I don’t see any horse balls physics in your list.

Utterly unplayable.

Cartridge manufacturing and distribution was hella expensive back then and that took a big bite on any sales.

Digital storefronts do take as well their lion share though, but that’s on sales.

Oh, let me check. True, you just uninstalled it.

Sad :(

Keep google maps though.

Rejoice children of Nod! For our time has arrived.

EVERYONE!

Scarlet Hollow is a game that started being developed by 2021 and it is still being told by episodes with the last episode on hold since 2022. They did release a game between episodes, but then again it’s a very large game with lots and lots of narrative branches.

Then I saw this: Note: The last update made by the developers was over 19 months ago. The information and timeline described by the developers here may no longer be up to date.

I would say yes but no, it is an incomplete game that gets very slow and gradual updates but it is definitely not abandoned by any terms: The developers release updates and news in a yearly basis and it seems to be continued alas in a glacial pace.

This feels like while this feature will be helpful to avoid early access unloved and discarded games, it will also be punishing those developers that release games as a part-time job, work on very small teams (or solo), or do complex and challenging projects.

Forbidden Siren 2 vibes here.

Should I play the first game before starting this one?

Artificial scarcity.

I receive: Your next paycheck

And all the power your house can provide without buring down*.

So… You’re saying to buy?

And they probably had to sweat blood and tears to get there, because the videogame industry is a harsh mistress.

My game is not poorly optimized, it is just made for future PCs.

Nemo’s War is an outstanding solo game, probably one of the best, both tematically and in how much life it has.

As a cooperative though, it is a quite complex game that make it teaching a bit of an ordeal (IMO). So joining someone’s play makes you feeling as if you were dragged along an old sea captain through the complexities of a highly technical submarine.

It needs a first slide where they explain how the play and pause button works and what an index is.

Sometimes I feel that these videos are for some unfrozen cavemen that are trying to fit our modern world of corporate wonders.

I mean, there’s already a British Fallout mod that’s maybe even better-ish than the last two entries.

So a hundred hours more to factorio?

No, not again, I didn’t have time to play all the stuff I bought on last one…

Pretty awesome hack to extend life on devices that are otherwise meant to become e-waste. Kudos!

zug zug

Epic is in stage 1 of enshittification. They will offer a great deal (at their economic expense) to capture users and providers.

Have at you!

The sanctity of this place has been fouled.

Bzzzt

“Indika, a nun looking to adjust to a monastic life. The twist in the tale comes in the form of her companion: she has a connection with the Devil himself”

Oh wow, with that summary count me in!

One of the most egregious cases for me was Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. There was stuff for 40 hours aplenty, yet I spent most of those 40 hours killing the same goons over and over but with a different number over their heads, which meant I needed to spent more time in doing so.

If they had just aimed at making a memorable 30 or so hours, it would have been way better. This experience made me stop playing any Assassin’s whatever games.

Opposite to this, there was “Still Wakes the Deep”, which is a rather short but plentiful game.

Thank you for the leg work on looking what it is and then replying, thinly remarking that I could have googled it instead ;)

Iirc Death Stranding relied a lot in interactions between players on a persistent world. I’m not sure if that would really work on a pirated version…

What’s osrs?

Lucas Pope does truly love black and white games.

The Obra dinn was fantastic though.

I do have a recommendation for a cozy FPS: The Signal from Tolva.

Basically you’re a robot in an old robot battlefield planet and you’ve got to shoot other robots, sometimes team up with other robots and go around getting upgrades.

The coziness comes from the environment, which has some strong outworldliness vibe and it feels slightly lonely but in a “journey” way. Plus the guns feel good and it’s probably really cheap right now.

The cons is that the game doesn’t feel finished, after a while it gets repetitive and then it just ends.

If I had to describe it, I would say it’s an FPS+walking simulator.

“Generation Zero” would be my second recommendation, which is a mixture of Red Dawn, Swedish 80s and big robots.

Note: I haven’t played them except for the 2nd entry, but the Far Cry series feels like it is a mixture between FPS and holiday island.

JASON!! Thanks.

Is this game worth playing? I like adventures but Heavy Rain was a chore.

So they fixed the DDOT?

I think the open source angle is slightly incidental: They saw Apple’s and Microsoft app stores as a threat and decided using linux as the OS for their devices. That’s at least what I’ve read a long time ago.

Yep, I also think so. My comment was mostly on an old interview he explained about dropping out the Sid Meyer’s part on new titles.

Crunch made sense then when all employees more or less owned the company.

I also like the fact that Sid Meier was never on board with having his name sticked on every product but the publishers pushed him to do so because of people like Peter Molyneux.

I remember well going for a quest, seeing a cave and then falling through a rabbit hole into a death cult while being a laughably underpowered magician.

It felt closer to what I commonly experience with D&D than other games, mostly due to the combination of freedom and curated world.

That said, yes combat was dull, uninspired and probably the weakest part of the series.

The best they made, for me, was Morrowind.

While I enjoyed the rest of entries and I’m very fond of the Shivering Isles, IMO it was the originality of it, its story and art, but also the freedom it granted.

My advice would be to go back to that time and instead of massive places, just build a fun place to explore.

What’s up with the biker jacket?