I’m not a DRG superfan and didn’t expect to enjoy this, but the progression feels very solid and it’s a lot of fun. Surprisingly addictive.

While it’s not DRG, it feels extremely faithful to the original game and doesn’t have that “too-vampire-survivorsish” feel that some of these games suffer from.

I can’t really pin down what makes it so playable - my best guess is the pacing of the upgrades and the mix of the 4 classes feels like it’s just right. Tunnelling through walls (and the mining speed upgrades) is also a particularly interesting mechanic.

What’s an example of an upgrade in another similar game that enables a “weird” build?

and Palworld

But also right above the categories on the right hand side where the store page tells you if it’s single player/online pvp/online co-op, is the category “MMO”

FINALLY somebody gets it!

The event is a celebration - why would they bring up layoffs?

Sorry, old post. There’s hidden controls everywhere that just aren’t intuitive.

How do you throttle your downloads? A ton of my games that I know I own are missing from my library - where did they go? How do you get to the store page of a game in your library? If I take a screenshot with steam, where is it? My steam library is showing my games by month. But it was showing them by categories I set for them before. How do I get back to that?

I can do all of these things, but when I try, I might need to search around steam a bit to find it, and I might get stuck entirely and have to ask someone or ask google.

High quantity, low quality?

Maybe video games should be priced at value per hour

I don’t know if I want to be punished for doing well

I do not consider steam user friendly

Contraband Police - it’s like Papers Please, but since it’s in first person, it’s more complex - you have to manage the whole border crossing area with the few staff you have, you have a car that you have to manually drive to a supply shop and to drop prisoners and contraband off at, and you can get ambushed along the way or at your base, where you’re manually be shooting at smugglers with guns you buy.

Shadows of Doubt - A game where you play as a detective in a city and you have to solve cases (sometimes murders) and often end up committing crimes yourself along the way. A lot of cases solved used by matching faces to names to fingerprints to voices to jobs to blood type, eye colour, hair colour, age, and so on. Extremely addictive and often hilarious, despite how buggy this early access game is.

Dicey Dungeons - A roguelike deckbuilder with 6 different classes where you roll dice against cards with different effects and your enemy does the same to you. I don’t love roguelikes and really don’t like deck games but this one is really appealing, and has a great soundtrack. The different classes play through a LOT of different “episodes” where the rules of the game change.

also playing a lot of Heroes of the Storm every goddamn night

Is paint 3d actually any good?

I had such a hard time using it for basic things that I’d look for wherever they’d hidden away traditional paint instead.

Wanting good usability isn’t petty

From taskbar settings, they removed “Never” combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons.

Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can’t do that in W11 without a third party patcher.

Yeah I don’t get it. Did microsoft say they would stop forcing edge on users?

OK which distro should we use

What do the post-patch reviews say

I don’t think anyone cares much about the promises that EA have for us

Er, what’s a modern anti chat game

Is Tom Holland now better known for Uncharted rather than Spiderman?

Final Fantasy 7 Remake. My god, what a disaster over the original.

I can’t bring myself to continue it even though (I think?) I’m half way through the game, because while the Sector 5 reactor in the original is, by good game design standards, just a replica of the Sector 7 reactor with less going on - since you’ve already done the same thing earlier on, in Remake they decided to make it an enormous labyrinth that you can’t find your way out of, just because. I guess they needed to extend the playtime.

That’s just one of many, many things wrong with the game despite an amazing original, but it’s the spot that completely prevents me from loading it up again to continue on. I went and started a new game in the original instead, just to be sure it wasn’t the nostalgia glasses talking. It wasn’t.

But I guess it looks really pretty.

Just like real friendship.

But which did better, and by how much over the other?

It is exactly the same as Overwatch. There is no reason at all to call it a sequel.

I loaded up TF2 a few months ago just for a quick game, expecting to get into yet another round of I’m-so-over-it 2fort.

What happened instead of that was a completely nostalgic get-into-any-map-I-wanted round after round of full servers like I’d never put the game away. Dustbowl, Gravelpit, Steel, trying to re-learn all the maps, finding other players who had long since figured out new clever ways to use weapons and classes that I’d always thought of as sub-standard.

And I’m in a region where there should be less players.

I don’t know that I really want it called Craig

V Rising. similar to valheim, but vampires instead of vikings. fight bosses against the sunlight to unlock abilities, structures, crafting.

Halls of Torment. similar to vampire survivors, but with a very diablo 2 feel.

Gunfire Reborn. similar to dead cells/hades, but it’s a FPS.

Hyper Jam. the single best multiplayer arena brawler I’ve ever played. no decent matchmaking so you need a friend or 3, but it’s $4 aud in the sale. get your host to disable the confusion perk.

every game has a built in trial these days. trial the game for up to 2 hours in the first 2 weeks of buying it, and if you don’t like it, steam refund it.

What really sells this game? I bought it and got through the prologue and a bit of chapter 1 and don’t see why it has so much popularity? It seems very okay so far but nothing amazing. Loads of unnecessary dialog.