Works again this morning

Lawyers gonna lawyer. And Japanese companies have never embraced modding.

Don’t forget distribution. It costs money to make a nice cartridge. It costs money to stamp a CD and put it in a pretty box. And that cost applies for every. single. copy.

Now compare that to digital distribution…

Roguelikes, such as Hades. A single run won’t take you longer than 30mins (and often far, far less than that – you’ll die, a lot).

Every run is progress. And if you feel like you’re not progressing fast enough, you can turn on “God Mode” (the protagonist is a god) and gain 2% damage reduction after each death, to make subsequent runs a little easier (no penalty in doing so, either).

Music is integral to build the game’s overall atmosphere. At least indie studios still get it: Look at Cuphead, Hollow Knight, Hades, Vampire Survivors, etc.

Still describing the Diablo 3 in-game real money auction house. People just gathered the quickest-to-gather saleable thing over and over, sold it en masse for real money. Little money × many transactions = lotsa money. Then they bought the good stuff.

Became a gold farm simulator, as full stacks of gold were saleable. If they had blocked gold sales (can’t remember if they did do so eventually), it would’ve just moved to X relatively-common legendary item.

First Steamworld game I didn’t really get into.

IMO, Heist > Dig2 > Dig1 > Quest > TD > Build

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Wtf, then.

It’ll get an influx of players next month with the GamePass release. How long that lasts is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At least Magic cards are physical goods.

Edit: But apparently, MtG Arena is digital.

I’d like to see the actual Elf Wars. It’s a gap between the events of MMX and MMZ.

They already did X remaster on PSP; wasn’t awful, wansn’t great.

This article’s premise is BS. Easy mode is for people of any age who have not gotten gud.

I don’t disagree with you, but a lot of people, when presented with new game mechanics, don’t have the time to spend “getting gud”.

I know that if I were to start playing, for instance, Hollow Knight today, rather than at its release (cleared Pantheon of Hollownest), I’d likely have to put it down or install a nail damage increase mod – I have kids now; no time to grind at bosses to learn the patterns.

S2 will be on Netflix

Premise was great, buildup was okay, outcome and resolution were awful.

Sir Patrick Stewart as the Encarta (or was it Britannica?) encyclopedia “help” narration was hilarious in how unnecessary it was.

Loved him as the evil Protoss in SC2.

Fascinating how no inkling of this, then Robert pulls off what was thought impossible on the DE-10nano/MiSTer FPGA, and lo-and-behind, Analogue is here to cash in “save the day”.

Just buy a MiSTer and support Robert Peip’s Patreon, instead.

Signal was fantastic until they stupidly killed SMS integration.

Dude, with the exception of Gamepass, Linux gaming is really easy.

If you’re okay with Redhat/Fedora, using Nobara Linux (it’s a spin-off, unofficial, but by the guy who does a lot of the Proton [magic compatibility sauce] stuff, GloriousEggroll, who AFAIK is a dev at RedHat) literally installs everything you need.

Steam → Steam
GoG/Epic → Heroic Launcher
Amazon/Blizzard → Lutris
Gamepass → You have to use the cloud version with Edge browser

Click, install, game.

There’s only a few Anticheat PITA titles still (I believe Valorant is one) that won’t work.