Most seem to be PS5 games. Don’t have one so meh for me. But I will say this: between all these autumn releases and GTA6 in november, PS people will be eating well this winter.

I do not. This rethoric makes it sound like gamers share the fault for the industry being shit, when the fault lies solely with the publishers and sometimes devs. I do agree with “no crunch and decent wages” bit - if it takes a decade to make it and costs a lot fine, so be it, take your time, but I want and I like options: shorter games, longer games, pretty ones, 8-bit one, realistic graphics, story or not is of no concern, I want them all. What I don’t want is this late stage capitalism infinite growth bullshit which stifles studios from innovating, keeps franchises going forever on mediocre entries and closes studios for short term gains.

Interesting. I thought companies usually waited until they at least had a good product or cashflow before going for enshittification.

With the switch. Or the asus rog handheld, which as of now is only what, 50€ more? ( wonder how much that one will last at that price tho )

Holy fuck. How is it even competitive at this price?

Aaaand of course its through Reform MPs. Why did I expect otherwise

FH4 and FH5 premium did drop by half after about 3y ( bought FH4 premium for 35€ and FH5 premium was 45€, but bought it bundled win FM for 60 so I suppose 30€ each ). So there is a chance - problem is they started selling new cars as extra car packs and FH5 had like twelve. So if you wanted the “complete” premium it would’ve been at least 70€.

“If all gamers stood together against this then we could’ve had the game(s) 4 days early” is fairly wild speculation, but I agree that between this, VIP packs, wheelspins and season passes FH does have its share of dark patterns.

I guarantee the ones who paid 2x the value of the base game just for those 4 early days is a minority. Most people paid to get “the whole package” with dlc, car pass and whatnot, the 4 early days being just a welcome perk. But yes, sadly the early access bullshit is unlikely to go away - streamers will always want a head start and microsoft will happily charge them for it.

We won’t really know until early reviews start pouring in, but judging by the previews, it’s mildly improved, which is par for the course for a FH game. Biggest change is the map, which seems to be vastly better than FH5’s mexico. There’s some new customization such as the garage and domain or whatever it’s called, and also some new interesting ( to me ) game modes like touge and spec racing. What I have mixed feelings about is the car list. There’s about 100 new ones, and some are really awesome additions, but most seem to be FE cars, time-attack cars and other racing variants of existing models. It’ll probably catch up but as of now it’s almost 300 cars short of FH5’s list.

LLM salesman says their LLM is so advanced it"s totally human. News at 11.

Does this impact the game much? It (sadly) requires xbox login, so I don’t imagine it will be playable for long. In fact they’ve already started banning accounts for this.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Try games from yiotro, particularly Antiyoy - great strategy/puzzle games, even if graphically modest. Card Crawl is also pretty good if you like a quick card game. If you want foss, Gauguin is a cool sudoku-like on fdroid.

Probably spent waay too much in Starcraft, Homm3 and AoE2 over the years, but recorded by steam time tracker Elite: Dangerous has been top and it’s not even close, with about 5000h. Fml.

This is a dealbreaker for me. I was tempted by it despite the price, but fuck this. I refuse to run everything through steam

I wonder what’s stopping them from releasing dedicated win drivers if the native ones are inadequate.

Several funds which lend money have declared losses or restricted investors’ ability to take out their money. BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo and Blue Owl have all faced demands for billions of withdrawals from private credit funds - institutions that provide an alternative to traditional banks

Those are some…interesting names. Could these be attempts to pull the rug before an AI crash? I’m genuinely asking as I have no clue how funds work

Maybe. But this may just be them testing the water to see what they can get away with. Remember when the mandatory psn login was en error? They after a while it became a thing again. Remember A-B pricing? Also an error that was proved true is short time.

You may want to give an Anno game a try. Best recent one is Anno 1800, but Anno 2070, 1404 and 2205 are great as well. In these you manage population levels, needs and logistical chains instead of traffic.

Or maybe look into more survivaly city builders like Kingdoms&Castles, Nova Roma, Farthest Frontier or Banished.

If you want more puzzle than city builder then there’s Terrascape or Dorfromantik.

Finally, you may enjoy Railgrade or Train Valley 2 - these are not city builders, but tycoon games with a mission structure, strict confines and puzzle mechanics.

Edit: Oh and forgot Ixion. Absolutely superb story based scifi space station builder. Really really nails the vibe.

It’s not about who wants it. People are already in posesssion of this device. And a lot more are buying them - the number of windows pc users has been plummeting lately, and it’s not in favour of linux but mobile os’es. So if you already posses the device ( walled garden or not ) why not use it as a handheld.

Problem is this whole article reads like an ad:

In a surprisingly short amount of time, this project has gone from a curiosity commented on in social media to the bleeding edge of the entire conversation. They move fast. They don’t workshop; they ship. The attitude is less “what if” and more “here.”

Gimme a break with all this glazing.