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dreadgoat, do games w The Metal Gear Solid Collection is so true to Hideo Kojima's "original vision" that it needed a new content warning
@dreadgoat@kbin.social avatar

This seems like a marketing move. When the Parental Advisory Label was created for the music industry, some bands and labels went out of their way to make sure they got it put on their albums, sometimes even altering their content just for that purpose, because it would actually drive sales. Of course every kid listening to rock and rap wanted "the real shit."

Here again we are being promised "the real shit" by a meaningless content warning.

It also helps Konami keep its distance from Kojima, which is probably what both of them want.

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works avatar

I really wish game company owners weren’t so easily miffed.

PT would’ve been epic if it went well the way.

theodewere, do games w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

unlike Baldur's Gate 3, absolutely everything about this game was designed specifically with microtrans in mind

Bizarroland,
@Bizarroland@kbin.social avatar

Oh my God, you can't just say microtrans. The proper terminology is "gender dysphoric little person"

yeather,

Actually that’s the wrong use of that word in this context. It’s actually a “queer questioning point of sale system” he’s talking about.

theodewere,
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

could be short for microtransient, and then we're talking about little hobos.. and who doesn't want to talk about little hobos..

vaultdweller013,

No no no thats also wrong, it stands for micro transmission. Ya know for small vehicles.

kostel_thecreed,

Even you got it wrong! They were talking about the micro figurines for transformers! How you could miss that!!!

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

pcgamer.com/how-blizzards-reputation-collapsed-in…

Blizzard used to be great. Now they are awful.

arefx,

They’ve been awful since Activision got involved. I knew that was the end the day the news broke, people told me I was wrong. I wish.

Also they sexually harassed an employee to suicide. That tells you all you need to know.

Omega_Jimes,

Blizzard has been on a downward trend for a lot longer than 3 years.

sunbeam60, do gaming w Nintendo has filed over 30 Tears of the Kingdom patents, registering things you wouldn't even notice in the game

This just ain’t how patent law works.

Nintendo has IP lawyers. They have to, at their scale, because they will constantly be bombarded by patent trolls, licensing companies etc. trying to extract profit out of Nintendo. So, like any other large business, they hire IP lawyers to protect themselves.

Most patent disagreements are resolved by cross-licensing. That’s where one business says, in response to a law suit, “oh, but you’re actually using 6 of our patents, so maybe we can come to an agreement”. A patent is both a shield and a sword. Even against trolls they can be useful, as they can be used to argue against troll arguments, if it gets to court, or pull in other business to the defense, if helpful.

IP lawyers know this. So they extract every patent they can out of everything a company does, as a way to build up the IP bank.

So, I highly doubt “Nintendo wants to prevent others” bla bla. It’s just IP lawyers doing their job.

I’ve sat in MANY discovery sessions with IP lawyers where they push and prod at software I, or my team, have written. “So, what you’ve effectively done is written a unique data structure to connect elements in memory?!”, “no, it’s a linked list, next question please”.

zebidiah, do games w "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"

hot take: i fucking hated the way ciri and every single other woman in witcher3 was written/portrayed…

they all felt like they were written by incels who have never met or conversed with an actual real woman. they were shallow game of thrones/fantasy tropes and felt like walking talking cliches. i literally cringed through every interaction…

mildlyusedbrain,

I get this somewhat but including ciri? I feel like there was none of that with her character. What about her struck you as that?

zebidiah,

she was basically wesley crusher, without the character growth… she was a plot device, not a character.

NotASharkInAManSuit,

“Shut up, Ciri.” - Captain Picard

Kellamity,

And if I’m honest the books are similar. I like them, but all the women are super sexy super hot and they exist for Geralt to have sex with

lingh0e,

These types of comments ignore the fact that Geralt is written in the exact same way.

The “romance” dialog options tend to be god awful.

oyo,

And this also explains why they’ve “grown” her into a plastic, lip-plumped, reality-TV-star banshee. The character model looks awful.

secret300, do games w "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games

But is it any good? Just because the budget is higher doesn’t mean it’s good. I didn’t like the story and writing of 3 but the rest of the game I enjoyed. I’m kinda expecting the same, hopefully. Every AAA release somehow gets worse every year tho

13igTyme,

I could look past the story and enjoy the gameplay. But the game itself still sucked and was very empty. A few months after launch they did an event where each week a different planet had a lot event and you could target items. 3 of the planets only had one or two areas to even farm decent numbers. Most of the game is empty.

Combine that with my own personal issue with Gearbox removing the official forums, (which had years of builds and information going back to BL1) and a certain YouTuber stealing content and using modded weapons and then denying it. I have no interest in BL4.

The old gearbox is dead. Even watching the video it just looks like reused skills. Oh look another character that puts enemies into floating balls, how original.

captain_aggravated, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Tell you what customers absolutely can do: decide to stop doing business with you.

PsyKiere, do games w Deep Rock Galactic roguelike dev says innovation for innovation's sake is too expensive to survive: "We're a studio of 50 people with bills to pay"

Would you recommend DRG? I’ve heard some good things, but never tried it.

