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

Keep expectations tempered. Krafton now owns them. They specialize in free to play overly monetized crap

_sideffect,

… Damn it

chronicledmonocle, 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

Game Publishers: complains about how users expect endless content

Also Game Publishers: Mostly pushes for live service games and Free-to-Play

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pyre,

is Manor Lords live service? seems like they’re arguing against the notion that every game must be live service.

chronicledmonocle,

I was speaking of the gaming industry as a whole. I know very little about this developer. Perhaps they’re one of the good ones swept up in unfortunate-ness.

FiniteBanjo,

No, but it is still Early Access.

ObsidianZed,

Alternatively

Game Publishers: Release unfinished game that gets horrid backlash until they work overtime to patch it to a slightly more playable hell, get caught in an update loop, game inadvertantly becomes live service.

Sometimes, it works out (No Man’s Sky)

chronicledmonocle,

Most of the time it ends up shovelware, though.

jh29a,

see elsewhere: doubt about whether all game publishers are the same

chronicledmonocle,

Not saying they are. Just the ones that are the biggest and make the most money

Assman, do games w Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter
@Assman@sh.itjust.works avatar

Sounds more like SMITE than overwatch

flamingarms,

Or Paragon even. That game was so fun back in the day before it got killed. If anyone can make something that fun again, it’s probably Valve.

BruceTwarzen,

Was it really that good? I heard it was overwatch from wish when it launched but then got better. I never tried it, because i didn't wanna learn something new.

flamingarms,

It was a hero shooter MOBA but with some verticality, so that’s about as far as the Overwatch comparison goes. I had a great time with it. I like traditional MOBAs but don’t have the skill/patience/time for them, so hero shooter MOBAs are the perfect way for me to be able to play them more casually. In my opinion, of the few I’ve tried, Paragon was the best implementation of a hero shooter MOBA; the core gameplay just felt really tight to me.

bagelberger,

There’s a remake out right now called Predecessor that I’ve been enjoying, free on PC/PS/Xbox.

flamingarms,

Oh shit, I hadn’t heard of that. I’ll definitely check it out; thanks for the recommendation.

MR_GABARISE,

Before that there was Super Monday Night Combat.

micka190,

God I miss Monday Night Combat. It was one of my favorite indie games on the 360.

flamingarms,

Yeah, that really brings me back. I had like 4 tokens on Steam to give the game away when they were trying to get more people to play. There was some other hero shooter MOBA a little after that too, by Epic or something. Didn’t last very long and wasn’t all that great, but I still played the shit out of the falcon character that could “fly”. Man, I need to jump into another one of these games.

Underwaterbob, do games w Stardew Valley creator confirms he's made "a ton of progress" on update 1.6

I finally just started playing. I’m 50 hours in and nowhere near done with it. Don’t tell me there’s more coming!

aluminium,

There is probably even more comming in the current version for you. Stardew valley is the type of game where you watch a random YT video where someone shows off something you never knew was in the game, after you got 1000h clocked.

Jaderick, do games w Why does everyone swear so much in The Witcher 3?

Cause it’s fucking cool

n3m37h,

AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!

Sorry, I had to

Broken_Monitor, do games w Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis turns Square Enix's best into an avalanche of money-grabbing tactics

Unsurprising. They already split remake up to milk more money out of long time fans, and now they’re doubling down on the mobile market. I remember long wishing for a remake and now I want my wish back. DAMN YOU MONKEY’S PAW!!!

ButtholeSpiders,
@ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website avatar

Can I borrow your monkey’s paw? I want to wish for this timeline to be over.

stephen01king,

It turns out this is the only timeline and your wish just ends up destroying the universe.

MelodiousFunk,
@MelodiousFunk@kbin.social avatar

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

ButtholeSpiders,
@ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website avatar

I’m okay with that, and I would imagine most of humanity would be too.

gAlienLifeform, do games w Starfield "can't shoot" bug can be fixed by using the character creator
@gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world avatar

An initial solution looked to have been found from an old Fallout 4 VR thread on Steam, where the same problem could be fixed by using a console command to change the player’s sex.

