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No thanks, I'll wait for a Steam or GOG release.

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I love the Element client for Matrix. I use it with my friends and I have joined a lot of communities on there. It's Discord-like, but I personally find it much easier to navigate than Discord. It's free, open source, decentralized, you can self-host if that's your jam, it's got some solid security and usability features, call quality is great, and I've found it to be very stable and reliable. I'm a little biased because I personally don't like Discord, I find the UI clunky and unpleasant to use, but I love using Element. If you love Discord, you will find Element familiar, but you may or may not appreciate the differences.

ADHDefy,
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You can just search terms right within Element to find public "rooms" (like a Discord Server). There's rooms for all kinds of things. There are private rooms, too, but someone in the room would have to send you a link to it.

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PLEASE. FFS, exclusivity is BS and we need to move away from it.

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Please. For the love of god. Mega Man Legends 3.

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Seriously. I'm always psyched when a great game gets ported to any other console. I'm a PC player, I don't even play on consoles (except Switch), I'm just happy more people get to experience games that made me happy. Exclusivity makes sense for the console makers, but from a consumer perspective, it's fucking stupid. It's so weird to me that people defend it so fiercely.

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For sure. I'm looking forward to playing Spider-Man 2 in a couple years. 😅

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YouTube. I know it sounds goofy, but often you can search something like "Baldur's Gate 3 gtx 1060 6gb i7-4790K" (or whatever your specs are) and you will get tons of videos of people running it on their systems. If you happen to have common parts, you will not normally have trouble finding a benchmark for a rig very similar to yours for most games, but even with more niche hardware, you can usually find something helpful, even of it's just like a similar GPU or another laptop with the same chipset, or whatever your case may be.

Beyond that, Steam's hardware requirements on the store pages of games and pcgamingwiki are great resources.

I'd also say you can look on protondb--it's for Linux gamers, so the results may or may not be applicable if you have a Windows system, but in most cases, if there's a report that something runs well on Linux machine with the same hardware as you, it's going to be very similar on Windows. The other way isn't so applicable, though--just because something runs poorly on a Linux rig doesn't necessarily mean it will also run poorly on Windows, as the problem could be with the compatability layer and not the hardware.

None of these are a perfectly elegant solution, but they are typically reliable enough.

ADHDefy,
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lol right? Where do Nazis come in here?

ADHDefy,
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STOP. SHUT UP. DO NOT MAKE HUGE CLAIMS ABOUT WHAT THIS GAME WILL BE. Please learn from your mistakes.

ADHDefy,
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lol it's funny, all of the articles I see about this game mention that it's a "Zombie MMO" in the title. Like, I get that it was suggested that it would be, but it's objectively not.

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I've been so psyched for this. I need to replay the story before the end of January, I guess! :)

ADHDefy,
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It's so good

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Tbf, that's not what happened with physical games. Idk why it would be any different for digital keys.

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On top of the performance issues, I've already invested a bunch in the first one with the billions of DLC they had. Starting over and having to buy all the new DLC they'll most certainly be making for 2 does not sound enticing. lol I'm sticking with 1, probably indefinitely or until the second one runs its course and the complete edition winds up super cheap in a Steam sale or something.

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Comparing the ambitiousness of a game to Star Citizen is a risky bet. SC's ambition has not been positive. lol

ADHDefy,
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I felt this in my soul. lol This has basically been my state of mind for the least couple of years. I used to game on mobile a fair amount, but these days, I just can't handle mobile gaming anymore. I can't deal with F2P games on PC, either, despite having loved some of them in the past (Apex Legends, Warframe, etc.).

Between F2P games, paid games with egregious F2P-style monetization, and soooo many AAA games coming out broken or just bad, I have been playing a lot of retro games, older JRPGs, and indies the last couple of years. I'm just so burnt out on the modern game industry.

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You are right, I'm a pretty big fan of Bloons TD 6 myself. I've also played a lot of Osu!Lazer and some of the Netflix indies. It just kind of feels like the overwhelming majority of mobile games are predatory and obnoxious, but there are definitely some really well-done games between the premium options, console ports, and a handful of open source games.

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I suspect this is exactly why Battlebit Remastered blew up the way that it did this year even though it looks like a Roblox game. lol

I think people are starved for a good, clean FPS that isn't mostly battling menus, cluttered UI, MTX, endless DLC, P2W, battle passes, lootboxes, daily login bonuses, timed events, grindfests, invasive anti-cheat (or an overwhelm of cheaters), constant updates that break the game, etc. I think there's a lot of us that just want to shoot stuff and have fun with our friends, like the glory days of online FPS. I'd happily fork over $60 today for that kind of experience, but I don't trust hardly any AAA publishers to keep their promises if they even did offer something like that.

