See, I think there’s plenty to criticize in the game, but I’m always cautious anytime someone strings together adjectives “worst / terrible” without much description/quantitiy behind it. Not to accuse you directly, but it’s the pattern I see when the “anti-woke brigade” wants to attack a game.

I’d definitely say Sky’s main villain is mustache-twirlingly generic, but that’s part of why they have so many supporting villains, like Loewe. I also thought a lot better of the core character development of the heroes, and how a mustache-twirling generic villain compels the best out of them. But I’d say Zero’s villains were just as generic, and comparatively never got the feeling of hero development out of them. It also felt like a few arc patterns were just being reused from Sky.

So for any third parties reading, I guess you’d have to consider whether you care more about good heroes, or good villains.

I saw a front page about Saudi ownership, multiple game shutdowns, gen AI, etc, and figured I’d post something seeming a bit more positive/interesting.

The Sky duology is very much built such that you shouldn’t even watch trailers for the second if you haven’t finished the first. To put it bluntly, it’s a JRPG with turn-based combat, and everyone I have seen watch its conclusion has been immediately on board for its sequel - but that is a very large qualifier given how many people drop out due to some honestly quite slow, “soft” dialog early on.

I wouldn’t consider myself a Trails nut; I tried the three games in the series following this one, and they felt progressively worse and worse in terms of teenage Japanese anime writing. But, while this part of the saga holds a few of those issues, I do hold these early installments in high memory, and the remake has been very faithful as well as making use of a newer age of visuals (on the plus side, it doesn’t rely on DLSS, but on the minus, the environments are often pretty basic). I’m also guessing a lot of people skipped the first after seeing it was a duology, so now the option of playing both interrupted is on the table. While there is a third game, there’s no confirmation it’ll be remade, and it’s more like a smaller series of enjoyable extras anyway.

Nobody’s claiming they have “zero” singleplayer campaign, but it’s possible it’s very short. A movie makes its trailers off of an hour and a half of content, so the campaign doesn’t have to be long to generate enough for trailers, especially if they can mix in shots of online campaigns.

I’ve noticed that 5’s big online content cycles have all come with their own detailed trailers and “story” moments. I don’t know when those come in between missions, but it’s plausible some of the 6 trailer content comes from missions like those.

I decided to get this when I heard this! Always thought the game looked unique but didn’t know how I felt about buying from a pro-genocide company.

EDIT: I’ll admit, I’m a little surprised by the downvotes. Did people believe Microsoft was ever anti-genocide?

Rather than put us against invented enemies, I like to think a lot of Christians actually don’t care much about these subjects, and that the push specifically comes from Christofascism (rich people without a soul in their body using religion as a weapon to restrict and control people)

I mean, the hope is for something new; to be that one that creates a genre boom. I’m sure Among Us wasn’t the first party deception game.

I’m guessing at least some of the planning just came from developers who are fighting game fans that want to see a success there, rather than business planners.

But you’re also right that a lot of the audience has zero patience for trying a game where two characters face off with a big life bar in three rounds. Hundreds of thousands have been promised “It’s good for beginners now!” and had that promise broken with motion inputs and skill gaps.

It reminds me of the manufactured hate on Taylor Swift.

Yea, she’s rich; but being rich alone, and using a plane, is not the direct cause of everyone’s misery. It’s often a red flag, yes, and can point to other things. We can argue they should pay more taxes, but even more we argue that they shouldn’t have intense control over our politics. And from what I see, Gabe and Swift don’t.

The game originally existed as monetized F2P, much like many mobile games. They gave up on the freemium model, and wanted to sell it.

But, the practice of “Good, packaged game for $10” doesn’t really work on phones. Everything must be free or it doesn’t even get a look. That’s what Apple Arcade tried to resolve, tying to Netflix subscription model.

Not a fun answer and speaks to the dumb mobile crowd; but I certainly wish they could at least find some motivation to repack it into a $0.99 game for preservation purposes.

For its implementation, generally Denuvo asks devs to call their check function somewhere in the core gameplay loop. From what I gather, many times this has happened, it’s been because the devs picked a function that’s happening much more than the check really needs.

That said, perhaps I’m to be proven wrong; but that often depends on a close look at the source code.

This was how I first got Factorio, but the post is really about things you can’t discover on Steam.

Realistically, this is also true of the Dualsense on PS5. It has a clear, dedicated LED button to disable the microphone, and that mic is rarely used for anything but online chat.

Funny enough, moving to Linux meant I discovered a lot of cool tools and games that I wouldn’t have otherwise…and then eventually learned they had Windows releases anyway, so it wasn’t strictly necessary to ditch MS for them. But beneficial anyway.

I’ve been playing a lot of Gyakuten Live. It likely can’t be officially monetized because it infringes upon “Love Live School Idols” as well as stealing a few assets from the Ace Attorney games. But, the game has quite an impressive amount of production value, with many emotive character faces, a full custom soundtrack, numerous cinematics between cases, and a lot of artwork to help visualize the scenarios. It centers around what seem like relatively innocuous cases, like a missing treasure, or fraudulent tickets, but (aside from the intro case) tends to dive into some complex character emotions as the motive behind each incident.

The other game that made me think of posting this is Hytale, which looks to basically be an indie, non-Microsoft, pro-modding version of Minecraft.

Can’t wait to get 20 Fortnite ads. And then an error message that Fortnite doesn’t run on Linux.