Game progression leads to lots of automation. But like I said, you can “beat” the game doing almost no farming at all if you’d like.

Here’s the thing about SV: There’s no “losing”. No a right way, or a wrong way to play.

You have the time limit of the day, but there’s no time limit of the game. If you don’t plant a lot or make much cash for an entire in game year, it doesn’t matter. Just go fight in the caves, or fish, or go around talking to people and getting relationships or whatever. The day is in a hurry, but you don’t have to be in one.

That said; your direct complaint is “I have to do it myself?” Well, yes. There is a somewhat driving factor in the game, and that is that just like in real life, you’re trying to do work now, so you can do less work later. The driving factor of the game is completing the stories and also upgrading your stuff so the work is easier.

But again, there isn’t much of a time limit.

Also, it’s a farming game. Did you not expect to farm?

Yeah. A dungeon you can explore so you can get the sprinklers for your crops! Lol

I’m old. I got into stardew valley for the same reason that ape made stardew valley. A love of Harvest Moon from Super Nintendo. He took that game and fleshed it out, then kept going, and he did it in a way that stayed true to the original Harvest Moon, which is something that just got lost along the way in actual Harvest Moon sequels.

I’m really looking forward to playing the 2016 (ish?) version of Spiderman here in the next year or so.

Bro, could you have added like 1 or 2 other victory tunes at the end of battles in ff7? Random encounters were like every 5 seconds. The victory song was played like every minute.

Shoot. My back log on games is so big, I can be happy with this one for another 5 years before I’d need something with more power.

Not really to what? I can’t really tell what part of my Comment you disagree with.

Issue is that in the NES days, an entire game was just one to ten people and less than 1MB of data. Not much overhead risk at all. Now games are 100 people or more and 10,000MB. Not many want to invest millions on so much risk.

It’s also why there’s so many good “old looking” indie games. Only 1 in 50 ends up being really, really, good, but the overhead to making the game is a tiny drop in the bucket.

“Oh no. Games weren’t running at 60fps”

Tons of games weren’t 60fps before the ps4 pro was ever released. That isn’t leaving the ps4 behind.

Also. Woooow. You made your first pc 20 years ago. I’m like super impressed. Except I’m old. Older than you apparently. Or at least I started much earlier. Come back when your first pc had to have dip switches all over the motherboard and 4MB of ram was a whole lot. I was playing computer games in the 80’s, noon.

But so what, really? That’s a dumbass “flex” to try and make. “I’ve used a computer longer than you, so that means I know more”. Like, seriously? That’s what your little mind tries to go to? You’re an idiot.

Vanilla ps5 will be left behind? Really? The Vanilla ps4 was never left behind.

Further, it seems you lack an understanding of how systems even utilize things like this. If you were a computer gamer you’d easily know. It’s not really any extra programming. It’s just resolution, frame rate, and other shader setting and stuff simply being adjusted. Literally easy as hell. Just think about how a 2024 game can run on an old 1060 video card just fine, but the same game look nicer and also run just fine on a 5+ year newer 4080 gpu. Even if Sony immediately stopped selling regular ps5’s and we go three more years into the future, it makes absolutely no financial sense to make a game that only ran ok on the pro version. It’s too easy to have it run on the Vanilla version as well. “I’ll turn off advanced lighting and high detail shaders”. All done. That was a hard 10 minutes of work.

“The slide reveals that between when the PS5 launched in late 2020 and now, it’s generated $106 billion in sales, and a total operating profit of $10 billion, making it the most successful PlayStation console ever.”

May 30, 2024 https://www.gamesradar.com

Legal in the US. I think this guy is in Brazil.

Or, I might not be surprised at all. You might find Borderlands for the next 20 years, but what about the games that only sold like 40k copies to begin with?

Good luck finding a semi obscure 15 year old game on the high seas.

Which is all that would happen if third parties decide they don’t like the terms that valve and them agreed to.

Valve just doesn’t allow cheaper prices from other storefronts if it’s a steam key being sold, where valve is the one footing the bill for the server costs. There are games for sale on epic all the time that are better deals than what’s on steam. But when you buy a game on epic, you’re using epics servers/bandwidth.

Except that’s not really true. Or at least a half truth.

Steam prevents publishers from selling steam keys through other sites and means for less money. Publishers and other distributors are able to sell their games as cheap as they want anywhere they want. They just can’t sell it dirt cheap somewhere and then use valves steam program and bandwidth to download and play the game.

An iffy game library? It runs almost everything that isn’t an online game with certain anti cheats. It’s pretty not iffy at all.

You can’t judge much of anything based on switch owners and third party availability of games.