Some friends and I gift each other some games each year, and I got Cyberpunk. I’ll wait for the new GPU releases before I play it though, since I want to check it out with path tracing.
Also, some Rogue-likes. The latest Vampire Survivors DLC, Bloodshed, and AK-xolotl.
So consoles don’t exist?
Also, what exactly is the problem with Steam in your opinion, apart from “monopoly bad.”
World of Warcraft by a huge margin. A couple of years ago, I went through all my characters, and added the /played time up. I think it was already over 10k back then, and I’ve played a bunch since then. Also, I often delete characters, so I can’t count those. My sub runs for another 10 days, so I might take the time to check again.
Next is probably Diablo 2, but that was 20 years ago, when this stuff wasn’t really automatically tracked.
On Steam I have two idle games at 800 hours, FF14 650h, both Nioh games 600h each.
In a perfect world, sure, but in our reality you’d just get tons of people saying they want Elden Ring for a dollar or something.
But even if it worked, it’s just games getting on sale faster. Right now, you can either pay a higher price today or wait until the game gets as cheap as you want, but it might take months or years.
As for just the information, how much people would pay for a game, that’s what market research if for I guess.
If it’s not just run speed, but reactions in general, it makes sense, because in previous games, your character moves like they’re in molasses.
Shit
Might have to stop playing then.
basically 3D Dead Cells with furries. True, but since I play as the Pangolin, who has no fur, I can’t possibly be a furry myself.
More Windblown. I finished the game a few more times on the lowest difficulty, then moved up to the next. I have made it to the final area and boss a bunch of times, but not beat it yet.
Then, some more Disco Elysium. I’m on Day 3 now and started exploring the area that opened up. I think I’m doing things very similar to my first playthrough, but already found a few things I missed before. From my first playthrough, I remembered your partner Kim commenting on you running everywhere, so I deliberately walked everywhere on the first day. Sadly, he says the same thing and doesn’t take into account that you just walk, so now it’s back to jogging. Hope you like the workout, Kim!
Also, some World of Warcraft. Did very little this week, just some of the weekly quest to buy the last stuff I wanted. I still wanna do some event achievements, but I’m too lazy. Maybe over the holidays. There’s also been a patch, that added some new area, but I’m not even gonna bother with it.
How is it a cash grab?
You’ll never catch me using filters like these voluntarily. Inject those crisp pixels straight into my vein.
They just find pesky bugs, that need to be fixed. No bugs, no need to fix stuff.
Re-subbed to WoW for a month, for the huge 20th Anniversary Event. Since I’ve played so much earlier in the year (another event and expansion launch), I’m not interested in continuing after the sub runs out. There are a few more achievements I’ll finish, but otherwise I’m kinda done.
FF14 is the only other MMO I’ve played, have like 650 hours on Steam, and I think I’m in the middle of the Stormblood campaign. It’s been a while since I played it, but some day I’ll make it to Endwalker.
While Disco Elysium is like no other CRPOG I’ve played, I have to disagree with your other point, because Indies exist with tons of innovative stuff in there.
I’m re-playing it right now, and it’s great.
Not on Steam, it’s World of Warcraft, specifically the MoP Remix mode. That was some of the most fun I ever had in the game.
On Steam, maybe Lies of P. I played a few great games, but honestly I didn’t really play any GotY material this year on there.
As a certified Trails hater, I hope they make some major changes to the story, so it might be actually good.
The only one I know that might fit the bill (not really) is Pillars 1. When you’ve done a lot of the side content, you’ll be overleveled, and in the final act the game asks you if enemies should get scaled to your level, so there’s still a challenge. But that’s still optional and you’re not forced to do it.
NVIDIA bad and all that, but people are running the overlay, Shadowplay, filters, and whatnot and are shocked, that their performance is lower.
A bit more World of Warcraft. I got most of the anniversary items I want, now I’ll do some more achievements.
Then I started Windblown, the next game from the Dead Cells devs. I guess it’s coop, isometric Dead Cells. It’s very fun, but I feel harder than Dead Cells. I finished my first run today, and the end was pretty nerve wracking. As for the coop part, that seems pretty dead right now. The game’s in Early Access, so that doesn’t help, but I only ever a saw a single open lobby. I might check it out a bit more, now that I have won once.
Then I was about to re-play Disco Elysium, but got sick again, and was in no mood for any story games (which I why I started Windblown). Maybe this week, maybe next, but definitely this year.
Also, pretty good timing with me re-playing FF7R last week, since Rebirth is coming to PC end of January. I’m really looking forward to it.
The ones I mentioned directly afterward, Vampire Survivors DLC, Bloodshed, AK-xolotl.