Nah, it’s both now. I call the new category Swumbles Empoisoned Jumble

Seems they’re starting to, given Dragon Age won’t be using the EA App

Please don’t be Bioware, please don’t be Bioware…

Sure, if Splatoon 3 were actually good. It’s a game designed from the ground up to be frustrating, between terrible matchmaking, peer-to-peer multiplayer, and stage design that forces players into very lopsided combat.

Play something good with your family, not Splatoon 3.

That’s fair, I apologise for being as defensive as I was.

Honestly that’s 100% the right way to play it - it is such a laugh, the writing is really tongue in cheek, and the gameplay is really, simply fun, so I really think you and your mate will love it!

Quite a lot honestly, but the trailers are really awful in terms of advertising what the game actually is. It’s a survival game with management sim elements, using creature collection as its core gameplay loop. It feels weirdly cohesive in terms of mashing together these styles - kinda like Dave the Diver in that regard.

Far as I’ve been able to tell, it was first announced in 2021, so it’s been in development since then, at latest.

There’s no evidence whatsoever of AI use (lot of accusations, but actual devs have spoken out and challenged them). Really strikes me that there’s a non-zero number of people who feel somewhat threatened by this game’s existence, considering the death threats the dev team has reportedly been receiving.

Far as I can tell, the original port’s apk isn’t region locked, so much as the play store page is. Either that, or people who didn’t buy it before the netflix port went up can no longer view the page.

Link doesn’t work in Australia I’m afraid - lots of corporations have a big thing for giving us the shitty end of the stick.

Really? How? I’ve been wanting to play World of Goo again but the only version available is the netflix one

Any recommendations for mods? I’m putting together a new build for it ahead of my semi-annual replay of the trilogy

Is it an appeal? That would explain it

As a fellow Steam user/gamer, I’m in this picture and I do not like it whatsoever

Cooooool, so they’re gonna release it in Australia to stop the scalping here, right?

Right?

Cool, does this mean they’ll actually fucking sell the thing in Australia, or is it just forever going to be dodgy resellers?

YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF MICROSOFT; YOU MUST BE DESTROYED

God we need survival mode desperately. Atm exploration feels pointless and aimless, a survival mode would make it so we have a reason to build outposts and range out, which in turn would justify resources and just make the game more cohesive.

There’s a great post on the other site that explores these problems, but it honestly strikes me that these were ripped out before release, as so many of these systems don’t make sense.

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Speaking from a feminstic but also Australian position, I think it’s kinda problematic to outright ban language internationally when the connotation of concern is specific to one culture. We use that word pretty liberally here, and it isn’t done so with remotely the same definition; instead, it is typically used interchangeably with “dickhead” and “arsehole”. Whilst I definitely support your efforts, I don’t think this is the right way to go about it, as it’s a very clear use of American exceptionalism when Americans, taken as a part of the world, make up a minority of people on the Internet.

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Yeahhhh, Elon both frightens and disgusts me. What a selfish twat.

Yeah, ultimately this article reads as if it is questioning the quality of a work on the basis of how the audience engages (or doesn’t engage) with it. Ultimately there is one case where the character dies due to a bad dialogue choice, and that response is very clearly a joke one for if you’re not roleplaying.

I dunno, it just seems as if the article is clickbait, and if this game dev would prefer playing a game 90% ludonarrative dissonance and 10% no meaningful player choice.

Have you got ship parts in your cargo hold? That’s usually the problem I have

Very tired of the number of people actively trying to police people playing this. It’s fun. It’s no Mass Effect or Baldur’s Gate, and it’s certainly not a GOTY, but it’s good.

Let people enjoy things.