I’ve put a few hours into it and quite like it. It’s a bit of a kiddy’s first Hades, but the art style and voice acting is pretty good, and the game play is engaging enough.

Trying to get into A Hat In Time, which I bought ages ago and didn’t really get into.

Not sure I’ll see it through this time, either. It’s a bit twee.

That old chestnut.

The only games I really care about graphical fidelity are racing simulators, and that’s because I’m in VR in a simrig and looking to be as immersed as possible. Even then, frame rate is more important that just about everything else.

Am I going insane?

I’m not ruling it out ;⁠)

Getting bought out by a private equity firm would be pretty dire for them as that never ends well, but that’s not what I was talking about and I thought that was pretty clear, but you responded as though it was. ‘Legally’ they may be the same, but they’re functionally very different, as the article I linked pointed out, but you chose to keep digging.

Whatever. You’re right. Have a cookie.

Well done missing the point.

Fair enough.

Privately owned is not the same thing as private equity. https://irely.com/private-equity-or-privately-owned-does-it-matter/

As far as I’m aware Ross Scott is not the founder and has no official ties with SKG. His long running series ‘Dead Game News’ was merely the inspiration for it, and he’s been a big part in promoting it.

As long as it remains privately owned, it should be OK. The day shares go public, god forbid, will be the beginning of the end.

I was never really happy with the button/stick/trackpad layout on the original controller. This looks to be more in line with the Steam Deck layout, which I’m pretty happy with. I rarely play games on controller that require the trackpads anyway - I prefer a mouse and keyboard for those, but I might get one of these to replace my aging Xbox 360 controller.

I might just play Painkiller: Black Edition again instead. I’m not interested in co-op.

I’ve been seeing a lot more demos of games on Steam in the last year or so.

I played the first two when I got them on a Steam sale a while ago, and while I enjoyed them, I found them both a bit short and didn’t really explore the puzzle mechanics far enough for my liking. Is the third one a bit more fully formed?

I don’t care what this guy has to say. I’m not even going to click on that link because it’ll just make me angry. Fuck off, Yves. Get your own house in order.

It’s a cool controller, but I find the analogue stick and face buttons are in an awkward position even for my large hands, and the buttons are a bit small. I prefer an Xbox controller for controller games, and I struggle to use the trackpads for mouse and keyboard games, so I barely use it.

If you are looking at it that way, you should not buy any game with an online component.

Way ahead of you. I generally avoid games that make me rely on other people for my fun anyway.

That said, hypothetically, I still might ‘buy’ (i.e. lease) a game even if I know that it’ll be shut down eventually. It depends on the game. I even bought into the early access for Assetto Corsa Evo, although I am slightly uncomfortable that I don’t know what the EOL plan is for that. At least it has an offline mode built in.

We just want to know what the end of life plan is up front. If we know it will be gone completely at some future point, we can use that information in deciding whether to purchase it in the first place.

Why is this so hard to understand?

Good luck!

It’s always amused me that so called ‘mature’ games are usually pretty puerile.