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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just barely eking out heavy hitters like Marathon, Marvel Tokon or God of War Sons of Sparta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter now on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same story, different localisation, so minimal differences.

  You get modern graphics and QoL changes and stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 16⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Managed to beat Risk of Rain Returns on Monsoon difficulty, without any Artifacts. It wasn’t even that hard, once I stopped trying to loop and went straight for the final level (looping and becoming a god is most of the fun though).

  Then I installed some gameplay mods for a bit of variety, but an update broke like half of them, so I gotta wait for a fix.

  As an alternative I played some Risk of Rain 2 for the first time since launch, along with all the DLC, and I got no idea what’s going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new hero for Heroes of the Storm announced at Blizzcon!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They stopped releasing heroes in 2020 or something, then did nothing for a few years, but eventually started doing occasional balance patches, and now they’re apparently going to release at least two new characters. Servers have been up and running this whole time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The dude who was on stage during the announcement, Dan Hay, was apparently a producer on all the FarCry games since 3, so that tracks, but as you said, how can they extract a billion dollars from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlizzCon 2026 Announcements Summary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just some minor notes, Dominion is just the name of the cinematic, the game doesn’t have an announced name yet (unless they’re calling it just Starcraft, which would be weird).

  The Last Titan expansion wasn’t revealed for the first time here. I think during the last Blizzcon a few years ago, when the World Soul Saga was announced, they went through the three expansions, their names, some overall themes, so you might find a bit more info in those videos, if you’re interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, the 2030 release date (+eventual delays) lines up with Microsoft’s recent push/wish for more games in their big franchises a couple of months ago, so this is probably still in some kind of pre-production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo V Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Diablo 4 will be six years old by the time this comes out (not including eventual delays), which seems like a decent time between major releases, and three years after the current expansion, which concluded the Mephisto story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 8⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing some Risk of Rain Returns the last two weeks, currently working on unlocking the last few items, I never got around to.

  I played it for a couple dozen hours on launch, but then fell off, when other stuff came out, so after almost two years I wanted to check back in with the game. The soundtrack (along with that of RoR2) is one of my favorites, and I keep listening to it regularly.

  Then, I also wanna get back to Risk of Rain 2, but I’ll probably wait for the next DLC to come out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demo now available for Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I said almost. I remember being pretty disappointed at the end, because the ties to the rest of the series got more prominent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demo now available for Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest problem with the villains is the typical anime game trope of defeating them in the battle, but losing in the cutscene, constantly. This whole series just loves to blue ball you. You are constantly getting teased, never getting a payoff. Nothing you do matters.

  spoiler

  Until finally in CS3, the big mystery is revealed, and it’s a wet fart. Just a massive let down. 8 games, 500h of time wasted on that garbage. Jokes on me though, since Falcom got all my money already, and I eventually plan to hate-play the rest of the series, just to see the conclusion of this train wreck. I’m in too deep at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demo now available for Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta chime in as a Trails hater, from time to time.

  This is one of the worst games I’ve played, mainly because of the terrible story and worst written villains ever. I cannot understand why anyone would like this game. There is only one good game in the series, Trails from Zero, because it has almost nothing to do with the rest of the series (which is ruined in the sequel).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Summer Sale is here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Below the graph is the full timeline, with zoom options, where you can see the prce going back to launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FH4 was heavily discounted before it was removed from stores (because of license deals), so FH5 will most likely get the same treatment, although it might take a few more years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 10th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finished my Dark Urge Baldur’s Gate 3 run. The duel with Orin was surprisingly troublesome, and it took me a few tries to defeat her, but otherwise it was a pretty smooth run. Since I resisted the urge, it was mostly the same as my other “good” playthroughs, apart from the couple of additional scenes and dialogue.

  For now, I’ll take a couple of months break from the game, and wait a bit for the next playthroughs.

  Then I tried Vampire Crawlers, the deck building dungeon crawler spin-off of Vampire Survivors. I’m not really into these genres, but gave it a shot because of the Vampire Survivors connection.

  I think the way the different items, mechanics, enemies, levels, etc. got translated into a completely different kind of game is pretty neat, but the chest opening animation is seriously lacking. It’s the best in Vampire Survivors, and I have it as my Steam Deck boot up video, but it’s just completely missing here. A massive oversight.

  Otherwise, the game is fine, the combo mechanic is fun, but it did get kinda boring and samey after about 10 hours.

  Right now I’m in between games, waiting for my Steam Controller to arrive and Forza Horizon 6 to launch, so I’m just playing a bunch of Overwatch. My biggest gripe with the game is as always the matchmaking. It got better since the recent re-launch, but it’s still pretty bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My quest to get a steam controller has failed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Practically there wasn’t really a difference with the Steam Deck. You still had everyone rushing at the same time to get the deposit in. People got errors during the check out, just like this time and scalpers popped up immediately as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking more along the line of PaysafeCard or things like that, although that might have similar currency restrictions. Or of course you can just buy foreign prepaid cards from third-party resellers. You’ll pay more than the card is actually worth, but if you would then be able to buy games for half price or even less, it would be worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Directly in Steam it’s not that easy, you need a billing address and Steam checks the payment method to verify the country (although I don’t know if certain prepaid cards work for this as well).

