I feel old… Binding of Isaac is probably my greatest time sink game and I have played every version of it.

It will supposedly search game forums and guides for game specific stuff so yeah kinda all I guess.

I just dislike it cause it is auto set to trigger on a long press of the Xbox button and I can’t change it at all

I have it. They say you can ask it to solve game puzzles. It seems useless and like a way to have your microphone on and your screen constantly recording.

Or do as I do and buy random games for cheap. I’m on like hour 4 of Tim-Tim 2; The Almighty Gnome, that I got for like 50 cents.

Honestly a pretty good time.

The wealthy have become very easy to sell to. Disposable cash they dont think about and a tailored algorithm and wide variety of available designer drugs.

Do some ketamine, go on an amazon binge and book a holiday to Greece to see a band you barely like cause fuck it, world is burning and I want a good time.

Honestly we just need to move on and start doing our own things and try to get into a place of power to maybe shore up some of the wealth hoarding.

Man, I remember when the DS was the thinking person’s console of choice. Oh the art you could draw on it and send to others. Oh the traces of goatee.

Fun being key here, not just a slideshow of colored images.

Sure, but you need someone who is inspired by it to have played it to be so. Dont get me wrong I also agree with things existing for the sake of it but thats also up to someone inspired enough.

I think its on the individual to not be responsible to spread themselves out but to actually interact with their niche and keep it alive, I want the games I engage with to be engaged with so that its felt.

I dont think art needs my support as much as people do.

I just type random words into the search bar and see what comes back, the mystery key bundles gave me frog detective 1 to many times.

But now I’m playing a fun gnome game so I am pretty happy with my method.

So like UFO 50? We just need basically demo jams in a packaged form factor

The problem is “passive”. Its not helpful to a game developer to not play their games cause then no one engages with their art. I wouldnt want to pay for a musician I dont listen to.

We do need a way to discover stuff easier. That was one of the joys of the early internet compared to now. But if you want to support indie devs, follow them or find smaller stuff and support it. Ignore the algorithms, decide what you want and look for it. Life isn’t passive.

Spyro the Dragon:

This is basically the pinnacle of game design to me. It is a collect-a-thon of course, but the gems always sparkle no matter how far you are from them so that if you are in line of sight you will know that they are there making it easy to find them.

Far off sections of the map are basically always reachable and rewards you for trying to get there and utilizing uncommon paths through the map.

When you beat the game to 100% it rewards you with extra stuff and a little more game to show it had fun being made as much as you hopefully did playing it.

All with a fun story that wraps it up and doesnt require anything special to jump in. I want to see games that have thoughtful level design and world building while using the game mechanics in fun ways. The fact that you jump into levels directly and the loading screen is akin to you actually flying to the world is all engrossing to the world.

This one uses generative AI to “add details” instead of just adding pixels for more resolution. It can decide what a character “should” look like pushing a more homogeneous design to anyone using this since it will be built in training models of who knows what origin.

China out here with scripted robots that while not super useful can show off the limits of our technology in impressive ways.

America. Back to slavery but with a metal exterior

They were going for a drunken master motif so… Yeah probably. Which is bold to expect so few flaws that you put in a purposeful one to joke about.

This won’t fix your slumping sales Nintendo

Yeah, an unfortunate truth, most publishers are people with money who want to make more using the passion of another person. And games are like movies and everything else in this world to them, just another asset to make continuous profit from.

I will still not forgive AnnPurna for being run by the shitty daughter of the Oracle Ellison family. I think they only released good games when the passionate people got to work and she wasnt paying attention.

Can we please stop reposting this exact same misleading article from 2025?

Just as a reminder you still can not see the games in your library for Epic without getting the desktop app or looking at your past purchases.

Absolutely dense how bad and how little you can do with their game store.

Cool.

I would like the ability to see what games I have in my library without having to use the desktop app. Why can’t I just use the website to double check?

I am suspecting the price to knock me back a little and I also suspect I will still consider it far longer than my wallet will be happy about

Cave Diver looks like it could have the atmosphere and gameplay of something really fun if they can figure out the locomotion just a little bit better.
I like the idea of filling up a cave with your previous corpses that help remind you of dead ends and mistakes.

Boredom with it. As i think was actually to easy with the mechanics, not properly fleshed out especially the burning one since the refuel is basically always there and the viscera and joy of blasting apart zombies wasnt as fun, it didnt feel as weighty and controlled as dead space.

It makes we want to rather get my face torn of in Dead Space than Cronos

I personally never believed it existed. And maybe I’m jaded by the consistency but games that are great but dont already have a franchise dont come back. Someone just buys the name and puts it on their barely similar game it feels.

The marketing comes first the game comes later. I don’t play marketing.

Man that “article” is just AI reading a thread poorly.

