It’s cause them damn women that used to be named Skyler ain’t no man, and never will be. /S

Or something like that, idk.

This pic is so striking but the jammer gives me G11 vibes

To be honest I don’t remember the exact details about the situation, just the huge amount that was spent on it. If I remember rightly they scrapped the engine at some point and started over or something along those lines but take that with a grain of salt because it’s been so long since I looked into it at all.

Piggybacking on your comments towards new world, Amazon spent 1b developing their own engine for the game before they started the game. MMOs being what they are, not being the best profit generators in the industry, it was doomed to fail with that kind of price tag before even releasing the game.

I can’t speak to the scam stuff, but watching the dumpster fire that was that game was some excellent schadenfreude. Expecting to be able to compete with the MMO heavy weights that have been developing for 20 years and the type of rabid content eating gamers that play them, is just an insanely market deaf thing to do, in my opinion.

As a disclaimer, I didn’t play it, just watched it burn from the outside.

As a mechanical game sts(1+2) is superior to inscryption, however do not expect any kind of narrative driven gameplay, gameplay element changes, or real interaction with the opposite side other than fighting.

I really really enjoyed inscryption, but I only played it through once. I currently have around 20 hours in sts2 and I have no idea how much in 1.

All of that being said, I do think that you can get the feel of a puzzler from slay the spire, at least in its most intense moments. Trying to find the right solution to survive. If you enjoyed the card based elements of inscryption, you will enjoy slay the spire.

Also, just skip to 2 instead of playing one. If you have any friends that like the series, try the coop too! It’s really fun and well done.

Edit: I seen you asked for other recommendations, and I would suggest monster train 2. Again, no real story so it doesn’t matter that you’re picking it up at 2.

Unfortunately inscryption is pretty unique in the genre, which is what made it so great.

And now I just imagine them as wrestlers suplexing their meals.

A croc themed beat em up game would be fuckin hilarious

Sounds like that other area needs to pull up on those bootstraps and make a water machine for its needs then.

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(Hopefully obvious but /s)

Sounds like California needs to try out the ligma OS because they can suck my nuts.

Nailed it.

The fun part is that a lot of trading cards have their roots in the early movements for cigarettes. Same idea for the most part, except it was typical for pinups instead of monsters or magic. You bought tobacco to get the cards, so tobacco became popular amongst kids. If you wanted to collect em all, you would buy more boxes of cigarettes, so imo it’s even more of a parallel than just calling out TCGs

The fact that the idea swapped to hooking kids on gambling is honestly a no brainer, especially since the cards were the things helping sell the cigs anyhow.

Her name ends with an A and during our earlier years together we were around a bunch of goats. So I kept calling her (name)-uhuhuh.

Her name in my phone is now that with a goat emoji because it’s both hilarious and she’s goated.

I think there are a few schools of thought towards this type of thing. Me personally, I would want a challenge despite my due diligence and I’m often the person disappointed when I nuke a boss.

However, you will have people that intentionally do the extra stuff so that they are op. Those individuals would hate that if they spent a lot of time doing this and the boss isn’t a breeze they would feel as if their time was wasted doing that content.

A game that comes to mind that recieved a lot of flak for that kind of scaling was last epoch. Every boss gets a shield as you lower their health and it makes having powerful gear, especially in lower areas, feel like less of a boon.

Personally, I think the answer is to move away from pure stats being the indicator of difficulty. Just bumping up health based on level would make a boss feel insane if you dumped most of your levels into less combat oriented stats in the games that have them. So you would feel weak despite being “high level”. The answer to it is having mechanics of a fight be challenging despite your level. If you mess up or ignore a mechanic, you are punished. However, if you’re strong enough you can afford to make those mistakes more often while the fight isn’t just a push over.

This, of course, requires way more effort and actual game design with fun combat so that the game doesnt make bosses feel like a chore or just gimmicks. The easy answer is to just buff stats, which is why most games just make enemies a sponge in high difficulty.

AI357 as in I’d rather eat a .357? Impeccable marketing

I made my original RuneScape account during classic. That account alone has over a year and a half logged in, and is getting nearly 25 years old, as is RuneScape. It is one of a handful of accounts that I’ve maxed out since. I go back to it probably every two years and play for a good while then stop.

The long dark is probably the game I have the most time in that isn’t an MMO, with well over 1k hours. There are other games that could probably compete but I don’t have any way of tracking or knowing.

