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Digoman

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Hmmm... Praey for the Gods left early access. I remember it looking interesting. Let's see how much it costs...

"Praey for the Gods is already in your Steam library"

Not only I don't usually buy Early Access games, but it wasn't event a at good discount. I guess I'm adding "crazy" to the list of symptoms of getting old (well, it did have good regional pricing)

I should at least play it before it hits Gamepass and/or Humble Choice. Hint: I probably won't.

Edit: Oh f*ck... didn't see that this post of me being stupid was going to be at the top of the page. That's just great :p
 
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Joe Spangle

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My favourite game for when i have a spare 20mins or so at the moment is Art of Rally. Great for a quick couple of goes.

What games do you nice people play when you only have a limited bit of time?
 

Digoman

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What games do you nice people play when you only have a limited bit of time?
When I just want to play for like about 30 mins and not really "turn my brain on" I usually go for the busywork of one of the last open world games I played, which is why the playtime on them can get a bit embarrassing.

Recently that was Forza Horizon 5. Jumped in, did a couple of the tasks/races for the season pass and chased a few of the worthless accolades.
 

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Can we not have a No NFT rule in the thread where we like to hangout and remain sane?
My favourite game for when i have a spare 20mins or so at the moment is Art of Rally. Great for a quick couple of goes.

What games do you nice people play when you only have a limited bit of time?
This years small bits of gaming time has been Dorfromantik. Its really relaxing.
 

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Progress so far after about 29 hours.



I've skipped a few here and there whenever I got really stuck, eventually I'll return to them.
I find I generally enjoy the hex puzzles the most and usually kind of breeze through them. I guess my brain works in hexes. :blobnerd:

For some reason sometimes when I think through a multistep solution for some corner of a puzzle all like :thinking-blob: , since these two hold only one mine, then one of these two is also a mine and and therefore this single one is definitely a mine, and then I just click the reveal button instead of mine button. :blobweary:
 
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My favourite game for when i have a spare 20mins or so at the moment is Art of Rally. Great for a quick couple of goes.
What games do you nice people play when you only have a limited bit of time?
Good question... Those kinds of games are precious when you dont have a lot of time – or if you simply dont want to play for hours. I guess for me its usually Overwatch, since a match lasts abour 15 minutes.


Can we not have a No NFT rule in the thread where we like to hangout and remain sane?
This years small bits of gaming time has been Dorfromantik. Its really relaxing.
Dorfromatik is great indeed. Also, Townscaper.

Regarding a "No NFT rule" – I know what you mean. But there's always topics here that aren't really Steam-related and just seem to crop back up.

There's sometimes efforts to offload them into other threads, but since this is the hangout thread, as you correctly pointed out, it will always come back to "everything goes" – whether thats talking about exclusives thats aren't on Steam, hardware, anime, covid, work and life struggles, gamepass or (insert other topic that is a frequent guest in this thread). I guess it is what it is – maybe if the thread was called "MetaHangout" instead, it would be better? Or maybe worse, what do I know :p
 

Ascheroth

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Uh so if Valve maintains the "no NFT" rule, does this mean Stalker 2 is about to get kicked off Steam?
Will be interesting to see for sure. I kinda hope so, because ideally a strict policy here should make pubs think twice about that bullshit if they have to leave the entire Steam userbase off the table. But I'm not sure Valve will follow through with "big names" (I hope I'm wrong though).

Metahuman is the stupidest thing I have read today. What the fuck, man.
Technically that's just a synonym for "people with super-powers" and hasn't really anything to do with the Metaverse if that's what you're thinking.
 

ExistentialThought

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I think Valve only explicitly banned games that deliver NFTs in-game. I think if the NFTs are delivered outside of the game itself, then it slides past the rules, for now.

From the sounds of it, STALKER 2 might be doing the actual bidding outside of the game.

That said, really puts a damper on my interest in the game.
 

Mivey

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Valve won't do anything since the game will sell millions of copies and make Valve millions of dollars.
Just millions? Don't see Valve caring much unless it's billions. I think Valve is worried this NFT garbage could open it for lawsuits and whatnot, and I don't see a single game changing their position on this much, not when they are already so outspoken on it.
 
