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cypher_greyhat, do games w Scientists use Age of Empires 2 to investigate how ants wage war

By getting stuck on certain invisible objects and walking back & forth on the spot because pathfinding algorithm glitched. Also, walking up and down a riverside because an enemy was spotted at the other side.

rikudou, do games w Fables creator places Wolf Among Us universe in public domain amid clash with DC over Telltale adaptation
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

Wow, that’s great! I loved the games and I loved the comics!

simple, (edited ) do games w Fables creator places Wolf Among Us universe in public domain amid clash with DC over Telltale adaptation

Holy cow, that’s huge. Fables is a very well-beloved universe, good on him for giving it to the public. I hope this opens the door for an adaptation of the comics. Alan Moore would be proud.

fogetaboutit, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

If sims 5 doesnt allow my sims to exit the house without loading screen, then it isnt worth it

geosoco,

The loading screen is optional DLC. Definitely not a micro-transaction. Just very small DLC.

Kolanaki,
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I want to actually watch them do their jobs, too. Not just enter a building and forcing me to watch time go by for the 8 hours they are there. I don’t care if they’re just packing boxes for Samazon; I mean, I will watch them watching TV. Watching them do boring stuff isn’t that boring.

bionicjoey,

Agreed. Working is the worst part of the Sims. They make you just fucking sit there for all that time staring at the outside of a building

fogetaboutit,

yeah, jobs on sims 3 is basically entering a building and waiting. With an occasional prompt about “what should your sims do?”

DocBlaze,

you never used open careers mod? it sort of works how like university life did. you get career progression from using associated objects, and are otherwise are free to talk to your coworkers, grab lunch, etc during the work day.

fogetaboutit,

That sounds awesome actually, but no im not aware of it. I think it would be nice if its integrated tho

archon, do games w Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material

I bought and played it a bit some months ago. It’s an interesting RTS/4X blend with the “realtime with pause”. For me the game wins in originality, with some novel systems I didn’t see before.

Not super memorable, but a nice change of pace if you want a middle ground between Civ and C&C. Buy on sale (was not so pricy either iirc).

Hyrulian, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC
@Hyrulian@lemmy.world avatar

Whelp at least Paralives could be fun? Or that other one being worked on by Paradox? We honestly just need someone to save us at this point. Anything else would do so well even if it wasn’t quite as polished. It just needs to be feature complete at launch.

Summzashi, (edited )

Life by you is the Paradox one, it honestly doesn’t look good.

MrScottyTay,

Looks like a porn game without the porn

RixMixed,

Give the modders at least an hour.

ShaggySnacks,

An hour!? More like when the game launches.

wahming, do games w Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material

Was interested, but looking at the steam reviews there’s no campaign, just a bunch of strung together skirmish maps. And it sounds like another case of EA abandoned as full release.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I loved Dune on Sega Genesis, and it had a great campaign IIRC. It’s too bad, because if this had a decent campaign, I’d probably get it out of nostalgia.

raptir,

There’s a campaign, just not a story mode. It’s a conquest-style, like what Dune 2 pretended to have (but was obviously scripted). Like Dawn of War: Dark Crusade or Soul Storm.

wahming,

So… Just a bunch of strung together skirmish maps?

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Pretty sure they already had decent free to play Sims games on mobile a long time ago. Not sure how good the current one is.

The current base game is free to play as well with paid DLC. So they are taking the form that works for them.

People will by DLC if they want to and others get to enjoy a the base game for free.

The Sims has been pretty shit since the Sims 3.

doctorcrimson,

Sims 4 base game is actually already free on steam. I hear from a good friend, not me personally, that it has some great porn mods on the lovers lab site. Some bad mods, too.

DocBlaze, (edited )

I’m the good friend and will confirm

hydroel, (edited ) do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

The Sims 4 base game is already free. So if I’m understanding this correctly, EA, of all game publishers, is announcing that, against all odds, a free-to-play game with in-game MTX is an efficient business model that they want to promote? This might not be related at all that the Sims has always been a license that caters to the general, not particularly gamer audience.

Toribor,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

With Sims 4 already being F2P this announcement just means they are once again going to resell the same content back to you at a premium. Piecing up their game even more.

SatanicNotMessianic, do games w Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material

Do sonic tanks have one mapsquare greater range than turrets, making choosing House Atreides an I Win button?

It’s been about 30 years since Dune 2 came out.

ConditionOverload, do games w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists
@ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

Weird to think it was because of a remake. The game isn’t old and still holds up very well.

GreenMario,

Last of Us part 1 remake says hi

mateomaui,

Yeah but the original wasn’t on PC for TLoU

Virkkunen,
@Virkkunen@kbin.social avatar

They didn't remake the game so they could port it to PC, they did it so they could sell more banking on the triple dippers

mateomaui,

Both is correct.

I mean if you don’t understand that they’ve ported or remade their PS exclusives to PC because they also wanted a new untapped player base that didn’t own playstations, I don’t know what to tell you, brah.

Endorkend, (edited )
@Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

It's not weird to think as the remake being in the works has been reported many months before they pulled the game from Steam.

It's a decade old and big studios are creatively bankrupt, so they just love simple redoing old shit and reusing the old work.

Skyrim wasn't the game that started this shit, but it sure was what popularized it with studios.

Daefsdeda,

It holds up well until you try to run it. Terrible issues on PC they never fixed…

ConditionOverload,
@ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

Weird, I don’t get those issues on my PC. I usually install it every year at least once to play through it.

Daefsdeda,

I think it can go one of two ways. Either it runs fine

Or you need windows 98 compatibility mode, change some ini setting, set physx or whatever its called to off and be finally able to play.

Then see yourself standing in your ships boundaries, unable to move. This all happened to me and I just stopped playing.

It did play well a few years back but that was on windows 8.

InEnduringGrowStrong, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

Prepare for microtransaction hell

MountainWizard,
@MountainWizard@feddit.de avatar

Just by reading the headline I can tell that’s will be a terrible Game. But it will make a lot of money.

fsxylo, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

We’re releasing 100 chairs each sold separately.

Squander, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Its free-to-play but you need to buy the housing/eating/sleeping/jobs/relationships DLC.

Voroxpete, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Totally unrelated, but that “Totally not The Sims” game that Paradox are developing looks pretty great, huh?

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