I’ll see you Best RPG and raise you a Best Independent and Best Debut Indie.

They have a publisher that funded them with hedge fund money and outsourced aspects of the production to entirely different companies. I’m not making a comment on the quality of the game, but how is that indie?

Because it was a joke.

The games have tutorials built in. There’s levels of advice you can turn up or down. Seriously, just play the game and you’ll learn as you go.

A key feature here seems to be the ability to create wishlists and gift to friends. So, if you play Marvel Rivals and want a skin, a friend who you have on Discord but doesn’t play Marvel Rivals at all could buy it for you as a gift. Kinda cool, actually. I have many friends on Discord but don’t necessarily play all the same games as them.

Never did finish Returnal, need to get back to it. Was a lot of fun just kinda fell off of it. This looks pretty cool.

Hmm, a voice actor he is not.

Reminds me more of The Last Guardian than Ico. Seems like the companion will be helping you solve puzzles and such.

never heard of the guy

Director behind some of the best RPGs of all time. Baldur’s Gate 2, KotOR, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, Jade Empire.

SOMA is one of the best video games ever made. Very excited for this.

Thanks for sharing, hadn’t heard of it. Looks stylish as fuck.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is too slow paced imho for what you’re looking for.

Both GTA5 and Just Cause 3 (or 4) are genuinely good picks for what you’re after.

I’ve absolutely seen people who like 3 more than NV. Hell, I might be among them.

That would just be even more dull imho. The combat was already incredibly janky. The only thing that gave it any dynamic was needing to utilize all your tools.

Honestly never clicked with witcher 3. The characters and world are great but the gameplay was so incredibly dull.

The article is using it because FitGirl uses it.

Is it just video gaming or is tabletop gaming included?

Why is it barely usable outside of gaming?

“more expensive” really is underselling it. It’s out of control. Some kits have tripled.

I have hopes that a lifetime of playing video games is going to help keep my mind sharp in old age. I seem to recall reading a study to that effect some time ago.

Reason that the Stop Killing Games initiative is important number… What are we on now?

The PS5 triggers are so dope. I love when a game supports them.

I watch it.

Yeah not sure that one holds up. I’m happily on Linux now, but permissions are something that often creep up and I need to sudo often.

Grrroooossss, noooo I liked you Square Enix in spite of everything else.

Good lord that is bad.

Wouldn’t you be playing Sierra games from the 90s in ScummVM whether you were on Linux or Windows anyway?

Gabe’s deification has always been disturbing to me. There are no good billionaires.

Gross.

Do you have specific examples of games that didn’t work for you?

This was a genuine concern to me before my switch. I game a lot and this was a main thing keeping me back.

I eventually decided, well I’ll at least dual boot and can just switch to Windows if I want to play a game there.

But that kinda turned out to be a pain in the ass. Things like Bluetooth devices would need to be switched each time (I know there are ways around this, don’t @ me), and more.

So… I just stopped using Windows to avoid that annoyance. And it turns out I don’t miss the games I could only play on Windows that much, because I haven’t booted into Windows in months. I’m fact I’m not really sure why I still have the partition.

Tl:dr just do it.

Ah, but then how will I use Microsoft Teams?

That is kind of wild to me because Souls game are some of the most free-form action games I know. You can often tackle areas in an order of your choice, use a build of your choice, even kill NPCs if you so please.

Already played Cairn demo a while ago but it’s the one game I’m probably looking forward to the most right now.

Class traitor? Seriously? Come on man.

Playing Hades 2 on desktop, Hollow Knight on deck, and Anno 117 is coming out in a month… Not to mention the five other games I added to my backlog this year and haven’t touched yet.

I will be skipping this sale, methinks.

I play games of many varieties, and didn’t care for AC Origins either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I really wanted to like this game. I wanted to so bad. I can acknowledge many of its pros, and I can understand why many people like it.

But everything is so. Fucking. Slow. And every mission is “hold A to ride your horse for a long time and then do a small amount of actual action, if you’re lucky”.

Yo this looks really cool.

I don’t think I’d actually say it’s my favourite, but the opening cinematic/menu song for Dragon’s Dogma is pretty nostalgic for me. And kinda became a meme in the games hardcore community fanbase.

🎶 The wind is pushing meeee 🎶

This may be the most technically disastrous launch since Cyberpunk.