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molten, do games w On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down

Look. I think all AAA companies should do $120 base price for all games. Piracy would have such a boom. Better platforms. many more seeders and good reviews and more freaks hell bent on cracking DRM.

tacosanonymous,
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That’s hilarious. To your point, I wasn’t going to pay $50 for this, I sure as hell won’t pay $80.

Tuxman, do games w Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

And then they feed the documents to a LLM and iterate over it

moosetwin, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Terraria

Almacca, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
@Almacca@aussie.zone avatar

Well, that’s that ruined then.

MyFriendGodzilla, do games w 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know

$7000… not bad for 20 years or whatever its been since steam started. Sure as hell drunk more than 7k’s worth of alcohol over that time lol

dbtng,
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Your profile page will say your account birthday. Float your mouse over “Years of Service”.

MyFriendGodzilla, (edited )

20 years for me. 2004… Interesting times then and still interesting times now lol.

nevetsg, do games w American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car'

To keep the Smokey’s distracted whilst you run bootleg beer across state lines?

Koen967, do games w Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?

You can go blast monsters in PoE. Why would you want PoE2 to be just another PoE?

Noodle07,

Problem is monsters in poe2 blasts you like in poe 1

Koen967,

Sure, the monsters are currently to fast and aggressive compared to the player. But that is a different point than what the article is trying to make. The fix to that isn’t taking PoE2 and making it into PoE again.

Noodle07,

Agreed

dota__2,

you mean the game they promised they would continue to support and then failed immediately on that front? this company could barely handle developing one game. lots of passion but poor planning.

p03locke,
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Because it’s a hack-and-slash Diablo clone. The whole point is quantity of enemies.

If you want Dark Souls, go make another game and call it something else. You can’t just make Starcraft, and then say that Starcraft 2 is going to be an FPS.

fushuan,

I’m sorry to say but until they begin updating PoE1 you really cannot blast monsters there and phrecia doesn’t count. And if you think that logging into a game without updates for a year is fun you really don’t get how the game appeals on a seasonal manner.

For now, we only have poe2. When they finally deliver the next poe1 league I won’t care as much.

Razzazzika, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

Well. The nature of my backlog is like I wait for games to come down in price and by the time I get to them they’re 10 years old haha.

I also have a habit of playing through the entire series before playing the newest one. I’m currently playing Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion which is the 4th game from Japan in that series but the 2nd to be released in US, SO I’m playing through it even though I don’t like it and will beat the next two games to finally play Trails in the Sky which is the one I really probably should have started with.

I do that with all my games, like Doom Eternal looks cool and so does the upcoming Dark Ages, but I went back and played Doom 1 & 2. 64, then the updated remaster of Doom 1 & 2 when that came out, and now I’m working on Doom 3. I got one more whole Doom game before I even get to Eternal.

FlashMobOfOne, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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It’s wild how good the cheap games are these days. I’m 30 hours into playing Noita, have hundreds of hours in Vampire Survivor.

And I got about 15 hours into Dragon Age: Veilguard before it occurred to me I could crack open the Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition and actually have an enjoyable experience.

tal,
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I’m 30 hours into playing Noita

I kind of want more there. There isn’t DLC, and there aren’t clones.

I mean, yes, the game is large and very replayable, and I have a blast with it…but it’s also kind of the only option for that gameplay.

I also play it modded with health regeneration, because the difficulty level on the vanilla game is very high, and encourages very cautious play.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I would suggest trying Caveblazers, as it’s similar, but it’s more barebones and (I think) significantly harder.

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Caveblazers

Thanks, purchased.

MoreZombies, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

Fucking Zynga.

Shape4985, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game
@Shape4985@lemmy.ml avatar

Thank fuck now more effort can be put elsewhere instead of live service slop.

murmelade, do games w Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer]

But… It’s in EA? 🤡

Dashi,

I don’t know how I feel about this game getting an award in Early Access. But it feels weird.

I have nothing against EA I played several ea games including this one, but this is getting closer and closer to the norm.

murmelade,

Yeah it seems like it will be a great game and best wishes to the Dev but it’s like giving an award to a demo. Why don’t we just give all the awards to Star Citizen then since they have promised us it will be the best everything once it releases.

EncryptKeeper, (edited )

Were there any city builders fully released in 2024? Is this a matter of an EA title being chosen because there are no non-EA titles?

Ashtear,

This is what I was wondering. Was the genre that quiet this year? Manor Lords isn’t just early access, it’s early early access. So many outright unfinished systems.

EncryptKeeper,

I can’t think of a single city builder released this year that isn’t in EA.

Dashi,

Frostpunk 2 released and is pretty solid. Maybe not for everyone but it’s a full title release I believe

EncryptKeeper,

Ah yeah that’s a good catch. It is a solid game and should have won.

cpkwtf,

There’s a Soviet city builder that fully launched in the last few months

Ashtear,

Following up on this conversation since I just saw this PC Gamer article:

I played a whopping 23 city builders in 2024, and here are my 5 favorites

Kolanaki, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
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Jode,

Cos you finished adastra lolll

KingThrillgore, do games w Critical Role's plans to make a videogame have become an 'active pursuit', says CEO Travis Willingham, after almost 10 years of growing a D&D campaign into a full-on franchise
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I’m worried they aren’t skilled enough to do it, they just want that sweet BG3 money.

Maalus,

They literally have been connected to video games development their entire career. They are voice actors. They do that shit all the time.

Glide, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December

Calling Warcraft Rumble an RTS is like putting a hamburger patty on a plate and calling it a steak. You’re technically correct, but you’ve also completely missed the point in what people want.

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