Blake (he/him)

It appears their “Verified Solutions” program is meant to help make and promote it: https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/Documentation/Manual/verifiedsolutions.html

This is because of excessive early production to curb scalpers. It’s not a fair comparison

Huh. I’ve heard of Risk of Rain before but when Steam recommended it to me I thought it was a JRPG

Nintendo sucks

Huge +1 recommendation for Manic Miners. Functionally a 1:1 remake with everything you could ask for and more- lots of settings, remastered levels, and a level builder. The (solo) dev got hired by Lego’s video game division afterwards

any of the thousands of games that predate “the cloud” or games that don’t even have a save feature.

Well sure, but those games were all made with that specific context in mind. You don’t simply start over BotW each time and have as good of an experience, because that’s not how it was designed. You don’t design 25+ hours worth of content for a campaign and expect it to be fine for players to lose their progress. This is a portalable gaming handheld we’re talking about. You can drop it. You can lose it. Spills happen. SD cards get corrupted.

Besides, if you’re not paying for the service, you’re the product not the consumer.

It wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t a walled garden. Forcing payment for a basic feature plus not allowing any alternatives is classic anti-competitive behavior.

Lack of free cloud saves is a non-starter. Why spend hundreds of hours on a save that can be gone at a moment’s notice?

I don’t think this includes the engine

Unless there’s something I’m missing, your response doesn’t seem related to the original comment

Choosing Michael Ian Black for this is… a choice. Seems like he’s been losing fans left and right over the years with his aggressive political brigades on Twitter

Oh, sure, I didn’t mean to compare the two really. Just pointing out that although Twitter is simple and easy to replicate in concept, trying to scale to support all humans as users (theoretically) is difficult

To be fair, Twitter needs very good infrastructure to be usable (e.g. caching) and obviously content moderation is as robust as their investment in it (those could be contract workers though)

As far as the survival aspects go I prefer Frostpunk. Though that’s not as replayable. Both are quite solid and come highly recommended

It was announced a couple weeks ago and is still in beta (see: The Verge)

Whatever ProtonDB uses to query your owned games.

I tried this and it properly hid my game, both logged into ProtonDB as well as logged out. Also showed back up when I unmarked it as private.

Don’t buy from Nintendo

No thanks

I’ve seen a lot of reviews criticize it’s length to price ratio. What are your thoughts on that?

So simple that I sort of hesitate to call it a game.

I’m guessing you haven’t played Townscaper?

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