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jjjalljs, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

I find it kind of funny how games are becoming more mainstream, but every once in a while I still meet people that are like “games are a waste of time”. But then again I guess people said that about movies and tv and still do sometimes.

Also I’ve been playing guild wars 2 again. Base game is like 10 years old but it’s still fun

afronaut,

I think the people who often say this feel some personal guilt for how much time they feel they’ve wasted instead of doing whatever it is in life they have yet to achieve. It’s a matter of perspective.

als, do games w The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025

My RX480 from 2016 is still kicking, if crashing a bit. At this rate when it breaks I’ll just use my steam deck docked instead of selling my liver to buy a new GPU

stevedice,

Less than a year since I upgraded from my RX580 and I only did it because I got an amazingly stupid deal on a RX7600 ($175 about 3 months after launch). Otherwise, the card is fine and is, in fact, still being used on my cousin’s PC.

psoul,

I have an RX580 as my eGpu. I was thinking of upgrading this year as I got a new laptop. Works great though.

LiveLM,

Rocking this Polaris until it Explodis

YungOnions, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer
@YungOnions@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re even remotely interested in Warhammer 40k, the Rogue Trader CRPG is excellent

…steampowered.com/…/Warhammer_40000_Rogue_Trader/

criss_cross,

I love Rogue Trader so much.

I wish more of the game was like act 2. That’s where the game really shines

Ketram,

Owlcat in general, despite their buggy releases, make absolutely ambitious and exciting games that are terrifically well written. Wrath of the Righteous is my favorite CRPG out there, and Rogue Trader is close to that as well.

drunkpostdisaster,

That game was far better then it had any right to be.

Still waiting on an imperial guard focused game though.

Galle_,

Rogue Trader is actually good, but people who eat up medieval fantasy slop like BG3 will probably hate it.

djsoren19, do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Hey wow, look what happens when we don’t buy their games and loudly organize to tell others not to buy their games over this bullshit!

There’s still nothing Sony puts out that I really think is all that good, but hopefully this serves as another message to the industry to stop with this dumb bullshit. Funny how Sony has been getting a lot of those kinda messages recently.

Pyr_Pressure,
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca avatar

I might just buy one of their games now to support their decision.

I just don’t know how much I can trust them to keep their word and not just brick the game in the future until an account is made.

GoodEye8,

I recommend waiting until they revert the restrictions on countries that can’t have PSN. That’s the indicator on how serious they actually are about making PSN optional. So far the restrictions are in place so fuck em.

pyre,

games are famously terrible at boycotts. if people didn’t buy spidey2 the most probable reason is that the reviews are full of thumb downs saying it runs like shit even on the best hardware.

Etterra, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

Good, live service games are cancer.

billwashere,

And then they die when the servers are no longer maintained. Make more standalone games that don’t require servers.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Or at least release the server code when you shut the game down, so anyone can spin up a server of their own. Community servers are fine, but you should always be able to host your own for friends to play on.

john89,

I disagree, they have their place. Counterstrike, for example.

Call of Duty and Battlefield would be better if they followed Counterstrike’s release model.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

cancelled God of War sequel

“That’s bad!”

Live service

“That’s good!”

PieMePlenty, do games w Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions'

I thought OG Diablo devs made Torchlight, which is an excellent game.

Gamoc,

The first two are great. The latest one is shite.

PieMePlenty,

T1 was enough to scratch an itch. T2 was the complete experience. Never tried T3. I remembe they made it an MMO at first but changed it later? No clue.

Gamoc,

I agree with you completely about the first two. I actually reviewed the third.

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

T3 was supposed to be a microtransaction trash game. They changed their minds during development but it came out weird/bad as a result.

Jessica,

The same composer worked on both as well

Murvel, do games w After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages

No good deed goes unpunished after all

unexposedhazard, do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

Come back when you can argue without the “but the kids” line of thinking.

Nima, do games w Morrigan isn't just my favourite Dragon Age character, she's the greatest fantasy RPG companion of all time
@Nima@leminal.space avatar

she is canonically one of the most bratty, self serving characters in the series.

she acts like she’s hot shit until her plans go wrong, then she cowers and freaks out. she’s absolutely obsessed with getting her way. she tries to play like emotions are weakness, then instantly caves to her own because if its her emotions its different somehow. “Oh no the consequences of my actions?!”

Morrigan isn’t even as cool as Flemeth was. She’s a shitty power-grabbing dick who stomps her feet when she doesn’t get what she wants and behaves like everyone should worship the ground she walks on.

how tf is she the greatest RPG companion of all time, exactly? she’s not even a great companion in Origins.

GBU_28,

Sounds like the perfect favorite character for the internet

Nima,
@Nima@leminal.space avatar

people try to play the character off as “sassy”, but they’re honestly just blinded by tiddies imho.

seems to be a common affliction. lol

Stovetop,

There’s probably a reason why people apparently like her. Or two, actually.

GaMEChld, do games w Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld isn't just bad for the industry, it's bad for Nintendo

I for one am a lifelong Nintendo customer that has finally decided to boycott them moving forward. Plenty of other companies to support.

garretble, (edited ) do games w Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

“Gabe was quoted as saying, ‘Yesss, another yacht for me!’”

Edit: Oh sorry, when he’s our billionaire he’s cool, right?

PlasticExistence,

Uh, excuse me, but Gabe buys submarines thankyouverymuch

Kecessa,
tee9000,

Your name contains the name gabe.

Who is bending to corporate interests NOW??

Kecessa,

Preach brother, fuck all billionaires!

drunkpostdisaster,

As far as billionaires go it could be worse.

garretble,
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

For sure.

But the nerds around here put him on a GIIIANT pedestal.

It’s OK to make fun of Gabe, guys, he doesn’t care about you as he tries to figure out which of his six or seven yachts to ride around on this weekend.

baatliwala,

Sounds like you care about the nerds more than they care about him? No one even mentioned him in this thread so what are you wafflin on about?

tee9000,

To be impartial, he has a fishing yacht, hospital yacht, research yacht. Seems like these are probably floating businesses? Anyone know in what capacity he uses them?

Does bezos lease out his yacht to customers to help pay for itself or are these literally just sitting and being maintained for personal use? I guess i dont really know much about yachts.

rdri,

Steam getting better isn’t linked to anyone becoming a billionaire. That sentiment sounds like people can’t stop looking for things to blame Valve for.

Is it too difficult to accept that every single company failed in competing with Steam? I’d say they didn’t even try their best (especially Epic). Must’ve assumed that just serving a website with a web app is all they needed to get as rich as Gabe.

scrubbles, do games w Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam
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Guillemot said the same thing in a subsequent trading update call with analysts.

So stockholders demanded it lol

overload, (edited ) do gaming w The eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit

Bad headline but reasonable argument within. Concord probably failed for the reasons people outlined, sure.

The point is that peoples fingers aren’t quite as on the pulse of what will make something successful as what we give ourselves credit for. We attribute reasons for something’s success or failure after the fact.

Personally, I don’t know what makes a hero shooter successful or not. A game like this could be going gangbusters for some reason in 6 months time and I would probably not understand why. I say that as someone who’s been an avid gamer over the last 30 years.

TheEighthDoctor, do games w Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month

I have to try it again, the first time I tried I didn’t understand anything or what I was suppose to be doing.

Shiggles,

If my experience is anything to go by, you mug everybody you see, steal everything in their wallet to “identify them”, interrogate them while vomiting drunk in their apartment, and maybe solve a murder or two on accident.

Makhno,

So this is just an American cop sim? Minus the spousal abuse

bionicjoey,

There is a tutorial mission to show you some of the basics.

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