It’s not you, I’m probably on the opposite spectrum, being overly pessimistic. I’m not criticising this acquisition in particular and you’re right, we can’t know how this will go ; it’s more of a jab at the industry as a whole : a lot of new releases are advertised as being made by ex devs of whatever studio was once praised, and turn out to be ersatz of the original material (Back 4 Blood, Stormgate, Kerbal Space Program…). This kind of marketing is super disingenuous!

Can you believe this headline? I have this weird feeling where the video game industry now only presents itself as former of former of… Everyone is referred to as their past roles, there’s no present or future anymore, just looking back at what we had and pretending to offer something similar

Return of the Obra Dinn is similar in that you may even want to have a notebook with you, but the experience is so worth it

I finally decided to go further than the elevator in MGS, so probably that, and hopefully follow up with the whole franchise (i only played mgs5 for about 5 hours).

I also started playing Black Book, interesting deck building game !

Oh yes, I played it last year, it moved me so much, it felt like what video games have best to offer as an art medium

No worries, I’ll keep it in mind, thanks !!

FOR ROCK AND STONE !

I just started playing Potionomics (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1874490/Potionomics/), and I’m loving it, chill and easy to pick up but with some depth, the animation and art is great

It’s a great game, and very healthy when it comes to fomo (it’s non existent you can pick previous battle passes and make progress on them, there’s many systems for unlocking new stuff…). The only downside of starting “late” is that you have everything to unlock, which may feel overwhelming, while I only had to unlock new cosmetics and gear upgrades as they were introduced over time (been playing since early access).

Also the whole game is designed around coop, anything you do will help your teammates, people are very chill so didn’t be afraid to join random lobbies, but if you’d rather play alone you’ll have a dedicated flying robot to help you out!

This is me, Destiny 2 has about 1000 more from when it was on Battle.Net. I’m planning to completely stop playing DRG once i hit 100 hours as I’ve pretty much finished the game (almost max level on all classes and unlocked every cosmetics).

Oh yeah coop was my favourite, the difficulty always felt right

From that list :

• Keep talking and nobody explodes: incredible fun with friends, even better if the help has the documents physically printed, there’s this magic that happens when you frantically search for the right page and try to keep calm
• Titanfall 2 : worth it just for the campaign, I don’t know about the state of multiplayer anymore (servers are back i think, no more need for a custom client), I last played it last year, people were understandably sweaty, movement and gameplay is unparalleled
• Vermintide 2 : in its best state ever it seems, hours of fun and great challenges, interesting mods for qol and to add to the game’s longevity, I dream of when Darktide will reach that point- Firewatch : nice story, beautiful art direction, ending is “controversial” in that it is kind of abrupt with little payoff, but the journey is great, imo a really good walking simulator
• Metro Exodus : superb open world, great conclusion to the series, pays off even more if you read the book, day night cycle, each map feels handmade given the amount of details, best “skewmorphic” interface in games

Edit : fuck me i edited my comment and accidentally deleted the paragraph about Firewatch, tldr beautiful art direction

GOOD I will never forgive them for the sunsetting bs they pulled after delivering forskaren

I can think of a workaround if you’re in the mood to tinker :

In your profile settings, navigate to the featured showcase tab, you may be able to select Steam Replay (and probably the year too). If you save and go back to look at your profile page, it should appear, and you’ll be able to click on it for all the details

Edit : it looks like this

It was featured on the front page of the store but now that the winter sale started it might have been pushed out, try checking on your profile page, it might be there, or in the steam menus

When would you say is a better time ?

It’s a gem, my personal goty for 2023, it’s so much fun contained in a rhythm game, it feels like overcooked meets guitar hero

I do think the price is too much and is dragging the game down

Here’s my recap

This issue would be solved / non existent if matchmaking was not the only option for playing online game, which wouldn’t be an issue if publishers stopped being so greedy and predatory when it comes to player retention, which wouldn’t be an issue if the economic system we live in didn’t promote this toxic behaviour.

