GAMMA has faction questlines. I’m not sure how good of an experience they are because that is very much not why I play GAMMA, but they definitely exist.
Also: if you install GAMMA and are initially utterly disgusted by the depth of field, don’t panic you can turn it off lol.
A (rumored) $40 live service battle-royale… outlook bad for this game.
‘Retro’ in a gaming sense is often used interchangeably with ‘Vintage’, as far as I can tell.
The subreddit r/Retrogaming even has this gem on their sidebar:
Retro Gaming: Reddit’s home of vintage gaming
… yeah, I’m aware AI isn’t a person. I’m not sure why that’s a question? Maybe I phrased things badly, but I’m not- nor have I ever- been really mad about AI usage. It’s mostly just disappointment.
It’s just a technology. I largely dislike the way it’s being used, partly because I feel like it has a lot of potential.
Why? AI doing one good thing doesn’t erase the dozens of bad ways it’s utilized.
I’m interested to see AI used on a larger scale in really specific ways, but the industry seems more interested in using it to take giant shortcuts and replace staff. That is going to piss people off, and it’s going to really piss people off when it also delivers a shit product.
I’m fine with DLSS, because I want to see AI enhance games. I want it to make them better. So far, all I can see is that it’s making them worse with one single upside that I can just… toggle off on my end if I don’t like it.
Most of my playtime is before alloys even existed lol. If I played the game more often I’m sure I’d be able to figure it out, but it’s just bad luck on my part. I tend to get interested like a month before they’ve released some massive groundbreaking update.
Ehhh, they can be rough experiences on launch so if that’s what you mean by ‘right from the start’ I disagree a bit. I very much wish I let Stellaris cook a year or so before I grabbed it.
Otherwise I definitely agree. The free updates they release with the DLC are usually excellent, and sometimes I still intentionally disable the DLCs because they add mechanics I’m not interested in interacting with. I own Man the Guns for HoI4, for example, and I almost never actually enable it.
You can generally get the base game for a bit of nothing(Stellaris’ historical low is $4), and then grab the DLCs you think will interest you down the line when they’re also on sale.
I am somewhat tired of them completely upending how Stellaris plays, though. I feel like every time I get comfortable with the game they overhaul some major system, and I’m learning how to play a new game again.
… I don’t know, is that why they tried to remove him? Are all the other skaters in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games notable in some way that he isn’t?
I’m not trying to argue some point, I just know basically nothing about this and I’m curious.
Why would they not include him? Is he controversial for some reason?
I needed to hear that, actually. Thanks lol.
I intended to look pretty hard at swapping to Linux this year since they’re stopping security updates for Win10. I guess now I know exactly what flavor of Linux to grab.
Yeah, exactly.
Reminds me the ol “if all your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?”
Some parents these days seem to think the solution is that you shouldn’t be able to jump off the bridge in the first place.
Ellie Gibson - from the Scummy Mummies podcast - said Mr Baszucki’s message risked sounding “a bit of a get out”.
“It’s much easier said than done, especially when all their friends are playing it,” she told the BBC.
That’s wild to me. “Your platform isn’t safe.” “So don’t let your kids use it.” “But all their friends are on it!”
Me too lmao. Turns out it’s a mobile game, that’s definitely why I missed it.
I wasn’t really playing KotOR for the mechanics originally, but having recently replayed it… yeah not the best rules. I’d probably still play it lol.
There’s still a market for that. People liked the Nvidia Shield and that’s more or less what it is afaik.
TIL these games are based on 3E and 3.5E. Neat. I might have to give a remaster a go just for that.
Eh. Well, opinions.
I thought so too after that first trailer, looked really rough. The combat looked absolutely terrible.
They released another trailer awhile ago that seemed drastically improved so I’m moderately interested in the game. I’m not on the edge of my seat and preordering or anything, but I’ll look into it when it releases.
Yeah, I always viewed it as more of a city builder except on Mars. More akin to Cities Skylines than Rimworld. I haven’t played it to be clear, but that’s why- I liked Rimworld, but do not particularly enjoy city builders.
I too despise the obsession with making videogames look like they were filmed for some inexplicable reason lol.