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.

The Grow Home/Up games were adorable and people love those kinds of simple but fun movement baaed games. I’d love to see that expanded on.

I wouldn’t be mad at more cold fear either.

$5 aint bad for a time waster and great if its a good one…

There is just so many roguelikes asking for my attention these days and i still need to play the walking castles one.

House party is hilariously awful characters in a pretty alright game. Like quite a few on the list are somewhere in the realm of B movie, in on the joke, trashy fun.

Heh as if I wasn’t an idiot and bloated my own steam library with fanatical mystery bundles and all those developers didn’t walk away with a completely random dollar and a chance to actually have a game get noticed and steam got zilch.

It honestly just sounds like a productive economy that’s constantly moving and giving opportunities to developers even if they aren’t getting nothing but ravid fans. Like how busking might work in a wealthy thriving city compared to a poor one.

That’s really not. A calculator that only gave the right output 30% of the time would be worthless.

Old people be stealing

This is the kind of fun jank and efficiency I love that you can’t get in whole open world maps. This is they made the map match the game they want the player to experience and not the game that fits on that specific open map.

You are not the hero here. Just another jerk.

You started in with being extremely rude so I’m just gonna move to ignoring your other commentary now.
Shocking I know.

So, you think a good way to correct someone is to directly insult them because you find their points unrelated but yours perfect? Rude. And the only thing steam controls via contract is the ability to sell your games via steam keys for price parity.

And you misunderstood my point. RuneScape isn’t even on the epic game store so you aren’t reading my words carefully. You are projecting your own hypocrisy.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

That’s the policy on steam keys. If you are not using their steam keys it’s not covered by their contract agreement at least.

The lawsuit is not yet finished and while we can take their complaints into account we can’t take them for fact.
The case was already dismissed once because they argued the 30% was controlling the market but it’s been there since day 1 of their storefront and has not changed to force game price changes. Beyond that they argue that Valve bought servers to take them offline to push players to them but… That’s not really on this point of price controlling or the ability sell non steam keys.

Literally RuneScape does this by offering memberships not available on steam.

If you see something I am missing from the lawsuit please let me know, preferably without the hostility if you can manage.

Right. Ok then. You have wasted enough of your time. I hope you figure out how to make your life less miserable through actions rather than complaints.

And you’rs has been non existent while you are making responses of a period to just have the final comment.

My opinion of your contribution is accurate to what you have, and my contribution has been me conversing with someone who doesn’t care.

I’m gonna stop responding now. Feel free to think about things, or just post your follow-up comment so you can get your tiny victory with no meaning that means we know you lack the maturity to understand your actions.

I am asking you to explain your point. You can not rely on making others do your work for you.

That is you obstructing your point through others. Make your point and make it clearly since you seem insistent on doing so.
Effort is not dropping a link and thinking it argues on your behalf.

And you insist on getting the final word. You want it and your wants are not able to always be met which causes strife. You view silence from those you bully against as your victory for shutting them up.

Yeah that. That’s what I’m talking about. It’s like a tantrum.

Pure emotional response to hopefully get one from others. You are a bully.

Consider me not in your head to understand your perspective and try to get it across clearly to me. No sarcasm or condescending tone.
I do not see how these are comparable and don’t think of steam as a utility that owns the singular option for infrastructure as it’s a digital service that others can and will spin up to avoid using Steams backend.
They literally don’t have to.

And sure I am welcome to information if it is accurate and you have it.

You are acting like a bully because you are upset about something and have decided to take it out on the largest target you could find and anyone that doesn’t agree with you, or your method of acting like a bully.

You think I’m wasting your time? Boy howdy do I have a mind blower for you.

You are wasting your own time. I can’t do anything to it.

And you are being pretty good at wasting that and yourself already. Wasting time by not even bothering looking at yourself and your actions is gonna delay you a lot.

It wouldn’t be a public utility they would be a company that needs to make a profit still and would find a way to do so with fees on downloads.

And humble does not pay the 30% if you buy in their storefront currently.

So your complaint is that prices are high and getting rid of Steam would alter that?

So now you decided to be condescending because you view yourself as a superior human and deface yourself to what you think others are like? Wow. That’s awful.

Wait but you can link Humble to steam and it checks what games you already own.

GOG wants you to just have the local game files and an installer so they don’t need this and don’t need Valve’s backend. Why pay valve for each download when you can host it yourself and not worry about the fee? Itch seems to agree with that.

And then wouldn’t everyone still be using Valve as a backend and they would have a monopoly on the infrastructure of all game downloads then? And could charge high rates to download?

Oh so like how I can buy my steam keys on fanatical but still download and play them via the steam backend while using a different frontend like LaunchBox?

And Steam could take a 30% fee on transactions while using their service?

Something like that?

And you think others can’t argue when you lower yourself to the floor in order be angry without purpose. Smearing yourself in mud to show us just makes you a mess.

Question from the back?
How would Valve be broken up?
Would it be game developer and store front separated?
How would that aid or assist in the purchasers?

Only if you are selling a steam key elsewhere, they ask you to treat them equivalently but that doesn’t mean you can’t do sales for your products on other platforms.

It’s a little weird cause it would be like buying an apple app on android to use on apple but apple doesn’t get the 30% anymore so they ask you to at least price it about the same so people don’t avoid buying from them completely.

Off topic

I was really interested in VR after trying it a bunch of times and when Microsoft did their whole partnered VR headsets thing they failed so miserably I managed to get one for like $60 brand new.

And then I realized it works well for like an hour tech demo and playing around in short bursts but otherwise is just a TV strapped to your face, hot and sweaty and kinda uncomfortable and your eyes kinda hurt after a while and the games kinda all sucked since no one had a sense of hardware capabilities…

It’s hyper niche and isn’t really for everyone but how could companies argue against a TV strapped to your face.

Can I be completely honest? The libertarian contested definition aside the thing that made me realize you were being purposefully obstinate and contrarian for your own giggles was;

While I appreciate USB-C port at the top so you can rest your Switch on your legs and charge it at the same time, that’s not exactly convenient.

Literally the definition of convenient is it being more accommodating or more comfortable or easy to do.

Having 2 ports on either side that charge and do data is incredibly convenient and much better than a singular since charging is a constant of all wireless electronics and this makes that process more convenient.

And then the person you were chatting to responded practically that and you bailed the conversation cause you couldn’t be contrarian.

You are purposefully stubborn and acting in a way that doesn’t make you even different it’s just a similar as always level of self righteous.

No I don’t care about that. I don’t fit in either but actively being rude is not just not fitting in but being purposefully rude.

There is a difference and your refusal to acknowledge that is so that you can avoid having to look at yourself and your actions critically.

You don’t have to change but there are repercussions from the existence of others seeing your actions and if you don’t care about them do not expect others to care about you.