Knowing that a single game has been such a significant portion of my actual living existence is kind of amazing to me. If anything I’m definitely loyal to what I like, I guess. I’m also really excited with where they are aiming to take the game because I feel as though it gets a lot of unfair flak in the genre, especially compared to osrs.

Not saying it isn’t, but if the reason why you’re saying that is because of the z/y key, I know one of the EU layouts swaps it. German I think?

Totally agree with you, but I would say that the original name made some sense. It used directx and the code name was directx box which became Xbox. Ideally edgy for the market at the time too, I think.

Despite being an avid gamer, I’m not even sure what the release order was after xbone. Being a grandparent or parent and doing it? Fuck that.

Obviously this is just me, but here is a list of the last 5 games I purchased that were not smaller indie titles:

Stalker 2, Elden ring, remnant 2, bg3, dragon’s dogma 2

You could argue that remnant is intended for multiplayer and you could argue that maybe only bg3 and stalker and really narrative driven but the truth is, anymore I tend to buy single player and stream to my friends than I do actually play mp games. The only mp game i was tempted by was Helldivers and I was just too busy at the time.

Anything else are steam deck friendly indie games. I buy a lot of those, and bought a lot even before I had a deck.

In my anecdotal experience, when I see x game is multiplayer, or live service, or just not an experience I can enjoy on my own time I tune it out. For example, I always bought Diablo games but I don’t own 4.

I also immediately think of some other big ones that I opted out of, like Wukong. People fucking love single player games when they are good games. I think the real issue is developing a good game is hard. Developing a game with dark practices and otherwise addicting (but not necessarily fun) gameplay is a much easier way to make uninspired games made by committee.

It’s just easier to point the blame at the market than actually admit that upon self reflection you realized it is best to avoid the hard part of game development.

In all seriousness this was the only thing I could think of myself and then I had a moment of thought about a dwarf (irl not rpg) having a stalker. It is something that never crossed my mind. Not to say they couldn’t or anything but I could just feel the realization hit.

Anyway, cheers for the actual definition before the brain rot set in too hard.

Yep, attack me instead of the message because it’s easier to be a school yard bully than think for yourself.

I was literally responding to your message, not your meme. You’re so delusional you clearly don’t even know what you’re talking about, so how could I expect you to understand me.

I didn’t have high expectations, which is why I said I didn’t expect much logic but you legitimately surprised me with how void of thought you really are.

Not that I’m expecting much logic after a message like this, but you do realize that by calling Biden a coward for not assassinating the president elect, you are supporting him doing the exact kind of stuff that trump tried to do when he lost? In other words you’re praising the actions of trump as strong and brave. Because only one of those maniacs would truly want the president to have the power to assassinate a presidential elect because he isn’t on your team.

There are a lot of problems in the world, there are many in just the US, but this just ain’t it chief. Will trump try to do that shit again? Probably. The problem however isn’t that Biden is a “coward” who will not literally incite civil war 2 by killing him because it’s not even trump that is necessarily the problem.

This time Trump won the popular vote, the people decided that is what they want. The only way that it can change is with the opinion of the people. Attacking the people on your “team” and being divisive just because they don’t wanna be dictators in blue instead of red means you’re part of the problem. You’re causing infighting, you’re causing division, you’re helping obfuscate the real problem. You’re being part of the problem.

Grow up, realize that murder isn’t the answer. I would find myself happy if that rotten orange peel dropped dead too, but an assassination would just empower the movement more.

Use your brain.

I quit a couple years ago for good, but my main account on RuneScape was created in classic as a kid. I had about a year and a half of PLAY time on the account, mind you the vast majority of that was back when you had the hard 5 minute afk timer, so that was at least moderately active play. Then if you add my ironman account I have nearly 1/15th of my whole life logged into RuneScape. I don’t regret it, my whole friend group as an adult stem from those friendships I made online during my young teen years. However, as a modern game as much as I have a place for it in my heart, I found I had more of a negative addictive relationship with it. Maybe I always did, but I didn’t feel a negative mental effect at a young age.

I have over 1k hours in The Long Dark and 7 days to die. Around 500 in space engineers, darkest dungeon, binding of Isaac, enter the gungeon, grim dawn, and satisfactory. ~300 hours in ToME4 and Caves of qud each. That’s just steam stuff though, there are a lot of games that I know are up there that aren’t on steam.

I’m sure I have at least similar numbers to 500-1k if not much higher in Diablo 2-3, and I’m sure more than a few thousand in wow though I lost my og account after wotlk because I forgot the details when I quit so I’m really not sure.