It’s not that you can’t make it through the denizens, making it through the denizens is usually easy. It’s just a waste of time for the most part.

I haven’t played silksong, but I’m just going off other games in the past for my experience.

If you make it through the hallway of meaningless denizens that just waste time and get to the boss, then die to the boss… Why waste time going through the meaningless denizens again to challenge the boss?

I can see it on higher difficulties when you need to make sure you get through the meaningless denizens perfectly in order to preserve your health and resources to have a better chance of defeating the boss.

But when you just want to experience the story on lower difficulty why make the denizens less powerful to make the boss easier when you can instead just put the save point in front of the boss in instead of the denizens? You’ve already made it through the denizens, it’s not like you’re skipping content.

Eh, make it optional. On hard difficulty make it a thing, medium difficulty allow it to be skipped.

I do think it’s a grey area.

Like, if one person on a three person team is exclusively doing art for the game, would they count as a developer moreso than if the two person team contracted out the artwork to separate company? Or would the other company be considered as a developer?

It’s not their job to police the ownership of the steam account.

The steam account owns the game, whoever controls the steam account owns the rockstar game.

Capitalism and the free market is supposed to encourage efficiency and innovation in order to remain competitive in order to keep prices low… Is Sony against capitalism? Is it against the free market? Is in adverse to innovation? C’mon Sony … Stop being lazy.

Depends how much content there was.

10 hours? 100 hours? Adding 3 isn’t much, adding 30 is quite a lot.

If they really were rushing then maybe there wasn’t that much content already and asking 30% wasn’t to unrealistic.

Eh, it’s unique but I don’t think that should give Sony the right to use the exclusively (looking at you Nintendo and Pokemon)

You could have the exact same game but with fleshy dinosaurs and all of a sudden it’s not a problem? And then a third company can come out with another copy with fleshy dinosaurs and there’s no issue because fleshy dinosaurs aren’t unique.

I think they have since before then. It’s always 3-4 days before end of month.

Jesus that lady has aged 10 years in one

Lol. I have free healthcare and I played videogames every fucking chance I get because it makes me happy, but it’s pretty rare since I worked 278 hours in May.

And every book they don’t like the title/cover for

I’m not going to read something if the title doesn’t interest me. It’s also a great example of write headlines that are accurate and informative.

Everyone was calling it “stop killing games” instead of “stop destroying games” and I literally thought it was a petition to stop games with murder and violence lol never even got farther than seeing the title.

Definitely a good idea to switch over to stop destroying games if that wasn’t the official title already…

I can see why patents are so long when you need to build like a billion dollar factory to make a product and mass produce it.

Digital concepts don’t take that much investment and once you have it you don’t need to invest in making more, it’s just there.

So yes, digital patents should be a fraction of the time that physical patents should be. Like 2 years instead of 20.

How is it that pokemon has a hold on things like animals allowing flight, but gliders allowing flight isn’t under patent?

Like, whoever did gliders first needs to sue Nintendo to change breath of the wild, no gliders allowed anymore.

Tune in on Monday to find out new tarriffs make this announcement no longer valid

I found humankind to be very difficult to go the domination path, but I haven’t played since close to release.

It was very prohibitive to take direct control of conquered cities as the cost seemed exponential, and you had to constantly declare peace and then go right back to war or something if I remember correctly. It seemed like a silly system

I don’t even mind microtransactions, but microtransactions DO NOT EXIST

$10 for a skin is not a MICRO transactions, that’s just a transaction.

The entire game costs $60 but ONE skin out of the thirty that already available or whatever is somehow $10? Why do people pay that? Why would they ever bother making a new game when they can design 6 new skins instead?

Man, I downloaded my data from steam for the past ten years I’ve been active and the total $ amount made me sad. It’s definitely not $42 a year…

If their zombie survival shelters are anything like the ones in the game I would have no faith anyone would survive a single night in a zombie apocalypse.

Doesn’t really matter if there is enforcement, something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

If someone is willing to pay $100k for 1 Bitcoin then that is what it’s worth.

If someone isn’t willing to pay $100k for a piece of property in Idaho, the police can’t force you to pay that much.

Okay maybe not 3 months but some sort of time frame and maybe not a full halt but perhaps a more significant warning like an are you sure popup on adding to cart.

Plus maybe require monthly dev posts as to progress for early access so people know it’s still actually being worked on., otherwise the warning.

Plus the longer refund times if updates haven’t happened in months

Why not stop the sale of games that haven’t had an update in more than 3 months or offer extended return windows?

I might just buy one of their games now to support their decision.

I just don’t know how much I can trust them to keep their word and not just brick the game in the future until an account is made.

Unfortunately it’s quite unpolished. It works in certain areas for certain things but it’s by now means a decent replacement for what someone expects from Google maps.

It’s great for being free and for what it is but it doesn’t compare yet. Maybe one day.

I’ll be waiting for the swivtch

Nobody buys a game because they made a cool new and innovative mechanic.

They buy it because it’s a good game and the mechanic helps that.

If your game sucks and no one buys it despite the new mechanic, perhaps other more talented developers should be able to use that mechanic.in their games to improve the industry.

World of Warcraft

Love the world and history and characters. Gameplay is now pretty shit.

My main go to is city builders and I couldn’t get past like 20 hours in manor lords before giving up. I just couldn’t get into it.

I mean, when you have a few thousand two-bit internet media sites surviving off advertisement spam and hiring any freelance writer that can put together three paragraphs for $5 that’s what our media becomes.

My top 9 games sorted by playtime, with almost 1000hrs for Valheim and about 300 for dwarf fortress.

This is why I don’t share my steam tag with anyone.

I hate people being able to analyze my habits.

Yeah I can’t imagine choosing to game on a device that has no physical controls and just touchscreen which is what I imagine this device would have to be if it’s foldable.

It will probably also be over $1000 if it’s a foldable touchscreen and have shitty hardware so may as well get a steam deck if you’re intent is gaming.

If I want to game on a touchscreen I’ll do it on my phone because it’s convenient. I’m not carrying a second device around for touchscreen gaming.

Even if it were an exact clone I don’t think a single company should have a monopoly on the idea for almost 30 years. Pokemon red was released in 1996, 28 years ago. Why should they still be able to be the only company that releases pokemon-type games?

I had a phone with one on the back and currently have one with it on the screen. Personally I had absolutely no issues with its functionality in the screen and do prefer it over the back. I like that I can unlock my phone without having to pick it up off the desk or while its still in the mount on my vehicle dash.

Seems to work perfectly fine to me but maybe it’s a quality issues with the brand of phones. Mine is a OnePlus and it’s almost 4 years old now, still works fine and never had any issues.

If only they let you filter out games from being seen on your store page or showing up in recommendations using this as a criteria.

I disagree with letting whales waste their money.

Video game design has changed to specifically cater to whales and ignore regular gamers.

Ya I did go vertical in my last attempt, but I could only fit 24 smelters on the first floor and then got to tier 5 and unlocked more stuff which put me over the edge of needing more I needed to build a second factory or a new floor on top with more smelters and it just got super complicated for me, needing to send ore to two different spots and organizing the ingots going everywhere I needed. I also have a thing about organization, symmetry, and logic and I just could not find a “satisfactory” way to build it knowing once I unlocked a new tier, without knowing what I would need ahead of time, everything I built would probably need to be redone at some point again

I liked the factory stuff until it got too complicated for me lol

I’ve built and destroyed and rebuilt everything like 5 times after unlocking new things and it just got too overwhelming the last time I felt like I had to destroy my stuff.