Recent Windows update caused secure boot issues on my kid’s laptop, wouldt get past BIOS without some fiddling.

Why does Windows suck so badly?

First it’s not exactly 30 year old content. There seems to be an actual effort to make a new WoW game based on the things fans like about the older content. There is a lot that is still “classic” but they have added a decent amount of changes.

To answer your question though, IMO they are using the Beta for a few things:

1. An end of Q3 money grab with just enough delay to push the “release” into Q4
2. A hype machine for the actual release.
3. A test of their new server infrastructure. The game is now “realmless” so it is essentially a mega server only separated by your chosen play style ( PVE, PVP, RP, Hardcore). I’m not even sure if they are going to separate regions (NA/EU) or if they are trying to make it more or less a global server.

Snowrunner is a good one. It has the weird combination of being a nice peaceful slow paced game that occasionally drives me into a rage and makes me want to break things.

I am first and foremost a World of Warcraft addict. I don’t know if it is actually one of the best games of all time, but it’s my comfort blanket. So it takes the #1 spot.

2. Valheim
3. Grim Fandango
4. Myst
5. Skyrim

Super TuxCart gets an honorary mention.

Diablo, I want it to be an MMORPG. The story and setting of those games is awesome, but I’ve never been big on the play style.

Wish Blizzard would just layer Diablo story/art onto the WoW gameplay.

I dunno if it’s “comedy based” but I find Grim Fandango really funny.

Not surprising. We always want to take the path of least resistance. I mean 20 years ago, you could access the world’s information via the internet, but you had to know how to search for things. We slowly went from that to “I’ll just google it.” and “Well, google says.” Now that we have LLM’s (which IMHO are mostly just fancier, faster google search) we have people legitimately saying “let me ask ChatGPT” and “ChatGPT says.”

I think there is a positive future for LLM’s and true AI, but its not right now, and it definitely is not in the hands of capitalists.