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chase_what_matters, do games w Baldur's Gate 3's companions were overly horny due to a bug

I think I have this same bug [humps comment button]

ampersandrew, do gaming w SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since this strike is against certain companies and not some entity that represents the entire industry like it does for movies and television, that means that other individual companies who come to an agreement can still hire these people, right? If so...imagine if we had that in movies and television.

Zalack,
@Zalack@startrek.website avatar

We do. A24, for instance, is still making a couple movies by agreeing to work under the proposed terms by SAG. As far as I know, no one else has made such agreements yet. The more of such exceptions that get made, the weaker the AMPTP’s position will get.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

Oh, I see. I thought all of Hollywood was AMPTP and that's why we can't have nice things like DRM-free movie purchases.

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

Dropout.tv (formerly CollegeHumour) is also an unstruck company.

Discola,

One more reason to love dropout!

EssentialCoffee,

Because they have a different contract for work not covered by the current strike? That seems kind of a weird take, especially since they thought the strike did apply to them originally and they shut down for several weeks until the lawyers got together and said, oh no, you have a different type of agreement.

It’s not like they changed or updated their contract to become exempt. SAG just went, oh, your business doesn’t fall into the terms of the strike so you don’t have to strike with the rest of us.

Zalack,
@Zalack@startrek.website avatar

I didn’t know that! I just subbed to their service for Make Some Noise so I kind of feel better about shelling out for it now.

giloronfoo, do gaming w Microsoft completely removes recently-nerfed £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass trial

No $1 Starfield for you!

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

I guess people will just have to make do with $17 Starfield instead, which is still insanely cheap, lol.

boonhet,

17 a month. If the game has enough content and you don’t have a lot of time, you might end up paying more than you would by outright buying it.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

You could. But that's also if it's the only game you play and you don't boot up Sea of Stars, Quake, Halo, Goldeneye, Yakuza, Unraveled, or what have you. I don't have a Game Pass subscription, but the math on it makes a lot of sense for a lot of people.

bermuda,

Yeah my dad only ever plays one game at a time so I can definitely see him setting aside a whole month for starfield if he gets it

Lowbird,

Yeah. If you play a lot of little indie games, and tend to only play through them once, it’s an absurd bargain.

It’s also great in that you can try a lot of stuff without having to research it at all first, so you get really nice surprises sometimes. And you can try things risk-free, so sometimes I’ll try something I wouldn’t have expected to like and wouldn’t have bought and be pleasantly surprised. It can open up entire genres to people this way, as an intro to different types of games.

I do tend to buy a month or two, drop out, then buy another month when the catalogue is different though.

TheEntity,

In this scenario above, playing Starfield and it being too enormous to finish in a month or two, you'd hardly have any time to enjoy these other games either.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

You could spend all of your free time for one month playing Starfield and have finished it for $17. You could functionally "rent" 17 games for $1 each to get a feel for each of them, one of them being Starfield, to decide which ones you want to stick with. You could beat two smaller games each month and spend the rest of your time playing Starfield, and four months later still come out ahead of the $70 Starfield would have cost you. There are lots of ways that math works out for you to come out ahead.

Baldur's Gate 3 came out less than a month ago, and I already know at least two people on my friends list who've beaten it, plus several others who put over 60 hours into it in the past two weeks, according to Steam. There are plenty of people who could get through Starfield in one month for $17.

BobKerman3999,

That’s precisely the plan. Also many people will forget about yet another subscription and let it run

scrubbles,
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Looking at my game purchases a year and as a pretty heavy gamer, I come out just over the cost of game pass. Big thing is that I get to keep my games without needing to re-up the subscription.

Yeah right now when there’s a lot of games coming out it seems great, but middle of COVID I remember nothing was coming out, and I would have had to keep paying for the games I had already played.

Nah, I’ll gladly keep buying them.

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

$9.99 for a month of gamepass PC, or $10.99 for console (ultimate you’re paying for cloud access or online play, so it’s a disingenuous comparison) You can play starfield for a month, then buy it for 20% off through gamepass, so $55.99. $55.99+10.99 = $66.98.

