I enjoyed that game as a midlength singleplayer shooter. Never really ran into any coop partners and the writing didn’t seem to want people in large grouped sessions. Nothing about the endgame seemed interesting to me.

Basically, it feels like they just made a decent shooter RPG where you could tweak your abilities, and had someone in management shoehorning in the live service elements.

It could be in this very room! It could be NBA 2024! It could be Red Dead Redemption 2! It could even be-

That’s actually what I hope they’re fixing with the remake.

Early puzzles were clever, later puzzles just have so many parts it feels like a laborious chore to get every laser and box and replay exactly where it needs to be. I’m sorry to say I didn’t even finish the game.

Managerial bloat seems to be an issue at a lot of large companies. Only so many people are actually needed to do the thing.

I’m fairly sure the meme was popularized way back with old JRPGs; just that they tended to be the ones with long enough stories to gain that kind of path of progression.

Another Crab’s Treasure is a cute, fun, cartoony soulslike game where you play as a hermit crab whose shell has been stolen! He heads out on an adventure to get it back.

As a white guy, I feel personally attacked!

Well, not so much “personally” as “very non-specifically, almost vaguely”. And not “attacked” so much as “I read the headline and felt absolutely nothing towards it”.

Playing Another Crab’s Treasure - a Soulslike with a humorous tone. I had the game on Xbox, but abandoned that and replaying on Steam. I think having a calmer, more analytical mood to the difficulty is helping me make progress faster.

There’s a region where you need to stick to the path lest you awaken a gigantic and threatening enemy bearing an instant-kill attack. I just returned to that area and killed it.

Any of them with flat roofs to ride on top of.

https://youtu.be/Rv0A99b-Sqs

I’ve gotta remember what those ghosts are.

I’ve slowly acclimated to Soulslikes since Tunic, and a common theme is that they make you think you need to be pressing more buttons, when they’re often teaching specialized bits of patience. In Tunic’s case, a lot of people expend their stamina too quickly.

Still don’t like FromSoft’s games

Trump was basically the equivalent of the guy in your street that says when he’s president, everyone gets a million dollars and a pony.

Such laptops are at the low end. But, if you have a really good Internet connection, you could expand your options a lot with GeForce Now. Basically a paid service to use cloud servers to render your game; surrendering an often-unnoticeable delay in response time. They have a free tier worth trying.

I imagine Steam might have a power/messaging problem if they make a successor to the Deck. “Does this run” becomes more confusing.

I mean, you’re not everyone. I like my Deck, but emulation is generally too janky, unwieldy, and exposes bad old game design for me.

Heck, I bought mine after all the death bells, and still enjoyed all the old exclusives plus the new indie titles coming out.

The only reason I’m considering a PSVR2 right now is the option to connect it to PC. But it’s apparently not the best experience, and needs a dedicated adapter.

This sounds cool. They could maybe come up with a new snazzy name to differentiate it from the large home console.

Something to evoke going out and living life, rather than sitting at home in the dark. PS Vitality? Or, they could shorten it.

The PlayStation Lity!

Funny story. I just found out about an interesting Chinese hero shooter, but then found they literally copied Overwatch’s Gibraltar map (not the models/textures, but carbon copy of the layout).

At first I was offended, but then thought: It’s Blizzard, who the fuck cares about protecting them.

Theoretically, Immortals of Aveum could be good for this. It’s basically a shooter, but with spellcasting for the shots.

I salute people for devoting themselves to these. But since you also have to buy the tools, in my case, laziness causes me to buy digital sales; knowing I still roll some dice on the game not working some day for other reasons.