I must admit, I’m tempted.
My usual go-to, Bethesda, has fallen low. So low that they just released a big update for Starfield - and I can’t even be bothered to open it.
So maybe give CapCom a try?
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I am enjoying it however, it does highly recommend you use a controller. I’m not sure how the hacking would fair using a keyboard
Edit: I will load more pics of the hacking system so you can see for yourself before deciding.
Currently skydiving with DP
Edit: my daughter played the demo with the keyboard. Said it worked out fine
This game is also very linear. Don’t expect Cyberpunk. There is a home base you can go back to. Upgrade your equipment and outfit yourself. Create toys you have gathered for the kid. Then you return to where you were or an area where you did not get all the items.
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It was a first public hearing, nothing happens just yet.
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Luna, Lured you in, to the moon!
So you’re not quite losing your games, but you’re unlikely to be able to play them anymore, as I bet that is why you used Luna to begin with eh? Hmmm, the cycle repeats, as I recall similar happening with books, music, movies …
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I didn’t even know the service exists! 
In my oppinion, game streaming is a lost cause. Bandwidth ain’t as cheap as everyone thinks, and streaming games requires a lot of hardware resources in addition to that. Very few people are willing to pay a subscription fee to play games through streaming they could just as well play locally, and without a large subscriber base such a service is just way too expensive to run.
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Plus Nvidia Now exists, and actually seems to work even on the free version. I cant champion it enough for folks who suddenly find themselves without a powerful PC but still wanna play their steam games for an hour a day.
Or for parents who cant justify the purchase of a full on gaming rig for their children.
I spent the first twenty five years of my life in awe and envy of pc games, i would have jumped on this immediately, a free hour to play a game and have it look amazing? Yes please. I wasted so many hours playing msdos games from CNET downloads just to scratch that itch back in my teens.
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I spent the first 13 years of my life in awe of anything, because all we had was an original X86 with 640 KB of ram with monochrome graphics. It could run microsoft flight simulator 1. And chess. That was it.
Then we finally upgraded to a 486, but without sound. At least I could play a new game or 2, for the about 1 year that this thing counted as “fast”. Then it was waiting again until I could afford to buy my own rig. In the meantime, I clobbered together a 286 from spare parts from the neighbourhood so I at least had something to call my own. It had EGA graphics and it ran commander keen. It was awesome. This was at a time when friends were playing wing commander 3.
Needless to say, I don’t see a problem with kids not being able to play the newest games. Especially nowadays where most newest games are utter horseshit and 99% of the worthwhile games run just fine on a PI4, which any teenager nowadays can buy with bloody pocket money.
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Ah, so you were truly in need of no other games.
My friends dad had them all on floppy disc, used to sit and watch him play in awe.
Also had this cool chess game where the chess pieces had attack animations. And some Dune game. I think. It was like a myst style First Person game with a lot of sand, me and my friend had no idea how to play and spent most of it going from screen to screen, confused, until we died of thirst, I think. We snuck on to play it so we couldnt ask his dad 
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That one was an interesting mix between point-and-click adventure mixed with a management and strategy game. Never really figured it out either, but me and my friend (on whos machine it ran) at least made it far enough to actually start on the strategy part (mobilizing the fremen, organizing assaults etc).
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Apparently theres some really awful people doing the really awful stuff that awful narcissitic types with their inclination tend to do…
Im talking about the weeaboo lolicon weirdos who are playing this game for absolutely unhinged reasons. I dont even want to say the word but you know who I mean.
Theyre adding steam tags that apprently, those kinda sick creeps, use on the illegal material they share on darkweb type sites, to let other individuals on steam, that are like them, know the game is there.
They also genuinely think it was intentional, capcom made it for them, because capcom also agrees with them.
Meanwhile, not a single normal person playing the game is seeing what theyre seeing.
But sadly the discourse is out there and is happening. Good lord someone please get the best internet sleuths on the case and then hand over all the posters addresss to Chris Hansen, have em take a seat. Just take a seat. Right there.
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Yeah. My daughter told me about this. Sad.
The feeling in the game is very father/daughter. It is not creepy at all. At first, Hugh states he doesn’t like kids but then he begins to become protective of her. Not really because she looks like a kid but because without her hacking skills he would be dead.
As the story progresses, you find REMs which are chips that have 3D printing instructions for earth like objects for kids. As you give these to her, Hugh talks about Earth and what makes Earth so special.
I believe the underlying story is, don’t screw up the earth. Living on the moon or any other planet with 3D printed and AI run environments is no substitute for the real thing.
Diana’s childlike enthusiasm for each gift and her remarks on how wonderful earth must be are a constant reminder of this fact
There is no interaction between Hugh and Diana outside of this framework.
Fight together, answer questions about earth. Level up. Rinse repeat. He does not have to care for her in any way.
In these cases, I prefer to ignore all the forums and crappy creeps and just play the game with no outside interactions from weird people.
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It’s having this weird effect now where, people online are only seeing the creepy weirdos talking about it, so now there are people lambasting the game because they think it is what they say it is.
We are such a stupidly infuriating species sometimes XD I dunno hugh and Diana, maybe earth isn’t SO great
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There is a flip side to all of this. My daughter says there is also a growing group of young men who now want to be a father. It has awakened the protective nature in them.
My thought in all of this; what the hell happened to just playing a game and enjoying it?
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The long awaited … Riven vinyl!
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Hello Neighbour 3 Pre-alpha is live if you wish to join the playtest on Steam
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Sounds like they changed everything that made me not enjoy/continue the first hello neighbour, admittedly I only played it in a late state of early access.
I didnt even realise there was a second one.
Will be watching this closely going forward.
I loved The Burbs as a kid, watched it I dunno how many times. I dont even know if its actually any good (its been a few decades) but Hello Neighbour always felt like it could deliver that cul de sac paranoia of the strange neighbour.
Or tom waits Whats He Building in There also came to mind when I first heard of the games concept.
If they could capture that essence and instill it in the game Id be fully invested. But that doesnt sound easy to do.
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During the COVID lockdown, there was a huge rise in pet ownership. Then, following lockdown relaxation, there was a gradual, but massive, phase of pet abandonment.
Because, you know, people no longer expect commitment. Everything is a disposable fashion accessory - valued only as long as it’s novel and entertaining, and to be discarded once it’s not.
And these people are thinking of fathering children because they played a video game???
And we think that’s a GOOD thing???
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