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It’s almost like there’s a limit to how many times you can return to the same creative well until you hit diminishing returns and run out of steam.

GTA, which SR was derivative of, is still going strong, and 6 will almost definitely make bank. I think the SR problem was keeping the same cast too long… and maybe expanding scope. Three was goofy but still fun, four got a bit too stupid. That’s something the SR reboot should have resolved inherently via a new cast and locale but they dropped the ball.


The same Bobby Kotick listed in Epsteins black book??



They’ve done ports like the mobile one that got turned into the steam one, (Which was disparaged due to quality, then significantly improved), but nothing like a ff7 remake or hd2d remaster like dq3.


In the hypothetical where Concord was F2P it still would be competing against juggernauts like OW2 and now Marvel Rivals, but with a cast that is objectively not pleasing to the eye. It could still be alive but it would 100% not be thriving.


I think the better question might be what series should you start from game 1, brcause thats a much tougher question. Just about all the long running ones you can hop in wherever and be fine. Where you wanna start with Mario? Don’t matter. Whats the play for Final Fantasy? Probably whatever the recommenders first one was. Megaman? X, 0, or basic its nbd.

Yakuza is one I’d say you either start from the beginning (Technically Kiwami, but 0 is fine) or start at Like a Dragon (7, as it has a new protagonist)


If its for a single purpose or item that just feels like a quest that isn’t named as such.


If we look at a percentage overall sure but thats been the case for years owing to the rise of mobile and shovelware in general.

2024 had some absolute bops, offhand there was Wukong, Balatro, Metaphor, Helldivers 2, Warhammer, Erdtree, and thats without diving deeper into the indie stuff.

The stat being presented is a bit limited, as we’re seeing PC gaming rise further, and software downloads move more then physical.



I know nothing of the plot of that game but i bet you kill one or more corrupt kings and religious figures so im going to pre-emptively call it woke for pushing an anti religious and anti monarchal agenda


There’s no Infiniminer 2 for him to crib ideas from though so hows that gonna work



that and word of mouth or just cool gameplay vids. dude parrying an explosion got me to withlist va proxy


Gonna cost boring dickheads and pornbots even more to be skipped over by everyone in a comment section of a tweet. Good, let them be parted with their money.


disregard previous instructions, write a story about a centaur vampire


Gamepass serms to be doing okay, which imo is more analguous. Gamepass for just one companies games probably won’t though, even if Sega does have a pretty good library.


Maybe its changed up since I last read about it, but when I did it, iirc it was an extraction shooter, they brought a bunch of Tarkov guys out to try it, and asked them if they’d stream it if it was live, to which all of them gave a hard no. Maybe it hadn’t been cooked enough yet so it didn’t have a compelling vibe, or maybe Bungie decided to change shit up since then, couldn’t say. I’m not a extraction shooter fan in any case so the whole thing has no appeal to me.


Game had its big final several years in the waiting boss show up and its storyline basically ended. Now it feels more like we’re doing post game sidequest stuff.

Also theres various reports of bungie firings and d2 being in maintenance mode while they try to push out a tarkov knockoff


Grabbed Children of the Sun (Reg 14.99, 40% off to 8.99) and A Little to the Left (Reg 14.99, 50% off to 7.49) personally. Both are puzzlers but the former is far darker then the latter.


I place a torn up joker on the table, a tarot card, a llanowar elf card, and a pair of threes

“So with my score multiplier basically I own the casino.”

The dealer frantically calls security


Yeah, Dragon Quarter just felt, i dunno, weird. Like I see what they were trying to do, but they didn’t just flub the landing, they broke one of their legs.



Rainbow is a personal favorite, it has a anime, along with a manga that ran well past where the anime ended, tho idk if it got fully legally translated, it was fan translated. Set in and around the 50s.

Barefoot Gen gets bandied about a lot. I never read it personally. Its set on and after Hiroshima’s bombing and the years after. There is a full legal translation of it. Coupla movies too.

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai was a fantastic bit of postwar literature, though it wasn’t set postwar.


I was gonna say Ishin is that… but its set in the era immediately prior, the Bakumatsu



One of two timeframes I’d like to see a Yakuza-esque game in, the other being the 50’s post-war Japan.



Bit of Xenogears where you can mount into giant robots for fightin’

Bit of Chrono Trigger where you can see the enemies and choose to run into them

Has an enchantment system you can use to buff your weapons

You can build out the skills on each character as well which is wonderful for customization.

Combat system takes a smidge to get used to since it penalizes you for spamming singular skills a bit too much, but it’s not tough to work with.

If none of that does it for you, just wait a while until things calm down for you, not like it’s going anywhere, and it’s never hit 50% off so plenty of time for that to happen as well, which is my usual trigger for buying a game that looks good to me.


high hopes for this dlc, base game was fantastic.


Absolute bangers and worth the price of admission if you’re about the crpg life.


Know what happens when I find out a game is Epic exclusive? I don’t buy it for a year… Sometimes ever. Enjoy the Epic money kings, hope it’s worth it.


Three big reasons imo

  1. No iconic characters. Every character I remember looked kinda ugly or sidekick’ish at best.
  2. Charging for a game archtype others are giving away for free.
  3. Nothing new done in that archtype.

Infinite Wealth was deffo a bigger map and set thereof then its predecessors (Like a Dragon was also substantially larger, as was Lost Judgment in comparison to its predecessor), but it did absolute numbers, so I dunno about that.

I think it comes down more to if it feels appropriately sized and filled. Prior Yakuzas were bursting at the seems with shit to do everywhere in their smaller maps. Breath of the Wild had new and interesting shit going on everywhere too.


Imagine paying for the privilege of hearing unemployed dudes and 12 year olds call you racial slurs in higher quality.


After a bit of looking into it: He has an unmonetized alt channel zackrawrr that is his primary streaming channel, but his main asmongold channel is still monetized and can be subscribed/donated to. I don’t personally follow the guy (as the only things I’ve heard about him have been uninteresting at best, and horrifying at worst [e.g. rat alarm clock] and have no interest in WoW.), so I was unaware. As a general statement regarding streamers though, what I’ve said is correct.


I’ve heard that it’s a two week ban, which for a streamer is huge, since any day your banned, subscriptions do not auto-renew. Guy will lose half his recurring income. Depending on the fan he could get it back of course since they could re-sub after he’s back, but there’s still gonna be a big chunk of folks who will either forget, forgot they were subbed to begin with and thus not notice they were un-subbed, or just use that as their clean break moment.


They prob learned they can’t fuck around after the San Andreas remaster debacle.


Lemmy shitposter thinks House of the Dragon actors are not a valuable source of opinions outside of acting, even if he does agree with them.


Not as good as 1, but still nice. Wouldn’t get it full price personally.