Now that I think about it, the marvellous thing about BG3 isn’t just the acting of the main characters but of the minor NPCs as well. It shows an unprecedented attention to detail and love and care.

I think the only “bad” acting I encountered in the game was that one kid who was apparently voiced by one of the staff’s kids. And that’s only because the model looked too old, for which I suspect that the kid chose their own model.

At least Silent Hill 2 was great as well. Lae’zel’s actress Devora Wilde actually did some mocap for it. She did some Maria and some of the monsters.

She’s streaming her own playthrough on Twitch. It’s hilarious and painful. BG3 was the first video game she’s ever played since the Sims back then.

But yeah, they really upped the game. And apparently they got Liv Tyler interested in doing games as well.

We’re really living through the time gaming is growing up.

That would be great. It would mean a ton of lost revenue and bad publicity for Denuvo.

“We have patented the concept of playing and will now sue every company that makes toys or games.”

It’s the integration into the Steam interface. So you could manage all your games through one interface.

It could have compatibility with everything in Steam, including achievements. But as long as it’s closed source I won’t touch it.

A common theme I have seen with her is reporting about a new paper about an older hypothesis. Then saying stuff like “this has been known since 2007, and still [field]-scientists are ignoring it, why?” But when you watch a scientist’s video who actually is from that field they will also mention the older papers and go on to list a myriad of reasons why it hasn’t been accepted yet.

Diablo and Diablo 2 (not Resurrected)

I think Diablo 2 even came with an extra disc specifically so you could give it to your friend to play via LAN. Then these fuckers removed the option in Resurrected even though they promised they wouldn’t.

StarCraft and the old Warcraft games work via LAN as well.

Quake, Doom, Unreal (Tournament), Half Life

So you’re saying I should register p5re.jp?

Super Mario World on the SNES. That game is just great. I love playing it every so often.

I find it even more strange that they couldn’t get the Xbox interface onto mainline Windows to make it more controller friendly.

Yeah, but by now I can’t even enjoy them without being reminded that they take place in the same universe as the rest. It just feels pointless.

I’ll rather keep my head canon in Legends the EU. Kyle Katarn stole the Death Star plans and Ben is Luke’s son.

I just have no interest in a Disney-ified KOTOR whatsoever.

Could maybe run Doom scaled down.

The funniest thing about it is that they did make the anticheat Linux compatible. They just refuse to activate it for Fortnite.

With LinkSheet you should be able to change what app is opened when the URL of your bank is requested.

Gemma ballz.

Does he even have the rights? I bet they are with Wizards of the Coast.

The flak cannon from Unreal. It’s just a more fun and innovative type of shotgun with grenade launcher.

I was so blown away by that installer. I was used to having to set up my soundcard for every game and often encountering problems with that. Hearing the frickin’ installer talking to me without any setup was like magic.

Doom was also born out of D&D sessions. And the What genre is Doom? video argues pretty well for RPG.

Almost every game nowadays has some kind of story. Pure abstract games like Tetris, however long lasting and multigenerational they are, are the vast minority. Even in something like Pong you play the role of a tennis player.

So, yeah, almost every game is an RPG.

As far as I’m aware (I only played one Silent Hill, Shattered Memories) the series really took off with Silent Hill 2.

I mean, Activision could just lie. I wouldn’t put it past them. And if they get found out blame it on some fall guy.

That was a playable teaser. It was awful. They wanted to gauge interest in a full game. This new demo is for the real game. It looks and plays totally different. It’s still a bit clunky but much better than the playable teaser.

It’s the same demo they have shown to press and others on conventions the past few years. So you might already have seen some scenes from it. They keep updating it. Last time I saw it it didn’t even have a save system.

I’m anxiously waiting for the Gothic Remake demo. I hope my Steam Deck and me are up to the task.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1297900/Gothic_1_Remake/

Don’t bother with the latest game in the series Double Exposure. It plays like a lazy cheap cash grab.

But the same devs as the original also recently released Lost Records: Bloom & Rage that’s supposed to be good. It’s similar but not officially part of the series due to rights issues.

Same with Tell Me Why, which is free every pride month. Personally I found it to be boring but others seem to like it.

What’s wrong?

I always liked the idea of these games more than the games themselves.

Damn, Valve going against fan projects is really weird. Especially considering that most of their biggest games are former mods. And they let just about anyone do something in the Half Life universe.

I use https://github.com/wewewe718/QrAndBarcodeScanner

I can scan any image via sharing.

Funnily enough it made me just find ways to deal with all of them comfortably. In the end I buy from GOG or Steam or Itch. And still have hundreds of games on Epic and some even on Ubisoft’s and EA’s launchers.

Get yourself a throw away email account, claim the free prime month, claim all the free games on GOG, repeat next month.

Maybe a little late, but 4 & 5 (which you can combine to one bigger game) is still fun. You can run it with ScummVM even on your phone.

Xeen (Might and Magic 4 and 5 together) will always have a special place in my heart for being the first “proper” game we had. It’s super fun and thanks to ScummVM runs on basically everything with a computer chip. I replay it every other year or so.

CX File Explorer has one. And it can connect to a ton of protocols.

They basically sent the same response as last time. They didn’t even read the new petition.

https://youtu.be/cI2G4xLBVkY

No, not at all. That is entirely my point. Test the change instead of making blanket statements.

I mean in the way that he has to try out gameplay changes in order to evaluate their “fun”. Maybe modern ARPGs are too fast or they are now. But I will only believe it when I see a slower one be better.

And I suspect he is the same because it took him to see Diablo in real-time to believe that it was better.

David “don’t make Diablo real-time” Brevik?

I mean, I agree with him on Diablo 3 and 4. But perhaps he’s not the best authority.

Depends on the game. When the game was made in a way that is easily moddable then installing mods usually just means putting the mod files into some directory. But when a mod is supposed to do something that is not really supported then it has to do even more crazy stuff. And when several mods want to do similar crazy stuff it gets even more complicated.

So it really depends. Though BG3 has mod support built in by now. So everything in there should be easy.