Ehr? It is on Steam? Or is that EU exclusive?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/12140/Max_Payne/

Even those BF and CoD versions are pretty meh compared to earlier iterations IMO. These days I avoid those series.

I have my doubts, but I’d like to be surprised. Most works can be only two of: cheap, fast and/or good.

I think that, as usual, they didn’t care until it affected them.

Which was only published by them.

Unfortunately Tencent also has fingers in “indie” pies. For example they own up to a third of Larian for example.

Yup, I have one of those. I’m not sure what the exact build year is, but I think it’s from the mid-90s.

I got in 2006 or so from a thrift store and server me ever since.

I think of my characters in games as “stand alone”, and I don’t really care about the gender I’m playing as.

Specific reasons to play women:

• Cyberpunk 2077: Judy Alvarez is more appealing to me than Panam Palmer. (Although I have to dig up my first playthrough (male V) since the Kerry Eurodyne questline seems to be good).
• When I started playing Fortnite with some others, someone jokingly gave me the Heidi-skin. Except for certain quests, I keep using that skin.