Recent content by Zloth

Had a good night last night in Elden Ring. I needed some runes, and I've been farming some Nox gals for their armor, so I popped down and finally got the grieves that the RNG gods have denied me for so long. A tomb gave me some upgrade materials for my summons to get a few (though not enough)...

I was reading an article in the print magazine about the dominance of Unreal Engine and that it's making the more popular games look the same. I haven't gotten that feeling at all! I used to be able to pick out engines (e.g. Source engine games would always have really sharp shadows), but now...

I could only manage 5, and I needed Neogunhero's help to get that high!

What a... calcium rich boss. Calcium is like teeth. So, put a bunch of sugar on it, then spit on the thing a lot. It will get cavities and fall apart!

?? Why? People that already have the original can still play it. It's just being de-listed so people can't buy it anymore. (On Steam. It's still on GOG.)

Learn by doing! Colif hereby volunteers to follow all those links the spammers post to see if they are OK or not. ;)

This better be on the end credits for Skin Deep View: https://youtu.be/j5UfE2BbYSQ?si=_BCce30he3CUQWQU

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/the-original-system-shock-2-is-being-removed-from-sale-on-steam-later-this-week/ On Steam, the news has over 100 discussion posts and ZERO upvotes I mean... who would be happy to see that? GOG's CEO, maybe?

I've played a little Skin Deep, too. The tutorial was pretty disorienting - like they decided the level was too long for a tutorial, so they just teleport you through most of it. It was fun after that, though. No points for going through this game non-violently.

They used to change a lot more just like games used to change a lot more. Then, for a long time, it was mostly DirectX versions that drove gamers to a new OS. The technologies aren't advancing fast now, though, so there's not much point. (Maybe that's a big reason why Microsoft is so much...

!!! The only game that's out on my wishlist and not on sale is Black Myth Wukong. The other 24 are! Even Expedition 33 knocked 10% off the price. 3 of the 5 early access games are, too. Steam did do the notifications staggered, though, so I was only hearing about a few a day. Just 17 hours...

There was a lot of area in the NW corner of the Elden Ring map that I could see but couldn't reach. The Volcano Manner in the NW was also CLEARLY way bigger than the few rooms I was allowed into. There are big lava lakes on the map that I can't see at all! So, I probably need to get to the...

Yeah, and it sends up a bunch of rocks that just float up there which you can see for miles! As long as you're paying attention, you should see it. Now, what the heck is THIS little island you can barely see in this screenshot? It's just north of the Shaded Castle (the one with all the rot...

Widows 11 disappointments: The H.265 video format that Steam likes to use still has no codec in Win11. The VLC player can play them back, but you don't get any thumbnails. I think the MS Store has something for it for a dollar, but people were saying it broke with an update last year. The...

Nah, that's not getting greedy, that's getting profitable. They put the product out there for super low cost, lose money, get lots of customers to start paying, make the product good, lose more money while draining away customers from any competition (essentially dumping on the market) and/or...