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No Man's Sky was very (in)famously overpromised, largely in part thanks to an overly-excited GameInformer interviewer and the interviewee Sean Murray being a bit socially awkward and not wanting to give the game bad PR... yea...

15 bucks isn't a bad price, but also increasing the price alongside massive content updates isn't unheard of. That's what Minecraft famously did during the infdev, indev, alpha, and beta eras of development, where older accounts were grandfathered into access to newer builds.

which isn't to say that I don't think that Edmund McMillen doesn't deserve money, but look at a game like No Man's Sky, which has been able to sustain itself through free DLC for 10 years. I think its definitely an uncomfortable conversation for a lot of people who follows his work.

the game has only received updates through paid DLC, its an incomplete experience without it, and i would be so brazen to say that it might be considered it somewhat incendiary actions by Edmond McMillan, as no other Nicalis-owned property has done anything like it.

idk what genre to classify Rust under, but games like Rust like Arc Survival Evolved are also firmly in those categories.

well, the DLC can just come with a full game purchase, but it can still have a price for people who bought the original game at the original price, no? They can do that I think?

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but also about watching gameplay footage, i think there are a very specific genre of game that seems more fun to watch than it is to play, and i think roguelikes are part of that family of genres

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ivory @ioletsgo.gay · 22h

DLC can come free with a game, and you can check/uncheck said DLC at will. Change the steam page to be like that so people don't get an objectively inferior experience missing critical accessibility features? Its not that hard?

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okay then. Hot Take: I don't think the base game should be sold, I think the DLC should just go with it then if its so essential.

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ivory @ioletsgo.gay · 22h

yeah but the issue is that i shouldn't have to A) spend money in order to get a version of the engine that supports item descriptions, or B) get a mod that would disable item drops.

"The Binding of Isaac Doesn't Respect The Player's Time And I Don't Personally Like That" shouldn't be something I should be told I'm actually wrong about, actually. And then when I explain why I don't like it in more detail, the answer is always just the same. "Play the game more". No?

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no, you see, you're supposed to exert hundreds of hours into memorizing what every trinket, every item, every arcane does. No this isn't A Game That Doesn't Respect The Player's Time, its "Difficulty", its "Good Game Design".

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i've expressed at every possible avenue except ONCE that it is my own opinion, and that i personally disagree with certain game design decisions. I do think I'm right because I know I'm not making objective statements.

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i thought it was pretty obvious that i've expressed it as my own personal opinion, and an unpopular one at that that is very unlikely to be shared by others.

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Which isn't to say that I can't enjoy difficulty or friction in video games, its obvious at this point that the lack of information is an intentional game design decision, and one that i disagree with.

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yeah and i can have opinions on games i don't like. I don't like The Binding Of Isaac. I shouldn't be chastised for saying that obtuse game design is obtuse game design, and that I don't like obtuse game design.

you're right, it isn't. It's in my own opinion that I think its a bad game. It doesn't respect the player's time whatsoever, and it thinks that forcing you to bash your head against the wall to learn shit like "Cancer Trinket = -2 tear delay", because how am i supposed to learn that diagetically.

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okay then, explain it to me.

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well, yeah? Its a shorthand for a game that doesn't explain any of its mechanics diagetically, to have to resort to external resources to understand what an item or an object does, i think, is a sign of a poorly explained system.

i'm right tho

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people shittalk terraria for being a wiki game but base TBOI is, like, so much worse

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lowkey think i'm this game's biggest hater

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Binding Of Isaac is lowkey a shit game in my opinion, and the fact that you have to pay for the DLC to be told fucking anything should REALLY be a bigger issue

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Emma (Xfox 360) @xfox360.invoxiplaygames.uk · 02/10/2026

tbh it was also a criticism of drama YouTubers who also engage in plagarism

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every time i check my steam library there's some new bullshit

all-star fruit racing, from your Steam Family Library

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but even then its, like, Spiderverse is still heavily influential and it isn't like that song has outlasted the movie's cultural relevance. When was the last time you heard someone talk about Footloose without talking about the song.

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yeah but i'm not a legitimate return address so you'll be holding onto the ACK until you get overloaded and shut down

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wrong! jpeg compresssion!

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oh yea i was in a match of TrainSawLaser with the creator of the map lmao

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love the swarm of people that are learning how much of a clusterfuck TSL is

*DEAD* 3 of clubs: this map is ass
3 of Clubs left the game (Client disconnected)

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lowkey forgot that Sunflower was made for the first Spiderverse

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I think we've lost the art of "Song Written For A Movie That Long Outlasts That Movie's Cultural Relevance", you don't get a Footloose or a Scott Doesn't Know anymore in films

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yea wasn't it a space game?