jacobvandy wrote on Jan 25, 2023, 21:56:
Great surprise, and it's only $30! Took me about an hour to get through the first level, which ends with that boss in the thumbnail above... It is just as much fun as it looks in the videos. If you like combo-based beat-em-up games (Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, etc.) then you're gonna like this, and they did a really good job of making the rhythm mechanics fun and rewarding. Which is nice, 'cause even though they say it's not technically required that you adhere to it, you're going to want to get in that groove to be successful in combat. It's also really cool to see how close they're getting to perfecting real-time anime art style for 3D games, and they obviously put a LOT of effort into making the animations so slick. Including the lip-syncing, which is not very good in most anime-styled things. Here it's practically movie quality, even on the cat, lol.

Can you save mid level? This looks like a great casual game like SoR4 that you can just jump into for a bit and leave, which is something I'm really looking for these days, but an hour for a level is a bit high for that

Wasn't Divine Knockout free on Epic for Christmas?

Intel has been driving CPU confusion with their naming schemes for years. Laptops just got even more complicated.

RogueSix wrote on Dec 26, 2022, 18:26:
Yay, finally even more spying and user tracking! So exciting!

It's the same amount of spying and user tracking. Valve has always had your Steam purchase history and playing statistics.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Dec 22, 2022, 13:08:

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 22, 2022, 12:27:
Epic free games leak - 23rd December game is likely Encased
https://gg.deals/freebie/epic-free-games-leak-23rd-december-game-is-likely-encased/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/921800/Encased_A_SciFi_PostApocalyptic_RPG/

Nice, EGS' trend of releasing games I've bought in the past few months for free continues.

I got that with Evil Dead, but I'm happy about it because Evil Dead deserves attention

Not bad looking for what appears to be a quick and dirty Gradius clone

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 17, 2022, 13:19:
Where will he go next.

If he doesn't just stick with his own studio, it's pretty much a guarantee he'll go where his title will give him power based on his statement. If Microsoft successfully closes the Activision deal, I'd lay good odds on him ending up there with the title and the control he wants, assuming he wants to reenter the corporate market. They've grown up separately together and Microsoft is pretty serious about competing with Sony and the general market, and they're not afraid to let people run their business the way they want(unlike Sony, which is why he'll never end up there working on PSVR, despite his stated desire see VR succeed). That said, I think it's pretty good odds he stays on his own until he's ready to become an acquisition

Are the Gen Zero DLCs worth a purchase? They look mostly useless

This is why you don't drink and do hardware maintenance

I'm pretty sure every Witcher game also got this treatment somewhere on/around the year 1 mark, so this shouldn't be a surprising move or anything. It's basically a rerelease for when they actually finish cleaning up the release mess, which nearly every CDPR game has

Looks okay to me. Terran Command was kind of fun. I'm all for more co-op games

Cool. I'll take free games

Slick wrote on Nov 21, 2022, 13:01:
It's funny how nobody ever talks about Rockstar's "State of Emergency".

I was young. I remember it being okay, but repetitive

Is Fanatical legit? A lot of these Steam key sites are sketchy

That actually looks pretty slick and very twitchy. Co-op seems like a fun addition

Never heard of it, but I had hoped it was a Jumping Flash clone after seeing that name. Moderate disappointment

There's a docking station now? Well, that kind of changes things for my next computer purchase. No more lugging around a gaming laptop on business trips perhaps

Cram wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 13:12:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Sep 19, 2022, 12:13:
Maybe this will convince this multi-billion dollar company to invest more heavily into IT and cybersecurity, but probably not.

Not that Rockstar has confirmed this but it appears following a lot of Reddit threads that a Rockstar employee (Rockstar India) was social engineered. The hacker got / was given his password by the employee, and that was it. This attack wasn't some Hollywood movie high tech 10 million lines of code hacking situation with secret service helicopters in pursuit which $billion firewalls would have stopped if implemented.

Some users saying you can have billions invested in security and still get social engineered, others saying that isn't an excuse for a company that size etc etc. Lot of back and forth there.

This is how many hacks work. There's a reason the most prolific hacker of all time was a social engineering specialist. This is one thing MFA is supposed to address, as it's hard to give somebody "something you have"/"something you are" over the phone. If they're not using MFA on project data, Rockstar is way behind much of the technical world on social engineering and brute force/common password protection.

Original was fun as one of the free Epic games, but it was a bit too.. cartoony? The mechanics were kind of amateurish for something that sold itself as a sim.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Aug 21, 2022, 13:03:
Farthest Frontier is an interesting concept but it definitely needs more time in the oven, even for early access. For the same type of gameplay, you'll get better experience from Banished.

It looks like one of those mobile microtransaction based city building games. Is that not what it is?