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slaacaa, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day

Very happy for the success of this game, even if it’s not my style. It seems like a breath of fresh air among soulless cash grabs

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

I tried the first and just couldn’t get into it. But the game industry needs titles that aren’t full of loot boxes and requiring online connectivity

slumberlust,

Did you try any mods that remove some of the limiter features? For example I played with encumbrance set to zero and all vendors with gold to sell you. Both were huge QoL improvements.

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

I couldn’t get into the combat. I’m too used to Skyrim and simple fighting systems. Maybe I’ll try it again

TheOakTree,

I would maybe suggest modding your defence to a high level, unlocking defence perks, and spamming block. The combat certainly becomes more manageable as you level up, unless you’re simply fighting a group of people by yourself. Then it never gets easier.

slaacaa,

Yes, not every game needs to appeal to everyone - the problem is that big publishers are always aiming for the lowest common denominator, that’s why we end up with many bland and similar games

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

I know literally nothing about this game and I mostly play FPS or racing games. What even is this game and what does the actual gameplay look like? I don’t give a crap about stories as I always skip them. I just want to know what the actual gameplay loop consists of.

SwiggitySwole,

It’s a fairly realistic medieval adventure rpg, sword fighting is stance based and very hard, you also suck at everything to begin with because you start off as an illiterate blacksmiths son. The sequel is a continuation of his story. It’s pretty story focused but you can definitely have a ton of fun just wandering around stealing shit and fighting people if you want to, once you get good at stealing and fighting

Majorllama,
@Majorllama@lemmy.world avatar

Hmmmm… Sounds potentially interesting. I’m guessing I don’t have to have played the first one before I play the second one?

I’ll probably throw it on the ol wishlist and wait for a sale.

aksdb,

The second one gives you the necessary flashbacks to catch up if you should intend to follow the story. It also explains all the basics of the game mechanics as part of the quests.

Majorllama,
@Majorllama@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds intriguing. I’ll definitely check it out.

unknown1234_5, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day

hopefully the combat system is improved so you actually have a chance of at least escaping when fighting more than one enemy

otterpop,

You can fight 1v10 later on, but in the beginning of the first game you were literally a peasant. It makes sense even a 1v2 would represent a mortally dangerous situation until you get better skills and gear.

Really it’s what made the game so good in my opinion, I’ve never felt a character grow like that before.

unknown1234_5,

what I'm talking about is more that running away isn't actually an option unless you can win the fight already because if you try to run they can just instantly knock you down.

Blxter, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day
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I’ll purchase this in around a year or more with dlc still playing the first to completion almost done with it on my last hardcore playthrough getting virgin + merciful + hardcore achievements… Really good one of my favorite 100%s so far

Valencia, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day

Just waiting for gog… Hold the line…

Whitebrow,

Absolutely this and wait a year for the DLCs to release with it

Hubi, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day
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Definitely deserved. I’ve played it for 10+ hours so far and it’s such an improvement on the already excellent first game. It even runs much better on the same hardware.

Lupus,

It even runs much better on the same hardware.

That’s great news, I was worried about performance.

tomi000,

That actually sounds wrong. Do they use the same level of graphics or was the first game optimized THAT badly?

Hubi,
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Pretty sure the first game was just not optimized very well. I can run KCD2 at a very stable 60+ FPS on my RTX 3060 on high/ultra settings. The first one had about 20 FPS less in comparable environments. Not too surprising, considering that it was the dev team’s first CryEngine project. It’s notoriously hard to work with.

PostPeruser,

We know someone working at Warhorse and he arranged us to get a tour at the company after hours by the HR person which was great. I recall one of the devs saying “You know why they call it the CryEngine right? It’s cuz you cry everytime you have to use it”

Hubi,
@Hubi@feddit.org avatar

Wow, lucky you! That’s pretty funny.

vonxylofon,

That badly. Updates made it better, though.

SkunkWorkz, do games w Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day

Guess all the people calling it woke still bought it.

TheEntity,

For what it’s worth, Eurogamer itself called the first game bigoted and refused to rate it. It’s really a strange case.

eurogamer.net/kingdom-come-deliverance-review

rtxn,

That article reads like that other shitpiece that called Ghost of Tsushima racist for portraying Mongols as evil. Like, bruh. It wasn’t called “the dark ages” for a lack of sunlight.

