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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/17009439

The list, according to the article:

1. Age of Empires: Mobile
2. Age of Empires: The Age of Kings (Nintendo DS)
3. Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
4. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
5. Age of Empires IV
6. Age of Mythology: Retold
7. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Jagex, devs of RuneScape, are testing how far they can push monetization without losing players. However, many long-time players are realizing they don’t want their paid game of 10+ years to turn into an ad-filled, pay-to-win nightmare.

Things that Jagex, RuneScape developer, hopes to add to the game:

• Advertisements - an ad supported plan like Hulu, so you have ads hitting you in the face while you play
• Paid account recovery - Pay more money to recover your account!
• Character Name reservations
• "special worlds" just for you! So VIP servers, paying EXTRA... for VIP servers, on a game you already pay to play
• Pay to win features - longer AFK timer to stay in the game for longer. If you pay more, you ge a longer in-game access time
• More membership price hikes - It's likely the membership price will rise AGAIN. Keep in mind, Jagex profit AFTER ALL EXPENSES has surged over 35% over past 5 years. They are stealing from their players, robbing them blind

Example of their black-mirror inspired membership plans

The $32.49/month membership option for Old School RuneScape and RuneScape 3 includes:

• Access to both games.
• 2 member characters.
• Additional member characters for $10.49 per month each.
• Specialized Member Worlds.
• Character Name Reservations.
• Pre-Verified Account Recovery.
• A complimentary bond.

You ready to be nickle and dimed like going to the carwash and getting that juicy tire shine for an extra $5?

Here's a wonderful discussion post if you enjoy diving in and seeing some great points, and information: Membership Survey /r/2007scape

TL;DR: Jagex survey asking if players are ok paying an absurd amount more money for having access to customer service, ad-free gaming experience. Players went ballistic, and are finally wiseing up to how awful the company really has become.

I'm so fucking disappointed. i've been excited for this game for so long, then this happens.

Now i might not even get to play it. Hooray for Saudi 🙄

Original post here I asked this wonderful community to help me out and select neck tie or bow tie version. This little plush duckie in parts is inspired by The Companion Cube in Portal. The idea is that the player should steal it from The Narrator of my and form an emotional attachment to i. Do you like the new design? : )

Also if you want to support small indie devs like me and like narrative games like Title Pending and The Stanley Parable, please consider a wishlist for Do Not Press The Button (Or You'll Delete The Multiverse)

Thank you for participating in its development!

i got some more screenshots from Cyberpunk today. I was messing around with V's pose and ended up wedging his head into the table while trying to get him to sit on the seat. I saved this one because Rogue looks so done with my character's shit.

I also went and did the side quest with Jackies family and saved this picture from it. I really enjoyed the side quest. It was a good change of pace from the usual shooting i feel like and gave the story time to pace itself:

Immediately after getting Jackie's bike from the quest, I took it and just drove around the city for a bit. After about 15 minutes i crashed into a barrier while going at highspeeds and somehow got it stuck in the barrier:

From there i started walking on foot. along the road:

I ended up inviting myself into this rich guys mansion by hopping the fence and took this picture of his pond. In the bottom he had $200 just lying down there, so i helped myself to it:

I also went into this valley area and took some pictures of the skyline. the colors were a bit dulled out in the screenshot but the rainbow there on the cityline were what caught my attention about it:

The condensed looter shooter experience

Gunfire Reborn is a looter shooter with an Asian aesthetic and a short, but extremely replayable campaign, which runs for less than an hour. It supports four-player online co-op, but this time, I was running solo. In short, it's the full Borderlands experience without the questionable writing and Randy Pitchford.

You travel across multiple lands to purge the corruption (an ARPG classic), fighting terracotta soldiers in their crypts, sniper birds in the desert, samurai fish at the shores, and polar bears up in the frozen mountains.

Within the past few years since exiting early access, Gunfire Reborn has had seasonal events, like Path of Exile's leagues, adding a bit of extra spice to the campaign. The fourth season (Star Link) started just a few days ago, so I thought it was a good time to get a run in with a character I wasn't familiar with.

This run: Zi Xiao

In the head video, I'm playing as Zi Xiao, an owl who commands the stars with cards. I'm using Golden Bow, which deals immense amounts of single-target damage but is terrible with dealing with large packs of monsters. Good thing Zi Xiao's abilities can make up for it! With the best cards, I call the stars to strike down an area in front of me.

Oh yeah, I somehow managed to get more than 100% accuracy in this run. I wonder how the game is counting that.

