to this day, I still have no idea how DOS and DOS2 are related plotwise

They’re in the same world, but a thousand years apart or something, so there is no real connection.

Small references to the first game with books, maybe dialog a few times, nothing major.

It’s a dumb hypothetical, because of a dumb question.

Depends on who you ask. Square might have projected 15m sales on the first day, in which case it did.

Dead Cells

Never really agreed with the Metroidvania label, same with Skul: The Hero Slayer. You unlock different biomes (and side rooms), but the items to do so are more like keys. Just my thoughts on that.

Hollow Knight
Tunic
Ori
Animal Well
Axiom Verge

Finally beat Windblown on the hardest difficulty (one run). Now I’m back down one step to unlock the new items that were added in the last six months.

#teamred

Temu Nvidia is so much better, true. Please support the “underdog” billion dollar company.

BTW, the game can’t be bought in Germany for some reason, but you can activate third-party keys with no problem. No VPN needed.

I bought it on Nuuvem years ago and everything worked. Dunno if region-locked keys are sold, but the store should tell you if it’s only Russian, Japanese or whatever.

BG3 tried it with Bear sex. I guess we aren’t ready for that yet, but our kids are gonna love it.

BG3 and Cyberpunk have boobs and were a success, which would support that statement. But Wukong, Palword, and Monster Hunter Wilds were even more successful (according to concurrent Steam players), which means animals are the true secret to success.

There are.

The game has multiple cosmetic(?) DLC, like the Nier and Nikke crossovers, but for some reason they aren’t on the Steam Store page like for every other game. They’re included in the Complete Edition, and if you click on that bundle you can select and potentially buy each one separately.

The only thing I know is that access to the specific purchase might get blocked, if there’s a payment issue. Not Steam directly, but a friend of mine once bought Diablo 3 for WoW gold on Battle.net, something happened after a while, and he lost access to the game, dunno if the other side refunded the game or whatever. All the other games still worked, but he’d have to buy D3 again to play it. I would be surprised if Steam blocks the whole account.

If they mean you buy a game, then there’s a problem with payment, but they should still let you download and play, that’s dumb.

The part about Steam Support being extremely slow is also old news. I think that’s been a lot better for years now. I don’t know if it was around the time they were forced to implement refunds, but I think that’s all outsourced now, and you don’t have to hope a Valve dev checks the support mailbox anymore.

I think when it was announced, there were some leaks that said these Game Key Cards would be the Switch 1 version of the game, along with a code to upgrade to the Switch 2 version. This would basically prevent you from selling it again. This was quickly refuted, but people still like to shit on Nintendo, so they don’t care.

Then you also have people complaining that games on other consoles don’t come with the game (not even pre-patch version or something) anymore, like Doom: The Dark Ages, just a few MB of data for authentication or something and the rest you have to download. Switch now does basically the same, and it “only” has 256GB storage, plus the microSD Express card. But the games are also smaller, so I don’t know if it’s like you can only fit a few big titles on there (or one Call of Duty), and then you’re outta space.

You should do what you think is best, since you’re making these threads.

I remember back when OpenCritic launched, the dev made a Reddit post to gauge interest. MetaCritic used some weird formula to weight specific outlets of their choosing higher, and apparently people didn’t like that. OpenCritic was supposed to “fix” that. I never really followed that stuff, so I don’t know if that’s still the case, if MetaCritic changed or whatever.

I don’t care one way or another, and don’t really use these threads or even most of the reviews to decide if I buy a game or not. Looking them over, and maybe see some people freak out because of “too much water” is entertaining though.

The video from LTT made it look like when you launch this game mode or Xbox mode or whatever (like on the Deck, where you can still exit to the desktop), and lots of non-essential processes just get stopped automatically. After you’re done, those processes would start again. So nothing is really removed, just put on hold while you’re gaming, and there’s no separate OS version.

I’m not a Nintendo gamer, but I’ve been watching a streamer play the game, and whenever I see the Knockout Tour it reminds me of the opening set pieces of the Forza Horizon games, where you’re going through all the different biomes, to introduce you to the game. And afterward you’re let loose on the Mario Horizon festival (aka the empty open world).

The game itself doesn’t look fun at all for me, but who cares, if people enjoy it.

Also it’s Z2 Extreme, not Zen 2 Extreme

um akshually 🤓

It’s the AI Z2 Extreme in the Xbox Ally X. There is a non-AI variant, which is the same, except of course the AI hardware, but that’s not used for these.

Couldn’t be AMD without dogshit mobile processor names.

The software side is definitely the most exciting part for me, since it’s not just for the Ally devices, but for all Windows handhelds, and even desktop PCs.

I’m interested in the Xbox game mode, or whatever it’ll be called. Freeing up all those resources to improve performance should be good. Also, the unified launcher for all your games could be neat, depending on how it’s going to work out.

Trying to beat the highest difficulty in Windblown. It’s not going well. I’d basically need to be able to beat the game hitless, which I’m not good enough for.