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

That guy is amazing

Swarfega,

It blows my mind every time I see Stardew Valley. Singlehandedly wrote the story, characters, the music, effects, coded the game etc. Simply stunning.

MonkderZweite,

Sure, but the storage chest was a poor example for progress.

style99, do games w Black Myth: Wukong studio requests influencers not include "feminist propaganda" or Covid-19 references in coverage

Funny how quickly free speech drops dead whenever right-wing snowflakes get involved.

Bakersfield,

I didn’t realize they even had freedom of speech in China.

Murvel,

Right wing Chinese communists you mean? Good one…

style99,

What’s funny is anyone thinking Chinese government has anything to do with communism.

echodot,

It’s just fascism at this point mascarading as communism. Rather like Russia in that regard.

cecinestpasunbot,

China has plenty of right wingers and social conservatives living there. They just can’t organize for their beliefs outside of the existing political structures.

pureness, do games w Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12

Awesome, I’m glad the dev held his position! He’s right that it’s incredibly moronic to have games like FIFA with actual gambling mechanics rated lower.

Balatro will get you hooked on lovely indie games, not gambling :)

echodot,

They tried to claim it taught you how to gamble. Seriously that was their argument.

So clearly they didn’t play the game because if you actually turned up to a casino and tried to play like that they kick you out.

Nacktmull, do games w Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t want to buy an expansion from the people who stole Disco Elysium anyway.

How Disco Elysium Was Stolen From Its Creators

About the Disco Elysium Investigation (It’s bad.)

Glitchington,
@Glitchington@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, this seems like the business equivalent of a slap in the face to the original devs.

BarrierWithAshes,
@BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social avatar

The whole thing is such a clusterfuck. I've never played it but I can sympathize with how the fans have been jerked around.

Nacktmull,
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

I you are into adventure games and/or like the idea of a story heavy rpg without combat I wholeheartedly recommend you trying it.

BarrierWithAshes,
@BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social avatar

I've tried several games like it. Arcanum being one of the most similar but I just can't get into that style, no matter how many times I've tried lol. Same reason I won't play Planescape: Torment. Just not for me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Aqarius,

It’s not very much like Arcanum, though. Arcanum and Planescape are moer or less straight RPGs, Disco Elysium is practically a variant of a point and click adventure.

yuriy,

It’s a point and click puzzle game with rpg elements, that’s how I’ve been explaining it

dumpsterlid,

I really wanted to get into planescape torment because I have heard amazing things about the writing and I have played decently far into the beginning (escaping from the body morgue complex into city) but the whole damn game is just grey and beige and I couldn’t take it after awhile lol.

BarrierWithAshes,
@BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social avatar

I'm sure its got an incredible story and I'd love it if I actually sat down but im in the same boat. Just not interested.

papabobolious,

I sympathise with them, but played it without any insight into any drama. It’s one of the best games I’ve played.

100_percent_a_bot,

If anything the employees getting fired and the project being shitcanned adds another layer of social commentary

BustinJiber,

Still do not understand how this wasn’t hostile takeover.

Shadywack, do games w Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days
@Shadywack@lemmy.world avatar

Good riddance to that fucking scumbag.

Wooki,

This golden parachute is glorious.

He says exiting the building.

TheFerrango, do games w Xbox is still committed to making consoles, says boss Phil Spencer

They also said they were still committed to Zune and Windows Phone.

smeg,

They probably weren’t lying then or now, they are committed… for this quarter. When they read the numbers next quarter, well that’s completely unrelated to today’s commitments!

AccmRazr, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

Look at this clown! First, they came out saying they weren’t even fans of the material. You have Henry Cavil in the lead role who is a super fan of the source materials arguing with you and the writers about the show. And then you finish it off by blaming the audience for your decisions. Mind you, the audience you have ultimately attracted is largely influenced by the decisions you have made throughout the production of YOUR show. The audience didn’t make this show, YOU did

deweydecibel,

Is this the same person? This is just an executive producer, not the writer or show runner.

Pretty funny to call out someone for not reading something while simultaneously not reading the article to know who it is you’re even talking about.

Overzeetop,
@Overzeetop@kbin.social avatar

If you're the executive producer, it's your fault that your team members fucked it up. If you cannot find a competent writer to properly express nuance on the screen, it's still your fault. You hired the wrong person to adapt the books. You are the boss, the final say, the one-ass-to-kick when things go wrong. The Witcher is not some nuanced story about regional distinctions in low-visibility communities told in short form, which seems to be his only acclaimed experience, followed by several production failures.

This entire interview comes down to "those lazy zoomers don't know how to appreciate good film." From the description of his past, massive failures it appears to be a problem with his process and ability, not an audience problem.

bane_killgrind,

by several production failures

Hehe savage

Windex007,

If you’re AN executive producer:

youtu.be/8P_AnvUIvJs

brihuang95, do games w Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community
@brihuang95@sopuli.xyz avatar

wow literally every fucking product is undergoing enshittification to a service model.

BossPaint,

It’s surprising how slow the process has been in many instances

turtlepower,

I said this would happen back when it was just the ISPs having data caps and cell phone companies charging for every text/data caps/ peak hours. Oh, but I was just a raving lunatic then. Fuck the human race. We get what we deserve.

AngrilyEatingMuffins,

Speak for yourself. I don’t deserve this just because other people are morons.

mustardman, (edited )

All of those things you listed have always been unpopular. Idk why anyone would think that makes you a lunatic.

ipkpjersi,

Nah, smart people don’t deserve to suffer just because most people are stupid and careless.

567PrimeMover,
@567PrimeMover@kbin.social avatar

Time to end the failed experiment that is capitalism

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

The title makes it seem like they’re putting these pics on the Steam page. Or at least that’s what it seemed like to me.

But they’re actually sneaking these pictures into these capsules you can find in the game. Normally these capsules have screenshots from other players’ games. Now players have found screenshots that are from the sequel (presumably). That’s really cool!

mihnt, do games w Starfield players create famous faces in-game, and a Todd Howard flashlight
@mihnt@kbin.social avatar

To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

Nope. Fuck you.

IWantToFuckSpez,

Can’t even reject all cookies. Like the personalized ads option only has an “accept” button. Isn’t that a GDRP violation?

sigmaklimgrindset,

You have to go into “manage settings” and the second header to get a “reject all cookies” option. Fucking bullshit tbh, because it was lagging out on my phone while I was trying to navigate it

mihnt, (edited )
@mihnt@kbin.social avatar

I don't know. I'm a dirty American with Consent-O-Matic.

Here's the github for anyone that wants.

DLSchichtl,

Who the fuck does that? Add this website to the unwelcome list.

BrowseMan,

Ahaha I had exactly the same reaction xD

KingThrillgore, do gaming w Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

You know what that means: Gifting a sub with Prime is about to go away and so are all the loot drops with Prime. Also, more no opt out ads, longer preroll ads, and a larger list of partnered games getting headway.

So you know typical enshittification stuff.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

This always makes me wonder how their operation can be so pricey.

It sounds more like their human resource cost is just absurd, not that their underlying technical operation is the problem. Plus assuming they did any calculation on the ads at all, their server usage should pay for itself as more load means more views means more ad impressions.

But what does Twitch need X-thousand people for if they still cannot do anything about curating content with those endless people? All I see of them is someone writing flip-flopping statements about whether nudity on stream is okay or not, always depends on which month it is it feels like.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Video encoding is an expensive operation and probably the second largest cost next to wages. And apparently they aren’t even on an AWS SLA.

AN AMAZON SUBSIDIARY NOT ON AN SLA

Are they really a revenue sink to cover up taxable income?

BradleyUffner,

Shouldn’t the encoding happen locally, on the user’s computer, before it’s even sent to Twitch?

fushuan,

The user doesn’t send several different resolutions of video, the streamer just sends the source, and once thay have enough viewers, twitch reduces the resolution on their side so the viewer can choose either quality.

CleoTheWizard,
@CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world avatar

Or they just shutter twitch once they realize it’s unprofitable.

worsedoughnut,
@worsedoughnut@lemdro.id avatar

Don’t get my hopes up

NOT_RICK, do games w Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

I’m glad he’s finally fucking off, it’s just a shame it’s with such a fat bag of cash

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Don’t worry, it’s never enough cash, so he will assuredly be back to fucking shit up in some business capacity soon enough.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

He’s gonna run Unity (further into the ground) I just know it and they’re waiting for the new year to send the offer.

echodot,

Wally has all the prerequisites of being their CEO, Lack of talent

mynamesnotrick,

Hello fellow not rick

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Get off my lawn!

scrubbles, do gaming w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient - Opinion
!deleted6348 avatar

This is some of the most honest feedback about Starfield. It’s not bad. It’s just horribly dated.

It’s a standard Bethesda game, and it’s great for a Bethesda game. But Bethesda hasn’t updated anything in years, over a decade even. Characters are flat, storylines are fun but not engaging, it’s just… fine.

