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BmeBenji, do gaming w Self insert power fantasy recommendations?

If you like Prey 2017, and you want to kill things like an absolute monster, and you want to play as a girl, Dishonored 2 is a good fit for all of those things. It’s not indie, and I’m not sure you can see boobs, but it’s a great game by any measure (though it’s not well optimized on PC). It’s not an RPG and it lacks the large skill tree of Prey, but it is an action-forward stealth immersive sim with cool eldritch super powers.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Thankies!

LainTrain, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

Yikes. Is the review in the screenshot true? They got root anticheat? Or rootkit data harvesting?

FauxLiving, (edited )

No, it’s misinformation and people who uncritically repeat things without verification.

I’ve had the game installed for years and have to manually apply updates, there hasn’t been one. e: I just checked, last update in Steam is dated 2022

All they’ve done is make their TOS universal across all of their games.

e: adding this from last post. TL;DR: People are spreading misinformation

So, let’s look into the claims.

Here’s the TOS:

www.take2games.com/legal/en-US/

There is nothing about root level access.

In addition, if you look at the patch history for Borderlands 2 on SteamDB, you will see that the last update for the game was 4 August 2022.

So, to be clear: There is nothing in the TOS that requires you to submit to a rootkit and there is no spyware that has been added. The comment in the OP is simply wrong.

Diurnambule,

He said it, root access level in the TOS of BorderLand. Not that a root kit is included, but that they allowed them self to inclid it whenever they can. That not misinformation…

FauxLiving,

He said it

That not misinformation…

It is misinformation if the things he said are not true.

So, let’s look into the claims.

Here’s the TOS:

www.take2games.com/legal/en-US/

There is nothing about root level access.

In addition, if you look at the patch history for Borderlands 2 on SteamDB, you will see that the last update for the game was 4 August 2022.

So, to be clear:

There is nothing in the TOS that requires you to submit to a rootkit and there is no spyware that has been added. The comment in the OP is simply wrong.


This is what happens when you simply read social media and repeat what you’ve heard without checking to see if you’re spreading misinformation.

Cataphract,

I’m really curious on what actual specific steps you took to “check”. It took me about a few minutes of reading to find it.

www.take2games.com/privacy/en-US/#3-sources-of-in…

We also may use internal and third-party anti-cheat technologies to detect and prevent cheating within our Services.

Furthermore, www.take2games.com/legal/en-US/#10-availability specifically section 10.2

We may provide patches, updates, or upgrades to the Services, Virtual Items, Content, or your Account that may be required for you to continue using the Services, including automatic or “in the background” updates without notice to you.

I hope the people who upvoted your misinformation are able to see this, please think of your actions and conduct before posting multiple comments defending a company if you’re worried about misinformation.

Warl0k3,

That… doesn’t actually rebut anything FauxLiving said. That they may use anti-cheat, and that they may have automatic updates, aren’t the claims in question here.

Crashumbc,

Ummm those two would statements would in fact allow them to install a “anticheat” rookit/kernel program at any time without your knowledge…

Diurnambule, (edited )

He said they added a kernel level anticheat in the TOS which is true. But they seem to have not included it in the game yet. But they tell that by possedong the game you allow them to. Edit : typo but can’t correct “possedong” now

wetbeardhairs,

possedong

I’d like to know how your autocorrect learned this word

Hadriscus,

That’s a typo from an i to an o, commenter probably meant possessing but made a mistake and tried to type posseding, I suspect their native language is french given their username and “to possess” in french is “posséder”.

That being said, a possedong sounds intriguing

Diurnambule,

Do you do osint ? … That pretty Mich on point. I use a English/French keyboard and sometime autocorrect do strange things.

Hadriscus,

I had to look this up… looks like it’s a whole thing

Diurnambule,

Really ? I though, since you used a though process used in osint. Osint is open sources intelligences, it is looking for data about something/someone in data available for all

Grandwolf319, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.

I’ll do you one better, a guitar solo comes on.

Hades’ third phase is a banger.

Amnesigenic,
@Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml avatar

Came here to say this, their implementation for his extreme measures modifier is ideal. Every other boss has all sorts of cool new moves, but the final boss is doing absolutely nothing new through the first two phases, then takes a knee like always. You might start to wonder if it’s malfunctioning for a moment, then that guitar tells you loud and clear that you’re about to get fucked hard.

Onyxonblack, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! "“FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!”

red,

Apart from the politics, the Borderlands games themselves are hardly utter shit for the most part.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge, (edited )
@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub avatar

The writing is garbage but,… it’s a game for edgy teenagers. It would be.

The gameplay for me is Diablo with guns. It would suck for anyone not into that. If anyone isn’t into that, don’t buy Borderlands games.

red,

Got to argue, I’m a 39 year old gamer, started with PCs back in 90s.