In Starfield, the same command works, but all you need to do to fix the bug is enter the character customisation screen. Using console commands, this can be done by entering ‘showlooksmenu player 2’. If you’re playing Starfield on console, you can visit an Enhance Clinic for 500 credits to get into the character customisation. You don’t actually have to change your appearance, as players have reported that simply entering and exiting customer customisation makes weapons work as intended once again.

This was already true, but is even more so now - Bethesda should make console commands available on Xbox immediately. Besides the fact that there was no reason to restrict them to PC players in the first place, they’re almost certain to be necessary for all sorts of weird troubleshooting that’s likely to come up in any game this big.

quatschkopf34,

Yeah, I didn‘t finish Fallout NV because a bug stopped me from starting a quest and I didn‘t want to start all over. There were all kinds of solutions via console commands on PC but none on Xbox ofc. I hope something like this won‘t happen in Starfield

thorbot,

It will! Bethesda is as Bethesda does

Chainweasel,

I’m playing the game pass version and in the early game I softlocked myself by jumping behind something that I shouldn’t have and I wasn’t able to fast travel to my ship because they were enemies nearby. I downloaded the PC version, accessed the console commands, got myself out, saved, then loaded it on my Xbox and the issue was fixed. But I really wish I could have just plugged a keyboard into my Xbox and fixed it in a few seconds rather than waiting on 140GB to download and praying it would work on my 2 year old laptop.

steal_your_face,
@steal_your_face@lemmy.ml avatar

I have a feeling Microsoft doesn’t want those on their console.

schmidtster,

I doubt that will happen, opening console commands could lead to an attack vector for hacking.

Domiku, do gaming w Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition has been revealed by Singapore's rating board

Hopefully this means that a PC release is coming soon

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Indeed. Fingers crossed there’s a way to bring a save over from PS4 again like with HZD, need to play the DLC but I got the game on PS4…

stopthatgirl7,
!deleted7120 avatar

That was my first thought seeing the article, too. I’ve got my fingers crossed, because I really want to play the DLC.

Syo, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3's companions were overly horny due to a bug
@Syo@kbin.social avatar

How game b breaking are we talking about? Like slider set to 100 instead of 99, or are we talking about memory loop around, nuclear Gandi level of horny?

cowfodder, (edited )

Lae’zel simultaneously hated me and wanted the D. It wasn’t game breaking, but I know a couple of ace people that were a bit disturbed by the constant advances.

ursakhiin,

I accidentally ended up in a romance scene with a character I had clearly told I was not interested in them. I thought the scenes were just their side quests for a while.

But other than accidentally having dinner kinky sex in the game it wasn’t that big of a part.

Meowoem, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 "feels so alive" because it used mo-cap and 248 actors to bring its characters to life

Funny, it all feels very dead to me - but then I guess that is what the fireball spell does…

Smacks, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
@Smacks@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a shame what happened to Bioware, great story tellers only to get canned because they didn’t make enough money for papa EA.

Gadg3tm, do games w Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now
@Gadg3tm@lemmy.world avatar

Time for another SSD

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

We have gone from cartridges, to CDs, to kind-of cartridges.
We have kinda gone full circle! Now we need something lile a holocron or like a Cortana AI chip to store an even bigger amount.

theRealBassist,

I’m here for data holocrons.

Just like set into an interface built into your desk and boom, hard drive.

Make it open up like jedi holocrons and I’ll buy 10 just to play with them

AlexisFR,
@AlexisFR@jlai.lu avatar

Yeah, add to that MSFS with all extensions, and now my 1 TB 970 Pro isn’t enough : (

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

I get free to play, however I am getting frustrated when I purchase a game and then it goes free to play.

Tetsuo,

I get it but I don’t really mind when it’s a very old game. It’s not like your copy of R6 siege has that much value many years after release.

Same goes for OW.

irish_link,

Absolutely true, unfortunately for me I usually purchase games later in their lifespan after most bugs are worked out. It’s not like it goes F2P a year after I purchase but I guess I am just complaining.

If more people get to play it and the game is given new life it’s a good thing.

Phineaz,

Well, can’t speak for R6S, but OW most certainly decreased in quality after it went F2P. We pretty much stopped playing a few months later.

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Same goes for OW.

I paid for a 6 x 6 Hero Shooter they gave me a F2P 5 x 5 version with a lot of changes and I cannot ever play again the game that I paid for. I do mind a lot.

