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ISolox, do games w $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"

I’m a huge borderlands fan. I will not be buying this for $80 lol.

newthrowaway20, do games w $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"

Lol Randy actively taking the winds out of his own sails.

I hope he rots in piss.

acosmichippo, do games w $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

mm yes gatekeeping and money shaming, that’ll convince them.

Mongostein, do gaming w Fortnite now lets you chat with Darth Vader using generative AI speech [Eurogamer]

Is this how they’ll use AI to write new Star Wats canon?

whelk,
@whelk@lemm.ee avatar

“Star Wats” sounds about right

Mongostein,

lol I’m not changing it

Flamekebab, do games w Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

I wouldn't buy at the current price, raise it as much as you like.

There's just not enough USPs to justify the cost to me, regardless of how shiny the graphics might be.

I want to want it, but it's going to have to do a lot more than it currently is as a platform.

DmMacniel, do games w Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

How to fricking blur erase the line between physical and digital. DISGUSTING!

warm,

Discs have just been a physical license key for a long time now. It's kind of wasteful to even ship discs and the plastic cases anymore, some kind of little card with a chip on would suffice.

DmMacniel,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

That would be way more reasonable than wasting Blu-ray’s for less than a percent of its storage capacity being used by a fricking stub.

catloaf,

That’s what they’re doing with Switch games now and people are still getting their panties in a twist.

Personally I’ve long since switched to all digital downloads. Even if it eventually becomes inaccessible, either I don’t plan on playing it more, or I’ll pirate and emulate it.

Die4Ever,
@Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com avatar

Optical discs are extremely cheap, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cheaper than a 128MB chip of storage.

warm,

I meant enviromentally. I couldnt care less about the cost to the companies.

Die4Ever,
@Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com avatar

maybe, fabricating chips and soldering to boards doesn’t come without environmental costs either

obviously the companies won’t care about that enough to find out lol

Katana314,

What most people get irked about is loss of ownership, which can be a separate topic with careful management. For instance, if you buy an ItchIO game, there’s no DRM and you can copy it anywhere - I imagine many would be fine with digital downloads if everywhere used that system, but on the corporate side they’d likely be grumbling about piracy.

warm,

Yea, but I dont think anyone who is buying a console these days cares about ownership like that.

Physical media died a long time ago on PC. The DRM-free options exist as downloads.

Feddinat0r, do games w Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic

Well, thanks for the reminder to pick up the first part when its for sale

Sibbo,

Honestly, I can’t get myself to play it through. It’s just so strange and has so many depressing elements.

darthelmet,

I couldn’t get through much of it either, but not because of the weird stuff, I like weird, the gameplay is just too… involved? Stressful? Exhausting? Like I’m ok with challenging games sometimes, but needing to spend a ton of time slowly trekking across fields and mountains while manually trying to keep your footing, managing a bunch of consumables, and occasionally needing to play walk through the ghost minefield with your baby detector while dealing with the rest of that is just not something I could keep up for as long as the game was going to go.

TachyonTele,

For me by the time the game actually starts I’m bored and want to play something else.
Then i can’t remember how to play so i start over, and the cycle repeats.

PieMePlenty,

It is, at its core, an exploration and infrastructure building game. A lot of the gameplay is “take X to Y” and the infrastructure you build helps you do it and determines how hard your task is gonna be. Combat is not plentiful, but it is there as an extra obstacle to overcome. If you dont find this core mechanic engaging enough, it probably isnt a game you would enjoy.

Yokozuna,
@Yokozuna@lemmy.world avatar

The story was so absolutely absurd in the first few hours. It lost me when they introduced Die Hard Man and a few other plot elements. There’s no way I could have ever finished it, and I love the convoluted mess of Metal Gear lore.

Zaleramancer, do gaming w GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead

Such a dramatic title.

Yermaw, do gaming w GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead

Watching short exceptionally addictive videos on social media

South park called it like 10 years ago, but I do wonder how many games aren’t selling now because people want to watch their favourite Internet star play it instead of playing it themselves.

I want to get on my high horse about kids these days, but if they’re basically all at it then it’s not them that’s the problem, it’s just that I don’t get it. Which I don’t.

RobotZap10000,
@RobotZap10000@feddit.nl avatar

Which episode called it?

Yermaw,

HappyHolograms S18 e10

bblkargonaut, do games w Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits 500k sales in one day

I’m 11hrs in so far, and I’m hooked. The world building, gameplay and characters are amazing. I also really loved the music, especially inside the manor.

Pondis,

The soundtrack is incredible! It’s such a wonderful game.

easily3667, do games w The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer

But that’s the worst one

It’s in the awkward transition between good game Morrowind and mediocre game Skyrim, with the worst parts of both

Stovetop,

Well…more room for improvement, then?

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Having been playing it again recently, it still has a lot of what Morrowind had, and Skyrim doesn’t. Plays like Skyrim, but still has more depth than it. Not a lot more, but still more.

easily3667,

Maybe I should give another chance

echodot, do games w Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why

If PEGI tried this kind of thing I’m pretty sure the general public would linch them. Fortunately with Steam there can be completely ignored these days anyway.

Noite_Etion, do games w Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why
@Noite_Etion@lemmy.world avatar

Good luck banning torrents you crotchety old fuckers.

disgrunty,

Don’t forget to use a VPN so you don’t get traced by copyright lawyers! They often seed torrents in the name of gathering IPs to take action against.

Kelly, (edited )

That doesn’t really work in Australia.

AFAIK Dallas Buyers Club was the last major case and the conditions the courts placed on any contact caused the rights holders to decide it wasn’t worth the bother. www.bbc.com/news/business-35547045

The court told them they could buy the infringer’s contact details as a bulk lot that averaged $127 per person. But only if they invoiced for $127 + whatever they were charging for the film. In addition the court would need to review and approve any draft correspondence and call scripts.

All up it feels like the court was taking the most hostile interpretation of the law to protect individuals from being harassed by the business. Good stuff.

deegeese, do games w "There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles

Can someone make this make sense?

You know the Sony fanbase gets really upset whenever a game comes out on PC

mesamunefire,

Im just not seeing it honestly. Most people just dont care, they only have enough $$ for one major console. And then they go with that console for a while. Its only the diehards that care and that may be who is “complaining”.

DomeGuy,

There is a mythical “Sony fan” customer who pays extra for their video game consoles, and justified that by believing it comes with a right to be special and awesome and play games no one else is allowed to.

It’s a pantomine of a Nintendo fan, who pays for an underpowered console for first-party games that use unique controllers. None of whom would ever complain if their games were sold on PC so long as they could bring the controller over.

AFAIK, the only real people who want exclusives on PlayStation are Sony employees and shareholders.

dogslayeggs,

I know there WERE Sony fans who would get upset that their exclusives would come out on other platforms. Back in the very early 2000s, fanboys would get irate at the smallest perceived slight to their preferred platform. But that hasn’t been more than a very niche thing for a decade. Almost nobody cares now.

umami_wasbi, do games w Rainbow Six Siege X update detailed, as game goes free-to-play on June 10

Anyone knows what happen to operators and skins already owned?

simple,

You’ll keep everything, it’s not a new game but more of an update and moving the game to a new engine, like CS2

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