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Jackthelad, do games w This console generation seems skippable

I think this is by far the worst generation for gaming.

Obviously from a technical standpoint, it’s great. Fast loading times, better performance, graphical prowess. But in terms of the quality of the games, it’s dire. I honestly don’t understand why I was in such a rush to buy a PS5, because most of the games I’ve enjoyed have had PS4 versions, so whilst I may have experienced that better performance and graphics etc, I didn’t really need to buy a PS5.

kaitco,

I didn’t need to buy my PS5 either, but my PS4 was a much older device I’d bought cheap from a co-worker and I felt like it was getting slow.

The bonus of having both is that the PS4 is comparatively light and compact, so I can travel with it, and for the two PS5 exclusives I have, there is an option to remote play the PS5 on the PS4, so I’m generally happy with my purchase.

All that notwithstanding, I’ve got an Xbox One X and I’ve seen no real need to upgrade that to a Series X. There are no Xbox exclusives for the Series X/S that have been driving forces.

This generation honestly feels like it lacks direction. The consoles are more expensive and are huge devices, with controllers that now cost more than games. With the original scarcity of the newer consoles, nearly four years into this generation, new releases are still available for the older gen. I feel like we’re reaching a point where console evolution either needs to take an enormous leap, or we just stop seeing console generations altogether.

Radio_717,

The size of this current console gen is strange TBH. Consoles have always been smaller and more compact than a full fledged Desktop PC.

I was taking my brand new PS4 on work trips and playing games all the time. No way that’s happening with the size of the PS5.

Consoles aren’t supposed to be portable I understand that BUT it’s definitely a consideration for a subset of customers that are on the go.

I prolly won’t get a PS5 unless I’m burning cash when GTA6 comes out.

MajorHavoc,

I agree, thoughts are dire, from a AAA perspective, but the Indie scene is still hopping fun on Evercade and SteamDeck.

This is actually why I got a SteamDeck - I’ll dip into the AAA titles occasionally, but the Indie games are what I pre-order now.

RHOPKINS13, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

Pokémon. You get to choose from Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle for your starter. And everyone you know will judge you for which starter you picked.

tryptaminev,
@tryptaminev@feddit.de avatar

When you have a link cable and a friend you just exchange starters to each other so you have all three of them.

Rhynoplaz,

What if I have two link cables and no friends?

MelodiousFunk,
@MelodiousFunk@startrek.website avatar

Nipple tassels.

ECB,

Doesn’t the original only have a single save slot?

So you’d need at least a third copy for both of you to get all three.

tryptaminev,
@tryptaminev@feddit.de avatar

Two copies are enough.

You just safe 5 starters on one copy and then move the two that are double back to the other copy when they got their third starter.

ECB,

Ah yeah I see!

I was just thinking of trying to do it without erasing anyone’s game or making them start over.

JackGreenEarth, do gaming w I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next?
@JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee avatar

Minecraft Java. Minecraft bedrock is full of microtransactions, and we both dislike those.

Gabu,

Minecraft Java isn’t available on Xbox, is it?

haui_lemmy,

No but pc is now available on tv. The more people use it, the faster these monetization machines called this decades consoles can wither and die.

JackGreenEarth,
@JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee avatar

Idk, on Android you can run Pojav Launcher, but I don’t really know much about x boxes. Probably a mistake to buy such a closed ecosystem in the first place, from the little I have heard.

Evotech,

They are ten. They’re not going to use third party launchers

JackGreenEarth,
@JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee avatar

Why would being ten have any relation to using Pojav Launcher?

Maggoty,

At ten I was coding basic stuff and figuring out lan networks to play multiplayer games in the early 90’s. An average 10 year old is very capable of figuring out tech stuff.

Evotech,

I’m sure they are. But they are not going to in order to play Minecraft with their friends.

Maggoty,

Eh… Like I said, I was doing a bit more just to play with friends. I guess these days it would depend. If you did the install and introduced it as the method for launching the game I don’t think they’d even question it.

GammaGames, do gaming w Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

I wonder if the decision has anything to do with selling refurbished units. It’s a good change, glad to see this!

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Almost definitely. When they did the initial release, it could have easily been a flop, and if it was a flop, it would have been pointless to have gone in planning to repair and sell refurbished units. Now that sales are showing its a hit, they are taking the time to invest in changes for more long-term support.

Self-tapping screws made sense for a product in an entirely new product category without knowledge if it would be successful or not. Torx screws that slide into metal threads makes a lot more sense for what is expected to be a product with long shelf-life.

aperson,

The only thing is, the refurb market can’t be that great to pay for this change. You might not think it, but changing to better screws and adding the metal threads is crazy more expensive.

