Terraria… you can build your own picnic (with campfire) , build a cottage with a fireplace, anything you can think of.

You can sit down on benches, chairs… and just drink ales (or sake), watch the sun, moon, lantern nights, or mod in photorealistic backgrounds, night skies…

And then you can decide to fight a boss all die to it (vanilla can be too easy, try Calamity Infernum for a challenge). It’s an amazing game.

Because that way you give relevancy to that platform, and let it take your data.

Fuck Epic, they should make better products, not give away free shit.

If they ever get any relevant amount of users, they will enshittify so hard you won’t believe it.

Terraria.

And Calamity mod.

Steam Deck is very exciting and my favourite (and only) console

Which, funnily enough, I never got into.

Bought the game like 3 weeks before going F2P, yet it never clicked as much as LoL.

Thank god for Dota 2.

LoL is a terrible game, a shallow copy of the original concept.

I will die on this hill.

Dude, download it from yourself, you will make it to tens of thousands!

Terraria

Not really, the out-of-combat movement was almost strictly 2D? And the first real fight did not teach me the controls in any way, I had no idea what was going on.

I bought it expecting like a Devil May Cry or maybe Souls… then the game started and I noped the hell out. It’s weird and I did not like it at all.

LoL sucks, it’s like a shallow copy of DotA. I’ve played around 300 hours, it’s very silly in comparison.

Stellaris is kinda easy once you figure out that expanding is the No1 priority for the entire game. Expand, build ships - nobody will be able to stop you.

There was always a need for a ‘tall’ empire - so you don’t expand, but focus on your small part of the galaxy - but so far it’s always crushed by the expanding ones.

Once you get stargate tech, it’s 24/7 war. For even more territory.

Right now I remembered a game that never was really finished, Stardrive, where you could design your own ships down to the electrical wiring. It had layouts with sections, and you could fill it up to your liking. It was a shame that ground troops could finish the game in minutes.

Sometimes I feel like 4X games are usually more suited for roleplaying than actual challenge of micromanagement.

Anyway, I have a huge jam on my main line in OpenTTD, gotta fix my intersection again.

Dota 2.

I’ve played Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, yet I still find Dota to be the most complex game ever.

It sucks that it’s a multiplayer game, and you need people to play it well with you, but when it works, it’s amazing.

Everything in it has layers of usability, usually componded by the everything else in the game - hero abilities, items, map, neutrals, even the stupid trees play a large role in the game.

I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying the mechanics, and I still don’t grasp everything.

I played a lot of DotA too, but that doesn’t have a playtime counter. But I have over 3000 hours in Dota 2.

My second favourite game is OpenTTD. It’s just so satisfying to optimize the train network and add another 100 trains to it. I’ve tried Factorio, but for some reason that did not scratch that itch.

Or some roguelites, like Slay the Spire (or the Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend), Synthetik (haven’t tried second one yet), they are always fun.

Artifact? Both of them?

Boo freaking hoo.

It’s not like there are so many other ways to cheat, actually used in many games with anticheats.

We should all stop pretending it’s necessary to put malware into your computer just so some company can claim they have no cheaters, which is never even true.

No, they’ve had DRM games for many years now.

Not many, but some.

And has had them for many years before now

Oh yes, companies knock themselves over trying to gobble up any AI chip in existence.

Of course, as everywhere else, the LLMentalist comment is here!

It’s just a proxy hate.

Just like crypto before that.

Or any other crazy bullshit the elite drops bags of money on instead of anything reasonable.

I am always suprised that people expected anything differently.

Epic was from the start doing things the wrong way, and I will not support any store that has exclusives.

Making a good gaming platform that could rival Steam would take A LOT of time and money and dare I say - no company is willing to lose that for a chance of one day perhaps being only slightly worse competitor that still can’t convince people to migrate.

I had 0 luck running it on Linux so far :(

Or Metaverse

They made 1 (one) game engine, and keep propping it up every release.

So fuck reddit?

They have been named like that for far too long

And totally expected and should absolutely cause globe-wide protests.

nVidia said no?

Doesn’t that smell like lawyers got a wind of this and asked how much money are you willing to lose on this?

M$ is not the source of this problem, but they did force TPM 2.0 on their OS, forcing people to throw away older CPUs, so they made it much worse.

I mean it is turn-based, procedurally generated, with permadeath, and the only thing persisting is higher difficulty, unless you count the first unlocked cards or relics.

I wonder if Slay the Spire counts or not

OG endless sandbox is Dwarf Fortress.

slowly retracts into bushes

I hate league with passion but this is the dumbest reason to argue against any moba game.

forcing me to run their stupid app

you don’t… for non-DRM games you can just launch the executable from the installation directory

Needing an internet connection even for single player local games

see above - therefore not true

You are just mad about things that aren’t real, yet scream about fanboyism. Cute.

It’s too big. Simple as that.

It’s fun though. It has its age, but still there’s nothing like it.

League of Legends is so bland and uninteresting.

Just play Dota. It’s the original, far more complex (you can eat trees!), and actually mess with the enemies way more than just dealing chip damage.

Why do people keep bringing that up?

It got removed in 2018. Six years it’s no longer there, even though it never meant anything in the first place.

It’s not like there are any better options.

GOG perhaps, but that doesn’t strive to deliver the conveniency, and ignores Linux players.

Epic? Lol.

Any other private company launcher? Well, just no.

Everyone will be gone one day, Gabe, Linus Torvalds… but that doesn’t mean other people don’t share their values and the original idea will be gone too.

Gonna?

What does EA do that feels new and fresh?