Also, that list is terrible. Where the fuck is Elden Ring, Polygon!? No LoZ, any of them? XCOM: UFO Defense is the first and the absolute best of all XCOM entries…by far.
Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Subnautica? These aren’t even old games…
And Satisfactory beat out Factorio? Lol, m’kay Polygon…sure.
Also gonna disagree with your XCOM comment, it’s far too dated to make this kind of list, even if the core loop is solid. With workshop support XCOM2 pulls ahead.
XCOM: Original allows for insane strategy. It’s dated, I don’t disagree, but it had so much more strategy and immersion than atleasr the first modern XCOM. You could build your own bases, you got raided, you had to find enemy bases and maintain funding throughout world map. The game was legendary.
One of the most fun being, use flight armor and 2x alien grenade launchers. Breach top most point on battleship to expose command center, and then nuke the ship commander and body guards with second launcher. Swoop in with forces. Win.
Ignore the LoZ. I forgot it was PC games only. Whoops lol
The truth is they could of picked any PC exclusive games that example how great PC can be. Instead they pick Fortnite… Baldurs Gate 3, StarSector, any game with endless mods, any art software games… Like lazy
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Anyone else notice how many Russian devs just kinda … disappeared over the past year? I’m kinda hoping the guys working on Pathologic 2 are still like … alive. The game is unfinished.
Russians sometimes do some really good work in game development. It’d be cool if they were free to kinda get back to it.
You have a government who has a history of getting rid of dissent. And in industries that rely on creativity - that can be a issue for said government. Artists, musicians, authors, and game developers. If they don’t actively pledge allegiance to Russia, then Russia may one day go, “Your sci-fi game about space does not line up with our thinking and now you are in prison.”
I have a few coworkers who were formerly Russians and bailed asap because of that.
What frustrates me about that is Pathologic is a really dark, gritty, sometimes miserable experience. It fits the “hard” Russian worldview very well. Additionally, it’s well regarded as an extremely artistic game, really pushing boundaries in what kinds of experiences we put into gaming in general. “Does a game have to be ‘fun’ to be ‘good’?” is Pathologic in a nutshell. You could make an argument for it being high art.
This much respect and admiration should be a cultural victory for Russia. They should’ve given those guys medals and put them up in a fancy studio so they could make the project as good as possible, to bring respect and accomplishment to Russia.
Instead they probably got drafted, shipped to the front, and got a grenade dropped on their heads from a quadcopter…
Honestly I think I just got myself worked up over Ice Pick, since I like Pathologic. I think was subconsciously doing that thing where the quickest way to get an answer on the internet isn’t to ask a question, but to make an incorrect statement.
edit: Someone else did point out that Ice Pick is still around too.
Anyone else notice how many Russian devs just kinda … disappeared over the past year?
It’s not the elderly, nor the kids, that are sent to war. What do elderly people, when they are oligarchs, is to send future generations at war: if they live in a less younger nation, the nation is more adapts to their elderly status.
Amazing that they even write an entire article, because a Wii U was sold. I had to check the date if this is April Fool's day. It's a retro console and maybe they wanted save it. Or want to download roms to play for free on it (as the shop is not supported anymore) for authentic experience, instead emulating it. It was probably very cheap too.
I’m not going to even consider playing again till more comes out about it. Diablo is grindy by design and I have no interest in going through the grind until I know that there is going to be a good return on that effort.
I get they're just shopping it right now, but we are seriously getting like Japan and anime with these fucking streaming live action shows. If you've got an IP that seems like it has a pulse go for it. I don't dislike the game, but the writing doesn't justify it.
Edit: Not to say that I think relying on proven showrunners and creators as a system is any better, mind you. I don't really have a solution to how these multimillion dollar productions should be put together, it just seems really vapid.
This could either be really good or horrifically awful. However unlike The Witcher show, I feel like it has better chances. Source material doesn't matter too much in that V's story can be pretty dynamic with how its told and The Witcher has a very linear story line and strongly solidified characters.
Adapting existing stories and changing them has to be done really well for people to appreciate it and The Witcher just didn't have this going for it. 2077 on the other hand has so many places it could go, characters that we've yet to meet. I mean really they have all the options as long as the dialogue and delivery is done well.
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