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The CEO got Community Noted for a minute
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https://twitter.com/Pilestedt/status/1786417563628437933
It's not there anymore, but was earlier.
This is where we are now in 2024.
Check if Game is Safe to Buy Checklist:
*some exceptions still apply
So... We're down to solitaire and minesweeper.
I've had a blast with Hades, Stardew, Outer Wilds (haven't finished though), and many others. There are some excellent indies.
Oh hell yeah lemme shill for valheim, 7 days to die, avorion, kenshi, project wingman (in vr with flight controls if you have it), and the forest. I don't think I have any reputation on this site but I'll put it on the line to recommend the shit out of those games.
deep rock galactic best game, they're going to be letting you just.. straight up switch between past seasons in the next update, it has such an absurd value for your money and just continously teabags AAA games
Rock and stone! I'll have to revisit it. My crew burned out on it pretty quick. Likewise with killing floor. Wave shooters just kinda don't feel amazing.
RIGHT!?!? I was SHOOK when they announced that! Overwatch could take ALL my money if they adopted a similar Pass System.
I will always shill for Cassette Beasts. Best monster collecting game, hands-down.
Don't those have ads on Windows now?
F U C K
Micro(soft)transactions too, I heard
Not if you firewall it off funnily enough
It was Daedalic Entertainment and their older and more indi titles are fine. Since they closed down their dev team after gollum, I don't think you need to avoid them.
All of their point and click adventures are great. Unfortunate things went downhill after Poki left the company.
You should definitely check out this video to understand hello games were the good guys fucked over by a bunch of hype and then Sony, the publisher, giving the studio barely any support while pushing the blame on them for everything.
https://youtu.be/O5BJVO3PDeQ?si=S5grsjEigZVumO4a
Sounds about right. You should add Paradox Interactive as they added a launcher to Across the Obelisk.
Why CDPR? They just had a single game with a disaster last gen console launch and a kinda rough PC launch, they made up for it in basicly no time and iirc they own Gog the platform without any drm always online crap
it was only in "red flags"?
maybe more of a "never pre-order" type comment?
Yeah, I meant it more as a caution than a "DO NOT BUY"
I think you were meant yellow flag, which means be cautious.
But red flag means that: never even consider to buy, or if bought by accident, refund if still can. Or at least in other areas of life it has such a meaning.
I think you answered your own question in the first part, and for the rest, I was mostly interested in the immersion in the game via roleplaying, like NPC's having their own routines, living, breathing world, etc. A.K.A. the stuff they lied about that still has not made it into the game.
Why Psyonix? Rocket League is the only game they still work on.
Edit: Psyonix isn't even a publisher
Only things I can remember for Psyonix was they dropped OS support for Mac and Linux, pulled the game from steam, and required an epic account to continue playing. Luckily refunds were being honored when it happened.
They also removed trading for epic's stupid rocket racing mode that died within a month, made dropshot and snow rotate with each season causing people to throw because who cares about a seasonal mode, servers getting worse every day, doing nothing to stop the smurfing and boosting problems, GC level bots still in ranked (although not as much), invisible players, cheaters able to fuck with the servers and cause disconnects/lag, and just general toxicity from the player base that they won't address.
Do you need an Epic account to play if you already have it through Steam?
Yes.
Thanks I haven't played in a long while and couldn't remember.
Bingo. I was a Steam, Linux, and Mac (IIRC) player.
But this happened after the Epic acquisition though, the game had Linux support from day one then Sweany came in.
Rocke League before Epic was great and I wouldn't consider Psyonix a bad company.
I mean, they allowed that to happen, so...?
maybe I should make one of those meme / concept review accounts on steam and run games through this list.
Feel free to copy, improve, and spread the list.
Why Hello Games?
I agree, why Hello Games. They are a studio that has gone to great lengths to make the game better and haven't charged a single penny more. Sean Murray has learnt to not overhype things. I'm looking forward to Light No Fire and having seen what they are capable of following all the NMS updates I have confidence they can succeed.
No Man's Sky wasn't all it was hyped to be on launch, it's actually much better now (I'm literally playing it right this second lol)
Great list I mostly agree with it for myself. I'd love to have a steam bot tell me when a game in my cart violates this. Or maybe a steamdb bot that tells me when I bought a game that violates this, so I can still refund it in the window.
You forgot to include Epic Store, and itch
Also forgot must be open source and self hostable (if multiplayer)
I wouldn't buy something from the epic store. Though I agree with Itch and direct download.
Direct download is already listed there. No Epic store. Games do not need to be open source. I already included local hosting.
Bethesda Why?
I assume you died in 2011 and this is your ghost trying to catch up with the last decade and a half
I was 5 years old in 2011 :(
Jesus i keep forgetting how old I am
Skyrim wasn't objectively good, but it was well-liked and infinitely moddable.
Fallout 4 had some interesting mechanics, but the story was bad, the in-game radio host was awful, and the engine was a decade old at that point. It was also the game where Bethesda introduced paid mods.
Fallout 76 is a tale of its own. It failed at every conceivable point, including promotion, merchandise, and post-release content.
Starfield is a loading screen simulator with 1700 near-identical planet and a bad story, and is overall so insignificant that I almost forgot to mention it.
Most recently, Fallout 4's newest release broke mod compatibility, the only thing that kept it relevant.
It's fair to say that Bethesda hasn't developed an objectively good game since Oblivion, and that was the game with the horse armors. Plus there are all the games that are owned by Bethesda, but not developed by them. Redfall, Deathloop, and what Id did to Mick Gordon.