I also cant handle the thasolphpboa, but i did enjoy watching a streamer finish it.

Thats also a good option for those of who arent fans of the depths.

Boom shoot publishers like Apogee seem to be leaning into the free demo trend. It’s really nice. This doesnt look like it fits that genre, but what’s good for the goose i guess.

Maybe they can find another artist to rip off for a fresh new style.

Geoguesser devs opted to work with Saudi Arabia against its communities wishes. The community, who produce most of the content for the game and have full rights to it, have opted to revoke that content. By doing so, they hope to make the devs realize through economic pressure that they should opt out of this event.

If I loan you my work and labor out of goodwill and you opt to dash that goodwill, then you lose my work and labor. I believe the ancient tomes call this “fuck around and find out.”

Seems very reasonable and straight forward.

More pics are coming out. One of them has the artist’s handle in it. Original art is the yellow to the right. Whoever added it to the game intentionally smudged the name, but left enough of it to be readabale.

https://bsky.app/profile/billain.bsky.social/post/3lpafkzimqc2x

No cap fr fr

Dont take recommendations from the lord of grease, ever.

This is the guy that bold faced lied about Aliens: Colonial marines and released the sad sack of shit that was duke nukem: forever.

Yeah, I was a planned day 1 buy for Sots, but got held up and didn’t buy it early. By the time I went to get it, the blood red reviews had already washed in.

Ill be waiting on this one.

They mention his tariffs, but it’s also a bigger issue that has to do with the laws of physics hitting economics.

Nope, just that the worst is yet to come.

To reiterate this, in the US, buying anything over 5% of a public company requires public disclosure to the SEC, as it means the buyer has immense influence on that company. At that point other shareholders, i.e other owners, should know about it.

Its guitar hero style, not top down isometric, so that’s a letdown for me.

Since your concern is for his mental health and clearly not a selfish desire to get his next game right now, shouldn’t you be advocating for him to get a therapist and not a publisher?

Sure seems like taking some time off with guidance from a doctor would help him the most personally, which again, is clearly your main concern.

Except the mario at home was actually just as good as what you wanted out.

Extremely lopsided balance between factions. Most had interesting mechanics, some basically useless and some wildly overpowered. Apparently the new-ish aqua faction has an overwhelming mobility advantage, things like that.

They added these game changing titans to the game at one point that you could defeat and employ, but this was either just luck of the draw or not possible for some factions.

Combat was meh to boring, generally. The “look at us go” turn based zoom in fights were very boring to watch, and more boring to play.

The game dragged. Just dragged, to finish. I played dozens of times, and I dont think i fully finished the game more than maybe 3 times.

All that said, the games world building, plot, and overall interesting mechanics makes me hopeful for this sequel. If they can keep the fascinating lore going and fix the “game” issues, i’ll be there for it.

Its been what, 8 years since the original switch was released?

They had plenty of time to decide on a better name.

The talos principle 1 & 2. Playing through 1 now, and it’s excellent. Some of the puzzles are complex, but most can be solved in 5-10 minutes and give a nice “ah-ha!” moment. It reminds me of portal 2, but with a heavier and more ambiguous story about the nature of life and consciousness. Highly recommended.

Also been playing some Dome keeper and Peglin. Both also excellent in their own ways.

2d isometric vs 3d first person. One format clearly lets stories breathe better, but that doesn’t mean half life isn’t story driven.

Rogue tower is another great game with rogue in its name.

Fantastic tower defense.

Hes no EA, but Balatro has made him a multimillionaire.

He needs to use some of that money to sue, maybe get the orgs that are fighting gambling/microtransactions onboard.

They do stuff like that, and honestly its not clear of its stupid, a rip off, or a desperation play.

Back when super monday night combat was about to die due to an insular player base and some actual light but real P2W aspects they introduced an opt in gpu bitcoin miner that gave you credits towards in game skins. This was back when bitcoin was like $600, and just starting to look like a thing, if a very stupid one. They were also selling some of their premium skins for $30, which was insane back in the 2010s.

The above was met with heavy mockery and nearly zero uptake from the community, and the whole game, which was a very rad and unique arena shooter, ended shortly after.

They didnt issue a DMCA takedown request, which has a legally prescribed back and forth for removing copyrighted, or assumed copyrighted material.

They instead told the registar itch.io was committing phishing/fraud crimes. The registar clearly knee jerked on being told the domain was engaged in illegal acts, but it was Funko and their vendor Brandshield that lied about that in the first place.

And yet Blackwater has renamed itself again and again.

Apparently there is a “whoops, too much” level of villainy, even for villain factories.

I have no doubt that there were “drug lord” amounts of drugs around 80s David Bowie.

Its something of a mystery game. You wake up in an unfamiliar place and have a nebulous goal.

Letting the clues of the story build is a big part of the experience.

You can still customize it, but it has hard minimum at what I think is $7. The old humble had no minimum at all. They also deceptively set the “default” cost 1 tier above the actual “get all the items” cost for bundles. A very irritating and obvious dark pattern.

Just IGN brutalizing a beloved name in gaming via enshittification to make its money back.

They sold to IGN a few years ago.

It was also when they introduced a $7 minimum humble tip for the bundles.

Its currently in the humble choice bundle with 7 other games for $12.

Titan Quest is an older aRPG with mythological god vibes. Same folks who did grim dawn.

A sequel is also in the works.

I’m glad they are going to take the DLC from the alpha state they released it in to an actual product people will want to buy.

They should have done that before they started selling it, especially for such a beloved franchise, but at least they are willing to go the cyberpunk route and actually fix the broken game they released.

They have still burned a lot of goodwill. I was planning on a day 1 purchase, but got caught up at work and ended up seeing the terrible reviews first, thank fuck. I sure won’t be buying this until it’s done, and I’ll wait on all future DLC too, if they happen.

This is far from a one off. He does fucked up shit like this constantly, for years. He’s made millions from the controversy.

I doubt hes done.

You have to mock the liars and the strongmen at least sometimes, because if you don’t they flood the zone with their shit and it just consumes the culture.

Apparently it has lots of game breaking bugs, a terrible ui, and they recently fired the entire dev team?

Watch out.

Apparently it has lots of game breaking bugs, a terrible ui, and they recently fired the entire dev team?

Watch out.

Looks like they didn’t back that data up correctly, or don’t have the granularity to just do the guild banks and would have to restore over wider systems.

I’m also betting they are watching players metrics and not seeing many people quit or cancel over this, so they are just going to see if it quietly goes away instead of doing any hard work go fix it.

Fuck yeah. Awesomenauts was a side scrolling moba whose art was a love letter to Saturday morning cartoons. It was weird as fuck, but also fun as fuck.

The devs did something unique and cool, and supported it way past when it was probably financially a good idea to drop it. That’s a group of people that care about their craft.

I updated the above with some links. This is spec’ed solidly for around that price:

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/dLgXsY/modest-intel-gaming-build

I personally prefer AMD to Intel at this point, but it’s a touch pricerer right now:

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/yhwrxr/modest-amd-gaming-build

Either one will work great, but the $1200 rig is where I would recommend if you can swing it. It’s the best bang for your buck, and will stay a solid gaming rig for 4-5 years, longer if you like indies:

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/PCWG3C/great-amd-gaming-build

100% the right choice. For the around the same $700 a playstation pro costs, you can get something good. If you can pony up around $1000, you can get something great.

You’ll make the cost difference up in game price savings in no time. Shit is legitimately cheap, especially if you’re in no hurry.

Isn’t it rad that Sony designed the ps5 to have easily replaceable side panels and then for some reason only releases the really cool panels as part of a full console?

Seablock

Beannnsss…