I’ve been posting the games they give away for free for two years now and I’d never even considered that they actually sell digital games too

My little community is all grown up and being shared by other people ❤️

I prefer this quote

It’s ground truth structure data guided

Nobody knows what it means, but it’s provocative

With the Steam Input button remapping, isn’t everything?

Lutris is GPL-licenced, so isn’t it the opposite of stealing?

You don’t like Zelda games lol. Botw isn’t much of a Zelda game so it stands to reason you’d like it.

Haha maybe it’s as simple as that!

The recent Link’s Awakening remake was pretty well received, reckon they’ll keep making both classic and botw-style Zelda games in the way games like castlevania do?

Did we play the same game? BotW was the first Zelda game that I actually enjoyed!

As a die hard Zelda fan

I guess this is it, it’s quite a different game to all the others, and people like different things.

I will offer counters to all your points though:

• The story is “Ganon’s doing bad, stop him”, same as most of the others
• What about all the NPCs in all the towns?
• There are 120 shrines, 4 temples, and a big final zone, how’s that no dungeons?
• The music was great
• Aren’t there enough different enemies to fill up that huge photo album?
• The exploration was the most fun! Finding all the shines and secret seeds was great (clearly collectathons are my thing and not yours!), and the weapons breaking didn’t really seem like an issue after a while.

Don’t let me tempt you with [email protected]!

In this video game, despite the random allocation of individual digital content from the Packs, the human player can use their own skills to control the course of the game with a probability suitable for success, thus establishing a rational expectation of winning

A game of poker or even blackjack requires skill, so I guess that means it’s not gambling?

Heat Signature is great. The same developer recently released Tactical Breach Wizards, I’ve not played it yet and while it’s not a sequel I think it will tick a few of the same boxes.

Some of them still are! I played some Golf With Your Friends recently, that has the classic hot seat experience. The Jackbox games are different but also good for a party.

It sounds more fun if you read it in an Aussie accent

Pottering? Or is this the long-awaited golf expansion?

More than things like the Phillips CD-i which makes the Wikipedia list, so they’re at least distinguishing between consoles and PCs

Wikipedia seems to think they are. I’ve seen “home consoles” used when you want to exclude handhelds, what makes you say that they’re technically not consoles?

Looks like the data is a little out of date, seems the PS5 has outsold the 360 now. Also why are handhelds missing?

There were three steam games posted in [email protected] yesterday, and three more earlier in the week!

Depending on the system it can be really easy to dump/rip your own discs. Hacking a Wii for homebrew requires jumping through a few hoops but then you can dump Wii, GameCube, and even Gameboy games. You can dump WiiU games by inserting an SD card and going to a single web page in the browser!

Excellent news!

Why no link to the actual game?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1191550/Fifos_Night/

I’ve been hurt by every TimeSplitters announcement I’ve seen for the last 20 years, do I dare to believe that it’s once again time to split‽

This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).

Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?

This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it’s usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking “how did this ever work!?”

I recently played the original via Primehack, a fork of Dolphin Emulator which (among other things) modernises the controls

Don’t go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)

Well if you add the games to steam then you can launch them all from game mode

The official itch launcher works on Linux too!

I played Metroid Prime for the first time recently and Samus Aran is an absolute badass. She crash lands on a planet and kills every single thing she encounters. If you read the logs of the space pirates you find scattered around they basically say “oh fuck the hunter is here, she’s coming for us next”.

The atmosphere is almost a little survival-horror-esque, but the experience is more like doom: you’re not locked in here with all these monsters, all these monsters are locked in here with you.

I loved that game. It’s been a while since I played but I remember the only way I could reliably do the max-difficulty missions quickly was by using the brick spaceship to smash directly into the room where the target was or something insane like that!

“Dodo cheat”, at least according to the little cheat book I had back in the day. It gave cars the same mechanics as the dodo (which I think was the little sea plane). Using the tank like a rocket and aiming for a ramp was the best.

upgrade your base to access new hats, steal enemy hats

Seems so!

I’m seeing this slightly unusual arrangement:

but pressing Add to Library seemed to work with no further hoops to jump through!

You’re welcome, it’s a really good way to inject some new difficulty into a game you already know inside out. Careful about going full rando though, having your weedle evolve into a mewtwo with a 40PP hyper beam might break things a little!

Might I recommend Universal Pokémon Randomizer for your next play through?

When I last played them Dolphin really struggled, but fortunately you can buy a Wii and the discs for a few quid each!

I’m not really a “plot” sort of gamer so probably don’t have a huge amount of experience to choose from, but Undertale really sounds like it fits the bill. It’s all laughs and jokes until it’s not.

The thing about Arsenal is they always try and wank it in

Sticker Star kind of ruined Paper Mario for me. Super Paper Mario had already gone quite weird, but in a good way - the combat was completely different but it still felt like the original and TTYD in terms of the levelling, exploration, and plot.

Sticker Star, Colour Splash, and Origami King are very linear in comparison, their lack of experience makes battles largely pointless, and the obsession with giant household objects and nameless toad NPCs is getting tedious.

The latest three games were all still enjoyable, but they’re really nothing on the first three.

I think frying that guy’s brain was a lethal option, but the worse one from that level is the brothers who have their tongues torn out and get thrown into their own mines as slaves. Corvo’s blade really is the kinder option!