The games are casual fun, they work great as co-op shooters. Story is what it is, but the games themselves are lighthearted and just pure entertaining fun.

Not masterpieces. Just good.

keckbug,

The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well.

Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety.

But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out.

bitwolf,

I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on.

Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas.

I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn’t value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer.

If you liked only the first two, def give Tina’s a try, if it has a good sale.

MrScottyTay,

I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn’t mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn.

JackbyDev,

What are you arguing with? I don’t see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.

red,

I guess his premise, that it’s for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch.

JackbyDev,

You would’ve been 16 years old on launch if you’re 39 now though.

red,

True, but I’ve been couch-cooping them only recently.

propitiouspanda,

I think they’re pretty terrible.

I’ve tried multiple times to get in to them and I’ve come to the conclusion they’re just for a gamer with lower standards than me.

This is also based off of the games that I see borderlands fans like that I think suck ass.

dil,

Except lawbreakers but he tainted it by supporting it and made ppl against it

Crankenstein,

Bro thank you for mentioning Lawbreakers. Such a fun game that was cut short.

propitiouspanda,

Lawbreakers was made by Boss Key studios, headed by Cliff Blezsinski who was the guy behind Gears of War.

You may be thinking of Battleborn, which was made by Gearbox.

psycho_driver,

You’re definitely right about Pitchford or w/e dingleberry’s name is.

ms_lane,

everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit

OpFor was good, Blue Shift was alright too.

Everything since they stole the whole idea of Borderlands has been bad though.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m sorry, but Battleborn was brilliant. Deadlock is the first game to re-capture (and expand on) the mix of mechanics Battleborn put together.

Didn’t stop Gearbox from shutting it down so that no-one who bought it could ever play again. Not even the story campaign.

Korhaka,

Yes, but it should still be illegal for a company to do this. Don’t let them blame the users for accepting this bullshit. As Louis Rossmann would say, they have the mentality of a rapist.

propitiouspanda,

Hear hear!

Borderlands is a neat concept, but it’s ruined by an awful studio and reddit-tier ‘humor.’

It was nice to see Battleborn fail because honestly that’s what the studio deserves.

sp3ctr4l, (edited )

Yep, I am jumping in with you on this one.

The cell-shaded art style? Not the problem, imo.

The problem is the just astoundingly terrible writing, immensely insufferable characters, and astonishingly brain dead gameplay.

Why have weapon balance ortactically interesting scenarios or any real sense of progression in gameplay when we can just procedurally generate guns and do everything we can to make everything into roughly the same level of bullet sponge with auto levelling?

They are the lowest common denominator of co-op shooter games, made for people who enjoy bombastic sensory overload and near zero prefrontal cortex brain activity while gaming.

sad_detective_man, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.
@sad_detective_man@leminal.space avatar

Claire Obscure was so fucking good

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

Game of the year, no question.

omega_x3,

Simon you weren’t that tough,…wait where was experience screen? Oh shit!

But_my_mom_says_im_cool, (edited ) do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

Don’t speak I’ll of steam and billionaire Gabe around here. The steam bros are gonna crucify you for daring to even think ill of THEIR corporation and THEIR billionaire who of course loves and cares for them all.

Edit: there it is 🤣

kadup,
@kadup@lemmy.world avatar

What’s Steam got to do with Borderlands 2 having a rootkit?

Blackmist,

You’re right that it’s not Valve they’re mad at, buuuuut…

They could regulate that no games they sell can have rootkits and delist the ones that do, as well as offer refunds if a rootkit is patched in in the future. They have lots of rules already, and I don’t think that would be a bad one.

kadup,
@kadup@lemmy.world avatar

So should Walmart stop selling products that I deem unfit based on my personal preferences too? Say goodbye to animal fats, products made in the US, ultra processed foods, some fruit I just don’t like the taste of, all Nestlé products…

I think you get the point.

Blackmist,

If somebody put strychnine in the guacamole, I’d expect Walmart to remove it from the shelves and offer refunds to anyone that bought it.

If somebody distributed malware through Steam, I’d expect them to stop it also.

Not that there is currently malware in Borderlands 2, but their EULA says they could put it there if they wanted, and there’s nothing you could do about it.

As usual, money is the best message. So if they do put it into a game you’ve paid for, request a refund. If Valve starts losing money, they will change their rules.

Diurnambule,

Steam refunded me multiple time for game where EULA changed and I disagreed with it. I told them that the EULA changed to include spyware capabilities and I don’t agree with the EULA change.

BlameTheAntifa,

I didnt realize Steam would do that. There have been several times where EULAs changed or malware was added a year or more later and I just assumed I had no recourse.

