I coincidentally played it during covid lockdown and the thematic connections to the moment were really special. Bird flu is coming, maybe wait for the next pandemic lockdowns and try it then?

minecraft and rimworld too

why?

I understand that a rather large portion of the active players of FFXIV are subbed mainly so that they can participate in the mod-supported ERP community. Yoshida is also the director of that game so I’m pretty sure he knows precisely how futile this request is.

lol ok sure is terarria a dead game? what about mario 3? agree with the devs on this one who gives a shit if people aren’t mainlining it every day of their life

the enemy placement isn’t exactly amazing in vanilla but it is atrocious in scholar of the first sin. which one did you play?

“I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding 😎”

Indie games are kind of this, but it’s hard to make the “paid more” work consistently at scale. Largely because there’s a shitload of people making really good indie games and I can only play so many of them.

and the funny thing is that these games launch in such a bad state because the publisher paid for the marketing push to happen on a specific date, so come hell or high water, the game is gonna ship by that date

don’t get me wrong, deadlines are extemely important or your project will just end up with infinite scope creep, but games are a massive artistic and technical endeavour, which are two things that can be extremely difficult to estimate

there’s gotta be a better way

The game has a ton of subtle mechanics that it doesn’t really go out of its way to tell you about. So there’s a degree of mastery and cross-polination of strategy and builds that take advantage of those mechanics between groups, which adds a lot of fun for me. I respect how that’s not for everyone though.

Although I have my grievences with Valve for other reasons I do have to commend them for their efforts to make linux a way more viable gaming platform than I ever could have imagined. I think a full 2/3rds of my steam library is playable on linux, which is pretty good considering that’s not something I considered when buying them.

chat gpt can’t even tell a cohesive story where it remembers what it said 3 paragraphs ago

this message is for investors, not gamers

dumb investors will be like “oh yay they’re doing the tech hype fad thing that lets management do big layoffs and pump out content”

smart investors will be like “this will make the games worse”

Matchmaking is a pretty good system for people who just want to get a game going without having to navigate the social fabric of a community.

What I’m saying is that both are good for different audiences, or even the same people at different times.

It’s a time travel game where stuff from players’ games bleed over into each other so who’s to say what “concurrency” actually is, really?