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Mikelius, do games w Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2

Nice! Guess I can add it back to my wishlist and consider buying it soon! Been holding off on it too long

copd,

“too long”? The game is 4 months old.

Hot take, don’t buy any games which were only released in the last 12 months. Matured games are far more stable

I remember when people on this site were saying Helldivers was already GOTY back on release week, hilarious.

If it wins after this situation, it’s definitely not the players choice.

fartsparkles,
Ethalis,

I’d agree with this statement for most games, but the best way to enjoy Helldivers 2 specifically is to play it when the playerbase and the hype is at its peak. The gameplay will still be just as good a year from now, sure, but you’d miss the emergent story being built right now

copd,

I won’t miss out on any gameplay story by waiting a year. I have a core set of friends, we’ll do just fine in a years time.

The only thing I’m missing out on is this dramatic period of instability

Ethalis,

Sure, not trying to tell you how to enjoy your games at all! I was just explaining why people would want to play this specific game closer to launch rather than later

Mikelius,

Agreed! I was just mostly showing my gratitude to the people fighting Sony and my relief that I can get a chance to play, didn’t mean for my message to be taken literal on the “too long” part lol.

That being said, my reasoning for wanting to play it soon is that I’ve got a few friends who are all now interested in picking it up… I’d rather enjoy the time to play with them now then not be able to play it with them in a year when they’ve moved onto something else.

lowleveldata, do gaming w This also applies to a lot of RPG fans

How come you pick the one series with actual gameplay out of all the VNs

Maven,
@Maven@lemmy.world avatar

I know someone who plays the Ace Attorney games and long text based RPG games actively and this is a very targeted post.

learningduck,

OBJECTION!

Piemanding,

Danganronpa would have a word.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

I beat all the Danganronpas and the mini games during the trials are so annoying. I get they wanted to change things up. But at no point did I go, “Aw hell yeah peak gaming”.

UserMeNever, do gaming w They're often much older if I'm emulating

Tiberian Sun, The first time I played it my PC could barely play it. That was some 24 years ago?! Now the maps load in 2 seconds. Still crashes alot.

aeronmelon,

That feel when game studios made beautiful loading screens but now you don’t get the time to enjoy them.

Kerb,
@Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

time for the return of the “turbo” button i guess

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

I am enjoying the Red Alert series. Rules.ini for the win!

menemen, do games w Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe I am old, but having no micro-payment bullshit is what made gaming better.

smeg,

Never been to an arcade, eh?

menemen,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, but Arcades are Arcades. They were also not really a thing in Germany (because they are 18+ in Germany). I only ever used them on vacations.

smeg,

My point is that they are representative of how gaming used to be. Good on Germany for treating addiction-based money-extractors as what they are though!

uienia,

Not really a microtransaction as much as a leasing payment

smeg,

I’d say they’re both microtransactions, just one is full-on pay-to-play

Cocodapuf,

You could buy most of those games for console though…

smeg,

Not before consoles existed you couldn’t!

Honytawk,

The cheap downgraded version, yes

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

there are plenty of modern games without micropayments, play smaller indie titles.

Blackmist,

Or indeed some bigger games not from shitty publishers.

God of War, for example. A lot of Sony’s exclusives (and many are now on PC) are completely MTX-free. Even EA’s It Takes Two was free of them.

The issue is that they don’t make the return on investment that an exploitative multiplayer game does. So the big publishers prefer to make those.

Pika, (edited )

It takes two is actually one step further, only one player had to own the game. It takes two had what was called a friend pass which as long as you weren’t the host of the game allowed you to play with any other player that had already purchased the game. So despite the fact that it was forced Co-op either split screen or online, only one player had to actually buy the game.

In this day and age it blew me away when I learned that because it’s just unheard of now.

FunkyMonk, do gaming w This is why god invented transmog

Forbidden west did have allot of that, I get purple grade weapons to gear up for quest and it rewards me with the same weapon 2 tiers lower than the shop in town.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

Borderlands did that shit too

RGB3x3,

Is there a game that will analyze the weapons you’re using before doing a random drop so that the 10 minute boss battle has at least some semblance of a reward?

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

The closest I know of is games scaling rewards to your character level. Oblivion did that in an incredibly bad way.

BallsandBayonets,

Since they also scaled enemies. Always funny to be attacked by random bandits wearing the super-rare and powerful glass armor.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

It also scaled unique items. That cool glass sword with the frost damage enchantment and unique blue glass texture? Its strength entirely depends on what level you were when you finished the quest that rewards it. Unenchanted standard weapons would usually outclass it in maybe two hours.

lud,

Borderlands also does that.

dev_null,

In Vermintide when you open a crate (the primary reward for doing things in-game), what is inside is based on what you already have, so even though everything rewards you with the “same” crate, you always get better and better gear from them.

FunkyMonk,

Borderlands I would spend 6 hours until I find a gun that didn't spend more time reloading than shooting and pray it doesn't fall under the level curve for a few minuets. Love that game in principal but so many shit guns with the RNG system.

johannesvanderwhales,

And even if the equipment was better, you might have to do several levels of upgrades first. I wasn’t a real fan of the equipment in forbidden west.

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

The equipment was legit the reason I quit playing. That and the difficulty. I was able to 100% the first game and the DLC on the hardest difficulty. I had to take the second game down to easy mode in the bulwark melee pit. That was the first time I ever came close to breaking a controller. I genuinely don’t believe that the developers actually playtested the game.

lingh0e,

You gotta start maximizing your coils, yo. I was one shotting bad guys left and right with a couple high level impact damage coils on otherwise mediocre sharpshot bows.

FunkyMonk,

yeah it's not that the game is hard it's more than most of the rewards and unrewarding and I end up buying most of my best gear instead of being quest gifted it.

therealjcdenton, do gaming w What was Capcom thinking?

See if there wasn’t only online and Denuvo I would be able to mod that shit out. But because it has Denuvo I will wait until someone cracks it then pirate it so I can mod what features they pay walled to play how it was intended to be played by the honest developers

theUnlikely,

Is Empress still the only human capable of cracking Denuvo?

TommySalami,

I don’t think she’s the only one able, just willing. Isn’t there still someone who consistently cracks Madden games or something similar? Also fitgirl maybe, but I think that’s just repack stuff.

h3rm17,

Yeah, fitgirl does not crack

TommySalami,

Does she still do Denuvo games? I know she doesn’t work with Empress anymore, so there must be somebody cracking those for the repack if so

Dumbkid,
@Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Shrug mods seemed to work for me, got 999 portcrystals and metamorphosis books and didn’t get banned, should be good now. The re engine is super easy to modify

Huschke,

and didn’t get banned

Yet.

Dumbkid,
@Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Ill update here if I do, only had to modify my game the once so I won’t have to mess with it again

JustZ,

Just say “argh, matey.” Don’t need to gussy it up.

CliveRosfield, do gaming w What was Capcom thinking?

Glad I didn’t preorder. Gonna hope for the pc modding community to unfuck the game

CyanFen,

They’ll have to remove denuvo first, which isn’t likely

snugglesthefalse,

Depends on the popularity of the game

WildlyCanadian,
@WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca avatar

Wtf is the point of anti-cheat in a single player game? Fuck Capcom, not buying anything they put out anymore. Been wanting to play Dragons Dogma 1, since I already own it, but now I don’t even want to give them the player stat.

CyanFen,

Denuvo isn’t anti-cheat. It’s anti-piracy

WildlyCanadian,
@WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca avatar

Ah I see, all the same shit to me. Throw it in the bin pls. Definitely more understandable for a single player game tho

LucidNightmare,

For mods? They’ve already got some… denuvo has no bearing on modding.

DaBabyAteMaDingo,

Why are you guys pre-ordering. That behavior enables this type of greed. Promise me you won’t pre-order a game ever again, okay? I don’t care how cool that cheap plastic toy and paper map stuffed in a tin can looks. No more!

CliveRosfield,

Nah, I’m gonna keep preordering games I know I’ll like

PumaStoleMyBluff, do games w What game fits this?

Clearly this is just Vim being launched through Steam.

dumpsterlid,

Maybe you should :q your attitude

Im_old,

:q!

dumpsterlid,

sudo vim /chumps/bin/lm_old

gg

dG

:wq

Im_old,

I’m not familiar with gg and dG commands, and when I try them on a text file in vi it says they are not valid command. What should they do? (maybe they are specific to vim, but I only have vi, it came with the os and it’s good enough for me).

Also, :x is WAAAAYYY faster (lol) than :wq 😛

dumpsterlid,

Sorry I use them all the time on your mum I figured you would have known

Im_old,

Why? I’m not my mum. Looks like you are not even good at explaining the jokes. Not a surprise, she was not impressed either.

dumpsterlid, (edited )

What!? Are you serious? She texted me later and said “Don’t bother coming over again” and I honestly took it as having satisfied her so thoroughly that all she needed was one time with me!?

Also in vim “gg” navigates to the beginning of a document (remember it as the opposite of “good game”, you are at the beginning). “dG” deletes to G the end of the document, G being the opposite command to gg in that it brings you to the end of a document.

:wq of course means write and quit

Im_old,

TIL. Even you can be useful sometimes.

:x is still faster than :wq

dumpsterlid,

I use emacs anyways, pshh why did you think I even cared, nerd.

