Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Mixture of old and new - at least Gangstarr are still in there!

This post made me install Vampire Survivors on my phone and it felt like an old flash game I used to play on miniclip during IT classes in school. Some of the assets are completely stolen from OG Castlevania too (I'm sure this has been pointed out before). Anyway, like 45 mins passed and I have no idea where the time went. I can see this game being good for public transport, waiting rooms, etc.

Both can be true. Unity has gone down the toilet a lot faster than most people predicted.

Nope, the devs got screwed by Unity who promised them performance increases on fancy new features they were early adopters for but those never came. Performance is still terrible; not sure if it is still rendering every individual citizen's set of teeth but it was doing that at one point.

Respectfully disagree with your opinion but many reviewers seem to have raised similar points to you so I'm wondering if I'm an outlier for enjoying it so much.

Yeah it's a matter of personal taste

I couldn't stand much of Outer Worlds tbh. Avowed has been a 100% upgrade from my perspective. Not being able to kill NPCs and having no repercussions for stealing just seemed like they were transposing PoE mechanics to the first person perspective.

I really don't like tactics style gameplay which only a couple of exceptions. Traditional RealTime with Pause is much more appealing to me after playing so much of the old Baldurs Gate games. This is partially why I could never get into the Divinity: OS games and why I've been avoiding BG3. I usually just want to instagib scrubs instead of entering a series of elaborate menus.

I just swapped to Ubuntu on my straggler/media server Windows 10 desktop. Have been running Gentoo on another PC for years but never had so much trouble as trying to setup bumblebee with a GTX960 - holy crap nvidia suck so hard. The other PC is all AMD so I was living in blissful ignorance.

Their Luna product seems to be different to Steam. It's a streaming platform like Playstation Now or the Google Stadia one that got shut down. The other games that they've got on there primarily seem to be DRM-free GOG codes, mixed with some for the Epic store. Maybe they meant they were taking on Steam by boosting their competitors?

"Powerful" probably wouldn't be the word I'd use given that security updates have stopped. Maybe "foolhardy"?

Watching the review from Gmanlives I was struck by how much the game looked like PoE from a first person perspective. Including the mechanics. Like he was complaining about the objects in the world not reacting and stealing not being a mechanic but that's exactly how it works in PoE (and Baldurs Gate). Also the spells look like they have moved over 1:1.

Digimon Survive was a great VN from a few years back. Darker than I'd expected. Almost a spiritual successor to Devil Survivor.

Will definitely be dipping into gamepass to try this one out

I've been waiting for a sale before grabbing it on xbox. Moderate fan of the original AW and absolutely loved Control. Remedy are amongst the most unique devs out there right now.