Which is a shame, because it’s the only DQ game I haven’t played because it’s a MMO and not translated into English.

Zelda: Link to the Past.

How it shapes how I view games is how Zelda creates a lot of subconscious rules we take for granted until we see it not being used.

For example:

You’ll often find the “locked door” before finding the key.

You’ll see the treasure chest at the end, but no way to get there.

You see the cracked walls with no bombs.

A lot of puzzles are clearly pointing out the problems without words.

As expected. Many people just see it as an opportunity to talk about their favorite games. That’s okay.

The amount of indie games that pay a company to market for them to create pure marketing garbage is too high.

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From my experience - people who abuse AI don’t see AI’s cracks any longer. Their writing changes. How they see things.

It’s like the plastic surgery people. They don’t realize how weird and off-putting they look.

Okay honestly I want that.

Edit: I’m referring to cat Pikachu. Give me that weird real life animal with taped wooden tails on top of Pokemon.

The dildo seat maker says you’re “Completely wrong” about their new ass-blaster 4500 being the new standard for seats on buses.

That’s quality street fighter lore for you!

Stupid question: why are they looking for a discord alternative, instead of a group chat/Slack alternative? What am I missing?

Because slack alternatives also have video and audio call integration (either with jitsi or something else) and are battle tested with companies.

ID check. This was also a few months after they had a major leak and hackers stole personal information.

They downplayed it but if it’s like all the other social media platforms, it’s going to be garbage.

Right? FromSoft like… No shit?

This is incredible. I just got this game for my kiddo and was looking for information out there as she’s asking for help.

And here you already built something so useful, and so quickly too!

Thank you!

PRS claims “many game titles which incorporate PRS members’ musical works are made available on Steam,” including “high profile series” such as Forza Horizon, FIFA/EA FC, and GTA.

This has “I’m throwing my lawsuit at everything and I hope it sticks” energy

I’m hoping Steam comes in and just destroys console gaming forever.

Consoles made it normal to pay for a subscription service to play multiplayer. Consoles are why games want to charge $70-90. Consoles create wallet experience and “exclusive” platforms for their games.

Microsoft’s history points to this.

Xbox live was pretty cool when it was trying to be the Netflix of Gaming. Then they shot themselves again and again in the foot.

It worked for Dave the Diver.

It would be more respectful if the forum user didn’t just spam that across hundreds of games. Then you click on the profile and they have 100 hours of TF2 and other f2p games.

The health of video games shouldn’t be measured by what Microsoft does. That’s like measuring the economy based on how a bunch of big companies are doing.

It’s inaccurate as hell and doesn’t actually take into consideration the small folks who make up the majority.

“If you can’t cope with your product taking criticism, valid or otherwise, don’t waste your time peddling what you’ve made.”

One of the reviews, published in 2023, read, “cringe game, made by a liar”. The other, a review of Lawhead’s game Blue Suburbia posted in 2024, said: “A women [sic] who seeks to destroy other’s [sic] career made this. It’s very poorly put together. She also probably has dual Israeli citizenship with how pointy her nose is.”

So by your standards, she should have thought about being a woman?

Even worse is the constant harassment of indie devs.

Just constant “Is this AI?” And them demanding more and more evidence rather than letting the dev cook.

I was originally part of the “fuck the steam forums” because asshats would troll the forum to get steam emojis, which gave you some steam credit or something. So it was an incredible cesspool of shit.

But their last update made steam emojis worthless beyond being a extra status, and I think that’s making the forums more bearable.

Better mod tools. Better flagging of shit users. And maybe the steam forums can become a better place.

Because right now, if you want to talk to a fan of a indie game, you’re stuck finding some YouTube video comment or Reddit.

I have a humble bundle subscription for $15 for seven games. $2 a game and not all of them are winners.

But when a movie ticket is $15 for a two hour movie, seven games is cheap as hell.

And every few months, there’s a banger that surprises me and I end up growing my backlog even further.

So many good indie games that are under $10 that people sleep on.

Same. But somebody is. All the losers who buy every edition of FIFA or CoD brand new keeps this cycle going.

I saw a meme (which could be based on a real message) that said “they” (a Japanese game company) is rewarding their devs by giving them a week to go visit their family.

Because I love wavelengths but it doesn’t feel the same. It just goes through me. ☹️

I wonder if Japanese companies are paying attention to FromSoft. I absolutely love that FromSoft reuses assets and improves their base engine. You can see the evolution from DS1 to Elden Ring (and Sekiro), releasing a game every year or two.

Growing up - Dragon Quest 1-4 were built on the same engine with minor improvements. FF 4-6 wasn’t a massive leap, but a gradual jump in graphics.

Yakuza games seem to release yearly. They have built a workflow where people work on the same mini games and “slot” it in for whatever the newest release it is.

As much as I shit on Ubisoft, they really dialed in on their engine and tools to crunch out cookie cutter checklist open world games.

Thinking about it, all my examples could also have been plagued with toxic crunch culture.

I do remember it. And honestly, I was annoyed that it was only Part 1 of a trilogy.

During that time, I was already pretty sick of movies that push to be a trilogy. So I wonder how many gamers are like me who are waiting for the entire FF7 remake to be released before they play it.

What an odd thing to say with such a bold username.

With any live game, the main measurement I look at is long term support.

I don’t play live games on Day 1.

A decade of watching games launch and fail only to spend 3-5 years of dev time to finally become good (FF14, FO76, All the open world games, no mans sky, Cyberpunk).

I played New World last year (4 years after launch) and it was awesome!

I read this review and absolutely agreed with it.

Fallout works because they wrote a really compelling real world. Then, they sprinkled jokes.

Outer Worlds went the other direction. They wrote jokes, and tried to build a world around that. The Borderlands comparison is accurate.

And it’s not like the world lore sucks. Using Borderlands as an example: Tales from the Borderlands focused on a compelling story first.

Which is kind of crazy because I don’t understand how they made the original Fallout 1&2 and New Vegas. Like, they created this style of storytelling.

Oh, tell me how DEI led to a pro-AI stance/pro-NFT stance?

Tell me how DEI led to all the sexual harassment and bullying from the CCO and vice presidents. Did diversity do that?

Did DEI kick off the “Get comfortable not owning games” quote?

Is DEI in the room and one of the main voices to shut down servers to The Crew, where you couldn’t even play Single player anymore? And they then removed it out of everybody’s library?

Is DEI why the past 15 years of Ubisoft games come off like a checklist of features? Just massive maps of repetitive tasks from all their games?

There was a story about Roblox kids creating Charlie Kirk simulators and that made me laugh

He didn’t say he was a pedo and a Nazi. He said it’s cool that they exist and any issues with that means you’re a lefty censor person. But it DOES imply that he’s a pedo and a Nazi.

Today’s game is Subnautica. After hearing the news about Krafton i was really disappointed. This was a big game to me when i was younger, and i’ve kind of been trying to figure out how to play this without budging on my morals. The answer seems kind of obvious, but it was hard to pull off for me for some reason.

I haven’t kept up with the news. What’s the issue?

Seriously. Why would I care that a billion dollar corporation who exploited the market to maximize their revenue is leaving for a fad market?

“Bye bitch.”

This seems like one of those problems that I’m too privileged to have since I don’t have this service nor know anybody who did.

All these promises can quickly spiral into the No Man Sky/Cyberpunk issue where on release, it’s a shell of what peoples expectations were.

You might say, “Well they fixed it.” But only after running their staff ragged to meet broken promises.

Its a great game!

I love the first one more than the second for some reason. Not sure why.