A Twitch streamer I like got into streaming Wildgate, I don’t hate watching it but it’s not interesting enough for me to buy myself. I’ve never gotten into multiplayer extraction shooters though so I’m not really the target audience. I’m on Linux so I probably can’t play it due to the anti-cheat regardless.

What percentage of games are shovelware and asset flips? Some “game developers” have always been pushing slop.

That’s pretty cool they’re doing this.

Are any of these games worth getting for someone who doesn’t play porn games? NSFW ≠ porn but sometimes it does - this payment processor bullshit is affecting both though.

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Go touch yourself.

Ray tracing is my guess

If it gets certain folks to wear deodorant it’s probably worth the extra e-waste tbh

I can criticize Nintendo all day, but I think they’ll try to avoid making that mistake again.

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I’d happily recommend it to an adult on a tight budget, but it’s not premium. It’s a lightweight, soft plastic with a textured surface where you’d want it that I think feels nice but I can see why some might not. It will not survive an afternoon with an eight year old with anger issues, but I treat mine with some care and put it back in the (very cheap and flimsy, but included) plastic case it came with and I’m not worried about it. It’s decent enough, imo.

The problem with recommending controllers is that so much of this is subjective. I wanted something that felt more like the Switch buttons than my wired PDP Afterglow Xbox controller did (hate that thing), and what I got was exactly what I wanted and was impressed for what I spent on it. I don’t have an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C to compare it to which seems to be the direct competition in the price point (seriously, check out the Retro Game Corps vid ) - and there were some trade offs for both - 8BitDo was maybe slightly more premium feeling but similarly light and had Android only Bluetooth and wouldn’t work with my Switch, the GameSir has firmware upgrade issues (don’t upgrade the firmware!). Honestly, if you can get the 8BitDo, that might be the better choice for your use case - with the dongle it has a higher polling rate so less input latency, but I’m not playing anything where I’d even notice that. Also I suspect I prefer the ergonomics of the GameSir, but again that’s subjective. Or just buy one of the more expensive 8BitDo controllers, it sounds like you’re on less of a tight budget than I was.

I’ve had a Gamesir Nova Lite since September, and I strongly prefer playing games with a controller whenever possible so I’ve used the heck out of it, and I’ve had no problems. I really like how the buttons and joysticks feel and it’s supposedly got hall effect joysticks. I only use it on Bluetooth so not sure how it is with the dongle, but it has one. It’s on Amazon and they’ve got their own site to order from that does worldwide shipping. For the $25 I spent on mine, it’s a lot nicer than you’d expect from the price, I’d assume it’s similarly cheap in the EU. Retro Game Corps did a side by side video with an 8BitDo a while ago. The company marketed the shit out of it to influencers, but it’s legitimately good. (It doesn’t have a headphone jack and gyroscope, fyi, in case you care about that.)

That… actually explains the logic of this lawsuit for me. I still disagree and think they’re overly litigious fucks, but I think I might understand a less malicious argument for it. If someone mods a see 'n say to have a different audio track and slaps some new stickers on it, that’s still a see 'n say, right? The mechanism is fundamental to the product - a see n say is the spinning wheel -> random noise and Pokemon is video game where you throw balls at wild not-animals to catch them and use them to battle people. There’s a difference between a toy that’s heavily inspired by another one and being an edgy five year old with a firearm sticker pack who gives them to the cows and chickens and sheep.

I really have more of a games as art philosophy though, and I’ll just point to the works of Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp to make my argument here, my edible just kicked in.

Another Jak and Daxter could be awesome, but I was so thoroughly disappointed in the Crash Team Racing remaster a few years ago it has basically made me give up hope that nostalgia-based games can be more than cash grabs.

Oh no, it’s going to be monetized to hell, isn’t it?

Does anyone else think it’s odd that Newman’s Own did this? I’ve never seen much advertising from them in general. And they’re one of the few companies that seems actually okay, kinda the anti-Nestle.

Wait, that was the same studio? The game with the talking slingshot, right? I had it as a kid but never beat it, I got bored with the combat.

One of the best video games ever made, Tetris, was made in the Soviet Union, and the guy who made it didn’t see any profit from it for most of his life. Passion projects and games as art would still exist too. I don’t think Stardew Valley exists because Concerned Ape thought it would make him rich - it did, but that’s not why the game exists in the first place.

He did violate the Geneva convention, but he fixed that back in 1.3.32.

Because it means other games don’t get recognized. I love Stardew, it’s probably my favorite game ever and I’ve bought it for three different platforms, but having it win multiple years feels questionable.

How many times has Stardew won that award, and have they put rules in place to keep it from winning again for 1.6 next year?

And the second best time is today. It’s such a great game I own it on three different platforms.