Good assessment. I agree completely!

I’m not very far in, but so far I’m enjoying B4 more than TPS, and MUCH more than 3.

I love Borderlands, but I really wish Randy would just shut the fuck up.

I’m reluctant to suggest What Remains of Edith Finch.

It will shred you.

Remember when Mortal Kombat came out and we all started ripping each other’s heads off and pulling out still beating hearts? Those were the days.

And look how much happier I am for not hearing about it back then! 😂

Am I the only one enjoying the recent increase in “shadow” launches? I really appreciate not having to wait months or years or decades (looking at you Bethesda) after first hearing about a game.

I remember when it came out, and for my friends and I it was our answer to “what if you had a million dollars”?

I cant imagine paying over $1500 for a Neo Geo!

Isn’t Fortnite still in beta or something?

I agree with the towers. Worst part of the game.

My main intention on my remastered playthrough was to try to break the game through spell creation and enchanting. I ended up with a few spells that would turn me invisible and pump my speed and acrobatics to insane levels. Most of those tower levels have you running all over and opening gates, but I just jumped over them and avoided every enemy as I sprinted to the top.

Balatro ate up a good chunk of my 2025

Also Oblivion Remastered.

I don’t understand the hate, so I’ll try explaining myself and either redeem myself or dig myself deeper.

Religious zealots have been trying to ban explicit material since forever.

Saying Project 2025 caused the Steam ban is like saying Tipper Gore caused Project 2025.

EDIT: Ok, I went back to make sure I didn’t miss something, and I did. This 2025 guy’s group pressured the payment companies to put the squeeze on steam, who folded like a house of cards.

My bad, he did kind of cause this, or at least instigate it.

Correlation is not causation.

I oversimplified for comedic effect, but the animation was just terrible in that movie. All of the character movement was awkward and didn’t feel natural at all.

The thoughts were, what could be more realistic than the motions of real actors? And the answer was: nearly everything. Sure, we use motion capture, but we’ve mixed it with traditional animation theory and fine tuned it to work. Far from the awkward mirroring they did in FF.

In mother fucking 2001 we had Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

I walked into that movie as an animation student wondering how motion capture and 3D animation would change the industry.

I walked out convinced that the industry will not give a fuck about any of that trash.

This is the best part of the ads in question:

Played the Heretic remake. Pretty fun to come back to that one after 30 years. 😂

I might try Hexen next, I hear they made it much better, but the original wasn’t great at all.

“We’ve spent 30 years underperforming and manipulating our customers to get where we are today! We’re not about to let some noob take a slice of our pie just because they came up with this wacky idea of a ‘Fun game that’s reasonably priced!’”

Stardew Valley is on Android.

By chance did you pick a character with a low intelligence or charisma? Because ability scores matter a lot.

I sadly didn’t get to play much of it. I only had access to it for a limited time, and I did not get far at all.

A friend and I entered a local Magic the Gathering tournament. I had just taught him how to play, and he had picked up a few cards of his own and talked me into giving it a shot.

I sat down across from my opponent and watched him peel the plastic off of a deck that he just bought, and pummeled me with a pre built elf synergy deck.

My friend got stuck in a neverending healing token deck. He couldn’t do enough damage to break all the healers, and the healer didn’t have anything strong enough to get past his defenses, they just sat there dealing and healing infinite damage for what felt like forever.

I was pretty much over the game by the end of the day.

I tried a run like that in New Vegas. I think I got to Primm, and just kept getting tore up too much to be fun.

That looks grotesque. I probably won’t play it, but it looks cool.

What?!? I haven’t really played since WotLK, so 70 in 5 days sounds insane to me.

I played pirate servers for a little bit after a LONG break of not playing WoW. It was a little buggy, but it was enough to scratch the itch, explore some new things, and realize I didn’t want to get back into WoW.

No argument here, I think we’re both talking about different things, and it’s really not worth arguing semantics to try getting on the same page. No worries.

I think that’s more of a “I want information so I can play this game.” and I totally agree. I look for things I can read first, and in some cases, I might want a video if I know what to do, but I’m not sure how and watching someone else would help me accomplish that.

For the games that are more like interactive stories, I completely understand wanting to watch the story without having to sit through all the grinding or wandering around that happens in between key moments.

It depends on the game.

If it’s a story based game, absolutely. Cut through the filler and get what you came for.

But something like a rogue-like or Call of Duty, no, you just watched somebody play a game, but didn’t actually get any of the “game experience”.

Are we bringing radical back!? That’s tubular!

Can’t believe it’s been a year already!

Got anything big planned for the anniversary?

That’s dirty. If the company is deciding that you can’t stay around long enough to vest those stocks, they should pay them out. There should never be a reward for dumping people.

But then I’d have to buy a gaming PC.

I don’t have a game right now. I spent the weekend searching Gamepass and testing out some games I wouldn’t have bought blindly, trying to find my next obsession.

None have grabbed me yet. DOOM Middle Ages was starting to get fun but it kept crashing on me. Sorry developer’s, if your game doesn’t get my attention in the first ten minutes, you never deserved my money, but if I find the game on Gamepass and enjoy it, I tend to let others know.

Right? I feel bad that it’s beautiful outside and we’re all inside playing games and streaming TV, but every time we leave the house as a family, it ends up costing me at least $100.

Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn’t have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he’d make. So, his only choice is to budget around permanent poverty or die.

Honestly, you should get the OG Switch.

It does everything you’re looking for in the Switch 2, but without most of the downsides.

If you haven’t had one already, you have a lot of great games to catch up on, which you could buy with the money you’d save by not buying a Switch 2.

If you haven’t already tried Oblivion Remastered, that’s a no brainier.

Avowed was pretty straight forward with a decent story. It’s more linear than Skyrim, and sometimes I had to reload a save because I walked into a situation I wasn’t ready for, but all in all, I made quick consistent progress.

I played both on Gamepass.

Also, there’s no shame in turning that difficulty bar down when it’s available. I’m in the same boat as you. I don’t want to master the game, I just want to enjoy it.

I think a lot of the hate is coming from people who don’t understand Roblox. It’s just this weird new thing that kids are playing. They said the same kind of things about my Mortal Kombat, D&D, and Magic:tG.

I certainly have my complaints on Roblox, mainly the concept of Robucks and how the community members design games to milk children for their birthday money.

I agree completely.

Did Roblox do anything “unreasonably unsafe?”

If they were selling a monthly PedoPass that gave someone access to the names and addresses of underage members, of course we should shut that shit down, but nearly every other online game has chat options. What makes Roblox less safe than those?