Guild Wars 2

Almost 5k hours of FFXIV, nothing else I can check even comes close (LoL from my teenage years might win, but who knows).

Have a look at steam reviews then ponder how people would use it

Guess I’m OOL. What non-competitive games have kernel anti-cheat?

Pretty cool iteration, hopefully.

Cultist Simulator is most fun when you really know nothing about the game and you stumble into things.

Poorly received games with tons of other venues of monetization outside the box price.

Summoner class going to eat good. Guess I’ll do another playthrough of terraria.

Considering the woman being harassed explicitly stated that the harassment she received was mainly misogynistic in nature, no. It very much is relevant to the situation.

Waiting for the free-speech absolutists to boycott twitch for this (they won’t)

For a new player sword and shield is the easy mode. Magic tends to make you squishy, and if you aren’t great at not dying getting your souls to the spell merchants is rough (if even know how to do their quests)

So what are these easy anti-cheat solutions that can detect aim-hacking?

No one is forced to do achievements to enjoy a game. I understand achievement hunting, but since they can easily be cheated (on steam at least) it really is only a personal goal. If you are not enjoying one just forget about it.

I just want Demon’s Souls on PC

Yes, not only many people still play the same games for 10 years, but also spend most of their gaming time in them. There’s a reason why a new live service game is both a gold mine and also incredibly difficult to stick.

For every streamer that makes minimum wage there are dozens that make so little they don’t even get paid.

Seems about right. CSGO skin gambling was all the rage 10 years ago.

As unlikely as it is, it would be interesting if FFXIV was a Switch 2 launch title

Although certainly similar, the fact that these games have every scene fully animated does add to it in a way that simply reading descriptions about what’s going on doesn’t.

Valve doesn’t want to make a buy to play game unless it’s something that pushes the medium forward somehow, which is the only reason Alyx was made. A PvP moba can be a source of continued revenue like all the other games they still support (and one they don’t).

Do we even know anything about the game other than the fact it’s getting made?

Your examples are of bird’s eye view games, not third person.

Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2 but not Dark Souls 3. The silver knight farm is brutal and I’d never do it again.

Higher refresh rate has great applications, but the competitive crowd swears up and down that it makes a big difference. I’ve had a 240hz monitor and I couldn’t tell any meaningful difference from my 165hz.

Guess getting the non k version had its perks afterall. Either way I’m going AMD next time I build a machine.

That’s the best part! Which is why it’s weird the game is bloated with other systems and minigames that pull you away from what shoulb be the core of it: diving.

It’s a game about diving that halfway through adds a bunch of minigames that make you not need to dive.

I mean when trash like Stray and Dave the Diver gets acclaimed as “indie” games, it’s no surprise actual indie devs are straggling.

You can just drop the sub now that it isn’t worth it.

Guess they want to make it easy for mobile devs to launch their games on steam. Not sure if there’s a market for it though.

Wait, was this heralded as some live service forever game?

Legends say one day Miyazaki Al-Gaib will grace us with a pc version with unlocked fps.

Actually From Software is pretty crappy when it comes to this sort of thing.

Still shitty. No need to defend it just because it’s valve.

Is this a franchise?

I somewhat understand what you are talking about but the buggy and poorly maintained Elite Dangerous isn’t the best example to support your argument. BG3 getting a pass on some features for the series S is exactly what other games should be able to do if it makes sense for them.

I’m thinking mostly from a fantasy angle. I’ll give some examples from the classes I play:

Warrior: lacks a spec focused on the defensive juggernaut fantasy that you infer from the class description. Hammer Spellbreaker kind of fits here but it’s a bit of a stretch of what a spellbreaker should be thematically. Also lacking is a commander/captain support spec, maybe something built around shouts and/or banners.

Elementalist: why is the only spec not about going in and smacking people in melee tempest? And even then the best weapon is the sword. There’s a reason newbs go in and try to make staff work as a ranged weapon.

Engineer: turret spec please.

Mesmer: maybe mirage kind of fits the core mesmer fantasy, but I’m not sure if the ambushes fit there. The other specs don’t really fit since it’s mostly about doing away with your clones.

It’s a shame their new format of yearly expansions doesn’t really allow them to make new elite specializations. Many professions still feel unrealized in certain ways that new weapons can’t fill.

I feel this game won’t hold its audience for long.

Oh no, I might actually have to learn regex to pull this off