For spooks, Phasmophobia is a good one. They do a Halloween event every year too 🎃👻

They did have a base building mechanic in diamond/pearl, if you can call a hole in the ground a “base”.

a) You made an awesome game, and you want to create more content for it because it’s popular! Good, I’ll pay for it if you want me to!

b) You made a game and you want to to bill me twice if I want to get the whole thing? Yeah I’m not stupid sorry. I’ll say hi to Amelie.

My earbuds have cables, so they can’t get any better.

Quick, delete this post! Nintendo has already dispatched two elite snipers to home in on your position and dispose of you, but maybe they’ll fall back if you delete this quickly enough!

They still have the free version (without the steam graphics), but it got the same UI changes, so it also needs mouse unfortunately.

It’s a shame they changed the UX so much. I love DF and was excited for the steam release, but after realizing you couldn’t play keyboard only anymore, I decided not to buy and just keep playing v47.05.

Hopefully they’ll add keyboard only support sometime in the future, although I know I’m in the minority and most people don’t care or even prefer the new controls.

The 8bitdo ultimate or 2C wired look like good options. I haven’t used any of their controllers but I’ve heard good things about them, and they have hall effect joysticks!

I hate it when they use a lavalier mic and hold it on their hand or tape it to the front of their shirt, leaving the wire hanging…

They’re supposed to be made to be invisible or not noticeable, that’s the whole point! Either clip it on your shirt’s neck, or use a regular mic goddamit!

(Looking at you, Climate Town)

Well, they can’t release an OLED model later on (and make more sales) if they make it OLED from the start! Duh!

A temporary exclusive, just like Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne…

I have a steam deck, and I just hope yuzu or ryujinx will be able to run Duskbloods :P

That’s called Lemmy 😳👉🏻👈🏻

Thanks for your diligent work!

I don’t know if you already know this, but your phrasing made me think you don’t:

Supergiant Games are known for Bastion… and more recently, for Hades :P So it makes sense that the style reminds you of that, because Transistor precedes Hades.

It’s not an actual emulator, it doesn’t work. When you try to download it, it makes you fill surveys that make the scammers money. It has a fake github, with a changelog copied from PCSX2 (a legit PS2 emulator), changing the 2 to a 4.

What some devs don’t understand is the “reward” on soulslikes is actually learning the boss itself. Figuring out the parrying patterns in Sekiro feels very good, it’s not about what happens after beating the boss.

What makes it challenging and not punishing is having telegraphed moves, windows to punish the boss, and clear animation that shows you how to dodge/parry, without bullshit hitboxes.

I’m playing on shadps4 0.6.0, with the vertex explosion fix mod, and a couple of the emulator mods (60fps, disabled a couple things but I don’t remember off the top of my head).

I have a pretty old PC, 2060RTX and 6700k CPU, and other than some crashes here and there and some terrible lag/frame pacing sometimes, it works pretty well! Good enough for me at least, been waiting many years to play.

It runs pretty well on emulator, if you don’t mind donning the tricorne.

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.