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

Crazy more expensive for raw profits - per unit, it’s basically negligible.

You could say this if s consumer focused effort to achieve market share or sell more games, but I choose to believe this if just what happens

Personally, I think this is just what happens when you have an employee run tech company. They lose out on like 0.05% profits, but more then make up for it through game sales and reputation

I mean realistically, this is probably a few cents a unit. Across hen million units, that’s real money. But quality pays over time. They lose out on quarterly profits, but they don’t worry about that bs - they’re not publicly traded, and they’ll make way more on a 5 year timespan

aperson,

Parts are cheap, new tooling for different moulds and an extra processing step is not though!

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

Fair point, although I’d argue that this is probably a cheap and standard extra step

Molds and turn around time are definitely expensive… But much cheaper if you wait until the next version that probably will have different mount points for the newer internals

I’m not saying this isn’t worth praising, I’m just saying this is exactly what integrity and giving your employees autonomy looks like. You come back for version 2, and you take your lessons learned, you explore the improvements that you thought up during the last version

It’s just basic craftsmanship, but that has unfortunately been smothered in most places these days. You have to be big enough for this to be an R&D effort you can afford to fail, but small enough no one has bought you up to wring you for value

Tak,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

That and they want as many Steam decks to be working as possible. They don’t make their money on Steam Deck’s as much as they make money on people buying games for them.

helenslunch,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Right, and having them last longer means they can be obtained for a lower price on the used market.

flameguy21, do gaming w What is something (feature, modes, settings...) you would like to see become a standard in video games?

It’s mental to me that most console games still don’t let you change the controller bindings like you can on PC.

TychoRC,

Yes! I almost always change a few of the buttons when I get the chance. Extra points if the game is nice enough to let you know when your changes conflict with other presets.

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

A lot of PC games let you change mouse and keyboard bindings, but not controller bindings, because they have “keyboard and mouse mode” or “console mode” if the controller is used.

I’ve got no problem with having a sensible set of defaults, but if I get a controller with more buttons, unless this is a competitive multiplayer game that needs a level playing field, I’d like to be able to take advantage of them.

saigot,

Steams controller rebinding tools are a real killer feature.

tal, (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Yeah, but if that’s the only way a game developer implements it, they’re tying themselves to Steam. I mean, if I were a game developer, I wouldn’t want to do that, as it’s a lot of lock-in.

I think that Valve’s service is a pretty good one, but they’re taking a 30% cut for doing a number of things for game developers. If they become the only game in town, it’s possible that they might start taking more than 30% and those developers are going to be kind of stuck with that.

It’s common across games, so it doesn’t make sense for game devs to reimplement the wheel, but I’d think that putting as much as possible in the game engine would be a reasonable place.

flameguy21,

Not being able to bind the controller on PC is even more insane to me. Why can I change my entire keyboard layout but not change the controller AT ALL?

Haui, do gaming w Buggy games should be 100% allowed to be refunded.
@Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I get that you‘re frustrated for more reasons than a freshly released game has bugs but this is literally the first time I hear of bg 3 being not completeable. What specs are you running on?

exododo, do piracy w A way to disable laugh tracks?

But how would you know when something is funny then? (canned laughter)

Draconic_NEO,
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You just have to use your judgement and laugh at what you find funny on your own, if you need peer pressure (opinions of others) to find something funny then it’s not really funny to you and maybe isn’t even funny for many people to begin with.

This might be controversial but maybe many Sitcoms that do this were never funny in the first place and used laugh tracks because try as they might they had to force people to find it funny via artificial peer pressure, that either constitutes of a crowd being told to laugh on cue, or a recording of them doing so, which is what a laugh track is.

Here’s the key point and why we stopped using them, things aren’t funny, people think certain things are funny, and they also think plenty of things are not funny, and like it or not people are not always going to find the same things funny.

jameskirk,
@jameskirk@startrek.website avatar

It was a joke, man.

superkret,

I think the response may have been one too, at your expense.

LazerFX,

I always thought it was because the earliest stuff was actually filmed infront of a live audience (Like a theatre) who did laugh, so when switching to non-live-audience stuff, the viewing public would be ‘put off’ by no laughter, so they injected it with canned laughter… then as time went on they realised this was rubbish and stopped it.

But maybe I’m just missing the joke in the previous two comments, I dunno.

Draconic_NEO,
@Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

In the earlier days it was like that but as time went on it became a technique known as sweetening to make the joke seem funnier, sometimes they would even use it to fill in silence or dead air since that was frowned upon (I wonder why people said TV rots your brain for the longest time… can’t be related to any of these practices could it?).

The beginning part is essentially saying that if people need laugh-tracks to find things funny they are dry and humor-less, a joke at their expense but also at the same time it’s 100% sincere, a person who can’t find things funny without others lacks a sense of humor.

