I’ve been saying this since it released. Cool mechanics, but boring world and gameplay. I’m still a bit salty about the loss of real dungeons, nothing in BOTW or TOTK feel as memorable as the previous games.

That’s a shame to hear, I recently played this game and it’s one of the best Metroidvanias I’ve ever played.

The download feature is always in some state of broken, but it has gotten a lot better over the past couple of years. If you haven’t tried it in a year or so, you may have better luck now.

I mean I’ve always had an issue that digital goods could always be revoked/taken back. That’s why I didn’t buy things on steam until it became basically the only way (as consoles have less physical media). This is just a great reminder for the public that we’re consistently loosing control over our digital lives.

I’ve been an advocate for forcing companies to change the wording for digital goofs to “lease” rather than “buy”. Cause at the end of the day, no one owns their steam library.

Not a demake or a game, but there is a “Mummy Demastered”, which is a Metroidvania demake of the Tom Cruise mummy movie. It’s actually decent and considered better than the movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_Demastered

I wouldn’t have an issue with many different communications platforms if they didn’t all require an account (also Discord not being indexable sucks).

If you played and liked any game like dead cells or rouge legacy, then Hades should be worth it.

Its basically an action rpg rougelite with a lot of unlock ables, story directly tied to the die/repeat cycle, and lots of interesting challenges.

If you like rougelikes then you’ll get your money out of it. Honestly it’s worth more than that, but it does go on sale occasionally and they’ve already released (in early access) a sequel Hades 2.

It’s been a really sad console generation. It could be because I got a steam deck, but only Nintendo seems to be putting out 1st party games that are any good (and even then it’s been hit or miss).

Definitely sounds like it could be real. If I had to guess their mounting a drive (or another partition) and it’s defaulting to read only. When restarting it resets the original permissions as they only updated the file permissions, but not the mount configuration.

Also reads like some of my frustrations when first getting into Linux (and the issues I occasionally run into still).

Anyone have a high level breakdown of what this update contains?

Just read up more about the systems and always thought they charged you more, didn’t realize that for the time being they are zero interest loans.

Seems unsustainable, but sounds like they’re using the credit card technique of charing the storefront. It’ll be interesting to see where the bnpl industry goes.

Why be the bad guy when you can just enable them.

This is what I was going to say.

• If they’re a dev WSL is a godsend for development.
• If they are looking to move away from windows, dual boot or live cd/thumb drive are good ways to test things out.

That’s actually why I went with the Xbox this cycle. I got a series x for the large TV and a $200 (on sale) series S for the smaller one (although we usually just use a computer monitor and play side by side on the couch).

I mean the counter arguement to that is the joy cons joysticks break all the time by just using them.

Hahaha fair point

Oh yeah, I don’t disagree it has had a large following since it released. I was just highlighting that even if a majority of the player base was 5-15 on release, they’d be 20-30 now. So why target just kids.

What’s also weird is Minecraft is 15 years old at this point. That means you’ve basically got a huge age range (kids to adults) within the target audience. Why isn’t it targeted at the entire fanbase?

Forgotten City is another interesting game, that like Outer Wilds, has you piecing together a mystery. Hadn’t seen it mentioned yet.

For an older classic in the mystery/no coddling space there is the Myst series. I’ve only played the first, but they’re challenging puzzles/mystery point-and-click games.