My son bought Cyberpunk 2077 on sale. I got hooked immediately.

Keep going! Who knows how many signatures will be ruled as invalid.

She literally talks all the time about how she doesn’t get any offers all of the sudden. She probably did at least once in one of her last four streams. She just has become pickier with what she auditions for. But she still has to audition like everyone else.

Yeah, apparently the director and writer of E33 were actually playing BG3 at the time of the casting. But they didn’t recognise her voice at all. They just knew that they had found the right one for the role.

It’s also saying something that they cast Andy Serkis and didn’t use him for performance capture. That was all done before the voice recordings. Recording over already finished performance was an entirely new experience for him.

Fasttrack entry to the EU?

My Norwegian mother actually is applying for German citizenship. Not for this thing, but so she can vote against the Nazis in the next election.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is great in that regard. DRM-free, cross-platform multiplayer, Steam integration, their own token system to connect players. And if everything fails you can still connect to each other via IP. And even if that fails you have local multiplayer.

Except on consoles, because Microsoft and Sony are big poopoo heads.

Oh god, is the era of corporate weird games about to start?

We don’t need more weird games, we need more people who like games in charge of making games.

33/10

Oh, and I just remembered the old Thief games. They had pretty consistent difficulty. At least for the first two. I cannot remember if that was retained with the third because it was a little more open in terms of what you acquired in the hub world and took on missions. And we don’t talk about the fourth (which was a reboot nobody wanted, not even the dev team).

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 could be what you’re looking for. The main story areas are significantly easier than all the side content.

You’ll want to do the side quests because how can you not play that game with cool sunglasses and a baguette on your back?

But you can easily get through the game without doing any side quests. And if you are afraid of being overpowered when you do play the side stuff, they recently added some nice controls to bump up the difficulty.

No, that wouldn’t make any sense.

Yay! Do anticheat next!

That … is exactly the stupid “they were Hamas” argument. You are basically advocating for genocide of all Israeli adults.

From the context of commenting on an article detailing attacks on civilian infrastructure. Or do you just go around commenting on random posts “neat. fuck israel.”?

Who do you think is working at Microsoft and that tech park? Not Netanjahu.

No! This is about the same shit Iseael is pulling. Hitting civilian targets is bad! Period!

Not condemning war crimes because you think it is somehow justified is exactly the same shit the Israel apologists are doing.

I dunno, it was pretty over the top back then already. Just lean into it, put him across some ultra feminist and let them both grow from it. Similar to Austin Powers. I think Civvie said something along those lines in his DN Forever video.

The ones before were awesome. BioWare at its best. Due to sickness I couldn’t continue 2 but it’s supposed to be one of the best RPGs ever. Maybe even surpassing 3.

And it wasn’t even news back then. Almost immediately after the BG3 release Swen Vincke talked about the next project being an in-house IP again. And not much later they quit working on a DLC.

That’s basically what OP is using now. After Simple was sold to a questionable owner all their apps were forked as Fossify. They are better.

I got a Quest 1 (back when it was still supported) for cheap on ebay. PC VR and sideloaded free games and piracy have kept me afloat. I’m not even logged in to Meta’s shit.

Wow, I never expected the Tomb Raider remasters to be given away so early.

Oh, a Steam Machine?

Neverwinter Nights

The multiplayer is supposedly incredible. But I remember being extremely whelmed by the main game.

But it’s hard to remember the mid games. Because it is very likely that they didn’t leave any lasting impression.

And especially if previous titles in a series or from a studio were great a mid game would feel disappointingly bad. Although compared to other games they might actually still be considered great.

Do you mean Mario Bros:

Or Super Mario Bros? They are very different games.

It’s a good game. Just not as good as the first two, that’s all. Many attributed it to the console release dumbing down the mechanics.

But, oh man, The Shalebridge Cradle is so awesome even if the rest of the games sucked so much as to be unplayable, that mission alone could redeem it.

At the time my parents were away on holiday or something. So I dragged my PC and awesome sound system upstairs and hooked them up to the big TV, ironically getting closer to the console experience. Darkening the whole room and getting immersed in the game was so awesome. And the Cradle scared the everliving shit out of me.

Good times.

For my friends and me it was always just “the game that is even more brutal than Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D”. The more it was banned in Germany the more we wanted it. Good times.

There already are some projects that make it work. I haven’t looked at the specifics yet but as far as I understand it everything that can be handled as a library call as native ARM code does just that and only pure x86 calls are emulated. And since nowadays so much stuff is abstracted away and the heavy lifting is done by Vulkan the performance tends to be very good.

I mean, it is supposedly already a thing on Android. And there are rumors that Valve have been trying it out for Deckard. So this could very much come this year or so.

Probably was just for the old Intel Macs.

Proton/Wine could be used on OSX for a long time. Wine for ARM has also been a thing for a while. But it only worked with ARM Windows software.

Combining Wine with x86 emulation has also become a thing in the last few years. And rumor has it that Valve have beem dabbling in it as well for Deckard. But I don’t think it’s very widespread yet.

But that is probably about to change when Valve are increasing their ARM Mac efforts.

Using your joystick lefthanded is a completely new experience.

Proton for Arm imminent?

I made a control scheme for StarCraft. Worked surprisingly well. At least for single player.

Of course that one had a Nintendo 64 release.

It’s what I do with Denuvo games. De non vue.

Those news of Wiimotes destroying TVs and not the other way around worked really well.

And your Steam Deck will likely be able to emulate it.

I actually think that the Steam Deck is popular enough to be the easy thing to get into PC gaming. Jennifer English (actress of Shadowheart and Maelle) got one after becoming a voting BAFTA member in order to evaluate PC games. And although I think she would care about software freedom she has no idea that it is even a thing that exists.

A Steam Deck was as much an informed decision for her as getting a PlayStation 5 to play Baldur’s Gate 3. So mostly none.

I didn’t even entertain the idea that someone might think this is in the same market as Nintendo.

At least since the Wii Nintendo has been in a category of its own. Either you want a Nintendo console or you don’t. But having an Xbox or PlayStation or PC doesn’t factor into the decision beyond availability of funds.

(of course fanboys will always exist, but they are a small minority)

I just ordered a Jsaux backplate (v1) to help with overclocking to take the edge of Expedition 33. And that’s not even its final form. I’ll gladly keep this system alive for another five years.

And even when it eventually cannot run the shiny new games anymore, I have an enormous backlog to keep me occupied because Epic, Amazon and GOG like to keep me bound to their shops with little presents.

When did “modding a game” shift from “creating new mods” to “applying mods”?