There’s a balance to be managed and valve is on the extreme end of no release pressure.

It’s going to be a flagship game that releases with a newer engine. Maybe ES6 will be that game. A less hopeful take is that the success of ESO is going to prevent them releasing anything else in the universe until it dies.

Steam is a marketplace, making games is a side hustle. It’s the opposite for the big 3.

That sounds awful, steam deck is borderline too big.

Why would Sony get mad that their chip provider is continuing to make better chips?

Maybe it was just bad autocorrect and they meant single payer.

That’s where an emulator comes in handy, there’s a ton of text to fast forward through in golden sun.

Gen 1 pokemon. It was awesome to experience, but the formula is just better in later versions.

GoldenEye, I did try it years ago, but going back to one stick for a shooter is really awkward.

Wow, I don’t have the time for an MMO anymore and they are a lot less fun after your first experience.

Oblivion and Morrowind, the changes in Skyrim are almost all improvements, and the mod support is better. You can smoothe out the edges of the older games, but it’s a long process I’m not interested in. I’ll stick with find memories.

It’s been a while since I played but from what I remember build/train/upgrade command each had a second page you had to tab to, so some things took 3 buttons instead of 2. This felt really awkward instead of having dedicated basic/advanced buttons.

I think the second level in immortal makes it less intuitive.

The ultimate casual RTS is a moba.

If they pull off what they are promising, it could be interesting, but it doesn’t look like that will happen.

At best it did a good job with the quick macro system. It’s a good way to allow players to have better macro without hurting the skill ceiling for pros.

Even as an RTS fan, I’m starting to think the genre is dead. AOE 3 actually had some nice updates to the genre, they abandoned most of it though. Sc2 improved on the DoW2 campaign, but it’s been nothing since.

Part of the problem is the focus on competitive formats. Pretty much everyone admits it’s the least popular format, but it also gets the most attention. Campaign, comp stomps, and co-op are by far the most popular formats, but they get little or no support. Part of it is the pressure to release so early, and competitive is just easier to focus on while fleshing out mechanics and factions. Another problem is listening to pro players of other games, they don’t know shit about making a good game, they know what they like about an existing game and want that as much as possible.

Another big problem is focusing on players of well established games. The people still playing ladder on SC2 or AOE2 aren’t moving anywhere, there’s probably 20x players that have stopped with those games that would love something new. Instead all that gets released are shallow copies trying to get players to move off a game they’ve played for a decade.

No, real gambling is respectful of your time. They aim to take money as fast as possible.

I thought the article was referring to that game and was confused how they pissed off fans.

You already do that eventually anyway.

If they were related to the original games, yes it would. The patents were about 3d worlds though. I believe the palworld beta was before these patents were filed, so there would be a strong case to invalidate them. It probably won’t happen, because Nintendo’s proposed damages was basically pocket change compared to a legal battle.

It’s still somewhat protected in the US. The big one in table top gaming was tap mechanics from Magic. That expired in 2014 though. In video games the Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor/war is also patented.

We are still suffering the effects of bad software patents. Tons of garbage patents were granted in the form of “common everyday thing, but on a computer.” A notable one was the digital shopping cart that was eventually invalidated.

It’s not my Internet that makes steam 10x faster.

If you start a trial on PC, you might download 2 games by the time it ends.

It only has a surface level similarity to pokemon. It’s as much like fallout 4 as it is pokemon.

It forces day 1 dlc for any pre ordered season pass, as it must go live with content when the game does.

This seems reasonable, if you are selling something the expectation should be that something is actually available when it’s not labeled as a preorder.

I got halfway through my 4th or 5th character before I stopped caring. So many classes were way to basic.

I haven’t played since shortly after it went f2p. It was the best single player MMO I ever played.

That’s how live service games work. The vast majority don’t make money. It’s a go viral or die market.

Maybe one day enough younger people will be in elected that understand computers aren’t magic. There’s no fundamental difference between selling a DVD and a digital movie, from a legal perspective.

I don’t understand the love for white devices. Thanks to everyone paying a premium price for an inferior color.

Is it not possible to just run in a circle endlessly in the game?

I think the problem is that they use the same open world formula that they started, but others have taken and improved it and they haven’t kept up with the times. Shadow of Mordor/war scratch the same itsch as assassin’s creed with more interesting mechanics. Those aren’t even new games at this point. Horizon zero dawn and forbidden West offer a more action focused experience with a better open world, again not super modern games.

It’s like Bethesda, they are still putting out games that are straight from 2010.

This is one of the best free mobile games there is.

That would just cause legit Linux players to generate negativity by always being stuck with cheaters. It’s way easier to just remove support if it really is most of your cheating problems for such a small player base.

It could be a way of hedging. They want all games released everywhere at once, but aren’t willing to commit to that.

Year of the Linux desktop is nigh.

Lots of people just hate stylized graphics. I don’t really understand the hate, as they tend to be more timeless than more realistic styles. Also it’s a weird statement from someone representing a franchise with multiple stylized aliens.

It’s been at least 20 years since video game “journalists” or “critics” were actually honest. Companies will blacklist anyone that doesn’t write a positive review for their games, so everything published before or on release day is advertising.

If you want honest reviews you need to wait 24-48 hours after release for real reviews. If you actually want opinions from those that completed a game you need to wait even longer.

They did change it in the remaster from thiccccc to just thicc

Comcast has a monopoly though, it’s not like satellite or 5g is a serious competitor to cable/fiber.

Treating the people who buy a game as the criminals isn’t ever a positive.