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Doing my part in Helldivers at the moment.

That game gets my brain firing on all cylinders and although it has It’s frustrating moments, I’d say that overall I think it’s great. It’s one of the few 'Live-Service" games I actually enjoy.

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Obligatory short list of great old school RPGs:

Fallout 1 & 2

Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2

Icewind Dale

Planescape Torment

(I think Neverwinter Nights belongs on the list as well, but I can’t attest to it as I’ve never played it.)

You can pick up most of them from GOG.COM for cheap.

There should be enough to keep you occupied for a while.

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Just Windows PC. There’s a few of them that people have tried to get to run on Linux over the ages, but success rates varies.

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It’s been a while since I gave it a shot myself. I haven’t fiddled with “The Great Old Ones” on Linux since back in the late 90’s. So you’re likely more of a proper authority on the matter than I.

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That’s too bad. They’re really good games. But good Luck with the search.

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That goes for quite a few pvp games.

The best camouflage is noob skin, they’ll never know what hit them.

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Or just have their negative belief confirmed.

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Subnautica and Raft are my go-to relaxed-fuzzy-happy games. Being able to do things at my own pace and just noodle around with whatever I feel like is nice.

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That’s more of a battle between players. The more we buy mtx, the more will be shoved in and the less actual game for everyone.

The best Larian can do is keep being a better example.

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All the more reason to keep it “quite” and expansive like the first game.

BZ was so noisy and tiny. That, combined with other players would be terrible.

I think OG Subnautica could be fun with a Co-op mode. But any more players than that would ruin it.

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Personally, I’d say anything on PC that goes Storefront Exclusive or require a Subscription to play is an automatic “no go.”

And MS leans quite a bit on both of those concepts.

But alas, the rest of the world seems to be of a differente mind. So eventually everything not indie will likely go down that road.

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Both yes and no. Epic hasn’t gotten anything out of their attempt. Xbox is another matter, they are still trying. It was more or less the point of buying all those developer studios. They are just not rushing it. But yeah, the plan is to get the Game Pass concept to a certain point of normalization. Which they’re quite close to achieving.

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Palworld isn’t a MS Exclusive and the studios they bought haven’t churned out anything of note, yet. So it makes sense there hasn’t been any inclination of sudden growth in subscriptions.

But as I said, it’s a long con. The plan remains the same, get Game Pass into as many homes as possible. Let subscription become the new standard. It’s Microsoft after all, their track record speaks for itself.

You don’t have to agree with me, time will tell if it works out for them or not. But as for my part, I’m still actively against it and will stick to my guns about “Subscription Services and Storefront Exclusivity” being a no go.

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“Doomsday Scenario” might be a bit much as a descriptor. XD

And yes, be it Nintendo, Sony, EGS or whatever, it’s the same deal. The biggest difference is simply that MS is so big that it not even close to a risk for them. As long as Xbox’s income evens out to zero and they aren’t actively losing money, it’s “a win” and they can easily make up for it and add to it until it starts making money. But it already does, so…

A juggernaut that size is hard to contend with and usually gets it’s way.

It will be interesting to see how many of InXile, Obsidian, Bethesda and ActivisionBlizzards future games will be Windows Store and Xbox exclusives. (timed or otherwise.) They are the new bargaining chips after all.

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Freespace 1 & 2 deserve a mention here. Old games, so smaller in scope than modern games. But I feel they can compete still.

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A bunch of old Sierra games. Like the Space Quest series.

Great games, but unforgiving. Having a walkthrough on hand is a must as a few sections are close to impossible without one

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Yes, but I’m talking about in this day and age. There are no Hint Books or Hotlines anymore. So we fall back on ye olde walkthroughs, as without them, the games are close to impossible.

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I doubt any of the devs working on it really wants to.

This game’s existence seems very ordered from the higher-ups. The model seems in tune with that estimate.

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Yeh, but It’s still EGS… So, do we care? Are… are we caring about this?

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We all have our own principles.

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Yeah, but what EGS is doing isn’t competition.

If they had stuck with being a cheaper alternativ for Indie Devs and maybe followed it up with even more favorable deals for using their Engine and being on their platform, I wouldn’t have had a problem with them. It would have been a good strategy to compete with Valve.

