warm

Yeah, of course, not all responses are bad. Some are informative and add more context, but a lot are just trolls.

Some games are supposed to be hard and that’s the only place that kind of comment would be justified.

If a game is so slow to start that it can’t show you what it is about in 2 hours, then it is just a poorly designed game, or intentionally designed to tip you over the refund window.

Used to be the case you’d get discussion, now it’s very much just trolls or diehard fans of the game that trawl through the reviews refuting any criticism. Honestly, I noticed a shift in general, standards for games has definitely lowered. I think a lot of the new generation literally don’t know what they missed and their baseline is live service shite.

Indie games are the way to go, I don’t play any big games anymore, because they are always dogshit disappointments. The way I see it, generally the more it’s marketed, the worse it’s going to be.

People are not researching privacy conscious apps and typing it in. Drip isn’t even remotely close to being among the top results for a period tracker. That’s the point, the average person prefers convenience over privacy these days.

Because its effort. We have to get the average person to care about their security and privacy before they will bother using these alternatives. It’s much easier for them to download a popular one off an app store and have the data stick with them, than it is to download f-droid, find the right app, make sure its still supported and setup their own data backup.

Yeah it definitely needed some way to make it less random the further you got (more than it already did). The rng ended up just being a time waste.

I miss websites with simple text, links and graphics. We could navigate them perfectly fine without any JS, any dropdowns or whatever. They just displayed the information you came for, nothing extra.

Made people click though didnt it.

Yes, it’s the Treaty of Lisbon. The difference is still important to make, not only for educational purposes, but because it does affect which countries would be required to aid depending on who is attacked. Not to mention USA/Canada who are very much a part of NATO and not the E.U.

deleted by creator

NATO has nothing to do with being in the European Union, not every E.U. country is in NATO and vice versa. NATO is an alliance, which you must apply for, separately from the E.U.

They went through a few ideas until settling on Jump Ship iirc. Jump Crew was one I remember.

Glad to see its gained popularity now, it has a lot of potential!

Ah, Hyperspace, it’s come a long way since it was called that. It’s a fun game, works flawlessly on Linux too with Proton.

deleted by creator

Mbin is a fork and continuation of /kbin, but community-focused.

Kbin was destined to fail without opening up to community collaboration. I greatly preferred it over lemmy. So I will stick with Mbin now and Kbin.earth has been a small but nice Mbin instance.

Kbin.earth is on mbin, I think kbin is dead.

If they add AI they better not ask me for any money ever again.

DnD works great for table top, but it is a poor system for a video game. If you play solo, then the first act is quite enjoyable. I haven’t played past that alone, I have only finished the game with friends. And my god is it boring by the end, you wait for your turn, make 1 action, enemy makes a saving throw, now you gotta wait 20 minutes for your next turn. So basically the same as your frustration, just amplified.

All the fun and interesting spells require spell slots (or have use limits) which means you have to long rest after every fight in order to use them really, but then you lose buffs you might have and your friends might not be ready to rest. It’s so limiting. The fights just become slogs rather than something to look forward to.

DOS2s combat was way more engaging and fun, you could use any spell without worrying about not being able to in the next fight, you had way more fun spells and combos, you could do multiple things per turn, it was so much better for a video game. I wish they never took on DnD and BG3 instead was a great follow-up to DOS2. We will see what they do next I guess. Hopefully they fix the fucking camera at the least.

Oh this is something I will have to try, the combat was the weakest part of BG3.

If people play, it becomes popular, which attracts more players, which attracts spending. Even if you spend $0, you are still supporting the type of game it is by playing it.

It’s not going anywhere until people stop playing the games.