Severed_Fate, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing.

This post definitely wasn’t made by a dragon in disguise

TacticsConsort,
@TacticsConsort@yiffit.net avatar

I wish, oh I wish.

ShranTheWaterPoloFan, do piracy w How can I find my schools Adobe Premiere/Photoshop Elements 2020 key?

If you think it’s crazy your school uses three year old programs wait until you find out how many businesses are running XP!

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

My school is running Windows XP on many computers. Only this year they finally got rid of 32-bit machines.

WeAreAllOne,

I’ve seen BMS software running on Windows XP since 2008! And I mean they still run.

NuPNuA, do gaming w Steam Deck VS rivals

Steam Deck is shaping up to be the “Nintendo” of handheld PCs. Not the most powerful thing on the market, but cleverly put together with its own bespoke software that allows users to customise and tweak games at the system level via quick access to its features. Having windows on the other machines makes your access to games better but means you have to dig harder or install extra software to do what the deck does. To paraphrase Sega’s 90s marketing, It Does what Windon’t.

bookmeat, do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

Game is good. People like to talk about stuff they like.

FlashMobOfOne,
!deleted7243 avatar

It’s that simple.

LetMeEatCake,

Most great games never get anywhere near this much buzz.

I think it’s a product of the genre. BG3 is in the CRPG category, which had a bit of a resurgence lately between Pillars 1+2, Pathfinder 1+2, and (perhaps most relevantly) DOS 1+2. Good games in an existing category of game helps build up buzz in that category and more players. More players creates more demand… but there hasn’t been that much being made in the CRPG bucket lately.

Then, on comes BG3. It fits in that bucket. It has much higher production values than the other recent games in that bucket. It’s got one of the most valuable CRPG IPs attached to it with Baldur’s Gate. And it’s reportedly amazing as a game on top. The last part wouldn’t get it anywhere near this much attention on its own, but in conjunction with the others it’s gotten lots of buzz.

I also feel like Larian handled the early access part really well for keeping the game in discussion without making the game oversaturated in gaming circles. They got a lot of “free” (not actually free, but you know what I mean) marketing out of that.

sneaky_b45tard, do gaming w Are there any good VR games yet?

For me Half Life: Alyx was not even the best VR game but maybe one of the best games i played in my 20+ years gaming experience. It really shows how great VR can be if developers put an immense amount of time, effort and love into a game. Other honorable mentions: Pavlov VR, Blade and Sorcery (especially the Star Wars mods) and War Thunder

travysh,

Completely agree. I had experiences in Alyx that were unique to any other game I’ve ever played. Things that are just not possible outside of VR.

jsomae, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

How about let’s all not talk or make angry memes about the guy. Ross requested that he not be harassed. Something about not wanting negative energy.

Randomgal,

It’s not about Ross, it’s about sending a message.

TheGreenWizard,

I doubt he’ll ever use Lemmy to be honest, but I get what you mean.

jsomae,

Since what happens on Lemmy stays on Lemmy, I guess it must be fine.

TheGreenWizard,

I said I get what you mean.

DreamlandLividity,

I’m not gonna go out of my way to review bomb his game or send him messages or at him on twitter. But I am not gonna stop calling him a narcisistic idiot whenever the topic comes up. People should know. That is not harassment, that is countering misinformation, at least IMO. A meme like this is not harassment in my book either. He is a public figure.

bilb,
@bilb@lemmy.ml avatar

Ross is not my dad

jsomae,

yeah but he’s a daddy tho 😘

mriswith,

One of the big reasons many people are “okay” with making fun of him. Is that he could basically make it all go away if he just admitted he was wrong.

The whole thing stems from him being so full of himself that he cannot admit any fault, ever. He has been objectively proven wrong many times on several different topics, there are a lot of situations that heavily indicate misconduct, etc. And he literally went on a stream with a licensed psychiatrist who tried to explain some of his faults. To which he laughed and said “Okay, don’t see it that way, but alright”.

At the end of the day, he seems almost incapable of admitting that he ever did or said anything wrong. So people keep making fun of him, since he’s objectively proven wrong repeatedly.

waggz,

If you’re not familiar with it, check out his classic wow hardcore drama. He’s absolutely incapable of admitting any fault. And he and his mods just ban anyone immediately if they try to have a discussion.

Drbreen, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

I initially read this as a petition to stop games that have killing in them facepalm

Klear,

Still better reading comprehension than PirateSoftware.

Tikiporch, do games w What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality

This is probably more subjective than best/worst. So…

Vanilla Skyrim.

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

It was a fun game, but the main quest was so railroading.

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