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I’m sick of endless grinding and new content and updates and loot boxes and leveling and ranked matches and micro transactions.

Obra Dinn rocked my world. I haven’t played a game that reminded me of the magic of the medium in years until pic related. Just finished Dredge and it was a cute little experience.

I’d like this thread to be for games that can be finished in a few days and leave an impact. Like when you look at a book on the shelf you’ve read and go ‘oh yeah, that was great’. I want to go through my steam library and not just see slop, I want to see something closer to art.

Recs, please!

NEW RESIDENT EVIL TRAILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm unironically soyfacing so hard right now you have no idea

I couldn't find any threads about this game which is so fucking peak its unreal.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is like a fever dream and art nouveau painting got inebriated on absinthe and waged war on time itself. You're a member of a cursed team battling in a world that consumes its citizens via birthday, fusing the best of turn-based combat with real-time mayhem while aesthetically everything appearing to have been created by a haunted french poet. It's stunning. It's surreal. And it really will kill you.

I really really say you should check it out. It's got such a good story i was actually crying during the first 30 min. Please for the love of god check it out

ITS MARKETING SUMMER (for the inferior northen hemisphere)
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Does anyone else every feel like they're stuck between two equally stupid tribes of idiots? That's how I often feel when the "culture war" strikes.

A some new shit came out for the Witcher 4 that makes Ciri look a bit prettier than her cinematic appearance, and you have right-wing idiots praising it. But that's not the problem, She's still got the same basic fucking face and the cinematic, they just touched it up a bit to make her look prettier. The problem is why you would make fundamental changes to the appearance of an established character when you don't have to. It's not like you're having to work with human actors and you had to switch actresses, you can just keep the same basic model.

The other problem is why Ciri would even want to become a witcher in the first place. Why not just have a new witcher character? Why bother doing the backflips with the story that you're inevitably going to have to do to justify why Ciri would become a witcher when you can just have a new witcher character?

Making the discussion purely about if she's fucking pretty enough is such a fucking asinine point, especially because she was already pretty attractive in the cinematic, as proven by the fact that some improved lighting and touched up textures has these morons drooling over her.

When are video games going to stop pushing new bullshit graphics and features that force us to upgrade our PCs? I can't afford buying new GPUs and CPUs and RAM and shit. We had the most amazing games decades ago with computers that are 1000x less powerful.

This is 100% capitalist bullshit. Nuke Nvidia/Sony/Nintendo/Intel/AMD headquarters NOW!!

I wish there was a Communist fork of Liberal Crime Squad, which is a game created by the Dwarf Fortress guy Tarn Adams way back during the Bush Era which has had multiple forks, but none which change the fundamental liberal pretenses. LCS is basically about building a network of clandestine cells to oppose an Arch-reactionary government, but it is fundamentally framed in terms of US liberal politics, which reveals its contradictions and ideological flaws. Tarn Adams also says he intended it as a GTA-style satire rather than something truly critical of the USA but I don't really believe that. I think he is "hiding his power level" which radlibs tend to do, to the extent that they have a power level at all. Someone made an update in 2024 that can be played in a web browser and posted it to the Dwarf Fortress forums, and while in some senses it updates it culturally from the Bush era, it still is fundamentally based on the same ideological pretenses.
https://www.jonathansfox.com/lcs-new-age/

fellas with deep regrets i inform you i have succumbed to a ragebait
thought these women were recent hire or dei when in fact they been doing skyrim shit for over 20 years, worked on morrowing and oblivion they did. they just look like that not from da woke, but because most dungeon and dragon artsy girls love dressing like that. apologies i wasn't familiar with your game

Game is an indie dystopian future multiplayer game, and has roles: prole, enforcer and terrorist and as a prole you have to work in a laundromat and get rewarded with drugs, as an enforcer you have to occasionally punish thieving/lazy proles and fight terrorists. It has a mid 2000-2010s aesthetic in terms of poly count and texture quality.

I can't remember the name though, I think it had a number like a roman numeral in the title like Dysphoria IV or Delirium IV. When I try to search google or YouTube with various search terms I find unrelated crap and I know I've seen a playthrough on YouTube.

Strive is such an annoying thing to have takes about because if you say that you think May's design is a downgrade because the game is embarrassed by the series aesthetics you'll get a wall of 20 year old trans girls saying it's better because they like hoodies and it's like yeah okay idc. Even complaining about the new shitty mechanics will get people defensive because of the latest culture war!