Today’s game is Animal Crossing New Horizons. My friends have been begging me to get a copy so I can play multiplayer with them. I finally caved. I refuse to spend anywhere near full price though for this game so I did some looking around and managed to find it going for a much more reasonable ~40$ USD in my area. Which is a great deal for me. Now I don’t have to borrow my friend’s digital copy and he can join me.

When my friend joined me, we were wearing the exact same clothes and the exact same eye and blush. He had to start over so this is all his starting stuff, so the coincidence that we both match is hilarious to us.

He kept getting disconnected though, which brings me to my first point. Maybe it’s my network, but this game has poor multiplayer as my friend keeps getting disconnected. We ended up only playing for around 40 minutes before lost him and we decided to quit.

I kept going for a bit, but I ended up fishing to max out Blather’s tent. Honestly, I forgot Blathers was even there. I had put him there like a month ago when I was borrowing my friend’s copy. But I check in and wander around for a bit before accidentally entering Blather’s tent.

Anyways. I gave him like 5 fish and saved. It didn’t feel like there was much else for me to do except wait. I didn’t want to time travel so I guess I’ll pop in tomorrow and see how things are doing with him.

One way to get out of the video-game industry funk is to recognize that players aren’t spending $70 on most games

Anybody have any games they really liked on a first play through and then fell out of love with it later on? I'm going through it right now with the city builder game Workers and Resources. I've got 26 hours in it on Steam. Most of those hours came years ago when I first tried the game. I had a good grasp of it then naturally hopped off it when something else caught my eye. Every time I try it now I just can't get past how janky it is. It truly is Eurojank the city builder game.

My biggest issue is relearning the build order. Set up a village, import some power, setup water, build a bus depot. I think I've got all the boxes checked off for what I'm supposed to do but nothing happens. Busses take no workers to the coal plant. Everything is still on warning that I'm missing resources. Then I get into the weeds and can't find what's wrong. I give up. This is the last few times I tried the game. I'm prone to jumping off a game if it's too complex but knowing I used to have this one down and it's all different now has me really souring on it.

That's the shame of it. I know I liked the game at one point but there's been too much time between first seriously getting to know the game and it's systems and now. It's the probably the only city builder I've ever played that's not a pick up and play type game. This is my genre of choice going back to SC2000. This one stings.

Anybody else have anything like this happen to them?

In this new horror adventure game from Tarsier Studios (Little Nightmares, Little Nightmares II), a brother & sister go through hell to rescue their missing friends and escape the island that they used to call home.

Today's game is Morrowind. I wanted to try mixing things up a little and had gotten this last december so i decided to dick around for a bit in it. I ended up being a little surprised by how much i enjoyed all the reading it needs. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's incredibly tedious and annoying sometimes, but it comes with satisfaction upon finding your way around with the journal and having to navigate in an almost realistic manner.

I ended up reusing my Daggerfall character Nazita for it, even though with the timeline it doesn't really work timeline wise. I made her a Rogue, though i'm not a fan of daggers so i've been training the longsword skill so i can use those instead in combat.

Speaking of the combat, I can't say i'm a fan. Maybe there's something i'm missing but it's definitely a lacking point of it. I just find myself jabbing at the enemies until either one of us drop dead.

Graphically though? I find it to be really pretty. I really like the water especially. I'm not sure what comes from OpenMW and what comes from base Morrowind, bur at a core level i think it's pretty.

I ended up just walking all the way to Gnisis to join the Empire and got the quest where you have too get the land deed. I ended up just stopping there though after heading into the mine and then turning back. I thought i had to go there to handle the Land deed morally, but apparently not.

Overall i think if i have to pick an Elderscrolls game that's got overwhelming depth to it while still controlling a little weirdly, i'd have to pick Daggerfall. I still think Morrowind has a lot going on for it that i love but i think i prefer how Daggerfall looks, plays, and sounds.

Hello, I'm a new player of Souls-like games. My first game is Elden Ring, but some people say that it is difficult for new players. So, I'm looking for mods to make Elden Ring easier. Do you have any recommendations, or do I not need mods?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34138456

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34141664

Hello guys, I wanted to announced that I finally released my demo for The Milgram Experiment. One of the inspirations of the game is the book Obedience to Authority by the same scientist. Other big inspirations are Papers, Please; Pools; Sublimnal and the show Severance.

I grew up and still live in Eastern Europe and here we have experience and past with authority and authoritarianism. I mean look at our oppressive architecture: photo (imgur link) I took yesterday while walking my dog. I guess the subject has always interested me... "While do good people follow evil orders?"

The game tests if you obey orders and how does your moral compass work (if at all). I invite you try it and give me feedback. Hope you love it!

now THIS is pod racing

Does anyone know about any upcoming multiplayer car-games like Flatout 2?

Rally, fun handling, nitro and 8+ multiplayer?

2D pixel platformer spinoff, and it's a shadowdrop! very unexpected.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34138271

metal gear solid 4 finally playable on modern consoles

oh shit, this is cool

unfortunately no gameplay but this is very exciting, I miss GoW 2 and 3