They are not that big, and they are independent. Larian has less than a 1000 employees, while the likes of Ubisoft number in the multiple thousands.

It’s complicated, but I think no. But maybe they could have certain maps where it’s PVE. I’ve recently played the pve only fork of The Cycle Frontier, another pvevp extraction shooter that got shut down a few years ago, and the pve only mode is considerably easier, to the point where the tension from the full game is not present. So a game designed to be PvEvP would probably feel soulless without part of its intended game design.

I honestly think FW is a better game than Arc, but with a ton of janky more. Beung a small indie team, they can’t compare in terms of polish, but the vision and the work they’ve been putting into the game are a great sign of what’s to come. With ARC, although I do somewhat trust Embark, I’m not sure they have a good vision for it.

My PC Game Pass subscription basically doubled (from 36BRL to 70BRL) in price and I’d get way less games than before, and no 1st day releases. Fuck that shit.

No grandfathering. I had auto renewal on, and my subscription was marked to go up in price at the start of the next month.

I’ve heard, from credible creators, that Neon White (the first game from the first list) is superb. So that might be an interesting first try.

The first one is peak psychological horror, I have high hopes for a sequel.

I played it this weekend, it’s phenomenal! Graphics and art style choices were great, gameplay was immersive, and the puzzles were well designed. I’m definitely hyped for the release.

Oh, I’m doubtful for sure. But being light on RPG elements, especially of the source material elements, is not actually a concern for me. I’m much more worried about their plot direction. But… Who knows, it might be good. I’ll wait for the reviews and see what’s up.

If it has a solid enough story, I’m probably fine with it. If you’ve ever played the TTRPG of Vampire, you probably know that it has always been the weakest point of the game, while the lore and stories of that world have always been the highlight.

Soon, in October, we’ll have a new demo for Road to Vostok, a fully pve extraction game made by a single dev that, quite honestly, looks amazing. You should check it out. I think the EA version will come out in 2026.

GTA V has quests with decisions and lets you make a few ending altering decisions, while also having character progression and item progression, plus let’s you roleplay being a criminal, would it be called an RPG by most people standards? Hardly.

Although I’d say CP2077 is not an RPG by the usual standard, I agree that the game borders the concept. Actually, I’d say most games that have a player character do border the real foundational concept of a “Role-playing Game”, however, that’s not how most people classify RPGs as videogames. For a videogame to be an RPG we understand that they need to pursue those elements wholeheartedly. And that’s definitely not the case for CP2077 (also not for Monster Hunter, nor Souls).

Also, the source material being a TRPG means absolutely nothing. Vampire the Masquerade Bloodhunt’s source material is the TRPG Vampire The Masquerade. Is the game an RPG then? No, it’s a Battle royale. Pathfinder Gallowspire Survivors is a mob-hell/vampire survivor-like game, not an RPG either. Actually, this is even worse for CP2077 because the game takes almost nothing but the setting from the Cyberpunk TRPG.

Barely. I remember well levelling up to get the incredible boost of +2.5% at handling handguns. That skill tree was so shitty that I’d prefer if the game didn’t have it.

Although I have to agree that the list doesn’t seem to care about this, as they’ve put Dark Souls, Monster Hunter and Elden Ring as RPGs…

Not an RPG. You make literally two real choices the whole game: who you are (at the start), and what you’re going to do (at the end). The developers themselves have said that the game is not a RPG, and more like a shooter with some RPG elements when they were criticized about this.

Yes, but the Dark Zone was still a core part of the endgame. It was not optional, at one point or another you’d have to go in. And this, for Division 2, being a dlc, just adds to my original point. It’s not like they’re uprooting their traditions, they just finally realized that from the beginning they had the best extraction shooter around.

This looks really good! Hope they can actually finish and release the game.

I mean… The Division was literally the first ever extraction shooter, and the og survivor dlc was peak extraction gameplay.

Remember, people: don’t preorder!

The biggest decrease is Whatsapp though

On the topic of coop games, Guntouchables has just released on steam today and it’s free for grabs in the first 24h, and then only 5 dollarinos after the free window*. It’s a super fun 4-player coop shooter where you play sausages with guns.

200 million in a SINGLE DAY?? Holy fuck…

Also the combat. DA:O was already quite streamlined when compared to other CRPGs of the time, and they only dumbed it down further and further with each new iteration.

I’m not a fan of the transition to a f2p model, the home screen looks like garbage now, and the whole UI is more polluted because they’re constantly trying to sell you something now. I have 1000+ hours in Siege, but stopped playing around the time that Sens released. Recently hopped back to check the update with some friends, and it’s clear the game has lost scope. Basically all operators released since then are just copies of a previous operator with a very slight twist. Gone were the times when people got excited for a new siege season because we wanted to see what new ops and maps were coming. Speaking about maps, the new maps also look boring and uninspired.

Noita and Exanima are also two great explanations of when to make your own custom game engine: when nothing else on the market does exactly what you need your engine to do.

At this point, it’s clear that NMS is a forever-developed game, and it is clearly also the basis for Light No Fire (as they’re literally transferring systems over). It makes me think of Exanima and Zomboid. These devs have a never-ending stream of additions and reworks to develop, and I’m here for it.

Let’s gooo! I’m hyped, I love the first one for its unique approach to survival games, especially for having a map that was designed and not procedural. A new one with a bigger backyard and more features will be very welcomed.

I had to zoom in to see what I was looking at lol The difference between male and female fashion is atrocious here.

Amen!

For Honor has, to this day, the best melee combat I have ever experienced in any game. The biggest problem that game has is that it’s a fighting game in medieval disguise, if it was more adventure/rpg, I’d bet people would be all over it. I do like the fighting game part of it though, but fighting games are ROUGH to get into, sweatiest player base around.

He is only testing AAA games at top settings. And that’s the point AMD is “making”. Most pc gamers are out there playing Esport titles at the lowest possible settings in 1080p to get the max fps possible. They’re not wrong, but you could still say that it’s ridiculous to buy a brand-new modern card only expecting to run esport titles. Most people I know that buy modern GPUs will decide to play new hot games.

And better work at that

Isn’t Steam Deck APU RDNA 2 at oeast? If so, it’s technically RT capable.

Is that pixel art? It looks like early 3d graphics.

I only remember the 3090 frying itself when playing New World, but, allegedly, that was only some units with faulty soldering.

Biased, but absolutely right.

It’s already out, just a UE5 remaster. They were bored of reselling Skyrim for the upteenth time, decided to change pace a bit and resell Oblivion.

It’s a great idea, sadly the EQ gameplay does not interest me at all, but I’m all in for the idea of fake players in a single player/small coop only “FMMORPG”. I’d love it if people tried to do this with every multiplayer game before sunsetting them.

1230 USD in about 10 years of service. I’d be interested to know my total playtime on steam now to see how much per hour I am paying.

It’s wild indeed. The worst part about this comparison is that people say it’ll fail because of the competition, but there’s literally 0 competition in the genre from big studios. The only three somewhat successful games are Delta Force, Hunt Showdown and Escape from Tarkov, two of those are premium games, one where people are willing to pay 250$ for it. It’s even a genre where people mostly want it to be paid to reduce cheating.