Maybe they're trying to appeal to the sovcits with maritime doublespeak

So up until very recently, the monster hunter games had a theme of living in balance with the environment and monsters were only hunted to help control manageable numbers or if some had gone out of control. Then they were apparently specifically told to tone down their environmental messaging to appeal to a wider audience.

I usually have a pretty bad attention span with games so it's wild to me that I've been playing warframe almost exclusively for nearly 3 months now, and I'm super excited for 1999 later this year.

I also really need to get back into the satisfactory server I've been hosting for some friends and finish the turbofuel power plant for them.

Finally, Monomyth came out in early access recently so I've been savoring it. Arx Fatalis had the absolute coolest fantasy setting I have ever seen, as well as just being an awesome game. Monomyth is a love letter and I couldn't be happier.

This game was so bonkers, they don't make them like this anymore. Though, they didn't really make them like that then either.

Regardless, I'm so happy they've resurrected it. I first became aware of them when High Fleet came out, and then Carrier Command 2. They definitely publish game with a style and I love it.

Y'know....cosmic horror, existential dread. What's out in the dark between the stars and why can't I smell my skin?

That's sort of horrifying in a cosmic way.

They did Microsoft in the 90s and nothing really changed

I guess Google really did just change their motto to 'be evil'

It helps to understand some of the deeper lore, but AW2 does a good job of letting you know the important bits so it's not necessary to have played the first one.

Tell that to the people who just got denied the ability to sue over an Uber crash because their daughter agreed to the Uber eats eula

I believe the things you are calling out are an integral part of the ARPG genre so there isn't going to be much change to the core without fundamentally changing the game you're playing. Plenty of people enjoy the wanton clicky destruction and seeing numbers rise, just look how popular stuff like cookie clicker is.

Have you tried monster hunter? (Or god eater or wild hearts) Those games sound a lot like what you're describing. At its heart the core gameplay is 'Hunt monsters to gather parts to make better gear to hunt more powerful monsters'

Instead of mowing down tones of small things though, you take down a single large and dangerous foe. As you progress, new and more powerful foes appear, but despite the large roster of monsters, they all feel unique. And while better gear certainly helps, a good deal of skill is also required.

Wait, the three mile island thing wasn't a joke?

I lived the collectibles in Anacronox, they were little golden taco trophies and their lore was that they used to be highly sought after until it came out that TACO stood for Totally Arbitrary Collectible Object and it tanked the market.

You meet a guy that held on till the bitter end but finally had to sell off his collection because he needed the money, so you give him any you find for trinkets and stuff to help him rebuild his collection.

Edge defaulting to the default pdf viewer is the bane of my existence

Kerbal space program 2 was somehow both rushed and delayed :(

It looked intriguing at first even if the trailer was all prerendered, unfortunately it's an asymmetric pvp game which is an instant turn off for me :(

I don't know if I'm opposed to store exclusives exactly, but epic was paying out the nose to drive people to their store that didn't even have a shopping cart.

They launched a store without a feature every online store has had for decades

It was always a matter of when, not if.