Don’t Think, Just Jam
Just wanted to mention that just like with any other F2P games, there are gacha titles that are fun without paying anything. Not as many as the predatory kind but still.
My point is that however you feel about microtransactions they are successful and that’s why they’re so common.
With subscription services you and me can think “I want to own it and play whenever” but a lot (not only casual) players see it as “I pay a few $ and get access to a huge library of games I can try out for the next month”.
As I wrote initially, just because more dedicated audience doesn’t like the direction industry is moving in doesn’t mean majority will care enough to stop it.
As much as I agree with his sentiment, this title is bullshit - he never wrote “gamers don’t want subscriptions” but that they shouldn’t want that due to where it might lead.
“Gamers” aren’t some hivemind entity that wants a specific thing. Many people don’t worry whether an idea pushed by the publishers will have a long term negative effect on the industry, they just want to have fun with their hobby.
Look at microtransactions - there’s a lot of negative discussion about them and yet they bring huge amounts of money, who’s to say if the same won’t happen with subscription services? We might not like it but majority doesn’t necessarily care.
Sorry for being pedantic about a title but third-parties changing someone’s words is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
Oh, totally. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
Personally I’d love to see a new take on Daggerfall using AI for features you mentioned (though it would have to be an “all in” affair as Bethesda’s approach to randomly generated content these days is… not particularly impressive).
It’s not like they can really avoid it. AI assisted tools will become a standard in the future (“productivity has to go up” after all) and there’s a good chance Valve already received some feedback from AAA publishers on that matter, since they’ll be the main players utilizing such tech.
The good thing here is the exsitance of a disclaimer on store pages, as it will allow people to decide for themselves, and the ability to report content straight from in-game overlay.
Full on ban was never a realistic option.
There are also these two sites:
Fair enough. In that case I don’t think I can be of any help at the moment but I’ll keep you in mind if I stumble into something with such characters.
Items are usually at the center of each “puzzle” but it’s mostly trial and error. Blocks covering the item can’t be broken and become marked if you try - it’s pretty simplistic on that front.
There are different types of blocks surrounding the item that require different approach (some need multiple prods, others have to be tackled from a specific side) but, at least in its current form, it’s not a complicated system. I hope they’ll add some challenge later on but that depends on what kind of experience they’re aiming for.
I’d say give it a shot if you’re curious - they have a demo on their Steam page.
May I interest you in Hedon Bloodrite? It’s orcs instead of goblins but there’s plenty of thickness.
It does a good job at pointing out flaws with Steam UI and how they could be fixed (something Valve is apparently unable to do themselves).
While the design in this video isn’t perfect, it’s way better than the current shitshow and I don’t see why people (especially those who know what they’re doing) shouldn’t remind a multibillion company they should do better.
Steam page (demo available).
Gameplay abstraction, not like they aim for a realistic approach.
Forgot to add the official links:
Looks like mouse controls to me, there’s also no mention of VR on Kickstarter or Steam page.
Edit: I checked out the demo. It is in fact a mouse controlled game.
Good job, should’ve link it myself… (; -_-)
There’s also demo on Steam.
I think these are new - there’s a comment on the project page asking about “playing the classic Red Alert maps” and one of the devs replied they would require some modifications to work.
Besides, original missions can be played with OpenRA so I don’t think they would port them here without at least adding support for the new factions (which in turn would require changes in story?).
That’s just my guess based on some research though, I’m not a specialist when it comes to these projects.
Just Windows, Mac and Linux. There’s no Android build (that’s what would be needed for such tablet).
Man, I have the GBC re-release from LRG but haven’t played it yet. I should get to it one of these days…
Can’t wait to play this one as well.
Besides already mentioned methods there’s also Lemmy Community-Browser.
It has a search bar and ability to toggle specific instances in case you want to avoid some of them. A bit simpler version of Lemmy Explorer mentioned by @DogMuffins.
I checked out the demo and you can actually select one of the few speed settings in the options menu. Some of them felt pretty fast but I’m not an expert on racers so you might want to check out the demo to see if any of them gets close to what you’re looking for.