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Mini_Moonpie, do games w Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now

The article says that comment came from a CEO of another game company, not players. Tim Bender, the CEO of the publisher for The Manor Lord, said “Players are happy, the developer is happy, and we as publisher are thrilled beyond belief.” I don’t understand where the post title that says he cited gamer expectations came from.

Infernal_pizza, do gaming w Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 always online, including campaign, due to "continuous" texture streaming
@Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world avatar

So this means it doesn’t take up much disk space right?

Xbox’s store page for the game reveals Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s install size is an eye-watering 309.85 GB.

Wtf?

Katana314,

If they add any patches, then Series S owners won’t be able to install it at all, much less own any other games.

rwhitisissle, do gaming w Reuters claims Nintendo Switch 2 is expected later this year

I don’t see how they can be releasing a Nintendo Switch 2 when they just released the Nintendo Switch like…a year or two ago. Wait…when did the Switch come out? March of 2017?! Holy shit it’s been 7 years.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0c08d067-e28b-44c1-8cd8-4ad46fa57011.webp

PhlubbaDubba,

it’s been 7 years!

Stayed Gone begins blasting

coffee235,

is switch as strong as he purports, or is it based on his support? he’d be powerless without the other games…

t3rmit3,

You act like 2017 is old, like we’re not all still playing FF Tactics Advance, and Pokemon Fire Red, and Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones and having a blast like it’s 2004.

…We are, right? Right?

caseyweederman,
beefcat,
@beefcat@beehaw.org avatar

complete with missing battery cover, just as god intended

scrubbles, do gaming w Microsoft to lay off 1900 people across Xbox and Activision Blizzard
!deleted6348 avatar

Don’t worry, by buying so many studios they will invest more into gaming, and we’ll get better games than ever!

Monopolies are never good, kids. Attempted monopolies are just about as bad.

I’m also real tired of the copro euphemisms going around trying to hide that they’re firing people.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

copro euphemisms going around trying to hide that they’re firing people.

Like Return to Office? Never has the corporate C-Suite ever had an easier excuse to shitcan people for no good fucking reason.

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

The easiest layoff method there is.

Still, the most putrid word for me is “right-sizing”

t3rmit3,

I’m not sure if “copro” was meant to be “corpo”, but either way works. xD

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

Phones really don’t like “corpo”… but I’ll leave it for you

t3rmit3,

Damn Google and Apple trying to program us against anti-corporate thought. :D

Thalestr, do gaming w Are there too many video game remakes and remasters?
!deleted6828 avatar

Yes. Especially when it’s only like 2 or 3 years after first release. It’s just double dipping at that point.

Sivick314,
@Sivick314@universeodon.com avatar

@Thalestr @chloyster on the SAME SYSTEM. Crazy

beefcat,
@beefcat@beehaw.org avatar

no, the original is only a PS4 game

Sivick314,
@Sivick314@universeodon.com avatar

@beefcat I assure you it runs on the ps5 and was released on the ps5 because it was THREE YEARS AGO

beefcat, (edited )
@beefcat@beehaw.org avatar

that is the PS4 version running under backwards compatibility. the game released months before the PS5 launched.

you wouldn’t call f-zero gx a wii game just because the wii is backwards compatible with gamecube games.

Serinus, do games w Unity reportedly considering cap on hugely controversial per-install fees

Yeah, that ain’t gonna cut it.

alex_lofi, do gaming w Fallout TV series "sneak peek" leaks online following Gamescom Starfield presentation

Oh please let it be good.

FancyFeaster,

Same. It will either be amazing or terrible.

ringwraithfish,

Or amazing and cancelled after 1 season (rip Peripheral)

HurlingDurling,

And cowboy bebop

cduke23,

Wait, what? For real? Thats shitty.

Crankpork, do gaming w Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now

I want to play it, but finding 120gb for Baldur’s Gate 3 was hard enough, so I’m going to have to pass until I can afford a bigger hard drive.

phuntis,
@phuntis@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m pretty sure bethesda said playing starfield with a hard drive isn’t great 1tb SSDs aren’t too expensive anymore I’d really recommend moving away from a hard drive

Crankpork,

Ah, yeah, I was using hard drive as a catch-all term. My laptop only holds M.2 drives. I’m old, it’s all hard drives to me. =P

phuntis,
@phuntis@sopuli.xyz avatar

ah ok

MrZee, (edited )

Old curmudgeons unite! I totally knew what you meant.

