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wccrawford, do games w Is Destiny 2 Still Worth Playing in 2023? - IGN

I’m a casual who put a lot of hours into the game, enjoying it over a few seasons. Then they decided that what the community wanted was more difficulty, even at the lowest levels, and it has ruined the game for me. I used to just fire it up and shoot my way through a bunch of stuff, having fun.

Now everything is a slog. I find myself having to get serious about getting through the most basic levels, instead of just running through it like a madman.

As a consequence, I now play no more than a couple hours a week, and I’ve even skipped weeks entirely lately.

You’d think this would resonate with someone, but I’ve heard nothing but complaints about this change. High-level, serious players aren’t in favor of it because it makes low-level content slow and boring, but doesn’t actually engage them any better than before. New players find it difficult when it should be teaching them the game. Mid-level players like myself get nothing from the increased difficulty, either.

And yet they persist, adding even more modes that strip the point of levels from the game, and homogenize all the content.

I’m hoping they smarten up next season, but I’m not real optimistic.

scrubbles,
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This is why I can’t play multiplayer games anymore, all of them have just focused on difficulty and grinding.

I was looking forward to Halo infinite for quite a while, but the multiplayer just is terrible for me. Halo 4 is probably the last one that I kind of enjoyed. And of course the first three were amazing. All I want is to start up multiplayer and and play against people roughly my skill level. I don’t want to grind, I don’t want to be work for everything, I’m a guy who got off work and has a few hours to unwind after the day.

The last thing I want to do after getting off work is have to be extremely frustrated because I’m struggling on an online game and I should be just relaxing. Kudos to everybody who does want the challenge, but games need modes that allow me just to slack off and have fun

Uglyhead, do games w Every Rockstar Game Ever Released: A Full History - IGN
@Uglyhead@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe I missed it; where is the banned game Uniracers/Unirally on the list?

Game was amazing for its time.

Perroboc,

The article seems to have missed a lot of games from their DMA era. The Wikipedia article is more complete than the IGN one.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

Why would Uniracers be banned? 🤔

Uglyhead,
@Uglyhead@lemmy.world avatar

It got pulled after DMA got sued for copyright infringement on the design and personalities of the unicycles in the game. The only place you could find a copy was at game rental places.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

Huh… I must have gotten my copy before that happened. And lol at the reason. Who the hell held the copyright to the 'cycles personalities? From what I remember, they were all the same anyway, just different colored.

Edit: Oh shit, it was Pixar. And reading the case, and the evidence, it was a bullshit suit and the judge was an idiot. 🤦‍♂️

EvilMonkeySlayer, do gaming w Epic Launches Program to Pay Devs to Bring Old Games to Epic Games Store - IGN

Rather than paying devs for old or new games perhaps Epic could put that money into making their launcher/store good?

The Epic launcher is intensely slow, I've got a 13700k, 32GB RAM, RTX 4080, stupid fast nvme SSD etc. Everything on it should be instant, why does it take ages just to load my library? Why can I not select the library to display by default?

Why is the interface so slow and horrible? Where are all the features of its competitor steam?

Why after all these years has it not seen any real improvement at all?

wolfshadowheart,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Does Epic allow you to set your homepage to your library yet? Or does it still unnecessarily keep you to their store or some other useless page?

EvilMonkeySlayer,

Nope, it stills drops you straight to the store.

Computerchairgeneral, do gaming w Sony Confirms PS5 Slim for This Holiday Season

Good to see all the rumors finally confirmed, feels like there's been speculation about a slim model since the PS5 launched. Hopefully, they've sorted out the worst of the supply issues and the PS5 Slim won't be as hard to find as the PS5 was when it first launched.

pete_the_cat, (edited ) do games w CD Projekt Spent Roughly $125 Million Turning Cyberpunk 2077 Around Post-Launch

They did a pretty good job fixing it up… but it also took like 4-5 years. Some things I’m like “it took at least 5 years for you to think of implementing this??”

Edit: 5 years meaning it should have been added during the initial development.

100,

5 years? Mon frere it came out December of 2020.

pete_the_cat,

5 years meaning “from the start of development”. A lot of these things should have been there from the beginning.

CaptDust, do games w CD Projekt Spent Roughly $125 Million Turning Cyberpunk 2077 Around Post-Launch

Probably could have spent less if it was given more time to bake, glad they invested it though 2.0 really brought the game closer to where it needed to be. Still not what was promised back in 2018, but it’s playable and enjoyable enough now.

krigo666, do games w Counter-Strike 2 Players Express Disappointment as Many of CS:GO's Key Features Disappear

Actually this maybe should have been named Counter-Strike 3. 1 was the original based on HL1, 2 is the Source version, and this should be 3. CS:GO is a variant of Source version with different gaming modes. I wonder if a GO version of this new CS will appear.

