Sneezycat

It’s about preserving the consumption culture for the mainstream. If playing older games for free was easier and legal, more people that now only play the newest AAA garbage would start doing it, and corpos don’t want to risk that culture change, because if it gets big enough it would definitely impact their sales.

Unfortunately not many people know or care about indie games and free games like Beyond All Reason, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, etc. as is.

Paid product? I’m not sad, we already have Heroic Games Launcher for free, and it works just fine.

That’s what I thought back in 2007. Now I kinda like the convenience. If they added an option to download the games, like GOG, it’d be perfect.

Steam DRM is a joke anyways and not all games on steam have it, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for them to get rid of it.

Isn’t your GPU an Nvidia RTX 2060? Why are you trying to use the Intel GPU acceleration method? I’m confused

Yes it is but it’s a rant, of course I’m exaggerating a bit xP

There’s also the fact that they’re completely optional and unnecessary. They provide nothing but cosmetics

I hate this argument, because videogames themselves are completely optional and unnecessary. That’s the whole point of them, they’re just for entertainment, to have fun and enjoy playing them. So I don’t see how something being cosmetic makes any difference.

It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

Well, people waste their money on useless crap all the time, so I guess I’ll just be the cranky old lady and go back to playing my original AoM, where I’m actually playing a game and not an advertisement.

Yeah I love these “free” (33.9€ optional) games

They’re almost as great as the free (20€/skin) games

“but you can just not buy the skins” sure and people can just not go to the casino and lose their life savings, but that’s not how some brains work.

I see no problem: they can record the original call and postprocess it with AI live for the operators. The recordings would be the original audio.

No, it means people that want paid mods can just donate, and people that don’t want them aren’t excluded.

Knowing how good companies are at taking decisions, they’d be capable.

Tell that to the horse armor lol back in the day no one would buy a game with these kind of MTX and we would laugh at it. But now we’re saying “it’s not that bad come on, it’s still a good game”. The slippery slope is very much a thing.

More like you toss a coin and if it’s heads you don’t get pieces, just pawns and a king.

You’re only forced to use one move: parry. The moves you can’t parry, you just dodge. You can finish the game just with that.

Give it a try again! Sekiro is a rhythm game, and when it clicks, the combat becomes one of the most fun of all FromSoft games.

Nobody was talking about Larian when they released DOS2, and the only big thing BG3 has that DOS2 doesn’t is the animated dialogue (and DnD setting).

To be fair, just that system was a lot of work for the devs and it does wonders for the game; but DOS2 is a freaking amazing game too, it just didn’t have the publicity.

Fair enough, and it is definitely bigger. But in my mind, systems that get no engagement from me are systems that don’t exist, therefore making the game smaller.

What I particularly hate is the catacombs and other recycled open world stuff in Elden Ring. I’d much rather have another Sekiro sized game with a lot of quality than a 100h+ game I’ll only play once, because replaying anything more than the main progression path feels like a chore but it still gives you loot.

Ubisoft padding doesn’t count for length for me. I ain’t getting the 27000 collectibles, AC is 20h long not 200h long.

And corporations want people to pay for it but they don’t want to pay for it themselves. It’s almost as if no one likes copyright, but it benefits some ppl more than others.

Not a voice mod, but my voice passes as fem now, so I started talking in VC.

Started playing phasmophobia and it’s a lot of fun, but sometimes you get one or two dudes that start making “funny” mysogynistic comments and it’s pretty annoying cause it’s the Same. Thing. Every. Time.

“Oooh it’s in the kitchen, must be a woman ghost!” Looks at me to gauge my reaction.

Joins room I say hi “A FEMALE??? I’m not playing with a female” disconnects

And more. Spawntaneous is a youtuber that has a series of videos about being a “girl gamer” and it’s very eye opening. You don’t get that kind of people every match, but you do get them every couple hours you play, and even if you somehow find it funny the first time, it gets old really quick.

Yeah, although you should install the unofficial patch and widescreen mod (if needed).

Other than that, it’s still a very fun game and I do recommend it :)

The original holds up anyway, and I firmly believe they were gonna butcher it, so… is this a win?