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PieMePlenty, do games w 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

So anyway, you guys excited for Hades 2?

Yupa,

Hell yeah! Recently finished Clair Obscur, now playing Silksong, and waiting for Hades 2, this year is packed with awesome indies!

C4551E,

Hell yeah indeed! Shape of Dreams just dropped too, and is awesome (if you like the genre). Incredible year so far.

captainlezbian,

It’s hard to be excited with how much I’ve played the early access, but yes. Amazing game, I really should’ve paced myself

rem26_art, do gaming w I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game
@rem26_art@fedia.io avatar

in 3 years PC build guides are gonna be like "You need 3 drives in your gaming PC. One for the OS (this can be small, its not important), at least 2TB for games, and another 1TB for the shaders for those games. Oh and you'll need a top of the line Nvidia card because even a dumb UE5 asset dump game like Notary Simulator won't run on a budget card"

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Or just have DLSS run the game at 480p, but upscale it to 4k! You’ll never notice the difference we swear!

Shayeta,

For AAA games, that might be the case.

xxce2AAb, do gaming w I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game

Uh, Jesus Christ…

Neondragon25, do games w After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0

Super hyped for 1.0, been playing for about 2 years now 1.4kish hours and its just gets more fun with every update. Can't wait to actually be able to escape. Perfect game if you want an FPS that doesn't require turbo fast uber accurate wrist breaking flick shots. Hell chilling in one place for 5-10 is a smart strategy sometimes.

Anissem,
@Anissem@lemmy.ml avatar

Really looking forward to getting back into this. I keep trying these fast past multiplayer shooters and I generally get wrecked. Picked up EFT a few years ago and really enjoyed. Do you have any advice on finding groups to play with? I’m sure their discord has a LFG channel most likely.

Neondragon25,

Honestly a good way I found is with small streamers on twitch. Find someone who looks cool and say hi, most of the community is nice and if you ask for help on quests or if they play with viewers a good amount will say yes. This leads to getting into smaller discords with generally pretty cool people in them. Some of my recommendations are MortakkW, WhosJason, and McHayla. All pretty good people. All different vibes.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

I can’t speak to those streamers in particular but Anissem (and whoever else) should understand that milsims inherently attract chuds. And Tarkov above and beyond because nikita and BSG are… very very very pro-russia.

Not saying that everyone who plays tarkov is a fascy chud. But if you are looking for a community to hang out in, maybe listen for some dog whistles.

Which is why I wish Incursion Red River had taken off more. Set in fantasy war that never ended Vietnam so it is borderline The Last Jedi in that chuds just can’t talk about it without spewing hatred and bigotry. Whereas it is a lot harder to tell if someone is just a gun nut masturbating over an AK or if they are making it clear they think Ukraine should be a breeding farm for putin.

Truscape,

Kind of off topic, but one of the most popular modders for SPT, SolarInt (who created the massive AI overhaul SAIN), is actually hired by the team behind Incursion Red River to upgrade their enemy AI behavior!

Apparently he called BSG and never heard anything back - their loss XD

Rhynoplaz, do games w After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0

Isn’t Fortnite still in beta or something?

sepiroth154,

It’s the corporate way of saying “we’re too lazy/cheap to fix any bug, so please lower your standards.”

bagelberger,

I thought Fortnite originally stayed in beta so that they could ship updates to consoles with fewer hurdles. nowadays I have no idea if that’s still a thing

NuXCOM_90Percent,

I would say that most of the “legacy” live games are. Warframe is to the point that the developers, Digital Extremes, outright make fun of it being a 13 year old beta and jokes about what Soulframe counts as these days.

And a lot of it is because they launched into beta/early access/whatever before there was even a model for what that means.

Contrast that with the “newer” games like tarkov that assign milestones to leaving beta. Well, it used to be that leaving beta meant that tarkov would go to Steam but now it mostly is just being done so they can keep releasing expansions/modes without needing to put it in the deluxe preorder edition.

megopie, (edited ) do gaming w We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them

To me it feels like there is a fundamental dissonance in the video game industry. Where major publishers and studios can’t seem to internalize that there are two things that people might come to a game for; Video games as experiences, narratives, things to be explored; and video games as … well games, a set of mechanics to be interacted with, to be challenged by. This isn’t to say a game can’t be good at both, but many games are weighted one way or another.

Factorio is a truly absorbing gameplay experience, but it doesn’t really have a story beyond what is needed to frame and flavor the gameplay.

“Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines” is a classic of atmosphere, character interaction and role play, but just about everyone who played it will tell you the combat is serviceable at best, and there is one level in particular that most people just remove with a mod because it’s just combat, with no dialog or interactions with other characters.

