The name is CyricZ, and he is the reason the west can get platinum in this series. Over the years, he wrote the best guides on gamefaqs one can ask for. His appearance on reddit has been seen as a second coming of Christ lol.

Back to the problem, a lot of controversies followed the recent announcements, and besides dumb rereleases and unlisting of "legacy" remasters, CyricZ is very unhappy that remaster of Yakuza 3 with added campaign includes a known harrasser and sexual assaulter Teruyuki Kagawa as the voice and the face of the antagonist.

Although that remaster means fixing known issues with fighting gameplay, and also adding a lot new things, I myself respect and join people who wouldn't want to support that.

If you buy PC games at all (especially over the last 12 months given how positive the news around them has been) then you’ve probably heard of GOG.

GOG is a platform that sells games completely DRM-free, meaning there’s no Digital Rights Management shoehorned into the games. For a lil context, Mass Effect Legendary Edition or GTA V use DRM. Their system checks for an online connection and will outright stop you from playing your legally purchased, single-player game if you’re offline for too long. Gross, right?

GOG though refuses to sell games with this nonsense. Every game on GOG must have no DRM attached. From AAA to indie titles, with a lot that lean heavily toward older and classic releases.

Anyway...

I got the chance to chat to the developer of GameSieve. This is a site which lets you search, track and filter games for sale. GOG's site does a reasonable job with selling you games, but something like GameSieve was purpose built just to make all of this easier.

I chatted to them about how they made it, why they did, what goes into maintaining it, and a little on the future. If you've not visited the site before, make sure you do!

https://gamesieve.com/

They do such lovely work, I think it deserves a lot more recognition!

So, if you want to read through my interview with the dev, you can follow this link here. I do hope you enjoy this one too, I love GOG so much, so this was a blast to me!

The game started in German, and I couldn't change the language. Multiple sites told me how to change the language of the Epic Games Launcher instead. WTF??

Here's the solution: Find GameUserSettings.ini in %localappdata%\HogwartsLegacy\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor and add these two lines:

[Internationalization]    
Language=en-US

Now the game is in English.

CAREFUL: The game is overwriting this file. You need to do this every time you want to play the game or set the file to read-only. Which prevents you from changing some settings.

I've loved Alix Wilton Regan in everything I've heard her in, thrilled to see her get a big leading role like this.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40151552

As always, think twice about pre-ordering

So recently, I ended up getting sick from an event I went to. I took sick leave from my employment, and I have a few days to rest. I don't want to just stay in bed, however.

So, what games do you like to play when your sick? Something that doesn't require too much thinking to play.

Today's game is some more Halo PvP. We did a match on Capture the Flag and it was awesome. We usually only have 5 players, but we decided to do CTF and offset it by putting two of our skilled players together (Me and Another player), then one skilled player and some of the more beginner players together. It surprisingly was really well balanced. We were in a stalemate for half the game, and even after my team scored we still only won by one point.

We also did VIP on Halo 3, which i was going to pick for the main screenshot, but this is how it come out after capturing it and... i think the fog makes it really obvious why it wasn't my main screenshot.

We ended with Infection on Zealot (the reliable option), as always, it was a blast. I got zombie 4/5 rounds, and my teammates kept feeding themselves too the survivors who were camping out on the roof. It was still a good time though. I had a blast just hanging out and chilling with them even if i got destroyed in the post score.

We did all of this while waiting for our last guy to join us for Baldurs Gate 3. After the Zealot round he joined VC, so we dropped out and ended for the night to go continue BG3 (we got our asses kicked by some spiders and then fought some Living Trees, then i kicked the shit out of a squirrel thinking it biting me was a druid).

Miyoo sent me one of their newest handhelds: the Miyoo Mini Flip to review. Its made to be a clear nostalgic nod (in design) to the old GBA SP:

The tiny thing is adorable (and it's so small!), it's perfect for the classic systems (though you won't get N64, Dreamcast etc), and I've essentially found this has been my modern Game Boy Advance SP. For the GBA, GB and GBC systems it's just perfection. I love how you can customize the surroundings with community-made contributions, like this one:

There's a handful of small downsides, like perhaps if you're old-old with poor eyesight, the screen might be a bit too small for you, but this was an easy recommendation from me.

As ever, if you'd like to read my full review, you can find it here with this link, plenty of pictures (with my cat!) and detail shots, if that's your thing in here too!

...or you can just ask me anything directly here, if you'd prefer :)

Just spent 21 months in prison.

Any good releases I might have missed after March 5th 2024? Already have Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

Edit: forgot to mention I really enjoyed Cyberpunk before getting arrested, as well as AC: Oddysey

Expedition 33 coronation as expected.

Thing that surprised me the most was Wuthering Waves for Players Choice Award over Expedition 33, Dispatch, Silksong, Death Stranding, Ghost of Yotei, and KCD2. Literal complete stable of awesome games across genres lost out to a gatcha game. Are there just more gooner gamers than I thought? 🤔

Mega-hyped for Total War: Warhammer 40k

Flute guy killed it as usual!

