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Venicon, do games w Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit
@Venicon@lemmy.world avatar

Might be bitter but I lost interest when I bought Destiny years ago and the main campaign just…stopped. To be continued only when buying DLC. Never spent a penny on them since as I believe a game you buy should be the entire thing end to end with additional content available to purchase. I wanted a main storyline with conclusion.

thejoker954,

I lost interest when I first tried Destiny 2 years after it was 1st released and realized they didn’t seem interested in new players.

Too many storylines merging and diverging before you have any idea whats happening.

It was like reading a book (and it’s series) out of order.

TheFeatureCreature,
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca avatar

I stopped playing when I learned the DLC I paid for would be removed and no longer accessible. I already had some growing negative sentiment towards the game at that point but being outright ripped off was the last straw.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yep. I didn’t have a huge issue with them charging for new DLC. If the DLC is good then fine, devs gotta eat.

When they sunset content that I paid for and tell me it’s no longer accessible, that’s when I dropped the game like a hot potato. Should have requested a refund, actually.

EarlGrey, do games w There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps

I’ve spent about $125 on this game, and I would definitely get pissed if I bought in for all the promises they made.

However, I bought just to have a really pretty “Fly around in space while exploring my spaceship and listening to music” experience. It’s a vibe game. If they took out all the combat and lofty goals and just focused on making a really dope spaceship sim (with all the ship management, repairs, etc that they’ve promised) I would probably lose my life to it.

Pyotr,

Right there with you. Spent about 45$ on an Aurora, got a free Mustang, and did a CCU into a nomad. I’m not upset with the money I spent on the game. Gotten way more out of it just vibing in universe, flying over each new planet at they add it.

I doubt it’ll ever launch though. Those who have invested thousands of dollars into it are bound to be salty when the towel is thrown in.

nova_ad_vitum, (edited )

I have a really old account from man years ago (probably payed $50ish for it). I want the same experience - just mostly vibing around in a ship.

Sometime during covid I had time on my hands so I installed it, logged back in. Tried to get into my ship and a glitched basically got me stuck in the door of the ship. Also couldn’t die. Just stuck there . Restarted the game and tried again. Got stuck in the same spot.

Closed the game and uninstalled. I’ll check back in a few more years lol.

gonzo-rand19,
@gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com avatar

I got the game for free in 2015 as part of a choose-your-own-bundle promo for the AMD R9 270X. Haven't paid a cent for it and I still sorta feel ripped off.

SolidShake, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

See all these free mods!? They’re just for you to use however you want to!! Pretty awesome right. Just enjoy this .5mbs download. Oh you want faster download speeds? Well… Sir. That will be $12 a month. Evil laugh

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Don’t they already do that?

SolidShake,

That’s the joke

mnemonicmonkeys,

Tbh, unless you’re downloading a DLC size mod or a big 4K textures pack the installs are nearly instant at the moment

Sektor, do games w The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst

I’ll wait until it gets free on Epic and proceed not playing it, since i have better things to do with my life.

cod, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
@cod@lemmy.world avatar

This would be a great time to promote !patientgamers

jnod4,

JOINED, any more ways to find sublemmings idk what are these called lol

cod,
@cod@lemmy.world avatar

!newcommunities is a great place to discover new communities. As for big ones that already exist I’m sure there’s probably a list of big communities out there somewhere, otherwise browsing by All > Top 6 Hours or All > Hot will give you a good mix of everything. Then you can add communities you like from there

Edit: also lots of communities will shout out other communities in their sidebars. Check those too

UltraGiGaGigantic,
@UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m not patient, I’m just broke.

Croquette,

It forces you to be patient. You fit the bill

sigmaklimgrindset, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer

Kingdom Come Deliverance wasn’t even on my radar and now I’m obsessed. The NPCs are so fucking funny

Lennnny,
@Lennnny@lemmy.world avatar

If I were in your shoes…

sigmaklimgrindset,

The hours I spent on that FUCKING DICE GAME

owenfromcanada, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. When you look through the classics, they’re not “typical”. Hell, one of the most iconic games involves a plumber fighting a punk-rock turtle to save a princess, with a variety of mushrooms both helping and hindering.

ampersandrew, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

With its nuanced characters, wonderfully layered world, and incredible depth of interactions, it was natural to feel the game had set a new bar for the whole genre—but it was pointed out that declaring it the new standard was unreasonable and unsustainable given how few other developers could possibly rise to meet it.