CosmoNova,

It’s called the dark ages for a lack of records. Not sure where you’re trying to go with this argument.

rtxn, (edited )

It’s a reference to a line in a Stargate episode, uttered by a historian in reference to outdated medieval practices (specifically trepanning). If I have to make a point, it is that historical fiction about a specific time and culture should reflect the values and prejudices of the people and not be condemned for it.

NuXCOM_90Percent, (edited )

Except that isn’t what happens with stuff like this. It isn’t reflecting “the values and prejudices of the people” at the time. It is reflecting them in the modern day.

The problem with KCD1 wasn’t that it depicted low tech people (which it didn’t. It very much went the route of “alchemy is science”) or even the very questionable views on women (that is a very complex topic). It was the insistence that medieval Czech was a land of white people (and a specific phenotype at that…) and blah blah blah. When the vast majority of historical evidence is that medieval Europe was a mixing pot (there is a reason that terms like “moor” existed and plenty of people brought servants, slaves, and even wives back from the various crusades and Crusades).

Which gets back to “the dark ages” being about a lack of records more than anything else. But people interpret “Well. there is no record of an arab being in this entire country for 300 years!” as “The white men kept the brown folk out” rather than “Well… there also aren’t a lot of records period. But if you look a few miles to the east you DO see records acknowledging this as though it weren’t a big deal”

Which also lines up with the lead dev being a piece of shit chud who was a loud voice during gamergate.

And it also left a REALLY bad taste in the mouth of people (who give a shit) who read any of the discussion on this and saw WAY too many people talk about how it is important to have a game about Czech that remembers the glory days back when everyone was white and strong and blah blah blah.

And, as a quick aside: KCD1 is still the most bog standard power fantasy fantasy there can be. The combat is more or less “What if you took two HEMA seminars?” and is still star wars kid slicing through plate mail. And it is especially funny because the “historians” that were consulted? No, they weren’t medieval history specialists or even HEMA specialists. If memory serves, it was a guy who specialized in WW1 tanks. And, while people can obviously have multiple passions, it really showed. Also, you are the son of a blacksmith (?) who bangs his way around Bohemia to become bestest friends with the king and blah blah blah.

Which brings us to Ghost of Tsushima. I genuinely love this game even if there is zero chance I ever finish it (I can’t stand ubi open world games and it is more ubi than ubi has been in years). Yes, it is 500% written by a white guy who studied the blade. But it is well acted and well “directed” and really feels like I am playing a Kurosawa film. That said, it definitely depicts the Mongols as violent barbarians who outright use civilians as target practice and do nothing but <REDACTED> and pillage because violence is fine but the other thing triggers ratings issues.

And in the sense of needing a villain that justifies Jin giving up the pretense that samurai were anything other than violent warlords in armor? It works. But if you actually look at politics and cultural shifts in Japan over the past few decades, you’ll see why it was very well received that All Mongols are Barbarian Monsters and so forth. It is the same problem as depicting “generic brown people” in “generic Middle East” as more or less slobbering zombies to be mowed down.

Which gets back to the key point. Pretty much all of these “We are just depicting the <blank> period as it was” isn’t doing that. It is portraying things through the lens of the modern day which is something that is accepted amongst historic fiction writers (more on that shortly). So if they crank up the whiteness? There is a reason.

Now, I said I was going to talk about historic fiction writers. If you ARE interested in “what things were like”, I STRONGLY recommend authors like Miles Cameron (I think that is his pen name for SFF, but they redirect to the same site). Historic fiction can be awesome and the best stories are the ones that need to have a footnote or appendix of “Yo, this ACTUALLY happened.” because of how wild it is. And you’ll find that the writers who actually put the effort in to cite things tend to have much more nuanced depictions of both sides (because it is incredibly rare to have a genuinely evil empire) and are a lot less focused on racial purity because… that shit wasn’t a thing once we got past “The people on that side of the river all have red hair and are evil. I hear their wives and daughters are hot though…”

iAmTheTot,

For the record, academics and historians generally don’t use the term “the dark ages” anymore.

DrSteveBrule,

My roommate said that Dragon Age was going to be the most woke game and that he would never spend his money on a game published by EA. He bought it day 1 and beat it 3 times. He fucking loves that game.

bokherif,

This series is the opposite of woke if you ask me.

