I didn’t expect any Ys, and specifically Ys VII in there.

It’s a cool game. It doesn’t do anything too flashy, but it’s just a fun adventure.

I don’t know if that situation evolved a bit since, but Nintendo of Europe has had a lot of stupid crap happen to the Europe e-shop because of Australia (it was still the case mid-Switch 1).

Historically (mostly because they used to have the PAL standard like Europe), Australia was considered the same region as Europe for Nintendo. Somehow this survived long after the need for the PAL/NTSC distinction, as some level of joint management of e-shop for EU and Australia. Problem is, Australia is very trigger-happy when it comes to change a game rating, and Nintendo too when it comes to remove a game until rerating is validated. It took something like 6 months in some cases.

Example, Jamestown, a classic pew-pew pixel-style bird’s eye shoot’m up, removed from both stores for that long, despite the fact Europe’s own rating PEGI maintained a 7+ rating for it. Still have no idea what could have triggered Australia’s change of rating.

Seems like that version of the game (2021 enhanced rerelease without microtransactions), was only on Apple Arcade, so it was already iOS/MacOS exclusive to begin with I assume.

I’m hoping they find a way to emulate/translation-layer it to PC though, it looks interesting.

The game I played that I feel needed them the most was F-Zero GX. So, obviously it’s still racing, but they’re not used for throttle or brake, they make you slide laterally.

Every time I hear about Project Zomboid, it looks like exactly the kind of game I’d want to play… but on a mechanics level only. I never really cared about zombie survival stuff, and the huge craze around the genre in the mid 00s to 10s only killed it to me.

I have the game somehow, probably from a bundle long ago.

Oh, you’re right, it is. Thanks. Never really noticed they implemented that in lemmy.

Technically my first lemmy user was a couple months before, I’d followed a big reddit exodus around the time they killed third party apps, but I migrated to another instance a bit after that.

Probably. I’ll just keep avoiding those I guess.

Few years ago I completed the pokedex on Gen 6/7, using transfers back from Gen 4-5. That was fun. Especially Black, the way they balanced content in BW felt very fresh IMO, and the sprite work is very nice in Gen 5.

I kinda fell off the series after USUM, didn’t care about Let’s Go, there was the “dexit” debacle, the whole “get used to not being able to get eveyone in one game from now on”. And then the absurdly bad performance/glitch reports in new episodes.

Pokopia is my only Pokémon-adjacent game since Ultra-Moon, and that’s mainly because I heard it was great and I liked Dragon Quest Builders 2. And, to be honest, it is a very cool game. I just finished the base game’s pokédex.

Real problems like gen AI’s impact on the environment and the cost and accessibility of technology?

People have different hobbies. Maybe you have others, and that’s okay.

If you like it, playing games every day with a full time job should not be some kind of magic trick, and if it is, there might be something wrong with your job.

Oh, only a 50% performance hit on very pricy hardware for making automated lighting choices and complete face redesigns that don’t respect the designers’ and artists’ vision?

What a steal!

This year, and the previous one. And the previous one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_(cancelled_video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_Gameworks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkane_Studios

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This is what I feel happened with Starfield (not to the same extent, but still).

Everyone hyped the hell of it, it released, huge collective “meh”, and two weeks later it was mostly forgotten.

I had already had enough of Todd Howard and Bethesda’s bullshit at this point, so I was just wondering why that was even hyped so much to begin with.

At least I used to like Bethesda. I don’t even give a shit about GTA, so Rockstar can crash and burn for all I care.