I use steam’s two hour return window as a demo.

It’s only 10%. Doesn’t ownership normally mean 50%+?

cyberpunk 2077 just had an update (prob final update?) yesterday

Hollow Knight is a game where you start out as a little bug discovering a bug’s nest. Then you unlock some secrets, find the secret true final boss, and next thing you know, it ends with you fighting a god.

It is indeed.

Time to not have any social life for the next month while I binge read.

Same, I’m about 5 hours in. I love the feel of the parries.

Metroidvanias have a blend of action and exploration but in 2d. Some recs: hollow Knight, nine sols.

Only play this if you have the self control to never spend any money on it, but genshin has some pretty good open world exploration.

You can emulate BOTW on PC.

dishonoured 1 and 2.

better option for most ppl

They said, about a month ago, that their 8000 series GPUs won’t have a high end option, only low and mid tier.

deserved

it’s been almost a decade. def old enough imo.

All the hades osts are so good. They just don’t miss.

mantis Lords from hollow knight

I haven’t so far. For me to spend money on this game, it has to be

a. Good

b. Linux compatible

c. Not have any non-cosmetic transactions other than an up front purchase price

With bungie, all three of these have a low chance of happening. There’s a reason why my autocorrect keeps trying to write bungle.

Bungie? Pls make this a one time payment and not the fuckery that is the destiny 2 pricing model.

This update also adds native support for Mac systems with Apple M1 or later

Impossible, they said it couldn’t be done!

https://unherd.com/2023/03/is-call-of-duty-a-government-psyop/

It was never not evil. Just increasingly evil these days.

Yeah quests are pretty shit. But I think just the exploration and puzzle part is still good.

If you want good exploration, I would recommend:

• witcher 3: good exploration and incredible quests

• hollow Knight: 2d metroidvania so very different genre, but great exploration with no hints. Souls like fights, so similar there to some games you’ve played and liked. Metroidvanias in general are good at exploration.

• genshin impact: most varied biomes I’ve ever seen. Will hold your hand first time you see a mechanic, but won’t tell you anything subsequent times. Cons: starting areas have the blandest exploration and quests. You need good willpower to not swipe. Combat is often very easy.

Hollow knight, deep rock galactic.

in house design and modeling

Actually, I think they outsourced design and modeling to Satoshi Tajiri

I was quite confused on why the Chinese communist party was developing a video game.

I call this “pulling a nintendo”

The 3 series is the best at this.

The first game in the series is Mass Effect 3, which is followed by Witcher 3 and the sequel to that is Baldur’s Gate 3.

Check the name of the poster

Sounds incredible, but we’ll probably have to wait a decade to see if it can deliver

Ofc it was Travis county (county which Austin is in) that made this ruling. Time to lower the number of voting locations in the county some more. /s

The books I assume

Technical error? A computer glitch doesn’t create ads, someone wrote that code and the only error was that they weren’t planning on rolling it out yet.

I think that Destiny 2’s biggest problem is the monetization model. They made the story be money and the grind free. It’s such a shame since the feel of the combat in d2 is my all time top for gun combat.

New players come in, decide to try the free stuff to see if they like the game, get bored of the grind, and don’t stick around or pay for the story.

The story is what hooks people. Other games where the story/campaign hooks people have two categories.

Category 1: lump sum payment for everything. Example: baldur’s gate 3. This is the classic method where every player experiences the hook.

Category 2: free story, pay for the grind. Example: Genshin Impact. A method that most gacha’s use, every player experiences the hook, get drawn in, and stick around for the grind as they wait for more story to drop in future updates.

Another paradox game

sigh

There goes all my free time in 2024 and 2025.

As if Hades II and Silksong (It’s soon, trust) aren’t already gonna take all that time.

I use AnySoftKeyboard. It’s open source and has gesture typing as well as a lot of UIs. It has a lot of languages.

I think that before you could only set it in the character creation screen at the start. Now you can change it anytime.

Right now there’s a section in prime video that’s titled free with ads(only if you have prime). After the change, all prime videos will be in that section.

Witcher 3 also has a similar thing to cyberpunk. It really is a dev rizz diff.

Sumeru, tho I haven’t played much Fontaine yet.

• Hollow knight (OST + gameplay)

Caveats with hollow Knight story: you won’t know a lot about the story until you watch mossbag videos after getting to one of the endings.

• Hades (OST + gameplay + story)
• Genshin (OST + gameplay + story)

Caveats with genshin gameplay: only the exploration and some quests are good. All other gameplay should be ignored (or doused with fire). The exploration is actually one of the best open world exploration I’ve played, and I’ve played Witcher 3, botw, AC: black flag, arkham series, and more.

Caveats with genshin story (context: currently on version 4.0+):

• Side stories released on or after 2.0 are good.
• Main stories released on or after 3.0 are good.
• All other stories are generic af and Paimon is annoying.

Have you heard of our savior Firefox/LibreWolf?

Bold of you to assume that just because a product is better, it will overtake Android.