mIRC with gifs? Some people thought it was a good idea to use it as a game engine! It was used for e.g. Shapez

Problem in that many games using UE5 are coming out, even AA and indy games. A GTX 1060 usually won’t do for UE5 unless you accept severely degraded graphics.

Gaming was always expensive. Super Mario 3 was 50 dollars in 1990. That’s 120 dollars in today’s money.

I agree. I couldn’t finish Hollow Knight because my reaction times just aren’t what they used to be. It sucked because otherwise I love that game. I haven’t even attempted Silksong.

Hah, not from me! It won’t be the first time that I buy a game on Steam that I previously played for free on EGS, just so I can buy the DLC. I will never spend a cent on EGS.

Wait, what, it’s possible to have 8 dwarf lobbies? That is so cool!

Same. I will never spend a cent there. Occasionally I rebuy one of the giveway games on Steam just so I can get a DLC.

Someone on Lemmy gifted me “Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard”, an old school point & click adventure. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. The voice acting is great!

I’m also almost half way through “Black Mesa” a.k.a. the Half-life 1 fan remaster. It’s pretty good, but a bit unintuitive at times.

There’s also a not-patient game I’m playing: “StarRupture” released in early access a few days ago. It’s made by the developers of “Green Hell” which I really liked. It’s like Satisfactory with much more combat and base defense. I’m only a few hours in bur so far I like it!

No problem. Have a nice Christmas!

Ohh, thank you for your generosity! I’d love to play Core Keeper. I really like crafting games.

Do you know where those rules are? I’m genuinly interested in where exactly they draw the line. I constantly see people ranting about gen AI when used for art, but even simple, basic code autocomplete is AI under the hood these days. I can’t imagine developers not using autocomplete.

X4 is great! But it’s not really a flying game. You start off flying in a space ship yes, but by mid-game you it turns into a grand strategy game. You’ll probably spend more time on the map screen and hire an AI pilot to do the flying for you. Still a great game though!

The original Total War: Warhammer fantasy trilogy are by far the best TW games. And if you own multiple then you can combine them in one giant mega campaign. Definitely check them out when they are on sale.

How so? It’s just combat mods getting the axe, not visual aid and info mods?

That’s because Valve is privately owned and this has largely resisted the enshittification that largely plagues public companies and private equity frims.

Not only do they feel isolated, they also feel the same. NMS technically has billions of unique planets. In practice it has about 10 or so because they all feel the same. And even those look alike because they’re all sparsely populated worlds. Big stretches of emptiness filled with the occasional POI. Where are the mega city planets? The forge worlds with heavy industry? Any city with more than 100 inhabitants?

Thanks, I’ll give that a try then!

Doesn’t the Flatpak version have it’s own issues? I’m considering just installing Bazzite on a separate partition.

And what about Linux? A month ago I still had to go multi-arch on my x64 Debian system, leading to a lot of problems…

I finally started “Styx: Shards of Darkness”. A stealth acrion RPG. It’s been pretty fun so far. Better than the first one. I’m trying to go for the silent & deadly approach. No alarms raised in any level. So far so good!

Does this specify the kinds of AI? Are none of these devs using code completion on their IDEs? Or refactoring tools? Because the bulk of them use AI these says.

Remember the custom warehouse level filled with crates and everyone wearing a crate skin?

Maybe try the Styx games? They’re on sale quite regularly. I liked the first one a lot!

Yes there is, you’re just used to it. There’s all the Windows 11 annoyances, anti-virus, fiddling with controller setting and blue tooth, GPU drivers, DirectX crap. It’s easy for you but if your tech experience is basically just turning on your phone then that is a lot.

Console gaming is also easy for casual gamers and people who don’t want to fiddle with tech.

I got “Warhammer 40K: Boltgun” on sale recently. It’s been great fun so far! Really well made and just plain fun to play.

I just got the base version. If I like it enough I can wait for another sale for the DLCs

I bought “Cult of the Lamb”. It’s not a spectacular discount but good enough to go try it out.

For me it wasn’t so much the runback, as it was fighting your spirit every time. I hated that. Especially if you died in a difficult platforming section. It only made it more difficult.

I just finished Strange Horticulture a few days ago. It was really fun! Not too long as well. It looks like a shop sim, but it’s a puzzle game.

After that I started Two Point Hospital. I used to play Theme Hospital a lot in my youth so this hits all the right spots.

Both were recently free on Epic.

Except that with their other games, each DLC not only adds a bunch of content but also brings with it a significant free update to the base game. So there it’s clear that the DLCs fund the base game too.

How does this compare with OpenTrack?

It’s regularly on sale for 5-ish dollar. A must buy!

That was awesome!

Maybe, but would you risk it? Also, there’s a payment processor in between. Like Valve, the payment processor needs to guess what Mastercard finds objectionable.

It’s not overreacting. Valve has to guess what Mastercard finds objectionable and what not. Guess wrong, and Mastercard could ban them.

Thanks for the science, I guess I’ll skip then 😂

Pretty much all games, even online MMO, live service and other games already have the capability to spin up a custom server or run solo and offline. How do you think the developers run the game while coding and testing? They just spin up a container on their machine. The added cost of polishing that or wrapping an installer around it should not be high.

Mine too, but it’s not a visa card. Just compatible with visa terminals. Mine also says cirrus, maestro and a few other payment systems.

Generally the world has that. There’s SWIFT and EPI in Europe, EPAA in Asia and Pix is South America. The biggest credit card market is North America.