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I think Valve only explicitly banned games that deliver NFTs in-game. I think if the NFTs are delivered outside of the game itself, then it slides past the rules, for now.

From the sounds of it, STALKER 2 might be doing the actual bidding outside of the game.

That said, really puts a damper on my interest in the game.
I believe this is correct. The game MIR 4 is apparently a play to earn game and it constantly tops the Steam charts. I think a certain aspect of the game is disabled on the Steam version so it can skirt Valve's rules.
 

Alextended

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I thought we had a board games thread but I guess not.

Anyone have any suggestions for some easy to learn, fun to play, with reasonable skill requirements/skill ceiling tabletop games? Something you'd play with older folks, not so kiddy, not too taxing on older brains either and not boring like chess (or I guess Scrabble or Monopoly).

I was thinking something like Settlers of Catan or Risk but maybe there's cooler stuff around, also maybe not so warlike theme to make it viable for the whole fam to play together. Gonna have to see if whatever you suggest is available locally and fully translated etc. too so probably not some niche or super new thing.

It looks like they have Wingspan already but it is pricy. At the moment I'm thinking Carcassonne 20th Anniversary & some Wizard thing for some simpler quicker fun (or is there something else instead of this, also called Fantasy Wizard, google for that + board game and it'll show, it only has cards and a score board).
 

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Send Stalker 2 off to the Zone, I say....

Anyone have any suggestions for some easy to learn, fun to play, with reasonable skill requirements/skill ceiling tabletop games? Something you'd play with older folks, not so kiddy, not too taxing on older brains either and not boring like chess (or I guess Scrabble or Monopoly).
I really, really like Patchwork. It has a bit of a childish aesthetic, but it's got layers to it. Played tons of games and I'm still stoked every time I get to pull it out. I really like the pattern laying metagame.

Another one I love and is pretty easy to pick up is 7 Wonders: Duel. I prefer playing it with the Pantheon expansion because it adds some mechanics that increase your range of options and minimize the luck factor a tad, but it's probably best to start with the base game and see if you like it beforehand.

Both of these are pretty cheap all things considered, require minimal setup and game length is around 20-30 minutes, but they're only two-player games. 7WD probably has a bit of a higher skill ceiling, but neither are especially complex, if you're looking for something really deep. You can definitely get very good at 7WD, and I have a hard time getting my partner to play it with me anymore :')

Edit: you can try out an online version of 7WD beforehand to see if you like it. It doesn't explain the rules at all though, so you'll have to look up the manual beforehand. I think there are also some very minor rule changes, but I'm not entirely sure. Not very significant in any case.


And as ExistentialThought pointed out, there's another version of the game simply called 7 Wonders, which is a four-player version. I've never played it, so I can't really speak to how the dynamic changes there.
 
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I thought we had a board games thread but I guess not.

Anyone have any suggestions for some easy to learn, fun to play, with reasonable skill requirements/skill ceiling tabletop games? Something you'd play with older folks, not so kiddy, not too taxing on older brains either and not boring like chess (or I guess Scrabble or Monopoly).

I was thinking something like Settlers of Catan or Risk but maybe there's cooler stuff around, also maybe not so warlike theme to make it viable for the whole fam to play together. Gonna have to see if whatever you suggest is available locally and fully translated etc. too so probably not some niche or super new thing.

It looks like they have Wingspan already but it is pricy. At the moment I'm thinking Carcassonne 20th Anniversary & some Wizard thing for some simpler quicker fun (or is there something else instead of this, also called Fantasy Wizard, google for that + board game and it'll show, it only has cards and a score board).
Ticket to Ride, SmallWorld and Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization maybe? Those are relatively simple games. To be honest, it's hard to find anything that would be better or at least on par with Settlers of Catan.
 

ExistentialThought

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I thought we had a board games thread but I guess not.

Anyone have any suggestions for some easy to learn, fun to play, with reasonable skill requirements/skill ceiling tabletop games? Something you'd play with older folks, not so kiddy, not too taxing on older brains either and not boring like chess (or I guess Scrabble or Monopoly).

