I play the “What’s that black dot on the wall and is it moving?” game.

Very fun until one actually starts moving.

Another expansion? I thought it was a sequel. Ah well. Maybe

The second game is why I’d rather wait for a good deal on a full package of the first.

checks price … Perhaps.

I think I’m going to get the base Grim Dawn. A complete package might drop eventually for a good price though, so I’m undecided.

A shame Paradox games are DLC/subscription farms. It just ain’t worth getting invested.

Overall still, I’ll probably browse in hesitation and buy nothing in the end.

Of all the good games hoarded by EA, I only bought Dragon Age Origins, on GOG.

And despite the low prices, i ain’t touching the Mass Effect series as long as they’re rooted like this.

Just because I’ve got nothing to hide doesn’t mean I’m an exhibitionist.

That Pathfinder Kingmaker was long as hell. Not sure i want to start the sequel until I’m good and ready for another pleasant slog.

Meh. Played beta, played f2p when it started and played again early this year.

Unless you’re subscribed, the story ain’t worth the many artificial locks in gameplay.

Found a clip with a message from the devs to the naysayers:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yMlKJGKyoCo

It’s been some time, but if I remember right, you can spend a few hours in character creation alone just trying to understand all the different selections. And if I’m not mistaken, the factions hostile to you might change depending on which path is taken.

There were biological mutation, cybernetic enhancements and psychic powers. And I think they restrained each other similar to Arcanum’s magic vs technology. Or maybe that was just wishful thinking on my part.

And the controls are a class of their own. It should be easier if you’ve played other games that use the entire keyboard, but there are a lot of shortcuts to learn.

If you go in casually, you will die to the first hostile mob that sees you. I know I did.

Tried it in the past. It’s complex. Lots of stuff to do, but I couldn’t get into it overall. If the demo is still available, I’d recommend going for it first.

Yay.

Having not played it, I’ll stick to using a review I read in the past few days.

To sum it up, the game felt too positive to the reviewer. To them it felt more like a Disney adventure than a grim fantasy world that’s invaded by malevolent, torture-happy evil gods. They felt no bite from their choices, from the story or from their companions. Everything felt like it needed to be happy in some way, like the idea of conflict was a far more terrible outcome than being skullfucked by an angry tentacle god lady.

To sum it up even further, the game felt too safe. And so became a bland meal that’s easily forgettable.

La-la-la-larian!

Fun (probably) fact. Warzone players complained almost constantly about the lack of audio quality. It was an issue that only got worse with each “season”. So now that this happens, I can see why.

“Hey players, you complained and we listened! Now pay the fuck up!”

Alright. 10 minutes then. Joking of course.

Truth is, some people can afford to look back at a project, think " I can do better", actually do it and then screw it up in completely new and different ways. It happens.

Maybe they just want to sell the game again by adding a shitty 5 minute mod to it.

Tl;DR: It was Rob Pardo’s fault. Absentee father who kept saying no, but offered zero alternatives.

Non-blaming TL;DR: Titan would have been Concord before Concord happened. Blizzard dodged a bullet by cancelling it and making Overwatch instead.

Which makes Concord a weird “Holy shit! Glad that wasn’t us!” for Blizzard.

Not just Nintendo. That PS jailbreak dude is still suffering from the lawsuit Sony threw at him over a decade ago. And so is Sony, but that one is well deserved, unlike the former.

Going eco is all the rage, so probably tree fiddy.

Apparently it might be what happens when they’re trying to extract every bit of wealth possible before crushing it into nothingness and then moving on to the next parasitized host.

I call hijinx and shenanigans! Look at OPs nickname! This is exactly the type of game they’d be into based solely on that.

Some other article said it simpler. If the game launched for free and they focused on microtransactions for skins, they’d be one of the live service games that brings in the money.

Atlas Reactor. It was fun.

I look at sales. steamdb, isthereanydeal etc. And if something stands out, I look for details.

So it wasn’t the bugs that went unfixed for about 20 of their “seasons”, the cheaters that kept at it for years without being discovered and willingly showed their stuff after giving up the game for good, the report system being almost entirely placebo, nor their so-called events being the Mobile gacha “give us money to win this dumbass recolor in paint” type, but the battle pass being split in two that got “gamers” to pile on the negative reviews?

Pathetic. We really are a bunch of simpletons.

Not me. Each had its charm.

Heroes of Might and Magic - the originals. Mostly 3, but any from 1 to 5 can do it.

6 and upwards, it’s just pure Ubisoft enshitification. Can’t even play them properly anymore due to the online component having shutdown its service.

https://imgur.com/well-bang-okay-FTHf3AP

Ck3 with the plague mechanics does this. The base game has some default settings that absolutely wrecks everything once plagues get going and only having the DLC can change those settings.

Well, if you think about it, they might want to do a Daggerfall with thousands of nondescript villages and dungeons, powered by AI.

If it doesn’t have Blackjack and Hookers, then it’s a shitty clone.

If the words on the internet are to be believed, GOG’s been running at a loss all this while, with papa Witcher covering the costs. Maintaining a large library of games is expensive.

A thread of the problem is likely the publisher/developer conflict of interest. When the two can’t come to an agreement, the end result usually fails horribly in both aspects.

Neat stuff.

That part’s wild to me, when people are like “This villain in your story seems to have said and done bad things? So that means you agree with them, yes?” No! Of course not! It’s the literal villain in the story, man!

But there is no utilitarian point of art. It exists to express ideas and to tell truth. I think maybe a lot of people get upset because from their point of view, they are paying money, and they have this relationship where it’s like “If it’s not giving me what I wanted out of this transaction, then it’s bad.”

One person’s trash, another person’s treasure. Bargain hunters don’t care.

Maybe you claimed it as booty and then forgot. Or maybe I claimed it as booty and then forgot.

My problem with it is that EA is toying with adding ads in their games, so I don’t wanna wake up to a sudden update promoting sexy Milfs in my area on Citadel billboards.

Also, Andromeda is also discounted at 85% for about the same ~6€/$.

Technically, it is private. As in privately shared. Not just anyone can get your data. It’s a select club. Other than the employees handling it, it’s mostly pay per view.

Tbh, I did blindly vote for games I recognized or looked good in the screenshots/videos.