I will continue claiming EGS games, and playing them through Heroic, purely out of spite to Tim Sweeney and his bullshit. He has to pay out of pocket for every license i claim, and i wont say no to that

When the two flagship titles are sports scamware, and a largely discontinued set of expansions for a dying mmo, i dont even know what to say

Can also try Shroom and Gloom when that comes out. Played the demo, loved it. Clearly very strongly inspired by StS, but in a way that none of the clones are. This one is very unique in many ways

I would always much rather take a delayed game, than a bad/unfinished one. I love StS1 so I’m glad they are giving the sequel the attention it deserves

Silksong is my main entertainment for now. Other than that, I’m playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 + its expansion again, and also getting through Factorio Space Age with a friend. A lot of fun to be had

What the fuck are we even doing at this point, as a society?

As long as medical devices are excluded, this is just a net-positive. When I was growing up, that was the normal. Now, we treat it as some heavy-handed approach. We all know that when you’re distracted by stuff on the screen, you’re just not paying attention

While you are correct, I understand what they’re trying to say.

WoW suffers massively from adding new systems every patch, that feel like a full-time job. That never made any sense to me, given that an average WoW player already spends an abnormal amount of time playing the game, but they’re trying to fomo you into logging in even more.

It all probably just comes out to corporate metrics, because the people in Microsoft/Blizzard leadership don’t play their own games

I genuinely don’t understand what all those people are doing there. Not just in Blizzard, but any other corporate studio

Correct. And the only choice from then is to continue deplatforming them even further. Bigots and abusers don’t deserve to have a voice

A fine isnt enough. This platform needs to be permanently shutdown.

This place is breeding grounds for morons, bigots, predators, and other social rejects, and it lets all of them continue thriving. By no comprehensible measure should that be normal, but somehow it is.

Would love to hear about how he’ll weasel his way out if this one

The atmosphere. The fluidity yet sharpness of combat. The emotional attachment to the story. The absolutely gorgeous level designs.

No game will be for everyone, and it’s okay if this one isn’t for you

At this point, I doubt this will happen, because they’ve purposefully sunk Dreadwolf/Veilguard into the abyss, and probably wrote the entire DA series off, as a loss, all together

• Gothic 2, and by extension, Chronicles of Myrtana
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Both are equally as monumental, so it’s shared between Obra Dinn, and Outer Wilds

That being said, i’ve excluded any mmos out of this list, purely because sometimes i struggle to call them my favorite games, despite having playing several thousand hours of each. Some of them have been unbelievably impactful at certain times in my life, but i’m afraid the embers are getting cold now

Someone from Take-two leadership said that? Are they ill with something? That’s the most sensible statement i’ve heard from them in ages

Ubislop need to be reminded that if you make a shit product, with a legally abusive EULA, no one owes you anything. You will go out of business, and we’ll applaud as your headquarters are repossessed by the real estate company

I would understand forcibly banning/removing something, if it poses a real existential threat to the majority of people.

But religion fueled bigotry, in a place where you can CHOOSE to buy and play something, or completely ignore and hide if you’d like? Come on. Adults can decide if they want to have access to this content on their own, without a completely unrelated third party constantly trying to fucking inject themselves in between

The entire complaint was based on nothing too. They claimed he’s orchestrating some crazy financial scheme, and getting paid 6 digits from it, when he’s not only doing it for free, but can’t even participate in the initiative to begin with

Japanese corporations overwork people to literal death, but at least you’re not going to be laid off 2 months into a new job. Not as big of a flex as they think it is

x as a service has always been a net negative for the consumer, and a net positive for the seller.

It strips them away from responsibility, because you can sell incomplete dogshit under a promise of future patches, or push something out for a price, and then continue raising the price, as you pump out more stuff into the system.

In the case of games specifically, we’ve all seen the typical outcomes. Low effort slop, with a flood of “micro” transactions at a later date, or complete abandonment

Having played both, the answer is definitely yes. They’re not particularly long, but really solid

I’ve really enjoyed this game, but haven’t bought the first expansion yet though. This one looks quite cool too!

This is the exact same kind of late stage denial, that Ubisoft people are going through. They didn’t make a Dragon Age game. They just made generic slop with a Dragon Age branding. All these Assassin’s Creed games after the series reboot have been experiencing the exact same treatment. With 0 doubt in my mind, if the next Mass Effect ever comes out, it’ll be like this too.

Stop supporting these people. Spend your money on something actually good, especially if it’s made by an indie dev

It would be yet another spit in the face, if they released a 80$ base game, with the typical 2 season passes, totaling almost 300$ in dlcs of questionable quality. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything, because it’s 2K and Gearbox we’re talking about

At some point, it will only be worth it, if you either finish games at an alarming rate, or play so many different games, that buying them separately would make no sense

Probably not. Steam for macOS still has no SteamPlay support, so your best bet is installing the regular Steam through a separate Heroic prefix. Works great, but it does still require Rosetta.

That said, Box64 and FEX are both making a lot of progress, so it’d be awesome to see these in action officially soon

Mass layoffs suck. Yet again it’s corporate mismanagement, at best.

But in all seriousness, what was even their role there? It’s a glorified social media platform with an occasional job application. They cant possibly need that many people

A Deck will likely be a better purchase for you. Shared library, more sales too. The Cities Skylines situation you’ve described would have been enough to make that decision for me

Play Anywhere ™️

Except for countries where we don’t allow you to

Yet again proves that capitalism is a cancer, and they’ll never be happy with anything, except for endless exponential growth

Yes. I didn’t like it nearly as much, if at all. I’ve heard mods make that game infinitely more enjoyable though, so maybe i’ll try it again some day

I fully agree with that. There are some games that are fully worth the price, even if the hours/$ isn’t quite there, but in most cases it’s not anymore

For indie and cheaper stuff specifically? The Binding of Isaac is over 1k hours between my two copies. Rimworld, Factorio, and Terraria are all close to 500h as well. If Minecraft counts as one for you, this is an outlier with roughly 4k hours since 2011.

Otherwise, I am quite into MMOs and story-rich singleplayer RPGs, so there’s a handful of them with well over several thousands of hours played too.

The amount of options isn’t the issue.

For most 25-40€ games I buy, i can get a great experience for the next 30-50 hours.

Indie games absolutely crush the statistics, where some sub-15€ roguelikes have such insane replayability, that i’ve clocked over a thousand hours into a couple. Not to mention how incredibly creative, unique, and story rich some of them are.

Meanwhile, what used to be 60€, and is now 80€+, is some “cinematic” 20fps on console slop, that you can barely get 5 hours of real gameplay out of. I don’t wanna sit there and watch a movie with an occasional A button press. Or even worse, play something like the Assassins Creed reboot, that had 500 hours of gameplay, 490 of which is just useless collectibles around the map.

So they CAN do something nice. Wish it didn’t come down to a gigantic lawsuit for them to do it though

One of the best games I have played in recent years. Finally scratched an itch that Gothic left me with for years

Unlikely to happen, because the leadership behind the project claimed they are in contact with Bethesda, to make sure no one’s stepping on anyone’s toes. Although obviously they can just pull the rug at any time, which would be catastrophic. Given that they’ve remade basically every single asset in the game, and require the original game to be owned and installed, it should be fine

Genuine question for PoE1 veterans: What is it exactly, that people want from the sequel?

With my little experience in 1, I was excited about the new gem system, and the idea of not having to deal with stacks of 20 prefixes on high-end mobs, and it seems that at least with the latter nothing has changed

Been waiting for this one for a while. Hope it ends up being fun