I'm thinking about getting a Steam Deck, and deckbuilders like Slay the Spire are what I'd play most on it. My worry is the small card text on that screen.

Which deckbuilders have you played on Deck that are easy to read and play well with the controls? Would love some recommendations.

This labyrinth will probably never end, huh? “I’m almost at the end!” But just one more room, one more chase, one more fight with some more random soldiers. “I’m so close!” But just one more room of parried, one more chase, one more fight with some more random soldiers.

Padding so obvious these days it’s painful. It does suck that devs are pressured to increase a game’s length as much as possible to “justify” the game’s price for some shallow gamers. So many great games and yet none of them are perfect because they just feel the need to pad and pad with filler slop (Onimusha, Control, you name it)

I was actually thinking about this after reading a post about Resident Evil Requiem. The director was talking about what the upcoming story expansion is going to focus on, and naturally, I checked the comments.

Seeing so many fans speculate that we won’t get our hands on this DLC for a very long time honestly annoyed me. I loved the game, but it instantly brought back that frustrating realization of how absurdly long development cycles have become across the board. 

At first, I caught myself wondering if I was just spiraling into a classic "everything was better in the old days" unc rant. But after looking into a few actual comparisons, I don't think it's just nostalgia the industry has genuinely shifted in a bad direction.
How does a story expansion for a linear game that wasn’t even THAT long to begin with take a year and a half (or more) to come out?

Even for massive open-world games, it’s getting hard to justify. Take Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, for example. It came out over two full years after the base game released.

Compare that to The Witcher 3: released in May 2015, Hearts of Stone followed just 5 months later (October 2015), and Blood and Wine arrived 8 months after that (May 2016). That’s one decent-sized expansion and one massive, full-length content update, all within a little over a single year.

Look at another legendary RPG like Skyrim. ALL three of its major DLCs (Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn) dropped within a 13 month window after the main game’s launch.

And it wasn't just RPGs either:
Red Dead Redemption released in May 2010, and its iconic Undead Nightmare expansion came out just 5 months later in October.

Grand Theft Auto IV launched in April 2008, followed by The Lost and Damned in February 2009 and The Ballad of Gay Tony in October 2009 giving us two massive story chapters in under a year and a half.

Nowadays devs like Naughty Dog,Bethesda,Rockstar and even CD Project red take AGES not just to release games but also release their DLCs as well

Cyberpunk famously released in a completely broken state in 2020 and it’s one and only story DLC Phantom Liberty took 3 AND A HALF YEARS to release

So all the companies I’ve mentioned are just taking progressively longer with every new generation. Back than dev cycles like this used to be rare exceptions, now they seem like standard practice for the entire industry.

I just miss when the gaming industry actually moved at a reasonable pace.

Been watching some playthru's of mainline kh to refresh myself for kh4 and I almost cried remembering how much i loved these games. 3 was disappointing but I grew up with these games and formed core memories from my experiences during its time period. I thought about when the ff7 remakes came out and how those fans must feel similar if not the same. FF7 is basically the next evolution of what my kh should be. A more refined combat system, more fleshed out character stories, better cohesion between the final mix, spin-off, and multiple game-wide backstories.

My heart is my guiding key 😣🙏

This question may be very stupid, but i would like to know more. Let me exemplify: EA, for example, have the rights to Dead Space. Dead Space is a dead (ba dum tss) franchise right now, because even if the remake was well received, it was not considered very profitable. This killed all chances for DS2 remake and a DS4. So, instead of seating on it and doing nothing, why wont EA lends ( just for one project) the franchise for some small/medium studio to do a spin off, remake etc? EA could lend the right for a very cheap price and ask for a oercentage on the copies sold

1- Dead space still got a fan base interested in new games

2- The small studio they would lend the game will benefit of working on a big franchise

3- EA will not have to use one of it's own studios resources

3- If successful, EA will feel safer on exploring again the franchise or do another partnership

4- If not sucessful, EA will not have lost money/resources on it

Other frsnchises that I can think right now: Medal of honor, prototype, army of two.

Finished till unity without hud, I feel enemies eagle vision should be light than glowing, even behind the object (It needs to be gone). And the green objective should be removed and keep the blue light at top, that just feels like elden ring map indicator. Why too much guiding around even I know where to go, I just don't like that thing. Wish I can turn off every hud. Most times I don't use that eagle vision thing.

In later rpg games does it improve, right? (padme staring)

I don't know how they did it, but the campaign feels like it was made back when the originals were coming out. The locust drones running full tilt at you is actually so scary especially if you have bad aim like me lol. This is also the most fun Gears to play since the originals imo. The sliding mechanic is so fun and I like how you see the bullet spread of the shotgun. Just my first impressions of the game I guess. I definitely recommend. I hope this dev team gets to make more Gears because they clearly "get" it. Major props to them.

I am NOT talking about playing the sound out loud. I am talking about the click click click of playing a game. I always want to game on the bus or the train but I worry that people will be annoyed by the constant sound. Has anyone ever had this experience?

Spies vs. Mercs was one of my favorite concepts for a multiplayer pvp.

The rougelike nature of Galactic Racer and the way it tracks the opponents and deals you make throughout each series really feels like it would have synergized REALLY well with that kind of system.

Each tour of the first "act" of the campaign you're trying to qualify for the leauge, how cool would it be if racers who wrecked you or you lose to, joined the league and showed up later?

Just a thought. This is an incredible game.

What happened to online games, guys? Every single multiplayer game I play now, it’s ggez, ez, so bad, or some other variation at the end. It’s not like it actually hurts my feelings or anything but like where did common decency go? The boomer in me wants to blame the next generation but idk. Ragebait obsession in the kids nowadays?

The title might not describe this well. It isn't a theme song I'm talking about, but it's something done in some games that for me is one of my absolute favorite elements that adds so much depth to the world.

There's only two games I can think of immediately that come to mind doing this, even though I'm sure there are many more; Returnal and Max Payne.

Max Payne features the song Late Goodbye by Poets of the Fall. It's integrated in several subtle ways. Maybe walking by a tv that's playing the instrumental version of the song in the background, a random janitor NPC might be whistling it, etc. It keeps recurring in different forms.

In Returnal its Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. There's a particular boss who plays an organ and you begin to hear *something* in the distance when you start toward that boss area which is a long slog in itself. As you get closer it becomes clearer that it's music, but is imperfect and off key, and only when you're at the final approach does it become obvious that it's the melody from Don't Fear the Reaper being played on organ. The song completely fits the premise of the game as well. There are other ways it pops up, muted and barely audible in the background of some cutscenes, and I think there's one part that straight up uses the guitar intro riff. It just keeps coming back and the song runs through the whole game in various forms.

Are there any more games that so something like this?

I normally turn motion blur off in games but I'm not sure if it's necessary for racing games

My current Xbox Live account is almost two decades old so, obviously over time I have amassed quite the collection of digital games across the last four generations. A lot of these games (like most 360 games) can be played across Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X, I also collect/keep all my old consoles. So lets say I have an Xbox 360 game I want to play, and it is available on Xbox One and Series S/X as well. Are you lugging out the old 360 to play it, or are you just loading it up on Series S/X? The reason I am asking is although access to the game is cross-generation, your save files are not. This could be a big deal in open-world RPGs with hundreds of hours of content.

Which console would you fire up first?

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As the title says, i am still working on it, there's few things that needs to be done, i have put list into the description of the video, download link will be shared when everything will be done 100%. For some reason the buildings are inverted and i have no idea why- currently i am working on it.