Also most Ubisoft games in the last 10 years overall

That’s all because Wine is not an emulator

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

Patents have an expiry for a reason and the expiry date is pretty generous IMO. It’s thought as “Startup x can invent and make money off it but after it the market should take over so further improvements can be made.” Imagine if they patented CRISPR Cas9 or the first DNA sequencing method. It would limit science for the entire time of the expiry but not after.

Claiming invention patent for the pokeballs more than 20 years after the game came out is absurd. They can keep the brand, trademark and IP for their weirdly long time but innovations should become public so the market can continue innovating.

So are they next going after unicorns that you capture?

Skyblivion better

Patience, the price will drop and the game will be just as good

Hearts of Iron 4 is also fun. You can take on the entire third reictb

Medieval 2 Total War. It’s the best Total War game and one of the oldest. It has a basic campaign map where you create and manage armies which you then use to go into a real time battle with thousands of units. There is nothing as satisfying as routing the enemy with a massive cavalry charge into the rear when they’re in hand to hand infantry combat.

Save the children and Doctors without borders have a CEO as a counter example

CEO is basically the executive authority of a company. The board decides whether the priority is to make as much money as possible or not.

Why though? Most non profits have a CEO, the power the CEO has can differ a lot, just like presidents globally.

This is why RTS shouldn’t focus on the PvP portion of the game. A good campaign and arcade is what Blizzard did and it worked. The greatest thing Blizzard ever ever did was to add in the custom map creator which was fully featured.

Fucking love Enter the Gungeon. My favorite rougelike/roguelite

“Oh, it’s you”

• Counter Strike
• Factorio
• Elden Ring

I don’t play new games a lot because I don’t want a Ubisofted ARPG game where you’re just riding an open world rail with grinding sessions in between or a generic AAA shooter with crazy system requirements. Horizon Zero dawn was pleasant play though even though it had the Ubisoft formula because.

Elden Ring was great though and I’ve heard good things of Black Myth Wukong.

I just want to have fun and experience some new fun game mechanics or with some fun exploration element or with a gripping story. Indie games satisfy my itch very well.

I’ll play the next GTA since those are genuinely just a marvel of modern technology with a story and exploration elements.

I’m now always looking for a game that’s doesn’t require 30h of filler grinding to complete. It’s crazy but Magic Archery is free on Steam and I had more fun with it than some AAA games albeit very short.

So we have kernel level anti cheat so won’t they start flagging each other?

Factorio

Valve entered the chat

Trying do ban riding fictional animals is a tall order

League of legends, Counter Strike and Warcraft 3 custom maps are waaaay up there.

Factorio is catching up though

My wife for hire

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

You should try it when you get the chance, it’s absolutely bonkers. I had my reservations about it before I tried it and it was much better than I expected.

I mean the hype has died down but I think it’s rather that VR is too expensive right now. I want VR but I don’t want it $500 much to get a novelty item.

I think using it as a big ass screen would be nice and I really want to Serious Sam and Subnautica on VR. The immersion is really good for VR and I’ve liked it a lot every time I’ve played it.

Still, you need a decent space in the living room. A good graphics card for the frame rate and the expensive headset and motion trackers to get the full experience. That’s a lot to ask for with the current economy.

“Most” in more than a simple majority in my understanding of English as a non-native speaker. “More” would be a better word for it. I’d also take “single player is the most popular” of two game modes which is true but still implies more than 6% difference.

Are you Spanish or Arabic speaking by any chance?

I have a feeling that this is going to be the case. Palworld is not copying anything so it’s not copyright and doesn’t even need a “fair use” argument for it. The patents of gameplay mechanics don’t really hold up in court.

Nintento’s legal battle chest is stuff of nightmares for smaller companies and they should be countersued for anti competitive behavior.

Yeah, they should absolutely argue that storing things, alive or not, in capsules has been used in numerous movies and shows and that the patent is invalid. Big corporations make tons of patents all the time just in case and then see if they hold up in court later, such as Nintendo with their pokeballs in this case. They still don’t know whether Palworld is an infringement or not

Nintendo is making a case that the use of capsules to capture and carry creatures is their IP.

That’s probably not going to work. There will be less incentive for companies to work on a game if they can’t turn it into money stream. Especially big and expensive games. I think the outline above is pretty fair and a good start. They should throw on top of it banning loot boxes since they essentially develop gambling behavior in children.

Different currencies…

Because it’s just good. It’s like a modern indie game with big bucks software company money. They got top notch crew for everything and managed to make combat not feel like a chore in a JRPG with great music and story.

I mean, it’s hard not to like it. Recommend SNES version btw, modern versions are not as nice.

Do you recommend Below Zero? I loved subnautica so much but I generally think buying another game instead of an expansion is usually a better deal.

Absolutely magical game

Just finish the factory maaaaan

Return to the Obra Dinn

I use KDE Connect with my laptop and it just works (Linux with KDE required)

They spend billions to shoot themselves in the foot

Love that game

Firewatch for $4, Dave the diver for $13 and Total War Atilla for $11.