Horizon Zero Dawn is on offer. So is Cyberpunk 2077.

DRM-free is the best part. I’ve downloaded offline installers for all my games and stored them on my NAS as a backup.

I’m not convinced many will notice they lost anything at all to be honest.

I feel like getting any big game day 1 is risky. I usually give most games 6 months to mature now.

Remember trying to get into Warhammer as a kid. Turned out I was absolute pants at painting and gave it up pretty quick 🤣

I just don’t like the “police” comparison. There are ways to motivate people to keep order without sending armed state goons to kill or imprison you.

I think weather or not this comparison is good or bad will completely depend on where you’re from. The concept of police is good. It’s how it’s practiced that is either good or bad.

I hear a lot of people talk about how Reddit was full of terrible people. I very rarely saw these people though. Not sure if their voices got down-voted, or maybe I simply stayed away from the communities they gravitated to. Personally I never really browsed Reddit home screen, I just bookmarked the communities I liked and went directly to their pages. So maybe that’s how I missed out on a lot of it.

That said, I did se quite a bit of nonsense when browsing gaming forums. PC gamers hating console gamers, xbox gamers mocking ps gamers and vice-versa. Never did understand peoples need to be superior in the gaming world. These are all just methods of enjoying the same hobby!

I agree. The problem is that many people who come to Lemmy don’t know how it works, and they gravitate to the biggest instances automatically. Heck, it’s what I did when I joined Beehaw. It wasn’t until a few days later that I understood the pro’s of this method. Fortunately, the Beehaw community rules really aligned with me, so I was lucky in that way.

That sounds like it would drive my wife crazy 🤣

Yeah, specifying split screen was probably a mistake. I meant local multiplayer :).

I never got the chance to play Black and White, but in later years I’ve watched quite a few videos about it. This looks like it could be fun. I checked the Steam page, but couldn’t see any info on weather controllers are supported. Will this work with a controller, or does it require a mouse?

I think this is more of a “decent graphics and 30 fps, or worse graphics and 60 fps” question. Personally I would like to have a performance setting where one can choose to downgrade the graphics for more fps.

Wow. Now I don’t know what to do 😅.

Does it matter where one purchases the game in terms of modding? Is it easier to run mods on Steam version vs GoG version for instance?

I thought it was just a new story. Are they changing more than that? I was thinking about buying the game+dlc on offer over at GoG to play on my Ally when it arrives tomorrow.

It’s mostly a question of “can we attract enough users for the ecosystem to be workable” and I think the answer is “yes.” Hell, for me it already is.

And this I completely agree with.

As long as there’s enough of us to maintain a community here, then we’re golden 🙂. And I’m definitely under the impression that we’re getting there.

I honestly don’t think the fediverse will become nearly as popular as many seem to.think. It’s still complicated to use/understand for many non-tech enthusiasts, and in the case of Reddit, while people are angry, I doubt most of their users are going anywhere any time soon. Some will leave, but it’s not going to be a small number.

We keep going on about how Reddit relies on it’s “creators”, without whom they’ll die. Frankly, a lot of the highest rated content is just repost of old videos or tiktok videos. A lot of that stuff isn’t original, and the deep conversations are, in my opinion, few and far between. Sure there are some communities whi h have this, but they’re not exactly over represented.

The bar is so low now…

Not technical enough for this one. What does port forwarding allow a user to do that they don’t achieve using regular VPN setup?