prototype, Borderlands, L4D2, and Minecraft.

2010: Red Dead Redemption

2011: Skyrim, Dark Souls, Portal 2

2012: Dishonored, Far Cry 3, Xcom: Enemy Unknown

2013: GTA5

2014: Dark Souls 2

2015: Bloodborne, MGS5

2016: Stardew Valley, Dark Souls 3

2017: Breath of the Wild

2018: RDR2

2019: Sekiro, Death Stranding, and Fallen Order

2020: Hades, HL: Alyx

2021: Disco Elysium

2022: Elden Ring

2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 and Tears of the Kingdom

2024: FF7 Rebirth and Helldivers 2

2025: Expedition 33 and Hades 2

2026: Nothing has come out this year that I truly appreciate. Yet. Most of the ones I want to try I haven’t played yet.

From one of the other articles about this I read, they are seeing the same data but interpreting dumbly. They aren’t seeing the kind of explosive sales they want during the period the games are locked to the Playstation and it doesn’t pick up after they release it to other platforms because the hype train has halted by then.

Why they think just dropping other platforms will help more than simultaneously releasing them everywhere is pretty silly when that is their reasoning.

I find this 15 minutes after the article has been updated saying “lol jk they’re not actually making a NV remaster.” 😮‍💨

Is it just walking that makes it Strand-like or does it also need fights against ghosts and/or Mads Mickkelsen?

I do feel slightly bad for the dev team. A lotta stuff outside their control spun things out of hand; but I also don’t think it would have had any success regardless of the whole situation. At least what happened got it some attention and gave it a chance.

Hey… At least it lasted longer than Concord. 🤷‍♂️

How expansion packs used to be. The last game I saw get a DLC that basically added twice as much game to the game was Shadow of the Erdtree and before that, was probably sometime back in the early 2000s before Oblivion released the Horse Armor.

Before Microsoft and Windows in the 80’s when they pushed for the way all software is licensed out now. There’s a pretty clear history on the matter you could look up.

A slot machine literally just takes your money and you are left with nothing but having pushed a button for the pretty lights and fun noises.

What do you think video game cosmetics are if not pretty lights and fun noises?

They are a natural monopoly. They didn’t use anti-competitive tactics to get to where they are. They simply had no competition for a very long time and now that they do, the competition fucking sucks and does not even try to be a better service, instead they all pull anti-competitive BS.

Lootboxes are pretty fucking awful tho, and this is one lawsuit they definitely deserve since they are the ones that pretty much invented and popularized the idea in the West (technically a Chinese/Japanese only game that never left the Asian market did lootboxes first).

They aren’t different. Both are a form of gambling. Same with blind boxes.

It’s not just the random chance; it’s the fact you need to pay every time you pull the handle like a slot machine.

Cosmetic or not, they are still mechanically the same as a slot machine.

Umbrella Noodles turned my wife and children into flesh eating monsters. Nissin Cup’o’Noodle never did that. I am suing Umbrella Corp. for damages.

Was thinking the same, but more in that consoles are basically low-mid level PCs and the games have to be built using PCs to begin with so it might just seem redundant specifying the work on games that would also release for PC even tho the target hardware is gonna be the console market.

Hothead Games was a Vancouver-based studio which developed such titles as Penny Arcade Adventures and DeathSpank, before moving onto mobile games. It went bankrupt in late 2024.

Shouldn’t have moved to mobile. 🤷‍♂️

The site says the studio is open for work for hire full game development, on mobile or console games.

Uh oh…

I wonder if I can make the campaign I wanted to 9n release but couldn’t because the scripting system wasn’t that robust (like you couldn’t see how much karma a player had thst you didn’t give them yourself).

Wheb you say offline, do you mean literally or just not multiplayer?

Because a ton of F2P games are basicslly that these days. Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, Arknight: Endfield, etc. They are essentially single player MMORPGs. But they DO need to be connected to the internet despite that so…

Is the game not ass anymore at least? I’d rather play the OG THPS without any qol additions added by the good remake than this game after I had tried it.

It’s actually funny how many shitstains try to add me to their friend list so they can presumably harass me (my profile is VERY gay) but they have a gigantic notice saying they basically can not interact socially on Steam because they were softbanned for violating the TOS. It’s weird they can even send requests at all when they are literally blocked from using the chat system.

I see anti-woke racist/sexist chuds every single fucking time I look in any game’s Steam forum since around 2007 when they stopped being specific to the Steam app itself and aren’t moderated. Where the hell are you not seeing these wankers?

Surprised it’s not creation bones with UE5 skin like Oblivion’s remake. But also not surprised it is using Creation (which is just GameBryo).

That and Bloodborne for me. But Returnal had just come out at the time, and that is also good (tho no longer exclusive). I also keep forgrtting the system I got was bundled with God of War: Ragnarok and I have never even installed it… 🤔

They got the gambling part down pat.

They have been trying to get crypto in with little success.

And while porn games do exist, very few of them are both good at being porn AND being a game (modding in porn to good games not withstanding). Which sucks, because this is the only one of the three that would actually be cool.

There are so many roguelikes and not enough rougelikes. 😔

There is a pose from Wii Fit yoga that still haunts me with how much it hurt to do the first few times. The one where you go arns out with one foot planted on the thigh of your other leg and then you have to maintain your balance for like 60 seconds or something. It stretched muscles I didn’t even know existed.

Tribes never really died. It’s too good. Pretty sure every single one has a way to continue playing them online; even Ascend and the extremely short-lived 3 as well as the PS2 exclusive one.

We do have these, they’re just not super popular or are not intended to be played that way.

Like your first example of causing chaos in a shop? You can do that in Supermarket Simulator. It just isn’t what you’re meant to do unless you’re Josh from Let’s Game it Out. 🤷‍♂️

What’s extra lame is that if I pay for the multiplayer game, I have to subscribe to the service to play the game.

But if I get a multiplayer game that is FREE TO PLAY, I don’t need the subscription to play it.

That is fucking bullshit and, if anything, should be reversed.

So games and PS+ are going to go up in price?

Fuck that.

Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and…

You know you can “block all communication” from users and it blocks them EVERYWHERE on Steam, right? Not just in games, but in Friends and on the forums, too. IDK why you’d need community specific blocks over the normal blocking method alreadg available.

Steam provides the forums; not mods. The developers are supposed to moderate their forums. The only forums I actually see moderated are the Steam specific ones (like the support board). Game specific ones are hit or miss. Most devs just seem to ignore that they even exist.

You’re not.

You’re meant to kill the 2 old albinaurincs hanging from the ceiling that summon them. Or use the elevator so you never even go through that room.

If you mean the dudes he summons himself: I use Bewitching Branches on both of them so now his adds become my adds and we got 5 people beating on Niall.

I mean… I had to use a guide to figure out how to access the DLC in Dark Souls 1 because it is rather convoluted compared to everything after it. So that I was prepared for. At least the biggest one (Ranni’s) is pretty easy to follow… Up to a certain point. Unless you rest at that one specific site of grace after picking up the mini Ranni doll, you may never know you can speak to the doll itself. It should have had the prompt appear at every site if you had the doll and not conversed with it.

I also was always disappointed with the MP. After the kickass MP of 2 and 3, ER pulled back on everything except the convenience. I do like the effigies so you don’t have to just literally stand around in a spot waiting to be summoned; but that is just about the ONLY thing I love about ER’s (vanilla) multiplayer.