Unfortunately, NIMBYism comes into play should teens start making heavy use of any outdoor spaces, including trails and parks. Low or zero-cost can’t be the only factor in providing places for kids, there also have to be protections against or ways to assuage older persons that are being fed constant streams of fear.

Civ5 has been my favorite in the series. They did a great job with the AI on that one, and it gave the game so much replay value for me.

A lot of great options named in the thread but I’ll also add Slice and Dice and Crypt of the NecroDancer. Seconding FTL too, that was one of my top games of the 2010’s.

I also recommend Cobalt Core, which is not quite patient as a past November release. Great for FTL fans or anyone that likes tactical card battlers.

I hadn’t heard about the charm mods, thanks. Wayward Compass being permanently free by default should have been a thing. If it weren’t for the awful map system, I would have felt Hollow Knight was a flawless game.

This game has lived rent-free in my brain ever since playing it. Not always in a good way either, it’s some genuine existential horror.

The ethical explorations are interesting too, such as the implications of repeatedly booting up a personality to extract information from it.

I was enthralled by almost every part of my Disco Elysium experience, but it was the main character’s past trauma that sticks with me. The phone call, the nap dream–both hit me hard. I’m also gutted that we’re probably never going to see another game set in that world again. The global setting concept of Elysium is a stroke of genius as far as I’m concerned.

Hades 2 is excellent so far, by the by.

Yes, it’s a light remaster of the 2005 release. Seems to be part of a larger effort on Falcom’s part to get their older games more accessible on newer hardware. Players have needed a PC to have access to their catalog.

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This isn’t an anthology like most games in this genre (or video games in general). It’s a continuous narrative, like a long-running novel or TV series. Newcomers could get on board with this one, since it’s introducing a new cast and location, but they’ll have to go back at some point. Otherwise, they should start at the beginning (Trails in the Sky). Even if newcomers start with this one, they are going to be lost in Daybreak 2.

Funny thing is, out of all the disc “cleaners” we sold while I was at Gamestop, we got very few complaints about it. Make the discs look like they went through hell but the product worked.

That was Matsuda. He was replaced last year.

I suppose this is newsworthy because Kiryu’s biggest splash so far has been saying they were cutting back on smaller projects.

It’s hard to top the inkjet printers I’ve owned. I still can’t believe 30 years later home printer tech is not only unimproved but worse between lower quality production and squeezing people on ink costs.

Wish Capcom had learned from this, too. Monster Hunter World’s multiplayer restrictions were so backwards, and now they are bringing them back for Wilds, ugh.

Crossposting from popular posts is also a good way to promote your smaller communities!

What I’ve been running into is that even if it’s the same link, if you change the body text it won’t list the crossposting.

Lenore from the Castlevania Netflix series.

Tons of consent issues for sure, but she’s gorgeous and smart as hell.

lemm.ee has been great, very level-headed administration.

I bounced off both Prey and Dishonored early on specifically because of how linear they were. I’m guessing they open up later?

Thief is the only one that comes to mind from that era that holds a candle to Deus Ex’s open-ended level design. Lots of different approaches to take on many of the stages. Well, as long as you didn’t play on high difficulties, anyway.

There still aren’t many games that go quite that hard on it. Open world games have a tendency to keep their set pieces much more simple. Maybe we’ll see more of it now that Baldur’s Gate 3 has made a big splash with the concept.