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Zahille7, do gaming w Hogwarts Legacy - a weird (90 hour) review *no spoilers

I played on PC, and had a great time. Like the other person said, it wasn’t intended for such a casual machine.

I really liked the interactive items, even though they were useless. It was fun to try roleplaying as a student sometimes. I didn’t find the enemies to be too clustered either. My personal favorite thing was flying around on the broom. The game world is pretty big so you have plenty of room to just do your thing.

Ephera, do gaming w Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears

I’ve heard the reasoning before that reviewers typically only have access to a, well, pre-release version. A day-1-patch is pretty common now.
So, as reviewer, you have to decide whether the performance problems look like they might be fixed on release day, and therefore whether you want to incorporate them into your review/score or not.

metaStatic,
@metaStatic@kbin.earth avatar

The answer is yes. you can only review they game you have in front of you not some hypothetical better future game.

InevitableList,

Good idea if you don’t want publishers to send you any advanced copies of their games in the future, which is just as well since your review won’t be relevant to anyone. At that point it’s just a preview.

ReversalHatchery,

it is today that nearly no reviews are worth anything. what even is that bullshit that they only rate from 7 to 10 because below 7 is somehow already the worst of worst

Toes,

I agree, if the review copy is jank then the review must reflect that.

Poopfeast420,
@Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Reviewers don’t get these games and then play them in complete isolation. They are in contact with the devs or publisher and might get told which problems are fixed at launch or something.

You kinda have to believe what you’re told, and maybe adjust your score accordingly. Maybe if one dev burns you again and again, you might discard whatever they tell you, but I don’t know who could fit the bill.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

as reviewer, you have to decide whether the performance problems look like they might be fixed on release day

No you do not. You review what they give you. If it sucks, they shouldn’t have given it to you, and that’s what your audience deserves to hear about.

You don’t speculate about what might happen tomorrow.

mox, do gaming w Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears

Throwing another example on the fire: The Last of Us Part I PC port. The people who released that code ought to be brought up on charges for climate destruction.

Maestro, (edited ) do gaming w Gaming on controller & "typos"

Every few months my friends and I pick up Deep Rock Galactic for a few weeks. And every time when we switch to a different game after that we always end up hitting "F" all the time all over the place. In DRG that's the button to throw a flare and you use it constantly when moving around. Very annoying when another game uses it for something completely different like a grenade toss 😄

Kolanaki,
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Switch between GTA V and RDR2 and end up punching my damn horse every time I try to ride it because entering vehicles is F in GTAV but in RDR2 F is your dedicated melee button.

Maestro,

That poor horse 😄 But, have you thought about remapping the keys in either game? At one point I just unmapped F in some games

bob_lemon,

F is for Fisticuffs

McPoops, do gaming w Gaming on controller & "typos"

The controls are slightly different in the Soul Reaver remaster and I kept mixing up crouch and lock-on. It took until the end of the game before I got it worked around lol

Nindelofocho, do games w Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?

I was actually thinking about picking it up now

Katana314, do games w Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?

I’d love a new Wolfenstein-style game that diverges from the simple divide of giving them helmets.

It’s simple morbid truth that these people are human beings, who have committed their minds to unimaginable cruelty. It’d be fun to have more games about reciprocating that cruelty.

Mortal Kombat’s fatalities gave me a big ick factor when they leaned into cruelty and pain (and thankfully turned towards looney creativity to be entertaining). But I could see the former being a bit more valid when there’s universal reasoning behind why it’s being applied.

djsoren19, do games w Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?

Yeah absolutely, really itching to just bash the first smarmy fascist I see.

In minecraft, y’know?

owlboy, do games w Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?
@owlboy@lemmy.world avatar

If you have a Quest you can return to Castle Wolfenstein in VR.

Rivalarrival, do games w Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all?
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today avatar

All those old games: Wolf3D, Mario Bros…

Evil_Shrubbery, do gaming w The beatings will continue until the skill improves

Bcs if there is a skill issue, we work on it, not cheese around it.

SaltyIceteaMaker, do gaming w The beatings will continue until the skill improves

no need to change when you already know your tactic will work, but you just lack the skill to execute it

KingThrillgore, do gaming w The beatings will continue until the skill improves
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Me playing Elden Ring

TankovayaDiviziya, (edited ) do gaming w My regular depression will defeat post game depression with its decades of experience.

To be honest, I never got that feeling. I always feel catharsis finishing a game. However, with a huge exception on the Metal Gear Solid series, because Hideo Kojima always leaves more questions than answers at the end of the games. But without spoiling anything for those who haven’t played it yet, the exception in itself in the series is MGSV which completed the series full circle at the end.

The only time I felt empty after consuming a media is after the finale of Breaking Bad. Never have I felt so empty and lost on what to do after. Post-college life does not even beat it.

toxicbubble420, do gaming w Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android?

I have plague inc by ndemic, but it’s not the board game version

zabadoh,

Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for “pandemic” but I understand that it’s kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.

I might be inclined to give it a try if I can’t find a decent implementation of Pandemic.

Cuttlersan,

There is a mode for Plague Inc where the tables are turned and you try to stop a pandemic, last I played!

toxicbubble420,

there are different scenarios you can purchase like zombies, vampires or even planet of the apes

smeg,

I remember playing “Pandemic” as a flash game (or similar) many years ago. Plague Inc seemed to basically be the same game, and I think Pandemic the board game is completely unrelated. Not very helpful for your actual question, but I think it explains the search results.

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