Yeah, it really is a fast, Asian Borderlands

Gunfire Reborn is transparently inspired by Borderlands. It features the same three core elements of Borderlands: fire, corrosion, and shock, and has the same focus on scavenging for weapons. One difference is that it relies on mechanically unique weapon designs, compared to the part-by-part weapon generation system that Borderlands has. Still, like any proper ARPG, there are piles of modifiers that can appear on any item.

Why not try…

• An octopus that sucks moisture from enemies to power a water laser
• A shotgun that's really a small, handheld demon that eats fish and sneezes death
• A star compass that rather than shooting bullets, projects a damaging ring around you that you can grow and shrink
• The Unkempt Harold, straight from Borderlands 2
• A brick

Yeet.

I used to play RTS games like Warhammer, then got into Heroes of Might and Magic and its spin-offs like Pennon and Battle. I've also played XCOM 2 and Age of Wonders 4. Any other must-play series you'd recommend?

What are we thinking, new game or HD remake of stronghold crusader?

Me and my Friend played Some Red Dead Online today. I went fishing and some how managed to get my character to float off a dock. Sadly i couldn't get any fish to bite. In fact, after doing a bounty i feel like no animals were spawning. After i gave up i found a nearby gang hideout, which i didn't even know was a thing in RDO. After clearing them out i found this shrine while looting the place:

I also climbed down this well nearby my camp. I was really expecting there to be something down here but there was nothing. While i was on my way out my friend fell on me and killed us both.

While on my way back into Saint Denis to pick up a bounty i went a way i never had before. I don't think i've ever seen this side of the city. It's really pretty:

I also went ahead and passed through too sell some pelts and thought the view was pretty in that area (though, this entire game is pretty. I always end up taking like 80 screenshots.

In the graveyard of live service games Concord may just be the biggest headstone, and that seems to have focused some minds over at PlayStation. Previously the noises coming from Sony were all about the importance of live service games to its future strategy, and it had announced plans to launch more than 10 live service games by the 2025 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2026.

Now? Not so much. A new Bloomberg report reveals that "following a recent review" PlayStation has canceled two unannounced live service games in development at subsidiaries Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games. Bend is best-known for Days Gone and, back in the day, Syphon Filter, while Bluepoint mainly handles high-profile remakes like Demon's Souls.

The trolling will never end apparently

Here's some more Screenshots from Cyberpunk. Did you know this game had a photo mode, because i didn't. It's resulted in some pretty images such as this one of some holo-fish:

The fish also brings me to my next point, I completed the opening and unlocked the rest of the city. My opinion of the world has gone up ten fold. Just wandering around the city feels like an actual city. It doesn't feel like a scaled down or shrunk city like some other games. This one feels like a genuine, authentic, west coast city (at least to me). I spent a ton of time just riding the metro around and it felt like riding an actual metro. I like that they gave you the option of sitting through the whole ride. It makes the travel a lot more fun and i saw a bunch of fun sights, like a rollercoaster. This screenshot i took right after getting off the Subway:

The photo mode has also resulted in some interesting poses, due to me accidentally pushing the wrong button and entering photo mode mid action. Such as this one from the Opening:

or this one where it looks like i'm smelling Stout's hand (that's probably why she was so violent at first):

Overall i'm really loving this game's story and world though. It feels kind of like if Fallout and Baldur's Gate had a child. It has a lot of story options that can be impacted from what i tell and it controls kind of like fallout 4.

Both were live service; one at Bend, one at Bluepoint. Bluepoint was helping work on God of War: Ragnarok until 2022, at which point they were developing this now-cancelled God of War live service game.

A Direct is announced for April 2nd to cover the games.

Today's game is Cyberpunk 2077. I've been wanting to save this for my new gaming rig i've been planning (i think Lemmy will be happy to know i'm planning to stay with Linux lol), but after getting news some of the parts won't be here until Febuary, i've decided my Steam Deck can go through one last Marathon Sprint through hell trying to drive a AAA game at 1080p before it gets retired to Emulation on the go, Alan Wake, and the Occasional Indie Game.

This game does an amazing job of capturing the feel of the American Interstate System i feel like. On top This is the first time i've played a game and gone "Wow. I feel like i'm really experiencing California Traffic. It's just as bad as the real thing." I mean this as a compliment, because i feel like it helps sell the vibe and make the city feel more realistic. And the skyline feels like an extra buit of realism too it.

I also got sidetracked petting this cat. The game gets an extra 10 points from me for letting me pet it:

And after visiting Viktor, i think he has to be my favorite character. He seems very chill and relaxed. I'm hoping he survives the game: