December 18, 20241 yr So in summary, nerds in their parents basement want hot chicks to fap to, as that's all they got?
December 19, 20241 yr Author 8 hours ago, thunderlounge said: So in summary, nerds in their parents basement want hot chicks to fap to, as that's all they got? Or they want to fap to Ellie and Joel from The Last of Us.
December 19, 20241 yr 13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said: Or they want to fap to Ellie and Joel from The Last of Us.
December 19, 20241 yr What did your Steam year look like? Mine was weird. https://store.steampowered.com/replay
December 19, 20241 yr Author 9 hours ago, Storm the Field said: If you had a game where those two fought one another, I know which one I’m putting money on.
December 20, 20241 yr Author 16 hours ago, SimonBolivar said: https://store.steampowered.com/replay Naval Combat World War II City Builder Economy Immersive Sim Massively Multiplayer
December 20, 20241 yr This is the first year EUIV hasn't been my top game in probably a decade. I need to reevaluate why my life has become less colonial this year (He says as NMS and HoIV are in his top 5). Edited December 20, 20241 yr by SimonBolivar
December 20, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said: Naval Combat World War II City Builder Economy Immersive Sim Massively Multiplayer Lots of Sid Meier's Pirates! eh?
January 3Jan 3 Author My kid asked which was the best year of videogames. I wanted to toss out something in the 90s when Sierra, Origin, LucasFilm, etc. were peaking…and 1990 could be a strong contender.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_in_video_games#Game_releases But damn, 2004 was huge in terms of influences still being felt today,
January 3Jan 3 28 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: My kid asked which was the best year of videogames. I wanted to toss out something in the 90s when Sierra, Origin, LucasFilm, etc. were peaking…and 1990 could be a strong contender.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_in_video_games#Game_releases But damn, 2004 was huge in terms of influences still being felt today, 2007 was also a banger: Portal, Halo 3, Skate, COD4: Modern Warfare, Rock Band, Oblivion.... It really was the best time to be a kid with an xbox
January 4Jan 4 On 2/26/2023 at 9:38 PM, atomheartbevo said: I was in Discord playing WOW with a friend's group. They are all casual gamers and not doing hardcore raiding or anything approaching that. Anyways, one of the younger players asked me if I was using WASD to move around "because it's so obvious you're stuck in the past with WASD". So apparently that's a fucking thing, because you know, having a little gray hair doesn't peg me as old-school I guess. I told him I was playing Tribes, Quake, and Half-Life with WASD before he was born, and I have no intention of changing. He seemed to think I was joking, but I basically had this expression. Real talk.
January 5Jan 5 Author My upcoming game purchases - alt-history city builder strategy game - KAISERPUNK on Steam (February) Citadelum - came out a few months ago, Roman city builder - Citadelum on Steam (when it goes on sale)
January 13Jan 13 Damn Mouthwashing was great. I love short, story intense games like that one (I finished it 2.5 hours). I enjoyed it so much that I gifted it to family members on Steam.
January 13Jan 13 Apparently "Avowed" is now the rage bait topic du jour for the culture war grifters.
January 14Jan 14 Author 16 hours ago, CurlyDumps said: Apparently "Avowed" is now the rage bait topic du jour for the culture war grifters. Yeah, a friend does the CRPG reviews for a gaming site, and said they catch shit from the incels in comments/social media when they write about it, and the main thing apparently pissing these people off is that it has pronouns in the character creation tool. Which Baldur’s Gate 3 had. But apparently none of these people played BG3. Or a tabletop RPG. When I talked to him a few weeks ago, he had played a preview build a few weeks before that. He said it was “competently made” (which is high praise from him) if you are a Pillars of Eternity fan, but it felt like at times they just checked off a bunch of boxes on a list of RPG elements. I’ll wait until it’s on sale (heavily discounted) because I haven’t even finished POE II.
January 14Jan 14 Author Anybody else playing Arma Reforger. Played it a a friends this weekend. It’s fun as hell, like I haven’t had that much fun since Battlefield 1942, at least vehicular-wise.
January 15Jan 15 Author If you are a big fan of IndyCar Racing II, somebody has put a lot of effort into a wrapper that upscales it to modern resolutions. Only $10 for the wrapper. Here's hoping they make enough to work on some of the expansion tracks.
January 15Jan 15 CES is generally all crap, but there were some interesting tech announcements around Nvidia and their RTX accelerator software. Using neural encodings for textures achieves way higher levels of texture compression, and they're also bringing radiance caching to "store" previously traced rays and include them in the render. Gonna be a while before we start to see benefits from the tech, but I'm particularly interested in the possibility to upscale and uprez old games
January 29Jan 29 Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap just came out and it's on Gamepass. If you like all the other ones you'll probably like this one. It adds a sort of roguelike style to the old formula, but all the trap carnage is still there.
January 31Jan 31 DLSS4 drivers hit today, I'm very curious to see how the generalized transformer DLSS model does
January 31Jan 31 Author Foundation 1.0 is out, finally out of Early Access. https://store.steampowered.com/app/690830/Foundation/
February 6Feb 6 Author On 1/30/2023 at 7:04 PM, atomheartbevo said: My kid recently got into World of Warcraft, and got me to reactivate my old account. We stopped playing for a long while, but I just got a notice that Blizzard is adding housing later this year or early next, and we will have to come back. Only 21 years after everybody asked for it, and 27 years after it was in Ultima Online. Building in Azeroth: A First Look at Housing And they are doing it right. Easy and cheap to get - they want everybody to have a house. No maintenance costs - once you get it, it's yours, even if you take a break and your subscription lapses, it won't be demolished. You'll be in instanced neighborhoods (sounds like you can change neighborhoods) with up to 50 other houses, so you won't be scattered across Sosaria Azeroth - there is a zone for the Alliance and one for the Horde. This is good because it won't lag the shit out of you when you are running around various areas. Groups can cluster together and build their own neighborhoods. Meant to be a social aspect. Extensive decoration/building features with new content added all the time, and all of your characters can access it, even if they are from different factions. Some cash shop items, but most items are earned/bought in-game. Sounds like a mix of UO and FFXIV (which has a nice system except it's shit for costs and maintaining it and it's a pain to get and keep).