You could make a game a third of the size of BG3, and it would still be excellent value for BG3’s asking price. And no, you shouldn’t attempt to make a competitor with BG3 on your first try. Nor should you try to make a competitor to Elden Ring on your first try; FromSoft had been making those games for the better part of 15 years, building and iterating on what came before. I do think more RPG developers should strive to follow the systems-driven approach that Larian has and be cognizant of what it is that we all like about BG3, but it can be sustainable if you don’t try to hit a home run on the first pitch.

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

FromSoft had been making those games for the better part of 15 years, building and iterating on what came before.

Longer, if we really want to get pedantic. King’s Field, the game and series that is now the spiritual predecessor to the Souls genre, is from 1994, so we could probably say they have been refining their own flavor of action RPG for over 30 years now.

vrighter, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

god of war live service? wtf???

codexarcanum, do games w Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions'

Is there an ARPG that doesn’t have some former D1 or D2 staff member on it? I’m sure the old janitors from Blizz North had to end up somewhere too.

simple, do games w Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions'

The more the merrier. Last Epoch was also made by veterans of the genre from what I remember.

fushuan,

Incorrect, LE was made by fans of the genre that had to learn game development from the ground up.

They were veteran gamers, not developers, if you will. A BIG distinction.

Renacles, do games w Morrigan isn't just my favourite Dragon Age character, she's the greatest fantasy RPG companion of all time

Morrigan disliked that

Fedizen, do games w The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing

if its under GPL couldn’t they be forced to disclose the source code?

blindbunny,

Only if they made modifications

AnimalsDream,

What, where do you get that? Any publicly conveyed copies of gpl-licensed software must make their source code available, and be published under the same license. This is true regardless of modifications.

blindbunny,

I could be wrong and I’m more then welcome to being proven that. But wouldn’t this be like asking me to redistribute the whole process of running ZSNES on linux? Seems pretty infeasible.

AnimalsDream,

It would be more accurate to say it’s like requiring you to make the source code for ZSNES available if you were distributing copies of ZSNES.

blindbunny,

That’s a fair correction

shiroininja, do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

Unpopular opinion: if I have to fudge with Wine instead of Proton, I simply will not bother. It’s 2024. I’m not going to fiddle with configs, or get a setup together just to play a single game. That’s ridiculous. A game should 100% be one click to run, whether it’s native or not. and if that’s not what is expected in 2024, Linux get it together. sincerely: a full time Linux gamer that is a single parent and doesn’t have time to fiddle just to play a game. Wine and most of its front ends need a major overhaul.

dingleberrylover,

Then just use Proton? You don’t need Steam for it. And sitting there and demanding “Linux” to get it “together” because it is 2024 is rather ignorant due to the fact that it is not Linux’ fault that the software in question needs additional workarounds in order to make it run. People out there are using their freetime to come up with solutions for problems caused by corporations using proprietary libraries and software. I don’t think that your opinion is unpopular. I get what you want, I do wish the same, and a lot of peoole would agree with it as well, but the context in which we operate here matters a lot.

PushButton,

You need to “get it together” and buy games for your platform.

“That’s ridiculous”

mrvictory1,

Heroic is decent imo. It lets you download Wine, manage prefixes, enable/disable dxvk/vkd3d, configure gamescope & mangohud and so on.

quick,

So does lutris and bottles. Don’t know what OP is talking about.

Eyck_of_denesle,

I test games for a living and most of the time wine runs perfectly fine. You can also just use umu laucher which does everything for you.

Also I don’t really get your point. Who’s forcing you to use wine instead of proton?

Allero,

I’m not aware of how things are now, but at least previously you couldn’t really use Proton outside of Steam.

So I assume OC defends Steam as the only platform that can smoothly run games with Proton instead of regular Wine, which does not work as well for certain games and/or requires tedious configuration.

Eyck_of_denesle,

You are right about proton. But the tedious configuration part is not true. Proton and ge-wine(now UMU) do the same thing, i.e applying custom patches. Wine base package is not expected to do this.

Allero,

I see, thanks!

keystome,

What an ignorant and meaningless comment.

ouch,

Linux get it together

Who are you making demands to, precisely?

zipzoopaboop, do gaming w The eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit

Then stop making games with no audience

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