If this had come out in 2014-2016 as a successor to Skyrim it’d be one of the best games, I firmly believe that. But it didn’t, they took their time building it, which is good, but now we have games like the Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, RDR2, even ME3 came out after Skyrim. The format for story propelled RPGs has changed, and the bar has been raised.

Again I don’t want to be one of the “Oh bethesda bad boooo” people because honestly, I’m still having a ton of fun in Starfield. It’s just that for a brand new game… it’s really showing it’s age.

vagrantprodigy,

Honestly Baldurs Gate 3 is what really makes it look bad. Playing Starfield after playing that highlights all of the shallowness in Starfield.

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

Exactly. Compared to games from the early 2010s? It’d hold up. Compared to games in the early 2020s? It just can’t even be compared.

Moonguide,

Yup, this. I’ve played two runs by myself and on my fourth with some buddies and I’m still finding out meaningful stuff I didn’t do on my solo runs. Starfield is an upgrade in tons of aspects over previous beth titles (big exception is planetside exploration), they fixed tons of issues both Skyrim and F4 had. Skill checks, while not as present as they should be, pop up once in a while. Skill tree isn’t as boring as F4 but build variety suffers, same as in Skyrim. Character background pops up in convos sometimes (but isn’t as deep as it could be).

That’s starfield. It has the makings of a good game, and it is, but it plays it very safe. And because of that, NPCs are boring, as is the story, as is combat, as is pretty much everything else in the game. The only thing that impressed me was that one mission in the main quest but even that one was limp dicked on the finish. And ship costumization, but if I wanted in-depth ship mechanics I’d play KSP.

Like the game was too ambitious and too chicken shit at the same time.

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

I really like this, honest feedback to them. The game is obviously made by committee. That’s exactly what my wife and I have been saying, that they did a lot of cool ideas - and then dropped them half way through. None of the ideas are fully thought out or finished, it all screams “Some suit said ‘no this is great, move on’”. Some quick examples

  • Base building, awesome concept, I want to build a base on a foreign planet.
    • But what do I do there?
  • Automated crafting. Awesome, I love Satisfactory! I can do this.
    • Wait, I can’t limit items in transit, so I can really only transport one item over a link? So it can’t really be automated.
  • Oh sweet, I can build my own spaceship?!
    • But you are rarely actually in space and really when you are it’s just a mini game between planets.
  • and you get companions to hang out with you on your ship?
    • But they don’t interact with each other or do anything like help you fight other ships.
  • Oh and we get to have a fleet of ships?!
    • but they aren’t actually a fleet. You never get to assign someone as captain of another ship to help you fight pirates. You just… pick which of your ships you want to fly right now.

And that’s just some. Like so so so many cool awesome fun ideas that were just… “I don’t want to play with this anymore.” The fleet one especially stings. I was really hoping I could assign someone as captain of another ship, and when we jumped/spawned in space there it would be on my left, and it could help me fight pirates. I mean, how hard would it be to program that? They already have the ship, they have AI for dogfighting other AI, it would just follow behind you until you entered combat.

acastcandream,

don’t worry, the gap gets a lot smaller when you reach act 3 in BG3 lol

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

ive heard it gets insanely buggy and forgets previous choices once you reach act 3. havent played any baldurs gate game though, so i have no clue on specifics

Caligvla, (edited )
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If this had come out in 2014-2016 as a successor to Skyrim it’d be one of the best games,

LOL nah, it’d be shat on like FO4 was. Maybe not as heavily, because it didn’t opt for voicing the protagonist, but sure as hell wouldn’t be called “one of the best games”.

SeeJayEmm,
@SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org avatar

My son complains about this but I’m glad they didn’t give the protag.

acastcandream,

it’d be shat on like FO4 was.

FO4 printed insane money and won countless awards. It did fine lol

deegeese,

They said FO4 was shitty, not that it lost money

Looks like Starfield is more of the same.

squid,

Idk I find starfeild could even be a downgrade in some way, no ai habits like shop keepers must be on a meth bindge as they never leave they’re stores, the openish world is gone, in one lengthy mission I’d see 5/6 loading screens, usually when going from planet to planet then into the city then to do the objective then repeat in reverse.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

i don’t understand how they could ship the game with more than 1 featureless gray rock planet, the interesting environments is the bread and butter of bethesda games and the one thing you’ve been able to rely on enjoying even if you find everything else to be garbage!