I do miss the FireArms mod of CS1.

Alto,
@Alto@kbin.social avatar

IIRC the only reason it's called CS2 is because it's on the Source 2 engine

huskypenguin,

The next half life will be called Half Life 2: Source 2

BlackVenom,

Taps headcrab

sorghum,
@sorghum@sh.itjust.works avatar

2 source 2 furious

Wodge,
@Wodge@lemmy.world avatar

Valve can’t release things with 3 in the name.

ZeroMmX,

My head cannon goes like this:

2000- Counter-Strike

2003- Counter-Strike 1.6

2004- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (1.7)

2004- Counter-Strike Source (1.8)

2012- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.9)

2023- Counter-Strike 2(.0)

iegod,

Needs a little action quake origin entry.

amenotef, (edited ) do games w Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN
@amenotef@lemmy.world avatar

Some prices are crazy in my opinion.

I generally buy 2 year old games except in some cases.

And in the consoles they are even more expensive. Game price could be higher than on PC and then you also need to pay an expensive subscription (because they charge you for a lot more things than just the multiplayer costs) to be allowed to play in multiplayer.

The player base is also bigger than before. While that needs more post sales support and more infrastructure it is nothing compared to the game.

I think in short the problem here is just the wrong forecasting when planning the game.

Fogle, do gaming w Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN

Baldur’s Gate 3 made 350 million dollars within a month after launch.

Good games make their money back without question. Game prices are actually too expensive.

TrismegistusMx, do games w Todd Howard Says Planet Exploration in Starfield Was Brutal Before Being 'Nerfed' - IGN
@TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world avatar

“It was good on my machine.”

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.

bearded_zero, do games w How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023
all-knight-party, (edited ) do games w Game Boy Advance’s Kirby & the Amazing Mirror Set for Nintendo Switch Online - IGN
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

Holy shit, finally. One of my favorite games of all time, and with NSO online I can actually play the multiplayer over the internet. I never had friends with this game way back when.

For anyone wondering, it's basically a Kirby Metroidvania with 4 player support even with AI, you can all independently explore the world and use phone battery power ups to summon each other to your location if you're far apart and want to link up. Awesome game.

BrowseMan, (edited ) do games w Modder Behind Oblivion Fan Remake Vows to See It Through Whether Bethesda Releases a Remaster or Not

Why do a remake of the worst ES? Lazyness?

Bethesda, do a (good!) rework of morrowind, you cowards!

Kolanaki,
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I mean… why do a remake of something good, when you can remake something not good, but make it good this time?

Shurimal,

At least Oblivion, unlike Skyrim, had actual classes (let's not talk about the leveling system, shall we?) and spell making. Plus some really, really good questlines (including the main quest, and the whole Shivering Isles expansion was rad AF). The cities also felt larger than in Skyrim and the Arcane University was an actual university, not a random village school with 3 students. Role-play wise Skyrim was the weakest of the three modern ES games.

OctopusKurwa,

Oblivion is pure comfort food to me. Sure it’s a broken mess to the point where it’s best not level up, but it just has this serene vibe to it.

chunkystyles,

A few years ago I replayed Oblivion for the first time since it came out. I played a pure spellcaster with no weapons or armor and it was a goddamn blast.

I would just sprint and jump around like a moron while invisible and ignore most threats. Threats I had to deal with got vaporized.

So much fun.

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

Delete your account.

LoafyLemon,

That's a little extreme, here at the fediverse we should strive to do better than reddit, so instead of asking them to delete their account, ask them to defederate. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

Delete your ENTIRE INSTANCE.

andrew_bidlaw,
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

It can’t be remaked for many reasons. The best they can do is fund OpenMW or give up their assets. Actually making anything from it is not only rebuilding it, but solving many ways Morrowind is fucking broken.

And I love it for how disfunctional it is.

woelkchen, do gaming w IGN posts written review of Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, but withholds video review. CDPR is, once again, not letting reviewers use their own gameplay footage before release.
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t understand why IGN submits to this. IGN is an American outlet, so the Fair Use policy of the DMCA applies to them.

conciselyverbose,

It has nothing to do with DMCA. It's not copyright infringement.

It's violating an NDA on an unreleased product, and even if they can't actually get damages, the day they do it they never get a review code from anyone ever again.

ThunderingJerboa,
@ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social avatar

Yeah like if IGN doesn't follow their rules. Welp no Witcher 4/whatever its called review copy when that comes around. Even though IGN sucks its probably better to have more voices than less in the review space. Playing these stupid games set out the publishers is the only way to play since I doubt there will be any solidarity done for IGN.

Hell I'm scheezed out by so many games doing this whole "preorder for early access" and getting around reviews. Look at Payday 3, it has done it and there are basically no critic reviews on it. Not sure if its due to an embargo or they literally didn't even send out review copies, which isn't a great look.

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