Well damn, now I gotta find out if this exists near me

Everything has to be live service now. Can’t even blame it solely on the companies themselves, a game will go a few months without updating and I’ll see people online calling it a dead game

I wish there was a way that they could both somehow lose

Six is nothing. When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large

One issue with video games now is that there are so many and they all take so much time to play now. And since companies push out games so quickly there’s no point buying anything before they push out a patch to fix all the bugs in the initial release, might as well use that time to play some of the games I already have and then pick up what I want on sale.

I’ll happily pay full price for a short, creative indie game, but that’s already probably much cheaper than a big budget game anyways

Great job Hobbes, really helpful

At this point we need to treat AI web scrapers as DDoS attacks and prosecute the companies and people involved the same way we would those

Just started 7th Dragon III Code: VFD on the 3DS. Been looking at Monster Crown: Sin Eater the past few days as well, but considering finishing up a current game first before I get that

I had wanted to finish up Pokemon Crystal Clear before I started anything else, but it’s been super grindy in the run up to the Elite 4 (and I’m not crazy about the changes the modders made to that) so I had to take a break

Someone call Godzilla, Ebirah got out again

As great news that this is, pretty fucked up that all of their very reasonable demands have to actually be negotiated for and aren’t just basic rights for workers

At the end of the day it’s still a video game designed to be fun to a mass market of consumers, even if it shows the rough parts players aren’t actually dealing with everything back then

I’m just saying there’s a difference between playing a game designed to provide a fun and rewarding experience and actually going through those harsh realities in real life

RDR2 does a good job of putting you in the shoes of someone 125y ago

Does it? I wasn’t alive then, and I doubt any of the devs were either. Even if you’re going off first hand sources it can still be hard to know if the perception we have today is actually accurate to how it was back then

Exactly what came to mind. It’s funny how this show ended up being about 50% dated 2000s pop culture references and 50% extremely accurate social parody

I understand that it can feel that way, but remember that video games are romanticized interpretations that make things way easier than they are in real life. Life back then wasn’t RDR2 and there’s no guarantee that you’d find the community you’re imagining, and a much higher chance you’d have to deal with the harsh realities of those times

Switched to Octopi as well and had to configure it a little to get it setup but now I almost forget that I even switched

He could also just stop using orange makeup???

They’re probably angling for more restrictions on Chinese cars in the US/Japan. Then they can enjoy their monopoly over the domestic market without having to actually invest anything to actually compete with Chinese auto companies

The issue is that ChatGPT will tell you that it can do those things. Most of the hype for “AI” has been predicated on treating it like actual artificial intelligence and not the LLM parrot it truly is

That last panel is the perfect punchline to this whole arc

Very cool looking games, however I’m kind of sad that roguelike design has seemingly taken over so much of the indie space as someone who dislikes the genre conventions