‘OHSHI Epic Games store guess we better get back to work on this heap o junk’

Apparently only when you hit lvl 30 and now you’re in the ‘play forever’ phase.  I thought for sure one of mine flipped after I totally neglected it, but other people say that doesn’t happen in early game.

Yeah, they have their little patrols that go out and resupply.

They run away as soon as they notice you, so you’d never get close enough to pet them without shooting them first - though it’d be nice to have pettable dogs at the settlements!

All dogs in this game just run away as soon as they notice you.  If they were Far Cry animals, yes, all must die - just because they attack on sight.

They don’t explain this very well at all (a lot of things aren’t explained well at all, like how to respond to those stupid ‘Agent needs assistance!’ popups), but if you don’t resupply control points they will eventually be re-taken by the bad guys when their resources hit zero.

I noticed this early on - a deer on the road, and suddenly I have a dilemma. I want to know if shooting a deer will actually kill it. But I don’t want to shoot the poor deer - it’s got enough problems.

Yes, got it on my shelf - and now I see prices for that have spiked.

It is Terri as Shodan (she is Shodan), so at least there’s that.

Yasunori Mitsuda is just the best video game composer of all time - and I know there’s a lot of excellent competition like Hitoshi Sakamoto, Inon Zur, Koji Kondo, but he just consistently nails it. And Xenogears: Creid is the single best game related soundtrack ever, though there’s a lot more competition for that.

Unfortunately they do, overwhelmingly. We who want to just buy a game for $60 are the minority freaks.

Technically it’s quite doable, and they’ve got the infrastructure. The problem as always is that Google gets bored real fast and moves on to chasing the next shiny thing.  They need to actually be committed to this to make it work, and for that to happen it’s got to be central to their ad delivery strategy (search,…

I don’t share your optimism, but you could be right and you are in the pool!

So are we betting one year or two years before Google gets bored and just shuts the whole thing down?

Unfortunately, this is also the circuit that F2P games exploit to get you to pay up money.  They give you a lot of pleasure, then they ramp up the pain, and hope to get you to pay money to relieve the pain.  Of course instead of finding it within yourself you’re finding it within your wallet.

And totally worth it - it’s just dumb Mad Max(ine) fun.

And totally worth it - it’s just dumb Mad Max(ine) fun.

I don’t know about freecell, but Japan definitely had Minesweeper and Qix and Breakout type games where you clear the screen to see cartoon nudity.  Right in the arcades even.

Thanks! Bought this once I found it actually had a decent single-player game (the way people were talking it sounded like a Destiny).  Will start this weekend.

The DRM problem that leads to review bombs on Steam is when the publisher adds another layer of DRM, like Denuvo, and the game’s performance completely goes to shit. Steam’s DRM is not much of a performance hit except up front.

DRM problems are ‘off topic?’  Yeah, this is aimed at boosting the review scores for badly performing games - which boosts Steam’s take too.