Ok yeah I mean I use evil bindings but I don’t need to fumble around with practically analog equipment like :wq and :x

…alright fine I just use stock spacemacs, someone let me into the wizard school and it is amazing but literally everyone else here knows to do magic and the most I have done is make a frog balloon up twice it’s size. I have to keep pretending like I am working on these massive architectures of spell books to influence weather systems in a way that takes dynamic inputs from remote wizard servers in towers…. and honestly I just love org mode in a pretty package that works well out of the box. …most of the gravestones here are dedicated to a great wizard known as Dotfile and I have NO idea who he is.

Don’t tell anyone or they will find me and run me out of the gates.

hperrin, do gaming w I don't know if I have the strength to do it

I even have a hard time killing the nazi dogs in Wolfenstein. It’s not his fault he’s a nazi dog. He’s just trying to be a good boy, and his owner is a fucking nazi.

saltesc,

Just pretend it’s a tranq gun and once the mission’s done, they’re collected by dog behavioural therapists to undo the brainwashing and, in time, be collected by a family that will show them what it is to love and be loved.

Pelicanen,

I want to note that the dogs aren’t actually nazis, they don’t have an ideology, they just want to be good boys.

ericbomb, do gaming w Most reasonable gaming convo

I’m not throwing, I’m just bad.

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

Had this conversation with someone on World of Warships the other day…

ericbomb,

Aiming and moving in that game is purposefully a nightmare, you’d think people would have a little sympathy!

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

Wait, really? I never had that issue personally. I just kept forgetting to check my surroundings. I’d targetfocus and then forget that there was either other enemies heading straight for me or wouldn’t check the map and would crash into an ally.

I’m not a smart man.

hansl,

“And I don’t have the money to compensate my lack of skill.”

hperrin, do gaming w The rainbows are nice...

My super gay PC is better than all consoles because it’s in a same-sex relationship with the toaster. The microwave is a republican, though, so there’s a lot of tension in the kitchen. I’m looking into getting a new microwave that’s less bigoted.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Buy an LG microwave with Bluetooth connectivity

DigitalCatcher, do games w TIL: Gabe Newell has a second hobby next to Valve

He also runs an organization that operates one of the few submersibles capable of diving down to the Challenger Deep.

!A lot of us probably found out about this already because of the Oceangate-Titanic incident!<

BarbecueCowboy,

I really think Gabe woke up one day and just decided he wanted to own the best of every vehicle.

I'd put good money on him having plans he's working on to some day own the fastest plane in the world.

ChicoSuave, do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

Did you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?

Dran_Arcana,

X fire, but in my defense I was eleven

Testuserplsignore,

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  • vlad76,
    @vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    English is my 2nd language, so I always read it as “X” Fire. That;s funny, I never though about it.

    Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever,

    A lot of, generally Japanese, media uses “x” as shorthand for “cross”

    A friend always called it “christfire” because it pissed EVERYONE off

    all-knight-party,
    @all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

    Let them know I'm taking that for my new band name.

    LennethAegis,
    @LennethAegis@kbin.social avatar

    I remember in Paper Mario: TTYD one of the late game tattle entries on a X-naut enemy clarifies that its pronounced "cross"-nauts. This game had me mispronouncing the villain team's name the entire time until the end.

    full_on_rapist,

    Hence the cross button on PS controllers.

    secret301,

    X usually stands for cross. Some road sign will say train xing or deer xing

    squaresinger,

    Sometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.

    NAM,

    Christfire would’ve gone hard.

    Duke_Nukem_1990,

    More recently X also represents a heap of shit.

    thrasherv3,

    I never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.

    AngryAnusHornets,

    Same here…

    tifa0080,

    I think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.

    HotboxedSubmersible,
    SilverFlame,

    I dont even need to watch this video, I can hear the thumbnail. Don’t get caught in the CROSSFIREEEE!

    I actually convinced my parents to buy this for me, played it once.

    HotboxedSubmersible,

    I cannot read the word crossfire without that song latching onto my brain.

    SilverFlame,

    The commercial is a masterpiece of 90’s child-centric advertising

    MrGerrit,

    Do you call the button on a controller X or cross?

    ChicoSuave,

    I could be wrong but I call it the D pad

    MrGerrit,
    TheIllustrativeMan,

    “Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.

    seejur, do games w Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭

    It is exactly what I except going forward because, as that moron mentioned this is a fucking AAA game, not a Indy game.

    AAA games developers absolutely have those resources and even more, so yes, they should have all of that.

    kn0wmad1c, do games w Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭
    @kn0wmad1c@programming.dev avatar

    The one thing that Shawn forgot to say is “Larian’s boardrooms aren’t filled with people who don’t play video games!!”

    Gogogadget,

    It's mostly owned by Sven, who is obviously very passionate about video games, storytelling, and tactical rpgs.

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