With all the hardware released over the years I’m surprised this sort of thing doesn’t happen more often.

How about coming up with new ideas? You have the money, staff, and technology to make amazing games with new gameplay ideas instead of just redoing old ones.

It definitely sounds like a remake.

UT2004 was so good. So smooth and so much replayability, and then add mods and it’s even better.

They should at least give the option for friend groups to play without anticheat.

Yeah that’s best case scenario at this point. But after they forced users to agree to a new agreement with their remote control or no longer be able to use their Roku/TV I sort of doubt they have our best interests in mind.

Spend more money, that will make people like our games!

Buy more studios and release more mediocre games, that’s gotta work eventually.

That’s what we need more of, ideas. AAA games have better tech than ever, but the corporate overlords just want to make the same games over and over and water them down to appeal to the widest audience.

If we can’t see games on boobs and butts then what are we even doing here?

That’s very cool that GameCube controllers are supported.

I fell into this trap when I reinstalled Win10 on my PC after I upgraded the hardware. I made the mistake of giving Windows setup my Microsoft login because it seemed like that was the only way forward. That automatically enabled OneDrive sync of my documents folder. Which was bad because I had gigabytes of save game and mod data that I was moving over. I noticed all the disk and internet activity as OneDrive was syncing it. It took a while to fix and there are still side effects in the system.

It’s bad when an operating system keeps giving you a screen full of options and the best answer for every single one is No.

If they did built-in backward compatibility I would be more likely to buy. My last PS console was a fat PS3 that would still play my PS2 games.

Many years ago I had a lot of fun with this game coop. IIRC it wasn’t a lot different than Dead Island.

Seems like a great idea to me.

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Helskate was a blast and I would assume runs well on Steam Deck.

I like Next Fest, I like trying new games and I don’t play most games for very long anyway.

I tried these:

Helskate Demo - Loved it - Really neat aesthetic, sort of like Tony Hawk games but a wilder aesthetic and has combat. I’m not great at skateboarding games but I enjoy playing them, and this one has swords!

Underspace Demo - Provisional Liked it - A space sim game that calls itself the spiritual successor to Freelancer. Well Freelancer didn’t have giant space monsters but Underspace still looks promising. I played through the first few missions, controls were decent enough that I didn’t bother to remap anything. Visual quality and style are serviceable. The fatal flaw for me is there is no mouse invert Y option so it’s really hard to play for me. There are a lot of options, but not that. The dev indicates he will be adding the option. There have been more than a few space games that I never bothered with due to no invert Y option.

The Fall of Aether Station demo - Not for me - This is a tower defense with spaceships. You have to defend a space station with various ships, but for some reason enemy ships come at it along a bright green line rather than from all directions. You can only afford one ship at first and it doesn’t fully destroy the enemy ships just sitting there stationary. You have to send the ship back on forth on the line by clicking destinations to try to sufficiently shoot the enemy ships before they attack your base. I got to two ships and the micromanagement of only 2 ships got to me and I moved on. Maybe it gets better later on.

Dungeonborne Demo - Dead on Arrival - This one looked like a cool first-person dungeon romp, but as soon as I hit Play I was confronted with a UAC prompt to install “ACE anticheat.” For what I thought was a singleplayer game. I noped out, I’ve got enough invasive crap on my system. Turns out ACE is from Tencent and is a kernel-level anticheat that can access all files on your system, and persists even when you uninstall the game. They should either remove the singleplayer tag from their game or remove the anticheat requirement.

Renaissance Kingdom Wars Demo - Liked it - but not sure what I think of this one. The art style is a bit clunky, I mean it’s light years ahead of what I could do but still. It seems to be a combination of a 4x and a Bannerlord or Total War game. It seems to have a lot of gameplay aspects and considerations. It has an expansive and fairly detailed overworld map that looks nice, town management, and also tactical real-time battles with a lot of units on the screen at once. I played about 20 minutes and was overwhelmed but intrigued. On the fence about it.

Millennia Demo - Loved it - This one is like Civ 6 or Humankind, but I think I might enjoy it more than both of those. I like the look and feel, and it does a few things differently than other 4x games. Like it allows limited unit stacking, and you can choose how much technology to research before advancing to the next age. And in fact advancing to the next age has a few options, like if you have defeated X enemy units you have some sort of Bloodthirsty option for the next age rather than the normal Iron Age or whatever. I got through the 60-turn time limit and wanted more.

It’s always amazing to me how difficult quickly sharing simple things between phones is. There are dozens of different apps and methods. Even my iOS friends have trouble getting their built-in method to worn.

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