I’m not sure about the others but for me it’s proton integration.

As a Linux gamer it makes a hell of a difference.

Yeah I don’t understand these takes.

Did Fortnite or COD “change your life” or are they just popular games.

Like rougelites they sorta suffer from being one of the more accessible game types with regards to development time and effort.

I loved the original Hallow Knight but I like platformers like that. I will say though there there has not really been a stand out in the genera as of late which is also contributing to the popularity.

Good trash or bad trash?

They are desperately trying to be the Netflix of games. That is why they keep buying IP, studios and publishers. They are buying content for that service.

Boutique hardware doesn’t help that. You need that service on every and anything.

Also from the Xbox perspective this is mostly Asus taking the risk hardware wise. Microsoft are just adding some bigger grips on the side.

I preface this with the caveat that all grants are subjective and you can like what you like.

Stardew Valley is a love letter to the harvest Moon games(and I guess rune factory as well). If you have ever encountered those games you immediately know what to do in Stardew.

I think where Stardew is different is that it came later and benefited massively from the “cozy game” popularity.

While I played harvest Moon on a super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Gameboy my girl friend who did not have that exposure growing up loves Stardew. This generational and gender Crossing game has tapped markets that were not available back then. Couple that with the fact that at this point you can play that game on basically any platform from phone to console, new and old and it’s totally understandable why this headline might be true.

I have not played a Forza game since the first one. What did they do to muck it up? I assume the usual live service / micro transactions cancer.

It does not but the game industry has a lot of parallel to the movie industry l where some parts are very unionized.

Any male dominated channel that ever “gives advice” gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.

I like stand up comedy and it’s a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.

I mean they don’t make it very hard to play their first party Games. Just pay the online free. The main issue is that not all of those games from 1997 are their games. They are just made for their system.

They are that’s true, but it’s because their parents bought it for them when they were young.

I mean I’m pretty sure the massive game sizes we see today are almost exclusively caused by high res textures and assets.

No no those other countries will pay the tariffs.

No shit right.

People need to stop anthropomorphizing corporations. They are not moral and simply respond to incentives.

They earned good will saying black lives matter and now they earn political will by saying trans lives don’t.

Popeye might lend itself nicely to a cuphead like game.

Hardware takes a long time to change.

A temporary patch while we wait for hardware is the way to go.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.

They already fixed it in software we don’t need to prioritize the hardware fix.

Lol yeah. Stripe is B2B and working with billing code is the worst trifecta of difficult, boring and very important. No company is swapping out for the Palestinians.

3000s were good and the 4000s were bad value for a long time. I went AMD this generation for the first time. Gott a 7900xtx for a lot less than a 3080/4080. Prices have come down a bit though.

I enjoyed the first two. Missed the third one. Maybe I’ll pick it up for a rainy day.

That used to be the case but I wonder if it still is.

Modern software is loaded down with telemetry and crash reporting. So the software itself is likely doing the reporting at this point.

Linux definitely has more weird permutations with regards to software and hardware and would expect it to produce more issues just based on that.

I would be perfectly content if it was just a content update.

I go there to buy Nintendo games because I don’t trust Nintendo not to do weird crap with their digital goods.

That’s my uninformed assumption.

I was in to this one too but it made me car sick in the worst way. Eventually I just put it down and didn’t go back