Riley

Excellent read. Makes me wonder of the forgotten or underappreciated place of games that are meant to only take a few hours and then exit your life forever: games like Journey and others that take only a few hours to beat. They’re completely antithetical to this style of design.

People Make Games did a much better job on reporting the issues with Roblox.

I think the real issue is how Roblox takes advantage of kids lack of knowledge about microtransactions and FOMO to create a generation of free-to-play dupes while also exploiting anyone that makes content for them, but that’s just my opinion.

Doesn’t surprise me at all after seeing the same thing done with Minecraft, but it’s still vaguely nightmarish experiencing gameplay elements morph in and out of existence, the level geometry changing after you look too far one way or another. Like a dream more than a game. A dream where you can die.

“👊🇺🇸🔥” to committing war crimes, Americae delenda est.

America is so cooked lol

I was wondering why there was an update pending for it in Steam.

Idk about that, the Riven remake that came out last year was one of the best games I’ve played in ages.

My devices are named after planets from Doctor Who: mondas, telos, skaro, villengard.

May be a group of bugs, I’m still struggling with it on my 6700 XT.

Got excited thinking they had finally fixed the rendering bug that causes the UI to slow to a crawl on desktop GPUs on Linux, but no.

I really haven’t understood the reactions I’ve seen to the game. To me it’s a really tight, interwoven, streamlined action-RPG that checks so many boxes for me that other games haven’t tried to touch for years. 9/10 from me personally. It’s been wild seeing the incredibly lukewarm reaction everywhere else.

It certainly has launched in a poor state with missing features, especially baseline things like hotkeys, game settings, etc. But I can tell that even with what I’ve played so far it clearly has some brilliant gameplay changes under the hood that could propel it to being one of the most mechanically polished Civ games in the series after a year or two of updates and expansions.

I love the eras system for providing a clear chunking of gameplay time as you go through it instead of one massive and unwieldy playthrough. I love the addition of army commanders and the removal of builders. There’s so many small tweaks to things that make them finally feel like the ideal version of each gameplay system to me; things function in the way that I think I imagined them functioning when I first played Civ IV all those years ago.

But again, they should be well criticized for the state of the launch, and 2K’s greed with regards to the clear plans to sell more leaders and civs as DLC.

I was saying death to Windows.

Super Hexagon

Hope it turns out well, the announcement trailer was a wicked vision of a wild artistic and sonic direction, but it seems like the actual development process has been quite troubled.

Completely unique and very difficult to experience with alternative hardware nowadays (compared to the PSP which can be played on nearly everything). The games library is incredibly unique because small budget games still had a big chance to succeed.

I had a very interesting experience watching Network recently, a film from 1976 about the influence of television, and I had a strange realization that TV then was nearly as old as the internet is now. This just feels like a natural point in the history of a communications medium that people begin to think critically about its effect on people and the way we think.

The tech savvy will just buy a Raspberry Pi and install yunohost on it.

Workers co-op