I believe Sony owns the Helldivers IP, so they may not have had much choice in the matter.

Yes thankfully, been having fun the past few nights!

Also swapping the .dll file trick worked before the patch to get me a few games on monday

Oh that’s good to hear, hopefully this weekend won’t be too bad. I did manage to get in a few times last weekend, but with matchmaking completely not working I didn’t really want to play by myself anyway.

How is it currently with USA peak times?

Since the first patch this week I’ve had no issues getting in, but I am in Oceania so I’m probably not playing at the peak times.

I haven’t gone past ‘Challenging’ difficulty yet, but the friendly fire makes for some funny antics. Fighting against the robots feels quite different to the bugs too, it can make it feel like a different game.

DRG is great too, although haven’t played it in quite awhile.

I’m enjoying Helldivers 2. I’m too old for competitive games and love a good PvE co-op game.

It’s a little grindy to unlock weapons and stratagems, but feels about the same as the first game

What’s the point of Denuvo on an always online live service game?

I was incredibly tempted to pre-order Starfield. Everything about it should be right up my alley. I love Sci-fi, space and all things related. But I learned my lesson after pre-ordering Diablo 4. I decided to try out the pirated version shortly after release and was so disappointed and glad I didn’t buy it. I dropped it after a few hours and had no desire to play it after that.

Also coming into it straight after playing Baldur’s Gate 3 made it look so dated. The plastic doll looking NPC’s and animations, boring dialogue and writing. I’m not even that into fantasy/D&D type settings and BG3 drew me in for many hours.

I really hope someone makes a game as good as BG3 but set in space, similar to Mass Effect etc.

I really liked the climbing mechanic. Sadly I had to stop after about an hour. Something about the FOV or camera was giving me intense motion sickness, but otherwise a really nice game.

I think it’s highly dependent on the player. I’m not a completionist in any sense, I mainly play games to have fun. I stop playing them when I stop having fun. I’ve put down games after a few hours and I’ve played some for hundreds of hours.

The gameplay loop in that sense is important whether it remains fun and keeps me coming back. Time is short as you get older and I guess I don’t really care about beating games.

I would love a Chaos Theory remake/remaster!