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…

I read it more like they did well, but after a decade making the same game in a couple of iterations, they just want to be done. So sell the company, make 10x what you could running it, and just head on out.

Yeah…that changes the numbers. More like 10-20 years to do just about anything.

Somehow the urgency just drains right out of this for me.

Didn’t they make 10-100s millions of dollars on this? Pays a lot of salaries while you make new paid content.

EDIT : They made at least 12 million sales on steam, and had 7 million players on Xbox, which may be Gamepass, but still makes them money.

So at $30, that’s 66million from steam minus 30% for steams cut, so they banked 44 million at least.

They can pay 440 devs 100k for at least a year. I assume their team is a bit smaller than that, so they likely have years of runway. Linkedin lists size as between 50-200 in japan, so that likely means they are making $50-70k, and there are likely more than 100 devs. I would guess they have a 4 year runway from Steam sales, and maybe 1-2 year from Gamepass.

They got some time to think.

Yeah, I was going to say it’s bad timing, but it’s always bad timing here.

Yeah they worked on the last DLC, which was really good. I think they mainly were involved in the level design though, which even this DLC has down well.

It’s just everything else that makes a game being fucked. No idea why the original devs/designers weren’t aquirehired and kept onboard. Maybe they didn’t like what ol’ Randy had planned.

They apparently rewrote a lot of the code for unclear reasons.

But why?

Basically can say that about the movie too.

“Because we want to” seems to be the reason, and that good enough.

Kind of disappointing honestly. I never played chef in the original, and this video just looked dull.

I’ll still go in on it day one just for the other content, but I was hoping for more.

Why did they forbid talking about stuff that isn’t about the game? Why do they need to talk about this stuff?

The game studio brought this up, not the reviewers. The reviewers are just pointing out that the devs are clearly woke obsessed piss babies that can’t not talk about politics, even when it doesn’t have anything to do with their game.

Thanks for naming it. OP posting an obscure screenshot with no title or information was pretty clickbaty.

Check out mullvad for a vpn. Not the cheapest, but immensely good and ethical. They have been audited and walk the walk.

They shifted it from a $0 minimum to $7.50.

That’s more than keeping the lights on money, as the old humble was doing that just fine without any mandatory amount. Even taking into account taht they want to pay off their fresh purchase, IGN is gouging.

It doesnt help either that the charity slider is always set to a minimum now. It used to be evenly weighted, but now it’s weighted about 45%/45% IGN and the vendor, with maybe 10% to the charity by defualt. You have to click through a hidden menu to fix it.

I haven’t bought it yet, as it’s not a game style I normally enjoy. I’ve heard so many positive things that I will likely buy it at some point though, just not near full price.

I expect im not alone here, and that the long tail will be long indeed for this one.

So far it appears he was a loner, with no real life friends. From the public information, it looks like he didn’t do much online socializing either.

There is no indication he was using any kind of privacy tools like a vpn/etc either to carry on an anonymous online social life.

By all accounts, he just didn’t talk to other people at all. The possible “major depression” diagnosis may explain that lack.

Agreed. I use isthereanydeal.com to make a list of what I want and just get it from the cheapest vendor when it hits the target range im looking for.

With some many legit steam key resellers now, games are almost always on deep sales after the first 3 months or so.

Planet crafter is supposed to have solid multiplayer if you like satisfactory style build/resource games.