No fuckin way, been itching to play ds3 ever i beat ds1 for the… 5th time or so 😂 my top 5 must try are: ds3, elden ring, no mans sky, bg3 and maybe ghost of tsushima
If you’ve seen the controversy around this guy in other circles (I’m thinking of that satire game creator who got harassing by Pirate Software and his fans) this wouldn’t really be a surprise and would be on brand.
Valve offers an optional DRM system that has “steam” in its name, and Steam imposes some (easily circumvented) inconveniences that are also imposed by DRM, but no, Steam itself is not a form of DRM.
Right, their DRM is minimally invasive, which is right in line with their argument that piracy is a service problem. If they offer a service where you can pay for games, have them licensed to a user account, and make the experience flow without interruption, people will accept it.
I was really mostly joking and what you’re saying is accurate.
Similar to why a recording of classic films are important. They serve as cultural touchpoints connecting individual experiences from a time and place long past. We retell stories from written literature for centuries and those are relatively difficult to preserve historically where video games are just a matter of storing a ROM on some file system
Idk if I’d call it a replacement per se but elden ring is an excellent large open world game with some really good variety of weapons / spells to play with. It also rewards exploration really well with secret loot and even entire secret areas
The cheery on top of this shit sundae is truly him framing Ross as some bully sending his toxic fan base against him when Ross has given him more than enough grace and benefit of the doubt
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel Tears of the Kingdom is overrated. Yes, it has some welcome quality-of-life improvements, and yes, it has more content than its predecessor, but I find the characters less interesting, the environments less inspired, and the encounters more repetitive. Every time I pick it up again, I get bored within a couple hours and go back to another play-through of Breath of the Wild.
I would vote for Baldur’s Gate 3 over TotK without hesitation.
It’s an unpopular opinion but as I see it, TOTK is wildly overrated, as is BotW. Yes, they are very polished and certainly good games but the 10/10 across the board made me doubt my sanity. The latest Zeldas are basically Ubisoft open worlds with a couple mechanics borrowed from Garry’s mod. It’s fun the first few hours but the lack of variety and absence of any writing really make it dull IMHO. I managed to finish BotW for the novelty and the occasional detail (the lightning hitting you when holding metal is a nice touch) but I’d die if my life depended on me remembering any character interactions. BG3 Otoh, not only is it also very polished, it has sublime combat and absolutely unforgettable characters. Truly a masterpiece.
I played it at release and didn’t have very many bugs. I could see players having issues with the freedom that it gives though. The whole point of the game is it doesn’t tell you how to solve problems, and you need to come up with solutions yourself. I could see people coming from playing only modern AAA games not being used to thinking for themselves and that causing issues, but I don’t know if this is what you meant.
Yeah, performance was much worse in act 3. That’s true. It’s a top down turn based game, so 30 FPS was acceptable for me. Still, it wasn’t ideal. I think that’s been improved now if you wanted to give it another go.
I played FarCry 3 forever ago and to this day I remember the plot and Vaas Montenegro. I remeber Siegmeyer of Catarina, from DS which for all intents and purposes has a not so intelligible story. This just to name a few. I spent the same amount of hours on BotW as FC3 much more recently and can’t for the life of me remember any characters. I found them bland and uninteresting. That’s just me and I completely understand people who love it.
Far cry 3 did have memorable characters but IMHO BOTW is a vastly more enjoyable game to play. The difference in gameplay is massive to me. I never finished Far Cry 3 as it was tedius to play, whereas I happily finished BOTW enjoying every minute.
Different strokes to different folks. Perhaps my longer experience with games makes me more blasé with the mechanics or other features of BotW. I found FC3 and BotW equally tedious in terms of core gameplay loop, except FC3, actually had a plot and occasional sublime moments that made finishing it less of a chore. BotW is an empty sandbox with a handful of enemies (even less if you consider more HP and different colour as not counting as new enemies) and forgettable characters and story. The technical side of it is quite impressive as is the visual design, however everything else is painfully mid.
That said, I disliked the combat in TW3 or the Batman and Spider Man series for being too floaty and unresponsive so, I’m overly picky I guess.
IMHO BG3 completely destroyed the curve. Even if you don’t like the genre, you have to tip your hat to what was accomplished in that game. It blew away Skyrim, Fallout 3, and all the classics in the genre and completely set a new level. The last time I was that impressed with a game was probably Ultima IV.
My point isn’t that, but how unanimous BG3 was. If you look at other years, there were still some juries that prefer one over the other, but not with BG3.
Lol, I have the exact opposite opinion. BotW took what made Zelda frustrating (annoyingly linear, samey, and poorly-explained) and gave you a whole world filled with puzzles and exploration!
Tell me you haven’t played the original Legend of Zelda without saying you haven’t played the original Legend of Zelda.
BOTW/TOTK are more like the very first Zelda game than any other Zelda titles.
Just like BG3 really isn’t all that different from BG1 and 2. Everyone so blown away by it saying it raised the bar must be young as fuck, because it didn’t raise the bar. It just put it back where it was in the 90’s after it fell off the post. That isn’t to say it’s not great or deserving of GOTY over TOTK, though. Ideally, they both would win for different reasons.
Providing entertainment is useful value. How many thousands and thousands of years back do you need to look to finally hit a point where there is absolutely no evidence of some form of entertainment being “produced.”
Hell there are even animal bone “flutes” for making music going back to like the neanderthals or something like that.
We need to stop with this “if it doesn’t lead to making money it has no place in society” nonsense.
Edit: I think you can actually see the divergence between extracting value from games (AAA devs absolutely ruining their reputation seeking profit over entertainment) and creating entertaining games.
Doesn’t like the game he is eventually promising to finish require always online DRM? So ofc he wants to shut down something that would require him to long term support a product he’s invested into but hasn’t even brought to market. Super transparent conflict of interest.
In theory, if he actually finished and released his game relatively soon, he could do whatever he wants still.
One popular misconception about the SKG initiative is that it will require currently existing games to change to become compliant. That’s not actually what they’re asking for. They want new laws to come into place that would affect future games made. The SKG initiative fully accepts that there are some existing that are likely beyond saving.
There’s lots of different approaches, but I’ve had the same problem.
Steam lets you exclude tags, but they limit how many tags you can exclude so it’s basically a useless feature.
I go to steamDB and it has a ton of sorting options, including being able to exclude “Lovecraftian”, “visual novel”, “dating*”, etc
There’s also a great browser extension for Firefox which is my preferred browser. It enhances the Steam homepage (depending on how you configure it) and lets you do lots of things like quick-sell cards and other stuff.
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