Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: woox2kI would also like to know how is this possible?
It's good the game is doing good and it is a good game, but to be on the very top of the charts while still being EA?

I haven't played it, but I've seen that there are a lot of streamers/influensers on social media praising it. I'm sure that has something to do with it's sudden popularity.

I watched some of one popular streamer playing it, and while he was very impressed with how pretty the game is, how well it runs, and many of the early aspects, by a couple of sessions in the bloom was coming off the rose and he started to get more lukewarm about it. All the other stuff was still true, but he was disappointed by small dungeons, lack of enemy variety, and how the procedurally generated terrain was very "same"-y. As in, other than a point of interest being plunked down in an otherwise nondescript (and identical to other chunks of forest), there weren't really dramatic things to break up each type of terrain.

I'm sure the early first session drove a bunch of sales though, since he was praising it a fair bit and has a fan base that trusts his judgment on this stuff (he's pretty analytical about design).

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I've mostly been playing Terranigma via Mednafen (since I really can't be bothered to jump through Retroarch's hoops) and flirting with getting into Unreal World. The former is great but shows its age in sometimes frustrating mechanics, and the latter seems absorbing if difficult.

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: psy-qBlazed through Dark Souls 3 .

One does not simply blaze thorough Dark Souls.

Unless one plays pyromancer.

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Okay, but can you install Linux on it?

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I really do need to play around with Minetest again. There's a lot of potential that I never really explored, although I have had some fun builds.

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I'm questioning the wisdom of making the turrets from Portal your primary shipboard OS.

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That's funny, I was just explaining the Women In Refrigerators trope to my roommate last night, where a female character is killed in order to provide motivation or a traumatic backstory for the hero.

Not saying this is an egregious example, and it certainly falls close to Shadow of the Colossus in that sense, where the goal is to resurrect her rather than a revenge arc or sinking into "MY PARENTS GIRLFRIEND IS DEEEEAAAAAADDDDDD!!!!!!" edginess. It's just that the timing is amusing.

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Quoting: beko

Quoting: NezchanEvery time this updates now my reaction is the same: "Wait, this wasn't abandoned?"

Ah… what gave you that impression? Dev is active on Twitter and on the Discord channel of Maia all the time 🤔

Neither of which I've been following.

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I was an early adopter on this one too, and I even liked some of the early builds (before you could take direct control of the android, and you were limited to one). But as time went on, I was less motivated to come back to it given that people continued to report problems. Not sure I'll try it now, we'll see.

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Every time this updates now my reaction is the same: "Wait, this wasn't abandoned?"

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