I own it, but haven’t played it yet. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Fucking great game, Inscryption was mentioned in here at least.

G*mers really don’t want the industry to evaluate the $60 price point and apply inflationary adjustments going back to when it became the standard.

I love that this is the press photo Valve chose to send to the outlet for the piece.

Good thing SH is absolutely not “jumpscare horror.”

Fuck you. Bring back Team Silent.

Neat how they fit so many buzzwords into one sentence.

This might be worse than when that woman ukeleled her sexual predator apology.

Yeah they moved to personal loot like a decade ago.

Ok boss, sure

I don’t agree, but it’s good that you always have the option of not buying a game with a brief splash screen.

Dolby (and others) have determined that it is in the best interest of their brand to put this alongside developers, producers, publishers, and others. It is now part of their license agreement.

It’s on the box. In order to license it the grantor requires screen time.

The two go hand in hand. Want DolbyVision? The logo comes with that.

Anyone with good media equipment cares.

That alone would be enough for me to never open Palia again.

Kids are all playing Bedrock on their Switches and iPads. Microsoft is just passing the long game.

This review is under investigation for treason.

Helldivers 2 exclusively. However, Elite: Dangerous just dropped a massive patch, so I may change to squishing bugs from a cockpit for a bit.

Best 4x game of the 2000s and still one of my favorites to go back, play exclusively for a month or so, and then put down for years at a time.

There are some amazing overhaul mods, too. The Star Trek and Halo ones are particularly good.

Had an issue where none of my squad could reinforce after dying even though it would auto drop me when I died. I ended up soloing the last part of the mission and extract. Was fun for me, but must have been super frustrating for the other three.

Steam on Linux only requires it the first time you launch.

An LLC or any other corporate structure can have shareholders. It all depends on the structure laid out in the organizing documents. You may have meant private companies don’t have shareholders, but even that isn’t the case.

Spending well over a decade pushing out moderately successful shovelware on consoles before crowdfunding D:OS and its sequel, which provided enough of a portfolio to attract the CCP’s money and allow for the development of BG3.

ESO is live service and an MMO, it doesn’t really belong in this list, but otherwise yeah basically everything you said.

Listen man, just a life lesson here for you to take. If your argument is going to be supported by citing to the Virtual Boy, it’s probably not one you should be making.

This, Paizo is a low cashflow company with a solid product and stable business. However, they don’t have the balance sheet to make an offer or the historical performance for a lender to float them for a purchase of something this big. A best-case would be a larger organization buying the IP and then licensing Paizo to manage and develop it.

Neat, all my Pathfinder experience will be even more valuable!

1: you get to own your games

*Citation needed.

You absolutely do not. Even GOG is just a license to the game.

They’d love to have GamePass on Switch and PS5 already, Nintendo and Sony are the roadblock because they don’t want to lose the share of cash and hours of playtime on their own platforms.

Steam Overlay is laggy and cluttered and unintuitive. Valve does a lot well, but every piece of its software, aside from Proton, is almost hostilely worse than competitors’.

Between Baldur’s Gate 3 and Zelda TotK there was no other game deserving that title this year.

TotK isn’t a top-10 game this year. It’s just an expansion to BotW (which was amazing) with a couple new mechanics slapped on – so exactly like an expansion. BG3 is great, but it exists in these two simultaneous states; there is a massive world, game, and population of that world, then at the same time it’s just not that complex or engaging. IDK, BG3 is my game of the year, but that’s because there wasn’t much this year. Elden Ring would have my vote if it was just a little bit better, but it’s not. AC6 might end up being a better FromSoft game as the years go on and replayability becomes more of a factor, tbh.

There is a strong argument for Mario Wonder to be the game of the year. It’s the first genuinely fresh entry in a series spanning five decades, since Galaxy came out. And, honestly Alan Wake 2 is more of a storytelling, artistic, and world-design achievement than any of those other games.

I find it difficult to agree that there were 50 games deserving of a “Top” list this year and TotK was certainly not even close to the best game of the year.

Yeah agreed. Been the two I prefer Carplay, but not by a lot.

Bobby sucks, but chill out dude. You made a game, you didn’t do anything important.

Yeah right? That’s the long-standing procedure for deliberately destroyed evidence — the fact finder gets to make all reasonable negative inferences.

Makes sense, I love GamePass for titles without significant replay value anything else is a value-add. BG3 is hugely replayable.

It really doesn’t. It feels incredibly dated. A lot of that is because games since then have iterated on systems, concepts, and philosophies which were introduced or revolutionized by HL; but, there’s a lot that just isn’t done anymore because games now do different things (because they are better) or similar things quite differently (because that’s better).

Exactly what the other commenter said. It’s its own thing, but absolutely has the same energy that Inscription does. I love them both and I’m actually not sure which one I like better.

Have you played Pony Island?