Edit: that said, I would add NVMe SSD as the way to go… although I think that is pretty much all you find these days. Are non-nvme m.2 drives a thing?

conciselyverbose,

Yeah you can get SATA m.2 drives.

lloram239,

M.2 SATA drives are still a thing, same port, but different slower protocol as NVMe. They are less common, but still around and available in TB size. Don’t think there is any reason to get this outside of compatibility with old hardware.

There is also mSATA, which is a different port from M.2, but has a very similar look and size. Also slower than NVMe and no reason to get them unless you have hardware that uses them (e.g. some old Beelink miniPC have them).

hogart,
@hogart@feddit.nu avatar

A 1tb Steam Deck-sized NVMe drive is about 120 bucks right now. Not cheap. But not insanely prices either.

narc0tic_bird,

2280-sized SSDs are significantly cheaper than 2230-sized ones.

hogart,
@hogart@feddit.nu avatar

They are, by a large margain.

cambriakilgannon,
interolivary, (edited )
!deleted5791 avatar

I definitely support the hypothesis that calling all storage drives hard drives is an old curmudgeon thing 😅 I’ve been doing computer nerdery for way over 30 years, and a hard drive is a hard drive even if it doesn’t have spinny disks in it

Crankpork,

I don’t know when I became my mother. It happened so gradually I barely even noticed.

interolivary,
!deleted5791 avatar

I think we all swear to ourselves that we won’t grow up to be like those old people who seem to cling to the past.

Then one day you find yourself going “well it’s a hard drive to me, I don’t care what it should be called”

averyminya,

SSD’s are hard!

interolivary,
!deleted5791 avatar

Huh I always thought “hard drive” was the umbrella category, and SSDs and spinny disk drives are subcategories.

thanevim,

I've been seeing both recently. I've opted to err on the same side and just make it clear when I'm talking about spinning rust versus solid state.

Onihikage,
@Onihikage@beehaw.org avatar

I think storage or storage drive is the umbrella term these days. “Hard drive” was always short for “Hard Disk Drive” (which was named in comparison to Floppy Disk Drive) but since it was the only type of drive used for non-volatile internal storage for a good 20 years or so, it became a catch-all term. These days, many people understand there’s two different kinds and a lot of systems have both, so hard drive is becoming recognized to mean the spinning disks; as opposed to SSD, which is now an umbrella term incorporating 2.5" SATA, M.2 SATA, and M.2 NVMe, which are all Solid State Drives but different combinations of interfaces and form factors.

Poggervania,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

Nah, the "SS" and "HD" bits refers to how each storage disk reads data. HDDs use hard metal disks to read & write data, hence it got the misnomer hard disk drive. SSDs use solid state flash memory to read & write data, hence it being called a solid state drive.

If you want the general category, you'd want to say "storage drive" specifically since if you say "drive", that can also refer to an optical drive (AKA the CD slot) or a USB drive (AKA flash/thumb drives).

Blake,

The classic, computer science term for all of these devices is “secondary storage”, if anyone’s looking for a way to confuse people briefly before explaining that you mean “hard drives, SSDs, etc.”

Luvon,

M2 pcie 4 drives are getting pretty cheap recently. I got a 2tb one for 100 with a heat sink on sale. My main from Kingston was 70 with 1tb

Naatan,

You do realize storage drives aren’t exactly expensive?

ag_roberston_author,
!deleted4201 avatar

Not expensive, but it’s another expense that not everyone can drop immediately.

For most it would be a choice of upgrading to a new drive or getting two games.

Naatan, (edited )

Sure. And of course it remains to be seen whether Starfield is worth it, but it’s undeniable that a game of this magnitude isn’t a common occurrence. If they realize the game’s potential, then missing out on it because of a relatively inexpensive hardware upgrade seems like a shame.

ram, (edited )
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

a game of this magnitude isn’t a common occurrence.

It kind of is though. We’ve already had at least 3 games of this magnitude drop this year alone.

Naatan,

I’m guessing one of those is Baldurs Gate, but I’m struggling to think of two more. There’s been some decent games for sure but none other that I’d put on the same scale. Diablo 4 had the potential but squandered it imo.

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

None are baldur’s gate. While I’m loving baldur’s gate, it’s far from a market disruptor. The three games I was thinking of were TOTK, Diablo 4, and FFXVI.

