I’m reminded of the debacle surrounding Boyfriend Dungeon’s release some time ago.

Did he ever get into the meat of why they sold? Doom 3 and Quake 4 weren’t the equals of their predecessors but surely the company can’t have been in dire enough straits to necessitate a sale.

Backtracking can be useful for building a person’s mental map of an environment but the bigger bugbear for me was the amount of terrible Uncharted/Tomb Raider-esque climbing you had to do. It’s not fun nor challenging, it’s just pace-breaking.

“Labour shortage”

Has happened tons of times for me. Hate it.

Kinja’s being silly again, your Hogwarts Legacy comment showed up on the Xbox Direct article.

Others have performed the necessary and justified bashing of this practice of ‘grading’ games so I will instead opine that

Having now learned what kind of a person the Factorio dev is from other commenters here, I would like to rescind most of the above and add that WOW he’s a piece of work, cripes. Like impressively terrible in the sense that I didn’t think I could be taken aback by such things anymore.

Considering how Steam sales have affected the ‘value’ discussion around games on PC (and in general) I respect the decision to not race to the 90% bin. Factorio isn’t for me but as someone who hopes to one day have works of my own to sell, I can’t fault them for their logic.

Been re-listening to some of the podcast from 2019 and 2020 when I was especially into it and weirdly enough the thing that keeps sticking in my mind is how hard it must have been to leave their studio at CBS behind. Such a cool room with such a long legacy and now it’s probably just a storage or cubicle room. Wonder…

I believe a quote got out that at least one big-ish team wasn’t planning on releasing there but when they received an offer they figured it would be profitable based on the amount of work it’d require.

Heck yeah. Get its ass.

Japanese company still has backwards-ass practices towards the internet, weather at eight.

Think I have to agree with others here. Awakening is one of my all-time favourite games but Three Houses didn’t land anywhere near as strong for me, especially the prospect of having to play through four times to get the full story.

It seems like it’s less “he has redeemed himself” and more “he hasn’t done anything to that level of heinous lately”.

Seeing Pentiment come out of Obsidian post-Microsoft acquisition makes me wonder if we’re going to see Xbox step into that role of “platform holder publishing weird A/AA stuff to attract users”. The new economics of Game Pass might allow for that in a way buying games individually no longer encouraged at the highest…

Those sites can’t talk about your project if you don’t make it visible. This is a weird attempt to shift blame.

“i just want to relive my beloved childhood memories and not everything has to be a huge political or moral statement”

This pisses me off to no end because there are people who will never see another day because of the bigotry Rowling promotes and you don’t care because you so desperately need that nostalgia hit. I…

Her platform and rhetoric amplify and lend legitimacy to the people who commit those very hate crimes, and the folks who call for more of them to happen (such as that one subhuman the BBC published). Just because she herself isn’t out in the streets with a hammer doesn’t mean she isn’t just as responsible.

How has 2022 been this long? I had forgotten some of these were even this year.