I may check out this GOG eventually. Accounts, subscriptions, micro transactions, and criminal proprietary extortion are why I stopped gaming for the most part. For me, it has been full-source or fuck off for a long time. I cannot fix stupid in anyone else but me. I will not support criminal extortion and bank account skimming scams. They only exist because people have no real moral depth and self respect to say no.
I dont really need it but good launchers make things easier, especially on linux where sometimes a specific patch or version of something like proton is needed and i dont want to spend hours figuring it out by trial and error.
Im not a fan of launchers being required though, thats just DRM. But projects like Heroic launcher and Lutris are incredibly nice to have. Steam is alright, its hard to hate on a company that has done as much for linux gaming as valve has, but they do have their problems.
Updating all of my games is a huge boost. I also enjoy the sync feature as I may play the same game on my desktop, HTPC, and Steam Deck. I like GOG allowing installing without their launcher, but I still just install games through Heroic Games Launcher for the same reasons as above.
Depending on how you make the game some launchers can make sense. You can set display options before launching the game. Back in ye olden times some games would launch by default in a set resolution which often made changing that in-game difficult as it would be off screen. Also makes your first time launching it a better experience than some low-res garbage. Also, without a platform like steam they can handle updates.
That being said, I don’t think most modern games need those functions. Graphics engines are pretty good at getting screen resolution from your os (not perfect). And platforms handle patches and updates.
Now they’re mostly there to gather metrics and shove ads in your face, and enforce drm.
I use steam for the ability to plug in any controller I want and instantly be able to use it. I can download controller maps from the community on the fly.
I can stream straight to my TV and play in any room with a TV in it with zero effort. I can join my friends games with two clicks. Remote play allows you to play games you don’t even own with your friends. Works on linux. Integrated workshop. Easy modding.
I use gog for older games not on steam. Works on linux. (Heroic at least)
I could go on with steam, but those are the key points stands alone games don’t offer.
If you want a bit more depth to the lamb check out the games social media pages - they have a lot of fully voiced clips of lore, shenanigans and shitposts.
I’m also not usually a fan of roguelite games but this one hooked me back in 2022 or whenever it released. Been replaying it recently due to the dlc that was just released and it’s still really enjoyable.
I think it’s partly because of normally in roguelite games when you start out you always lose runs until you unlock enough meta upgrades to become stronger. In this game you have a chance from the very start to finish runs which feels way more satisfying to me.
I think you summed it up perfectly, there’s not an awful lot of grinding (if that’s the right word) to beat a level. I’m sure there’s other roguelikes like that, but this is the first one I had a brush with
Say goodbye to whatever in-game morals you think you have. CotL is wildly addicting in an amusing way.
You’re pretty much right on the money that the lamb is kind of a “blank slate” for a player self-insert. Freedom of choice (for you, not your followers, ofc) is the name of the game.
When I had noticed that I could sacrifice one of my followers in a skill tree, I figured I might have to sacrifice some of my own morals. It does make me tempted to try to keep as many morals as possible though just for the challenge
I really had fun with it though the city building aspect starts to feel too loading bar heavy. I wish they had a more clever way to disguise that aspect of it.
I always assume it’s because i do so much Halo. Which, i mean, i think is a fair opinion for someone to have. I do post a lot of Halo stuff. Though, i knew one guy who wouldn’t give Halo a try, as he saw it as “Mid-Sci-fi slop”, which is… certainly an opinion. Can’t say it’s one i even come close to being able to agree with.
I feel like Halo could be equated to like “early Federation” from Star Trek (I’m not a Trekkie, but I know some things).
Like how humanity discovers FTL space travel and the rest of the galaxy opens up to them and we meet a technologically superior faction of advanced alien races. That’s probably where the similarities end, but it does paint a slightly hopeful light on humanity’s future, even if it is entirely fiction.
What really should bother us here is that the dead area applies to the farms but not the mills, iirc. It causes farms on the right side to be verifiably more efficient because farmers prefer the left side for pathing.
The whole mill perimeter is usable equally despite the way it looks, ironically enough.
Also farms that far away from the mills bothers me. Hate it when the French? campaigns do that.
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