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Aielman15, do games w This cult classic mind bending puzzle series is coming back to PC
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Great games, I have fond memories of me and my brother playing those flash games.

If you don’t want to pay, the Flashpoint Collection already has these flash games and they are fully functional, although I think I’ll grab this release to support the dev after all these years.

OfficerBribe, do gaming w The Day Before parody, built by one person for $1,500, looks better than the actual game

It’s a cool video, but I wouldn’t call it a parody

AdamantiteAdventurer, do gaming w Activision Blizzard workers speak out after Bobby Kotick’s CEO exit
@AdamantiteAdventurer@beehaw.org avatar

He in all likelihood doesn’t regret anything he said or did, but just that he got caught.

shapesandstuff, do gaming w The developer of The Day Before seems to be deleting evidence that it was ever an MMO game

I’m really confused about this. I only ever heard about this as ane extraction shooter. But I also only found some tiktok clips didn’t follow it in advance or anything

tacosanonymous,
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They had a video that advertised it as an open world survival mmo.

wildginger,

And a steam page, that still advertises it as an mmo

shapesandstuff,

Same goes for eft to be honest. Idk “with mmo elements” might make more sense in that case.

uninvitedguest,
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Nutteman, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.
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Arcane’s studios are no longer the same ones that brought us dishonored unfortunately and I don’t think it is gonna get better any time soon. Really hope I’m wrong there was a time where Arcane was my favorite people making games.

BananaTrifleViolin,

I think this is the real problem with the gaming industry. Development studios are treated as if they're sources of IP when in fact it's more about the people working for them.

A good dev team is the people who made the games. A team gets bought out by a big publishing giant and it seems they inevitably lose the people who made them great.

That's not to say big publsiher owned studios can't make great games but I'd argue the best games are coming from the indy studies whether that by one man bands like ConcernedApe or big independent studios like CD Projekt Red.

Also CD Projekt Red was highly motivated to fix Cyberpunk as it's a smaller studio, and pretty much their entire future business needed it to be fixed and work. They need and want to make more Cyberpunk games. Microsoft has zero motivation to fix Redfall - it was a commercial failure in a big coroportation; they will just dump it and move on but also be more averse to trying to make new IP.

Nutteman,
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It’s definitely due to the industry. Turnover is insane and it’d not the employees faults

chemical_cutthroat, do games w Steam's biggest free demo showcase is about to return (Steam next fest)
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

Next fest is awesome. I wish we still had demo CDs, but this is a close second.

HidingCat,

Demo CDs are just a delivery mechanism, and I consider this way better.

Now the practice of giving a demo for a game, that does need to return.

Kolanaki,
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This is one of the benefits of PS+; you can demo almost anything since it just gives you 2 hours with the full game.

Steam (and other PC fronts/games) could do this. But it would also make it quite easy to pirate those, which is probably why they don’t.

Selmafudd,

Steam used to give a free auto refund with less than 2 hours of play time, donno if they still do.

Now I just pirate a game to check it out and if I’m still playing it when the next update comes out then I buy it

charles,

They do except there’s the additional condition of 2 weeks since purchase date. So as long as you’ve played less than 2 hours and purchased within 2 weeks, you’ll get an automatic refund (unless you abuse the system, but I’ve returned many games over the years and never had issues).

HidingCat,

I've had a game refunded at 3 weeks even, but it was under 1 hour of play time.

Kolanaki,
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I’ve only taken advantage of this once. When I had VR, I got some utility program because it advertised being able to do something I was trying to do (I don’t remember what exactly), but it didn’t actually do that thing. I requested a refund after like 20 minutes of using it and it was pretty much instantly refunded.

Damn good policy, as long as you check out what you buy pretty quick to make sure it’s what you want, IMO.

Rooty, do games w Meta Quest 3 demand allegedly 5 million units below expected level

So the complaint is that sales are not as large as the inflated projections. Have these clowns in three piece suits even tried their shitshow of a product?

NuPNuA,

Everyone I know with a quest speaks quite highly of it and how freeing it is compared to tethered headsets.