February 6Feb 6 10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said: We stopped playing for a long while, but I just got a notice that Blizzard is adding housing later this year or early next, and we will have to come back. Only 21 years after everybody asked for it, and 27 years after it was in Ultima Online. Building in Azeroth: A First Look at Housing And they are doing it right. Easy and cheap to get - they want everybody to have a house. No maintenance costs - once you get it, it's yours, even if you take a break and your subscription lapses, it won't be demolished. You'll be in instanced neighborhoods (sounds like you can change neighborhoods) with up to 50 other houses, so you won't be scattered across Sosaria Azeroth - there is a zone for the Alliance and one for the Horde. This is good because it won't lag the shit out of you when you are running around various areas. Groups can cluster together and build their own neighborhoods. Meant to be a social aspect. Extensive decoration/building features with new content added all the time, and all of your characters can access it, even if they are from different factions. Some cash shop items, but most items are earned/bought in-game. Sounds like a mix of UO and FFXIV (which has a nice system except it's shit for costs and maintaining it and it's a pain to get and keep). Man I wanted some property in the UC, sigh.... Also is Foundation like a modern Banished? That's right up my alley if so.
February 13Feb 13 On 1/13/2025 at 4:06 PM, CurlyDumps said: Apparently "Avowed" is now the rage bait topic du jour for the culture war grifters. I'm hearing good things from the reviews. I can't wait to check it out.
February 13Feb 13 Author On 2/6/2025 at 10:12 AM, SimonBolivar said: Also is Foundation like a modern Banished? That's right up my alley if so. Well it’s still medieval, kind of in the style of Settlers, but more a solid city builder. The style is kind of like World of Warcraft in a way. It’s very polished and the animations are great. If you liked Banished and you like city builders sim general you’ll like it.
February 14Feb 14 On 2/13/2025 at 8:57 AM, SimonBolivar said: I'm hearing good things from the reviews. I can't wait to check it out. Rad. As an Obsidian fan so I'm rooting for it. Not sure when I'll get around to actually playing it. So many games in my queue including KCD2. And I'm hoping to upgrade my 2080 but inventory and prices seem like a total shitshow atm.
February 18Feb 18 Author Sega Dreamcast getting cloud support and saves https://www.retroshell.com/2025/02/18/sega-dreamcast-receives-cloud-save-support-in-2025/
February 22Feb 22 I am only like 2.5 hours into it, but Avowed seems pretty cool so far. Combat is fun and the game is really pretty. I'm trying out a ranged weapon kind of build first, but the different possible classes seem interesting.
February 23Feb 23 2 hours ago, Hozz said: I would have much rather had POE3. POE was great, POE2 even better. It sort of is POE3, it's just not top-down anymore, now it's first person. Same world and background, and seems to take place after Dreadfire in the timeline from what I can tell. Edited February 23Feb 23 by MillerEP
February 24Feb 24 Yeah same setting but not a party based isometric CRPG with turn based combat, which is my thing. It's been a while but I think POE was only RTWP but I believe POE2 had a legit turn based mode which, along with the island setting, is probably why I liked it more.
April 7Apr 7 Author SpaceVenture came out on the 1st. It's the "spiritual successor" to the Space Quest games, from the two guys who originally started the SQ series and... and...well...the kickstarter was in 2012. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374960/SpaceVenture/ As others have said, they made 5-6 SQ games in less time it took than to get this one out the door (or at least in Early Access) but they had health issues and financial issues (I think they stopped getting paid and Ken Williams stepped in to help). If you backed it, check your email for the Steam key.
April 22Apr 22 Oblivion remake is out right now! Looks pretty good if you're into it. Oh, and it's also Steam Deck verified.
April 23Apr 23 Regular PS5 here. I missed out on oblivion entirely. Anyone know if it runs well on regular PS5? I haven't touched my station in going on 2 years lol. But this sounds worth it.
April 23Apr 23 I'm trying Oblivion, it's on Game pass so might as well. Skyrim is the only ES game I've ever played. An Australian themed knockoff of Animal Crossing fully released, called Dinkum. Seems pretty good if you want an Animal Crossing game on a PC without anthropomorphic animals.
April 24Apr 24 I'm trying Oblivion, it's on Game pass so might as well. Skyrim is the only ES game I've ever played. An Australian themed knockoff of Animal Crossing fully released, called Dinkum. Seems pretty good if you want an Animal Crossing game on a PC without anthropomorphic animals.Oblivion originally had a flawed leveling system, I remember I spent hours working my locking and sneak to 99 then the enemies scaled up to an almost invincible level. Never finished it because of that.
April 24Apr 24 Author 2 hours ago, Dr Fear said: 8 hours ago, Hawndoh said: I'm trying Oblivion, it's on Game pass so might as well. Skyrim is the only ES game I've ever played. An Australian themed knockoff of Animal Crossing fully released, called Dinkum. Seems pretty good if you want an Animal Crossing game on a PC without anthropomorphic animals. Oblivion originally had a flawed leveling system, I remember I spent hours working my locking and sneak to 99 then the enemies scaled up to an almost invincible level. Never finished it because of that. They've revamped the leveling system. Looks pretty fucking good, and for the youngsters, they are basically getting a new Elder Scrolls game
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