I recently booted up Half-Life 2 to replay it. I have played the absolute shit out of this game before, so 60% of it just feels like a drag to me now. It was such an amazing game but it’s sort of spoiled for me after I’ve played it too much....
Indeed. I own a Nintendo Switch and Breath of the Wild but Nintendo says I’m not allowed to play it on my Steam Deck. I guess that’s the last time I buy something from them. Their games really are amazing though so it’s a shame.
The TLDR of the steam reviews seems to be to just buy and play the old ones. They are less pretty but much better mechanically and story wise. They also lack intrusive Denuvo DRM and data collection policies. I haven’t played the game personally but that seems to be the consensus from the top couple of reviews.
Personally this one will be staying on my wishlist for a few years.
Image shows screenshot of XCOM2: War of The Chosen: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Terms of Service, with an added Mandatory Arbitration clause in Section 15....
The Heroes of Might and Magic III, 25 years old and still awesome. I honestly think it’s the most replayable game ever (at least for me). Plenty of maps out of the box. Most of them can be played with a different town each time. If you’re done with that, you can change the difficulty. If you’re done with that, you can...
Yeah for these things I think having an option is best. I personally don’t play this way but I can see the appeal. I don’t really see the harm in letting people play how they want to play
Refunct. The perfect game for when your brain is fried after work imo. It’s super minimal so not something you can sink tens of hours necessarily into but it’s worth checking out for sure.
Oh wow, I had no interest at all in trying these previously. Reducing the quality of the games by adding ads and in app purchases is exactly the thing that will push me to give it a try.
Yeah exactly, he left because he finished the job he was there to do. Now they are acting like this is some kind of move to placate their customers as if it wasn’t the plan all along.
It’s definitely not starting from scratch, it’s just throwing away what they built so far.
To be honest though although I’m not a game dev it does seem like a pretty reasonable decision given presumably the difficulties of maintaining your own engine. This will hopefully allow them to invest more time into different parts of the game and avoid a repeat of the Cyberpunk launch. I wonder if that launch and issues that lead to it was a big part of the drive behind the decision.
That said, I am a bit worried about what seems to be a bit of a consolidation happening with game engines after Unity burning a lot of bridges and now CDPR not moving forward with their in house engine. It’d be nice to see some more competition in this space I think. That’s my layman’s take at least, maybe there are already plenty of options that I’m just not aware of.
This article leaves a lot to be desired imo. Some of the stuff in here you can see is incorrect just from launching into the main menu of the game.
Here is my personal take on Star Citizen as someone who’s been following the project from the beginning:
If it’s something that interests you, you should wait for a free fly weekend and try it out. The game is far from done but it’s fleshed out enough now that you can have fun if it’s your thing. If you think it’s not worth buying, don’t buy it. Then you can come back on the next free weekend to check it out again and see the progress.
Everything else is just noise. Yes the game has raised a lot of money, yes there has probably been mismanagement and development has been slow. Yes there’s still a ways to go before feature completeness.
TLDR: Who cares. Go play it if it’s your thing and have fun, or don’t and just forget about it until they hit 1.0 sometime who knows when.
Yeah, that’s fair enough. I think they should definitely give refunds to folks but that’s also the risk you take with backing a project. I’ve had plenty of disappointment with backing games, I don’t consider SC in that category but I can definitely understand people who do.
I didn’t see a source for the statistic in the article which is a bit disappointing as I’m really interested to learn more about it. It seems pretty high but also there’s quite a lot of uncertainty built into it.
From my experience with VR I found I got sick after a long enough time but was able to get my ‘vr legs’ and have much longer sessions even on more intense games like Windlands where you swing around like Spiderman (super fun if you have the stomach for it).
The other thing to note is that for me at least it’s a spectrum. It’s not just ‘VR makes me sick’ but it depends a lot of the game or activity and there are a bunch of ways for games to try and reduce it. It does take time to get used to some of them though.
Hopefully things become better with time and more folks get to enjoy it because it’s a lot of fun in my experience.
I buy games pretty much exclusively on Steam because of the Linux support (my gaming PC runs Linux only).
