I play JRPGs a lot, but the best one to do this right is Etrian Odyssey, mostly because you can make combat (inputting + animations) really fast, and make even normal enemies interesting challenges. People don’t complain about having to wait for your foe in chess, and that’s because it doesn’t take you 5 seconds to move a pawn, and the foe is usually a fair challenge. (Arguably, video games can be even better at this than chess, because the AI doesn’t need time to think. Instead of smarts, it usually has the stat advantage)

SMT(including Persona) generally does this fine, and Fire Emblem can either look decent with animations off, or speedy enough even with them (most of the time is spent thinking than waiting, either way - the goal). Those are my top 3 series.

On the opposite end, mainline Pokemon might be the worst turn-based combat I ever played, even if the mechanics are solid. I don’t want to wait 3 seconds just for “crit + effectiveness + fainted” to display, even more so if most of trainers and random fights aren’t challenging.

I think there’s some context missing here, otherwise cooked unsalted chicken would be a common treat (it’s not). Do you mean it more like “1 or 2 spices is better than 5?”

Another thread reminded me of the good ol Wii days, where the Wiimote did sounds for every character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

It sounded like shit, but damn was it memorable for 10 year old kids. “Fight me!” “Prepare yourself!”

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There has actually been a case going around about Valve forcing price parity despite their official ToS not saying so, with emails from employees to devs as evidence.

I’ll admit I didn’t read into it though, at most watched a (seemingly pro-Epic) video on it. None of the devs I follow ever complained, but I also can’t think of any offering lower prices on other stores (besides Steam key vendors)

I was about to start buying games on GOG instead of Steam when possible (I love them too though). I have no idea what’s going on, but sounds cool.

You think they made summer a break from school, so that kids and teachers don’t have to suffer working with that shit?

I think a lot of it was just getting sick of E33 discussion. I remember when Hundred Line released this year some time after E33 and on Steam forums (which, to be fair, is as bad as most gaming forums), while people were, er, “discussing” the game, plenty of valid complaints were topped off with “just play E33 instead, it’s cheaper and much better” Like, I don’t even disagree, HL was disappointing, but why are you bringing it up, it’s apples and oranges.

It was also the first I heard of E33 personally so it wasn’t a good first impression, even if the devs are sweet and actually gave a shout out to HL.

(As someone who prefers Silksong that game’s community sucks too though, no, I don’t care a game is as expensive as 3 Silksongs)

Well, some people just treat it like playing sports. Wanna go play ball? Wanna play CSGO? Hey, this ball/shirt/skin looks fancier! It’s foreign, but understandable to me.

It also seems to be as many people as it was back shooters became a big thing. Out of the few people I know who video game, one only does FPS, one sticks to a few different games (Ultrakill, TF2, Peak to name a few), one either plays co-op with his gf or does Single player, and one mostly plays single player like me. Chatting up random people about games, that ratio seems similiar.

Why specifically $5M and not say $1M? Building a house should apparently cost you half of that, and I assume the rest is for investing into passive income?

I agree with the other guy, talk is cheap. I probably don’t need a 4k TV or multiple consoles, but I immediately started planning and buying after a raise.

They are anti-developer (though dev opinions differ), but most people aren’t affected by the anti-consumer stuff. The only instances I know are censorship with niche visual novels and case gambling (and things like crashing CSGO economy sound like good things in that regard), unless there’s more I don’t know.

Contrast this to Nintendo just saying throwing lawsuits everywhere, among other things.

Has Epic become profitable yet? I vaguely remember the plan being for it to become profitable later, and that it was living off Fortnite money.

Steam could just charge at most 20% then though, I don’t remember what the thresholds/conditions for different costs like 30% and 18% are.

I can see how banning might be controversial, but I sure wish they’d tax the hell out of them. Make that yacht not a million, but 10 or 100, a billion. Give that tax money to services like healthcare or UBI. I can see unique perks to yachts, if you genuinely want one as a dream I’m not gonna stop you, just commit to that being the dream you want.

In practise I can see how politicans would (or do) just use that money for themselves anyway…

There’s a whole company/llm about doing that whose CEO gave a Ted talk about it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JrIxFZRA

After that, I actually had a pretty wild idea about someone using to replace dead/missing people in chats. Imagine the horror of finding out your friend died months ago, or got kidnapped. Horribly impractical but sounds like a good novel.

I prefer GabeCube