MrNobody,

Because the tether for the quest isn’t a physical one but a digital one.

war, do games w All your favorite Cyberpunk 2077 mods are disabled in Phantom Liberty, CDPR says
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  • mihnt,
    @mihnt@kbin.social avatar

    dramatic stab

    GreenMario,

    BEEP BOOP

    WRITTEN BY AN AI LANGUAGE MODEL

    BruceTwarzen,

    Some people dislike it, some are glad their favourite mods are finally gone

    Sabata11792,
    @Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

    They don't understand that its perfectly normal for modders to take time to update the mod after a big patch.

    Moghul,

    It means fucking nothing. Many and split are relatively vague terms, so if you ask them to prove it, maybe they’ll find some chucklenuts on twitter with 2 followers complaining that their nude character mod got disabled. This is pure controversy bait, and the author is a turd muncher

    Virkkunen,
    @Virkkunen@kbin.social avatar

    I think they're aiming for people being split between updating the game and not having their mods working, or not updating the game and playing their mods.

    It's just click and rage bait, this whole thing has been worded to seem like CDPR is disallowing mods forever and people are upset with it.

    Dequei, do gaming w Starfield remake created in two days actually lets you fly seamlessly from space to the surface
    @Dequei@sopuli.xyz avatar

    If people want that, why don’t they play Elite Dangerous?

    Sabata11792,
    @Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

    I loved the game and put 1000hrs in it but I wouldn't recommended it anymore. Its simply past its golden age. Frontier seem to have given up on it. Its pretty much in maintenance mode after they half assed the space leg DLC and mostly ended community goals. They didn't even include walking around in your own ship.

    Its now the vibe of a MMO on its last legs. I would love to see it spark back to life, but the devs would have to pull out the big guns.

    Asafum,

    The worst thing for elite was being made by frontier as they are now. Frontier now is just a tycoon simulator game generator, that’s all they care about. It’s like the FIFA of the tycoon games… spit out another one every year or two and who gives a rats ass about the stuff we already made or haven’t completed.

    I loved what elite wanted to be, I hate what the bean counters did to it…

    People shit on star citizen for their dev cycle, but elite took the worse route in my opinion: they released a minimally viable product and then intended on building it into something bigger, but got cheap/lazy and just accepted that what they have out is “good enough” so they dumped all the internal ship plans (braben spoke about boarding ships and piracy on foot in a ship, that kind of thing.) They dumped so much of the simulation stuff and just stuck with the BGS… it’s frustrating to see what could have been.

    Dequei,
    @Dequei@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Yeah, i still play it sometimes, but i think the same

    Sabata11792,
    @Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

    How's the Thargoid war going, both game play and story? They just started the system where they can take over a system last time I played.

    Dequei,
    @Dequei@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Idk, I just play to relax by transporting things

    amju_wolf,
    @amju_wolf@pawb.social avatar

    Elite’s biggest issue is that it never really knew what kind of kame it wanted to be. An MMO? There aren’t enough multiplayer features for that. A (mostly) single-player space experience? It’s too shallow with no story, so it won’t satisfy the RPG fans. A space “simulator” where you just have fun flying ships? It’s probably closest to that, except you can’t fly any ship you want, and in fact it takes dozens of hours of grind to be able to switch things out so they’re fresh and you have more fun with the game again. And the simulation is very simplistic and not all that fun either, so it’s not for hardcore simulation fans either.

    And because of this approach it has a bad combination of features that not only won’t fully satisfy either of the potential target groups; they also often work against each other. For example the multiplayer component is a dealbraker for me: I want a truly SP game where I can dictate how I play it - where I can mod it, or at least use cheats to find my own pacing, fly different ships on a whim, whatever. But the game simply won’t allow that.

    But it’s also not a fully-fledged MMO where you could build (or at least own) systems/planets/bases whatever with your clan and compete against others for … idk, something.

    And, again, it’s just not a story game that you could play from start to finish for the storytelling and worlbuilding.

    Really sad, because the potential is there to have any (or perhaps even at least two) of those types of games.

    KidsTryThisAtHome,

    The more I’m playing starfield, the more I’m considering it. Starfield is doing a really good job of reinvigorating my excitement for the other games that have done literally everything better in the past lol

    YuzuDrink, do gaming w Meet Diablo 4 and Path of Exile's biggest rival, an ARPG designed and built by Redditors

    Wasn’t PoE exactly this, but for Diablo 3? Apparently the Diablo series just spawns community-built competitors each generation now?

    chaogomu,

    Ever hear of a game called Torchlight? It's damn good.