What are your thoughts on the awards and show overall?

New Content

• Verso's Drafts, a new playable environment, taking the characters of Expedition 33 to a brand-new location with new enemy encounters and surprises to discover :) Located on the World Map, next to Lumière - Accessible from Act III

  Esquie’s Underwater ability is required!

• New text and UI game localizations into Czech, Ukrainian, Latin American Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 19, with more to come!

• New costumes for each member of the Expedition, giving even more customization options for players throughout their adventure

• New boss battles for late-game players to overcome in the Endless Tower - They are variations of iconic bosses from the main game, designed to be even more challenging

• Added new Luminas and Weapons

• Added the "Old Key" quest item to the final area of the game - Previously obtainable only during the Prologue, this addition gives players a second chance to collect all journals within a single playthrough

New Features

• Added Photo Mode with plenty of settings and options for players to get creative with while capturing your favourite moments from the game, accessible at any time from the pause menu!

• Added Lumina Sets feature, allowing players to save up to 50 different lumina loadouts for adapting to plenty of different fighting tactics at any moment

• Added Abandon Battle option in the pause menu which can now be opened in battle

• Added HUD Scale setting, allowing players to adjust the size of in-game HUD elements from 80% to 120%

• Added FSR 4 support, including AMD temporal upscaling for sharper visuals and Frame Generation for smoother gameplay on compatible GPUs

• Added new filters for Pictos and Luminas and improved the UI

• Added input remapping for controller

Handheld PC improvements

• The game is now certified on Steam Deck and ROG Xbox Ally!

• Global improvement of text legibility

• Fixed multiple fog and lighting issues:
  Overly intense effects during the Flying Manor boss fight (which also impacted some cinematics) Overexposed areas in the Visages Overly dark areas in the Endless Tower

• Fixed FPS being capped at 30 on Steam Deck

• VSync can now be properly disabled in the settings when playing on Steam Deck

• Graphic settings are now adjusted for Steam Deck users

• Improved first-time setup flow:
  Controller input is now supported in installation wizards (no longer touchscreen-only)

• External controllers now switch seamlessly with the Steam Deck controls

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where using Battle Retry after a cinematic or automatic trigger could spawn the player out of the world if the last save was created in a different location

• The playtime displayed on save files now accurately reflects total playtime, including time spent on Game Overs (Note: this fix does not retroactively update existing save files.)

• Fixed inventory behaviour so that sort order now persists after closing the game menu

• Fixed issue preventing Intel XeSS Frame Generation setting from being accessible on PC Game Pass

• Fixed an issue where the usage of particular diacritic marks (e.g. ^, ~, ´, `) in Windows is blocked after launching the title

• Fixed Breaking Death always breaking all enemies when the character dies, it should only break the enemy that killed the character - As a result, it shouldn’t work when the character kills themself anymore

• Characters' turn order during a First Strike, triggered by attacking an enemy on the map, now correctly respects characters' Speed

• Fixed Boucharo giving +150% Critical chance instead of +50% Critical chance

• Fixed some Luminas giving unintended hidden +10% damage:
  Sweet Kill Teamwork Dead Energy II First Strike and others

Today's game is Project Zomboid. Build 42 finally got a multiplayer version and me and my friends hopped on as soon as we heard the news. I messed with the settings a little to make things easier so we have a bit of breathing room to get comfortable with the changes.

We ended up deciding to camp out at a farm. We each took a different farm house, and one of my Friends took up Farming, another took up raising Animals, and i took up exploring and crafting... and god dammit we're just playing Stardew Valley.

I also made a sword and helped clean out the rest of the neighbor hood for my friends. I don't know how i didn't think of this before, but a versatile weapon crafting system like this is perfect for this game. I The arms system i especially love. I can make my friend a Mace for example (and did). I could either give it a Short Handle or a Long Handle. I did the same with my Friend's axe i gave him. I gave it a long handle and put an axe head on it. I love this crafting system because it let's your weapon customization feel a little more personal. It kind of reminds me of Tinker's construct from Minecraft. The only thing i wish could be added was some unique options for combining parts. I'm not sure what that could look like but i think it would be interesting too see added.

I also went out and helped my friend tend his cows. One of them is pregnant i think so we get to look forward to handling that. We had a bug where one of them got stuck in the fence too, so i had to enable admin commands to pick up the cow, and move it. I couldn't figure out how to disable the commands though so i was stuck with being able to lift a cow like it's a pebble i guess.

Build 42 is a lot of fun though. I'm glad it's got a multiplayer build as i personally get the most fun out of MP. The QOL changes 42 brings is nice and it just overall feels way more responsive in things like interactions or combat. I really like it.

Praise the Emperor!

crosses fingers Please don't fuck it up, please don't fuck it up...

We finally have a release date! April 24, 2026

Demo available on Steam today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3357650/PRAGMATA/

Set to release February 27, 2026