I was going to immediately mention Hollow Knight but I see someone already did. Second thought: Tunic. It’s been a long time since a game hit me as hard as those two.

For pure fun addictive gaming: Factorio is absolutely nuts. 2D survival craft platforming action: Terraria is still king.

For space empire building check out X4: Foundations, after almost 10 years under development it’s absolutely amazing (but a huge timesink haha)

Oh and if you’re into semi-hard-scifi basebuilding you could give Stationeers a look. Sunk quite some hours into that one.

It’s trickling down folks. If Ubisoft can pocket 20% more profits for their games that means you the gamer will get 20% more updates for your favorite games. Really, that’s how it works.

I mean it’s Ubisoft and Disney, if you were expecting anything other than 100% sanitized and wholesome…

Show the actual use case in a convincing way and people will line up around the block. Generating some funny pictures or making generic suggestions about your calendar won’t cut it.

The only 2600 game I have very vivid memories of playing.

What will keep you safe is not selling your business to a mega corp.

I’m around level 5 still mostly, I only joined fairly recently. I’ve only had 1 full ctd so far but I’ve been stuck in geometry countless times, one time the extraction console wouldn’t activate, one time a geometry glitch prevented us from boarding the escape ship. Sometimes my weapons won’t switch and when I go to iron sights it’ll just show my empty hands.

It’s a testament to how great the game is that I still can’t wait to play more though haha

Love the game but holy hell is it buggy. Most nights there are at least two drops I can’t complete due to something game breaking.

In just not interested in anything Bethesda any more. I played a ton of FO3 and Oblivion back in the day. A good bit of Skyrim. New Vegas was pretty decent. But the engine just feels so incredibly stale and outdated. The dead eyed characters barking their lines at you. Everything just feels clunky and unimmersive. It feels more like a chore than a fun game.

Who could’ve guessed selling virtual waifus could be this profitable… Actually I guess we all could.

But the base game will still be Starfield :( kudos to those modders though looks pretty amazing.

Neither of those games took more than a year or two to become enjoyable. Not to mention neither of them cost their buyers hundreds or even thousands of dollars to enjoy. Bit of a silly comparison.

Conker?

I’m someone that happily advocates Linux for daily use but for gaming… Some games run great on Linux Steam but there are more than a few that either won’t run at all or for some reason (gpu drivers maybe?) run slow as hell when on Windows they run just fine. I 100% prefer to run on Linux but until there’s a solution for that I’m stuck dual booting.

I take it you’re referring to Boo, the miniature giant space hamster?

Free (as in beer) is never free

I mean I play pretty much exclusively old and 2D games. If you asked me to give up my SSD or my GPU, the GPU would be the first to go.

I mean considering the engine is basically Skyrim in space why not keep rereleasing?

Wow Eurogamer has one of the worst cookie consent banners I’ve seen in a while.

No one would have heard of them if it weren’t for ZP