    And yes, it too was inspired directly by Diablo (and its sequels).

    Anon819450514,

    Grim dawn, anyone? Now grim Dawn 2!

    Gordon_Freeman, (edited )
    @Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social avatar

    And yes, it too was inspired directly by Diablo (and its sequels).

    It would not say it was "inspired" by Diablo it was more than that. I mean, Torchlight was made by the same team that made Diablo I and II after all.

    mihnt,
    @mihnt@kbin.social avatar

    RIP Runic Games.

    leftzero, do games w Todd Howard says Starfield mod support is on the way next year

    Is he talking about trying the paid mod thing again…? Because the game’s been moddable since day 1 (or -7, if you don’t count the early access as day 1), and the nexus is already full of mods, including the script extender…

    Kolanaki,
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    I’m sure he’s just talking about the Creation Kit toolset. We can do script related things and add models and textures; we can’t add new locations or NPCs afaik without the toolset. Or at least, nowhere near as easily. If it can be done, I’d like to read up on that.

    Ser_Salty,

    He’s talking about the Creation Kit, the proper mod tools to make more complicated stuff like quest mods

    leftzero,

    Eh, it’s all the same 26 year old gamebryo engine, we can probably just use the Skyrim tools. Or the Morrowind ones. Hell, at this point modders have probably made their own better ones, like they made the script extender, and wrye bash, and whatnot. 🤷‍♂️

    Ser_Salty,

    That is not how that works.

    dudewitbow,

    The mods made by creation kit, and the mods made using script extenders arent the same kind of mods.

    CK allows modding in custom NPCs, followers and more models, as well as modifying vanilla asset models in the game easier (part of the reason why the only thing you see in modding space are texture swaps and full model swaps) as well as quest mods. These are the types of mods you see like in skyrim that can be enabled by console as well.

    Script extenders enable mods that rewrite how the game functions, be it physics, adding new interactions and such.

    Cypher, do gaming w Soulframe is Elden Ring meets Ghost of Tsushima, but with 'Disney princesses' - PCGamesN

    Sounds like a flop.

    Wodge,
    @Wodge@lemmy.world avatar

    You sound like a flop.

    Cypher,

    Feel free to revisit this about 2 months after this free to play MMO trash releases and has its player count fall off a cliff.

    falkerie71,
    @falkerie71@sh.itjust.works avatar

    This isn’t a new game, dude. People who play it already know what they’re getting into.

    Wodge,
    @Wodge@lemmy.world avatar

    You seem to be unaware that this is basically fantasy warframe, made by the original warframe team, which has been consistently one of the most popular games on steam for years. The dev team is very successful at what they do, and they’re doing more of it. It probably has one of the best monitization systems of any F2P game, with it all being cosmetics and time skips, nothing that makes you more powerful than a purely free player.

    Stop posting, you know nothing about this subject and are making yourself look like bit of a numpty.

    conciselyverbose,

    Thanks for this. I was unaware, and that sounds like it has potential.

    Cypher,

    I can’t think of a quicker way to kill a soulslike than to slap a Disney Princess label on it and fill it to the brim with micro transactions.

    I will enjoy rubbing people’s faces in the failure of this soon to be forgotten trash.

    Wodge,
    @Wodge@lemmy.world avatar

    Stay mad.

    MantidSys,
    @MantidSys@kbin.social avatar

    Do you think a "soulslike" is defined by being dark and gritty? I find it odd that you think the inclusion of anything cute or hopeful/friendly would be only a negative. Maybe your preferences are for dark and gritty only, but I assure you that many people enjoy other styles. There's a charm to there being hope in a dying world, isn't there?

    Besides, I'd say most people define "soulslike" by their gameplay, not aesthetics. Maybe the "git gud" fragile-masculinity crowd needs their unforgiving combat system paired with a dark, 'masculine' atmosphere to fulfill their power fantasy, but again, I assure you that many other types of people enjoy those games - especially Elden Ring, which has much broader appeal than the previous souls games.

