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Easy Red 2 is SO slept on right now relative to its quality, the work the team is putting in it, and its future potential

Always nice to see anothe ER2 enjoyer

when you get a god run with a good synergetic build this game is insanely satisfying

I am currently one of the scrubs you beat in Tekken 8 on your way to the red ranks

waaaay out of the timeframe you have specified (it is a 2020 game that is still actively updated) but still with the same vibes, I’d check out Easy Red 2, as it scratches that specific itch of a WW2 shooter with scale. It is maybe too open at times for my taste but it is one of the very few modern games covering that niche. It does have optional squad management gameplay elements but you can ignore those in favor of playing a simple soldier, and the AI will do those jobs for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ziR73NhHjY

This sounds like something that would be played on The Genius, I’m all for it

because every additional layer of abstraction disrupts communication with the Machine Spirit even further

Bored with driving your car with a wheel and pedals? Change the default handling device in your vehicle

Hm yeah you are right, I shouldn’t deride the public for hoping this time it would be different. That was too harsh on my part.

The fact that this is even news at all confirms, yet again, that the memory of the general audience of the videogame industry only goes back to the last 6 to 8 months, if that.

Until I get my Legend Of Dragoon remake, there aren’t too many, no. After that ya’ll can do what you want

Yeah, I think we are at the point where if it has a PS5 version, it’s releasing on PC sooner rather than later

Damn, this is an intriguing time. While in the back of my mind I had assumed this was a likely possibility, the idea that ARM could replace X86 in PC is still hard to accept for me. Can’t wait to see how it changes the landscape of CPUs on PC.

It’s fascinating in a certain way. Massing dudes armed with the spear, one of the most basic concepts for a weapon possible, remained viable for millenia; but massing tanks and planes, which are marvels of advanced engineering, has been made obsolete in a century. XX and XXI century progress has been absurd.

If this is true… Oof…
Like, imagine losing your job because somebody decided to drop over 70 milion in something like this… I bet everybody affected would have predicted that this needed to be canned way earlier. Yet the people responsible for this unforced error will be largely unaffected because since business is accepted to be a gamble at times, I guess that means you get to make stupid mistakes that ruin hundreds of livelihoods for no reason and just go oops, my bad, we’ll have to do a tactical restructuring I guess.
Seriously, the first trailer was unanimously received with “another one of these games?” reactions. There is no excuse for any dollar spent after that! Anybody could have told you it was a miss! Aaaarrrgh.

Also much less important but still frustrating, knowing that so many properties under SEGA have struggled to get a budget and support, while they were spending all of the money in a fire pit instead. Now that it’s been cancelled, we can say ANYTHING would have been a better use of that money. Don’t ever let SEGA tell you that anything would be a bad project ever again! Oh, SEGA, you still think a localized port to modern platforms of Valkyria Chronicles 3 would be a bad project? Well let me tell you, it sure as hell wouldn’t have lost DOZENS OF MILLIONS.

And in that line, nothing hurts more for me personally than knowing all of the issues that the Total War franchise has had, with products that didn’t get the development time they needed, additional content policies that went way overboard with pricing, very small degree of evolution and investment between entries… And the money that could have gone to that consistently performing franchise that has no true substitute competitors was instead going to… To burn it in a pit with funny colors and masks and dances and…

Man, I just cannot. Man.

Its dominance was really established with the glorious LinuxCon WorldWide 2021

Don’t these places keep their own source?

There’ve been some cases of remastering projects being affected by the loss of some of the source material, such as the Silent Hill HD Project

Which is why I find the negative attitude of so many of these companies toward emulation and fan conservation of abandonware so frustrating, there’s a proven track record that they cannot be trusted with the task.

A 100%, some of the things that you hear from the industry are crazy. If you offered me twice my current salary to be a developer in the AAA videogame industry, I wouldn’t take it.

I think a handful apply for me, but the biggest case is probably WoW Classic. It felt like a can’t miss, lightning in a bottle kind of moment, so I absolutely had to be there. I’m glad I did, as it reminded me both why I love the game so much, as well as why I don’t play it anymore.

That’s a decently long list lol, Medieval 2, Rome 1, Rome 2, Attila, Napoleon, Shogun 2 sorta… (I don’t dislike the ones not listed, I just vibe less with them)

If you count mods and expansions, the list gets much larger, Medieval 2 Kingdoms, Empire Divided, Age of Charlemagne, The Great War, Divide Et Impera, 1212, 1100, The Third Age… And there are even more that have piqued my interest but haven’t had a chance to play.

Aaaah it’s such a rich series!

For me, it’s any of the Total War games I like, or Battlefield 1, or Left 4 Dead 2, or any From Soulslike.

I like to call them evergreen games, because I’m a total snob. The kinds of games that you can always go back to no matter how long it’s been, that you always know how to play by instinct at this point, that always entertain, feel weirdly comfy and make for great choices when you don’t know what you wanna do. God bless them.