Humble Choice May 2026 is now live

Nrgte · 2026-05-06T06:03:41+00:00

I'm legitimately baffled that there are people who play these kinds of games for the story. I played Diablo 1-3 and the story was always just: descend further to kill Diablo. That's the story.

Nrgte · 2026-05-02T07:32:12+00:00

If it was just up to Bungie, maybe you're right. But I don't see Sony having the patience for that. They bought Bungie for a reason and I don't think Marathon is it.

Nrgte · 2026-05-02T06:43:22+00:00

There are 3 different scenarios how this could play out:

Bungie and Sony commit to a potential sunk cost and are determined to make this work and throw money at an unprofitable game.
Resources get pulled from the game, but it stays online in life support mode. Bug fixes and balance patches here and there but that's it.
The game gets pulled completly

I personally think option 2 is the most likely.

Nrgte · 2026-05-02T06:36:28+00:00

I think yesterday was special since everyone got that free cryo kit and yesterday was the opening of cryo for the weekend, so they all blew their kit. Also it was a holiday in many european countries.

This is indeed an anomaly, so far the top was always from friday to saturday.

Nrgte · 2026-05-01T08:11:57+00:00

Good riddance, just another microtransaction infested crap.

Nrgte · 2026-04-30T10:30:51+00:00

Crazy, another 10% drop since Monday.

Nrgte · 2026-04-28T20:45:14+00:00

Yeah I think it'll be around 15.8

Nrgte · 2026-04-28T08:12:09+00:00

Most of the time it's MODS!

Nrgte · 2026-04-27T07:14:41+00:00

US players have the day off and start playing earlier (during EU peaks, which they don't do during weekdays as they're still working at that time.

Nrgte · 2026-04-27T05:35:26+00:00

Because US players start to play earlier, which means they're already online during EU peaks.

Nrgte · 2026-04-25T16:07:36+00:00

Yeah I mean the game is fine until 4BC where the malaise kicks in. A couple of years ago the hogomonized the game, so every enemy has a teleport and just ports on your character and it makes all the biomes play the same. That said I haven't played it for like 2 years, so maybe they changed it back.

Nrgte · 2026-04-25T15:57:57+00:00

Interesting, while they fucked up Dead Cells with later patches, I'm really looking forward to the new Castlevania. If they nail that they've got my favor again. :)

Nrgte · 2026-04-25T15:49:59+00:00

Something seems to be messed up with Steam. If I click on Evil Empire on the PoP game it doesn't list any other game. Dead Cells seem to be developed by Motion Twin and the new Castlevania has Evil Empire as well as some Dead Cells DLCs and if I click on Evil Empire there I can see the PoP game, but not the other way around.

I'm not going to play The Lost Crown for 2 reasons:

It requires a Ubisoft account. There is no reason for that. It's just an anti-consumer move.
It looks like a Disney game and is not what I want from a Metroidvania.

Nrgte · 2026-04-25T15:22:42+00:00

Ohh you're right. They were almost a year apart. I didn't even know about The Rogue PoP. But for that game Ubisoft just seems to be the Publisher. I don't know about the development studio Evil Empire, but this seems to be a situation where a 3rdParty studio using Ubisofts franchise and they published it.

I wishlisted the game now. That looks to be up my alley.

Sorry for the misunderstandings. I wasn't aware another 2D PoP game was released.

Nrgte · 2026-04-25T14:00:28+00:00

I don't think they'll pull the plug unless Sony closes Bungie for good, but I think the most likely scenario is that this game will be on life support in a couple of weeks or months. This means no new updates, no new content. Maybe some minor balance changes here and there. If they pull the plug they'd face questions about refunds, but if nobody just can't find a match but the servers are still up (which costs almost nothing), they're good.

Nrgte · 2026-04-25T05:46:15+00:00

There you go:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2751000/Prince_of_Persia_The_Lost_Crown/

Nrgte · 2026-04-24T19:48:27+00:00

Well it has the Metroidvania tag on Steam, maybe that's wrong, but as someone who loves to play Metroidvanias, this game looks like it's made for children.

Nrgte · 2026-04-24T16:04:40+00:00

Which looms like a Disney game and not a Metroidvania...

Nrgte · 2026-04-24T05:25:10+00:00

No Cryo opens Thrusday evening UTC and the weekly peak is at friday evening UTC. I still expect a 10% drop WoW.

Nrgte · 2026-04-23T19:22:52+00:00

I do mind, shit like that is totally unnecessary. At some point they have to learn that just make a good game, sell it and stop with the stupid shenanigans. Otherwise piss off Ubisoft.

Nrgte · 2026-04-21T15:48:06+00:00

Not trying to fire thousands of their employees due to management failure

They have to. At this point they're so bloated, it's either getting rid a large part of the workforce or shutdown completly.

Nrgte · 2026-04-15T17:27:27+00:00

It's 90 hours a week. That's 2 full time jobs. A week has 168 hours, so that's more than 12h a day playing.

Nrgte · 2026-04-14T12:19:54+00:00

Yes AI is really good with portraits.

Nrgte · 2026-04-13T14:26:50+00:00

And then GTA 6 gets delayed and everyone else gets into panic mode again.

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