You know what? The future is probably not PC handhelds then. Android is having its own sideloading issues but the real difference between an android based handheld and the premium PC ones is the ability to play AAA games and stuff with anti cheat but i personally… Dont really care to play those games these days. They suck.

We now have steam for android emulators and Valve is working on their own.
Have you seen what $200 will get you in that space? The Anbernic RG556 has an AMOLED screen and then all the functional usefulness of an android 13 phone. With hall effect sticks and triggers attached.

If we want small lighter devices we need small lighter games and to push studios to make them if they want to sell to us.

Any game like vampire survivors.
Passive bullet hells.

Literally people say its the thing they play when they dont have the energy for something else the way that people use fast food to replace cooking.
Easy to spin up and there are so many knockoffs that are “fine” but barely different.

It’s easy and pretty much automatic but filled with dopamine giving stimuli even if it wears off really fast. It makes it about as addictive as fast food too.

It was originally aired weekly on a schedule like real TV for that gameboy with a crank looking console, Playdate.

That console constantly feels like arts thesis projects.

Nope. There is an overarching story happening if you want to pay attention but they just recorded a bunch of absurdist content and charge you to watch it in their own software.

Its like a streaming platform where you literally have to watch the previous episode to get the next.

Its about watching FMVs made by the team that made Thank Goodness you’re Here.

Essentially you are paying a one time fee to the weirdest streaming platform ever.

The rest of that series is like that too.

You have so many great recommendations so i am gonna add more.

Gulf Club Nostalgia/Wasteland: when depression hits hard why not hit it harder with a tale of nostalgia for a world we have not yet lost.
Simple golf game but the radio station is… A lot.

To the Moon: the whole series is just what if all we could give those dying the happiness of a lie implanted in their memories and what can we provide for those still living who dont get it so easy?

Among the Sleep: just a 2 year old kid and your mom has gone missing and the world is so scary in the dark.

Another lazy developed game that relies on the end user having extremely overpriced and over designed hardware to do the heavy lifting to make it run. If it doesnt work blame the users for not optimizing their hardware as you can see in their steam review responses.

Also lazy RNG guns are not fun or balanced. Wild that a blue can be better than an orange gun just cause RNG rolled better.
And enemies that dont stand out cause they 4k textured cell shaded enemies in natural colors?

And lets not even get into the fact that they stole all the parts of this game from other big games. (Where have i seen a villian putting a brain implant into our main character, and then the ship crashing for us to figure out how to get it out while stumbling on a small outpost in struggle?) stuff I’d probably forgive if it ran and didnt look like it was trying to be everything and nothing.

I have noticed that enemies hover just out of reach of your upwards slash more.

Its all stuff like that. Its meant to catch you for trying to play it one way. But it punishes you hard for it.
I will say you can almost always skip lots of the return through jumping and floating.
For savage beastfly you literally dont have to do any of the flower bounces, or fight if you have the float ability and dash.

Man i thought i would be excited for Cronos but the more i have seen of it the less i want it. The game looks lazy in so many ways. Lazy burning mechanics, gunplay seems lackluster and not as good as older games. And bloopers writing is best when someone else did it.

People will tell you that we have higher graphical needs but its just mostly lighting which is not even that good and done for laziness as well as set lighting has more intent behind it than just computer decided ray tracing.

There are so many games we can play 1080p 60fps. If it doesnt work on reasonable real world hardware we should just be refunding and moving on.

I think it’s just that bad metroidvanias are the standard and there arent as many of the good ones as you would think. So the joy of a good one gets pretty hyped. Im not sure its overrated since its a good game and rated at about what that entails just over hyped and concentrated on.

Do you hate it, or just didnt enjoy it?

I actually think that BL1 still had the absolute best special weapons. They always felt like a treat to discover and had a joy with the mechanics that you wanted to try them out even if you only got it cause a blind man was hanged.

I just miss the fun set design of the first 2 games. Its more linear paths than you would expect but they had a lot of verticality and a usually fun loop.
When i played BL3 i realized they just made big empty spaces and told you it was fun to constantly drive back and forth between the minor sidequests that felt like they tried to hard to make “quirky” that fricking city map was just so boring.

You know i was looking back at the GameCube. $199 brand new and a solid $100 cheaper than any other console new at the time. Played the games locally efficiently at a lower resolution than everyone else scrunging for the best 1080i they could get that didnt work well. Games were easy to develop for it and were awesome and the thick line and simple shapes make them hold up pretty well today.

I just dont care about Nintendo going all in on the super powered hardware route. Its not like we got cool new features to take advantage of it and we have 2 games were one is just battle royal mario kart so that its at least got something to do when you are bored. I dont hear people being happy with it but saying they dont regret buying one to have it which means they had the money in the first place.

Nintendo is best when its everybody’s game device. This has felt like chasing the gaming hype and i guess we will see where it goes.