“The Gep Gun is the most silent way to eliminate Manderley.”

I only know a couple of games that do this:

Stalker: Anomaly X4: Foundations Dwarf Fortress

Edit: Forgot Saelig.

I kinda know what you mean, but I come from Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, not Zomboid. I lost my first character when I was happily siphoning gas from cars. At the same time, I was too relaxed and bumped headfirst into a gang of giant wasps, can’t fight or run because I was carrying a steel jerrycan, RIP. That was a month of work with this character. xD

I am actually surprised that shooters and chill game people are not in this thread. You are the first one to bring up shooters. The rest are quite within my guess.

“bound to world logic”

Have to agree, that’s why I’ve spent quite some time in Deus Ex bars. xD

On the other hand, if a game is deep in its subject matter, and I am knowledgeable of it, then I can really appreciate the bound to world logic philosophy, and I can see the effort of modelling it in the game according to that world logic.

Same here, Vicky 2 was my old love, and I love the loop of looking after politics, economy and military. These days, I am playing Aurora 4x, and there is SO.MUCH.TO.DO.

People are complaining about the map size and its 3 vs 3 format, mostly negative on steam, not sure if they are going to come back from this.

“We all have our heroes. And when we watch them fall, we die inside. She made a choice once… and I did not.”

“It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it.”

With dialogues like these binary morality system just seems dumb.

Oh yes, and I put these two quotes together to mirror how both Kreia and Atris made their choices.

Yep, the first game was ok, nothing special, didn’t feel anything afterwards. I am feeling the same now.

Then Kreia came and deconstruct the entire morality of Star Wars…

Looks cool, Halo is not my thing though.

Really wish that Doom mods could try to do immersive sim someday with interactions like Selaco, that would be really cool… Strife demonstrated a barebone already.

It’s a satire :)

I get that you are upset with AAA games. Honestly, I’ve managed to avoid them for a long time. But I think Hello games is not an ideal studio either; Murray did lie about the feature at release, the updates have only met minimum of professional standards, and 10 years later it is still a bland tofu of a space game, wrapped in years of technical debt, while NMS being a test bench for LNF as a fanbase look to the other way…they are doing ok…

I just find it funny that in a sea of garbage (not as a puddle), people will grab anything shiny and call it a diamond, while ignoring the gem cave by the shore and then ask, “What is wrong? Why are you laughing?”

The good devs never needed a redemption arc; never needed a cultural reframe to be good.

Why do I feel like Beyond Good and Evil is on the list…

Thanks :)

“They have updated the game, for free, and still have no microtransactions”

These are the good practices in a sea of bad actors, but that’s how the fans use Hello Games to attack the AAA industry by constantly misplacing and comparing it with AAA games, not to mention mythologising them, even though they have never asked for it. Once you recalibrate your perspective, you will see that long-term developments and updates are normal in indies; maybe that’s where Hello Games belongs?

Oh no, Hello Games didn’t steal any limelight from anyone, they have been keeping their head down. That’s on the fanbase, the myth and the hype by inflating their achievements. I can respect the perseverance without mythologising it. Hello Games did right by continuing to improve their game — but that doesn’t erase how the industry and fan culture turn necessary professionalism into legend, nor should they turn a blind eye to the state of the game. Secondly, one strike and you’re out is a bad approach. Who on earth is going to fix the mess?

But this is why we diverge – we should support them if LNF is a good game, all roads lead to Rome, I don’t think they need another redemption arc from us, right? :)

It is a simple remedy; do right by where they failed, namely, launching LNF without shenanigans, and let the work speak for itself; that’s the real redemption.

Now you understand the reality, sometimes you just have to get the words out somehow. XD

And that’s ok, sneer all you want, i dont expect a change to anything, this is an extremely unpopular opinion: I still think the redemption arc is bullshit, HG has achieved the minimum professionally, and now HG being crowned as the beacon of the industry is a kneejerk reaction to the action of the industry: expensive DLC, abandoning games, scam early access…

While ignoring the true indies/open source games that work for nothing but pure passion.

Thanks for your time to respond.

Agree.

This along with Blood Dragon, are the best Far Cry games for me, that was when Ubisoft was still the good guys…

I don’t know how they are going to salvage this…