Tetsuo,

I bought OW at release and it’s one of the best value I ever got in gaming.

The game was around 40€ many years ago and I had all heroes since release, plenty of lootboxes and skins. And I played hundreds of hours on it. Yes they killed their game in the recent years but that doesn’t mean I didn’t get any value from it. I honestly think they were pretty generous for the first years considering it wasn’t price at 60€ like some CoD.

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

The problem isn’t the amount of value, they’ve essentially removed OW1, there’s no way to play it again from a game preservation perspective is goddamn awful what they’ve done. Probably the only time you can play it again is when they release an Overwatch Classic for $29.99 in 10 years.

DudeDudenson,

Comically enough they put it in sale on steam

Codilingus,

Ranked will not be F2P. If you already own Seige, you won’t have to pay again for ranked.

TsarVul, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day
@TsarVul@lemmy.world avatar

It runs so much better than the first KC:D. Good job, Warhorse Studios.

By the by, someone playing the game for an additional 19 hours after giving it a thumbs down on Steam for woke DEI speaks to its quality.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f654c06f-14f9-4d16-b350-6fcab8fcc9d6.png

Elevator7009sAlt,

I’m asexual, not aromantic, but thinking about this from an aromantic perspective I completely get wanting more close platonic relationships that don’t turn romantic. That would actually be inclusive, a lot of people try to put romance everywhere, and I get it! It’s fun to do! But aromantic people like to have representation too, and options to be friends but not romantic helps them feel represented.

Too bad this guy’s “checkbox insert” means it’s probably (I might be wrong) an “omg gay people exist in my game, gross” complaint and not a “hey platonic relationships are important too, don’t make every significant relationship romantic” for all the aros (or even non-aromantic people who think friendship is important as well as romance) out there.

TsarVul,
@TsarVul@lemmy.world avatar

Absolutely. Portraying a relationship as less meaningful unless there are romantic underpinnings somewhere is weird. It’s just the “checkbox insert” thing cynically insinuates that they like had a gayness quota to fill. Whatever, my point is that it’s undeniably a good game. Check it out if you’re into medieval Europe stuff. You don’t have to play the first one, although you’d be missing out.

Elevator7009sAlt,

Every time I see a sequel I get curious about the first. KCD1 seems like something I have a 50/50 shot at either loving (roleplay!) or hating (QOL stuff, probably the combat), not sure which side I’ll come out on.

TsarVul,
@TsarVul@lemmy.world avatar

Suffice to say, you have a rough start of it. You’re born into the peasantry. You’re fragile. You can’t fight your way out of a wet cardboard box. I don’t know why this stuck with me in particular, but you’re illiterate. As you progress, life gets easier. Point being, the roleplay necessitates hard as hell combat and lack of QOL stuff.

IDK I’m into swords and horsies. Give it a shot, I’d say.

Broadfern,
@Broadfern@lemmy.world avatar

I’m like, borderline aro(?) and yeah having the option to proceed down a meaningful friendship path with my favorite characters/have them move in (shoutout to Krobus in SDV) is awesome when provided.

I can also see the “empty tokenism” as in, players deserve more fleshed out queer relationships instead of rainbow stickers being half-heartedly slapped on existing characters but yeah unfortunately the reviewer is probably a pearl clutching “woke DEI other-buzzword bad” type.

PostPeruser,

For sure i get that. I really liked how BG3 handled it in that regard, had very deep connections to characters, whilst keeping it aromantically.

In this case though, do people have the option or is it a quest line you have to follow through in this regard? Haven’t played it yet

ampersandrew, (edited ) do games w Dino Crisis 1 & 2 just got enhanced PC re-releases, courtesy of GOG
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

There’s also a new GOG Dreamlist, where you can vote for your favorite games of yesteryear to get the same treatment. If I might nudge you to the search box and vote for some of the following, you’d have my thanks:

  • 007: Agent Under Fire
  • Burnout before Paradise
  • Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
  • SoulCalibur 1-5
  • TimeSplitters 1-3
caut_R,

TimeSplitters for sure

7arakun,

Burnout 3 on PC would be a dream. It’s one of the reasons I still keep my 360 around.

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

If we’re making requests I’d like to add some of my own wishes as well:

simple,

Soul Calibur 2 running natively on modern PCs would be a dream come true.

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