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GrammatonCleric, do games w New Minimum Age Classifications for Gambling, Loot Box Content in Australia - IGN
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I love how they use a pic of an Overwatch loot box, literally the only loot box I actually miss 😅

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

We remember it with fondness, and yet, it was the lootbox that started it all.

Good riddance.

ReeferPirate, (edited )

I was absolutely opening CS:GO boxes when Overwatch was on its way to release

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

True enough. But Overwatch was the first big game where they basically got completely ignored as an exploitative mechanic on PC.

Micro-transactions were for a long time mobile only, then it was free-to-play only.

Remember, OW was a full-price title. Yet, it still worked like a free-to-play.

kaitco, do games w New PS5 Owners Can Currently Claim a Free Game - IGN

Let’s say I’ve got a friend who bought a PS5 back in March, and this friend decided that she wanted to take part in this giveaway.

What are the pros and cons of this friend purchasing a new PS5, getting her free game (possibly Ghosts of Tsushima), and then returning the PS5 afterward? Because this sounds like a savings of $70 or so once it’s all done…for my friend.

aaronstc,

If this is tied to your PSN there is a good chance it won’t work even if you register a new console. They’ll see you already had a PS5.

$70 sounds like a lot but probably not worth the potential headache.

all-knight-party, do games w Game Developer Legend Hideki Kamiya in Shock PlatinumGames Exit - IGN
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

Interesting, but he has been with them for a long time now. I'm curious if he'll have any interest at joining Tango since Shinji Mikami founded it and they share a history of mentorship and alignment on directive philosophies, or if he's more interested in doing something totally new. I'm eager to hear about it

brsrklf, do games w Game Developer Legend Hideki Kamiya in Shock PlatinumGames Exit - IGN

Well that’s a surprise for sure.

Not too worried for the future of Platinum Games though, he was credited as supervising director lately, while others directed, so it’s not like he’s the only creator there.

Oz0ne, do games w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

Before steamid there was wonid. OGs know.

Swarfega,

I for some reason take great pride in having a low numbered steamid.

fuzzzerd,

I robbed my self of that ability accidentally, because I preferred cs 1.3/4/5 and it was won only, so I actively avoided 1.6 like the plague and with it steam. Then halflife 2 came out and I bit the bullet.

Swarfega,

I was a TFC player so there was no change for me.

Oz0ne,

yeah i signed up the same day wonid switched to steamid and nabbed a 5 digit

JokeDeity, do games w How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

I cannot help but feel like it would have been easier to hack the remaster to fix the glaring mistake SE made.

MercuryRiver, do games w How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

The coolest thing I’ve seen all year, if only someone makes a digital/emulated version of this I’d be set for life. FFCC is an absolute stellar game that really needs a proper remake and more love

buru5, (edited ) do games w How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023
@buru5@lemmy.world avatar

this highlights the tragedy of the Crystal Chronicles remaster; they should have simply been able to boot that up and play the game together, but alas

mindbleach, do games w How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

… wait, the Gamecubes are just used for GBA I/O? Sheesh.

MomoTimeToDie,

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  • mindbleach,

    I remain flabbergasted there’s no simpler way to get ten buttons of input and 240p of output on a generic 32-bit ARM device with a zillion official and unofficial add-ons. Especially when you look at the unholy chain of adapters necessary for input.

    Especially once you swap the console playing the game for an early-model Wii, which has been hacked to hell and back, and has Gamecube, Bluetooth, and technically USB inputs.

    MomoTimeToDie,

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  • mindbleach,

    It is nonetheless an absolute mountain of hardware to modernize a setup that could nearly fit in the pocket of period blue jeans.

    smeg,

    You could probably do it way more simply with emulation, but it seems the point of this technical exercise was to do it all with original hardware (which is pretty cool)

    smeg, do games w How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

    Incredible effort. As the great scholar Cave Johnson said, “science isn’t about why, it’s about why not?

    n3m37h, do games w EVE Vanguard Aims to Be the EVE FPS That Dust 514 Wasn’t - IGN

    Just a shame I haven’t actually played EVE since 2014. My 80 mil SP character just collecting dust with my horde of corpses

    clay_pidgin,

    There’s a Mobile Tractor Unit structure you can deploy from your ship that slowly pulls in wrecks within 125km. The 202 Halloween added a Blood Raiders version that pulls in only capsuleer corpses! wiki.eveuniversity.org/Mobile_structures#Mobile_T…

    The Blood Raider titan also has a dedicated Corpse Bay! wiki.eveuniversity.org/Molok

    Dreddit is Recruiting if you’re looking to get back in. We just took some Sov again and are having a fantastic time. If you do stop by the recruiting Discord, tell 'em Claytonius sent you.

    n3m37h,

    Fuck, I’m tempted but I have next to no free time these days. Last battle I was in was so much fun even if I was in a Guardian. I remember it started over some carriers trying to destroy a kestrel or something small like that and then we cyno’d in a fleet. Got a CTA and grabbed my closest ship. There was 1200 or so in local, took like 20 sec just to click on someone to try and heal em

    clay_pidgin,

    Awesome. Well, if you want to try it’s a great time to be in TEST. EVE in general has had a few good updates in a row too.

