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ICastFist, 2 dni temu

Does it have a HDMI port to connect to a TV? Since it’s Android, I suppose pairing a new controller would be easy, so stuff you emulate from home consoles can be played with 2-4 people

ICastFist, 3 dni temu

Copilot on PS5, somehow

ICastFist, 3 dni temu

Yes. Kinda. Some games from the X1 era aren’t available on PC, like Halo 5. X360 games that are backwards compatible but weren’t actually released for PC, like Red Dead Redemption, won’t be available either.

ICastFist, 3 dni temu

PCs are becoming consoles

The Amiga dream is finally coming true

ICastFist, 3 dni temu

It can’t be worse than whatever the fuck UE5 does by default

ICastFist, 3 dni temu

Important to note, the current chip fabrication process of 5nm is very close to limits imposed by the laws of physics. Unless a wholly different chip making process is invented that can go even smaller, we might be looking at the actual limit of the tech.

ICastFist, 5 dni temu

Marcin Paczynski told The Game Business he could “write a book”

Please do

He didn’t even know that he owned the rights because this was just a package with his inheritance … we have a lot of stories like that.

Wow, no wonder the dude wasn’t aware. “Oh, just a box with papers. Meh”

stories like developers whose physical documentation of IP ownership was torched in a fire

It’s always interesting to know which games’ rights might seem “completely lost”, just so we can 🏴‍☠️ in peace. Say, wasn’t this strategy something GOG did originally? Just sell and see if the current rights-holder shows up?

ICastFist, 13 dni temu

It’s a game that, as you build up money, it becomes less about flying around and more about managing fleets and your little economic empire. Still, one of the few that actually let you pilot fighters AND huge stuff like the carriers

ICastFist, 13 dni temu

Unless they did a proper rework of space combat, it’ll get old fast, just like ground combat. I also remember you could pile up dozens of “Kill space pirate Whoever” from several systems, travel super far away so that you could reset the quests, reset said quests, then manage to complete ALL of them by killing only one target

ICastFist, 13 dni temu

You might want to check out Chorus, it’s on sale super cheap on GOG right now. It’s an action game with some levels on foot and others in space.

An honorable mention is Star Wars Battlefront 2 (classic) - maybe not exactly what you want, but it has space combat where most of the action is with ship dogfights, where you can also attack the opposing capital ship and disable its core systems to win the match. The whole single player game ensures you’ll get one hell of a power fantasy as the ace/hero, even on harder difficulties.

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

A cherry on top would be if the announcement was “Now your PC can run Crysis”

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

Fable 1 was a game I had lots of fun with. Being Brazilian, I was more or less immune to the hype buildup around the game, so I had no clue what was promised vs. what was delivered until years later

ICastFist, 22 dni temu

I mean, you can set up a gaming pc or laptop to mostly work with a controller and have a general interface akin to that of consoles. Retro stuff like Lakka or RetroPie already do it super well. The “set up” part is where you’ll likely spend several hours, though

ICastFist, 22 dni temu

I want a subscription free Console that supports online play.

Sorry, best we can do is a PC or phone

ICastFist, 22 dni temu

Never too late to introduce them to all of your favourite classic games, either

Easier if you start with Bomberman Party on the PS1 or the arcade Neo Bomberman. I think those play much better than anything Bomberman released after 2004

If the kid enjoys strategy, starting out with Age of Empires should be easy. Or just leave them messing around with Settlers 2

ICastFist, 22 dni temu

Westwood, my beloved 😢

Would be good if Maxis also got out of their throes, though that’s extremely unlikely, given The Sims

ICastFist, 24 dni temu

You won’t lose productivity, you will merely divert it into the factory, who will use its full efficiency for growth

ICastFist, 24 dni temu

The dreams/nightmares could use a “skip” button, as other than the very first, they serve no purpose whatsoever.

Other than that, my headcanon is that Mae gets back together with Bea over Gregg, the latter has his boyfriend and Bea really needs a friend.

ICastFist, 24 dni temu

While I never saw the credit rolls (because the game doesn’t have it), Dwarf Fortress definitely changed something in my head.

From my initial attempts where I couldn’t even figure how to make my dorfs get food or dig, to reaching a point where most of my forts would be retired due to low FPS and, to this day, only failed attempts at taming an evil biome for more than 2 years, the game showed that procgen, by itself, is not an excuse for shitty looking worlds or terrains. Hell, the procgen can even generate interesting stories and situations, though no longer absurdly awesome ones like the story of Cacame Awemedinade. Quote:

Cacame, at the ripe old age of 12, he became a Guard. Two years later, an elven attack from the Field of Kindling’s city of Fish of Magic injured him in the lower body and killed his wife Nemo Ruyavaiyici (who was then eaten by Amoya Themarifa, the elf who killed her). Maddened with grief, Cacame set off to the nearest front as soon as he healed enough to fight.

During his first combat he took up his fallen commander’s legendary warhammer[name?] and slew many elves with it, being noted as the battle’s fiercest and deadliest warrior; for his deeds, the dwarves’ second-in-command acknowledged that Cacame would best put the warhammer to use and should keep it.

Two years after that, in 99, the Battle of Both Kings was fought. In this battle Cacame struck down King Nithe of Field of Kindling (who was finished off by another dwarf called Sibrek Handpages, though); however the other king slain was the dwarven king himself. The dwarves decided that Cacame, by now dubbed “The Immortal Onslaught”, should take over as their king.

Once made King, Cacame left in a brief quest to resurrect his wife. He returned riding a zombie wyvern, but without achieving his goal. In 111, at the age of 28, he moved his capital to the Gamildodók (Trustclasps) Fortress.

