I remember one of the first objectives was cleaning up the museum. I just thought to myself, “really?”

And how many are nearly entirely AI generated?

“SCV good to go, sir.”

No worries. Knowing that it virtually never goes on sale is still useful information and helpful in my decision making. Thanks!

That’s fair, though if it never goes on sale, then there’s no rush either. I’ll get my fill of Satisfactory first and then probably reconsider it then.

Definitely. I got back into it recently too, but when I first found it, I lost many, many hours to it.

Oh I don’t doubt that I’d enjoy it, I just rarely pay full price for games anymore. It gives me StarCraft vibes.

Perhaps when I’ve tired myself of Satisfactory, I’ll pick it up, if it still hasn’t gone on sale by then.

In the meantime though, I also have Mindustry.

I’ve been watching for a sale, if that ever happens. I just picked up Satisfactory on sale and had a similar conversation with a friend. I said I’m definitely the target demographic for it and Factorio is the other on radar.

I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a great game…

I know it may not be the most legal conversation, but how best can one back up physical games? It has been a long, long time since I last looked into it.

I did not know most of that. Very informative, thanks!

Do you use it on a Pixel? Last I read, that’s the only officially supported phone. It feels ironic giving Google money for a phone so you can use deGoogle more.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for it, I just wish it supported more devices.

No. The game is paid. It should come with all available settings. This is just one step away from studios hiding HD textures behind paywalls.

And this line of thinking is what let’s them get away with it.

That’s how I was originally introduced to him, and then again later on Critical Role.

Let’s all be glad so that we may live in concord.

That’s what I thought. I don’t care how much it looks like Diablo, if it’s not even in the same genre, then there’s no comparison.

To be fair, I’m pretty sure that’s how PS5 handled that scenario even before this update.

That’s fair, I forgot it was PAX Aus.

I don’t remember where I read it, but it was rumored to be a wireless standalone headset, with codename Deckard.

I’m not sure if that means they’ll make it more affordable or make it more advanced so it were to be an upgrade from the Index and charge that quality pricing.

Or they announce their new VR headset. Something like that, requiring a hands-on demo, would certainly benefit from an in person announcement.

I’ve played a handful of bot games but I’ll wait until it’s out of beta and more people are actually on and playing.

Frens

That fraction?

93/100.

I think you and I both know that’s exactly what they’re going to do.

I believe they’re referring to the slide and dive mechanics. AFAIK considering this is the first game I’ve played in awhile, you can now sprint, slide, and dive in any direction.

Think like strafe sprinting and diving around a corner as you turn your aim around behind you to shoot at someone you just dove passed.

The gameplay has changed so little over the years but that’s because it’s unfortunately pretty solid.

I played a lot when I was younger but stopped because I didn’t have the money, hard drive space, or internet bandwidth to keep up with the new games and updates.

With that said, I actually jumped into this beta since it was included in Game Pass and it reminded me of CoD of my youth.

Will I every give them anymore more money? Nah.

Will I play it some more via Game Pass? Maybe.

My biggest complaint is the ecosystem is cancer. They have CoD HQ that acts as a launcher but can only handle a couple games and if you select to play one of the games it can’t play, it fully closes and launches the game you want to play.

Can you simply download and launch only the game you want to play? Nope.

This is all to get your eyes on as much of their content as possible to really squeeze out those last few dollars.

The amount of players I saw with the skins that cost them $100 minimum was crazy. These are very likely the same people that buy every game every year and are precisely the target demographic they’re marketing towards.

+1 for Populous.

But my answer to this every time is Red Faction (1, specifically. While I did enjoy Guerrilla, I want to see a throw back to more fully destructible environments on next gen tech).

Oh no you didn’t.

Really taking after Bethesda on this one.

Just fyi, I saw this posted in the announcements channel of their Discord server that you can join from the game’s main menu.

😴

Accidentally

lol

After some googling, more importantly that’s the only other SAG-AFTRA video game industry strike.

So one could say “The first video game industry strike since the first video game industry strike.”

The problem is the game was developed by a (for the most part) loving studio with a vision and then EA started milking it dry.

Alternatively

Game Publishers: Release unfinished game that gets horrid backlash until they work overtime to patch it to a slightly more playable hell, get caught in an update loop, game inadvertantly becomes live service.

Sometimes, it works out (No Man’s Sky)

I’ve been enjoying it. The difficulty does seem a bit increased with some enemies but I’m also on NG+1.

Playing on PS5 has been fine but there was some noticeable frame dropping during the Divine Beast Dancing Lion fight.

I’m still only partially through it, but that’s my experience so far.

Sorry typo. It’s meant to say under-ated. It’s hasn’t been ate by nearly enough people.

Right? It’s like they forgot how to balance and think this is what people what.

I’ll never forget the tone deaf “Do you guys not have phones?” because that always reminds me of how out of touch they are with their customer base.

Of course we have phones. Of course a lot of us would love a Diablo game for mobile. Of course at the time everyone was waiting and expecting news of a new main game in the series. Despite probably the higher game sales and larger fanbase of Diablo 3, I still feel like (or at least hope) that the general consensus is that Diablo 1 and 2 are seen as better than 3 (and now 4).

If they had released a remastered 1 and/or 2 for mobile, I would have easily tossed them a few bucks for it or even each. Instead I played Immortal for a couple weeks until I got bored and gave them no money, but that doesn’t fucking matter because 1 dumb mother fucker is all it takes for the company to look at microtransactions as the profitable Holy Grail.

They no longer have to make games for their majority fanbase, only a select few. And if you charge for the game AND microtransactions? Well that’s even better.

When can we start open sourcing cars?

What platform did you play on?