So yeah, kernel based anticheats are mostly just a symptom of a larger problem, the rotten video games industry

It’s starting to feel like the most disappointing fall off since Hazard

Roguelike/lite especially feels overused and saturated nowadays it’s annoying

No worries, I deliberately played HL1 first so that I could revisit it with Black Mesa, I felt like it was still important to experience the source material

Excellent listw thank you for the links!!

Oh yeah I forgot to mention them, I absolutely love the metro series, I actually read metro 2033 before discovering there was a game about it haha, never played the Redux versions though, thanks for the idea !!

Hahaha well I have all of HL2’s achievements to complete

Thanks! I knew of their existence but didn’t know if they were worth it, I think I’ll play them a bit later because at some point I was really struggling with the pacing of HL1

Katana Zero did it for me

Infinite forest for Destiny 2’s Halloween event did it as well

Trackmania sometimes does it

Super Hexagon too

It seems to me that the game was laughed at on release (the whole walking delivery simulator thing), and it needed time to be praised for its innovations by people, it’s really weird and I don’t have a good enough memory to remember similar change in public opinion for other games

Game of the Year : not sure yet what to pick

VR Game of the Year : Metro Awakening, I don’t have a headset but it looks like a great adaptation in the Metro franchise

Labor of Love : Deep Rock Galactic, this time for sure they’ll win 🤡

Best Game on Steam Deck : Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

Better With Friends : Helldivers 2

Outstanding Visual Style : not sure yet

Most Innovative Gameplay : not sure yet

Best Game You Suck At : Balatro

Best Sountrack : not sure yet

Outstanding Story Rich Game : not sure yet

Sit Back and Relax : Tiny Glade

We are losing reinforcements !

Citizen.

PCGamer really hates doing journalism mhm ? You have to figure out which link goes back to the actual article about the mentioned report, and then find which link directly goes to the report : https://www.adl.org/resources/report/steam-powered-hate-top-gaming-site-rife-extremism-antisemitism

The full report actually provides a lot more information and answers some legitimate questions, and other ignorant comments raised in here, there’s an entire appendix about their method and how they fine tuned an ai model to review 150+ million profile pictures / 600+ million comments

There’s also interesting info about the customization of Steam profile, which I don’t remember Steam publicly sharing :

At the time of data collection, Steam Community had 458.32 million users. Of these, 418.4 million were public profiles and 39.68 million were private profiles (even if a profile was private, there was certain related information that was publicly available).

Many of Steam Community’s 458.32 million users have not customized their accounts extensively. Only 7.4% of public profiles have a summary, Steam Community’s equivalent of a social media bio. 41.8% of profiles use Steam community’s default profile picture, making it the most common avatar on Steam, present on 191.2 million profiles.

Most Steam Community users are also not particularly active. One proxy for activity is player level, which users can increase by activities such as buying games or collecting trading cards while playing games on Steam. Among the 91.69% of Steam Community users who publicize their level, the average level is 2.8 and the median level is 0.0 (the maximum level observed was 5,001). Our detections should be interpreted with this context in mind.

I mean that’s one of life’s main lesson, right ? You can be nice, invested, do everything right, and still fail

Oh yes ! I discovered those thanks to Shut Up And Sit Down’s review, they look super fun

I only ever heard about the name, sounds super fun, thanks!

I’ve only played the demo of Darkest Dungeon 2 so no idea about the changes, I liked the cart riding segment, it’s a fun way to take breaks between battles, I’ll take a look !

I’m playing Hidden Folks (2017) on Steam Deck, to chill in the evening, it’s probably the best where’s waldo game on steam ? I don’t find the cats series at all engaging

I also reinstalled Darkest Dungeon (2016), this time for sure I will commit to it and not stop after 3 runs 🤡

I’m 10 years younger and I feel the same, granted, I still game a lot, but I find myself more excited about the ideas and potential of a game, than actually playing it.

I think it’s a normal thing, you gotta get tired of a hobby after so many years, and it’s a healthy thing to cycle it out and pick up something else, and maybe come back to it some time later

I really think they shot themselves in the feet by going from a pve online coop game like Helldivers to whatever this is trying to be, that plus the pricing chance (it was supposed to be f2p and is now 40)…

Then again, I don’t know what’s up internally, they probably know what they’re doing, it still feels like it’s not going to be popular