Yes, but you need to work with a porting company or pay for proprietary software

They're a strange developer are Fatshark, clearly very talented creatively, but their business side needs improvement.

Poor choices but with MTX and their project management is dire

In my experience it's like 2 players have full agency to play independently, unlike other coop games where the experience for player two is often driven by player one.

In BG3 you can run off in completely different directions, engage with your own NPCs in conversation while the other player starts a fight and it's seamless

I've finished Kingmaker and WotR is in my backlog.

Pathfinder is a really decent RPG system with tons of choice, but the game Kingmaker comes out as quite linear, you don't really have much choice in how you play the game apart from being good or evil.

The game is split between being a typical adventure explorer RPG and being a kingdom management game, the former is interesting and has good quests, the latter is opaque, difficult to get to grips with and inflexible.

The worse part is no matter your best intentions, it you don't do exactly the right things with your kingdom you can find yourself in a dire losing position by the late game.

I don't mind games that have failure conditions, but losing the Kingmaker game after 30+hrs of playtime because your kingdom starts rioting and you can't complete any events seems too harsh to me.

Personally I had to turnoff all the failure conditions in the options so that I could grind through the game to get through the final quests, it ended up leaving a bitter taste for the game which started off as promising.

I hear most of these issues have been addressed in WotR though so I'm looking forward to picking up that.

Then what's the point of them?

Wow can't believe the old Atari and Intellivision even had ports.

The old Intellivision was an interesting console, with a dialpad and spin disk for a controller and speech synthesiser add-on. I will never forget "B 17 Bomb b ber"

Remnant From the Ashes: They call it a Souls-like with guns, I'm not sure I totally agree, but there are similarities with the checkpoints and NG+ mechanic. It's a shortish game. Plays well in coop, and is made tomplay through a few times as levels are procedurally generated. The second game is out now, but there are still players on this.

Astral Ascent: Kind of a rogue-like action platformer, the game seems straightforward at the beginning but as you try new runs and unlock more skills there is a very deep build and progression system where you can get super powerful and the screen goes wacky. Also the music and atmosphere is top notch. Oh it's only just been released, but it has been in early access for +6 months, so sorry, not sorry.

Sounds like Godot is more for your usecase then

Great game

From GenX onwards they're all marketing terms.

Normally generations were only distinguished after some kind of geo political event, like first world war, or when the birth rate was exceptionally high.

Now we pre-name generations so marketing teams can segment people into target groups.

They should put the money into education instead

I'm not sure the worst year is specific to game developers though, the whole world is under economic squeeze, take a look at the layoffs in the tech industry.

Last Epoch online issues are resolved now.

I love the character concept with Sabin, it was peak Street Fighter II days for me too, so doing the Bumrush with Sabin was so awesome

Reported! But it's nothing personal :)

From the looks of your lists of what you like and what to avoid I think you'd like games like the Dishonored series, Bioshock, and the System Shock remake.

Isn't this the outcome from it all?

Rational people who aren't fanboys or haters buy and play games with low expectations, and are rarely disappointed.

Because the experience is designed around different use cases.

In Krita primary use cases are for painting and drawing so those tools and features are front and centre, easier to reach and remember.

In Gimp the focus is on editing, filtering, effects

No need to be buying games on Epic

No Hardwar?

Well I hope he gets a ground floor flat and likes to wear gloves a lot

GoG is no longer completely DRM free, one example is the Hitman games that require online connection to play.

Power consumption wise wouldn't a laptop be expensive to run as a server compared to other options?

Yeah I played the hell out of this on my friends Atari Lynx, this and Ramparts. The graphics in California Games were lush on that brilliant little screen.

The Lynx is the Neo Geo of handhelds

Ajar

It's amazing stuff, thank you.

Have you ever done Bruce Lee comparison?

Can you give me some tips?

I've come back to this game to give it another shot since it was originally released, I never really enjoyed it or got past the first entry into the future.

This time round I've just gained access to the prehistoric world, although I'm not sure I should visit here yet, and I have got parts of the Masamune sword, I beat the two kids recently,, but I'm basically lost and without a quest log in game I don't know what ime supposed to be doing next, any ideas?

I picked up one the other week for similar reasons to you, and apart from the other suggestions you've received I would recommend:

• Olli Olli - quick to play skateboarding game
• Helldivers - still find MP games
• Grim Fandango - get it for the soundtrack

If only

There was an old Spectrum Game that actually loaded up Pacman first before the main game.

Reckon this is worth picking up on sale? I'm interested in it having played all the previous games, but I'm worried the battle pass and mtx is ruining it.

Now it's been out for a few seasons what do you think?

So what would you suggest then?

Squid or not, the ends justify the means!

The game is a much smoother experience than V2 and will continue to receive UX improvements as I'm sure you're aware V2 has had over the years.

That said it will never feel the same as V2, and I think at this stage it's intentional from FatShark

Yeah mine too, played it through so much on the Spectrum, it was such a unique multiplayer experience too.

Ah, I noticed this, I felt the same didn't understand why the truth, doubt system didn't seem to match up with the response.

Still a great game though at the time and I felt it hard to play other immersive games where the character face animation was so poor in comparison

Yeah I can't remember my game either, it might have been something like Joe Blade 3?

Amazing thank you

Agreed, the best attempt was the subscription model for mmorpgs, but even that hasn't been ubiquitous

Hmm, I'm not expressing my opinion, these are the statements from the creators of the tools themselves

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

It IS a painting program, the reason why you can do a lot of the same things that you can in GIMP is because all of those features are useful in both to both painters and editors

GIMP is a multi-tool it can do illustration but it's focus is more general purpose and more on being an GNU Image Manipulation Program

Again, these are not my opinions, these are objectionable facts taken from the source.

If you disagree with these you are fine to do so, but telling people they are wrong is just ridiculous and looks wilfully ignorant or argumentative