Absolute banger of a game. Loved it when it first launched, excited to jump back in with the new content. Just in time for Halloween, too

For me personally, the solution I prefer to see for “Our idea for this game is shaping up to be packed full assets that will swamp development” is for them to find some excuse to cut the content. Genuinely. Artistry thrives in the presence of limitations.

Have an AI naturally grow the forest. Wait, there are plenty of games already doing that

What games out of curiosity? You don’t just mean normal procedural generation which has been around forever? It’s not the same as using AI to generate a million different haircuts.

I’m still crying about that :( olli olli world is such an incredible fucking game. I had just bought rollerdrome when I heard the news

Surprised by how much he adores the game, I usually expect super harsh criticism no matter what lol.

Personally Nine Sols hit super good. A bit early to tell, as it’s still brand new, but it might be in my top 5 games of all time. Highly recommended if you’re on the fence

I guess I just don’t really resonate with that idea, personally.

In Nine Sols you can turn on story mode and access sliders to adjust the combat however you want. It disables boss achievements. I’m still perfectly able to enjoy the intended experience regardless of what anyone else does.

Coming from someone who buys every fromsoft game day 1 and enjoys them thoroughly as-is, at this point I genuinely think it’s just a marketing thing. Pretty much every other game has accessibility options, and you really never see anyone complaining about it as if it somehow ruined the game for them. On the contrary, other communities are proud of the accessibility options and are glad to welcome all different types of players.

I mean, that’s what the person above me was specifically replying to.

Does it affect you in any way that they were able to enjoy the game via the easy mode mod? Would it have affected you if that setting was just available in the menu?

As someone who has never used story mode/easy mode options, I agree with you completely.

Nine Sols, Celeste, Hades. Some of my favorite ‘hardcore’ games with great stories and great difficulty options. The only result of their presence is letting more people play the games who wouldn’t have otherwise. I don’t feel like my experience is cheapened in any way if others use the options.

And even if I don’t use them now, maybe there comes a day when my hands can’t keep up anymore, and I’ll be very grateful to be able to keep participating in my favorite hobby. Just an unambiguous good imo

I bought it on release, love it to bits and pieces, but I mean, it’s a single player game lol. No issue waiting for a sale. I’m kind of the opposite tho lol, after how hard STP hit I bought their other game just to support the devs and am waiting for it to come out of early access before I actually play it.

I’m curious as to where you got that impression, I wasn’t sure if anyone even really played it

I work hard for my money. I do not like spending it on games that barely function. I stopped buying 3rd party games of any variety on switch because of how many times I was burned by awful performance.

Even 1st party games now. I liked TotK a lot, but frankly it’s difficult to love a game when multiple areas are plagued with nausea inducing frame drops.

Like how has it become acceptable to even publish a game that can’t hold stable 30fps at not-even-real-1080p? Not asking for the world here.

I’d be half inclined to buy a switch 2 if they told me it could actually run my switch 1 library with any faint semblance of competence. But I think I’ll probably pass on this one, especially with the steam deck and other competitors right there. I doubt the switch 2 will be a price-for-performance powerhouse. Would love to be proven wrong though

There hasn’t really been a single point since the game released almost nine years ago where its player count has dropped below current levels (20-40k active players). There was a huge boost with the update but it’s back to normal levels now. Can check steamdb for yourself to confirm

That’s another exceptionally boring game, though.

Just checking some random games:

Sekiro is currently sitting at 92% players lost from its peak after five years

Spiritfarer is at 80%

Hollow Knight has only lost 63% of players

Witcher 3 also lost 80%, and actually has a larger active player base (in number of players, not proportionally) right at this moment than HL, despite being years older and peaking significantly lower

This

I cannot possibly disagree more with your assessment that the interstellar setting is necessarily boring and that’s something we should accept.

But, if so, then why would we need to “just get used to it”? I’ve certainly never felt compelled to force myself to play a boring game

Me lol

I don’t really browse much when I’m in a comfortable place to watch a video. Occasionally might save a video post and pull it up later if it seems really interesting. Did that today with some of the game trailers that dropped

You’re nice

Yeah, I would love an arcade mode or a high score mode, in addition to a more relaxed endless mode

Well deserved. Game is crazy good

I combed over the handful of negative reviews just to see what was up, since I’ve been enjoying the game so much. A bad habit of mine, but I digress.

Fully half of them are centered around some mandatory button mashing segments, a fair criticism. The devs are responding to these complaints and say they’re working on adding an accessibility option, which I support. I hate the mashing.

As for the rest, it seems like a lot of people just wanted a simple fishing/sushi restaurant management game. They complained that they just wanted to relax and play through a day quickly, but they kept getting long cutscenes and non-diving quests.

DTD so far feels like more of a sushi themed RPG to me. In the first couple hours you assume it’s going to be a simple fishing/restaurant game, but it blossoms into so much more. I think the vast majority of people appreciate being surprised by the game turning into this, myself included. Excited to keep playing

Extremely weird pick, but Octodad is incredible and has a genius multiplayer mode, where you each control different limbs of the same character.

I played the whole game through with a friend and we had an awesome time :) you can do left/right, or arms/legs, or there’s even an option to randomly assign limbs to each player on each level. Left/right is a really great bonding experience as you learn to walk together haha