You can just claim them on the webpage, no need to install the launcher.

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

The lack of GOG Galaxy on Linux just means you have to manually manage your games.

Guess again

Microsoft is blocking the Windows 11 24H2 update on computers with some Ubisoft games, like Assassin’s Creed, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, after changes in the operating system cause the games to crash, freeze, or have audio issues.

Doesn’t work on Linux because of anticheat :/

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Got it for free on Epic a while ago, tried it, and didn’t finish the first mission (got stuck at the final part).

I picked it up again after upgrading my steam deck’s storage, and this time I did finish the tutorial! It is fun to play so I hope it sticks for a bit :)

It’s about preserving the consumption culture for the mainstream. If playing older games for free was easier and legal, more people that now only play the newest AAA garbage would start doing it, and corpos don’t want to risk that culture change, because if it gets big enough it would definitely impact their sales.

Unfortunately not many people know or care about indie games and free games like Beyond All Reason, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, etc. as is.

More like I rather enjoy it while it lasts instead of going into a fridge to preserve it ;P

Unless they store everything in high vacuum and near absolute zero, it’s going to get oxidized and fail eventually. There is no such thing as perpetuity. Might as well give them some use.

That’s what I thought back in 2007. Now I kinda like the convenience. If they added an option to download the games, like GOG, it’d be perfect.

Steam DRM is a joke anyways and not all games on steam have it, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for them to get rid of it.

Yes it is but it’s a rant, of course I’m exaggerating a bit xP

There’s also the fact that they’re completely optional and unnecessary. They provide nothing but cosmetics

I hate this argument, because videogames themselves are completely optional and unnecessary. That’s the whole point of them, they’re just for entertainment, to have fun and enjoy playing them. So I don’t see how something being cosmetic makes any difference.

It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

Well, people waste their money on useless crap all the time, so I guess I’ll just be the cranky old lady and go back to playing my original AoM, where I’m actually playing a game and not an advertisement.

How do you think headline voice actors start? By doing the small roles like wallas, ad libs, waiter2 and such.

If you get rid of the starting voice actors of today, you get rid of the good voice actors of tomorrow.

You’re talking like ow2 isn’t literally the same game. I paid for ow1 and can’t go back to it.

It also popularized the “mechanic” of online matchmaking through steam for pirated and abandoned games. Thank you Spacewar, very cool.

Edit: the Steam one is a test game for their steamworks system with source code from the original game. The more you know.

Aw, do you think Twitter is a person? How cute. No, dead naming only applies to people obviously.

Technically still made by Microsoft, but what about VSCodium?

Yeah I love these “free” (33.9€ optional) games

They’re almost as great as the free (20€/skin) games

“but you can just not buy the skins” sure and people can just not go to the casino and lose their life savings, but that’s not how some brains work.

Rules for thee…

If it is not sarcasm then the justification is not bs. And OP agrees it is sarcasm.

Not OP, but heck yeah free stuff! Special thanks to the people providing us Lemmy for free :)

They are being sarcastic, with the emphasis on “purely”, while saying Google’s justification. It’s exactly to point out it’s bs.

Tell that to the horse armor lol back in the day no one would buy a game with these kind of MTX and we would laugh at it. But now we’re saying “it’s not that bad come on, it’s still a good game”. The slippery slope is very much a thing.

More like you toss a coin and if it’s heads you don’t get pieces, just pawns and a king.

You’re only forced to use one move: parry. The moves you can’t parry, you just dodge. You can finish the game just with that.

Give it a try again! Sekiro is a rhythm game, and when it clicks, the combat becomes one of the most fun of all FromSoft games.

Nobody was talking about Larian when they released DOS2, and the only big thing BG3 has that DOS2 doesn’t is the animated dialogue (and DnD setting).

To be fair, just that system was a lot of work for the devs and it does wonders for the game; but DOS2 is a freaking amazing game too, it just didn’t have the publicity.

Fair enough, and it is definitely bigger. But in my mind, systems that get no engagement from me are systems that don’t exist, therefore making the game smaller.

What I particularly hate is the catacombs and other recycled open world stuff in Elden Ring. I’d much rather have another Sekiro sized game with a lot of quality than a 100h+ game I’ll only play once, because replaying anything more than the main progression path feels like a chore but it still gives you loot.

Ubisoft padding doesn’t count for length for me. I ain’t getting the 27000 collectibles, AC is 20h long not 200h long.

Yeah, but much of the cable content is lost to time. That’s why we have stories like that of Marion Stokes, who collected tapes at her home and preserved hundreds of thousands of hours of news footage.

Not a voice mod, but my voice passes as fem now, so I started talking in VC.

Started playing phasmophobia and it’s a lot of fun, but sometimes you get one or two dudes that start making “funny” mysogynistic comments and it’s pretty annoying cause it’s the Same. Thing. Every. Time.

“Oooh it’s in the kitchen, must be a woman ghost!” Looks at me to gauge my reaction.

Joins room I say hi “A FEMALE??? I’m not playing with a female” disconnects

And more. Spawntaneous is a youtuber that has a series of videos about being a “girl gamer” and it’s very eye opening. You don’t get that kind of people every match, but you do get them every couple hours you play, and even if you somehow find it funny the first time, it gets old really quick.

This post is about China, and they obviously mean China when saying “broken clock”. What else would they be talking about??

But I disagree with it being sinophobia; criticism doesn’t equal hate.

Yeah, although you should install the unofficial patch and widescreen mod (if needed).

Other than that, it’s still a very fun game and I do recommend it :)

The original holds up anyway, and I firmly believe they were gonna butcher it, so… is this a win?

I’m pretty sure someone modded it to run at 60fps on the PS4 pro, but I haven’t heard about it in a while. You can look for more info if you’re interested, there are some reddit threads on the subject.

Still, I’m not buying a console just to play this one game, as good as it is. I can wait for emulation.

I mean, would be weird if they weren’t.

As for what their next projects will be, I hope they’re working on Sekiro 2, because some endings had lots of potential for a sequel (and also, Tomoe DLC pls!!).

Also probably some new IP. They went sci-fi with AC, but for the soulslike games they always go with fantasy. So I’ll throw a wild guess and say it’ll be set in ancient Egypt/Middle East, and the protagonist will have the pharaoh’s curse.

(and no I’m sorry but Bloodborne is never coming to PC and BB2 isn’t happening, Miyazaki told me this in a dream)

The minimum requirements for this game are very high,and that’s for running it at 30fps. Add that AAA always have problems at release + it’s Bethesda… So I bet the game is going to run terribly.

(Also I’d rather have 60fps and last gen graphics than 30fps for a game with shooting and fast-paced action)