So you basically get a $11 month-long trial, then $2 off the full price if you decide you like it enough to keep.

Mitchie151, do games w Uncharted's Tom Holland reportedly set to star in Jak and Daxter adaptation with Chris Pratt

This is the most cursed headline I have read in some time. uncharted’s Tom Holland? And using a picture from the lost frontier, ooft.

Taako_Tuesday,

My first thought as well!

jayandp,

Seriously, who holds Uncharted as Tom’s defining role? 😅

RandallFlagg, do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president

I’m interested in playing this but I don’t own a PS5 and I’m not buying a whole console for one game. They would have gotten a day 1 sale out of me if they released it on PC.

CIWS-30,

Knowing them, they'll probably do it. It'll just take a year or so.

Edit: that said, they should've done it to start with, and not kept it off of X-box. They're killing their brand and mindshare here.

Gordon_Freeman,
@Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social avatar

they'll probably do it

FTFY. The PC version was confirmed a long time ago

stopthatgirl7,
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Originally, they did plan to release it on PS5 and PC. My guess is Sony made a timed exclusivity deal with them, which Sony had done with companies before. SE shout themselves in the foot by taking it.

QuantumField,

Ditto for me. I have all Final Fantasy games released on PC, but I can’t justify buying a PS5 for a single game. I’ve chosen to watch a let’s play of the game. Glad I did because it’s definitely not a Final Fantasy I’d play a second time.

SuperSynthia, do games w Can a Steam profile be a real memorial for a lost life?

I’ve got two friends that can’t log in anymore. I feel your pain. It sucks a lot for sure. I enjoyed the article, thank you for posting.

One thing I wished they would have explored a little more was the psychological effects these memorial pages have on those left behind. Part of what helped me fully grieve and accept the loss was to eventually stop going to the pages. I guess in some way a false hope kinda starts taking root, at least it was that way for me

nokturne213,

I have one friend on Steam who is incarcerated. My best friend that died is on my PlayStation friends, and Fortnite specifically. For the first year I used to log in to see how long it had been since he last played. As time went on I did that less and less. I still view his profile.

SuperSynthia,

It’s ok friend. Nothing wrong with it, it’s our version of an older person holding on to a newspaper article about their loved one.

Thank goodness we knew them

CosmoNova, do games w Technical ambition, optimism, and timeframes: what we learned about The Witcher 4 from speaking to CD Projekt Red

Look CDPR, I love the Witcher games and think Cyberpunk is a fine game too. Just please take your time. That’s all I’m asking for.

slazer2au, do games w Of course someone has Doom running on Nintendo Alarmo now

It was only a matter of time

xan1242,

You could say that this isn’t very alarming

makingStuffForFun,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

Wait a second. I’ve just woken up, to what’s happening here!

QuadratureSurfer,
@QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world avatar

This is starting to tick me off. Now you’ve got me all wound up!

makingStuffForFun,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

I have no time for such things.

RangerJosie, do games w "Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours
@RangerJosie@lemmy.world avatar

I reinstalled BG3 just because I heard about mods coming to console.

I bought it at launch. Played it until my saves deleted themselves right at the start of Act 3. I was broken. It was such a slog for me to get that far. I had to Claw for every inch of progress.

With mods tho. I can cheat. And boy I love cheating. I grew up with Action Replay, GameShark, Game Genie, etc. I’ve missed them terribly.

Ardyssian,

Did you ever find out how your saves got deleted? Been facing save-related troubles with a similar impact when cross playing between PC and ROG Ally

frigidaphelion,

I dont have an answer, just want to commiserate as I also had two different characters vanish to corruption or some such

RangerJosie,
@RangerJosie@lemmy.world avatar

I just heard that right after launch it started happening and apparently they fixed it without much fanfare. At least on single platforms. Like I’m just on Xbox.

