Brokkr

Isn’t this a bit like saying that NASA has Mars in its sights, not New Jersey? Sure there are more people in NJ, but arriving in NJ isn’t really an accomplishment. Likewise, being able to beat a piece of hardware that was out of date when it was first announced over a year ago (switch 2) obviously isn’t their goal. Additionally, Valve already has superior hardware and distribution, so they are clearly the competitor to beat.

I generally agree, but to mention Elden Ring amd not Sekiro makes me wonder if the author has actually played these types of games seriously.

Ahh, they are hard to find on mobile in vertical. The filtering section is scrollable, but it’s not obvious that that frame can scroll independently of the entire page, so didn’t see them the first time.

Needs filters for HDR, ports, refresh (rate and variability compatability), and size.

You should be able to select the version of the game that you want. Right click, manage,… ??? I forgot the rest but it’s fairly obvious from what I remember. You can just pick the most stable build of 1.## from the drop down.

There are a few games that you might miss out on with this method. Some devs (it’s not many) list their games at what they think is a fair forever price and will not ever offer the game at a reduced price. Again, this isn’t a lot of devs, but one notable one is Wube, makers of Factorio.

I generally agree with your method, mostly because I have a large enough backlog to be able to wait for sales, but it is also worth doing research on some devs to see if a sale will ever happen.

The section with the burning buildings and the big guy in the middle of the court yard just past the shallow water?

If that’s the section you mean, then you can safely come back after progressing the main line a little more. Getting the axe and the beating the guy on the horse are good pre-requisites. That will align the difficulty to be more consistent with the main line path.

Is it similar to rimworld then?

Thanks, songs of syx looks interesting, what are your thoughts?

Just to clarify, other than the naming, those games aren’t related, right?

Square has had a lot of popular games past FF7. Just in the Final Fantasy series, they’ve had good success with ff9, ff10, ff12, ff14, and ff7 remakes. All of the others in the series are usually pretty well liked too. That’s just their final fantasy main line series however.

They also have Dragon Quest, Tomb Raider, Marvel’s (both good and bad), and Kingdom Hearts. They also published Nier: Automata; but I’m not sure how much that counts as their game.

All of those series have had successful and unsuccessful games, based on objective sales figures. It seems you may be thinking that SquareEnix == FF only, but that’s not really true. And sure, the FF games have a lot in common, but so do the Halo games, the CoD games, etc. That’s because they are all part of the same series and it is expected that they have similarities.

Been waiting for Steam releases of 16 and Rebirth since they launched. I’m guessing I’m not the only one.

We’re currently in the information age, which is due to silicon. In a few hundred years, this time may reasonably be called the silicon age. Society has only recently transferred to the silicon age from the previous iron age. If we don’t cause a total collapse of our society, then we will be in the silicon age for a few hundred more years, and that will likely include space colonization.

The space age you’re referring to is likely the 60s, when space exploration was beginning. A decade or two isn’t long enough to be considered an age.

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That’s why we name our ages after the materials within. Material science is the foundation for almost all other physical sciences.

Subnautica has a pretty interesting world to explore. If you don’t like the survival elements, you can can turn them down or off.

Hardship space breaker had a somewhat interesting story. Not deep world building and definitely more focused on the game play, but still pretty good lore.

Another vote for the outer wilds. That’s really the best game in this area.

I didn’t realize it was so many for the epilogue. Might have to go back to now. Thanks.

The first game became significantly easier as more stuff was unlocked, so beating a round wasn’t quite so tough by the end.

I know you were exaggerating, but I think it was 10 completions that were required in total, with new stuff unlocking pretty consistently past the first, so much so that the strategy was evolving significantly between the first and the last.

Didn’t they also release a god mode version if you just wanted story as well?

The game used to let you do that, it was a nightmare since there wasn’t any warning when connecting pipes.

Oh, right. Duh.

Good idea, thank you.