We didn’t catch the fact that the rubble covered stove in the cafeteria early on works. So we never found a way to cook food, eventually we found another oven, but it was broken and we had no idea where to get the parts to repair it. We went back to the beginning to cook food, but the logistics of trying to haul things with our limited inventories back and forth to get food and also explore became unfun so we quit.

My friend and I tried to get into Abiotic Factor, I love the setting, I love the premise, but we had a very difficult time getting a foot hold where we were just dying of starvation over and over. I need to circle back and try the game again, the same thing happened with Subnautica, took a few tries to get enough momentum to get established and have fun exploring.

I used to use nothing but Intel every time I built a new gaming PC. My last build in early 2021, I went with AMD 6900, and I’ve been real happy with it. I had been planning on going back to Intel for my next build, but this has spooked the shit out of me.

Oh Hi-Rez you trash company. You ruined one of my favorite franchises of all time, not once, but twice with Tribes Ascend, and Tribes 3.

That’s a tough decision to make, especially in today’s gaming marketing, but I applaud them for stepping back and recognizing what they had wasn’t good enough to sell. Blizzard made that decisions years ago with Starcraft Ghost, the Blizzard of today wouldn’t make that same call any more.

Big fan of the phrase “singing at”. It implies it was singing with out a desire to hear singing on the part of his Developers, excellent.

I held off on playing NMS until last year, I have a lot of experience with similar games on PC like Empyrion and had my expectations set by that game. Boy you couldn’t be more right about the planets, just about actual planet size, but nothing interesting but cloned points of interest. Empryion’s world generation is fantastic, very believable and smooth, transitioning between biomes and having those features being visible from space.

I got around 10ish or 15ish hours out of NMS, and I just noped out when I realized the best way to get a ship was to buy it from a random NPC who just landed, found a ship I liked, bought it, didn’t like the color and found I couldn’t repaint it (at that time, maybe that changed). Between all the stuff we’ve mentioned, plus weird bugs like ships warping into atmosphere but then glitching through the ground. Meh.

Light No Fire looks interesting, but my gut feeling is, it’ll be a huuuuge world, largely full of nothing worth while. I’ll keep an eye on it to see how it develops, and how it’s received at launch. My default position is … cautiously optimistic.

I agree, my brain heavily dislikes “Ramblomatic” it’s real tough to say it smoothly, it’s that L at the end of Ramble that’s making it tough. My brain wants it to be “Rambo-matic”. But at least I know now Ramblomatic is the new Zero Punctuation!

I read that Prophecy spun off as an independent studio. Their write-up about Tribes 3 says you won’t have to unlock any weapons, only cost is 19.89 for the base game with more expensive premium editions and micro transaction cosmetics.

At least we won’t be grinding for weapon unlocks, or being pressured into buying new weapons for cash.

Don’t hurt me again, after Tribes Ascend and HiRez studios shitting all over that franchise, I don’t know if I could handle another mishandling of one of my favorite games of all time.

I appreciate info! I’ll check out the Doom Remaster on Steam!

Wow, I hadn’t heard of SIGIL 1, much less SIGIL 2, so Romero is making new episodes of Doom/Doom 2? Crazy!

I’d be interested in a honest to diety rts set in the age of sigmar! It’s too bad Dawn Of War 3 was trash.

I don’t have any excitement about this game, I know a lot of people are literally buzzing with hype though. Every video I’ve seen makes it look like a less good bland version of Fall Out in space. Holding off to see what reviews say on this.