These are solid suggestions for sure! I still need to get around to the rest of the Dishonored series past the first and finish Prey.

Immersive sims I think are pretty close to what I might be wanting, but they're unfortunately not that common, and some have RPG elements I don't find enjoyable. The Arkane games you mention pretty much avoid them last I checked though, and I dig'em for it

The sad part is, those preyed upon aren't always necessarily well off enough to afford it.

It's one of those situations where either the microtransactions are in fact small, so the low costs add up over time before the victims realize it, or they're set up to pressure people into multiple rapid transactions, and so they either exploit some people's poor impulse control or gambling addictions, or more often than not, both.

Not to mention, sometimes they actively take away from the art direction. You can have a game that's clearly going for semi-realism and yet keeps damage numbers flying off like it's a comic strip, which doesn't fit whatsoever.

The strangest, funniest mixture are the games built off comic licenses that employ a semi-realistic style with damage numbers, when a better combination would be stylized so it would all fit better artistically.

Maybe it's just me, but I think it was a mistake to describe it as GaaS. I understand how they're trying to use the term, but the fact they felt the need to clarify how they meant it should have been a clear enough sign the term is rather tainted.

Worse, it may make some people skeptical & suspect that they intend to change their tune down the line. Their track record notwithstanding, that's how some may be after having been burnt before with other experiences.

I think you forgot a link to the game itself! 😜

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

That aside, I've been giving it a look again lately but haven't dove in just yet. I'm in an odd mindset atm where I don't know if I'm down to wrap my head around RTS mechanics, but I'm really impressed by the looks of the game!

Also wanna highlight that this is a great rabbit hole to go down for other open source RTS games via Zero-K, Spring Engine, OpenRA, etc.

#VideoGames #Gaming #OpenSourceGames #BeyondAllReason

As others have mentioned, there's online-go.com for similar to lichess.org.

On Android there's Gobandroid, but it requires this for play against AI: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.ligi.gobandroidhd.ai.gnugo/

On desktop there's Sabaki:
https://sabaki.yichuanshen.de/

Haven't tried Sabaki yet, as I was using GoGUI running off GNU Go for a long time, but it's no longer in development.

#TableTopGames #GoGame #Gaming

@showerthoughts Thank goodness the metaverse never took off, but still gotta be on guard against moves towards that BS.

@LeylaaLovee When you play a long game (i.e. 60+ hours) all the way through, it's hard to tell how much of it was genuine enjoyment over some kind of weird sunk cost situation.

Kind of like watching a show that goes on for a ton of seasons. You get into a habit and despite inconsistent quality, you keep going back and you're not sure why, especially after the really bad parts.

It's why I understand *some* of the 100+ hour playtime negative reviews, & am skeptical of positive ones.

@Lowbird @Dee_Imaginarium On desktop you can be signed into different instances via different tabs, unless I'm misunderstanding you. Arguably a little clunky, but I do this with Mastodon to switch between a more moderated & focused instance, & a more general instance.

I imagine some may end up approaching Lemmy similarly now with Beehaw's decision (which I understand & honestly anticipated happening sooner).

@cih (I think this will work...) I'm not super active but if you click my name it should lead to me over on a Mastodon instance. This is more of my general profile so my posts are all over the place, but likely fall back to video game stuff more often than not, with the odd boosting of game posts here & there.

Also sometimes just random old tech stuff or folks looking for help with old tech, 'cause I appreciate retro tech & maintaining it.

@chat Yoo, it works! Funky formatting as expected, but cool!

Edit: btw if you're curious on how to do this, in Mastodon I searched: chat@beehaw and then posted @ the account. Not sure if there's a way to write a distinct text body atm, hence duplicate title/body text.

Probably better to stick to replies through Mastodon, at least until there's a clear way to make posts with distinct body text.

@Mars Tbh this is the risk with making games exclusive to any console (as well as any platform, speaking more broadly), or for any publisher.

The games industry across the board is largely terrible at preserving their past works, with it only recently becoming even of slight interest to any of them (e.g. Microsoft backwards compatibility). They'd rather old IP rot & be forgotten than risk releasing it & losing the slightest profit opportunity from a nostalgia cash-in.