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- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 days ago:
EVE is described by its publisher as an MMORPG and yeah, you have stats and individual ressources and interact with the world and other players. You play a character, a role, the very definition of a role-playing game. Same with The Sims, but offline for yourself and less geopolitical. RPGs are not only games where you directly control a single character or a group of characters and kill stuff, and sometimes pick a lock or something.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 days ago:
Of course they are role-playing games, you completely assume the role of a character in another world, even with stat sheets. What kind of role-playing game is Deus Ex, where you play a pre-defined character in a pre-defined plot? The Masquarade is certainly a janky fan favourite, but hardly revolutionary. CRPGs made a shift, from being tabletop simulators and dungeon crawlers (with MOMA contenders like Rogue, Wizardry, or as you suggested Ultima) to games about narrative manifolds. Disco Elysium would be my pick.
- Comment on Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos 4 days ago:
A working trailer feature should be basic functionality, like it is the Epic Games Store. (kinda /s)
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 days ago:
They have, EVE Online and The Sims.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 days ago:
Along with a bunch of others.
- Comment on Game reviewers boycott publisher CGE, for publishing more Harry Potter themed products 5 days ago:
Let‘s hope
- Comment on Game reviewers boycott publisher CGE, for publishing more Harry Potter themed products 5 days ago:
If Hogwarts Legacy told me anything, it’s that this unfortunately accomplishes nothing and most HP fans in the best case either don’t care or in the worst case even align with JKRs views.
- Comment on Why did thousands of adult titles just disappear from the biggest PC gaming marketplaces? 5 days ago:
It‘s not a news article. Get some media literacy.
- Comment on [Mouthwashing], One Of The Greatest PC Games Of 2024 Was Removed From Itch.io Search Results 1 week ago:
Yeah, they link to other stores without offering a native purchase or download, they don’t get indexed. Not a new rule, and a rather sensible one. The product page is still available via linking.
- Comment on Finished Links Awakening Remake on Hero Mode. 1 week ago:
alright, probably will when I retire
- Comment on HIPS N NOSES is a cafe management sim with magical twists and great looking game mechanics 1 week ago:
Why’d I want combat in a café mgmt sim?
- Comment on Finished Links Awakening Remake on Hero Mode. 1 week ago:
I tried the original a few months back and it was just way too hard if there are a few days between game sessions, too oldschooly obscure. I wish I played this as a kid.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
People are so angry in here that they didn’t catch the obvious sarcasm.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
There aren’t any other options than credit cards in the US to pay without cash?
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
Their managers are also call center employees who will filter that noise out. That’s one of the reasons to employ a call center.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
And what‘s an underpaid, outsourced call center agent supposed to do? This will do nothing. Stop buying shit with their services.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 week ago:
Grain of salt? Disco Elysium is the perfect example and Torment would have been a better game without combat.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
There are Klarna, Paysafecard, Skrill, Sofort, SEPA direct debit and probably many more local services.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
【ｌｉｍｉｎａｌ】
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Conker‘s Bad Fur Day ran on a Pentium D, which was a doubled Pentium 4 and the emulator didn’t use the second core.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
So I should save a few watt-hours and then burn a few thousand more for an AI query? I already play on a Steamdeck so some wanker can fly a few centimeters more with his private jet.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
As the petition got more successful it became a bigger topic on here. Bigger topics draw more opinions.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
So what do I do?
- Comment on Day 369 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
The image of Donkey Kong being stuck on that exact spot looks oddly familiar.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs 2 weeks ago:
BioWare‘s writing always has been very tame, get over it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
When the games of my childhood were buggy, it was delightful.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 weeks ago:
Implementing direct debit shouldn’t be too hard and straining. Most of their staff is maintaining an e-commerce platform, they‘d do fine.
- Comment on Current fit in the Witcher 3, anything I should be on the lookout for? 2 weeks ago:
except for fashion
- Comment on John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025 2 weeks ago:
Maybe someone made the calculations and the projected profits from a re-published, license-stripped version are lower than the estimated costs.
- Comment on John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025 2 weeks ago:
Expired movie license probably.