Naatan,

To each their own of course, but out of the 4 games you named in your comment I would definitely rank BG3 on top on a scale of “market disruption”.

sportskeeda.com/…/baldur-s-gate-3-s-ambition-deem…

That said this is all highly subjective of course. One person’s game of the year is another person’s biggest disappointment.

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

To be clear, of the ones listed I only care about TOTK and BG3. I’m looking at “megaton games” by a general ascertainment of how relevant they are to the enthusiast gamers, and how much they sell. FFXVI came out and kinda did not great for an FF game so I’ll concede there. No idea about Diablo 4, I assume it was middling or “as expected”, while TOTK sold 18 million in its first 6 weeks; though I may largely be familiar with that due to being in proximity of Nintendo-related circles.

It really is subjective what measure we’re using though. BG3’s been amazing in relative terms to what would typically be expected of “DnD RPG” (maybe there’s a better term), and developers have been reacting to it far more than they would most other megaton games. TOTK’s no slouch on its own, impressing developers over its extremely impressive yet performent physics engine.

polygon.com/…/tears-of-the-kingdom-bridge-physics…

Anyways, not really interested in arguing my perspective though, since like you said this is extremely subjective, and honestly quite arbitrary.

Naatan,

All fair points. I wasn’t trying to argue, just to have a friendly discourse :) My calling it a “game of magnitude” is obviously very open to interpretation.

For what it’s worth what I was trying to say was that this game has the potential to be unlike any game before it, so it’d be a shame to miss out on it just to avoid a minor hardware upgrade. But that in itself is of course also subjective. Suffice to say I myself won’t be missing out… :p

ram,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

Fair say! I’m personally not someone who particularly vibes with the aesthetic of bethesda games so I’ll be missing out, but I hope it’s as good as fans expect ❤️

sim_,

Is a game like Starfield “missable” though? Games like this’ll realistically be accessible for years (decades?) to come (not even counting Bethesda’s love of rereleasing their latest hit a la Skyrim lol). They might miss out on the cultural discussion if the game’s a hit though, that’s definitely a trade-off of late adoption, like what I’m experiencing with BG3 lol.

Naatan,

Yeah that’s fair. It might even be worth waiting a year so the community can fix all the bugs :p I know I’m too impulsive to wait that long though. Played through Cyberpunk at launch and loved it!

pixelscience,

I’m pretty conscious of other people financial situations, but a 512GB SSD is 19.99 on amazon. That’s 1/3 the price of the game.

ag_roberston_author,
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If you have a 512gb SSD and want more space than you need an 1tb or 2tb, and NVME m2s cost more than regular ssds

averyminya,

Not really honestly. 1TB Sabrent rocket is $40. 1TB SATA SSD is $34.

Lolors17, do games w Overwatch 2 is now Steam's "worst game of all time"
@Lolors17@feddit.de avatar

If I’m being honest, they deserve it. I played Overwatch 2 maybe 10 Times, the constant reminder that you aren’t playing for fun, but for a totally original and new character or something very useful like a skin in the battle pass is quite annoying. The 5v5 was at first glance refreshing but got old at a rapid pace. Just play Team Fortress 2 if you’re looking for a great shooter.

LargestDong,

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  • Mr_Dr_Oink,

    They dont push it on you, except when you need to grind 45 levels a season just to be able to play the new character that anyone willing to pay already has.

    Maybe thats not a problem for you, i dont k ow your situation, but i get enough time for maybe 2 or 3 games a night except when i have nothing else on. I BARELY scraped getting rammattra and i had to win 35 games as support to get lifeweaver (which sucked as a solo player). Now theres another one i have no hope in hell of unlocking unless i want to cough up the cash.

    That isnt fun, its a fucking drain. Its boring and its a complete slap in the face for anyone who supported overwatch 1 and waited years for the version of overwatch 2 that we were all promised that isnt going to happen.

    No thanks. Im going to play baldurs gate 3.

    99nights,

    God forbid you have an actual life when it comes to others and gaming.

    LargestDong,

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  • Mr_Dr_Oink,

    So you are saying that you had a different experience to me and that is exactly my point. Putting aside the fact that i glfind it very unlikely that you got the new hero “with ease” i did not and winning 35 games as support as a solo player is not easy or fun.

