Back in the 90s my friend and I would play Descent against each other via modem. I had a 100Mhz processor, he had a 66Mhz processor. If I came in blasting with a rapid fire weapon his machine couldn’t render fast enough and he’d get blown up.

I played Drug Wars on my TI-89 almost 25 years ago which sounds like the same game but with better graphics.

Civilization and Factorio are also pretty addicting

That is a bit harder than “click here to download” on the front page.

True, but I doubt they’d put the effort into making it easy for someone to download it in the message.

Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.

That’s nice of them. I bet Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t do that.

I’ve got an old Mac and use a cloud gaming PC to play games. It’s like $50 a month and works great when you’re near the data center.

Plus my laptop doesn’t get really hot while playing games and the battery lasts a lot longer. All while getting 4k 60fps gaming with ray tracing.

He can submit a complaint to the complaints department by phone between 10am and 4pm mountain time Tuesdays and thursdays. Expected response is 2-5 business months.

Sometimes watching someone play a game is more fun than playing the game. Markiplier shrieking his way through Subnautica was fucking hilarious. And I have a friend who doesn’t play games but who watched an entire playthrough of Detroit: Become Human because they loved the story.

Perhaps?

“My words are backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!”

I bet the beancounters don’t like keeping excess capacity ready to go

Simple solution: Just lend people games that aren’t any fun

And it’s not just happening in the gaming industry. Across the board the people who do the actual work are beholden to massive managerial structures that add huge costs and zero value, all to look like they’re doing something important.

Abubakar Salim played one of the greatest dads in all of sci fi on Raised by Wolves

This sounds like the CSS @media print with extra steps

“To honor we call you not press you like slaves”

I dunno, I’d eat Costco hot dogs all day every day.

Which means I wouldn’t be buying new games, which means game makers don’t have a market, which means no more new games.

I’ve got probably 9,000 hours on different variants of the Civ franchise over my lifetime, assuming I played Civ V and VI the same amount as the other four. I’ve got 1,600 hours in Factorio and probably the same amount in KSP.

My point being that some of us kinda do want the same shit over and over.

You know what? I’m gonna left even harder.

I’m okay with that, actually. Start with teaching kids in preschool that if they find a gun they shouldn’t touch it and should tell an adult, impressing upon kids the danger of guns, and finally ending with marksmanship training.

Then cut the military budget by 90%.

If we’re gonna have a rifle behind every blade of grass they should be crack shots.

Gee it’s almost like we should make sure folks know about how to handle firearms without relying on their own curiosity

Users find the weirdest bugs. Figuring out what happened makes me feel like Sherlock Holmes.

I probably spent 150 hours just driving around the Top Gear track in reasonably priced cars.

The fact that KSP2 is still on Steam for $50 is criminal

Kerbal Space Program has a similar vibe, and other space sims take themselves way too seriously to be fun.

RIP KSP2

If that game freezes is in paralyzed?

I just watched the movie because there were boobies.

It’s all water under the fridge

I grew to love them, too, but I had to overcome decades of muscle memory first.

One mechanic I’d love to see added to Civ is disease. It’s had huge significance throughout history and would be another fun layer to the game.

For example, if you settled near a swamp there would randomly be disease outbreaks. When you encounter a new civ your diseases would have a chance to infect each other’s units, and you would spread it to your Civ if you brought them back.

Military units who are fortified in certain terrain would slowly lose health as they suffer from things, and you could have civilian units that can undo disease damage. Hell, you could purposely send infected units to an uncontacted civs and decimate their populations.

To fight this they could add a hospital district, new great people, and new technologies.

I don’t want a stronger AI because I’m playing it to fantasize about alternative histories. Then again I play FPS games at the lowest difficulty in story mode because I’m here for the story. (And also I’m shit at FPS games.)

I’ve been playing Civ since the first release, and this is the pattern with all of them. The transition to hexagonal tiles was pretty weird at the time.

I scratch my FPS itch with quick games of Ravenfield. The little stick men don’t yell at me and are almost as bad as I am.

Dying instantly when I spawn is not fun.

I avoid online games because I’m old and don’t have time to practice like teenagers do.

It also ages like crap because technology will always get better at that.

“Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot”

The most depressing thing I’ve seen related to this topic. A small team that worked incredibly hard were lucky enough to achieve the impossible, and now they watch without any control as it is taken from them, for no other reason than greed.

KSP’s original team must feel the same way

Take Two interactive is really lucky this happened right after they sacked the KSP2 team, otherwise people would be talking about that instead.