Dozzi92,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

Play the games how you want to have fun, and anyone who says otherwise is dead wrong. I’ve dabbled in “cheating” myself, whether it’s giving myself 60 pts for starting traits in Zomboid, or building really unbalanced maps in AoE II and preventing the computers from ever advancing, it’s fun to sometimes modify the rules to benefit me unilaterally.

RangerJosie,
@RangerJosie@lemmy.world avatar

Games are about fun. As long as you’re having fun then where’s the harm?

I don’t play online games much. And I’ve never even tried to cheat when I did. I know the difference.

But if it’s a single player game and I’m having trouble? Hell yeah I’ll cheat. Proudly.

Dozzi92,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah, I wouldn’t cheat if I were playing with other humans, but sometimes I want to explore depths of a game that time just doesn’t permit, so I gotta skip the grind and get right to the part where I’m unkillable. And yeah, if you’re having fun, that is the point!

FordBeeblebrox,

It bothers me that stuff like GTA V or Red Dead doesn’t have cheat codes. Memorizing the whole list for San Andreas made you a god when playing with your friends and taking turns. Single player should let you turn on all the wacky physics and crazy mechanics you want

rickyrigatoni,

I am a singleplayer cheater, and all the times in the past that I lost massive progress because of glitches and crashes is one of the major contributing factors to it.

Etterra, do games w Black Myth: Wukong studio requests influencers not include "feminist propaganda" or Covid-19 references in coverage

Well now I wish I was an influencer so that I could get paid for giving China the middle finger.

Prox, do games w Looks like Subnautica devs have been sneakily posting Subnautica 2 screenshots in the original game

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Does anyone have an alternative source where we can view the screenshots?

million,
@million@lemmy.world avatar
Eggyhead,

Reddit investigator guy doesn’t want me to see those links either.

mox,
LunarLoony, do games w Halo: Combat Evolved remaster reportedly in the works, being considered for PlayStation release
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I can’t believe they’re remastering Combat Evolved again, but not Halo 3.

Well, as long as they do a better job than the original CE Anniversary, I’ll probably play it.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, 3 doesn’t really need it. The art direction is excellent and just inceasing the render resolution works great. Same with ODST and Reach.

blackluster117,
@blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

I would like them to fix the 60 fps cutscene issue. None of the original cutscenes were designed for that high frame rate, they just artificially sped them up which makes a lot of the Halo 3 cutscenes look weird. I’d at least like a proper port, kind of like what Nixxes has been doing for Sony games on PC.

LunarLoony,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I tend to agree, but it would be nice to play with the nice, rich visuals of Halo 2 Anniversary. And not have to look at Lord Hood’s craggy visage or the slightly polygonal Marine heads.

Reach, on the other hand: no remaster would improve how that game looks. Still a stunning bit of work all these years later.

Guntrigger, do gaming w 7 Days to Die is finally leaving early access, but console players will have to buy the 1.0 version again

This feels borderline criminal. Yeah it’s 11 years old, but if someone told you that an early access game stays in early access a decade, that means you need to buy it again on release, would you?

aniki,

After getting royally screwed on Day Z Standalone, it’s been interesting watching people get scammed over and over again with it.

frozen, do games w Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit
@frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

Aspyr has a history of laziness and incompetence, unfortunately. I really want to like the company because they were one of the few companies bringing my favorite games to Linux (KotOR and the Civ series) before Steam and Proton got so damn good. But their Civ ports were always plagued with weird bugs not in the original games, not to mention they didn’t have cross-platform multiplayer, preventing me from playing online with my Windows-using friends unless I dual-booted or tried to fight Wine. And somehow their Civ save file format is different, so you couldn’t even switch between Windows and Linux and continue the same game. It was baffling.

bl4ckblooc,

Only good game they did was Episode 1: Pod Racer.

FireTower, do gaming w Deus Ex Adam Jensen actor says goodbye to character, as he laments state of the industry
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

He never asked for this.

Caligvla,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

What a shame, he was a good man. What a rotten way to cancel a series.

Thcdenton,
@Thcdenton@lemmy.world avatar

Some times you get orange when you wanted lemon lime

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