    Regardless saying you dont need the new hero shows you dont really understand the mechanics of the game. You are supposed to be able to change your character to counter the choices the opposing team have made. If the new character is a good counter and i dont have them then i lose out. Simple as that.

    halykthered, do games w Rainbow Six Siege X update detailed, as game goes free-to-play on June 10
    @halykthered@lemmy.ml avatar

    I’m sure that will drastically improve the already wonderful and welcoming community.

    BmeBenji,

    The ranked pool is limited to paying players still, which is a good way to help keep cheaters out

    jlow, do gaming w The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?

    I mean the real world is ending atm and all humanity is doing is side quests …

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    It’s end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine.

    jlow,

    At the moment, maybe.

    OutlierBlue,

    I’m not even doing side quests. I’m just idling on Lemmy.

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

    I guess they’ve never heard of the Streisand effect in China.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    It’s probably easier to control that effect over there, not so much on western countries.

    ocassionallyaduck, do games w What is the point of Xbox?

    It is so damning that the entire industry has reacted that way. It’s not that they closed a studio, that cod have been ignored. It’s how brazenly they closed successful studios for being successful while talking out the other side of their mouth to the press.

    It feels gross in a much more palpable way. And with everything else going on in tech it feels so wrong coming from one of the biggest companies in earth.

    I’m 100% over Xbox. I hope their next console is the worst release since ET on Atari.

    That_Devil_Girl, do gaming w Nintendo makes first Switch 2 announcement
    @That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml avatar

    A message from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, posted this morning to social media platform X, confirms we’ll hear of Switch 2 “this fiscal year” - before the end of March 2025.

    But the message also damps down any expectation we’ll hear about Switch 2 in the next few months - as Furukawa rules out any further details being shared in an upcoming Nintendo Direct scheduled for June.

    Furukawa wrote. "We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015.

    “We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.”

    RGB3x3,

    Fuck me, they announced the first switch in 2015?

    That thing was underpowered when it came out, let alone now. They could likely grab a bunch of sales by coming out with a higher-powered system alongside a cheaper version, because many people would like to play games at higher than 25 fps.

    jol,

    Who cares if it was underpowered ffs. I just want to play fun games.

    RGB3x3, (edited )

    Because Tears of the Kingdom felt like it was running at 24 fps and 720p, with even further framerate drops, making it feel unplayable.

    So it’s become difficult just to actually play games on it. The games have surpassed the ability of the hardware.

    Carighan,
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    And yet it was one of the best gaming experiences ever, no matter the framerate and resolution.

    Been a long time since fidelity was interesting to notice, tbh. Don’t get me wrong, all else being equal I’d take 165Hz and 4k over 24Hz and 720p. But all else isn’t equal. And the better game easily wins.

    all-knight-party,
    @all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

    Felt like it was doing just fine to me for how advanced the systems were on a console that was six years old. I do wish you were able to play it, it's an awesome game, it indeed has ambitions that surpass the hardware, but I do think they managed to pull it off, if only by the skin of their teeth.

    ShortFuse,

    While I disagree that the game was unplayable, I first played the game emulated at 4K@60K with AutoHDR (surprisingly decent) and it’s almost criminal how poor it looks on native hardware by comparison. The game scales really well.

    Maybe with a new Nvidia kit we’ll get DLSS and Frame Gen. And I expect ToTK to get a new port.

    samus12345,
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    I read all the time that TotK has terrible performance, but i never noticed in all the time I played it. I guess growing up playing on old pc hardware made me tolerate shitty framerates.

    VaultBoyNewVegas,

    I fucking care when I only play docked and games like xenoblade chronicles 3 fucking lag in places. The switch is used least for me between an s, ps5 and a midrange pc despite it having “fun games”

    PowerCrazy,

    I use the switch for specific console games, and my PC for everything else. Don’t compromise with shitty consoles to play PC Games.

    PlainSimpleGarak,

    Can also confirm excessive lag with XC3. Also, when jumping into the depths in TotK, game would freeze off and on. These Nintendo apologists are wild. The Switch was utilizing outdated hardware when it dropped. I’ll be impressed if the Switch 2 has at least PS4 level hardware.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    Keep in mind, underpowered hardware means lower price, which means more sales. It worked with the Wii, it worked with the Switch. I fully expect people to bitch about the Switch2 being underpowered, using “ancient” stuff from 2020-21

    samus12345,
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    “Lateral thinking with withered technology.” Nintendo gave up on competing technologically with its competitors after the GameCube, and it proved to be a good decision.

