The Sims 4 (or 3, I forget) strove to reach the dream version of this: You buy a cheap property in a fully open world and ‘functioning’ town and you could walk from your front door to the town center, and the neighbour you see may also drive to town and you’ll see them there

That was 3. 3 also has the best customization system where you can make custom patterns for literally every object in the game, so you never had to live with mismatching furniture if you didn’t want to.

It’s the arcade-ified evolution of System Shock, IMO.

It has a lot of the same mechanics and ideas; but it’s all an inch deep instead of having any real depth.

As an RPG hybrid, it kinda sucks. As a straight up FPS, with action as the primary feature, compared to the contemporaries at the time is pretty good. Similar to how Fallout 4 sucks ass as an actual RPG, but is a pretty great FPS.

I just started it up yesterday, and went to bed right after their big fight. So it does sound like that was supposed to happen. Now I wonder if I could have avoided being arrested. Like I have failed every single speech check the game has given me, and I know at least 2 things could have been way different than it ended up going because of those failures. lol

I am playing that, and I don’t know if the story always goes this way, or if I just suck so bad at speech craft and the game changed based on my dialogue failures, but Hans and Henry hate each other now.

Totally fair. Why should the business get the award when the people that made the thing that won the award no longer work for the business?

I would go back in time to 1995 and give John Carmack modern tools and maybe UE5 and see what happens.

Dwarf Fortress.

Not just best indie game, but best game period.

I’ve been waiting for this. Finally noticed the update today. Was going fine until I got a draw on the last fight in the first tournament thing and soft locked the game as it will not progress past the end result screen.

You can be vague enough that it doesn’t even tell you it’s a secret boss. Or make it part of a larger achievement like “defeat all bosses.”

There’s a difference between knowing there is a puzzle to be completed and being given the solution to the puzzle. Achievements should direct you to the fact there is a puzzle; they don’t need to give the solution to the puzzle.

I can agree there, but I also think they could simply reword the goals so as not to include spoilers.

Like instead of “Kill or Show mercy to Krai’g, Kraken of the Deep” just a simple “deal with the final boss” would suffice.

I can agree there, but I also think they could simply reword the goals so as not to include spoilers.

Like instead of “Kill or Show mercy to Krai’g, Kraken of the Deep” just a simple “deal with the final boss” would suffice.

I started up The Sinking City after looking through my PS5 purchases. I bought it months ago and totally forgot about it.

Unfortunately, I do recall there being issues with the publisher and something about sales of this game being basically a “fuck you” to the talent who made it (which I only heard about after buying it).

The game itself is pretty dope. I love the detective work you actually have to put in; especially if you turn the detective difficulty up so it’s not hinting at how and when to use things. Really great CoC tabletop conversion. Just be sure to support the actual devs if you decide to find it!

Bottom: RTX off

Top: RTX on

What I find rather funny is that LOTR is a setting that would be pretty perfect for a traditional PnC adventure game. They could have played to their strengths and possibly made a better game, even with their odd choice of protagonist.

Yesterday when I tried, it told me that the instance wasn’t up to date and didn’t work, so I tried a different app. Liftoff is proving to be my favorite so far.