I’m still waiting until it gets more updates but I’m so impatient to play it 😄

I think both of these could be great movies, but could also be done extremely poorly (especially helldivers). I hope they get people who like and understand the IPs for these ones.

And shoutout to the few games that make floating island and make a whole ass scene down below you can’t even get to just to be pretty and awe inspiring.

There’s just something about this song that gets me every time.

I like that they call out how layered she is. I really loved her in the books and I’m excited to see how they capture that in the game.

I was very impressed by Gwent in that they managed to make a collectible card game that didn’t feel derivative of Magic. Not an easy feat.

So excited for this game but definitely waiting a bit for things to get straightened out.

As a fellow spare time dev who dreams of having that much success, I feel your pain, and also want to wish you a heartfelt congratulations. That’s a massive achievement! I hope you have success with it whenever you launch. 👏

This article perfectly sums up the issues with this way of writing. Unfortunately people often don’t acknowledge the nuance there, and will jump down this reviewer’s throat for the take I imagine.

It’s icing on the cake that apparently there was even an in-lore term for something like a trans character of this species that they didn’t use. That makes it seem like they didn’t even study their own lore well enough. Never what you want to be thinking about a writing team. 🫤

Can’t wait to see the third act where alucard gets stun locked by gold Medusa heads in the clocktower

Funny how the key stakeholders are never on the chopping block, huh?

Wow, that letter to employees was even soulless by corporate non-apology standards.

It’s not their fault they’re gatekeepers, it’s a symptom of their success. The biggest platform will have a much greater pull inherently, and it should be their responsibility to act fairly because of that position. Thankfully they seem to take that seriously so far. We can only hope it stays that way.

Having the biggest audience to the degree that they do absolutely makes them a gatekeeper. If Steam became predatory tomorrow it would have a catastrophic effect on the consumer friendliness of the current PC market because you wouldn’t have anywhere else to turn for many games. GOG and Itch don’t have nearly as large of a selection of mainstream stuff.

Right, that’s the article that doesn’t explain why they’re doing it.

Why are they doing it? Legal troubles? I didn’t see any explanation in the article.

As a game designer, I would prefer my security be maintained through an elaborate series of puzzles.

My condolences to anyone who has to spend enough time on LinkedIn that you would need to kill time there.

If you want to double down on the puzzle aspect, check out Toki Tori 2. It’s a metroidvania side scrolling puzzle game. The wild part of it is you basically only have 2 moves, but you have to figure out how to use those moves to solve puzzles in the environment to progress. There are no actual hard walls like in a regular metroidvania, it’s just your understanding of how you can manipulate and influence objects in the world that gates you from getting to new places.

They mean the start of 2026, right?.. Right?

Doesn’t seem to be working considering this is a post about a major article about it.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for digging up the link, too.

And gain new tech debt in the process!

Context: I like immersion and getting the most out of a game’s systems.

I see someone said the opposite, but I’d recommend playing the one difficulty above normal. If you don’t you’ll barely ever need to interact with some parts of the game like the alchemy system.

Also the game lets you heavily customize the interface. I personally hate being led around by a dotted line/arrow, so if you feel the same know you can turn all of that off.

Nope its a pretty standard anime style jrpg

It sounds extremely weird as a native English speaker. Makes you think of an octopus.

+1 for octopath. Such a weird name.

Divine Divinity (sorry Larian, but it’s true)

To this day LBP 1 has some of the most incredible level design I’ve ever seen. I know some of the later entries had wilder stuff going on, but the original limiting itself to almost entirely using basic blocks and shapes with visible logic switches/machines, was so magical to me as an aspiring game dev. It was like they were putting their money where their mouth was. You can create stuff this crazy, too, because we just built it out of basic shapes.

I definitely agree about going back to more bespoke engines.

Is it taking extraordinary measures, or is it more leaning into the hyper realism look because that’s what people expect when they hear UE5? Not a rhetorical question, I just would assume the latter.

I mean I guess if everyone was using the default settings and buying assets off the unreal store you might get that, but the engine doesn’t come with graphics. You can make whatever you want in it. You could make a ps1 era looking game. You could make something like windwaker. You could make a 2d game. It’s just a set of tools.

Don’t get me wrong, the engine does have strengths and weaknesses, and lends itself better to certain things. That makes games of a certain type gravitate towards it.

Definitely feel your pain in unity. I made a game with it and we had so many technical problems. UE has some major issues too though. None of them are perfect. Godot is getting better and better but it’s still very far from a mature engine.

Gamer PSA: UE5 does not automatically make a game better or worse, it’s just a set of tools. The game part still has to be made. End PSA.

I haven’t owned a Nintendo console for many years now because I kept waiting for the cost to go down (it never has).

I would like playing with people more except I like to go slow and thorough and really savor the experience. No one else I’ve met plays games like that. I just end up feeling rushed when I play with others and it’s not fun for me.

Thank you! I’d love to hear what you think. 😄

That was my understanding as well.

It’s talking about games that require an always on connection. You can save the installer for games like that, but the game still won’t work if it can’t phone home.

“⚠️Publisher DESTROYS launch on Steam button after CATASTROPHIC sales!!!😲”