  You still have Steam keys, that can be sold anywhere though, and not everyone will care that this cheap key, intended for the Polish market is bought by someone in Germany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the law doesn’t say that prices have to be the same, it’s just that you can’t block people from other countries from buying stuff at the cheaper price.

  With physical goods you either have to actually go to the country or get it shipped to you, which can make this not as easy or “profitable”. However, with digital goods you just go to a website and there’s not really anything to ship, except maybe an email, so those same hurdles don’t exist, which is why those lower income countries usually get the short end of the stick with prices for games and stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t realistically restrict keys

  I think it’s actually illegal to restrict this stuff in the EU.

  In the past Steam actually had separate keys for lower income countries in Europe, that could only be activated there. However, either because laws changed or they started to actually be enforced, Steam had to change it.

  You can still make the games cheaper to buy in those countries, but you also have to allow people from Germany, France, wherever to buy them (as long as it’s in the EU), which very few publishers want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think it’s not on console (or other mods like it, if they exist), because the mod uses the Script Extender, which is only on PC afaik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Resist, so it’s not much different from a good run, except for the different/extra dialogue and maybe that first time getting the Urge (which I knew about and saved Alfira).

  Last playthrough I had everyone with me, and this time I was back to the default party size. However, I missed the extra banter and stuff, so I enabled the Party Size mod again, along with the Sit This One Out mod, so in fights it’s still just four people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cannot play games b/c Internet is needlessly required. Starcraft, Age of Empires, Civilization..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old Blizzard games at least don’t need the internet to install and play, stuff like Diablo 2 and even Starcraft shouldn’t. For offline play even the serial doesn’t matter, because it’s not checking against some online database or something. Only once you go online do you need your own personal CD key, that’ll be tied to an account.

  Once you get to later installments of these series you get entries that either need a constant internet connection or and occasional check, like Diablo 3 onwards, the Diablo 2 Remaster and maybe Starcraft 2 as well.

  It’s weird that your Starcraft version needs an internet connection for the installation. I don’t have that tied to my Battle.net Account, but I do have Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2. So I just downloaded those and did a quick test without internet, and they installed without issues. Yes, it’s not the same as directly from the CDs, but it would be weird if the “modern” download was more convenient than the old stuff. I downloaded a downloader, that then downloaded the actual game. I remember stuff like that in the past as well, but maybe only for patches (and definitely World of Warcraft).

  I might have some old CDs of these games as well, but they are buried in some boxes, stuck behind other stuff, so I can’t quickly check if those are the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So true! Remember the good old days with games like Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate 3, Resident Evil 9? Those were the best. It’s a pity games like that don’t get made anymore.

  WTF are you talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Made it to Act 2 in my current Baldur’s Gate 3 run. Since this is my first time going Dark Urge, I’m not playing on Honor Mode (although same difficulty settings, except not single save), and I’m definitely save scumming more, even if you ignore the times I’m just trying new stuff (did the exploit to kill Raphael in Act 1 for the first time for his loot).

  I’m also using (sub)classes that I’ve never or rarely used this time. Swashbuckler is pretty neat and Druid Owlbear form is just dumb (in a good way). Frost Sorcerer seems neat, but I don’t really care about getting enemies wet first for double damage, so I might just switch that build down the line. Wildheart Barbarian can really chunk, although it’s mostly just hitting people with your stick. I then made Karlach to a dual crossbow Arcane Trickster, mainly for a token ranged build (I’m really melee heavy otherwise), but I’m not really feeling it, so I might change that up as well later.

  I’m definitely starting to get burned out on BG3, since I played like 200h in the last two months or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slay the Spire 2 probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it’s not like it was at almost 5% in January.

  As I wrote in another comment, if you ignore February completely, ~3% to ~5% in a month or two is gigantic.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if it drops back down again next month, but maybe it stays at 5% because the old data was faulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but there are so many Steam users every month, that even if only 1% or 0.1% of people get the survey, that’s still a ton of people (over 40M concurrent, estimated 130M+ users every month)

  Also, have the Linux users increased by over 50% month-to-month? The jump from ~3% at the start of the year to over 5% is huge.

  It’s possible there was something wrong with the data before and the 3% wasn’t accurate or there’s something wrong now and the 5% is not correct. That’s all I’m saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The drop last month was because Chinese users increased by 30% (which were removed or whatever this month).

  So even if you’re going to be pedantic and ignore the whole of February and just go from the January stats to March directly, 3.5% to 5.3% is a massive jump that doesn’t make sense. Why suddenly this month? Why not last year when W10 support ended?

  One possible explanation is that maybe the old 3% Linux base was wrong and now something has been accounted for or has been corrected, so in reality it has been around 5% for a while, which is now shown correctly. That’s why I’m saying I’m gonna wait a bit to take these stats at face value.