    I'll wager you're a toxic "git gud" type that hinges their identity on these types of games, and that's why the idea of your sacred icon being blemished by comparison to Soulframe upsets you so much. I really can't see why else anyone would be this angry over a game not being to their preferences. If people enjoy something different than you, let them. :)

    Cypher,

    Microtransaction fueled garbage is a blight on the consumer and I will always hope these greedy developers fail, aside from that the article itself is so poorly written I have to wonder if it was done by a bot.

    giant_smeeg, do games w Valve gives Steam Remote Play a long overdue upgrade

    Can you steam windows games? Had a kid so I’m going to have to stream Starfield to my laptop

    emogu,

    Yep. Just set it so it launches to desktop instead of BP and you can launch anything from anywhere. There might be some finagling to do with controller input/mapping depending on the game/launcher but it should be fine in most cases.

    funnystuff97,

    Steam Remote Play is basically my Remote Desktop these days. Steam Link Box on the TV or Steam Link App from the phone, and I’m golden. It works surprisingly well with very little latency.

    FracturedEel,

    I’ve never tried to remote play what do you need for it to work

    funnystuff97,

    Steam and an Internet connection. That’s it. If you log in to the same Steam account on your PC and Phone/Steam Link/Steam Deck/etc, Steam will take care of everything and hook you up seamlessly. It’s worth trying out!

    Swedneck,
    @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    In fact i’d say this is a significant emergent feature that has been overlooked, you can set up a windows box in a dark corner of your house and stream games to your deck/laptop/phone/fridge without worrying about noise or compatibility.

    I feel like valve needs to hire a guy to just sit around the office and occasionally go “hey uh, sounds like we could just polish up this edge case and market it as a rather mind-blowing feature?”

    DarkThoughts, do gaming w New Steam RTS is basically a surprise Command and Conquer sequel

    I'm not super interested in classic RTS anymore, thanks to 4X, but I'll keep an eye out for it and try the playtest. I still have my doubts that it will capture the same charm as the original C&C though. Especially someone like Kane will be hard to replace, and I feel he was such a big face for NOD that drove the whole story & mysteries forward.

    Snipe_AT, do gaming w You can play Starfield on PC and Xbox even if you only buy it once
    @Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev avatar

    That is awesome! Looking forward to the reviews I hope this game delivers everything promised!

    HannahBecz,

    If Todd Howard’s hyping of Oblivion, Fallout3, Fallout4, and Skyrim have taught me anything - the game will come nowhere to delivering anything promised - will be massively buggy - and I’ll easily sink 100s of hours into the game not caring in the least bit and having a blast the entire time. Purchasing it again and again on every platform as the years pass. Though with gamepass I suppose I don’t have to worry about purchasing it anymore.

    While Morrowind was my entry into the series in 2002/2003 - I had never heard of it until my head chef at the time told me I needed to purchase it. His hype delivered. But I have no clue what the hype of Morrowind pre-release was like or what was promised vs delivered. But I imagine it was quite similar.

    WarmSoda,

    Only thing I remember pre Morrowind was advertising on graphics cards. My friends only knew about the game because I found the strategy guide at work (electronics boutique) before it came out and I wouldn’t stop talking about it.

    I don’t think Todd Howard had his leather jacket at the time, so he wasn’t all over the place with promises.

    Okalaydokalay,

    This is me all day, every day.

    I’m worried about preordering it and still going in with low expectations. I can’t believe everything Todd has been saying these last few years.

    nondescript_citizen,

    For the love of god I hope you haven’t pre-ordered. A fricken pox on the gaming industry.

    Okalaydokalay,

    Hell no! I do not ever preorder anything.

    forgotaboutlaye,

    Honestly I haven't been following the development or marketing for this game, but I like Todd's games so I know I'll end up buying it.

    Faydaikin,
    @Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

    Without actually remembering anything too well, I do believe marketing around Morrowind was mostly graphics related. It was Beth’ switching to full on 3D and Morrowind was pretty advanced in that regard.

    I mean, the screenshots in the magazins sold themselves to anyone with the mind for fantasy. Hell, it’s still the most beautiful and alien world to come out of Bethesda to date.

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