Holy crap yes, I watched it a few years back and couldn’t belive not only how good it looked but how good it was in general.

Right? It’s definitely something different and I can’t fault people for liking the look. The problem is the rest of the thing is also a poorly designed death trap from the ground up.

I’m curious how they came to the figure they used for car ownership, I’ve had 2 cars in my adult life and I paid them both off in ~6 years (I only got the second one because I got into an accident and totaled the first one a month after paying it off )

Am I an out of touch outlier here?

$850 a month for 150 square feet??? Utter insanity aside, how is that even remotely considered ‘deeply affordable’

It seems like you really need to decide if the paycheck is worth the drama. You make it sound like you have other options, so if fear of the unknown is the only thing keeping you from jumping ship, I think you should jump.

Maybe they’re trying to appeal to the sovcits with maritime doublespeak

So up until very recently, the monster hunter games had a theme of living in balance with the environment and monsters were only hunted to help control manageable numbers or if some had gone out of control. Then they were apparently specifically told to tone down their environmental messaging to appeal to a wider audience.

This game was so bonkers, they don’t make them like this anymore. Though, they didn’t really make them like that then either.

Regardless, I’m so happy they’ve resurrected it. I first became aware of them when High Fleet came out, and then Carrier Command 2. They definitely publish game with a style and I love it.

They did Microsoft in the 90s and nothing really changed

I guess Google really did just change their motto to ‘be evil’

Tell that to the people who just got denied the ability to sue over an Uber crash because their daughter agreed to the Uber eats eula

I believe the things you are calling out are an integral part of the ARPG genre so there isn’t going to be much change to the core without fundamentally changing the game you’re playing. Plenty of people enjoy the wanton clicky destruction and seeing numbers rise, just look how popular stuff like cookie clicker is.

Have you tried monster hunter? (Or god eater or wild hearts) Those games sound a lot like what you’re describing. At its heart the core gameplay is ‘Hunt monsters to gather parts to make better gear to hunt more powerful monsters’

Instead of mowing down tones of small things though, you take down a single large and dangerous foe. As you progress, new and more powerful foes appear, but despite the large roster of monsters, they all feel unique. And while better gear certainly helps, a good deal of skill is also required.

Wait, the three mile island thing wasn’t a joke?

Kerbal space program 2 was somehow both rushed and delayed :(

Oh…so I dug further, and apparently the only in-house game to their name is a blade runner title that’s still in development.

Annapurna was both, this article is saying that the development side broke off from the publishing side.

I was so looking forward to this game because the aestetic was so cool…and then I played, and it was a buggy always online mess with a convoluted crafting system. So disappointing.

Disposable vapes have to be a thousand times worse than k-cups.

I was floored when one of my coworkers was showing off his vape that played games and stuff and said he went through one a week.