So many major studios and publishers seem to routinely focus on the wrong elements of previously successful games. Taking the wrong lessons and misunderstanding what made previous title’s a huge success.

People are not coming to your story based RPG to play it mindlessly while listening to a podcast or audio book. If people are doing that, then clearly they’re not coming to it for the story, and the solution to that issue is to write a better story or refocus around what ever they are coming for.

HeyJoe, do games w The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity

Its now at 220k… I get its for a charity, but wow. It’s always crazy how much dumb money people have sometimes. 220k would be life changing for me…

Sagan_Wept,

You should bid, for the lolz

sugar_in_your_tea,

Best I can do is tree fiddy.

vxx, do games w Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'

They should just answer one question: Will Subnautica 2 have microtransactions under the new leadership?

iamtherealwalrus,

Developer Unknown Worlds has shared a letter asking for patience from Subnautica fans after publisher Krafton announced the departure of its senior leadership⁠—including studio co-founder Max McGuire⁠—and the installation of Dead Space producer and Striking Distance (The Callisto Protocol) CEO, Steve Papoutsis, as the new studio head.

The letter does firmly deny that the game will be live serviceified or otherwise experience a monetization change.

13igTyme,

The answer is always yes. No details needed.

jhoff90, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

He seems to know a lot about “young boys.”

nutsack, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

how the fuck do i do this it sounds awesome

Skullgrid, do games w The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

how does it work?

crank0271,

Each game needs to have a custom profile created to render in 3D. From the linked article:

3dSen is an emulator that lets you play 2D NES games in 3D. Its programmers have to create a custom profile for it to work its magic on each game, which means there are currently 100 supported games, including Contra, Super Mario Bros, Batman, Castlevania, Bubble Bobble, and Gradius.

And from another article:

…with the addition of the 3dSenMaker tool, community members now can handcraft 3D profiles for their favorite games.

defaultusername, do games w Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2

I’d like it better if they got a permenant raise.

Notserious, do games w Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets

I remember when Bungie made cool stuff like Myth the fallen lords.

FuckFascism,

Halo too, Bungie is honestly just a totally different studio than it used to be.

infinitesunrise,
@infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net avatar

And Oni!

RightHandOfIkaros,

And then they made Myth II, which they had to recall (that almost bankrupted their company) because trying to uninstall it could delete your system folder and brick your PC.

At least with Myth II, Bungie actually made the right call and did the right thing.

MDCCCLV, do games w Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'

The fundamental concept and theme of the game is trash. It literally makes everything you do meaningless, it inevitably leads to you becoming the jaded villain. It would be better if they had an end where you destroyed the universe shifting thing and were locked in one.

PeterisBacon, do games w Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'

I had super high hopes for this game. I hope its not abandoned completely and we can retry for a starfield 2 in the future. It has a great concept.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

It has a great concept.

🤨

The concept is literally “generic sci-fi RPG.”

PeterisBacon,

Generic? Kind of a low intellect insult, but go off.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

What would you say the concept is?

A just curious

PeterisBacon,

For sure, ill feed your curiosity. Starfield is expanding to the stars, massive choices on where the story goes based on your responses, the capabilities to befriend or antagonize any enemy whether a human, alien, or these strange pirates. You deal with politics, survival, and attempting to save the galaxy while trying to discover the hidden story. If you call that generic, I feel sorry for you.

KaRunChiy,
@KaRunChiy@fedia.io avatar

Yeah that sounds like a generic space rpg setting, you just described the genre. Nothing in that statement can be exclusively tied to starfield

PeterisBacon,

Your reading comprehension seems to be overlooking the part where I started with ‘i had high hopes for this game.’ The game is far from generic, there isnt one person in this thread that could draft a better story or even come close to a released game.

Wanna talk generic? Every starwars game, like ever. Every call of duty game, like ever.

Yall are funny. Thanks for reminding me to jump back onto Starfield!

KaRunChiy,
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  • PeterisBacon,

    LMAO the go to when you are losing ‘are you alright?’

    You seem like a basement dweller who freaks out at any disagreement. You are all arguing the word generic without using its definition, while simultaneously overlooking how my hopes were crushed by this game.

    You need mental help kid.

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  • PeterisBacon,

    I’mma ignore that for now, and we will see how the conversation progresses when you read my other comment. I’d hate to get into one of THESE kinda conversations you are starting by getting into this, but I will definitely disengage with you in particular from your post history.

    ripcord,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    In general, why bother getting into one of those conversations anyway? Best to just disengage.

    PeterisBacon,

    We talked it out in another comment. I’m a big fan of the game, so I took it way too personally and got over invested in explaining myself.

    It was dumb and unproductive. Definitely best to disengage, but the user I was responding to, and I, came to a reasonable agreement about our perspectives in a different thread.

