I see. Thank you for that.

FWIW, I do my best to promote non-ML alternatives.

I agree. I love the style. But that being said, I have some younger family members (in their 20s) who are into gaming and they think this is some old school stuff that’s unappealing (they like modern RPGs).

I really got to try Daggerfall, some of the mods radically improve the coherence and depth of the open world.

For some reason, I really like the graphical style (probably nostalgia).

This is an excellent point. An organisation the size of Sony is simply incapable of not attempting a live service hit as long as they have the resources to do so.

A smaller player can pursue a strategy where they gain profits from their (somewhat specialized) segement of the market. Sony lacks that flexibility due to their size.

This is pretty funny.

Love for Sail is probably the pinnacle of the older LS releases.

Definitely worth checking out if the Leisure Suite Larry series seems appealing.

Zarya does look very interesting.

I never backed (I only back single player games on Kickstarter). Just wanted to share with others the saga of this 12 years in-development indie crowdfunded MMO.

Replacing LW with another option works too.

I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they feel like it make adjustments accordingly.

LW is fine. This a community dedicated to a niche video-game genre. The community already existed, just had very few posts.

1. Sign up on lemmy.world
2. Pick some communities to subscribe on https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1
3. For mobile get the “Voyager on Lemmy” app (available on Android/iOS) and log in with your lemmy.world account.

As someone who doesn’t play on consoles, the first time I encountered Kingdom Hearts, I thought this was a satirical piece. As if the gaming site made up a fake game. Goofy, Donald Duck and the Final Fantasy fellow together sounded like a teen fanfic.

No disrespect intended. I am genuinely happy if KH brings entertainment to people. Just sharing my literal “first impression”.

There likely are (I quit Twitter over a year ago), just because it does unique coverage on many topics.

Agreed. Just at this point I think it’s fair to say that this policy is definitely not in effect.

It’s a comically bad experience.

I get it that it’s probably easier to setup a Discord server, than to run your own forum, but you can always get a managed solution or use reddit (I would prefer if Lemmy was used, but I am also realistic).

Haven’t tried the demo, but based on the screenshots it looks like it’s still in the early phase of development.

I really hope indie gamedevs start moving off Discord. Sometimes it’s the only source for finding help or reporting bugs.

I was wondering if this is the case due to the “first store label”, but I wasn’t abel to find a link to the Steam store page for the full game.

I guess I didn’t look well enough. :(

Tried out the demo in late 2024. I really like the concept. It didn’t feel like all those "[retail store type] simulator] UE5 asset flips that are all over Steam. It has it’s own visual style and IMO has more refined core gameplay mechanics. Sure, some of the gamplay is similar (and can be very addicting), but you can see that thought was put into the gameplay mechanics.

If the 1st person store simulator concept seems intriguing, but you are looking for something beyond a quick UE5 asset flip, I would recommend to check this out.

I am surprised that it was released for free. I briefly interacted with the dev in late 2024 and I was under the impression that there would be a commercial release in 1H 2025.

Don’t know the game’s other qualities, but IMO the art in Summertime Saga looks rather uninspired.