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The bullet hell thing has firm Axiom Verge vibes

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I would like NASA to try to fix me now. I too am a socially isolated remote worker who occasionally says insane things

Edit: Guys, all of a sudden I feel different

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The beforetimes

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That explains it. I grew up with the old stuff where he was just angry

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This is what steam is: a lesser form of ownership in exchange for the perks of the platform. I’ve come to prefer physical media first, DRM free second, and steam third. It’s just not as good of a value proposition to me compared to outright ownership (of the license to use the software, I know we don’t own “the game”).

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It’s sadly true. I have been lucky so far, but I know one day I’ll accidentally give money to a developer who does this

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I added the caveat simply because I didn’t want to get into it

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I admittedly don’t buy many games lately, especially not from the big budget crowd. BG3 seems to run fine without internet, as do Sea of Stars and Noita.

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Billy Basso is a protean talent. He built his own game engine and did AFAIK all the work on Animal Well, which on release was closer to its vision than any of the critically acclaimed games I’ve played from this decade.

I wish I could cloister myself for three weeks just to play AW. It is rich.

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This is hilarious. What?

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I guess I’m not as big of a dunkus fan as I thought

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I give this video a 5 out of 7, it has a little something for everyone. Shutting the website off now bye

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I love this idea. Steam library sharing would be amazing if it can be seamless.

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Gamers: be like this every time. Raising hell works.

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They value the goodwill of their users; being a privately owned company they have the luxury of thinking that far ahead.

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Two does have a slightly annoying beginning, but I forgive it. The original two games have such good writing the graphics don’t matter.

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When stealth is not optional: “Of course, what fun! …I’m going to fucking kill you.”

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Art is essential to the human experience.

Just because we like a newer kind of art doesn’t change anything about that

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If you want it to be good, it will still take hard work. Your own training data, your own ideas, your own work. There’s no way to do anything worthwhile with an LLM that takes no work or thought.

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Hawkish monetary policy has a way of making it hard to turn a profit on long horizon projects.

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I think I know that fucker

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You preserved a lot of people’s hard work and creativity just like that. You’re awesome!

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After seeing a few videos about it, it’s a pass for me. Pretty plainly a soulless legally distinct mishmash of random design elements with nothing to bring to the table creatively

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Good graphics isn’t good games though?

Like yeah someone with relatively okay skill could duplicate a famous painting, but we wouldn’t make them famous for it. Art is about making interesting choices.

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I’m having terrible seeing it, but if you’re happy that’s great. I barely have time for the games I’m excited about from three years ago, so who am I to criticise?

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“the game industry”: 🪦

Indies who make timeless classics on no budget: 🫡

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1. I barely have time for Baldur’s Gate 3
2. Fuck this game in particular

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Yeah yeah, wake me up when AI modders recreate Daggerfall in the ES6 engine.

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His face looks like if elbow skin smelled a fart

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Have been showing my kid Chrono Trigger. I don’t have anyone with good taste to talk to, so I have resolved to create one

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Wouldn’t be quite so gung ho about video games this young if he wasn’t such an avid reader. Next I was thinking about showing him the GameCube Paper Mario title.

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Hell, I’m still mad this happened with Defender of Texel.

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Don’t accept planned obsolescence.

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The console wars are largely an outdated concept, and I contend that ever-increasing hardware specs for gaming isn’t necessarily an evergreen paradigm.

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There are probably interesting conversations to be had on it, and I think you’ve found one of the ones that aren’t!

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I’m happy with my Switch, PS4, various gaming PCs and emulators, and even a PS2 emulator on my phone. I have more games than I will ever have time for. I buy new games too, but only if I can actually own them. Best value of ownership is Switch cartridges, but discs are fine too. The worst format that I am happy to pay for is GOG.com copies without DRM.

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Please note that that this is a days-old comment where other people have said the same sort of things already.

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I’ve lately finished my first playthrough of Katana Zero. Wondering about whether I should leave well enough alone or try for another ending. I might not have time honestly.

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We’ll call them The Objectors

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There has been such a furor over this.

The way I see it, there are enough quality indie games, retro emulators, and titles on the average Steam backlog (to the point that it’s a tired joke) that gamers can afford to only pay for unmissable quality. People know what they like, and they talk.

Economically, money is scarce. So is free time, for a lot of us. We don’t care what you tell us to “expect” from you, game publishers with hot takes on BG3. If you can’t release finished games at game prices, maybe you’re not the beating heart of the game industry.

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I wanted to stick to my I Statements a little more than I did. I cede mostly to your points but reserve that it’s bullshit to tell me not to expect quality just because someone proved it can still be done. It tells me the bigger gaming industry has gotten too large and dreary to be much use to me.