You love to see it

Yeah, dark patterns are NOT good UX, even though unfortunately it’s present everywhere nowdays.

Steam’s UI/UX can be better, more ordered, coherent and standardized. This does not mean that it has to incorporate dark patterns.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDY2p1CTkPo&t=1202

You got me good

I’ve stared from Black flag up until Odyssey, then I went back the Ezio Trilogy.

At firt the Ezio games seemed janky and unpolished, but boy was I wrong. The percieved “jankiness” was due to the fact that you have actual control over the character, which can be difficult at first but extremely rewarding later in the game(s), with tombs and catacombs that feel like actual puzzles to traverse, nothing like the “parkour on rails” of ACIV. Unity’s parkour really felt like a step in the right direction, but players complained about it being a broken and rushed game and somehow Ubi understood that they needed to turn AC into The Witcher.

As for the present time story arc I think they really nailed it with Desmond. I love games that take real world history as a base and add a fictional twists to it, and the sense of uncovering an actual, worldwide conspiracy and the origins of humankind itself was there.

I understand they’ve acknowledged the fact that people don’t play AC for the present time story arc, but there was no reason to let it die in irrelevance from ACIII onwards. Layla’s arc might be a slight step towards the right direction, but we’re still far, far away.

This is all to say that yes, I agree with you. This series had (and still has) so much potential, but it was unfortunately hijacked by corporate greed time and time again, straying further from the original concept as time goes on.

I’m currently playing valhalla and plan on tackling ACIII next, and then Mirage.

Thats amazing lmaoo

Also that icon pack is fire

Interesting, thank you for sharing

Haven’t used kagi, but ecosia is another bing fronted.

It’s duckduckgo, but the profits from the ads are used to plant trees.

If you need/want something like kagi, only kagi exists at the moment. There is nothing comparable in quality and features

If you still want to throw some money at them, they have a store where you can buy some merch and plant a tree

Yeah, this is definitely it

Source?

That’s my client of choice

AC Valhalla. I’ve recently finished odyssey and I wanted to play another “turn off the brain checklist open world game”

It’s very rough around the edges (bugs, clipping, clunky movement) and it got me frustrated time and time again, but the thing I’m disliking the most are the frequent and mandatory raids. If I wanted a full fledged action game I’d be playing wukong or some shit.

Enabling insta-kill assassination from the accessibility options is what’s been saving the game for me.

I’m also considering about lowering the difficulty. The second hardest one is making the enemies unreasonably tanky, which does not bode well with the shittiest healing system I have ever seen in a videogame.

I’ll add another one: get to them from the miconids village, do not engage them from the lower ground by the lake.

Once you’re done that, destroy the stairs first and push them down afterwards. You won’t believe how easy this fight gets.

Or you know, you could always lower the difficulty. No shame in doing so

Thank you

I bought crosscode some months ago on GOG and I’m slowly working through it.

I’m constantly amazed at how it feels like a grand AAA mmorpg. The complexity of the maps is astounding (sometimes at a fault) and there is a lot of stuff to do. A tales of grindea on steroids, if you will

Strongly recommended if you enjoy the genre

I bought it some time ago but I kind not got into it, and it saddens me because I only hear good things about it.

Any advice?

Printing on Linux has been seamless for me so far, unlike windows and macos

Nuts

Yeah, Earthbound was definitely the major inspiration for masterpieces such as Undertale and Omori

You could. It depends on whose narration you trust

Source?