Diurnambule,

Dépend on the backslash they get. I have to admit it didn’t work each time. Last time I did it was for a psn account requirement added after they sold it

gamermanh,

I actually tried this with BL2 last week and got told “no, you’ve owned it for almost 10 years”

I find it hard to disagree with that notion, but also have a pirated copy with my saves backed up ready to fucking go

Diurnambule,

Yeah it didn’t work each time.I don’t remember the specific game, I think they got a huge backslash with some game and I kept asking for refund and telling them I disagree with EULA update which made my game unusable. I am in Europe through, that may have played a rôle

A_Union_of_Kobolds,

That’s a nice thought, and they should do that, but you’ve gotta do better at picking and choosing your moments

Blackmist,

I’m not the guy that guy replied to.

Just a random guy who thinks Gabe can put his foot down with these publishers. They already all tried going without Steam and they came crawling back.

But_my_mom_says_im_cool,

If this was on PSN or the Nintendo shop, everyone downvoting me would be up in arms blaming Sony and Nintendo

OutlierBlue,

But it’s not. So don’t make up scenarios and then claim persecution when people downvote you.

kadup,
@kadup@lemmy.world avatar

Making up scenarios and claiming to know what the response would be sure is a way to make an argument.

I mean, the worse most laughable way, but it’s a way indeed.

RevolverSly,

Objection! Speculative

Agrivar,

Your mom is wrong. You are not even slightly cool.

But_my_mom_says_im_cool,

This thread makes me wish we could have a discussion community where we exclude Americans. Even the left are nuts over there now. Nothing but name calling and shit slinging. Glad your country is drowning

Diurnambule,

Hahaha, you killed me. XD You have problem with the default country ?

Agrivar,

Cry moar, I’ll never see your blocked ass again :-)

the_swagmaster, do games w What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest?

Half-life 3 launch trailer! /s

Jk, in reality I’d love to see more about the new bond game. Was hoping they’d show more after they showed off the first trailer.

v4ld1z, do games w What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest?

Lies of P: Overture. There’s rumors of a shadow drop happening this week

Edit: It literally just dropped as I typed this out. I’m beyond excited

grandmagos30,

Sadly, I am too caught up in the idea of it being a Pinnochio souls-like to ever take that game seriously. All power to the people that like it, however

v4ld1z,

I get that - it was the same thing for me. It’s barely noticeable, though, unless you’re very familiar with the novel and the Disney adaptation. It’s a very tasteful homage to the novel by Carlo Collodi, but you don’t need to have read the novel to appreciate the game for what it is. It’s essentially Bloodborne 2 for what it’s worth. Truly amazing game.

Might just be a tad biased :D But if you keep an open mind about it and that’s all that’s keeping you from giving it a try, I promise you - you won’t regret trying it. There should still be a demo for the game if you’re up for it. :)

Crankenstein,

Spoiler lore reveals from the ending

spoilerIt is much more than just Pinocchio’s story. Dorothy makes an appearance and there are hints of Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty & the Beast and a few others are alluded to throughout the game if you pay close attention.

The story also takes after the older rendition of the tale that is much more mature in its representation of themes. Think of it like a “Brothers Grimm” version instead of the watered down Disney edition.

BigBananaDealer, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
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lemmy yet again falls for the ragebait hook line and sinker

BuboScandiacus, do games w I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback?
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@remindme 1 day

duchess, do games w What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest?

Bloodborne on PC

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

lmao 🥹

58008, do games w What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest?
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Same here, either Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 would be the dream (why not both in a fancy new Orange Box?)

Hell, a non-VR version of Alyx would make me happy! I do have access to a headset, but I get very sick very fast when I use it. Pounding headaches, nausea, it’s really bad 😒

SolidShake,

There’s a mod for it

SolidShake, do games w What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest?

Apparently nothing.

Mechaguana, do games w I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback?
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I played it all night, but got bored when the image wasnt changing after downloading it.

Coelacanth, do games w What are you all looking forward to at Summer Games Fest?
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I had no idea it was today so I’m not looking forward to anything in particular. Having just finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 it would be amazing news if they had an announcement that they’re intending to release a DLC.

Would also love to see something from Remedy about Control 2 as I love those guys and the Remedy Connected Universe. Well, what I’m really desperate about is Alan Wake 3, but that’s surely not even in pre-production yet (sadly).

Would not mind seeing something from Bloodlines 2 either out of morbid curiosity, but I have no hopes it will actually be good.

grandmagos30,

I’m excited for Control 2, but with FBC: Firebreak coming out soon, I don’t think it’s gonna be for 5-6~ years

Coelacanth,
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Control 2 entered full production this year. I don’t think it’ll be more than 3 years unless something goes terribly wrong.

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