Yeah, I haven’t switched cause I just haven’t felt like I’ve had the time

Yeah hunt is great, love the atmosphere, the tools, the learning curve and the stupid interactions. Hunt loss is pretty minor though, takes maybe a few alright rounds to get the fun perks and then you can just buy whatever gear.

I’m pretty sure there’s nothing you can buy that has any effect on gameplay so idk where you got P2W from.

UE5 can do some very neat things but it’s overkill for most games

Tbh with FFXIV you only have to buy the 2? Most recent expacs and you can play free up to 70/100 and the accompanying story stuff without. It doesn’t do the limited time free trial anymore.

My complaint about borderlands 3 was the cringe main antagonists. Like I’m happily shooting stuff and they hop in with painfully mediocre snippets of whatever they’re supposed to be doing. Also they killed off one of the best characters. The gunplay felt nice, the music and graphics were good. I didn’t have any real technical issues.

Wellp, I have started playing the first silksong again finally after getting stuck in the mantis boss thing. Also I bought this one…

Yeah similar here, I could never get into stardew and I played timberborn a while ago but haven’t felt like picking it up again since

Yeah I hope they do, ksp1 is a very important game. I’m still mildly concerned about their choice to avoid steam though.

Kbam is very doable for souls games, the earlier pre-ds3 ones are slightly painful but for all of them it’s mainly about getting it set up right

Cdda is a pretty steep learning curve but I keep coming back to it. One of the nice things about the project is that anyone can work on it, I’ve submitted a couple of minor fixes in the past. It changes pretty drastically over the months if you’re playing the latest build. It’s also a huge timesink when you actually get into it.

It’s fairly playable without mods these days, I’d recommend new players at least try that to find out what they’d want to tweak before diving in. But yeah at 3k+ hours on steam it’s definitely one of the games that’s given a bunch for me. Very moddable but I’d suggest trying to keep your list light (not that that really stops me), use rimpy for mod management and grab the performance mods like rocketman and performance fish.

Project hospital is a fun hospital manager but it’s a lot more serious than two point or theme

Oh yeah don’t get me wrong, I also love some turn based games. Cataclysm and shadow empire are two that I’ve been playing recently. It’s just that as a different medium you don’t have to be constrained to boardgame restrictions and I prefer a lot of games that don’t use traditional turns

I personally enjoy real time or real time with pause more than turn based. Some turn based games are great but turn based games frequently feel like converted boardgames.

Teamspeak is alright, in fact we use it along with discord for inter-channel Comms. But discord does a lot of stuff that ts doesn’t touch

I’m just reminded of the fog men in kenshi

It’s not bad but I personally couldn’t get into it, too much dnd.

Yeah, the main reason doom can be considered more friendly is because the whole engine’s been taken apart and rebuilt by half the game industry by now

It’s more that most games aren’t made with consideration for modding, this means you can have core gameplay elements hidden in encrypted packages and modding is limited by what you can actually get access to. Sometimes the devs/publishers will actively make mods harder though. Really depends on the game, the company, how determined people are to mod it, how long the game’s been out for, the engine and probably a bunch else that I haven’t thought of right now.