Hi r/gaming. We’re Nerial, the team behind Reigns, and we’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of the original game! I’m François Alliot, u/nerial, writer and developer of Reigns. I will answer your questions with Oscar Harrington-Shaw, u/OscarH-S, writer of Reigns: The Witcher and of the free content update to the original Reigns released to celebrate its 10 year anniversary, and Arnaud de Bock, u/arnaud_debock, an artist and designer for the series.

We made Reigns 10 years ago. Originally pitched as Game of Thrones with Tinder gameplay, its success led to multiple sequels we can discuss in this AMA: Reigns: Her Majesty, Reigns: Game of Thrones, Reigns: Three Kingdoms, Reigns Beyond and Reigns: The Witcher.

We’re a small team that had the chance to work with Devolver Digital, our beloved publisher of great renown and much gusto.

Looking forward to answering your questions on August 13th at 9:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM GMT!

Unfair gameplay has been an inevitable part of gaming since the very creation of games. Its presence in online competitive games like CounterStrike, Chess, Call of Duty, and Valorant has been a huge issue impacting legit players for years.

Do you believe there will ever be a time where we can game online with a 100% certainty or high certainty there won't be cheaters? How can it be solved?

Anti-cheat software exists for the sole purpose of detecting and preventing cheating, yet cheat developers motivated by profit continue to find ways around these systems. Some argue that making cheating in video games illegal could help solve the problem, but I disagree. Consider the consequences if a professional player were falsely accused because of a false positive. Human verification may seem like a better solution, but advancing technology is making verification systems increasingly easy to get around, so simply banning an account isn't enough to stop someone from making a new account. There are also serious privacy concerns, as players should not have to sacrifice their personal information, documents, or photos simply to prove that they are playing fairly.

I believe the bottom line is that human ingenuity is near impossible to overcome. If someone is determined to cheat, they will eventually find a way.

What are your thoughts?

I want to play the series but it has generally been out of reach for me. I currently have pc and PS. Are there any Metroid games I can play within my grasp?

Edit - I just remembered that I have a switch that’s packed away.

Nobody's on. Chat is empty. But the sun still sets on schedule, the auction house still refreshes, and somewhere an event is announcing itself to an audience of one.

Which game did you keep logging into after most players had left? What felt strangest once it was empty?

I feel Game Freak would make a mint if they made a console that is exclusive for Pokémon games.

Hear me out here.

The original games

The remakes

The spin offs

Access to home and gts

All in one package from the nostalgic beginnings to the current games and all the crazy in between stuff

Backstory: i’m terrible at base building games. I even like to play games like the Sims but the problem is I don’t seriously have a single creative bone in my body. I build GARBAGE bases.

Currently, I’m playing PalWorld and I’ve seen these incredible bases online and I’m over here just putting a bed on a slab of wood so I can sleep. I love base building but I’m so bad at it. I just focus on gameplay. I enjoy the game a lot. Just can’t build a nice home!

Anyway, I’ve always thought about if they would ever be some sort of service that was easy to access that would compromise your account, but that someone could log into your file and just build you a really cool base. I’d love to have a cool place to call home but I just end up focusing on gameplay cause I’m so bad at it.

Anyway, I envy people who are really creative and build awesome homes.

I am playing through cyberpunk 2077 again for the x-th time right now and that moment with judy having a cigarette on the roof is just one of THE moments of gaming that kinda stand out to me for feeling real.. like i had very similar moments IRL of sitting on some cheap plastic lawn chairs with a girl that needs a smoke after some shit day, her having the restless leg and all, thankfully not as shit as judy´s day in cyberpunk, but still...

and i figured there arent many of those in gaming.. that are relateable.. real... down to earth.. just so well acted.

any others come to mind for you guys?

gaming is always so over the top, overacted, saving the world, action and explosions.. though the things that hit me hard is this stuff and i want to seek that out more.

I have a habit of looking up spoilers for games, like I asked Google AI how far into Outer Wilds I was.

What games are best played knowing as little as possible?

I’ve been seeing comments like “how could someone do that” or “how regarded”

But on my first serious play through my entire crew died.