Aren’t C-Suite already liable for illegal actions? I know for sure that it’s that way in Germany, and I cannot imagine it to be different in the U.S.

Nah 4K is wonderful. The higher the pixel density, the better the display (for me at least)

Hmmm I love Rogue, it’s such an emotional journey and to me the most compelling and interesting story-wise, seeing an Assassin turn into a Templar and underlining the hubris of the Order of Assassins

Okay, I agree with the sentiment and all, but don’t you think that your comment is a little petty when you are not contributing to OP’s question and instead hijack the post to push an agenda?

There are gameplay videos from external YouTubers already, the game holds up quite well

Game got really interesting in the second half. Great job Spain and England

has zero issues that you might get from emulation (like inaccuracies)

That doesn’t make sense to me. Emulation should be 100% accurate software-wise, at the expense of performance. Can you elaborate?

Please make sure that you distribute your game without DRM. Steam games are more often than not a miss rather than a hit.

No, the grantor requires fees. Screen time is just a bonus

Why .fr lol?

Then let’s go back to ploughing our fields by hand, surely that will create many new employment opportunities!

Linux!

You should have made that decision a long time ago, but you know what they say, better late than never!

Thank you kindly for your good write-up. If you were to permit it I would like to use excerpts of this in slightly rephrased forms in similar future discussions.

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Oh man, while I was reading the first part of your comment I was thinking of the Witcher 3 DLCs the whole time, I’m so glad that you mentioned them at the end there!

This is restricted to a small part of modern gaming, though. In indie games, for example, you find none of these exploitative practices (talking in general, of course) and get wonderful, masterfully crafted works of art by people who do game development out of passion (also speaking in general, of course).

I am in full agreement with this statement, and would like to add that I think that older games often have a much greater artistic value. They were concerned with crafting an intricate plot, super immersive environments, powerful and transformative music, memorable characters, etc. One game where in my opinion you really feel the volume of love and artistic expression as well as perfectionism put in is the first Risen, and it’s fairly obscure, but I find it to be so captivating that I’d easily play it with greater enthusiasm than any new Ubisoft copy-and-paste title or Valorant / Overwatch / CS:GO. Still, I think that this art / passion approach of quantifying a game’s “goodness” produces just as many contemporary candidates for great games, like The Witcher 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 or Red Dead Redemption 2. The things I like about old RPGs / adventure games are probably not specific to the past, but instead heavily developer dependent. Developers that love their work and are given enough time and money will produce great works of art in the same way that they have 20 years ago.

I think you can probably still get them for some modern games that were crafted with passion, through special editions and box sets. I think that the standard store edition of Total War: Warhammer actually came with a manual as well as a novella, and this was coincidentally the last physical copy of a game I bought.

True. I feel that particularly with ranked shooters like Valorant and their competitive modes, playing becomes less enjoyable and more of a chore. In RPGs and strategy games on the other hand, I can lose myself for hours in wonder and awe at the gameplay, story, atmosphere, setting, etc. That’s why I’d much rather play something many people would consider less exciting like Crusader Kings 3 than Valorant, Overwatch, Counterstrike, League of Legends, etc.

Hmmm, I don’t think that I can agree with the point about older games having fewer bugs. In my experience, 2000s 3D games are riddled with bugs to the point of becoming unplayable in many instances.

Oh thanks, that’s so awesome!

The discs are also digital! The correct terminology would be “virtual”.

I’m sorry for the ad hominem attacks you were the target of from that person, and while I cannot contribute anything to the matter at hand directly, as an outside observer of your discussion I must tell you that your take is very rational and that you should not let yourself be discouraged by their hostility.

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra - phenomenal high-res display, amazing cameras with actual optical telephoto magnification lenses, 200 MP sensor, very good SoC with a powerful CPU, variable refresh rate in the range of 1 Hz to 120 Hz, incredible battery life, high-quality aluminium frame, awesome max brightness

Kerbal Space Program! Sunk 20 hours into that one over the last two days alone!

Not sure whether it’s “lesser known”, but it’s old: Rise of Nations

Downvoted for the cringe af name

Exynos is better for consumers though, because you can install custom ROMs on these SoCs, which is not possible on the Snapdragon Galaxy phones

This is literally just whataboutism. You must be degenerate if you think that there’s a correlation between the research performance of the listed countries and their patent laws. There are dozens of more useful and much more relevant indicators for why these nations are disadvantaged in this regard. But just stick to your belief that North Korea is what it is because it doesn’t have patent laws lol.

Also, for you to better understand the harm that software patents caused and are causing, consider reading Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman.

Actually, display resolution refers to exactly what you call pixel density, and NOT the pixel dimensions. This error is so common that the term resolution has practically been redefined outside of the professional (science and engineering) space, but technically, display resolution and pixel density are the same thing.

I bought Anno 1800 and am really enjoying it, it’s great that they modelled it closer to Anno 1404 but still innovated

Pretty obvious, but Sid Meier’s Colonisation

Exactly. A space for serious discussion and analysis of games and gaming on Lemmy could have so much potential, and allowing low-effort memes here would undermine that.