X3: Reunion/Albion Prelude

X4

Elite: Dangerous

Spacebourne 2

Shit, even Star Trek: Online does what Starfield promised better, and it’s basically just another dime a dozen MMOs with a high profile licensed IP behind it.

For the most part, it’s either going to be missing a few things you’re looking for, or will offer everything but not actually be good/finished (such as with Star Citizen or anything ever made by Derek Smart, and why none of those are in the above list).

I wouldn’t expect a 2 year old product to outsell a 7 year old one that quickly, anyway.

And most of them truly don’t play them, just parroting what someone told them or even straight up making shit up about what the game contains.

¿Por que no los dos?

Let’s see what a combination neck and bow tie looks like on the lil guy.

I kinda had the feeling it was the payroll for the art department when I really started to take note of how long credits for a video game are compared to a movie, as well as seeing hundreds, even thousands of people working on the art assets, and maybe only 5 people working on the programming. Not to mention some of these positions have 6-figure incomes.

It also explains why games can look super good but are sometimes mechanically/technically flawed to hell. All the focus is on making it look pretty, but then held together with used gum and scotch tape.

There isn’t anything on the horizon I am interested in right now. At least, nothing with a concrete release date. The only thing I can even think of right now is getting Adventure Mode in the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress. And that could come anywhere between tomorrow and a decade from now. It’s been “coming soon” since the game came out on Steam. 🤷🏻‍♂️

If you can still download the legacy version of Dwarf Fortress from Bay12Games website, Adventure Mode is the best rouge like I’ve ever played. It’s not yet in the Steam version, though.

For a more action-oriented rogue like, I find Returnal to be fun as hell. Roguelike bullet hell 3rd person shooter, with a pretty intriguing story line if you manage to actually get all of it (finding story bits is as random as everything else).

Edit: Er… They’re on PC, though. DF could run on pretty much anything; returnal might need a decent gaming rig (or a PlayStation).

The truth was like a green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics floating in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. The repetitious act of shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves. The paranoid feeling of someone controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.

Named it 4X; but the X stands for words that begin with E.

Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate.

Why aren’t they 4E games? 🤦‍♂️

Was it actually officially announced or was it just that they said they would definitely be making a 6th elder scrolls game eventually? At this point I don’t even remember, though I vaguely recall a stupid teaser of flying over a forest with a title screen, but I might just be thinking of Skyrim’s announcement teaser.

I also recall them saying they wouldn’t even really start real work on a new Elder Scrolls game until after Starfield shipped. So if that was true, they only have actually worked on the game maybe a year or two.

Expectations are going to be unattainable by the time the game actually comes out.

Wrath of the Righteous does it pretty good. The only sub game in the game that kinda sucks is the strategy game for the giant wars toward the end, and it’s more due to the fact that it’s not super robust; it’s just the bare minimum needed for that style of play.

Really that’s the most common flaw I see with “everything games;” they spend too much time putting everything in, but it’s never as fleshed out as it would have been if they focused entirely on one aspect.

They are right about the latter part, but attributing who doesn’t want the classic ways back to the wrong group. Developers don’t want to go back because people will actually pay for the MTX/Battlepass/whatever the fuck bullshit and they (the developers and publishers) love money.

Why on earth would I want to smell stinky fungus zombies? Stinky zombies are literally the thing I point to NOT wanting with Smell-O-Vision!

Sony: “Pfft… You also said you wanted to see Morbius again you bastards! We be doing the opposite of what you ask for from now on!”

Ever since CGW stopped publishing, I’ve just gone back to going by word of mouth. If a real, actual person is telling me in their own words a thing is good or bad, I generally trust them. Especially if they are someone I actually know personally, or at least have shown themselves to have similar tastes to mine.

And obviously if something becomes super popular, I gotta see what the fuss is about if it also seems like something I would like.

