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Habarug, do games w Looks like Dragon Age: The Veilguard just received its final major update

For all the criticism I have heard about this game, I haven’t seen anyone say it’s buggy or runs poorly. The problems people have with the game are way beyond the scope of bugfix patches, so it kinda makes sense to me that the game is as good as it will ever be.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I mean the game is… okay, anyways. Which in the context of a Dragon Age is disappointing as fuck even after the boredom simulator that was DAI. But it’s not like anything is particularly bad either, not even the dialogue. It’s… fine. Aggressively mediocre, even.

LovableSidekick, (edited ) do games w Video Game History Foundation's long-awaited digital library will be available online next week

This organization fared much better than the Software Preservation Network, which the US Copyright Office recently barred from lending out copies of retro games themselves. It’s a lot easier to access material about the games.

tacosanonymous, do games w Sony is now FromSoftware owner Kadokawa's largest shareholder
@tacosanonymous@lemm.ee avatar

Correct me if I’m wrong, 10% is not that big of a deal?

dhhyfddehhfyy4673, (edited )

No, it's really not. Especially since they already own 14% of FromSoftware directly. The only Sony bullshit is likely still going to be limited to any IP that Sony funds themselves.

SkunkWorkz,

It’s Kadokawa that forced Sony’s hands. Sony initially only wanted to acquire the anime and videogames assets. But Kadokawa told them that only acquisition offers for the entire company are accepted.

Sony definitely had plans to buy up FromSoftware.

kitnaht, do games w Sony is now FromSoftware owner Kadokawa's largest shareholder

RIP FromSoftware.

Iapar,

We all know the day will come but I hope it is not that early.

Glide, do games w Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!"

Man, calling this a snub is a misnomer to begin with.

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

Honestly, toughest part of Baldur’s Gate 3 is recognizing how much there is to do despite the fact that you literally have specific characters haranguing you to move the story forward (I’m looking at you Frog Wife, we’ll get to your fucking Creche when I’m ready!), which makes you feel like maybe there’s a time limit. First playthrough I missed massive amounts of the game because I felt rushed by the characters in my party.

On the other hand, maybe there does need to be a time limit so the urgency is real? In the original Fallout, on release, you had something like 100 in-game days before The Master found Vault 13 and it was game-over. They later removed this because it was seen as too difficult… but I actually dislike that it got removed. Maybe change how long the player is given, but still, give them something to press that urgency as an actual, real, urgent thing.

ms_lane, do games w Payday 3 developer likens launch to being a rock band when "the whole stage collapses and everyone leaves"

No, it’s more like being a Rock Band, having 2 wildly successful albums then going in a another direction with a completely new, different sound for the third album, then wondering why no one bought it.

Many such cases. (Videogames and Music)

Kolanaki, do games w "Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours
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Can I make my own campaign yet?

jawa21,
@jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That’s what I want out of the game, really. A full toolkit a la Neverwinter Nights.

CosmoNova,

Read through the documentation of their newly released modding toolkit and find out, I guess.

cmhe,

Yes, but not with an unmodified toolkit, which opens levels as read-only, and disallows creating new levels. But there is a patch for the toolkit on nexusmods which unlocks the toolkit and makes the map editor and other stuff available. If you know what you are doing, you should be able to edit the main campaign or make your own.

I played around with it a bit, and all I can say, its complicated.

Lojcs, do games w Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song delayed indefinitely on Xbox as dev says it's being ignored by Microsoft

From this march:

Jyamma Games also said it was no longer planning to launch Enotria: The Last Song on Xbox alongside other platforms. This is to ensure “a superior experience for PC and PS5 players,” Jyamma Games CEO Giacomo Greco wrote in a statement on Steam. The exec suggested the studio will reassess an Xbox release once the game has launched elsewhere.

Maybe Xbox didn’t like the second class citizen treatment

intensely_human,

So Microsoft refers to sick size?

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

If that’s the reason, it doesn’t paint MS in a good light. Bullying small indie devs out of spite. Especially considering that, after saying that in March, Jyamma spent time and money to release the game on Xbox the same day as the other platforms.

But I honestly doubt it. Corporations are NOT people (even if the law would like to pretend otherwise) and they don’t think the same way as people. They don’t play favourites, they don’t play nice or bully others because they feel like to. They chase money, and that’s it. A game releasing on their platform is literally free money. This is just a fuck up on their part. If I had to guess, MS cut jobs and replaced them with AI and left a skeleton crew working on this.

t3rmit3, do gaming w Amazon reportedly working on animated anthology TV series featuring Spelunky and other video game worlds

…But why?

chloyster,

No clue but I’m down for a Spelunky short by the people who did love death and robots lol. Sounds lit

SteposVenzny,

I’m down for anthology series by default.

intensely_human, 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

Generally speaking it’s impossible to define a standard for how much output is “enough” for a developer.

Management always wants to extract as much as possible.

FiniteBanjo,

Well actually there is something of a standard:

Manor Lords is sold as Early Access. Meaning it doesn’t reach the “enough.”

CosmoNova, do games w Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

Team Fortress th-… 2: episode 1?

Katana314, do games w What is the point of Xbox?

Obvious frustrations aside, this article gives a great summary not just of current events but the last decade with Microsoft/Xbox.

ThePyroPython, do gaming w Kerbal Space Program 2 studio reportedly shut down by Take-Two

Oh for fucks sake.

Tempo, do gaming w Embracer announces plan to split into three companies, including "Middle-earth Enterprises and Friends"
@Tempo@lemmy.ml avatar

Embracer has really been a mess. Buying everyone up in the hopes the Saudis were definitely going to be on board with funding them probably didn’t help.

Just chucking everyone in a “Thing and friends” team probably isn’t helping matters either. Surely someone from the many dozens of development teams they have could have thought of better names.

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