I said basically the same thing and got downvoted for it.

Hopefully the catch is nothing, but you can never be too sure.

Nah, Pierre deserved it

But weren’t the layoffs for white collar positions like HR and marketing? Did it hit their game studios as well?

Everyone gangsta until Indie Stone releases the update where zeds learn how to climb ropes

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes people want the same kind of game with a different flavor. Maybe they don’t like the PUBG art style and would rather play Fortnite instead, or perhaps they don’t like Overwatch because of Blizzard and are okay with Marvel Rivals from NetEase instead.

I don’t believe that games should exist with no real competitors. That’s how you end up with games like Dead by Daylight, where community sentiment plummets but the developers have no real reason to do anything about it because where are the players going to go?

We screwed up Halo’s future… now it’s time to screw up Halo’s past.

~343 Wearing Mustache Glasses

Yes, it is still 343. “Halo Studios” has most of the same people working at it as 343. Literally 343 wearing Mustache Glasses.

They changed their studio name because the 343 reputation was so bad, they needed to try to trick consumers into thinking the next Halo game wasnt made by them to get any sales.

I have been using it since 0.0.2 dropped a while back, but when I first looked into it I thought it was a straight up malware masquerading as a Switch emulator.

I recently started a modded run in the Dead Sun Expanse mod map, its pretty cool. Like playing Zomboid 2.

They kinda always were, tbh. Just with some kind of unique limitation specific to each console that prevented them from being used for any purpose other than playing a specific brand of video game.

Please note that the genre is PvEvP Extraction Looter Shooters. So some games, like Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2, are missing from the list because they do not fit that category.

I have tried to play (ie, only played a few hours each, not like multiple days):

• The Cycle Frontier
• Escape from Tarkov
• ARC Raiders (the closed beta in June 2023)
• Dark and Darker
• Delta Force Hazard Ops
• Lost Light
• Marauders
• Hunt Showdown
• Gray Zone Warfare
• Incursion Red River

Games that I tried that don’t exactly fit the genre but are close enough I feel like I should include them:

• Steel Hunters (the closed playtest in March 2023)
• Sea of Thieves
• SYNDUALITY: Echo of Ada
• Dungeon Stalkers

Its not that I haven’t given the genre an honest go.

I hate that death means I lose not only the items I picked up, but also the items I brought into a match. The behaviour of players in this particular genre is almost always peak toxic. I am thankful that the genre exists, because it is a sponge taking some of the toxic people from other games. The people that derive fun and pleasure purely from ruining someone else’s game experience (like cheating, harassing, etc.) It is not a genre of game I enjoy, because some other players always ruin the fun.

Some games had a PvE mode, which was fine but the loot was limited to be basically useless. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just have separated inventories, and perhaps allow transfers of items below a set gear level to keep the PvP economy balanced.

I dont hate coop online games. I hate PvEvP Extraction Looter Shooters.

Play it on a friend’s account that owns the game.

Shame about Other M though. Fun to play and watch others play, but held back by a bad control scheme and poor voice direction.

Zero, from Drakengard 3. The perfect amount of crude and the dryest delivery of humor imagineable.

For me, Fallout 3 ran perfectly but New Vegas is incredibly unstable and crashes often before I can even finish character creation. I have tried playing the game multiple times and never make it out of the starting area before the game crashes, and as a result I have never played New Vegas. And thats with the community mods and patches to help stability.

Meanwhile Fallout 3 boots and runs perfectly fine completely vanilla. It still crashes occasionally, but I can at least play it for an hour or two with it crashing.

Did they fix the cheater problem? I played when it first dropped on Steam, and good lord was the cheater problem bad. Spawning grenade explosions every frame on all player positions for the entire match was awful. I haven’t reinstalled since.

Sometimes, the only way for players to get the developer’s attention is by doing something drastic like that. Not always, but many times. Because developers and publishers think Steam Review Scores are important for game sales (and I mean, they are, but maybe not as much as they seem to think).

Sometimes this comes from players in a different language complaining about bad translation or something.

Review Bombing, the term, is almost used to discredit when people have negative sentiment for something, and does nothing to explain why players may be doing it. Sometimes it is warranted, sometimes it isn’t. But most people are going to read that term and think “Ah, its just a bunch of whiney children,” only to later feel frustrated at the things those negative reviews were talking about.

Just one last update for real this time guys

NFS Underground 2 has a PC port, and there are some fixes online that make it the best way to play NFSU2, actually.