I wasn’t aware about the similarities with Dark Souls, and about the designer’s previous interests.

I guess what I needed was a strong recommendation. Just purchased the game on Steam after checking for its compatibility on ProtonDB (it is platinum).

Thank you for the recommending the game, and for taking away the chore of deciding what to play this weekend.

Again, I am really glad we had this conversation.

Is the funny thing here the absurdity of the whole thing? Genuinely asking.

Thanks again for the recommendations. Blue Prince looks refreshingly good and different. I did hear quite a bit about Clair Obscur, but turn based gameplay never appealed to me. I did not play Baldur’s Gate 3 for the same reasons, in spite of it being so well received.

I agree with your criticisms about Ghosts of Tsushima, and have made similar observations as well. However, Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man are my comfort games where I just soak in their music and atmosphere while I do something else like talk with someone.

Thank you for making me notice. I cannot not see it now.

“Chalmers, is that you?”

¿Por qué no los tres?

I have been very lucky at times because I got to work with people who got the point I was trying to make through my ramblings, especially during the start of my career.

Of course there have been many occasions where people had little patience, and it drove me to make my points simpler and direct.

This is taking “testing in production” to a whole new level. How did this get past the regulations?

On second thoughts, does any country have concrete regulations for self driving vehicles? I am curious what they would be, and how they would quantify the thresholds since no self driving solution would be 100% accident-free.

I also have felt that in my older age I’m gravitating more towards medium-length games with a proper story that you can finish and put away, as opposed to the endless MMOs and grindy ARPGs I enjoyed in my youth.

You could not have captured it better.

I am glad we had this conversation. Please do recommend me some more games. if you do not mind.

I was on a long break from gaming (almost a year) due to life, and plan to resume weekend gaming soon. For the same reason, I have been scouting these communities and threads for recommendations.

As of now, I zeroed down on the Mass Effect trilogy on the Steam Deck but I am also considering a second play through of Ghosts of Tsushima. I would prefer a light(er) game which is easy to get into and allow me to take breaks as I don’t think I will be able to pull off hour long sessions initially.

I like when a game isn’t deliberately wasting your time.

Well said.

Also, PoE is a game that I have not visited in almost a decade. How is it now? When I played it last, it felt like Diablo 2 but with very little explicit story to experience (it had lore that one could discover). I gave up on the game after a few days since without a proper story, the grind got boring very quickly.

I agree with all of your points about Blasphemous, good and bad. I knew the games (both Blasphemous 1 and 2) received mediocre reviews, but I still purchased both together during a sale because I really liked its art and setting.

However, when I played Blasphemous early last year, I had just got back into the platformers genre after around a long break. I had just finished Hollow Knight (just the first ending or two, I didn’t have the time or the patience to finish the other endings).

The wonderful art and interesting story did not alleviate the pains of the gameplay. Its contrast with Hollow Knight only made it worse. It was clunky, and the game seemed to (unintentionally) work against the player.

I did complete the first ending, as well as the first ending for the sequel. The mechanics of the sequel are a bit more forgiving, thankfully.

I still would not recommend the games, unless one really likes the art and setting of the games.

Also, thank you for introducing me to Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree. I have bookmarked it, and hope to play it soon.

In that case, check if there are any VPN or DNS filter apps on your phone interfering here.

Interesting.

Are you using the TestFlight build or the one from App Store?

I tried logging out from the app, and signing in again. It works.

Have you tried logging in through a browser on your phone? Or have tried any app other than Voyager to log in?

Here’s how the conversation should have ended:

Amateur: The Moon is made of green cheese.

Astronomer: No it’s not, it’s made (after oxygen) of silicon, aluminium, calcium, magnesium, and iron.

Amateur: Find me a citation that says it’s not made of green cheese.

Astronomer: Here’s a chart I just found in my files and uploaded which gives the composition.

Amateur: How do you know that’s what it is? I say it’s a chart of the composition of Pluto.

Astronomer: Understandable. Have a nice day.

The conversation was painful because the astronomer didn’t know when to stop talking.

I have been mostly out of the loop with the development around PieFed (and I would like to be in the loop). So can you give a few examples which showcase their speed of development?

I went through the project’s commit log and the only observation I could make is that many of their commits seem typical of a project in their nascent stages.

I get a login page as well.

Having read the entire thread, I can only assume this to be sarcasm.

What a lovely coincidence.

I love it when the game allows to continue after getting caught. Arkham series, Far Cry series and Ghost of Tsushima come to mind.

Then there are games like Assassin’s Creed (made by the same company as Far Cry) which fails the entire mission upon getting caught just to stay true to its name.