Yeah, as long as you’re not too concerned about load time, then an old HDD is still fine.

I’m an addict. I have a ton of games on my computer. I have 4 NVMe drives and that isn’t enough to hold all my games. So I have smaller indie games and older games like L4D2 on my old school 4TB HDD. No ragrets.

No.

Thanks conservatives, non-voters, and 3rd party voters.

You’re reaaaaaal smart. Give yourselves a pat on the back.

Hey look, an “elite” with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who’s just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I’d be doing it.

Speedrunners

It’s on sale for $3 right now. Awesome 4 player competitive racing game without split screen so everyone gets maximized view. Way different than Mario Kart so it won’t be a repetitive experience for them. This is the Steam-based couch coop that’s lasted longest in my friends group.

Tricky Towers

Tetris game, but the catch is you build upwards to a finish line and physics play a role, so the tower can lean and collapse.

TowerFall Ascension

Competitive platformer shooter. No split screen. One large screen for everyone. My favorite aspect is all the options you can change to switch up the gameplay. Coop mode and PvP mode.

Mount Your Friends

A personal favorite of mine. Not necessarily for kids, even though I don’t think it’s anything beyond maybe PG-13. It’s hilarious. It can be pretty competitive. You can choose to build upwards or outwards. I think outwards is more fun. You can watch gameplay videos and determine if it’s appropriate for the kids in question.

Others have pointed out games like A Way Out, the Trine series, and Split Fiction. Those are all great. But they’re longer, story-based puzzle games that take more time than you may have for them to finish. Trine allows 3 players, but the others only allow 2.

Anything with the word “premium” attached to it goes on my ignore list.

There are so many games out there these days that I really don’t feel pressure to buy any single title.

The SS1 remake was pretty damn good.

The thing about remakes though is they can lose what made the original good. So while someone who never played the original might really like the remake, a die-hard that’s always liked the original may feel kind of betrayed by the remake.

I never played SS1, so the remake was something new for me and I liked it. But I grew up with and revere SS2 as being one of the best games ever made. So I’m almost kind of glad this is just a remaster and not a remake.

LET’S GO!!!

Finally gave Star Citizen a shot a few months ago when it had a free week.

It was awful.

It looked great. Everything else was dogshit. The inventory system was trash. Everything, and I mean everything, was beyond tedious. The game felt very empty. Movement didn’t feel good. Bugs galore.

And that’s after well over a decade of development.

Pass on this hot garbage.

I remember liking it, but it’s been, what, 20 years?

That’s literally the direction we are headed and we’re picking up speed.

Forced myself to build a new rig last summer largely because I had a feeling Trump would win and everything would get more expensive. I probably should have bought a new used car as well. Any big purchases should have been done before Jan 20.

Like Donald Trump, I just assume he’s lying if sounds are coming out of his mouth.

He lost the benefit of the doubt in 2018 when he falsely accused a rescue worker of being a pedophile.

Been trying to convert my friends since 1998.

As someone who doesn’t like stealth games, I like being able to play a first person Indiana Jones game where the stealth isn’t punishing.

I still get caught by the officers who can see through your disguise. I run away. The alert level goes down. Whatever. I don’t need it to be punishing.

Cool story. Where is Half-Life 3?

Hey moneybags Gabe…where is Half-Life 3?