Like GOG did with retro games. Tapping into something Valve didn’t focus on.

But they didn’t. It all came down to a shitty attempt at Storefront Exclusivity. And that isn’t competition, that is just removing customer choice.

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The Devs take a pay for timed exclusivity and this helps development.

This is only in the case of Indie Devs. And again, only if the deal is struck before the game is done. For any studio tied to a publisher, it’s just money up front for the publisher.

Plus, I remember the stories some Devs told of how egs tried to strong-arm them into going exclusive. Didn’t score them any bonus points in my book.

But as I said, everyone has they’re own principles.

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It doesn’t cost them any more. They already paid an estimate of sales.

All you’re doing is telling them is that they’ve got your attention.

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I’m pretty much against exclusivity as a whole.

I’d prefer if corporations competed with better tech and services.

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Booted the old Warframe and Path of Exile accounts back up. It’s been a hot minute.

Those two old games are still fantastic. And they just keep getting bigger! There’s always new content coming out.

I’m also trying out a new build in Baldurs Gate 3, which is always fun.

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A solid first step. Sadly, I don’t think it will bring back any semblance the old Blizzard.

I think it’s damaged beyond repair.

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I’m not talking Bobbys Blizzard.

I’m talking really old Blizzard, before WoW and Overwatch.

When they where still the good guys in gaming.

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In that case it has always been there.

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Gotta love Bethesda going all “You think you want it, but you really don’t.” Like Blizzard back in the days.

I have to admit, I find the entire thing immensely entertaining.

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It was about WoW Classic. Here’s the clip

But in the end WoW Classic did indeed become a thing.

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In Bethesdas case, they’ve been going down this road for a while now and have just refused to listened to any criticism along the way.

Eventually that turned into F76 and Starfield.

The fact that they are telling people “they are wrong for finding the game boring” is funny. But that Beth won’t learn anything from this is just sad.

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I can’t actually think of anything off the top of my head. After I stopped buying AAA titles from the obvious scummy companies, pretty much everything has been at least as good as expected.

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It looks like Bethesdas Fallout.

Hopefully the writing will be better.

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bring in a bunch of people who know nothing about the franchise, forbid them from learning about the franchise, and then we’ll market to people who don’t care about the franchise.

That was basically what happened between Fallout 2 and Fallout 3.

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Not trying to get up your hopes. That would just be cruel of me.

But TES is still their flagship IP. It’s likely to get a more “cautious” treatment than both Starfield and Fallout.

Starfield was Bethesdas version of “ambitious”. And Fallout is just a testing grounds for whatever is trending.

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Yes, they’ve been quite clear about not wanting to use anything else.

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Or just repurposed.

When one game stops generating money, it’s time to roll out the next and sell new collectables. And it’s gonna need a server to store it on, right?

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Just from a quick search about the case, it seems to hold very little water.

Hell, it’s already been dismissed once.

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Nah, there’s just not enough of actual old titles that could do with a remake or remaster.

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Just got ‘Metal: Hellsinger’ It’s pretty fun take on the Doom-like Shooter genre.

Also got ‘Dredge’. Very chill, while being a creepy lovecraftian fishing game.

Both games are really good, if a bit short. But for the discounted price, the length of them is just fine.

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Don’t worry too much about it. It’s part of the Role-Playing charm.

After my own first couple of playthroughs with “serious characters” I just started screwing around with fun builds.

The “Double Chaos” sorceror is fun and stupid way to complete the game. Sometimes I’m a doomsday machine in battle, others times I’m a sheep…

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It’s times like these where flash games are missed a little extra.

Armorgames.com had a ton of fun games that would have been perfect for pads and such.

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Overcoming a challenge is fun.

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It’s a good game.

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I don’t know about Game Of The Year. But Zelda definitely deserves a few catagories under it’s belt.

My money is on BG3 for Goty. It addressed a ton of the complaints there had been circulating about modern games for the last 10 years.

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Which is weird when you think about how dependent Bethesda is on the Modding Community.

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It was pretty much one of the biggest lessons of the whole covid affair. The groundfloor personel is the most essentiel part of everything. Without, the whole system collapses.

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Modern Warfare 2, maybe?