    You arent wrong though. Cheers mate.

    ripcord,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    This is a great response, thanks. Great to see it. Have a great rest of the weekend!

    PeterisBacon,

    You as well mate! Stay safe!

    KaRunChiy,
    @KaRunChiy@fedia.io avatar

    Also this is just an utterly ridiculous way to respond to criticism of a product, no shit an average joe can't make a multi million dollar triple A game, but that doesn't mean he can't dislike it

    PeterisBacon,

    The opposite can be true as well, a game can flop on your expectations but you can still like it. Youre all just fighting tooth and nail to make ‘generic’ mean something it doesnt.

    PeterisBacon,

    My man, or woman, sorry if I am wrong on pronouns, feel free to correct me.

    I genuinely went to your profile out of a ‘who tf is this mf’, and seeing your most recent post, I genuinely hope you arent struggling with anxiety or depression too bad. Those are mean, ugly things that can weigh you down.

    I hope life is treating you well, and on the note of posts, the bread you made looks fucking great. Thats like some genuine top bakery looking bread. I would buy the hell out of that if I saw some that good looking.

    We can disagree and fight or troll about the game as much as we want, but I dont want to do or say anything that would genuinely make you feel negatively.

    So on that note, fook you, starfield great, me right, you wrong.

    Cheers mate, for real for real, much love.

    KaRunChiy, (edited )
    @KaRunChiy@fedia.io avatar

    I can agree with that.

    I was also mostly just prodding and poking cause you have a unique way of responding, definitely a lot of energy there I can see you're passionate.

    PeterisBacon,

    We can also disagree if you want, but not in a serious way my man. Mental health is no joke. All the love to you. If they ever come out with starfield 2, I’ll gloat. Until then, I’ll let you trash talk my favorite generic space game.

    I can agree it feels generic, but I just wanted to express that, to me, it feels like it WAS a good concept, but they didn’t see it through and it crushed my hopes of what I felt it could be. Nothing more my man. Sorry for the hostility in my writing.

    Im definitely a little too passionate about things at times and let it attach to my ego and get worked up. I definitely shouldnt

    KaRunChiy,
    @KaRunChiy@fedia.io avatar

    You're alright, I was also being very inflammitory. I deleted my other not so tasteful responses.

    PeterisBacon,

    Hey we can both agree we should do better, thats a beautiful thing. It would be great if we could all get along. I want to scrub mine too, but also I want to leave them as a standing point of letting people see that I wasn’t entirely nice, but that you made me think and change my tone.

    Kolanaki,
    @Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

    If you don’t call that generic, I have to wonder how you define the word “generic.”

    PeterisBacon,

    By the literal definition.

    “characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific.”

    Ship building alone is very specific, there are very little games that let you truly customize the entirety of the layout on your ship. On top of that, the crazy about of realism that goes into that is insane. Everything can affect something else in that. I’m also a huge fan of the procedural planets, like dozens of them, which what super disappointed me was walking for what felt like daaayyyss across a map.

    So again, the concept was great, the execution was not.

    vala,

    You’re describing mechanics not a concept.

    PeterisBacon,

    Well, I’m celebrating mother’s day today, so I wasn’t going to even have my phone out, but since I am pooping let’s talk ‘mechanics’ LMAO.

    So you’re pretending now that mechanics aren’t part of a game’s identity? That’s adorable.

    Listen, kiddo, game concepts aren’t just the napkin pitch like ‘space adventure with guns.’

    That’s like saying a restaurant concept is just ‘we serve food.’ 💀😂

    The execution of those ideas, how deep the systems go, how player agency is handled, the SCOPE of what you can do, is the process of a concept.

    Mechanics are the embodiment of concept. Otherwise, every shooter is just ‘point and click,’ and every RPG is just ‘talk and fight.’ You have to look at the HOW, not just the what.

    Cheers mate, glad you have a perspective on it. Take care!

    vala,

    It’s hard to tell if you actually are making a coherent counter argument here since your response is 90% ad homenem.

    Concepts are high level ideas. Mechanics are lower level implementations of those ideas.

    But I think the original poster really meant “vision” or “motif” more than they meant “concept”.

    A game with lots of deep mechanics but lacking overall vision is really just seen as a fancy tech demo by most people.

    Sanctus,
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    You also just described KOTOR 1 & 2, Elite Dangerous, Eve Online, Endless Skies, and in a way Hellpoint. All Sci-Fi.

    PeterisBacon,

    LOL kotor is all story line. What ship are you building there?

    Elite? Thats a flight sim, not an RPG

    Eve? Show me first person on there.

    Endless skies? Do you mean endless sky? Or endless space? Genuinely unfamiliar with that. Guess its too generic.

    Hellpoint? The level based game with their small maps?

