Man, Robocraft and Loadout were both great games I enjoyed back in the day, and they both crash and burned a few years later. A real shame.

Valve is historically terrible at communicating what is and isn’t okay, but this shouldn’t be a surprise to the devs after they took down the fan-made TF2 remake.

It is, yeah. They never have playtests on PC, I think due to being afraid of dataminers and modders.

I can already feel the heat coming out of this device.

I guess I’m used to saying it since I spent a long time not knowing it’s the wrong pronunciation for it.

They’ll sell out anyways due to lack of good competition. Intel is getting there but still have driver issues, AMD didn’t announce their GPU prices yet but their entire strategy is following Nvidia and lowering the price by 10% or something.

Yeah, that confused me as well. It seems like they’re making a movie instead.

Very few people would turn it on though and you’d end up with very long queue times.

A) Where’s Lisa Su?

B) Nice to see 13" laptops making a comeback

Also to save everyone some time they didn’t announce the prices on anything or even reveal the new GPUs

I don’t know, console users playing with PC would break the ranked system. Controllers are at a huge disadvantage and I can easily see people blaming console users on their team for losing.

Also why is this post getting so many downvotes?

Because it’s 2025 and Lemmy users still use the downvote button as a disagree button. It’s so predictable, any post I make about live service games gets instantly downvoted.

Fixed

FYI Naughty Dog was acquired by Sony in 2001, this was before extremely expensive AAA games.

This seems up my alley, thanks for the heads up

I separate games into two categories basically: Games I can play any time/in-between other games, and games I need to follow until the end or I forget everything and have to start over.

I only play 1 big game at a time if I can help it until I either finish it or lose interest. That said, I can play as many secondary games as I want like Binding of Isaac, UFO 50, Balatro, and whatever multiplayer game I’m into right now.

Especially as I got more busy IRL it became really annoying to play a bunch of big games at once. I ended up restarting Ori Will of the Wisps because I came back to it later and forgot where I was and what I was doing.

This was almost a decade ago my man, it’s time to move on

I mean realistically if a major store were to get shut down they would give you a heads up and a chance to download your games.

Games with lots of mods for sure. It may be a generic recommendation but Minecraft with mod packs and gorgeous shaders is an amazing experience for someone who never got around to trying them.

Also if he’s a souls-like fan, I highly recommend Elden Ring’s convergence mod and Dark Souls 3’s convergence mod (they’re by the same team). It adds like a hundred new spells, new weapons and equipment, overhaul of some mechanics like having actual classes with game-changing effects, completely overhauls areas with new geometry, adds new enemies and bosses, etc. It’s a very fun time.

Nine Sols. Best metroidvania since ori will of the wisps.

The only game that felt like Pentiment to me was Disco Elysium. It’s set in a fictional world but still has a very rich history aspect to it, and you do play as a detective in a mystery. Also, looots and looots of reading similar to Pentiment.

Being indie was sort of a death sentence in the late '90s and early 2000’s, it’s great that things have changed and publishing your own games has been made easier.

I was just about to say this, it’s a game changer. Some OEMs (Android variants) even have options in the settings to set animation speed or disable them.

Speaking of, if your older phone is ever laggy or feels unresponsive, disable animations entirely. It made my phone feel brand new with how quickly it goes in and out of apps.

Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Civ 5. Those two took over my life for a while.

Fully playable build, but it’s probably not a complete or finished game

Great choices all around. I should listen to the Fantasian soundtrack more.