long term

If you can remember THACO, tabletop games have survived needing to change a few systems in the past

“Our software is a bloated mess” is not the defence they think it is.

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Reading comprehension, even more challenging than dark souls nowadays eh? No idea what you’re even going on about now, but glad you got your nice rehearsed rant off your chest.

The main souls games have already gotten progressively more and more “””accessible”””, somewhat to the detriment of what originally made them appealing. Options are a mutually preferable alternative - people that enjoyed the original gameplay would still have their torture, or you can play on games journalist difficulty and have basically the same experience as watching someone else play on twitch.

Tell me you never played a soulslike for more than two hours without telling me.

Boss’s weapon moves forward -> press roll, covers about 70% of the souls series.

Unfortunately, the game is only really fun when you’re playing with friends, and we only played a bit before going back to our current “thing”.

But-but-but it won’t run the newest Doom!!!1! 🙄

People like you defending this nonsense is exactly the issue, but you’ll never realize it.

So I’m paying thousands of dollars for a GPU to save the AAA company money?

Yes, but you deepthroating the technology is now relevant to me, because now it’s limiting my options on what hardware I can use to play the game, unnecessarily.

What’s the worst AMD card that can run it again? But it’s tooootally just because everybody has to have ray tracing, right? It would just be inconceivable to have, uh… unrealistic light rays? That’s what my game has to have to be playable these days, fucking light rays?

Yes, it stinks that AMD’s ray tracing performance is so far behind. But ray tracing is an unnecessary gimmick, and mandating it is a stupid choice. Imagine mandating your game has to have V-sync, or motion blur, or depth of field, or any of these garbage settings a sizable percentage of the playerbase immediately disables?

New AAA releases that can’t be bothered to optimize worth a damn. If those are something you just can’t do without, then sure, but it’s odd to be all doom and gloom over less than 5% of the games people will play this year lmao(15% of steam playtime in 2024 was new releases, it was a pretty even split between AAA, AA, and indie, and not every AAA game is optimized like ass).

Nintendo could make fucking bank if it was easier to actually pay them to play their old games. They have no leg to stand on since I can’t.

Conventional economic theory holds that a small, consistent level of inflation is the most beneficial. In short, you don’t want hoarding cash to be a smart long term economic decision, you want more of that money invested/moving in the economy. I recommend reading about the Japanese deflation in the 90s if you’re curious what the effects of even relatively moderate deflation can be.

Stardew allows people to achieve their dreams that are unrealistic in the real world, like -

Home ownership

Finding friends and community in a new place

Finding love

Evicting their local walmart and replacing it with a cinema

Escaping the fresh hell of late stage capitalism (or becoming the very worst proponent of it, sometimes somehow both)

I would sub in like maybe Darkest Dungeon 2 over Frostpunk? Less well received but still better than any of the other three. Both were distinct changes of pace, darkest dungeon just sold its soul to the epic games store and lost the bond you formed with characters over a long campaign in exchange for the roguelite shorter runs.

Sorry reality gets in the way of your corporate bootlicking 🤷🏻‍♂️

But have you considered the other platforms that aren’t GOG suck.

I want things on a platform that is either utterly unobtrusive, or useful. Unfortunately, that means either steam or GOG.

Play a new game for a few hours on deck, and there will be a little unobtrusive prompt box asking if you agree it’s “great on deck” near the play button.

I know Steam will ask you if you agree a game was truly “great on deck” after playing - I wonder if a certain threshold of people responding with no flags it.