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

While the subsystem of 5e isn’t my favorite, Baldur’s Gate 3 has an insanely good RPG system and every sidequest feels pretty unique. No radiant quests like 2077 or Bethesda games Sure, the sex scenes could be a bit better, and I’d like more dialog once you become the best of friends with people, but it’s still amazingly deep with great voice acting and tidbits of stories in various places and situations.

I recommend it if you haven’t played it yet! It’s definitely my game of the year.

toxicbubble, do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

what really bugs me are fighting games with dlc characters. i know fighting games arent as profitable, but twenty years ago you could unlock every character by actually playing the game. locking content behind paywalls are a slap to poor gamers. that’s on top of a $60 price tag

ArtVandelay,
@ArtVandelay@lemmy.world avatar

$70 is the new $60 because fuck you that’s why

JJROKCZ,

Oh stop, games have been the same price for decades, it’s not surprising they’re seeing a small price increase after so long in stagnation.

In good companies this is passed along to the actual devs making our games, which is something we should all support

kboy101222,

Yeah, not a penny of the extra $10 is being passed along

Exusia,
@Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

This has been disproven and was called out at the time of the increase. Games cost less to develop now than ever. Microtransactions and recurrent subscription transaction1s like battlepasses mean a shit game gets to live longer than it would deserve. People have careers in the field and languages common to the industry - this isn’t a “new and groundbreaking” industry - its one of the largest on the planet.

Studios are absolutely not passing any of that $10 to lower level staff. It was to see if the market would bear it, and no other reason - and corporate defenders came out of the woodwork to pretend BILLION dollar corporations need more money. If videogames were too expensive to make, they’d not be spending so much, now would they?

wahming,

Games cost less to develop now than ever.

First time I’m hearing that, got a link?

michaelmrose,

It’s interesting actually. There are both games with insane budgets that cost more that than triple A games in years past and incredible tooling and assets available for very modest amounts of money + incredibly powerful computers very little. It’s possible for some games to be made for less than ever before AND some to be made for more.

brygphilomena,

Has the distribution gone up though? If the quantity of games being sold has increased the companies are making just as much even though games are “cheaper.”

Imo. That’s the big argument in this debate that doesn’t get discussed. The reach has increased so prices could come down as more units are sold and the company would get the same amount of money.

Hyphlosion,
@Hyphlosion@donphan.social avatar

“Small” price increase? Are your toilet paper squares $10 bills or something?

PatMustard,

You’re going to be really unhappy when you discover the concept of inflation

sdcSpade,

20 years ago, they sold every Street Fighter three times with more characters in each new iteration. Microtransactions suck, but simple DLC is a less shitty than what used to be normal.

Krackalot,

What? You didn’t like buying SUPER Street Fighter II TURBO Championship Edition?

Dran_Arcana,

I actually did, because once I bought it they couldn’t shut down the dlc servers on me when they released the next one.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

This was more a way for them to keep people putting in quarters at the arcades and selling machines to arcade ops.

It translated to some home games, but wasn’t the focus of putting out all these new versions. It made some sense at the time.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Yep

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - (1991)

Street Fighter II’: Champion Edition - (1992)

Street Fighter II’: Hyper Fighting - (1992)

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers - (1993)

Super Street Fighter II Turbo - (1994)

All $40-60 games at the time.

Blackmist,

They did milk the fuck out of that, I’ll grant you.

But at the same time you couldn’t take them online and end up playing somebody who’d got the latest one and have to fight new characters you’d have no access to.

TheLowestStone,
@TheLowestStone@lemmy.world avatar

You are mistaken about the price. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior had a retail price of $69.99 at launch.

xkforce, (edited )

Fighting games started in coin operated arcade cabinets that were intentionally designed to be such a pain in the ass to beat that people would dump heaps of money into them just to keep playing. Same deal with games that were released in the days that youd rent them for a week. The difficulty was set so high that it was very unlikely that you could beat the game in that week so you would end up renting them another week or two.

The gaming industry has been filled with greedy fuck policies from the beginning and the only thing that has changed is how they are greedy fucks.

Buddahriffic,

Yeah, I noticed this with mortal Kombat on snes. Every time I played the single player campaign, I’d win one fairly easily, then I’d lose to the next guy. Then I’d use a continue and beat that guy fairly easily and lose to the next one. Repeat until I run out of continues, with the occasional upset of the pattern (extra win or loss).

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Also true of timed arcade games like Gauntlet. Unless you were very good, you’d have to keep putting quarters in when the time ran out.

nesc, do games w Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarket

Good. Fuck nintendo.

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