khab

15/5

Weird. I have like three crashes total in 66 hours since I bought the game in late march. Did you clear the shader cache, update drivers and all that jazz?

MS has been doing that for over 20 years, no news there. The reason for acquiring is to deny acquisition to others, and to ensure MS’s ecosystems have software, I imagine.

Wait, is NMS a game nowadays?

Set up a PiHole if you can, I see no ads whatsoever.

Yeah, clearly offering more ways to legitimately purchase their content is predatory… Stellaris is EIGHT years old at this point, it’s hard to find another single player game that’s still supported and updated as well. Every dlc also brings a free update, so all owners benefit.

Or maybe we just need to stop buying shit that’s just thinly veiled skinner boxes, and play games because they are fun again, not to get the best/coolest/most brag-worthy stuff in-game.

would focus on the essence of what made the original series great by making an, “arcadey, amazing-feeling, very accessible, competitive and fun game.” Project Gravity was also planned to be a live-service, free-to-play title

Yeaaaaaah, those two are probably not compatible.

I think I saw an ad for this when it came out, but I thought it was some multiplayer hero shooter thing, which doesn’t interest me.

Maybe not release it in-between BG3 and Starfield would have been better, hey?

I’ll grab it in four years, when they give it away for free. And never ever play it.

Releasing a niche new IP from a well-regarded but lesser-known developer with little to no marketing in the extremely busy autumn and expecting success is… a bit weird. You gotta wonder what they were thinking.

Seems like they are right

Seems like it’s for real.

Try to see it like a choose your own adventure instead of “gotta catch 'em all”. I find it helps to have a soft rule against savescumming for myself - if I make a mistake, my character made that. The only times I let myself reload is if the outcome of what I did was unclear, and went entirely against what I thought it would do.

It would, except they transferred all story-related items, regardless of whether the quest was finished or not, including some equipment and alchemy item, and IN BAGS for some reason. It made a whole mess of my MC’s inventory whenever I swapped my party around.

Shogo

Firewatch
Well-made story-focused, no combat whatsoever. Very few puzzles, almost exclusively about exploring.

What Remains of Edith Finch
More “puzzley”, but lets you discover things at your own pace.

Jaysis. Just stop buying these exploitative and morally bankrupt games. No “at least on the X franchise”. No “I won’t pay any microtransactions”. No “I won’t preorder”.

They will not change, nor get better as long as they’re selling.

Just STOP buying this shite, everyone.