The original Total War: Warhammer fantasy trilogy are by far the best TW games. And if you own multiple then you can combine them in one giant mega campaign. Definitely check them out when they are on sale.

How so? It’s just combat mods getting the axe, not visual aid and info mods?

That’s because Valve is privately owned and this has largely resisted the enshittification that largely plagues public companies and private equity frims.

Not only do they feel isolated, they also feel the same. NMS technically has billions of unique planets. In practice it has about 10 or so because they all feel the same. And even those look alike because they’re all sparsely populated worlds. Big stretches of emptiness filled with the occasional POI. Where are the mega city planets? The forge worlds with heavy industry? Any city with more than 100 inhabitants?

Thanks, I’ll give that a try then!

Doesn’t the Flatpak version have it’s own issues? I’m considering just installing Bazzite on a separate partition.

And what about Linux? A month ago I still had to go multi-arch on my x64 Debian system, leading to a lot of problems…

I finally started “Styx: Shards of Darkness”. A stealth acrion RPG. It’s been pretty fun so far. Better than the first one. I’m trying to go for the silent & deadly approach. No alarms raised in any level. So far so good!

Does this specify the kinds of AI? Are none of these devs using code completion on their IDEs? Or refactoring tools? Because the bulk of them use AI these says.

Remember the custom warehouse level filled with crates and everyone wearing a crate skin?

Maybe try the Styx games? They’re on sale quite regularly. I liked the first one a lot!

Yes there is, you’re just used to it. There’s all the Windows 11 annoyances, anti-virus, fiddling with controller setting and blue tooth, GPU drivers, DirectX crap. It’s easy for you but if your tech experience is basically just turning on your phone then that is a lot.

Console gaming is also easy for casual gamers and people who don’t want to fiddle with tech.

I got “Warhammer 40K: Boltgun” on sale recently. It’s been great fun so far! Really well made and just plain fun to play.

I just got the base version. If I like it enough I can wait for another sale for the DLCs

I bought “Cult of the Lamb”. It’s not a spectacular discount but good enough to go try it out.

For me it wasn’t so much the runback, as it was fighting your spirit every time. I hated that. Especially if you died in a difficult platforming section. It only made it more difficult.

I just finished Strange Horticulture a few days ago. It was really fun! Not too long as well. It looks like a shop sim, but it’s a puzzle game.

After that I started Two Point Hospital. I used to play Theme Hospital a lot in my youth so this hits all the right spots.

Both were recently free on Epic.

Except that with their other games, each DLC not only adds a bunch of content but also brings with it a significant free update to the base game. So there it’s clear that the DLCs fund the base game too.

How does this compare with OpenTrack?

It’s regularly on sale for 5-ish dollar. A must buy!

That was awesome!

Maybe, but would you risk it? Also, there’s a payment processor in between. Like Valve, the payment processor needs to guess what Mastercard finds objectionable.

It’s not overreacting. Valve has to guess what Mastercard finds objectionable and what not. Guess wrong, and Mastercard could ban them.

Thanks for the science, I guess I’ll skip then 😂

Pretty much all games, even online MMO, live service and other games already have the capability to spin up a custom server or run solo and offline. How do you think the developers run the game while coding and testing? They just spin up a container on their machine. The added cost of polishing that or wrapping an installer around it should not be high.

Mine too, but it’s not a visa card. Just compatible with visa terminals. Mine also says cirrus, maestro and a few other payment systems.

Generally the world has that. There’s SWIFT and EPI in Europe, EPAA in Asia and Pix is South America. The biggest credit card market is North America.

I switched from melee to spellcaster in heavy armor. That made it a lot easier. Also spending all your learning points (buy books) and memory points (press Z, that took me far too long to figure out)

Best thing: no level scaling. Yes you will die a lot in the beginning. But becoming more powerful is now actually worth it!

This week is more Enderal for me. A free total conversion of Skyrim (you need Skyrim obviously). It’s a complete new game with new mechanics, story, skills, etc. It’s fully voiced and waaaay better than Skyrim IMHO.

They should never gave been allowed to gobble up so nany studios. Especially not Bethesda and Activision.

Classic WoW requires a subscription too

Ohhh, this looks cool

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1551980/Clive_Barkers_Hellraiser_Revival/

I’m about to start the last act of Hardspace: Shipbreaker. It’s a fun relaxing sim game. If you enjoy games like “Powerwash Simulator” you’ll enjoy it. The setting is great, I hope it will expand into other games as well.

Dredge is awesome!

That’s because the remaster wasn’t done by Bethesda but by Virtuosos, a different studio.

But arcades!’ Are renting someone else’s hardware. Different thing. This did abuse not exist fifteen years ago.

Yes it did, and even longer. Quite a few arcade games were made with intentional difficulty spikes to suck up as many quarters as possible, not to be a fair game.

Now you have a prisoner’s dilemma. A lot of studio’s need to take their thumbs off the scale at the same time, or you’re just sending your customers to someone else.

You don’t change leadership just for nothing else to change. “Nothing will change” is the biggest lie there is in any leadership change or corporate restructuring. They only say that in the hope that you won’t jump ship immediately.