Delphia,

I asked a friend who plays it and he says its good with randoms, but great if you have a crew you regularly game with.

Sciaphobia,

It’s great either way. It has a good community.

omarfw,

I’d say try it out to see if you like the gun mechanics and movement/different classes. If you do then you’ll love the game even more when you get to the higher difficulties. If it’s not your thing, you can refund on steam if still under 2 hours of playtime.

isyasad,
@isyasad@lemmy.world avatar

I personally would not recommend it. I’ve played ~20 hours with friends. Despite being a simple co-op game, it has these seasonal battle passes and multiple currencies that I would expect from something like Fortnite / Call of Duty / pay-to-win mobile games. That’s mostly an aesthetic gripe because it doesn’t directly effect the gameplay, but I’m not a huge fan of the gameplay either. Combat is really imprecise/messy, which I’m sure is the point but I can’t get behind it. May be worth to play with friends, but I would not recommend it solo at all. What I can say I really like though is the 3D map tool for the randomly generated caves 🤤 beautiful 3D map

RowRowRowYourBot,

All of those “currencies” are free. There is no paid way to get them. You just have to change which season you are playing to get that season’s scrip. There is no pay to win. There is merely paid skin packs

isyasad,
@isyasad@lemmy.world avatar

Yes I know. I just mean that the multiple currencies is something I didn’t like and is a downside of the game for me. Not only because I think they are not fun to collect, but because they aesthetically remind me of pay-to-win currencies and it’s a slight ick. As they say in the article, they deliberately copy elements from other games to add to their own. That’s cool, but I don’t like the specific things they copied: battle passes and multiple-currency upgrade trees.

RowRowRowYourBot,

Ok but your objection is based on vibes then and run counter to the actual facts at hand so why misrepresent what Ghost Ship is doing? Their passes and scrip have nothing in common with paid for battle passes (which aren’t examples of pay to win either)

Abnorc,

To be fair, a game giving you bad vibes is a valid reason not to play it. It’s not a piece of software developed with a practical task in mind.

isyasad,
@isyasad@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t believe I misrepresented anything, I never said that the currencies or battle passes were paid. OC asked if people would recommend, and I think I wouldn’t recommend because I didn’t enjoy it and I described the reasons I didn’t enjoy it, which as I said in my comment were aesthetic complaints (rather than monetary or gameplay or anything).

My objection is based on vibes because I think vibes and aesthetics and artistic direction are important to me, and those are the grounds on which I don’t like Deep Rock Galactic

JoeBidenUnofficial,

It’s extremely fun with friends. I’ve got probably 100+ hours in it

Waffle, do games w Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club
@Waffle@infosec.pub avatar

It’s good. Simple playback loop. Upgrades are slow but unlocking new cars is rewarding. No micro transactions.

Tarquinn2049,

Awesome, that’s what I was hoping to hear. I miss the olden days when it was more realistic that you had to/could work for your car, and slowly upgrade and save up. Now that isn’t even believable in a video game world anymore, it’s been replaced with winning cars in a lottery, the only believable way for people to afford a nice car nowadays. Hehe.

Technoguyfication, do gaming w The Simpsons: Hit & Run dev says they could've made 3 sequels without paying a penny for the license: "Some crazy person at the publisher - we never found out who - said no"

Ah yes, Vivendi games. The same publisher that tried to put Valve out of business for having the audacity to want money for Counter-Strike. I’m shocked.

Glitch, do games w "The father of PlayStation" says everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched

Feels like they want it to fail sometimes

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think that’s true with how much support they give to their first party titles. I mean, their console exclusives are top-tier.

SpaceNoodle,

They’re no Microsoft …

Clbull, do games w After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream

MapleStory’s problems aren’t just the predatory MTX shit, which got so bad that they actually released a Reboot server that disabled a lot of this stuff, but just overall content bloat.

On top of the 5 core explorer classes (Magician, Thief, Warrior, Bowman and Pirate), there are Cygnus Knights versions of these classes, and 29 overpowered hero classes that are mostly based on the 5 aforementioned class groups

Big Bang streamlined the game excessively and ruined the overall flow of Victoria Island, making it vastly more linear. It also made Ossyria much higher levelled. Whereas for example you could probably survive in Aqua Road as a level 35, it now has a level 80 requirement. One of my characters is stuck near Ariant because they changed the second zone to be a 120 zone.

HawlSera, do games w EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea"

Maybe if you market it at all so that I’ve actually fucking heard of it that’ll help?

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea"

A GENERIC AAA (visual only) single player shooter was a bad idea.

Aveum was literally mid. It just looked good since it was the first game to use UE5.

wizardbeard,

Yeah, AAA for quite a while now has really only had any impact on graphics, and maybe on how playtested it was. That is one hell of a load bearing maybe. No correlation to quality on any other metrics.

elgordio, do games w EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea"

Most notable thing about this game was it was one of the first to launch with FSR3 frame generation. Other than that I think I’d have completely forgotten about it.

plistig, do gaming w Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is"

“Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is” – Because we don’t, neither.

WarmSoda,

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