Just finished playing Morrowind for the first time in decades. Half-tempted to go back and do it all again as a pure mage.

Failing that, I have so many games in my catalogs that I’m not sure where to start. Maybe Portal Revolution, maybe Brütal Legend, or maybe I finally get into the Witcher III. I keep trying to like Ride, but racing games never feel remotely like actually riding or driving a vehicle and I always spend my time in the weeds.

Glad to hear it.

I’m tempted to add Red Dead Redemption 2 to the list, but it’s too new for me to decide yet.

I think it belongs. It was the greatest storytelling game I’ve played in a decade or more.

• Portal 1/2 of course.
• Grim Fandango. (Flawed yes, but absolutely a masterpiece)
• Psychonauts.
• Fallout New Vegas.
• System Shock (the original).
• The Longest Journey.
• Mass Effect. Maybe.

Everything from Grim Fandango.

You need to get out more.

The song is a masterpiece on its own.

I don’t disagree, but I …don’t entirely agree either.

It’s absolutely true that devs are pretty bad at estimating costs, because it’s not their job. (And they’re usually good at estimating timelines, but bad at insisting on them.)

It’s also true that games blow over budgets and deadlines all the time, and yeah I remember when Duke Nukem Forever first became a joke and then a meme.

But consider that DNF was completed by a small handful of devs who ran with an almost-finished game that they knew they could make happen. In contrast, there is no finish line for Star Citizen. There is no path to success. As you say, they can’t drop it and be satisfied, so they make more promises and ask for more money. But here’s the key: They KNOW they cannot fulfill those promises - existing or future. It’s impossible at this point! The only thing they’re doing is delaying the inevitable, which would be fine if it was their own time and money; but since they’re constantly begging for money from optimistic gamers with promises they have no intention of delivering on, they are grifting. No excuses, no conditions, no “but maybe…” just pure con-artistry at work.

It’s possible that it wasn’t a scam to begin with.

But now? Now it’s impossible for even the most dewey-eyed dreamer to see it as anything less than a deliberate hustle, perpetrated by amoral grifters.

And they’ll continue hiring and expanding, pushing the ‘churn’ bullshit to keep thrir employees scared.

Asshole company deserves to die.

I am the milkman. My milk is fresh and cold.

I read this as “Sea Bass game” at first.

Honestly, I don’t know.

I’ve been meaning to get a Linux VM spun up for testing games. I gather that I’ll have some issues (i.e. blockers) with multi-player games and cheat-prevention, but I’d just as soon play single player games anyway.

I’ve been a Linux/Unix admin for 25+ years so I’ve no excuse other than convenience. But I’m done.

The ad company that fucked developers over a few months ago?

So long losers!

Not good ennough. Doxxing should carry criminal charges.

I don’t go back to it (Win 3.1 games are a PITA to get running), but I really wish someone would remake Millennium Auction. It was a very clever version of the old board game Masterpiece.

China doesn’t need the USA.

The USA needs China.

System Shock, the remake by Nightdive.

I’m old enough that I bought and played the original SS back in the day, and it was transformative.

Just search for Slime Rancher.

Hmm. Let’s see here…

Steam: 147
GOG: 174
Epic: 286

I’ve paid for about 2/3 of the Steam games, probably a quarter of the GOG ones, and maybe two or three of the Epic ones.

No idea what Steam has to say, but I’ve played more games for longer than Steam has been around, so here’s a guess of mine in no particular order:

• Skyrim
• Morrowind
• Fallout (3, NV, 4, London combined)
• Ultima II
• Doom II
• Grim Fandango

None.

Because I hate people.

Finished Fallout London last week.

This morning I finished replaying Grim Fandango for about the 12th time.

The Bethesda RPGs: Skyrim, Morrowind, Fallout series (although most of the hours probably into NV, which wasn’t actually Bethesda).

I have. In fact, I backed the development of it.

Definitely worth playing. Maybe a bit less memorable than the original, but also a bit more consistent. There are no huge difficulty spikes like the Meat Circus in the original.

The story is a bit more complex, and a bit more muted. Most of the levels are less memorable. But absolutely worth the time to play and enjoy.

Grim Fandango. Despite the weird tank controls, it created such an amazing world - and all in a point-and-click adventure. My home PC is named Manny, our NAS is Eva, the router/firewall is Glottis, and so on.

Also, Psychonauts. Just a perfect 3D platformer.

Fallout London - a FO4 mod. (really, a makeover and whole new game.)

“Yeah, I was skeptical at first but the polycule might be the way to go.”

“Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone.”

Games, economics, and politics aside…

FromSoft has to be about the worst name for a company ever.

“Five mistakes” were actually one point repeated over and over, for a ten minute video.

In other words, clickbait.

Interesting points, but you’re missing an important point: This isn’t necessarily about the definition of what SHOULD be or MUST be preserved, but whether studios should be allowed to PREVENT it from being preserved by those who want to.

I’d say Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2). Everything about the atmosphere in that game was immersive - graphics were good enough that I didn’t notice they were graphics. I genuinely felt cold, wet, hot, windblown, or joyful at the various weather/environment situations in the game.

I guess I shouldn’t be expected to pay for games until my total is over a hundred bucks then?

Have you played Morrowind? Best Elder Scrolls game by far, in my opinion.

And so hard to play, so yeah.

Not gonna happen. It’s a lot of work, and they’d rather spend it making new games (for legitimate reasons).

Even better, don’t use Twitter at all and don’t support its insane fascist asshole billionaire owner.

Seriously, why even continue talk8ng about twitter? Let it die.

More garbage linkspam. Time to block this spammer.

Can we please not turn this group into ads/sponsorship/shitposts?

It would be nice if there was some editorial restraint, rather rhan mindlessly posting every single article from eveey single gaming site.

Same as I’ve been saying for 25 years:

Fuck Sony, and fuck their anti-consumer practices.

Think about it: even if you can get a psn account and play without a problem, this is being done to exploit and commoditize you.

Fuck Sony.

Microsoft needs this.

The OS is no longer your property.

Microsoft is not in the business of providing what users want from their computer.

I fought with Broadcom’s shitty website for hours, but finally have Workstation Pro, in which I will test my workflows in Linux.

Games and Lightroom will be a challenge, but I’m going to avoid Win11 at all costs.

How is this not fraud?

It’s a simple question. They are deliberately misleading and lying to customers for unlawful corporate gain.