NGL, I’m really digging what they are showing in this marketing campaign.

Shame about HDR and eye tracking. This would have been a very compelling proposition with these features. I’ll stick with the Index until the next thing comes along then.

Not sure what you are referring to. The refund policy on Steam is the same for any games, early access or not. The game’s version number or finished state makes no difference.

Maybe you are thinking of the pre-purchase situation, where you can refund up to 14 days after the game’s release, instead of the date of purchase.

Oooh I really liked the first one. Slept on it for years then played it on Steam Deck. It was a perfect game for a portable gaming system.

I’m on the fence about Arizona Sunshine 2. I understand it’s quite short relative to its price. I might wait for a deeper discount.

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

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I switched over to Livemarks which has provided an almost drop-in replacement. Looking at the low number of users of this extension, it makes sense they would stop supporting it to reduce maintenance cost.

I have been using it for the last ~6 months and found it to be very useful and easy to use. Transferring stuff between Android phones, Windows 10 & 11 PCs and a Steam Deck (i.e. Linux PC) has been a breeze.

Yup, seems like the larger the company the more they gravitate to placing fewer and larger bets. After all, why be satisfied with some money when you could attempt to get ALL of the money ?

Except a lot of these bets are lost, and they do not come cheap. We’ll see about this one but it looks bound to have the same trajectory as Avengers (which had in fact a pretty decent campaign, followed by a mediocre grindy live service “endgame”).

The shared-screen twin-stick design is fine, but Arrowhead has been doing it since Magicka. This feel like them getting their shot at making a wider-appeal, bigger budget game. Hopefully they stick the landing and managed to keep the feel of the original while expanding the gameplay.

It’s kind of amazing they chose to go with that design, when they hadthe benefit of hindsight with recent superhero-backed games:

• the live service Avengers game flopped pretty hard
• the singleplayer Spider-man games did gangbusters

“Well duh, let’s try and make one of these live service games”.

I bought The Making of Karateka. Not exactly a game, more like a playable documentary (akin with Atari 50 anniversary collection).

Aragami 2 is more coop-friendly than the first game, but not as good overall.

You can hear a more detailed explanation on VLC’s stance from the man himself (JB Kempf) in the FOSS pod S1E11 episode around 22:10.

Basically:

• Not that many threats become lawsuits
• Patent trolling is countered with publicly accessible prior art
• Having no money is also a good deterrent

They just have to George Lucas that mid-credits scene with all the Kangs. It was pretty dumb anyway with all of them screaming hysterically. Now they have good cause to redo it 😏

HWR is the standout character for me with his easy-going-yet-menacing act. However my guess is we will not be seeing much more of him, given the actor’s alleged off-camera behavior, regardless of the outcome of his trial.

Yes the issue with these L4D clones is that they have to improve upon the L4D formula, or have an interesting take on it. Vermintide and Payday succeeded on their own merits even though the core gameplay loop is very close (and it took each of them two games to get there).

I have tried both Back 4 Blood and the Anacrusis (in early access), and was pretty much over them after a couple of rounds.

The overall reception seems good, the main caveat being the game’s longevity (this review states it’s a 6-hours long campaign).

Be your own streaming service, and keep using the FireTV stick with the Jellyfin app.