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TwilightVulpine, do gaming w Borderlands company Gearbox buys the rights to beloved indie roguelike Risk of Rain, immediately makes a free-to-play mobile gacha game

Big publishers weaponizing randomization elements in games against the players' wallets. I hate this era of gaming...

Kaldo,
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

Opening chests with random magical loot used to be fun when I was a kid, a classic fantasy trope, not a monetization shadow pattern :/

thingsiplay, do gaming w Borderlands company Gearbox buys the rights to beloved indie roguelike Risk of Rain, immediately makes a free-to-play mobile gacha game
@thingsiplay@kbin.social avatar

Free To Play: Maybe. Mobile: Pass. Gacha: Pass. Game Pass: Pass. Conclusion: Pass. 4/5 Passes.

atocci,

Wait what does this have to do with Game Pass?

thingsiplay,
@thingsiplay@kbin.social avatar

The word Pass. Actually I don't know.

spacecowboy, do gaming w Borderlands company Gearbox buys the rights to beloved indie roguelike Risk of Rain, immediately makes a free-to-play mobile gacha game

Not at all surprising but still disappointing. :(

Coelacanth, do games w Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

Taking notes from the FF15 open world might not be a great idea… The fishing minigame on the other hand, now we’re talking!

hal_5700X, (edited ) do games w Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon
@hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

or like the OG version. Yeah, the 1997 game was a open world after you leave Midgar.

Poayjay,

It was an open world with only one path through it

Mamertine,

Once you got the blimp it was legit open world.

DontMakeMoreBabies, do games w Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon

Good lord just do the same shit they did with the original but update the graphics.

They're going to ruin this... 😕

Ultraviolet,

The ending of part 1 was literally killing a manifestation of the concept of being a remake. It’s a sequel to FF7R, in which the subtitle “Remake” was a red herring, not part 2 of a remake.

helloharu, (edited )
@helloharu@lemmy.world avatar

Considering how much it smacks you in the face, it amazes me how many people fail to see or completely ignore the subversion of destiny/fate plot point.

Wugger,

No one fails to see that after playing the game. As the person above you said, the game title was deceptive. We were told it was a remake, but were given something else instead.

helloharu,
@helloharu@lemmy.world avatar

That’s not what they said at all, especially not in the manner you’re arguing.

money_loo,

Maybe I’m just high, but I can’t for the life of me understand what the fuck this means…lol

naticus,

Essentially “Remake” was the subtitle of the game, rather than a term like remaster. It was subtle until the end, but you’re remaking the story’s timeline. It’s a sequel, not a remaster or reimagining of the original.

Also, yeah you’re definitely high. Like damn dude.

thorcik, do games w Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon

Both were overdone and empty-ish (southern Velen swamps gave me PTSD)

FullFridge,

I remember liking Witcher 3’s. It made the world feel large and lived in. Although I’m not the kind of person who needs to complete everything on a map. I have heard people complain about that

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

There are some decent ones where you can find fragments of stories told through letters and/or environmental storytelling, but most of the question marks are just mindless monster nests, bandit camps and buried treasure. Skellige in particular is notorious for all the question marks in the water that are just vendor trash flotsam to collect.

In general exploration in TW3 would be more rewarding if the itemization wasn’t so scuffed. The only gear worth using is the Witcher sets (which you craft), which really lessens the excitement you feel when looting. There were so many times where I found a guarded treasure, defeated the boss and looked at a cool unique sword, only to realize its stats were beyond atrocious.

FullFridge,

Yeah, I think that’s why I didn’t have an issue with it. I remember only doing maybe 1 or 2 of the barrels in the water in Skellige. I mostly used the question marks as small distractions as I went from one quest to another. I never focused on clearing them out.

You’re right that most of the items weren’t that rewarding to get. It’s mostly just busy work. Hopefully rebirth keeps that stuff to a minimum and just has a large map with cool locations and unique well written side quests. Maybe a few collectibles scattered around the map to reward exploration too.

DaDaDrood,

The first thing I do with any open world game is turn of all map/quest/achievement markers except for maybe the active selected quest. It makes gaming so much more organic. Aso when you do a replay you can still find fresh quests on your second/third plays.

darth_helmet, do games w Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon

If the open world in rebirth is like 15, this game will be trash.

Pistcow,

Fine, we’ll do the open world like 13.

FangedWyvern42, do games w Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners
@FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world avatar

Ben Starr deserved his Best Lead Performer win. His performance as Clive Rosfield in FFXVI is one of the best I’ve ever heard. The game also won Best Audio, which is also well-deserved in my opinion. Game of the Year was obivous, but I don’t think Resi 4 Remake should have gotten the PS GOTY. Starfield as Xbox GOTY seems controversial, but I’m fine with it.

GrammatonCleric, do games w Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

The winners are the games on my hard drive.

simple, do games w Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners

The Xbox GOTY is baffling. You had Dead Space, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush as the nominees and they picked Starfield? I get it’s the most popular but all three of those were way better. Hi-Fi Rush got scammed.

The rest of the rewards seem good. I’m glad Cocoon got some recognition.

hh93,

Recency bias at work

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Xbox paid for Jankfield to win

Mago6246, (edited ) do games w Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners

What a magnificent year for Nintendo, a console with very old hardware being in their probably last year, coming with this line-up is just amazing.

johnthedoe,

It does goes to show hardware isn’t everything. In fact it’s a pretty small factor for most if the games are fun.

stooovie,

…which is Nintendo’s strategy since the Gameboy.

caseofthematts,

It’s why I’ve never felt the same ire as those who talk about Nintendo being generations behind. They generally make fun games that age well aesthetically, and I’ll play those games often.

dopeshark, do games w Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners
@dopeshark@lemmy.world avatar

Starfield for the xbox? Poor xbox…

plumbus,

I‘m quite enjoying it.

9715698,

Me too, and I don’t recall much other competition. Forza Motorsport had promise, but definitely needed another 6mo to cook

BorgDrone,

Me too, and I don’t recall much other competition.

That’s mainly because the xbox gaming landscape is a wasteland.

plumbus,

I‘m quite enjoying it.

BorgDrone,

What are you playing Starfield or the other game?

plumbus,

Right now I’m mainly playing Starfield, have started Alan Wake remastered and only quickly tested Forza Motorsport.

Before Starfield came out I played through some of the Game Pass Library: AC Origins, A short Hike, Bramble, Quake II, Lego Starwars, Lego City Undercover, Planet of Lana, Tunic, lots of Witcher 3, A Plague Tale Requiem, High on Life, Starwars Jedi Fallen Order and many more.

BorgDrone,

So basically a both xbox games (Starfield & Forza) and a bunch of old, multiplat and indie games.

Not really a good reason to get an xbox over a PS5 which has a string of amazing exclusives. Let alone the fact that there is no VR support on xbox (why even bother releasing a racing game without VR in 2023?).

plumbus,

I paid 500€ for a Xbox Series X and three years of Game Pass Ultimate, and as I said twice before:

I‘m quite enjoying it.

BorgDrone,

Imagine having to play mediocre games for three years.

Stamets, do games w Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners
@Stamets@startrek.website avatar

Hell yeah! Voted for all the BG3 stuff but the “Playstatiom Game of the Year?” also voted for RE4 hoping it would win and sure enough, it did!

God I love those two games so much

Macaroni_ninja, do games w Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

Really there was nothing better than Starfield on Xbox this year? Smh

andrew_bidlaw,

At least it’s a new game. PS got RE4 remaster. It’s not bad but funny.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a remake. But yeah, not different enough to justify calling it a totally new game like you can with 2 or 3.

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Dead Space was on the nominations list…

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