And if that wasn’t required and the hours were paid, it’d be no problem. Especially if they allowed people to flex their work times so working late nights was feasible.

Important info:

-The breach window was roughly 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Eastern (1830-1930 UTC+0) on 12/25.
-Downfall is safe to launch once more, and has been since roughly 2:30-2:40 PM Eastern on 12/25 (1920 UTC+0 on 12/25).
-If you did not launch Downfall in the breach window, you’re clear.
-If you got an automatic update for Downfall on 12/25 but did NOT launch, you’re clear.
-If you launched Downfall via the Steam Workshop (meaning you actually launched Slay the Spire), you’re clear.
-If you did launch Downfall on 12/25 and succeeded and everything looked normal, you’re clear.
-If you did launch Downfall on 12/25 and saw a command-prompt like screen, that starting spitting out a bunch of text after about 10 seconds, you’re in the clear. That was actually just the Java log which we usually keep hidden, but accidentally left visible when we restored the game.
-If you did launch Downfall on 12/25 and got a ‘no .exe found’ type of error, you’re clear. That was us exploding the game to prevent anyone else from being affected.
-If you did launch Downfall on 12/25 during the breach window and got a Unity library installer popup, please continue to read. You may be also at risk.

Didn’t we use things like irc in the past?

At least Raphael is charming.

Your friends are self conscious of their own perceived skill and value. Or toxic masculinity, possibly.

They could just make a souls-like game set in Soul Reaver. It was already an action game.

Yep. When the industry can cut off the only way for games journalists to reliably make money (pre-release review copies) then they are totally controlled by the industry. A real journalism industry would see one company not given a copy or blacklisted and the refuse to cover their release entirely in solidarity. Otherwise none of them can be trusted.

This is total sales? Kinda reads like concurrent players which would be wild.

To be fair, it seems like they’ve made 5 games and 4/5 weren’t very good. Not surprised this was their last hurrah. I know Steam scores generally don’t equate directly to sales, let alone profits, but it seems like the company was struggling.

Yeah, look at Starfield. It has really nice looking textures and objects. Everything else is a disappointment or mediocre. Maybe excepting the Ship Builder feature.

The awards are an excuse to show ads. Ads for upcoming games, released big games, etc.

Will it? We didn’t see any combat, nor even complex building that both titles have. I guess I really just hate these kind of trailers that show next to nothing about the actual game. All it does is raise questions and annoy me.

So…what do you do in this game? We’ve seen movement and very basic NPC interactions. Building entire or part of buildings automatically. But that’s it. They mostly just showed off pretty, but almost entirely empty landscapes.

They are also doubling down on procedural generation. I hope they learned from NMS that procedural generation can be useful but only if there are interesting things to do that get generated. If you generated the same set of boring landmasses, there’s no point. I saw nothing in this trailer remotely new.

Also their trailer’s text was hot garbage. “A fantasy earth”. No shit, really? No one would have got that from the fucking dragons.

They could contract PR out to a firm or team on a part-time basis. They absolutely need someone in PR and marketing. They released a trailer on the fucking Game Awards and the single thing they are most known for is lying to players about their product.

ER did have a lot of reused assets and bosses in the tons of little dungeons. Those things were only interesting for the unique puzzles they sometimes had.

I have to expect the expansion will have all new content without much reuse. They’ve had as long as they need to make whatever they want. And traditionally Fromsoft expansions tend to be well received.

That’s so pathetic. There is a comedy club near that does this. If your review isn’t glowing, they respond shittily to your complaints. All this does is make the business/developers look petty and gross.

The DLC, definitely. The thorny planet is in the OG game a little bit. For the DLC I turned off scares because I don’t really play horror games and it was still very fun.

I would like to add Outer Wilds to this. No combat, virtually no violence, and adult themes are aimed at mild existentialism. Great exploration game with fun physics and puzzles.

For older kids I’d suggest: Satisfactory. Essentially first person Factorio with mild combat vs fauna.
Astroneer: exploration and advancement.

Right. This is as close to a AAA/AA indie studio as we’ll ever get. Studios who only make things they want to make on their own timeline not beholden to shareholders.

What? You don’t want 4k textures in Skyrim? Because that’s the best we can hope for.

Starfield feels exactly like Skyrim did. Which is the problem. This isn’t 2011 anymore and their faults that they refused to learn from or fix aren’t cute but annoying. Bethesda is your college boyfriend who never learned to do the dishes or cook and they’re 40 now.

After so much time and so many iterations Bethesda hasn’t improved much on the things they suck at. This is just fallout in space with all the issues previous games have.

I don’t recall the last AAA or major studio game I bought.

Yeah. That seems to be a trend in recent years. UX is extremely utilitarian and does not mesh with other game aesthetics. Even when those UX elements are on the screen all the time. It’s very jarring to see a colorful game with a distinct palatte of textures being overlayed with grey, modern boxes and white arial text without any background textures to it.

It makes it feel like I’m playing a bad emulator or fan remake.

Ok, some good games. But this contest is based on popularity. Smaller games rarely have a chance because they rarely have the audience.

Do you have others to suggest for this category?

An apology doesn’t make people less mad, usually. It signals you are aware what you did is wrong or at least made people upset. People get less mad when you act differently in the future. Bioware can keep apologizing but if they keep screwing up no one’s going to care.

The earliest date I can find on the wiki is for 03 May 2013, so we’ll be optimistic even though that the kickstarter ended on March 2013.

The maximum hours you could play if the game was running 24/7 since then is: 92,184.

This is just a fun math fact.

For some people, it’s actually better. Even if the graphics, animations and such aren’t nearly as good as recorded, animated or drawn pornography. There’s something about the interactivity that’s more interesting than passive consumption. Even with porn.

The point of the steam deck is mobile PC gaming. Linux is a bonus.

Lol. You’re trying to censor an entire industry because the most natural human experience makes your nervous.

Solo sex. It’s definitely sexual at least.

This just means that penetrative sex with a penis is not required. Doctors can either inseminate people directly, or implant fertilized embryos.

But the only effective way to harvest sperm is through ejaculation. I.e. masturbation. So you’re really not avoiding sex altogether. You’re just going about it differently.

Sex is required for every human to exist. I’m sorry it scares you but you’re kids are going to be fucking fine.

If Bethesda tried to install new tech into their engine the fucking stars would probably explode.

Eh, I’m not that hopeful. the FTC asked them questions but it was never really going to stop them. MS has the capital to buy Sony, if it was feasible to do so. I expect them to continue to buy stuff up until they are actually denied. They have the lawyers to throw at the government in perpetuity.

Look at how Epic was doing business. They threw around hundreds of millions of dollars to buy exclusivity. And Epic was small time compared to MS. What happens when they do the same but on a larger scale? They buy exclusivity to Game Pass forever? They’re already buying gaming powerhouses, indie games are a drop in the bucket.

This merger should be opposed by everyone. It’s a dark sign of things to come. They’ve already shown they WILL cut out all competition once they buy competitors.

Kotick is retiring because he can’t take direction. But will receive hundreds of millions to do so. Why would MS fire anyone else when Activision and King makes money?

You will have Game Pass. You will only have Game Pass.

You all see ads?