    That_Devil_Girl,
    @That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml avatar

    Maybe the new Switch will have the equivalent power of a PlayStation 3.

    samus12345,
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    The Switch already is better in some ways. OG PS4, maybe?

    That_Devil_Girl,
    @That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml avatar

    I sincerely hope you’re right.

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

    It’s EA. That’s how it keeps getting worse.

    nimmo,
    @nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk avatar

    The original was EA, this re-release is Aspyr, so as bad as EA are I’m not convinced that they’re to blame here.

    EdibleFriend,
    @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

    Wait… I just had to look them up. The company behind kotar?? Okay now that fucking hurts. I’m used to the fall of EA but… Damn

    frozen,
    @frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

    Aspyr is the company behind KotOR’s mobile, Linux, and modern ports. Bioware was behind the original KotOR, and they were bought and ruined by EA.

    EdibleFriend,
    @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

    Okay, I should have looked a little more I was just looking at the years. It sounded like the original release years. That’s what I get for half assidly googling while I work lol.

    So it’s like when Rockstar turned the GTA remasters over to the phone people and we ended up with a clusterfuck.

    frozen,
    @frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

    Aspyr’s KotOR port was considered pretty good, I believe. I was disappointed in their Civilization series ports for Linux because their netcode was incompatible with the Windows versions, which is baffling to me, considering Linux users are already siloed so much in other ways. But the games ran okay, so it wasn’t all bad.

    But yeah, I haven’t really heard any good updates or news come out of Aspyr for a while. If I recall correctly, they were the original devs for the KotOR remake, which was going to be their first game from the ground up from a technical perspective. But they had that taken away from them after working on it for a year or two, which is crazy. It must’ve truly been awful.

    EdibleFriend,
    @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

    Man this is a shame. Slightly related… How’s the switch port? I have a friend who’s obsessed with Star wars and just got her first switch and I was going to tell her to get that

    frozen,
    @frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

    KotOR’s console controls can be a bit awkward at times. I haven’t played it on Switch, but I originally played it when it released on the OG Xbox. I assume the control scheme is similar. And the graphics are going to be dated, but that’s a given for a game from '03. But other than that, I’m sure it’ll be a fantastic experience, especially for a die-hard Star Wars fan. It’s still my top game of all time, and if you can play it on PC with some graphical enhancement mods, it still holds up really well nowadays.

    EdibleFriend,
    @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

    Got ya thanks:)

    Deceptichum,
    @Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works avatar

    The mobile KotoR port was completely broken and you could never leave the Jedi Temple planet.

    Jade Empire crashed on launch and was never fixed but they kept selling it.

    Ask me how I know. Fuck Aspyr, they’ve been shit for at least 10 years and I wont ever touch their products again.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    The original was not EA. It was Pandemic Studios, who released Battlefront 1 and 2 both before they were acquired by Electronic Arts between 2007- 2009.

    nimmo,
    @nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk avatar

    Ah, thanks for correcting me there. I knew that EA were involved at some level and I didn’t think to research that part of the post I was replying to, so I stand corrected, but I think the main point I was making is still valid, that the team that initially developed the game weren’t behind this re-release.

    Voroxpete,

    Embracer, actually, and while I do suspect that the blame for a lot of these problems lies with them (especially the lack of servers, which was almost certainly down to Embracer cheaping out), it’s hard to blame this particular failure on anyone but Aspyr. While Embracer almost certainly created the conditions by not giving them enough time and resources to deliver good work, it’s still on Aspyr that they used someone’s work without permission. There’s no real justification for that, even if you’re in a bind.

    blueson, (edited )

    I wonder if Embracer even had a lot of stakes in this? They sold of Aspyrs parent company (Saber) a few days before release.

    Edit: My bad, apparently they kept Aspyr.

    Guntrigger,

    Amazing how you can just shit on EA and get upvoted even though they are nothing to do with it.

    EdibleFriend,
    @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

    iambulletproof.heavy

    Beetschnapps,

    Almost like they earned a reputation or something. Almost like it’s expected.

    Kinda like doing something 10 times in a row so on the 11th time an assumption is made….

    I suppose someone could think that “amazing.”

    Guntrigger,

    I mean, it is pretty amazing. It’s funny if they’re ironic upvotes and it’s wild if they’re upvotes of agreement because it is complete misinformation.

    Yeah EA has lots of bad rep and yeah they made a couple of games in the series. But the game the article is about, as well as the original game it is remaking were nothing to do with EA.

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