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The realism mode is interesting. A shooter-RPG with the RPG stripped out. Makes for very different, headshot-heavy combat with more sniping.
But it is just a bonus side-mode. The meat is the stat-juggling.
Also £12 for the Ultimate edition (which does include a few extra missions) is worth it IMO.
Even then, that's a single publisher that's going to make bank. Not sure what the great dividends for the games industry are going to be other than a month of writing guides for it.
Oh dang, I was busy this week and didn't notice that the Realism Mode update rolled out for The Division 2. Only for the New York expansion though.
Still one of the best looter-shooters, constantly growing, some of the best urban environments in ANY shooter. And raids aside, mostly solo-friendly.
Given that GTA is just a single self-published studio I'm not even sure how that would work. The only people going to be making money off that are a couple retailers.
It must be very frustrating and sad to be the kind of person that thinks gaming is dying because they're not playing GTA 6 now.
It's like the videogame equivalent of being the person who spends all year feverishly waiting for the McRib to go back on sale when you live in a cosmopolitan food empire.
Oh, this is cute - due out just after the weekend - a game about running a Pacific Rim kaiju defense program, simulating every part from mech R&D to deconstructing the kaiju, selling the expensive bits, running a kaiju-meat restuarant and putting the bones on museum exhibit.
Hypnagogia 1½'s demo will be out TOMORROW 💿✨
It's happening for real and you can't stop it
I would buy this in a heartbeat.
I've had this game since it was $10 many moons ago (staggered pricing during EA).
Rotwood is so good chat. The weapons, customization, the mechanics!!! So much to chew through and it gets even better with fellow Hunters!
It did a lot of cool things with the soviet super-science utopia angle, too! There's a high-tech Baba Yaga, a little old lady who gets around in a rocket-powered cottage who gets like ten times as much screen-time as the robot girls. And infinity times as many lines of dialogue.
Only a tiny bit did, but the weirdest nerds on the internet got obsessed over faceless generic fembots that appear like three times in the game.
I genuinely have no idea why.
But yeah, it's kinda halfway between Bioshock and a boomer shooter with a big pile of weapons, with an explorable overworld
There's a newer branch of the SDL port that supports 60 fps over here, I highly recommend it:
github.com/metinc/abuse...
Aha, nice!
Clever little budget-priced CPRG just left early access with a good launch discount, too.
A weird swampy fantasy setting, semi-real-time combat ala Vagrant Story and a cool claymation-esque art style. Also hugely undersold so far.
Go check it out, RPG folks.
Oof. And I thought it was bad here (rural Wales), at a blistering 7mb/s.
I never imagined that Bio Menace would come back stronger than ever (they really re-tuned it, too) in 2026. Wonder how many other 90s shareware games could do with an overhaul.
Sometimes best laid plans explode horribly.
I'm still waiting on Radio The Universe, which was largely content-complete literally years ago (there's a beta build floating around) but the dev went radio-silent to work on polishing and tuning.
It didn't help that the english voice acting was very flat.
Two of the three DLCs so far were well-recieved. One was building on the dream-sequence stuff and had Counter-Strike style 'surfing' movement and a lot of people hated it because it was different.
Oh, they're finally finishing Atomic Heart next month. Only... three years after its initial release. A game they announced back in 2017.
Honestly, liked it quite a bit. It launched at... an unfortunate time. Not that times have gotten any more fortunate. But I'm not touching any of that.
Goddamn.
💖 Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart's demo is now LIVE!!! 🗝️⚔️
Fighting is hard, right? Let your party do it for you! Romance Monster Girls and traverse the Dungeon! Hopefully they'll all get along... #gamedev #indiedev #godot
👇 Check out the demo TODAY! 👇
I'm really looking forward to this one. Has one of the coolest trailers I've seen in ages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY4p...
Welp. Someone is having the absolute worst day of their career right now.
Good team to do a Hunter game, though!
Shoutout to all the furries and VN fans out there. The Hayseed Knight is one of the most impressively produced games in the field I've ever seen. Fully voiced, gorgeous art, unusual story and setting and unconventional romance.
It always shocks me to see it undersold.
Sale ends soon.
Last 15 hours to get The Hayseed Knight 50% off!
Me too.
Nah, I was in that awkward middle era where it was mostly run by a cabal of Alices.
For once, she's not to blame. I used to write news for RPS. We had a pun quota to hit.
