Kaldo

I tried it a few months ago but had issues with various games and lowered performance in almost all of them. I still don’t know if I will just cave in and upgrade to win11 or try linux again, i’ve got a free partition waiting but the issue is lack of time and motivation to dive into troubleshooting the OS on a daily basis

Valheim was one of the best selling games and is still a huge success. Indies are getting better and more popular to the point that even big companies like Nexon are indiewashing their studio and pretending that Dave the Diver is an indie game with pixel art instead of a work of one of the biggest publishers there is. In my experience most of the gamers nowadays are people that grew up on minecraft, terraria or probably more likely today - roblox.

So basically no, I don’t think so. Maybe big studios want you to believe that and it might be true for a casual FIFA or CoD gamer but for anyone else, there are more options than ever and the supply of good smaller simpler games is just overwhelming, the days are too short to even keep track of them anymore.

Lemmy doesn’t show it but it is accumulated, from fedia I can see you have over 42k reputation points for example.

And yes, it is a meaningless number. That never stopped people before though.

It is also a bit karma-farmey, this comic isn’t new and there are hundreds of it - is OP going to post every single one?

Agreed 100%, I got Andromeda at a heavy discount after more than a year after the release and I was still extremely disappointed. The animations are the least of the problems that the game had, it was just an soulless formulaic empty open world with terrible writing and horrible characters and dialogue.

If it weren’t a mass effect game it’d just be a commercial flop and nobody would remember it in a month. Since it was, people were disappointed instead of being apathetic. It was by no means unfairly judged though, it is a bad game.

I recently discovered this superior version of that scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR1zgRYL530

Unfortunately true. I’ve been waiting for a game like starfield for decades now, i’ve been hyped and disappointed by star citizen, elite dangerous, dual universe, NMS and probably many other smaller games, trying to chase down that freelancer spark once more. I won’t buy it at full price for sure, but at this point I’m desperate enough to give even Todd a new chance. I really want it to be at least adequate.