I moved to a new place last month and have been considering getting a TV (for the first time), a dock for my Steam Deck, and a couple of controllers to play things like PlateUp! and Ultimate Chicken Horse with friends. As someone who has never owned a stand-alone controller I wasn't really looking forward to doing research on which ones to get, but I think the decision just got made for me. :smile:

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but your enemy evolves too, unleashing horrors like “The Creep”

Oh, is this the surprise prequel to the Creeper World games? :tongue:

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Probably won't get it on release, but I'll keep an eye on it and see how the rework goes. I got it when Green Mars came out and had enough fun to play through terraforming Mars a few times, so if they've made some genuine improvements I could see myself picking it up.

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The music for Parkitect is always just so good. No regrets backing it on Kickstarter all those years ago! :smile:

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I thought this was about Kaiju Cleanup too when I saw the article link in my RSS feed. :happy: I'm not sure I actually want to play either one, but I'd be interested in watching someone else play.

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Let me get this straight. They KNOW that "lots" of players hate this design decision and go "we know. we won't change it."

It's an interesting question. One the one hand, not all games have to be for all people, and I can respect a developer who sticks to their guns about making something they specifically like even if it means a game isn't for me (I'm hardly short on choice for other games to play, after all, plus modding is a thing). On the other hand, sometimes the hoi polloi are right that a particular design decision is holding a game back from being even more fun, and learning when to kill your darlings is a valuable skill. I don't know what the answer is in this case.

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Team Fortress 2 But With A Bunch Of New Weapons Of Our Own, or TF2BWABONWOOO for short. :tongue:

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Some *are* designed to accommodate seated play[…], or even be designed for it entirely like I Expect You To Die (dunno about the sequels).

I played the first and most of the second at a friend's house, entirely seated, and they both worked fine.

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a menu full of cryptic settings you’re meant to adjust." - so the game is all about adjusting the settings of the game.

*cracks knuckles* All right, I knew getting that "Settings World Champion" achievement in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe would come in handy someday! :grin:

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with a Debit Card and not just a Credit Card (they're different in the UK)

Are they not different everywhere? A debit card lets you access money in a specific bank account, a credit card extends a loan that can be more than you have available to cover it at the time.

Shame they don't use Nexus Mods' technique and use the age of the account.

I see a few problems there; while an old account may signify an old user*, a young account does not necessarily signify a young user – a 50-year-old could get a Steam account for the first time this year.

*And even this may not be the case as people pass on their old Steam accounts to their kids/younger relations (yes I know it's against Valve's terms and conditions, I also know that doesn't stop it happening). Or people could simply start selling old accounts, like iPhones with Flappy Bird installed on them.

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