Exact same boat as you… Urgh. Maybe community drivers are possible?

I’m not that interested in the game but very glad people seem to be liking it.

He’s in a tricky position but I’d like to see him create anything that he finds interesting. It doesn’t need to be as refined as Obra Dinn, but it would be a shame if he didn’t release something just because it’s 75% as good as Obra Dinn.

Lucas Pope is a much smarter person than me, so I’m sure he’ll make the right decision for him. I’m sure just making money doesn’t mean all that much to him anymore.

That’s a game selection issue IMO. Busy people shouldn’t play games they don’t have the time to get invested into. AAA design and marketing has pushed this idea that every game has to be this big 100 hour open world RPG narrative adventure, but there’s so much good stuff out there that’s over in less time or doesn’t demand huge play sessions.

Might as well just straight up jack it instead of thinking about the game at all.

At least the new version will be free if you have the old one. Wonder what the changes are.

I would guess ai-enhanced backgrounds like we’ve had mods for for ages.

I think economics would basically push things that way. If most people cannot or will not buy the latest hardware, the investment of 600 million dollars or more into a AAAA game that hardly anyone can run won’t happen.

There’s only a handful of games worth playing that a 10 year old mid-range computer can’t play anyway. I don’t see the point of upgrading for Indianna Jones or COD.

I thought it was one of the better LTT videos for sure. Torvalds is much better on camera than he claims to be and it was interesting to see his outlook on a broad range of questions.

Kids want to play what their friends/community are playing.

I read the article and still a bit confused (I’m no email expert). Is the practical benefit of using EWS? I’ve got a Microsoft account email, but it has been working fine, I presumably set it up with IMAP/POP?

Looking at the sheer number of nominations e33 has gotten, I would be absolutely shocked if it didn’t win game of the year.

It’s defined as “Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.”

While that’s pretty nebulous a definition on its own, the fact that seemingly every other creative and technical field has its own award category, and E33 is nominated for most of them, speaks to it being a shoe-in for the GOTY category.

I’m not disagreeing. Epic’s 12% would still be hugely profitable for Valve.

True that text is small files, but some Skyrim saves are easily in the dozens of MB for example. I’m sure you multiply that by millions and it adds up. Surely them needing to store many copies of the game files themselves is a larger file size footprint for them though.

Lol yep they’re an extremely wealthy company with that 30%. But it seems like almost every other storefront operates under those margins for digital sales (not just in gaming). I do value the cloud saves, I think those would actually add up a bit for their storage requirements as well as hosting all of the game files in presumably many locations globally.

15%, they’d still be a multibillion dollar company

Well, I agree that the writing is really good. But the gameplay hook is what really makes it a great game tome.

I suppose so, but maybe they don’t want to grow too large. Microsoft absolutely devouring studios the last few years has not produced any truly great games. Valve clearly know how to make a good game still, when they want to.

I agree mostly, but Valve employees are reportedly paid an incredible amount of money compared to the market average, so underpaying would probably only refer to the hefty (but industry standard) 30% cut of game sales they take from game publishers.

Also, I’m pretty sure Portal 1 was in development by a studio that was bought by valve when they saw the game prototype. Not exactly “Gabe Newell making Portal”. Though I do think that was a savvy investment (Portal 2 being the better game also).

I see what you mean, but this device is a little overtuned for an office PC, at least GPU wise.