D2R even dropped LAN play and backwards compatibility with classic D2. Those had both been promised during development.
And I would also like to play D4. The atmosphere in the beginning is great, really felt like Diablo 1. But apparently the rest of the game is more like D3 again so I’m not that salty that I can’t play.
There are a lot of games I simply don’t have the brainpower or energy for because of !myalgicencephalomyelitis. I have started Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect. But they’re too wordy for me. And I can’t bring myself to play them in a way where I don’t fully exhaust every conversation.
I hope I will be able to stomach the Gothic Remake. The original is one of my favourite games ever.
Yeah, I don’t know exactly what it is but I always feel like I don’t have enough overview in those. Like I can’t really make out the enemies. Apart from that I don’t really like the gem system. I think PoE 2 had something new but PoE2 is too hard on my brain unfortunately.
D2 exactly hits that sweet spot of simplicity and new mechanics for me. Although nothing beats the atmosphere of D1.
More like the local store suing Walmart for putting them out of business, but only after they pushed away all of their customers with bad ideas and flashy gimmicks
I had Nebula for a while, I did the $6 monthly plan. I got rid of it because I’m a broke bitch, but I really enjoyed the platform and there are many creators on there.
The most consistent DRG group I play with is women, so not that far fetched IMO. To your concern about leaking your IP, steam uses their own networking solutions to conceal your IP in non peer to peer games based on the settings under “Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking”. Check that and read up on the options and what they do.
conceal your IP in non peer to peer games based on the settings under “Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking”
Good tip thanks! Here’s the Steam page about it. The upshot seems to be that Steam itself won’t reveal your IP to others, but games might depending on how multiplayer is implemented.
“Steam doesn’t share your IP address with other players. Whenever peer-to-peer networking is needed, for example in a voice chat, that communication is always relayed. However, we don’t control what games using peer-to-peer connectivity do.”
“If a game uses our newest networking APIs (ISteamNetworkingSockets and ISteamNetworkingMessages), the traffic can be relayed using Steam Datagram Relay (SDR), Valve’s worldwide backbone and network of relays, and you can decide when to allow an app to share your IP address. Under Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking, there is an option that controls when your IP address is revealed”
and crucially regarding the default setting, “Default. This will not share your IP address, unless it appears necessary to avoid excessive ping times.”
I like my office chair. I have also been known to sit in a folding chair or kitchen table chair. Can’t stand “gaming chairs”. I sit in those things like a shrimp, and mangle my spine.
I think a big one to me is when the world doesn’t revovle around me, when things happen without player input because the player isn’t the centre of the universe. Every NPC just wating in stasis or walking on a preset loop forever until I hit the next event trigger really kills immersion.
Thrive (the npc cells undergo independant evolution and competition)
To a much lesser degree cyberpunk (and I would suspect fallout 4) with the correct mod sets can have the NPC factions carry out battles and limited warfare without any player intervention.
When the digital world is cohesive and interesting, it becomes a believable world to exist in. It requires excellent writing and good visual/sound design. Some games I’ve gotten immersed in: World of Warcraft, Skyrim, SOMA, System Shock 2, Prey, Outer Wilds, Breath of the Wild, No Man’s Sky
Fair enough, some people don’t care for shooters in general and some people don’t care for how Slow paced Halo can feel, especially the first 5 games which don’t have a dedicated sprint. I will keep having fun though, thank you!
I don’t. I was still buying physical releases and renting games from my local video stores until both things died out against my will.
Steam is convienent for the services they provide.
Since the USA is turning to shit, I try to buy from stores outside USA now so GOG is increasingly seeing more of my money. Let’s say Valve falls off or goes to shit after Gabe dies: I’m a skilled pirate so whatever.
Mostly I’m Ambivalent but kinda apathetic about launchers because I can just go and find whatever I potentially lose again elsewhere. A self educated privilege combined with grey morality I suppose. Or a resignation to an ever worsening reality I was born into without my say.
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