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

But I deserve lots of games for $1! How dare they!?

MonkderZweite, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

Oh. Bioware disassembles itself.

man_in_space, do games w Rockstar Games' vice president of writing leaves after 16 years
@man_in_space@kbin.social avatar

Maybe now they will move past milking GTA V?

BleatingZombie,

Or they might stick the their guns and only milk GTA V

Corkyskog,
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GTA Online could have been so great, but instead it feels like they put no effort into doing anything but selling new DLC. The missions are boring and unrewarding, the motivation to work with others is nil, there is no good teaming system, it’s incredibly complicated to start any business and the guide is lacking to the point where there might as well not have been a guide at all. Then if you say fuck it, I am going to attempt this all on my own someone comes up and frags you with a rocket launcher 3 seconds into attempting to pick a lock.

So frustrating. It could have been the coolest game ever and it’s just a pile of shit.

HidingCat, do gaming w Ron Gilbert not keen on Monkey Island movie adaptation as it could make Guybrush "too much of a buffoon"

Knowing how these adaptations go, I don't blame him. Good chance they'll muck it up somehow.

nostalgicgamerz, do games w GTA 5 AI mod taken down by Take-Two lawyers

Someone needs to mirror that shit

Chet_Awesomelad, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3 developer demands full list of uncredited translation staff "immediately"
@Chet_Awesomelad@kbin.social avatar

How shitty do you need to be to make your workers complete a ton of work on a project and then only credit the executives who didn't even do the actual work? Altagram is run by garbage people.

littlecolt, do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

Linux with RTX 3070 here. DX works, Vulkan don’t.

CalcProgrammer1,
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I tried to play on Vulkan with my Arc A770 (Arch Linux) and it just black screened. With DX11 it played at around 60fps with VRR (dips down to the 50s) at 1440p.

littlecolt,

I get 60+ fps at 1440p ultrawide on high settings. Ultra has and frame dips but still ok. On pop os.

thingsiplay, do gaming w Microsoft's £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass offer cut from a month to 14 days
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@soyagi For 1 Euros or Dollars, you can't be mad at it.

Gorejelly, do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president
@Gorejelly@kbin.social avatar

I personally just don’t buy Squeenix software any longer. They’ve abandoned too many titles (mostly on mobile, but elsewhere too) and I just don’t feel good about giving them money. Last one I purchased was FF14 for the PC (which is one of the best MMOs I’ve played).

That’s just my take on things. If it happens to show up on Epic for free or Game Pass (unlikely on both, I know), then sure I’ll grab it to try.

Athena5898, do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president

It's Square, they wouldn't of been happy unless it sold as much as Tear of The Kingdom

Nefyedardu,

Final Fantasy in it's heyday outsold Zelda by a lot

Homeschooled316,

The PS1 also sold the N64 3:1, But FF7, the highest selling FF game, only sold about 9m to OoT’s 7m. Relative to console sales, oot thrashed final fantasy 7. Of course, it helps that they cranked these games out way faster than Zelda back then.

The current situation is similar, except the switch is wildly more prevalent than the PS5. There is almost 1 TotK sold for every 6 switch units, which is utterly insane when you consider how many ignored/lost/broken units are probably out there. By contrast, there is about 1 FF16 for every 10 PS5 units out there.

Nefyedardu,

These are the numbers I found for 5th and 6th gen games:
FFVII: 10.0
FFVIII: 8.6
FFX: 8.5
Ocarina of Time: 7.60
Wind Waker: 6.79
Majora's Mask: 6.82

FFIX: 5.5
FFX-2: 5.4
Oracle of Seasons & Oracle of Ages: 3.99
Minish Cap: 1.76

So maybe "a lot" is an overstatement, but they did generally sell more. You have a point regarding sales-per-console, but also remember PS1 had over 1900 games to N64s 388. That's way more competition for third party FF games to get sales. Many people that buy Sony consoles don't even look twice at JRPGs, whereas most people that buy Nintendo consoles know day one they are going to get the latest Mario and Zelda.

Athena5898,

sure, but the series and Square are by far very different than they were in it's heyday. Square has really been racking its players over the coals with shitty tactics lately and has signaled pretty loud and clear that they don't care about games at all and are just trying to get money out of you (I mean all major companies are like that, the others are just better at it and shut up about it) I said Tears of the Kingdom because it's the current high selling game, that's what they wanted this game to be and I honestly don't know why you'd even hope for something like that when handling business the way they do. (as people have mentioned they'd play it but do not have the system.)

Nefyedardu,

No I agree. The fact that Final Fantasy used to outsell Zelda and now sells 1/3rd of it should speak volumes about how Square has handled the franchise. Gaming has only gotten bigger since the late 90s.

Athena5898,

agreed

5redie8,

*wouldn’t have

Athena5898,

oh my god, people like you still exist? Fuck off

pm_me_your_puppies, do gaming w Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president
@pm_me_your_puppies@kbin.social avatar

I’m kinda surprised to see the hate this game is getting.

I’m probably 80% ish of the way through and while I wouldn’t say it’s my GOTY or anything, it’s fun. I appreciate the different direction they took, and the combat is just straight up fun.

The side quests do suck. Some of the zones are absolutely bland and consist of nothing but wide open space and random enemies just kinda… peppered in there. The Eikon battles are cool and pretty and badass but gameplay-wise they are boring. So yeah, it’s not a masterpiece, but I’m enjoying it.

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

Lol nobody in this thread is hating on it. You must be seeking out negative opinions if you’re seeing them, because everything Ive chanced across has been middle of the road to positive about the game.

Nefyedardu,

Wasn't a fan of the gameplay at all. It's in a kind of no man's land where it isn't an RPG but it's also nowhere near as good as DMC or Bayonetta. It's just so damn easy to button mash through everything. There is depth there if you want to explore it but it's a flaw in the game design that you are not actually incentivized to do that.

Master, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
@Master@lemmy.world avatar

I blame the fact that the producer doesn’t give a single fuck about the story.

downpunxx, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

While I've enjoyed seasons past, including the animated bit they put out that one year, after watching an episode and a half of the first half of this last season 3 a couple things became clear, there are too many subplots/characters to the point that I simply tune out all the names and don't care, focusing instead on the main three, and lastly that I'm bored. It's become something tiresome, and I shut it off after a couple episodes, maybe I'll revisit, probably not.

holycrapwtfatheism,

It doesn't get better. S3 is so far detached from what season 1 brought to the table as to be mockery. The acting feels so forced in this one.

_haha_oh_wow_,
@_haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social avatar

That's a shame, but this kind of shit is why I cancelled my Netflix and never looked back.

CybranM,

Yeah same, I was really hoping the witcher show would turn out great but then when they first showed the nilfgaard armours before S1 I lost hope and my fear turned out to be justified.

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

The tale of producers dumbing down plot and dialogue for greater main stream appeal is as old as show business. And from my experience said producers are almost always wrong. Sorry pal, but you can’t blame social media for something your peers have always been doing.

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

This is just damage control, there doesn’t have to be meaning to these words other than a try of appeasing the fans. That said though, it’s ironic how the Witcher games at least (haven’t read the books yet) have quite mature and well-written content compared to most other games, so they’re like the opposite of what he’s trying to say here and people LOVE the games for that. So it’s literally the opposite that’s true. If you put out over-simplified garbage, you will not create anything good with that kind of ingredients.

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