I was thinking something like Settlers of Catan or Risk but maybe there's cooler stuff around, also maybe not so warlike theme to make it viable for the whole fam to play together. Gonna have to see if whatever you suggest is available locally and fully translated etc. too so probably not some niche or super new thing.

It looks like they have Wingspan already but it is pricy. At the moment I'm thinking Carcassonne 20th Anniversary & some Wizard thing for some simpler quicker fun (or is there something else instead of this, also called Fantasy Wizard, google for that + board game and it'll show, it only has cards and a score board).
Difficulty is always a tricky one to gauge. A few I think are not too difficult while still fun, but I would look into them more:

Cosmic Encounters (Far from my favorite space game, but it is one of the easiest)
Small World (Far from my favorite fantasy game, but easier as well)
7 Wonders
Pandemic (Though may be in bad tastes haha; co-op)
Forbidden Desert (co-op)
Forbidden Island (co-op; easier than desert and pretty cheap)
Ticket to Ride series (I think a few are easier/harder, but overall really easy series)

I am forgetting so many, my best friend is who owns a bunch of board games and we have not played in ages now thanks to the pandemic :cryingwhyblob:
 

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Just millions? Don't see Valve caring much unless it's billions. I think Valve is worried this NFT garbage could open it for lawsuits and whatnot, and I don't see a single game changing their position on this much, not when they are already so outspoken on it.
I imagine the big reason Valve cares about NFTs is they're in some ways similar to the Steam marketplace and they want devs and publishers to use Steam Marketplace since they get a cut of any transaction.
 
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TrishaKit

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"As mentioned above, the budget = money used to develop " Fuga : Melodies on the Battlefield " is 327 million yen. And at the moment, about three months after its release, the cumulative worldwide sales are about 120 million yen (in short, it is still in the red at the moment"

its just not fair ;_;
Fuga was so good. I"m so tired of waiting 10ish years between releases for this series.
 

EdwardTivrusky

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Stalker dev Super_Prophet is on the Steam forums saying that the game will not be removed from Steam as it hasn't broken any rules. Stalker 2 is not a Blockchain/NFT game and all the NFTs are auctioned off-site before launch.

Let's see if Stalker 2 is NFT Pay2Win over the next few days as i hope they explain and clarify things.

edit: A couple of the devs are on Steam Discussion now:
Blockchain game =/= NFT-related fan rewards. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is not a blockchain-based game.

Also, the items will be activated before the release date.
Important thing is that they are not influencing gameplay or story.
 
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Aaron D.

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Yeah Minecraft has been a big part of YouTube for well over a decade now and for a long time I think 3/10 most popular videos each week on the site were Minecraft videos.
What's crazy is I just did the mental math and with a total world population closing in on 8 billion people those numbers translate to every single person on the planet watching 125 Minecraft videos each.
 

Li Kao

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I thought we had a board games thread but I guess not.
I leave you alone one afternoon and you talk boardgames behind my back :so-good-blob:
I'm tired so a few tidbits.

- Maybe try BoardGameGeek top family games ?
Browse Board Games | BoardGameGeek

- That being said, maybe I'm too prudent here, but it's difficult to answer without knowing the people in question. I mean, are they even a little geek adjacent or receptive ? You don't go pointing to a geeky themed game to traditional 'vanilla' folks.

- Azul or Sagrada could be nice elegant games for not too geeky folks.


- Pandemic is superbly accessible, but even before covid the theme was something of a hard sell. But since then they have made approx one version of Pandemic for each inhabitants of a small country. Might be versions with less divisive theme. There was one with the Spanish Flu some years ago (well ok, not an easy sell either), there is one for the fall of Rome, a Cthulhu one, etc.

- If they have Wingspan there is this. No idea about it, just that it was in some top lists and it seems to share the nature vibe of Wingspan.
PARKS | Board Game | BoardGameGeek


- Near Christmas like we are, you might have difficulties finding some games. OOS obnoxiousness was a thing even before covid for boardgames.

...
And now I want to play boardgames but I don't have the money (physical games have gone cray cray, see Wingspan), or the friends.
Fuck me.
 
