I bet Elite with a hotas feels great.

I thought Elite was solid, but I am more anxious X3 person, I like the economic strategy elements.

I wonder what the mod scene is like for KOTOR.

Yeah, Deus Ex is great in terms of flexibility. Although even when I first played it, I did wish the maps were much larger and that there were lore/world-building side quests.

I prefer Mad Games Tycoon, but Game Dev Tycoon was good to (played it before discovering MGT).

This looks to be one of those “games for decades” that you come back to years later.

Tried the demo last year. Even though it was bare-bones, you could see the potential of the game.

Haven’t tried this yet, but it does look pretty cool (although I am not sure I like the empire tax mechanics).

I wonder if they are trying to capitalize on the success of Timberborn.

Obsidian games require spyware (Windows)

I would recommend reading Apple’s privacy policy. There is a lot of comforting language, but they collect a lot of data and de facto can share it with whoever they feel like.

The key issue is their definition of “third parties for their own marketing purposes” and “partners and service providers” which they control. Let’s be real, do you honestly expect to able to beat Apple in a court (US no less, which is a highly corrupt society) around the exact meaning of these definitions.

As designed (e.g. inability to use alternative to iCloud sync, selection of defaults for say “Share [Device] Analytics” or “Help Apple Improve Search”) Apple is just as bad as Microsoft or Google or Meta.

Just consider what % of Apple ecosystem users have iCloud syn enabled? A service that you cannot run your own server or connect to a third-party provider.

Don’t get me wrong, I am only happy for companies to release games on MacOS. But the notion that Apple is any better than Microsoft, Meta or Google or privacy is false. In some cases they are far worse, for example they all data of Chinese Apple users with the CCP. Google at least claims to not do that.

The guide is for Piefed.social (I have an account there two).

I recommend avoiding the on-boarding and directly selecting the proposed gaming communities via links.

I will post in piefed_meta in the coming days. Maybe I can come up with a draft/mockup.

I can’t code, but I do have significant experience in dashboards and associated business logic (PowerBI, tablaeau, Looker Studio).

Those are high level examples.

Last Firaxis game I bought was Civ6 and while I played it for 50 hours or so, I mostly play Civ5 and Civ4 (and a whole variety of mods/conversations).

Fuck Rockstar and fuck Take Two (even though other than CDPR, Firaxis is the only “AAA” studio that I buy games from).

That’s a good point.

A post-apocalyptic setting with a good story, interesting gameplay mechanics, well written characters, but not Fallout (as in the brand).

Obsidian has definitely gotten more corporate following the Microsoft acquisition.

While I haven’t played Avowed or Outer Worlds, from the gameplay videos they don’t look very appealing to me. Too much “console style” FPS combat. I strongly prefer 3rd person for RPGs if we are not going with the classical top down view and turn-based combat.

Not sure if there is any point in just posting the guide somewhere random.

Perhaps it would be best to reach out to the Piefed devs, maybe they might have a better idea how to integrate this into their on-boarding process.

That’s too bad that the lead decided to get involved in such posturing.

Awkward and overzealous messaging can feel out of place at times, but it’s a small thing compared to much more pertinent things like attrocious monetisation, overly polished, marketable game design, generic writing and lack of innovation. Not to mention that “anti-woke” polemics are shallow and tedious.

The concept sounds so cool, it really is an interesting gameplay idea.

I can’t say I am a fan of the graphics. Nothing against retro graphics or pixelart, but the overall style feels a bit uninspired.

Horror games can definitely work with pixelart (Lone Survivor, The Final Station), but you need an strong creative direction.

The headline is not well written, but it doesn’t actually say WoW is coming to consoles.

“Wow is not getting easier in preparation for a hypothetical console release” is what they were trying to say.

Love the visual style:

The concept sounds cool too.

I am using the Piefed mobile web view (Voyager also sends me to Firefox for Android).

I don’t have any exotic lists in UBO. Just the major ones for English and some regional ones for languages that I speak.

Apologies, I don’t get any of this with Firefox for Android + UBO. It’s just a regular site.

Age Of Decadence (one of my favourite RPGs, I love the world-building and lore) is also not your typical involved, classical-style cRPG. While it has some of the mechanics/tropes of classical cRPGs (mandatory specialization, focus on multiple playthroughs. difficulty), it really is it’s own thing.

Combat is unforgiving even with late game characters, it never gets easy. This is IMO a major issue both by modern standards and at the time of release (2015).

The rather old Torque3D engine wasn’t exactly good looking by 2015.

Low fantasy-settings are also typically less popular (in general, not just in RPGs) than high fantasy fare with dwarfs, elves and magic galore.

What happened to your sources? If you don’t mind me asking?