    BrowseMan,

    Ah nice! So my old ways of doing things (alt in destroyer with 4 tractor beam and 4 salvager) seems obsolete now.

    clay_pidgin,

    So the way it works is it’ll pull all the wrecks right up to it, and loot any modules or ammo or whatever was dropped. The wrecks themselves just sit there gathered on the MTU (mobile tractor unit) for you to salvage if you want.

    There’s also a salvaging ship now, the No this, but it doesn’t see a ton of use because everyone knows it’s easy pickins.

    GrayBackgroundMusic, do games w EVE Galaxy Conquest Is a New Mobile 4X Strategy Game Set in the EVE Online Universe - IGN

    mobile? ugh. 1) 4x with a tiny screen is not ideal. 2) it’ll be a mtx hellscape.

    Schaedelbach, do games w Dragon’s Dogma 2: The First Hands-On Preview - IGN

    I am totally fine with them only marginally improving combat. Fighting monsters in the first Dragons Dogma is still to this day the best feeling combat in any rpg! What I hope they improve on is the story, the way the story is presented and the way the player can impact the world. The only character from I can remember by name is Mercedes and only because I accidentally let her die in her escort mission and then for her to appear later as if nothing happened.

    7112,

    I liked that the story was almost a joke. The game did enough to pull you along. That amazing dragon fight at the end then… some shopkeep is your beloved :D

    I feel it will be deeper this time around. Dark Arisen’s story was smaller but once you learn everything, including who Death is, it’s really cool.

    Annoyed_Crabby,

    That amazing dragon fight at the end then… some shopkeep is your beloved :D

    In my case the game just goes “congratulation for killing the dragon, you’re gay now!”

    BluePhoenix01, do games w How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

    This is cool. I wanted to do a much simpler setup to capture video from my switch to stream. So I could stream from Moonlight or my Steam Deck.

    But haven’t really dug into how to map steam input while playing remotely into a device that can send the signals to the switch.

    Great work on their part.

    WrittenWeird, (edited ) do games w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

    Restricted to High Seas:

    • Become Pirate Legend
    • Earn rep and gold for Athena’s Fortune and Reaper’s Bones
    • Hourglass Faction Battles
    • Captain your Own Ship
    • Sail as part of a Guild
    • Sail as Trading Company Emissary
    • Live Events

    Safer Seas:

    • Progress up to Level 40
    • Gold and Rep at reduced rate
    • Seasonal Renown at same rate
    • All Tall Tales
    • Commendations, achievements, cosmetics yadda yadda…

    Can anyone give a rough estimate of how much game content is in Safer Seas? Either a percentage of the full game, or number of hours? Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

    starman2112, (edited )
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Lame. They couldn’t just go for optional PvE servers, they have to lock most of the content in PvP servers. Guess I’m still not playing it

    CancerMancer,

    Yeah they’re going to do the absolute bare minimum they can to bring in pve players without actually giving them what they want as if this game isn’t dead af

    mordack550,

    The sad thing for us is that we always wanted to have a private server, not a solo mode. I want to mess around with my friends with multiple boats. I don’t care about playing in a galleon, let me play 4 solo sloops with my friends!

    glitches_brew,

    Kinda surprised safe mode has commendations… Sounds like getting the gold curse just got a lot easier.

    Fraylor,

    The challenge was never in the pvp. It was stomaching each of the tall tales that many fucking times.

    Fraylor,

    I have about 600 hours in SOT so I can answer this.

    So honestly that’s a TON of progression without risk, but it’ll be slow going. Emissaries allow you to increase your rewards for a particular faction (reapers, hoarders, merchants, order of souls) so you can’t get those bonuses.

    You need to be a pirate legend to captian a ship, and you need three of the primary factions at level 50 to become a pirate legend. Literally no difference beyond achievements and cosmetics. Captaincy just let’s you “own” the ship that spawns in, and essentially designates a player as “leader” whereas in normal play its ad hoc on who does what. And a captained ship just has a name and extra cosmetics anyway.

    Can’t earn rep for reapers which kinda sucks, but makes sense. It’s the pvp faction. But many players do pve reapers as well.

    I’d say safer seas covers about 75%.

    merc,
    @merc@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

    My guess is they mean that if you’re doing the Safer Seas stuff, you get a standard ship and you can customize how it looks (sails, cannons, etc.) from the NPCs in the harbour but you don’t get to name the ship, and any customizations you do aren’t saved for the next time.

    If you do the High Seas, you can buy a ship, name it, and unlock lots of customizations (more than standard ones) which are saved with the ship, so they’re there next time you log in and select that ship.

    I don’t know about the other current major advantage of a captained ship, which is currently being able to unload all your treasure and sell it extremely quickly. Without that you need to dock, then manually run all the skulls to the skull guys, all the trade goods to the trade guys, all the treasure to the treasure guys, etc.

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