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Oh, I'll add on to this one that Rainbow Six 1 and 3 have been some of the best co-op games I've ever played, and both have LAN. The second game isn't readily available for sale anymore. Even that first game involved editing a lot of level config files in order to circumvent bugs, but it was a great time.

Factorio doesn't give a fuck and will let you play with up to 254 other people on the same server. Most survival crafting games have LAN, as a matter of fact. Somehow this is the only genre that will hold developers accountable on a regular basis and make them hurt for not having LAN and player-controlled servers. Not all of them will, but most will offer LAN.

All of Larian's recent RPG efforts have LAN and direct IP connections: Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2, and Baldur's Gate 3.

Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and the entire Borderlands series (outside of the GOTY edition of Borderlands 1) support LAN, surprisingly, if you want to get your loot game on.

Is Recharge RC the same as the upcoming Unreal engine racing game Recharge? If they don't have the same lineage, they've at least got similar inspirations.

Warside is an upcoming turn-based strategy game inspired by (or ripping off wholesale?) Advance Wars, and it's got LAN in its features list.

Streets of Rogue is an all-timer in the co-op roguelike department, and it too supports LAN.

A game that I download and install on a regular basis in the freeware realm is Armagetron. It's the light cycles from Tron but in an open source LAN game. It doesn't exactly have a ton of depth, but it's good fun for about an hour every couple of years.

I don't think there's a total stock market index fund that only omits Meta.

I also heard your mom hates Dead Space 2.

It would be. The trick is that this initiative is coupled with a better UI for Windows on handhelds, like Valve made for SteamOS. If not this partnered one, then the official one will.

I do see them stopping soon. Those deals are benefiting basically no one anymore. Partners like Square Enix are doing way better by putting their games on PC without an exclusivity period. Sony's not growing their console business over the previous generation, even when their competition has been destroyed. At some point it's just money down the drain.

It was still pretty inherently tied to Bhaal under Baldur's Gate, so it made enough sense to have continuity.

There's definitely a point where a game is too Japanese. Kinitsu Gami didn't seem to make its money back.

There's a beta test branch on Steam that was uploaded 5 months ago, and the game has been age rated in South Korea. Yes, that game is coming. For good reason, it's also the belle of the ball when it comes to marketing deals, so as much as it's a meme to say maybe it's at the next Nintendo Direct, it might be at the next Nintendo Direct. For everyone's sake, I hope it gets its release date soon so that we can stop talking about it.

I read novels too, and there are ways to deliver a story more organically.

Thanks. I gave it a search before asking, and I didn't see it, but with the link you posted elsewhere, I just voted on it.

In general, I'd agree that games are getting better, if for no other reason that there are so many made these days that eventually you'll find something great.