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Today shall be remembered as the day the rogue penises finally won.

ADHDefy,
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This is really cool, but after watching the video in the article, I see that they decided to make the game as dark as they made the movie. lol I remember watching that movie and having no idea what was happening cause it was so fucking dark, and I got the same feeling watching that gameplay footage.

This is amazing for preservation, though!

What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

What I mean is… sometimes people are very loyal to a videogame franchise or a company because they loved a game they released years ago (Silent Hill/Konami with Silent Hill 2, Blizzard/Bethesda with their respective golden eras, some could argue this happens too with Pokémon and Final Fantasy, etc). Ethical/consumer reasons...

ADHDefy,
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Nexomon Extinction and Siralim Ultimate are great monster collecting games.

ADHDefy,
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Just beat it a few weeks ago, it was a great time. The set pieces are jaw-dropping at times.

Multiplayer def has a learning curve, but it's fantastic.

ADHDefy,
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Cool, but please just release the Nathan Drake collection on PC 🥲

ADHDefy,
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They had a whole year and came up with this?! /s

ADHDefy,
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Did they get Gillian Anderson for this fucking game?! lol

ADHDefy,
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Bring back Overwatch >:(

ADHDefy,
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  • 6v6? Yes please.
  • Generous loot? Yes please.
  • Immobile Orisa and Bastion? I was an Orisa main and a Bastion main before that. I (mostly) miss the old meta. Yes please.
  • Uglier graphics? If the graphics must suffer for the game to be fun again, then so be it.
ADHDefy,
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It looks like it's going to have a number of CRT filter presets based on actual TV sets from the time.

ADHDefy,
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Yep. I haven't played since then, partly for the reason you said and partly cause they took away Linux support at the same time, even if you already owned the game on Steam where Linux was fully supported.

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I wonder if they would have saved a ton of money getting it closer to this product prior to release, or if it would have taken the same amount of time and money regardless and just maybe saved their reputation a bit?

ADHDefy,
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That's encouraging, I hope you're right!

ADHDefy,
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This had better come to PC 😱

ADHDefy,
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I agree that it is, but I also love that this headline basically reads, "guy who makes thing says the thing he makes is the best thing."

Does anyone know of any kid-friendly "horror" games out there for children ~7 years old?

My son loves the adrenaline rush of getting scared, particularly with jump scares, however, I have a lot of difficulty finding a game or show which is appropriate for him. He is prone to nightmares, and more adult-oriented “kid horror” is too much (Poppy’s Playtime, Cartoon Cat?) And others like Siren Head. His peers...

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If you're cool with emulation, the PS2 had a game called Gregory Horror Show.

ADHDefy,
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I wonder why they picked Sonic Boom over Sonic Prime? I feel like Sonic Prime is a huge step up over Boom.

ADHDefy,
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I legit can't tell of this is a joke. Cause on one hand, that seems insane. But on the other hand... Kojima.

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√ Is software
√ Launches on Switch hardware

APPROVED

ADHDefy,
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I cannot wait to see gameplay. This is one of my most anticipated upcoming games, really hope it lives up to the hype.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart peaks at less than 9k concurrent players on Steam, third worst PC launch for PlayStation game (gameworldobserver.com) Greek

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the latest PlayStation game ported to PC. While it got attention thanks to the use of DirectStorage 1.2, its launch numbers are quite unimpressive compared to SIE’s other first-party titles on Steam.

ADHDefy,
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Yep. The last one is my biggest problem. I was fully aware of it, honestly probably willing to pay $50-$60, and heard it's a decent port, but being that I'm not a PlayStation gamer, I never played the originals, so I'm not ready to play this one. If they had released the Ratchet & Clank remake first, I would have snatched that up.

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It's really weird to me that they didn't start with the Ratchet & Clank remake or something. Same with Uncharted 4... it's a weird choice to launch a later game in a narrative-driven series first on a new platform, right?

ADHDefy,
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I mean, there are comparatively few. Especially AAA games, we probably only get a couple of games with female leads per year at best.

EDIT: Female leads that aren't hypersexualized, that is. lol

Dungeon of the ENDLESS is free to keep on Steam (store.steampowered.com)

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

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This is a really good game. If it looks at all interesting to you, snag it while it's free!

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