Same. They alluded to what I am now assuming is this news a while back and I had thought it meant they were updating the desktop version to parity with the deck one. Now I’m just wondering how they can have it work on other handhelds but not all devices. What is their specific distro doing that it can’t have drivers that exist for Linux in general?

So… Is the movie mostly without dialogue or just 1 character who talks to nobody in particular? This is one thing I can not see being anywhere close to what the original is like, because the game wouldn’t really make a good movie if they were faithful to the story.

They really need to update the rest of the page… Big ass banner right above the download link says it’s not compatible for the deck, but then the download link is for the deck image you can’t install on a PC.

Yes, Ted. That’s the joke.

Well good news: They’ve also recently announced that they’re going to be updating it to be the same as what’s on the Deck. THough we probably won’t see an actual release until either just before or just after the new version of the deck is officially announced/released.

Also: The failure of the Steam Machine had little to do with the operating system and more to do with the fact there was not one singular “Steam Machine.” It was any number of prebuilt PCs with extra stupid steps. TO say it wasn’t meant for general desktop use is bullshit; a Steam Machine was nothing more than a desktop PC running this OS.

PCs got SteamOS way the hell back in 2013.

It originated as a desktop os and you can download it right now

I used to run 7 instances of Ultima Online at once so I could play all my characters at the same time.

That’s why his new game is going to suck, on purpose. 😃

I really wished the bots were better tho. They don’t even fly and barely use the walls. Like, you can’t even really practice on them once you actually get decent because they aren’t even good enough to play the game at a bronze level.

At no time playing any of those games have I thought to myself “this is great, but I wish it had multiplayer.” And I love multiplayer games.

BigScreen has hardware now? The BigScreen app (video watching app in VR; gives you a few options for the setting and can have “multiplayer”) itself kinda sucks…

I’d be interested in a Tintin game more than Popeye, personally.

You can sequence break the game and not ever soft lock it. You probably missed a puzzle or something. Check the manual for clues.

Why does it have to be on a hard level with just a pistol, tho? lol I turned the first corner and was obliterated by imp fireballs before I knew what map I was on.

Since they constantly say they haven’t done HL3 because they didn’t have any kind of new tech or mechanics to show off, it could very well be another Alyx game, or at least a VR/AR game. There’s probably more stuff they could do there that’s actually new than in regular flatspace.

I think the way ships feel in Elite is better than Freelancer, but also KSP has the best space flight physics in any game.

There are great single player games that don’t even have a story.

I have this jank-ass game I found because of Starfield discourse that does everything you want from a space game, but without polish and the story line part isn’t finished so it’s mostly just a sandbox right now (though this is acceptable for me, since I just wanna sandbox game anyway).

Spacebourne 2

My biggest complaint is that it doesn’t give you enough info to really understand what everything is or does so you need to look it up elsewhere. But even with all its jank and weirdness, it’s more fun than Starfield.

I usually just leave it in the computer until I need to take it somewhere.

With GOG, I just put the installers onto a thumbdrive.

With Steam, I was burning discs using its offline backup tool, but I haven’t had a disc drive in my PC for years now. IDK if those can be backed up into a thumbdrive these days… It only allowed CD/DVD images to be created the last time I ever used it.

Tons of my games were owned physically before Steam existed though. Those I just keep in their boxes in my closet/storage bins.

The current USB C standard can push 20Gbps. That’s a little faster than the displayport used for the Index (17Gbps).

Having had a Quest 2 and now having a Quest 3: The stand alone experience on the 3 is barely different from using PCVR for the same apps that are available on both. VRchat is the only one I can even notice a difference in, but it’s also the only one I play where all the visuals are created by the players and has no consistency. Someone could have a 2D PNG as an avatar and it works everywhere for everyone, while another could have a super photo realistic, super high polycount dragon model that brings even the most powerful PC to its knees.

Please tell me this means they can work on Evil Within 3 now

Do they own the rights to Evil Within or does Bethesda?

I’m fine with corporations feeling like they’re in a dystopia.

It’s only 10pm in my timezones and I’m playing LA Noire.