ICastFist, 23 dni temu

Sounds like Roblox

ICastFist, 27 dni temu

One of them is even linked in the article lol

ICastFist, 29 dni temu

Except More Than Just Pals is actually being developed

Really? The community hub on steam has nothing ever since the announcement. I don’t follow pocketpair on any social media, so there’s that

ICastFist, 27 dni temu

For an Animal Crossing-ish experience on PC, you can try Dinkum (indie, solo dev) or Hello Kitty Island Adventures (unironically good, but also limits some activities per real day, like AC New Horizons)

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Shit, sounds like I should set up some runescape bots to sell gold, even if I only get like 10k USD a year, that’s doubling my income

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

“Quickly” - the “Bioware magic” used to be years of lack of direction followed by one year of “HOLY SHIT WE NEED TO DELIVER!” crunch

But the former executive producer of Dragon Age, Mark Darrah (…) posted a YouTube video about how the so-called “BioWare magic” really worked. According to Darrah, it referred to a hockey stick graph where most of the progress is nearly unnoticeable. It’s nearly flat, and “if you draw that line out, then your game is shipping in like 30 years.” At a certain point, the developers hit a “pivotal point” when the game would finally shape up and a lot of progress would be made in a short amount of time. According to the developer, that tipping point is what is known as“BioWare magic.”

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

“Hello Nintendo, please enjoy this video of us making Animal Crossing, complete with our own Ankha expy!”

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Damn, if that gives Palworld a dungeon where the poor pals can get blasted into bloody gibs, I’m so fucking down - probably won’t get that violent, I suppose we might get some 2 or 3 weapons and 2 sets of armor + 1 raid boss

ICastFist, miesiąc temu (edited 27 dni temu)

The game in question, Block Blasters, which was free to play, has been removed from Steam, although it seems owners can still try to install it, but antivirus programs may block those attempts.

The GData linked in the post shows that the game was released in July 31 and that the malware update came in August 30, adding a .bat and 2 .zip files within the Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/Ogg directory. The zip files were password protected, which blocked scanning.

The batch script checks first if the system is running only Windows Defender and does not have any of the listed AV products from AV_PROCESSES as a running process; if these criteria are met, the batch script unpacks the contents of the archive “v1.zip” (…) The script “1.bat” adds the destination folder of the executables found inside the “v3.zip” archive to the exemption list for Microsoft Defender Antivirus. [emphasis mine]

So, yeah, it’s pretty clear how easily it went undetected by Steam, Windows Defender or any other antivirus program - malware inside a password protected zip. I suspect making something similar on Android wouldn’t be much harder, as an app or game that needs access to your internal storage isn’t “too weird”, like something that asks for some music to play in a stage.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Considering how the malware works, it seems that the criminal managed to copy/steal all the browser data of Rastaland, including open sessions, allowing him to login on any site that had an active session/cookies, including that pumpdotfun where the coin was

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Minus the dual wield 2h, that was the Monk during the Pandaria years

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Copilot: “That’s a great question! XxX_420694ever_XxX’s race is “pounding” and sexual orientation is “yo mama”, would you like to see this player’s achievements?”

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

One of the polygon commenters had it right: Valve should put the game at 30% discount for a week, where said 30% is their cut, so every sale in that meantime goes straight to the devs

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

To be fair, it seems only Epic themselves know how to fuck around with UE5 nowadays. That nanite lighting, temporal antialiasing and dithering everything makes everything look like ass. Games from 2016 look better

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

2D pixel games without realtime raytracing and perfect light simulations never ever sold

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Gaming GabeN’s system

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Nah, you just need to get a friendly judge to tell whoever decides to dispute your patent that they’re wrong and your patent is totally valid and innovative

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

laughs in plane simulator setup

…

IF I HAD ONE!!!

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Cue some LoL tryhard bragging about being diamond for 5 consecutive seasons or something

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Getting paid after every work day, never having to work overtime, having random friends is a must-have for promotions, which also come easy, house and furniture are always clean.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

It’s the story of an angry man learning to be the dad of his boi

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Great for single player, not so much for multiplayer games. By the time you decide to play, the servers might be offline

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

I just wanted to play Defiance again 😅

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

The game to get better at is the game you enjoy most, and what sites depends on the game.

This is spot on, though keep in mind that, depending on the game, you might play it so much you’ll grow to hate it. You’ll also find yourself looking at videos and guides on how to get better, effectively upping you from a casual

Small time or local competitions/tournaments are likely to only have one mr. motherfucker that will utterly destroy you. They tend to show up a lot more in fighting games, though some strategy games, like Starcraft 1/2, also have a significant number of them. If you want to avoid feeling humiliated, racing games (Gran Turismo, Forza, Project CARS) are the ones you’ll want to go for. Sports games (football, 'murican football, basketball) also have really damn good players, though it’s unlikely you’ll get humiliating losses in them after a bit of training.

As someone else mentioned, speedrunning is also an option, though it’s a lot less about direct confrontation and more about grinding the same game over and over. It’s also the easiest one to “get into”, especially if you aim at less known games. Events like AGDQ can hold head-to-head competition of 2 or more runners in the spot.

Keep in mind that some games need teamwork as much as individual skill - Marvel Rivals, Overwatch 2, League of Legends, etc.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Get in the fucking robot, Shinji Fei

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Are you talking about MMO games, or anything with persistent worlds? Because anything that is match based doesn’t really need those kinds of dedicated servers to be revived.

The thing is that big companies killed P2P, DirectTCP from their games because that allowed pirates to play online, even if limited.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Horizon: Aliexpress West