Waterfall is missing the part where the customer realizes they didn’t actually want to go to Mars they just wanted to view it out of a telescope.

But now they can only travel to Mars and the telescope is out of the budget because you spent so much money on the rocket

10 years ago it was copy/pasting from stack overflow

Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever heard that term before in my life and I’ve been doing this for a while.

And I don’t think I ever wanna hear it again.

The .NET rebuild they did on steam is actually pretty solid IMO.

Especially if you mod it to use the AI upscale backgrounds

It also has a 20 times speed mode that makes the chocabo mini game bearable.

Wut?

This is purely because Twitter changed their pricing structure to charge out the nose for API calls so Nintendo and other don’t wanna pay big money for a worthless feature.

Was just about to cancel gamepass and then saw this dropped. I can hold onto it for one more month to check this out.

And procedurally generated environments

Yeah that’s fair.

IMO a lot of the subtlety comes from the imagery and symbols around you as you progress through the game. The vibrant tree that you pass that burns up when you look back, etc.

As far as gameplay goes it is very linear. The only “choice” is to stop playing. If I remember correctly the development behind Spec Ops was very rushed so they didn’t have time to so any of those branching paths.

I appreciate it like I would a visual novel more than I do an interactive game.

A lot of their 2.5 D games are actually pretty damn good.

I had a lot of fun with Triangle Strategy and I heard a lot of good things about Octopath 2

I think you can patient gamer it but it only works if you’re heavily familiar with that time.

I was really into COD4 and grew up during the Bush administration so I knew exactly what Spec Ops was critiquing. If you don’t have that experience though I agree it does not land.

Yeah the marketing rot always follows where the audience is.

Nothing good can remain untainted.

“We’re making something new and don’t have high hopes for it. Just don’t even bother”

Isn’t System Shock Bioshock in Space?

Honestly you want the exact opposite.

Marketers go where the audience is. It’s a rot that can never be fully removed.

2 has done a lot for me. Haven’t really had connection issues

Persona 3 Reload. Only played a bit of the original but I’m loving this remake. The QoL updates make it feel more fun and less of a slog. And I love the newer graphic style.

Did a bit of helldivers 2 with friends. Good fun but between work and kids I don’t have a lot of multi-player game time anymore.

Problem is you can’t milk $10000 out of the single player games like you can GaaS ones. Meaning it’s harder to pitch to investors.

Personally I can’t stand it and end up just avoiding AAA titles altogether because of it.

I’d argue not quite.

Enshittification is taking a good product or service and actively making it worse in the name of money.

Play stupid games…implies you’re doing something bad from the start and are going to eventually suffer consequences. No good starts with this.

I played it a bit on Gamepass. It feels like it has the bones to be a great time loop game but doesn’t seem to put it all together.

Im glad i went in blind and turned off the map markers but at some point I realized I wasn’t having fun exploring and figuring out the events in the loop. Like you said the enemy variety sucks and I don’t like being randomly invaded when I’m trying to map things out.

I thought it was innovative how they could pack so much in and have it all feel as compelling as doing your taxes.