we want boobies and sex and romance.

Literally the parts I couldn’t care less about.

No, whether say “raise the bar” they mean “increase the price.”

After the Wii, I sword that I was never going to buy another console just to play Zelda. I eventually got a Switch to play Breath of the Wild and basically nothing else (I owned a total of 4 Switch games). When they sued the shit out of the Yuzu people, I decided it was time to finally live up to the promise I had made. I gave the Switch, which I hadn’t touched in years, to a friend to use as a gift for his kids and committed to never giving Nintendo another penny.

I’ll reevaluate that stance if they ever make significant changes to their practices.

I recently broke a decade plus boycott of EA products to purchase Split Fiction for full price. My friend asked me to play It Takes Two with him for free through friend pass and I was so impressed by it that I wanted to support the devs. Besides, the whole point of the boycott was to “vote with my wallet” and I want them to know that I want more games with that kind of quality made by teams that are (seemingly) happy to be doing what they do.

At least 1 is a rehash of an N64 game.

That one you could just emulate.

You Nintendo shills are hilarious. Have fun shelling out premium prices for out of date tech.

Then don’t buy it. Buying it tells them it’s ok to keep raising prices.

AI could have some pretty cool uses as an enhancement to voice actors. Imagine all of the NPCs in an RPG being able to say the customized name of your character aloud instead of everyone using a title or nickname that you were assigned. It’s a real shame that we have to use everything for evil instead.

Happy Gilmore 2.

WTF? Why is this a thing?

Based on the size of the company and the budget for the game I’d at least call it a AA game. My real point is I paid full price for it and have absolutely no regrets.

Baldur’s Gate 3 and Elden Ring are the last 2 AAA games I bought close to launch for full price. Other than that, I picked up Hades 2 in early access. The rest of my library is all stuff that I bought on sale.

I do have Monster Hunter and Avowed on my wishlist but I think I’m going to be patient. If I do pull the trigger, it would probably be for Avowed because I want more Obsidian games. On a related note Grounded is $20 on Steam right now so I stopped that up even though I beat it back when I had Game Pass.

A very fair point, but alas… for better or worse, the bar has indeed been raised, and last month only proved that. February 2025 saw the release of a new RPG from one of the most beloved studios in the genre, Obsidian Entertainment. Avowed is modest by design, but nonetheless it’s polished, accessible, and visually impressive, with a rich story from some of the best writers in the business—and the backing of Microsoft, one of the most influential and well-resourced videogame publishers of all time.

Weird, I had the same reaction to this and the news that Ron DeSantis said the Tate brothers aren’t welcome in Florida. “That’s nice but you’re still a massive piece of shit.”

If Avowed is bad I’m going to be really disappointed. I love Pillars of Eternity and played hundred of hours of Grounded.

I didn’t. It’s a real thing.

https://anglicancatholic.org/

One of the 1000000 spin-offs of Christianity.

I realized recently that the only dvd drive that I still own is in an old laptop that hasn’t been used for years.

This is amazing news. I personally haven’t given them a penny in well over a decade.

A fighting game whose major selling point was breast jiggle physics.

How so? Is the price the only thing you think about when making a purchase?

Sure. Can you play Baldur’s Gate 3 on it?

I’ve tripled my library since getting a deck and use it more often than my PC.

You can one for under $300 if you buy refurbished.

Ah yes, the Nintendo method of preservation.

The article glosses over the sexual harassment until the end. She says that pictures of her were distributed on discord and mentions the daily harassment and sexualization from the community.

Honestly it would not surprise me. I had to double check.

You really don’t understand that the people who throw money at Ubi’s standard crap and people who 2d Metroidvania games are mostly different people with different values? The CoD/Fifa/Assassin Creed crowd clearly don’t give a fuck about shitty, intrusive launchers and kernel level anti-cheat.

Meanwhile, lovers of Metroidvania games looked at Prince of Persia and it’s competition (games like Nine Sols) and chose one that didn’t install malware on their computer.

The title is a typo. The link goes to the page for Worshippers of Cthulhu and that is the game I am asking about.

I’m considering buying this next week. Has anyone here tried it yet?

On PC it requires Ubi’s launcher and Denuvo. That’s enough to make me completely uninterested.

Ok. I’ll install it later.

For the best experience, do you recommend playing the demo or waiting for full release?

I’m jealous of people who haven’t played Outer Wilds yet because they can still experience it for the first time.

If the story mode is decent, I’ll buy it on sale for $10-15 in 2028.

Welcome to the current state of Square Enix.

Interesting. I was not aware.

Those are games not consoles or distribution platforms.

What people don’t say is often more important than what they do. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the The Witcher 4 is an always online multiplayer game with mtx.

You are mistaken about the price. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior had a retail price of $69.99 at launch.