Jesus christ be praised.

Hyphlosion, do games w Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff

“We are deeply grateful for their contributions and are committed to supporting them through this transition."

So like a fruit basket and a pat on the head?

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

I love Nintendo games. I HATE the company behind the games. And it’s not like this is recent shit either. This goes all the way back to the 80s. They tried sueing Blockbuster for including game manuals with their rentals.

So if you remember blockbuster printing the important bits of the manual, like controls, on the plastic dust cover, that was their workaround to “including copyrighted documents”.

And the only reason they sued for copyright infringement was because they tried to sue to end rentals completely, but blockbuster wasn’t breaking any laws. So Nintendo tried doing whag cops do, and bust you for something smaller, just to get you into court. Then try’d try to wear you down with lawsuits by showing you had a history of law breaking.

Problem was, Nintendo just got a history of suing anyone and anything.

Alternate timeline there’s a version of Nintendo who never sued anyone, but won THIS lawsuit, because they didn’t have that history of wasting the courts time for decades.

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

www.snopes.com/…/nintendo-sue-paco-gutierrez/ It was actually Venezuela and Nintendo didn’t sue.

When you spread lies like these it hurts the credibility of the very real problems with Nintendo, like suing a supermarket or attacking the emulation community.

JadenSmith,

I dunno man, I put the wrong pipe in doing some DIY in overalls and Nintendo now own my house.

They let me buy a sink back, which was strange since it looks exactly the same as the one I bought 20 years ago.

Krompus,
@Krompus@lemmy.world avatar
CaptainBasculin,

LMAO this got fact checked i cant believe it

fr tho, who would even think this is real? Would you believe an article titled “Nintendo sues Italian family for naming their twin sons Mario and Luigi”?

Lost_My_Mind,

Would you believe an article titled “Nintendo sues Italian family for naming their twin sons Mario and Luigi”?

It’s Nintendo. And it’s 2025, where real life feels like satire.

So, yes.

Anders429,

It’s a joke omg

JoeKrogan, do games w Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarket
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

What if someone makes a game about the supermarket ?

jol,

You would not win in that case. Nintendo lost because their trademark does not apply to supermarkets. But if you made a game called super Mario, you would definitely lose.

Lost_My_Mind,

It’s called SuperMarket Simulator.

You can name your store whatever you want after you get to level 3.

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

“While Nintendo has trademarked the use of Super Mario worldwide under numerous categories, including video games, clothing and toys, it appears the company did not specifically state anything about the names of supermarkets.”

Kind of a legal version of the Air Bud rule.

crank0271,

On my way to open Super Mario Basketball Camp for Dogs (Especially Golden Retrievers)®️

Kelly, (edited )

Nintendo has a lot of active “super mario” trademarks with the USPTO, 79259975 includes the following:

G & S: IC 030: Tea; tea-based beverages; coffee; coffee-based beverages; cocoa; cocoa-based beverages; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; popcorn; chewing gum; bread; buns; sandwiches; pizzas; pies; cakes; frozen yogurt confections; pancakes; crackers; mints for breath freshening; seasonings; ketchup; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; noodles; pasta sauce.

www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search

This would limit the supermarket from carrying their own store brand product lines for these product types.

Off the top of my head I can confirm my supermarket stocks their own brand of :

Tea; coffee; cocoa; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; bread; buns; pies; cakes; seasonings; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; pasta sauce.

Admittedly my local is part of a large chain so this may not be typical but even independent supermarkets in my area tend to repackage bulk candies and chocolate under their own label.

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

There was this coffee corner near us when we went on holiday to Greece, called the Super Mario Coffee Kiosk.

I’m still surprised Nintendo hasn’t tried to sue them yet, they even ripped off the logo and Mario himself.

maps.app.goo.gl/GDb1im57PSED5fmt5

driving_crooner,
@driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar

This one in Colombia is even worst

maps.app.goo.gl/XxU2yaDEkh7M5jUD6

ayyy,

“Mario Bross” lmao

ipkpjersi,

Especially since they have a trademark for Super Mario when it comes to coffee lol

AFC1886VCC, do games w Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarket

Fuck off and die Nintendo

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