Yeah, the point of this comic is less about people buffing their favorite class (though people do tend to lean towards that) and more about people generally thinking ‘balanced’ means everything is equal.

Though the man in the purple shirt is definitely wanting to get rid of the advantages rogues have on mages… The mages symbol also being purple lol.

There should be more mature games.

I don’t mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.

Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that’s getting murky too lately.

You can tell the ninja is going to be a bad candidate.
Good ninjas are hard to find.

As I recall, most fast food places have a timer for how long people have been waiting in the drive thru line. This is tied to ‘performance’ metrics or whatever.

They have you pull around so you’re “out” of the drive thru line and not hurting their metrics.

Some sort of handyman job where I can help people in need. But not where I’m crunching them for money or up selling them on junk they don’t need.

A lot of people I know are struggling and I don’t know how to help them.

They have vaguely asked me for help but they all have difficult problems that I can’t do a whole lot about. I know its not necessarily my responsibility to fix things for them but I tend to have a ‘fix things’ mentality and I get stuck thinking about what I can possibly even do.

I got shot with an arrow but it hit my rib and bounced off. I’m sure my jacket also did some deflection too.

A friend thought he could land an arrow next to me to surprise me - Turns out he’s a bad shot.

Maybe I need another coffee but I’m a little confused.

So this site (named after a previous writing practice workshop that shut down after a series of scandals) is trying to do the same thing but isn’t actually hosting anything and is more or less pointing to a Reddit megathread with like over a dozen other writing practice workshops?

Edit: Is the point of this just to practice writing a novel for self achievement?

Ah another one - Forced stealth sections where you can’t be detected at all. Especially in a game where stealth is optional or not even a thing you can really do normally.

I don’t like durability mechanics when its clearly there just to waste your time or money or whatever. Any game that makes you do more hiking to repair benches than fighting is either getting a thumbs down or I’m going to download a mod.

So far the biggest issues I’ve faced are League of Legends and funky network driver issues. One of those I can work at, the other not so much.

I’ve seen prototypes of RPGs where you could freeform talk to NPCs and I pretty quickly lost enthusiasm for the idea after seeing it in action.

It didn’t feel like a DnD game where you’re maneuvering a social conflict with the DM or other players, it felt more like the social equivalent of jumping up on a table where an NPC couldn’t get to you and stabbing them in the face.

This is a weirdo complaint but one thing I don’t like that some modern games keep doing is adding a lot of visual/texture noise by having a lot of details.

Sometimes its OK, but sometimes it gets difficult to tell what’s going on in the chaos of a fight. Combined with particle effects, reflections, and the DLSS or FSR or whatever and it gets to be a bit of an eye strainer.

Halos usually pretty good about strong enemy colors and easy to read room layouts but a few glimpses of this have me raising an eyebrow.

Is that… Pepper as a playable character?

This one is starting to sway one direction more than the other but: Using AI for indie game development. (For music, voice work, art, code, writing, gameplay, etc)

You’ve probably seen many arguments for and against AI at this point so I won’t harp on that too much. It is interesting/frustrating to see where some devs focuses are, and why this has contributed to an insane amount of AI art in games lately.

Depending on what you’re looking for in critique, Steam may not be a great place to get feedback. If you’re looking for just a handful of focus users, you’re better off uploading a game to itch.io and then asking people to try it via whatever relevant channels you’re looking at.

Steam is better for reviews. Though reviews are not aimed at the dev but aimed at potential buyers which is very different looking.

Per game.

I really enjoyed the Sims 2 on the Xbox because it was co-op and I was eager to see how they handled co-op in future games.

Then I found out that they just never did co-op again and I was incredibly disappointed.

I quite liked Fields of Mistria though its still early access.

KB/M is a little easier for placing things but its not at all bad with a gamepad.

I got several, I’ve found that some people really think about what I like in a game and nail a recommendation and some people just recommend things they liked, regardless how I feel on them.

The big ones would be Breath of the Wild and Helldivers 2.