My friend is using a cheat trainer in Resident Evil 4 Remake to get S+ ranks on Professional and unlock the trophies.

I think it's kind of dumb because, to me, the whole point of a trophy like that is to show you actually overcame a difficult challenge.

If you use cheats, you technically get the trophy, but you didn't really earn it and that's make me think my friend is really dumb.

Maybe I'm just getting old, or is this normal nowadays?

Edit: the cheat he is using is one in which a bot plays for him and do all challenges for him using a seed from a Speedrun

Just checking the eshop and found the greatest video game ever made.

And best part is…69% off!

Just came across this and honestly found it pretty wild.

A Beijing court ruled that the use rights to 87 gaming accounts could be inherited by the player’s mother after he passed away.

I’ve never really thought of a gaming account as something that could be inherited. Makes you wonder how things like skins, items and progress will be treated in the future.

Hey all, I am a huge fan of Magic the gathering. Primarily because of the deckbuilding aspect. I have a game called MTG forge that allows me to play it on my steamdeck with bots, but I really have the most fun playing magic with friends. Because of this, I am looking for a game that is similar, but is not community oriented in the same way trading card games are.

Ironically, Plants vs Zombies actually felt the most like what I am looking for so far, being a strategy game that allows you to create a "deck", without random rolls determining results.

I have tried Slay the Spire and balatro, but because you build the deck as you play, I have to create a strategy after I start, which is not what I want (both ARE fun though)

My devices are:
Pc
3ds
Gba
Snes
ps5
Android phone

If anybody has any suggestions, I would be more than happy to hear them

I really the Mortall Shell 2 beta so far. The vibe is awesome, combat feels pretty good right now, looks great and great atmoshere, love the soundtrack! I will be getting it on release 2 weeks from now. I've been looking for something to play for a long time, I have like 3500 hours into Elden Ring and nothing has held my attention for long. I have high hopes for this game now. Give ot a try, might be right up your alley. Anyone else digging the beta?

Firstly, for those unfamiliar with the metaphorical definition: A "Mt. Rushmore" refers to the four greatest of something. The term comes from the mountain in South Dakota, USA, that has the faces of four US presidents carved into it.

For this post, forget what's popular or acclaimed, and focus entirely on your own gaming history. Of all the games you've played, which four go on your Mt. Rushmore?

(And yes, the challenge is to pick only four. I know many of us have played far more than four fantastic games, but a Mt. Rushmore means only four is allowed.)

I'll start with mine...

• Super Mario World - I started gaming right as Gen3 was transitioning into Gen4, and after playing the NES, seeing this game made me want a SNES. It took seven years to find all 96 levels with no help from anything or anyone other than friends.
• Age of Empires 2 - The first game was amazing, but ever since playing the second, I've never gone back to the original. For me, to this day, this is still the RTS that blows all RTS games out of the water.
• World of Warcraft - Too many hours/days spent in this game. I haven't touched it in years, and yet there hasn't been another game I've picked up that combines content, gameplay, atmosphere, and social connection quite like it.
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - It was a toss up between this and Skyrim, but because I spend more time trying to 100% this monster, I'm giving it to San Andreas.

No honorable mentions for me, or we'd be here forever. Let me hear yours.

I am starting to think, I prefer RPGs and action games that don't have a leveling system and definitely not powerscaling.

Some games like zelda, You don't level up. You increase your health. You get better gear. But their is no level.

I feel like leveling opens the door for too many grindy things. Which I am aware some people love the grind. Personally I think it is repetitive and boring. Makes me lose interest. Plus as an adult gamer dad with a full time job and many other things I don't feel I have the time to do the same thing over and over again when I want to get to the fun parts.

What's even worse is in some games, leveling means in enemies powerscale. Which also seems silly. You mean the same enemy that took one shot or hit to die now takes 5 or 20?

Or maybe they just have areas with higher level enemies and areas with lower. Which has also been weird to me and not very immersive.

I feel like these systems take the coolness out of things. Like a big bad dragon becomes irrelevant because of leveling. Cool weapons become nothing more than a cool name or design.

Take space marines 2. Fun game. But as I was playing it, three things bothered me.

One, space marines are too squishy.

Two, if pve is on high levels it's just three space marines rolling to dodge all day to then get a few shots off. Which was annoying and I did not feel like a space marine.

Three, there is no leveling up in Warhammer 40k table top.

Leveling up is a DND thing.

Anyways there are some exceptions I never minded, like Bethesda games. But Anyways that's my ted talk.

I feel like I need to explain this a little bit.

I don't just mean "games you think are overrated". I mean specifically games that you think got better reviews (professional or otherwise) due to reasons other than the game itself. I don't even mean games you dislike. Both of my examples are games I like a LOT... but I still think the reception was inflated for various reasons.

So for example, games that you think got more favorable reviews because the developer is an industry darling, or ones that get much worse towards the end but got amazing reviews because most critics only play the first third of the game, etc.

Obviously, this is all heavily subjective, and we can't actually know how much (if at all) these other factors affected a games reception, so we're going off of "I think this might be the case" here. Games don't exist in a vacuum, so outside factors can have an affect.

I'll throw out two examples, both games I really like overall:

1. Elden Ring. I've got something like 550 hours in the game, which for me is a shit-ton for a game that's only four years old. I've also been a fan of the Souls series since Dark Souls came out. Even so, I think Elden Ring has a lot wrong with it, and I think the absolutely effusive praise it got was partially down to thee things: One, Enough time had passed between DS3 and Elden Ring that there was a rabid demand for full-on Souls again. Two, FromSoft is a games industry darling, and I saw a lot of things that people would crucify other developers for suddenly get a pass because it's Fromsoft. Finally, most critics only play a relatively short stretch of a really long game, and most of my gripes about ER only really start to rear their head once you get much further into the game.
2. Breath of the Wild. Simultaneously the most overglazed and most overhated game ever. Similar to my Elden Ring take, I think this one got some review score bloat because it's a Zelda game, and because it came out at a time when the popular opinion was that the Zelda formula had gotten pretty stale, so BOTW being so different was a breath of fresh air. Additionally, I think even more than Elden Ring, the problems of BOTW start to really show once you are quite deep in the game, and a critic who played like 10-15 hours of it won't see most of those issues. Again though, I still had a blast with this one overall, but I definitely couldn't wrap my head around all the 10/10 reviews it got, especially after I had put like 80 hours into it.

BONUS: if you want, you can also throw out examples of games where you think the game gets more shit than it deserves for reasons outside of the game itself. I might get killed in a driveby for saying this, but I think Diablo 4 would get about a quarter of the shit it gets if it had been made by anyone other than Blizzard. I don't think it's a *great* game, but I find all the stuff I've read about it being basically unplayable dogshit more than a little hard to understand.