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The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games (www.bloomberg.com)
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It's true. Reviewers rave about a game, I pick it up and play it, and they're raving about a new one before I've finished that last one. I've got a list of 20+ games that came out this year that I still haven't gotten around to. I might get through 5 of them before the new year. And you know, if wouldn't hurt my ability to play more games if more of them were shorter.

EDIT: I provided this anecdote as a reason contributing to the problems that the industry is experiencing. The article is about the trouble the industry is experiencing as a result of too many competing games being released in a given year. It is not about how I feel about trying to play through many of the ones I found interesting. Apparently Schreier had the same problem on BlueSky with people answering what they think the headline says rather than what the article is about.

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[โ€“] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

It's great. It's early access, so it needs some polishing, but it's already pretty solid. It can be a little overwhelming at first, so make sure you're doing one of the easier difficulties. Get your weapons and character leveled up and it starts becoming more engaging. Try out different weapons too. I was struggling until I started branching out. And keep in mind that the enemies are made up of various parts and you can blow those parts off and then other enemies can pick those parts up and use them. So learning how to take off limbs and then make sure the limbs are destroyed so they can't be re-used is important.

Oh, and it allows gifs in the in-game chat. Something I've never seen in a game before. Type "/gif" followed by any keyword and it tosses an appropriate gif into the chat. It's a lot of fun to mess around with.

[โ€“] Master@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Love it so far. My only complaint is that I've accidentals melted several mods I wanted to keep because I forget which key does what. Wish there was an unlock button and trash you could drag to instead of just two keys. Other than that its great.