    Sanctus,
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    For sure, ill feed your curiosity. Starfield is expanding to the stars, massive choices on where the story goes based on your responses, the capabilities to befriend or antagonize any enemy whether a human, alien, or these strange pirates. You deal with politics, survival, and attempting to save the galaxy while trying to discover the hidden story. If you call that generic, I feel sorry for you.

    Yeah except you didnt say ship building. You didnt say anything about game mechanics here, this is all marketing jargon that can be interpreted in different ways. Maybe go with mechanics if you’re trying to paint uniqueness instead of regurgitating the back of the pamphlet.

    PeterisBacon,

    lemm.ee/comment/20340407

    Try reading more than one selective post.

    Sanctus,
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    How about we stay within the contexts of our reply chains. You are extremely hurt in the butt about all of this so I can only assume you’re taking each criticism of this game as a personal attack. You should chill.

    PeterisBacon,

    You went out of your way to reply in the middle of the reply chain, the conversation continued, but you failed to continue reading.

    Ive already noted I took it personal, but I’m chilling. You’re freaking out even with every question being answered, you still seem agitated and unable to accept an answer. I hope you are okay.

    Sanctus,
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    Not really freaking out. And I replied directly to you. It was the second comment in the chain that I replied to originally. But go off.

    PeterisBacon,

    Alright mate, have a great day. We can DM if you wanna talk about it reasonably, but today I will be preoccupied with my wife celebrating mothers day. I hope you and your family enjoy today and stay safe. So if you do DM me and I dont respond, its nothing personal, I’ll get back to it later in the day or tomorrow. Cheers mate, take care.

    Sanctus,
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    Agreed, enjoy your mother’s day with you and your’s.

    PeterisBacon,

    Likewise my friend. Tomorrow we can resume the war on starfield, yes? Haha, teasing. Much love my friend. Talk later.

    Tar_alcaran,

    massive choices on where the story goes based on your responses,

    Really? What massive choices do you make? Hunter or emissary? That just changes the last 20 minutes of the game. Before then, you have no major impact on the plot.

    the capabilities to befriend or antagonize any enemy whether a human, alien, or these strange pirates

    But you don’t. You can’t befriend the pirates, there arent really any strange aliens, and you can’t antagonize most friends.

    You deal with politics, survival,

    Do you? There’s some minor “deal with this for me” stuff from the factions, but that’s hardly politics.

    And survival isn’t an issue in the game at all, even though you can see the scrapped leftovers from it.

    attempting to save the galaxy while trying to discover the hidden story.

    The “hidden story” is spelled out and telegraphed in the main questline. It’s not a souls like where you piece it together, they literally tell you to your face

    PeterisBacon,

    Listen mate, agree to disagree. You are getting into all the points as to why it crushed my hopes, as I have said. Each of those aspects was a great concept, as I have overstated, but the concept fell short, my hopes carried the game farther in my mind than the game could go.

    Each topic I pointed out was an area of the game that I felt they could have driven more, but they failed to execute. Then it seemed like there was a glimmer of hope as they were pushing for some major fixes like finally adding a vehicle to travel faster on planets, but again, they fell short and here we are going back and forth like school kiddos arguing about if its the coolest game or not.

    Its far from it mate, I agree with all of you but you’re all trying to nitpick each aspect rather than reading my very very first post where I said its a great concept, but it crushed my hopes.

    Calling something great is an individual perspective. This is all my perspective, this will be my last response in regards to this topic. Do you have a favorite game that you think is a great concept and great execution? Personally, I don’t, unl3ss we go back to gameboy days.

    Cheers mate, hope youre well.

    Kolanaki, (edited )
    @Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

    You can’t befriend the pirates

    Yeah you can. That’s literally one of the only major choices you can make; destroy them or join them after going undercover and infiltrating their base.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    Sounds like an AI generated blurb and very far from reality, especially as you have almost no choice in anything, exactly zero of them feel meaningful in any way, can’t “antagonize anyone” (yay for essential npcs 😒), aren’t saving the galaxy and the “hidden story” is one of the worst “ITS THE MULTIVERSE LOL” stories I’ve seen.

    PeterisBacon,

    Can we just hug this out?

    I like the game, some hate it, im disappointed in it, but I dont wanna keep fighting online about it. I’d rather hug it out.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    I don’t have a problem with people who like and enjoy the game, I just don’t understand your reason to say the game is something that it actually is not

    PeterisBacon,

    The game, in my perspective, is exactly what I said it is. You don’t have to understand it brother, just like I don’t understand yours. I do appreciate your perspective though, you’re free to have it.

    DragonTypeWyvern,

    “Bethesda game in spaaaaaceee” is more than that, you know it, and it was proven when one of the first costume mods on Nexus was the space suit with a force field boob window tyvm.

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