Hopefully more places follow suit because I believe competition is a good thing but for now it’s Steam all the way pretty much apart from Starsector and until recently Dwarf Fortress.
So pumped for this. Put in a bunch of hours back when it first came out in early access then decided to put it down until combat came out. Super excited to jump back in!
The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis' next social simulation. During today's latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without...
RIP Maxis. Who knows what kinds of awesome stuff we could have had. Oh well, at least Cities Skylines 2 is on the way. Haven’t played a Sims game in a long time but had such a blast with the earlier entries in the series.
Bungie lays off another 220 staff, acknowledging it was "overly ambitious" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
155 people also move to SIE; another 75 again are moved to work “with PlayStation Studios”
Do you know any singleplayer games that are infinitely replayable? angielski
I recently booted up Half-Life 2 to replay it. I have played the absolute shit out of this game before, so 60% of it just feels like a drag to me now. It was such an amazing game but it’s sort of spoiled for me after I’ve played it too much....
Nintendo Does What Everybody Else Nintendon’t - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Valve Let Team Fortress 2 Rot And They Should Feel Bad About It - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Homeworld 3 Reviews [opencritic - 80% average, 79% recommended] (opencritic.com) angielski
Damnatory Arbitration (lemmy.kde.social) angielski
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Heroes 3 appreciation post
The Heroes of Might and Magic III, 25 years old and still awesome. I honestly think it’s the most replayable game ever (at least for me). Plenty of maps out of the box. Most of them can be played with a different town each time. If you’re done with that, you can change the difficulty. If you’re done with that, you can...
I Love That Dragon’s Dogma 2 Doesn’t Let Me Save Scum - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series (kotaku.com) angielski
What is your game to de stress ?
I like mini motorways and stardew valley. What about you ?
Report: 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game (www.gamesindustry.biz) angielski
MSI demos a monitor that gives you an AI helping hand in League of Legends and it might stretch the boundaries of what's considered fair (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Netflix might add in-app purchases and ads to its games no one plays (www.vg247.com)
GitHub - arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games: A curated list of engineering-related video games rated Very Positive or higher on Steam (github.com)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake Is Dead - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch (www.eurogamer.net)
Valve says it is committed to the Steam Deck, has a "road map" (www.axios.com)
Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers (www.theverge.com) angielski
Disney CEO Deputies are pushing for Iger to transform Disney into a Gaming Giant (Perhaps via EA Acquisition). Currently non-committal. Rumor (www.resetera.com) angielski
Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available (www.cyberpunk.net) angielski
Mirror's Edge - Rainy Mod Project (www.youtube.com) angielski
Cyberpunk 2077 director says studio's switch from REDengine to Unreal Engine 5 'isn't starting from scratch' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Embracer and Sony Are Removing Every Trace of Knights of the Old Republic Remake They Can (techraptor.net) angielski
Counter Strike 2 is surprisingly awful on Steam Deck right now (www.pcgamesn.com) angielski
Yes, Phantom Liberty and patch 2.0 really are Cyberpunk 2077's 'last big updates' and it's finally time to start the sequel, director confirms (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
$600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen (exputer.com) angielski
Has Unity repaired the damage done by its Runtime Fee plans? (www.gamesindustry.biz) angielski
VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Why virtual reality makes a lot of us sick, and what we can do about it.
Cyberpunk 2077's Ukrainian localisation takes the piss out of Russia's war (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
Reworked skill trees and new minigames aside, Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 update includes a Ukrainian localisation of the game…
Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com) angielski
Dyson Sphere Program - Combat System: Rise of the Dark Fog Coming this December | TGS2023 (www.youtube.com) angielski
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review: perhaps the best expansion pack ever made (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
The week that changed PC gaming forever (Half life 2 and Steams release in 2004) (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat (www.bloomberg.com) angielski
Without pay-wall: archive.ph/QnQtX
The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski
The next Sims game currently goes under the name Project Rene rather than The Sims 5, but that aside, we know a growing amount about EA Maxis' next social simulation. During today's latest Behind The Sims community update, they shared more, including the news that the next entry in the series would be free-to-play and without...