I second AoE4, I started playing this year and made it to conqueror recently, it does a great job at teaching you mechanics in a very intuitive way.

Probably Remnant 2 although Hi-Fi Rush is close behind.

Good to see Remnant doing so well, it’s by far one of the best games this year.

The thing about live service is that it’s also a money-vacuum, they need to be making loads of money to keep themselves going.

Kong and TWD not being on the list kind of shows the problem with Metacritic overall, a lot of people have reviewed those games but there is no numerical score so it’s not here.

Conservatives just like seeing police beat up those they disagree with.

TLoU already had a multiplayer mode and it was great, they just had to do the same thing.

Adding to the other answers, there is also a 100% or so tax on any purchases done outside of the country, this tax is meant to push the cost when using official dollar to match the actual value.

The main problem here is that the tax is not going away so official dollar is going from 365(actually 730) to 800(actually 1600) when the street value is around 1000.

I can see that but I’d argue most people agree that being funded by Nexon is neither independent nor indie.

Indie literally means independent.

What freedom? You can’t even choose how your character speaks when there are usually 2 options and they both sound the same.

I press my yubikey by mistake and end it just sends random messages on Slack, other than that it just works fine.

Ubisoft: checklists of Pandora

That's actually pretty nuts.

I'm not sure how, you got lucky.

Lemmy was filled with posts linking to clickbait articles from PcGamer bashing the game.

YouTube just flooded my feed with videos about how Starfield was the worst game ever made, modern gaming was dying or something of the sort after watching a couple positive reviews.

Even in comment sections, whenever I mentioned some nitpic I had about the game, I'd get answers bashing the game as if I had said it was terrible.

It was pretty much everywhere for a month and a half to the point I just decided to stop trying to find discussions on it.

I think discussion around it just became toxic, you can't really say anything about Starfield without a bunch of people hijacking the conversation to talk about how much they hate it.

I just don't understand the need for so many courses, I played golf as a kid on the same one for 10 years, the local environment allowed it to maintain itself for the most part.

At this point we don't even need them, we have indie devs making games like Casette Beasts that are better than pokemon ever was.

No shit, they've alienated everyone interested in the first place.

They are still doing that?