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Mivey

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I imagine the big reason Valve cares about NFTs is they're in some ways similar to the Steam marketplace and they want devs and publishers to use Steam Marketplace since they get a cut of any transaction.
Yeah, that also makes a lot of sense. Depending on how the Apple vs. Epic case goes, I could see Valve tightening up their rules to disallow any form of payment for in-game items that doesn't use official Steam APIs. Since Valve doesn't fuck with NFTs, that would translate to an automatic ban of nearly all uses of NFTs in games.
 
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The Stalker 2 thing just sounds like they're testing the waters for selling exclusive content or other nonsense in the game tied to NFTs. A very good sign that you should wait a few years after launch to pick it up.

We are VERY often getting games with altered mechanics just after the review cycle so that players have to pay to have balanced gameplay. It's the old bait and switch. Only now we are clearly seeing the bait is already being tested.

Don't be a fish.
 

Alextended

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I think I'm gonna go with something tried and true like Carcassonne or Settlers of Catan or Stone Age but it's still hard to decide and made harder seeing there are different editions of each and I don't know what the latest available here is etc. It's gonna be the first tabletop for most players really, maybe nobody will even care to go for it, just something to try and get my parents spend some time with. My dad's been through a stroke mind and is 70+ so that's why I'm looking for simpler stuff that will still help exercise the brain a bit. So, not a nerdy audience here, that's why I'm dismissing sci fi stuff like Teraforming Mars. I was almost set on getting the Carcassonne 20th Anniversary Edition, now a friend's talking me into just going for Settlers of Catan instead. Stone Age looks really nice...
 

Digoman

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Huh..... they actually put some budget and effort in this free crossover DLC for Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
I'm... surprised, and curious about the business logic, since it's Ubisoft and all.

Also, Kassandra is such a better protagonist than the one from Valhalla... ooof.
 

Li Kao

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I think I'm gonna go with something tried and true like Carcassonne or Settlers of Catan or Stone Age but it's still hard to decide and made harder seeing there are different editions of each and I don't know what the latest available here is etc. It's gonna be the first tabletop for most players really, maybe nobody will even care to go for it, just something to try and get my parents spend some time with. My dad's been through a stroke mind and is 70+ so that's why I'm looking for simpler stuff that will still help exercise the brain a bit. So, not a nerdy audience here, that's why I'm dismissing sci fi stuff like Teraforming Mars. I was almost set on getting the Carcassonne 20th Anniversary Edition, now a friend's talking me into just going for Settlers of Catan instead. Stone Age looks really nice...
If it's a first time for several people, the elephant in the room are indeed Carcassonne / Ticket to Ride / Catan. They have not be called gateway games for nothing. Though several games like Wingspan may have inherited the title since I stopped following boardgames.

For this occasion you don't need the big Carc box imho, looks a bit overkill to me. They may or may not like it, and to my knowledge it just adds... oh fuck that, I said nothing, the more I talk about it the more I want it.

And you may consider some card games. Coloretto was a fun one, and for a strict duo play Schotten Totten was good too.
That being said, for groups (7 wonders) or duo (7 wonders duel) is a modern classic.
 

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I imagine the big reason Valve cares about NFTs is they're in some ways similar to the Steam marketplace and they want devs and publishers to use Steam Marketplace since they get a cut of any transaction.
My impression was that NFTs are a legal can of snakes that they do not want to have to open. Valve doesn't want to deal with the regulatory ramifications anything with crypto is going to inevitably have down the line.
 
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I'm really, really pissed about this. Stalker 2 was one of the few AAA games that I was still looking forward to, and now this happens. 😡

NFT's should NEVER become the norm in games, so there's no way I'll support this in any way. I've removed the game from my wishlist and put it on ignore instead. I can only hope other fans will do the same, or other devs will follow soon.

My apologies that I'm once again posting negative stuff here on MC, but the amount of gaming-related news that disappoints me is becoming ridiculous lately.

I'm extremely close to sail the high seas again for good games from shitty devs/publishers, after almost 20 years without piracy. Respect should come from both sides.
 
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