I’m still salty. I bought a quest 1 back when it first was released thinking this is the future. Bought a bunch of games and loved it. 3 years later, the very games I BOUGHT and PLAYED through the meta store are no longer “compatible with my device”. How the hell can something I already own and played for hours suddenly not work? I hate it, especially hate FB and all it’s garbage trying to force us to buy the latest crap. I now own an expensive paper weight. Bah!
Wow. I’m honestly shocked. My Oculus CV1 still has support. I had been considering the Quest 3 for a while, but the attachment to Meta was my hesitation. I had already decided to go with the Index by this point, but this just further confirms it’s the right way to go. Obviously a much more expensive option, but if it means I don’t have a paperweight in a few years, it’s worth it in the end.
Valve: “We helped develop the open-source technologies that lets you run ancient abandonware from defunct studios for an obsolete version of a completely different operating system, on a handheld, for free.”
Facebook: “You know that game you bought that you were playing just fine like 10 hours ago? Yeah it isn’t compatible anymore despite the completely static hardware and software. Only solution I see is buying a shiny new expensive device from us and making a Facebook account, there just isn’t any other way.”
Such bizzare moment when someone acknowledged megaten series and its fanbase on this kind of forum.
Fallout 1(!) and 2 is still enjoyable due to its turn based and variety of char build. Although may be frustating if you do not understand how the game played.
Meanwhile on Saints Row series, the best are on 1 & 2 (back when they have more grounded story though they have whacky side content).
But old games would sometimes ask me to register the software to get free help and updates or whatever. And I had to click no thanks every time I installed one of those games. I thought it was suuuch a hassle.
If funny now, but if we’re honest with ourselves, it still pissed us off, then.
It felt like I would always find that damn screen sitting there waiting on an answer, after leaving the installer running overnight. I would click “no thank you” and then see “your installer is starting, progress 0%”.
Sorry but there’s water damage on this digital live service, we cancelled your account and billed you for the time it took us to do it. By entering our service center you agreed to the terms that we will charge you fer word spoken at a rate of $0.99 per word unless you have our live service subscription as a live service gamepass which gives you rewards points for every $100 spent at our location in the Nevada desert.
Having fun? When you gave us $80, that gave you access to the shit version of our game which makes you nothing but a lowly boatswain. If you actually wanted the “Full Game” you need to cough up the whole $120, bucko. Also we have a Battle Pass, that lets you speed through it like a Pirate Boss through if you go Premium.
I don’t, I stopped buying AAA games a long time ago. I stopped buying a lot of games in general, because this kind of greed and enshittification has sucked a lot of joy out of something that I used to enjoy. But that isn’t a fix for the problem.
A relative handful of boycots won’t do much in the face of manufactured demand and market dominance.
Just stop buying games is essentially the “don’t like it, leave it” argument. And if you simply leave quietly, little changes. This is a discussion that should be had, and not just about games. This business model is bad for consumers, it’s pervasive across many industries, and far too many people just swallow the bullshit most corps spew about it’s supposed advantages.
These issues need to be pointed out, this needs to be a subject of public discourse. It should remain in the public eye until consumer rights are respected. It’s not about just not buying games, we should be pushing for better options.
Game consumers have little say now that it has gone mainstream. “Normies” are content buying the latest, hottest games and dropping them for the next latest, hottest games in an endless loop. It’s disappointing to witness and I’m not even a gamer.
Games generally shipped in a completed state because you couldn’t release some broken, unfinished garbage and just patch it later. DLC used to be expansions for half the price of the original and included a lot more than just gun skins and keychains.
Someone has clearly forgotten the Video game crash of 1983. Where games weren’t shipped in finished states and they just didn’t fix it. At least now they can attempt to patch and fix the games.
Just that, and then you somehow end up with 3 credits that will forever be stuck there because nothing ever cost anything that can make the 3 go away. So you will never have a round number of credits again.
Haven’t played anything these last several days, save a little bit of Cogmind. I don’t really enjoy traditional roguelikes, because there’s usually no real incentive to play them (i.e. story, atmosphere, engaging gameplay etc.), and, honestly, I just suck at them lol. But I do keep coming back to that one, because it’s just so immersive! And, for some reason, I get Blame! vibes from it; I guess it’s because of the whole abandoned facility full of robots thing.
Some other things I’m planning to do:
I’ve finished the main story of Yakuza 0 and now plan to do the remaining substories. After that, I’ll finally move on to Kiwami
Finished one ending of Lunacid, and will try to get to the rest (plus collect all the weapons and magic rings). While I tried my best to not use wikis or guides (so as not to spoil the secrets), I think this time I’ll probably need one. Well, FromSoft and FromSoft-inspired games really do be like that lol
Well “far cry fans” are wrong. Far cry 2 is probably the last mildly risky game Ubisoft ever produced and was way ahead of its time in a lot of aspects.
Yeach as far as climate goes it was great. The only unfortunate choice were the endlesly respawning guardpost (?) not sure about the name. But it was a massively ubfortunate point. It really made the game go from very good to throwing your controler in rage very fast.
Respectfully disagree. It’s the captured roadblocks that turn the late game of other far cry games boring. FC2 was constantly dangerous. Arriving at a mission start point was an adventure. You had the option to Leroy Jenkins into the roadblocks, beat a wide path around them, take the bus, or 30 other things in between.
That’s why the later games make unlocked bases into fast travel points, because once defeated, there is no point in revisiting anything.
You know what, when I played it I really hated these respawning roadblocks because I thought they were immersion breaking and “annoying”, but thinking about it, most of my better memories about random gunfights were around these roadblocks, so I agree with you, especially the late game thing.
You are not, it’s just fanboys who have perverse need for allegiance for no other reason than to geek out over something that are not touching anything before their time. To me Fallout is the first two games, and perhaps New Vegas even though engine is dogshit.
Are you using the US or the Japanese numbering? US 2 was pretty good. Japanese 2 was still super early and closer to 1, so not very complex. I found that one to be fairly dull.
It falls into the style of RPG that is more like reading a book than having freedom to do whatever you want. Some people really like that story aspect.
Dunno about Yakuza but sounds fine for all but warcraft. World of ruined the franchise for me. I just wanted more of the same. Also I thought persona was part of megami tensei.
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