The game is just too big for its own good imo.

It’s linear in the sense that you have a sequence of scenarios and the game is pretty much completed afterwards. You don’t have different factions, randomized starting positions or random events to add variety to your campaigns. It’s all pre-determined. Think of it as a story-driven singleplayer game which you play through once or twice and that’s it, rather than a game like SimCity or Civ.

That comment is misrepresenting it. Frostpunk is not a sandbox city builder, it is a much more linear game based on the question of “How much of your humanity are you willing to give up to survive?” Picking the fascist options does make the game objectively easier, but the game will effectively tell you that your victory is hollow at the end.

For example: There are 3 people outside your city, asking to be let in. Their limbs are frozen and need to amputated, so they can’t work. They will purely be a drain on your limited food and medical supplies. Many of your people (though not all of them) will be against taking them in too. There is little to no in-game benefit to taking the 3 people in, it makes it more likely that you will run out of food and everyone will die, but the whole point is that you’re supposed to take them in anyway because it’s the right thing to do.

Oh, you’re a gamer? Name every racial slur

as a former Asian kid

Are you a hispanic kid now

Gamers in 5 years: “I don’t mind ads in $90 AAA games as long as they’re only in menus and loading screens, but mid-gameplay? That’s too far.”

Gamers in 10 years: “I don’t mind ad breaks in $120 AAA games as long as they don’t take longer than 3 minutes, but 5 minutes of ads per 10-minute match? That’s too far.”

Been playing Warframe a lot again. Since the new creative director took over, the game has been making a ton of improvements. Really digging the way they’re taking the game.

Good bit

It genuinely baffles me how many people give complicated questions to glorified autocomplete machines.

Can’t say I agree, the version before the changes sounded just as one-dimensional except also less likable.

I’ve been having a good time with Baldur’s Gate 3. As someone who’s never played D&D, I was very frustrated with the combat system initially and I still don’t think it’s good, but the rest of the game is just so damn great that it doesn’t matter too much.

I finished it on Balanced and am now playing on Tactician, but I don’t think I’ll finish this run. Playthroughs are really long and it’s probably too deterministic and solvable to keep me hooked.

I enjoyed it but you really can’t think too hard about it. In my opinion, Far Cry 5 actively suffers from being an open world game.

Not a MTG player myself but they probably don’t want the game to turn into the Fortnite of card games.

I know people who are friends with the guy who runs it and he’s cool from everything I’ve heard

I wish Princess Peach would stop sending weapons to Ganonforf

All of America’s heroes!

GenAI is gonna be huge for Star Citizen. All of their assets already looked AI-generated in 2015.

treatlerite

I am vetoing this word. Such a cursed amalgamation of jargon must not be allowed.

The worst thing about the hawk tuah girl is that her name is spelled Haliey

H-A-L-I-E-Y

Undoubtedly the worst spelling of that name I have ever seen

I like that the acronym IDF is approaching SS status.