Meh, I prefer Terraria.

They did not, they said you can be successful without corpo overhead and bullshittery.

Github, that’s limiting API calls, hmm…

It’s literally not, but I don’t want to get into it.

You don’t need full communism, just make sure companies are owned by the workers, suddenly they will have more money, free time, they will cut down the working hours, and that will help passion projects like these and many more.

There’s no need for this aggresive exaggeration.

The problem is capitalism, plain and simple.

I pre-ordered the Steam Deck.

That is the only thing I did in the last decade.

Man, I miss those times.

My favourite kill vid I go back to is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnnY9e_7XZw

I should just host some CS1.6 servers and hope some people start playing.

Send me links of what you’re watching, I wanna watch too :D

I remember those frag compilations vids, those were so badass.

You can’t replicate that era, you have to keep the memories alive inside you, and perhaps try to improve some other communities.

I plan on helping/sponsoring some minor leagues just for the fun, find a game and try to make some magic happen.

You won’t get scammed in the traditional way, it’s just that gamblers mentality is so self-destructive.

You know the joke that 90% of gamblers stop before hitting it big?

The ‘10%’ (it’s obviously way smaller number) even when they win big, they won’t stop.

If you’re in an online casino… you won’t.

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I’ve seen some shit.

Yeah, me too… man, I would play 16+ hours on some weekends… I was kinda good, too. Too young, but godly reflexes. I still think about those days sometimes…

Yeah, but it still popped into my mind sooner than other games, dunno why,

I tried playing it, but the combat… the combat, man, I can play many games, finished Elden Ring, played ton of CS1.6, Dota 2, Terraria Infernum… but Sekiro I could not finish.

I’ve heard it’s a rhytmic game, but I suck at those, too.

Games I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• Fez - cute little 2D/3D platformer. It’s amazing and very wholesome

• Stalker: Shadow of Chenrobyl - dunno what exactly is it, perhaps the settings and the grit, but it has a special place in my heart. It’s about average FPS, but not too long and for me enjoyable

• F.E.A.R. - very good FPS, with amazingly scripted enemies, decent horror elements (not compulsory - you might miss some of them if you’re not looking).

• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within - for me the best 3rd person action adventure ever. Best combat hands down (or head, or torso, you choose), streamlined blade dance at your fingertips. You play with your enemies, and you get many tools. There are some locked camera issues.

• Touhou: Lost branch of time - If you liked Slay the Spire, but wished for colorful mana, this is the game for you. It has anime artstyle, I usually focus on the cards, though it might turn some people off

• Dota 2 - Dunno if it was mentioned and I didn’t see, but the mechanics are absolutely amazing, the things the game lets you get away with are incredible. 10/10, but other people might bring your experience down. Specially friends. Can play against custom (workshop) bots. Still takes too long to git gud. I studied the game for 10 years and still sucked.

• Divinity 2: Original Sin - also haven’t seen a mention, everybody talks about BG3, I haven’t yet played it, but D2:OS was also a masterpiece. Haven’t played a lot of TRPGs, this was a blast, with easily set up multiplayer. Played through it twice completely, with many abandoned runs.

• CS 1.6 - remember that? I lost my childhood to that. They don’t make counter strikes this good anymore.

• Synthetik - top-down rougelike shooter, with amazing weapons and physics and classes and enemies and mechanics and 2 person multiplayer

• Dwarf Fortress - the real objectively best game :D strategy simulation of the 3D box world, predecesor to both Minecraft and Terraria, but with A LOT more sand in your box. They are still extending it. And it’s on Steam if you want a UI.

• Terraria (Calamity mod) - Terraria is obviously a great game, but what makes it 20/10 is the mods. Calamity specifically. Tripple the content, 5x the difficulty (20x if you try Infernum), amazing multiplayer experience. Don’t install Infernum if you haven’t beaten at least Revengeance on Calamity. Trust me, it will fuck you up.

• Yakuza 0 - how could I forget about this masterpiece? Story done absolutely right, that game had no business making me feel so strongly about it. Cool combat, very funny moments, but I cried during it. If you haven’t tried it, check it out. You won’t regret it.

• OpenTTD - Trains. Do you like to create and manage big rail systems? This is for you. And your friends. Only noobs use planes. Only psychos use boats. Nobody uses only vehicles.

I tried to play that game, expecting perhaps a DMC-like gameplay.

Instead I got a 2D plane scroller?

Then 2D sort of platformer?

Then some weird 3D action that I did not understand at all?

What the fuck is that game.

If I enjoyed combat more, I could give it another go. But it was just not for me.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

Hands down best action adventure ever.

That combat was soo smooth and satisfying.

I want to replay it every year, but it hangs shortly after start on my Steam Deck.

Terraria is the easiest one.

I wish I had more time to play other single player time sinks like Dwarf Fortress, or even BeamNG.drive.

Yakuza 0 got me very hard in the feels…

Such a shame that the next ones (1-4) weren’t as good. But Zero… what a ride.

Vincke says his wife will divorce him if their next game isn’t out 5 years from now.

I also choose this guys wife

I finished Eternal on Nightmare and almost never used the hook.

Both 2016 and Eternal were best on the Nightmare difficulty.

The start sucks, as you don’t have all the tools, but it teaches you how to approach the arena combat. Once you figure it out, and you start to enjoy running around the map blasting everything in the face, you just do that for the rest of the game.

(I have not played DLCs, as even Eternals EULA angered me too much).

I got used to not owning their games.

Ubisoft is french and… ugh no

Terraria - Calamity.

Expands the game to 2.5x the content.

Absolutely amazing, would recommend buying Terraria just to play it.

Yes, to spread out their business. It’s not a nice thing to do, it’s logical and calculated move.

I know you mean it well, but… Nintendo was always like this. Like the jokes about the CEO handing the African kid 300 million dollar lawsuit because he drew their console on paper is very old.

Yet people still buy their shit.

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?