Wartales is nothing like Don’t Starve. It’s more like Mount and Blade had a kid with Xcom. Great open world sandbox RPG with a very nice tactical turn based combat. I think it’s one of the most overlooked games of the last decade.

Damn, that’s way more promising than Bannerlord’s first big patch, which arrived with almost the same filesize with the release.

It’s not really a good window since gifting/leisure budgets usually got emptied around Christmas/New Year.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with some mods took long enough to give up for me.

Deck sold well but there are billions of Steam users.

You meant which storefront, Xbox or PS5?

Trivia: Mr. Door actor David Harewood later appointed as the president of the Royal Fucking Academy of Dramatic Art.

So unlucky that 2023 was brimming with awesome games so AW2 had to compete with them all. Winning best narrative awards against BG3 was remarkable, and I honestly think it was well earned. Yet it got little to no exposure - only 1.6mil sales over a year and a half? It’s a 16mil game no doubt.

Google’s getting credits for Android being a platform without walls since 2008, but it was almost never possible to jump the fences for the layperson.

When I look back at the last 15 years, I feel nothing but we got conned by the biggest Advertising company disguised as a tech company, to trust they will hold their users in front of their profits, or keep any of their promises.

Steam Deck put them back in the race already.

SteamOS is flourishing with the popularity of the Deck, helping Linux to become a stable gaming platform with Proton and driver support.

It’s also great as a HTPC when connected to a TV. HDR support for external displays arrived just recently.

I think it’s just a matter of time SteamOS jumping from Deck to custom PC builds.

No Mount & Blade either :/

Is it possible you’re using your desktop’s GPU for ffmpeg encoding, and not the CPU, by chance?

I have to demonstrate to my friends every time how my MBP M2 blows my Ryzen 5950x desktop out of the water for my professional line of work.

I can’t catch quite the drift what x86/x64 chips are good for anymore, other than gaming, nostalgia and spec boasting.

Director had a wonderfully bad take about last two CIV games that’s still been on Steam’s daily concurrent top 100 games after all these years.

Sophia Petrillo will be exhilarated.

Minecraft singlehandedly created a genre called “Survival”.

I think most of the games around 2005’s Indie Game Boom created lots of brilliant mechanics that’s been copied still.

You don’t need an external app on iOS, it’s built into the Countdown.

(Just go down to ‘When countdown ends’ list and pick ‘Stop playing’. It will stop whatever playing, YT, Spotify, Netflix etc.)

How about Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord? It might be more action oriented than TW but still it’s a decent Kingdom-ing game.

If you like to have a Sci Fi flavor, give Stellaris a shot too!

I’d really like to see 2023 GOTY dev snatches Fallout from 2023 shit dev’s hands (Starfield, anyone?)

Owning a high end Apple device strongly suggests owning a high end console as well. Maybe the target demographics (rich gamers) already own those games on their favorite platform, so why buy it twice.

Looks cool!

How about the sound and the music? Are you doing these yourself as well?

My experience was quite the opposite, and I’m old enough to have played the first FPSs in their heyday.

I got lost all the time, couldn’t figure out which way to go, and quit the game in frustration about a third of the way through. I really wanted to finish it for nostalgia’s sake, and I really love arcade WH40K stuff.

Game’s aesthetics and feeling is tremendously well, by the way.

I always suspected it’s not because they won’t, but they can’t due to the licensing issues.

In the end Larian is a subcontractor of Hasbro, who’s preparing their own ‘virtual tabletop’ for a while now.

Xbox Cloud is.

Pokemon with guns, Bannerlord with guns,

What’s next? The Sims with guns?

Consider having a SteamDeck.

I used Steam Link, Mi Box, Shield Pro, Apple TV and Steam Deck for streaming indoors. Latency-wise Deck beats all by 3 miliseconds, APTV and Shield ties in second (all three have latency under 16ms [1 frame in 60fps]). APTV + Moonlight supports wireless gamepad rumble and all other Dualsense features, also HDR. Shield is hit and miss especially with newer controllers.

Deck supports every combination, plus you can stream your Xbox (or Game Pass Cloud) and PS5 to Deck if you have either.

I have the old one. Next iteration will have the same better display along with better cpu/gpu/ram, current battery is more than enough for a day of my gaming needs and I doubt I will ever need to touch a screw let alone a repair. I’m glad there’s an upgrade at the same price for newcomers but it isn’t “radiant” anything.

I’m thinking some people having more joy at staring at the fps counter then play the game.

it reads ‘oblight’

Was there input lag on LCD that I wasn’t aware?

Nope, it’s the previous update released the day before.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1675200/announcements/detail/5484882897551382406

I prefer to call it “Halal AI”

Deserves all of it.

What a shame for other wonderful games to be released in the same year with BG3.

There’s already gamepad support for a few years now. Not sure what’s stopping them.

Every news I read about this game is another recipe for disaster. Drawing inspiration from a game released 2 months ago, and still scheduled to be released in 2024?

Also, Larian has 20 years of experience about building that beauty. Every step they took in the past brought them here. Chinese Room, on the other hand, is founded, run and abandoned by some fuckwits.

Only thing VTMB2 should take inspire from is VTMB Unofficial Patch.

Because everyone knows it’s Xbox-exclusive and everyone on Xbox also has the Game Pass, which Starfield is a day-one addition.

At least I know it’s only Apple tracking me and selling that data to a only handful, premium ad agencies. With Microsoft and Google, I don’t have a faintest idea if any 13 yo bengali kid with fakest company name can bulk purchase my browser history or not.

Yeah, it’s been a breeze since I moved into Apple ecosystem. Nothing really being shoved down your throat feels nice.

Wow! Let me just launch the game while I’m out just to add to the numbers. Wonderful game, deserves to be GOTY.

Quake III Arena remaster when