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I don’t care if it is the fucking Half Life 3 in the flesh. If a game uses some short of AI I will never buy it.


Does the base game have improved since it launched? I played for 8 hours at Game pass around 4-5 months after launch and had to stop playing because it was so broken. Game looked interesting but performance was ridiculously bad, NPC would span out of thin air, regular foes were bullet sponges, there were situation with infinite enemy respawn, etc.



Yeah, i know, I also don’t care about them but they are funny little statistical facts, like “only 20% of the people that played this game beated the tutorial” or “45% of the players didn’t play past the first chapter”.


I see your squeezing through cracks and raise a long press a button to do an action. Jesus, if the action needs a certain amount of time to complete, and 99% of times it doesn’t, just make a freaking animation while at it instead of making me press a damn button for 2 seconds.


So that’s why almost nobody finish their games, according to Steam achievements?


You are forgetting the €5000 graphic card you’ll need to access these coveted features.



It was a matter time for AI slop to came to videogames. But the solution is rather easy, just don’t buy those games.


That’s the idea, but you need to pay for the game first so that MS can enjoy it.


He, i couldn’t play on my PS4 at night because it sounded like a hair dryer at max power. Fully disassembling, cleaning and repasting will fix it for a couple of weeks, maybe three, then a jet engine again. My PC is dead quiet.


I mean, if the whole industry came to a stop tomorrow we still have hundreds of great (I’m talking about 8-10/10 games, not just good ones) games. And that is without resorting to emulation or replaying games.


The game has Denuvo, for anyone interested.


Tried the demo and it was kinda meh. The few action parts where rather static and too many interruptions in the form of “do this, do that” made it worse. Maybe the vertical slice they choose for the demo was bad but, just in case, I removed it from my wishlist for the time being.


They are marketing shenanigans, they always have been. Those who care about them are the people who are sensible to such marketing tactics.


Not a dev myself but at my workplace we have a big AF signal reading: “DO NOT PUSH TO PROD ON FRIDAY”.



They won’t sell more consoles because of this decision and they won’t get the PC money either. As for me, I’m fine with it. Better developers and published have fallen so far and yet we still have great games to play.


Marathon next? Place your bets ladies and gentlemen!



I like playing Sony games on PC from time to time but it they don’t release anything more on PC that is OK too, I have plenty of other stuff to play anyway.



Nothing too groundbreaking and relatively short but still had a great time with it. It has been on Game pass for a while, not sure if still will be available there.


I played the demo and it was great (except for the forced “cinematic” 21:9 aspect ratio). However I played it at 240 FPS, so not sure what you mean by “lower framerate”.


Hopefully they listen and add a toggle to disable the forced 21:9 aspect ratio. Otherwise I’ll wait until I have an actual 21:9 monitor.




Last game I paid over €20 was Remnant from the ashes 2, and it was €50 with a whole year of DLC content included. Most of the games announced this week like the sequel to Kena, will buy when they are €20 too. You get the game at a fair price AND actually finished.



I didn’t get to play the original and is not clear to me what the game is about from watching the trailer. What should I expect? An RPG,a survival game? Is it story based, or maybe more of a sandbox open world style?


Understandable, have around 100 games from Epic… Haven’t paid a dime tough.



In my case it was the opposite. Doom was ok-ish and Duke Nukem blew my mind, the fact that you could move the camera around with the mouse, it was like wow, this is the future. Haven’t played them since so not sure which one will hold better now.


Oh, but this game is also single player, right? I remember playing the demo and wishlisting it because is was so satisfying the movement and the shooting. Is still single player o has it evolved to mainly multiplayer?


Been on the fence for this game for a while but not too sure what it’s about exactly. From what I gather it has a part that is pure roguelike combat, something similar to Hades, and there is another management part where you grow your community. It’s that so? Is the combat fun and satisfying like in Hades or is more like a filler?


For what I gathered the game was fine but very short on the content side of things. For me the lack of a solo mode it what killed it.


It looks exactly what I’m looking for plus it looks lot of fun. Thank you!


Yup, although las time I played was like 30 years ago or so. Lotta fun! I would like to try one of the new one but don’t know where to start.


Thank for the thoughtful answer! Kind of sad to all that FOMO in every single AAA game. Will wait for a demo and see.



Modern games with Abuse-like controls scheme?
Hi everyone! Yesterday I was checking the demo of Acrolyte, a pixel art metroidvania. The think I liked the most was the controls scheme, it was like the old game Abuse, keyboard for movement and mouse for aiming. So my question is, do you know any other modern (or not as modern) games that are similar? As in side scroller where you aim with the mouse. Doesn't matter if it is 2D, 2.5D or pixel art. Cheers!
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