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  • The Knightling Did Everything Right - It Still Struggled to Sell | Beyond the Pixels Podcast

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  • It's probably easier if I just list the titles. I've already got them ranked. I enjoyed all of these games, and none of them were stinkers.

    1. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
    2. Avowed
    3. Split Fiction
    4. The Outer Worlds 2
    5. The Alters
    6. Dispatch
    7. Borderlands 4
    8. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
    9. Blue Prince
    10. Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
    11. StarVaders
    12. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants DLC
    13. Knights in Tight Spaces
    14. Rift of the NecroDancer
    15. Mafia: The Old Country
    16. Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
    17. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
    18. Keep Driving

  • The Knightling Did Everything Right - It Still Struggled to Sell | Beyond the Pixels Podcast

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  • If it's anything at all like the recommendation algorithm that Netflix popularized, it's that they have tags in common (maybe even as simple as "online multiplayer" if they set a threshold on some value too low) and that people who played one had a decent enough overlap with people who played the other.

  • The Knightling Did Everything Right - It Still Struggled to Sell | Beyond the Pixels Podcast

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  • They have an incentive to put games in front of you that they think you'll like, so I figure it really just is tough. Their hit rate isn't so bad for me, and what I hear about console storefronts is that the recommendations are even worse. Regardless of platform, relying on a recommendation engine to get word out about your game strikes me as a bad idea. But speaking for myself, I played 18 games that came out this year and easily left at least that many others behind just because there isn't enough time to play through them all.

  • Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025

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  • People see Avowed and wish it was Elder Scrolls, or they see Outer Worlds 2 and wish it was bigger or something. I'm not really sure why these people come away with the criticisms they do, but in my opinion, Obsidian made two of the best games this year, and those games were rated in the low 80s on average on Open Critic.

  • Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025

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  • They're also one of the few studios out there that can manage California salaries, remain a multi-project studio, and not scale up so fast that they're trying to build games they can't afford to make.

  • Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025

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  • He's arguably the best investigative journalist (of a very short list) in video games.

  • Games @lemmy.world
    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash

    www.nbclosangeles.com /news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • I disagree with your criticism of my comment.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • Sounds the same to me. You do lose nuance in brevity, but I didn't expect someone to see that and think I don't like video games.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • Looks like you put words in my mouth when I was keeping it short.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • No, it doesn't. My problem is that missing a parry, on an animation I haven't seen before and haven't been able to learn the tells of yet, which are purposely full of misdirection to make it tricky, was overly punishing during the learning process. Succinctly, it's that there's not enough fault tolerance later in the game. The parries feel great. The road up to learning the timings was frustrating the further into the game I went.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • If whenever a game says “this is how you play the game” and your response to that is “it shouldn’t be”

    That response is what a critique is. Metroid Prime 4 says, "you play the game by collecting these green crystals," and many critics said, "it shouldn't be."

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • I beat the game on normal difficulty. Believe it or not, you can be good a thing and still dislike it. And I like the game, for the record, but my criticisms of how much weight they give to certain parts of the combat, which changed somewhere around the back half of act 2, mind you, hampered my desire to do more of it in act 3.

  • Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season

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  • If you read what I wrote again, you'll see that no petty theft was brought before us. They waited until substantially more than that was stolen before they brought the person in. That was me warning you that might not be able to keep up what you're doing, if your county works like mine does.

  • Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season

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  • I was trying to do you a solid, but okay. Keep on doing what you do, I guess.

  • Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season

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  • I didn't say whether I indicted or not. I'm saying that just because you think you're getting away with it, it doesn't mean you actually are.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • My experience was my experience. I'm glad for that person that they found that build. I did not, and I'll wager most others didn't either. The last third of my game was spent pumping points into defense and vitality to alleviate the issue, but it was a drop in the bucket. This is like when I vented frustrations with RE2 remake's scaling difficulty, and someone pulled up, "Well, speedrunners don't run into this issue, because..." I'm not a speedrunner. I'm a guy playing the game for the first time, and I used the information in front of me to make the best choices I could, and I still came away with criticisms. In CO:E33, it led to situations where the damage was so high and the action economy so constrained that it was faster to throw the fight and reload than it was to take a hit on the first turn and recover from it, and that sucked.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • I have a criticism or two about one video game, and you leapt to "gaming isn't for you".

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • Sure do. I got good and still have this criticism.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • Good for them. Did they do it without dodging too?

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  • Like that the story is bifurcated and that the combat in the late game is parry or die?

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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN

    www.ign.com /articles/video-game-physical-software-and-hardware-sales-just-had-the-worst-november-in-the-us-since-1995
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’

    www.bloomberg.com /news/newsletters/2025-12-16/-baldur-s-gate-3-maker-promises-divinity-will-be-next-level
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/11/arts/clair-obscur-expedition-33-sandfall.html
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    Evo Japan and Las Vegas 2026 lineups announced

    evo.gg /events/evo2026
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    from Cellar Door Games makers of Rogue Legacy

    Neath - Announcement Trailer

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    Wreckreation maker Three Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on redundancy notice

    www.gamesindustry.biz /wreckreation-maker-three-fields-entertainment-puts-whole-studio-on-redundancy-notice
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-12-02/creator-of-hit-game-shovel-knight-is-at-make-or-break-moment
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    LET IT DIE offline version announced

    www.gematsu.com /2025/12/let-it-die-offline-version-announced
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support

    thisweekinvideogames.com /news/valve-addresses-anti-cheat-steam-machine-concerns-and-is-working-towards-support/
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

    opensource.microsoft.com /blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
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    The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’

    www.bloomberg.com /news/newsletters/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world

    Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers

    thegamepost.com /sony-concord-playable-again-custom-servers/
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    new Steam Controller Steam Machine and VR headset Steam Frame coming in 2026

    Steam Hardware

    store.steampowered.com /sale/hardware
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    ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-11-06/-grand-theft-auto-vi-is-postponed-again-to-november-2026
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    Pillars of Eternity – Turn-Based Mode Beta Announcement Trailer

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    Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

    www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    including video games

    Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles

    www.gamedeveloper.com /business/report-amazon-cutting-corporate-roles-across-key-departments-including-video-games
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    ampersandrew @lemmy.world
    March 19 2026

    MOUSE: P.I. For Hire | Official Release Date Trailer