That’s weird. Maybe it’s a performance issue, they squeeze a few more FPS with narrower views.

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I think Valve has a lot of good people there. Hopefully succession has been planned and leadership will go to someone as good as GabeN.

XP UI was great, security not great.

Porta-potty company.

Creative control until the Bobs come in and fire everyone not wanting to toe the authoritarian line.

Origin Systems, they made Ultima Underworld and Wing Commander. EA turned Origin into a download client. I’m still salty.

There are far too many gamers that will happily buy the yearly FC/FIFA or Call of Duty.

More like:

1. AI first
2. Terrible reviews
3. Studio out of business

I understand the single player campaigns are somewhat fun. I’ve had Black Ops on my Steam wishlist for years and it has never been on a decent sale.

That’s awesome. I’m almost ready to switch to Linux, but I hop around to many different games and not all run on Linux.

Isthereanydeal.com will do that

Lossless, that suddenly becomes interesting to me.

Yeah I had some fun with Day-Z and Player Unknown’s Battle Royale, but the repetitive rounds in those sorts of mods got boring to me pretty quickly. Especially the scavenging for gear each time, I just wanted to battle but it feels like work.

I have the same sort of issue with RTS games where you are in a race to build your base and units, I don’t enjoy speed harvesting and building.

I was stoked for BF6 until it wanted me to enable Secure Boot and install rootkit anti-cheat. Now with the Saudis and Jared Kushner in charge installing a rootkit to play a game is an even worse idea. Maybe if I only used the computer for gaming.

I just watched a good Any Austin video on RDR2, he studies the power line infrastructure on the map. Makes me want to play again.

Trying No Man’s Sky for probably the third time. It’s clicked a bit better this time. I jumped back in because of the Corvette building, took me probably a week of evenings to finally be able to build one. It’s pretty darn good, I think it finally clicked. The storyline still feels like the longest checklist tutorial ever, 30+ hours in.

The demo or the full game?

Yeah I bought it about a year ago and had a lot of fun with it. There are a lot of different gameplay systems and the combat is satisfying.

He is lost in cyberspace.

Movement is not back. Last BF games I’ve played are BF1 and BF5, and I preferred the more fluid movement in 5.

Looks ok, but sorta just reminds me I need to play Deadlock more.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

I actually think in 5D so it’s really painful for me.

If only it was 3D, but everything else looks really interesting.

But that enables their anti-cheat to run at kernel level, and that is a large vulnerability.

No problem. Haha just saw my “punishers” instead of “publishers” typo lol.

The #1 thing I don’t like about Steam is the forced updates. They do at least still give devs a way to offer multiple versions but most of the big publishers don’t do it.

Never heard of this one, looks cool.

My current favorite is Tetris Plus, the versus mode with the little professor guy trying to get the treasure while a spiked ceiling keeps falling is fun. When one player fills 2 or more lines it adds random junk to the other player’s board.

That’s too bad, I would have played it. It was better than some of the shows.

The original Ghost Recon games in the 1990s and early 2000s were first person and more outdoor/wilderness oriented than Rainbow 6.

The latest 2, Wildlands and Breakpoint, are third person but still great games.

A lot of people like myself complained about the third person. So this is giving the OG hardcores what they want, could be a good thing in spite of Ubisoft.

I just finished it coop. Really nice looking game with fun combat both melee and guns. The plot went off the rails, and the game was rather short but I really enjoyed the zombie fighting part and sightseeing in LA.

What is the collateral on a digital product purchase?

That made me curious. Firefox + Ublock Origin just a wall of text in a pop-up. I hit the X and it didn’t bother me further.

My view is if you don’t like a distribution platform taking 20-30% of the sale then don’t use that distribution platform. It’s a free market and a free internet. Use Epic, GOG, or host it yourself

If I don’t like what Comcast charges I don’t do a class action lawsuit.

The aesthetic of Starfield is excellent. The planets are beautiful but you can only access one small square of surface at a time. The ship flight and navigation is simplistic but the combat and boarding is fun. In fact I can’t really think of a better game for ship boarding.

But overall Starfield somehow is less than the sum of its parts.

This sort of thing seems to happen far too often since Microsoft took over.

Yeah looks similar to Divinity Original Sin 2. I installed a camera mod on that so I could get lower and closer, but that of course caused some weirdness in the skybox.

It’s always amusing to me when a game has a huge download size but is also an overhead view game and you probably can’t even get the camera close enough to the world objects to see the full texture detail.

I can’t imagine waiting in a queue to play a single player game.