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JRaccoon, do games w Dispatch offers something new for superhero video games — engaging deskwork
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icermiga, do games w Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?

Honestly I prefer console to PC so much, even as a fediverse user, linux user, someone who has a degoogled phone and uses a home server instead of a cloud, because I just hate having to worry if games are compatible with my hardware, or if controllers are compatible with my game, or if graphical oddities in my game represent supernatural parts of the story or that I didn’t install the right NVidia driver. When it comes to games, which are leisure, I find I just can’t relax with PC games like I can with console games. As for emulation, I can’t enjoy my games like that at all becuse the worry that settings are wrong or emulation is wrong is just too much like work. So I love my switch and I’ll probably love my switch 2 one day.

Nosavingthrow,

Hello fellow kids, I, too, can not enjoy my steam deck video game PC. I prefer to pay my tithe to Nintendo, my best friend and surrogate parent. I love [Product].

AwesomeLowlander,

Isn’t that precisely the point of the steam deck, it provides a console-like target for game devs to develop against.

icermiga,

Yes, to an extent, which is positive. I don’t know too much about the steam deck side of things, but I don’t get the impression that it’s got enough PC market share to do that. I have a steam controller and last time I used that (admittedly years ago when it was still pretty new) I found Steam Input really didn’t have good defaults at all, despite what they said. The only sort of good defaults had the drawback of just ignoring most of the device’s USPs. It was bad, and community profiles weren’t good either. Maybe it got better?

twilightwolf90, do games w Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’

Honestly, as someone close to the game, it’s more of “we can’t make the casuals and competitive players happy while catering to collectors all at the same time” and Gavin is using Pauper to test something that has ramifications for the rest of the game.

But here’s the catch, Pauper has been incredible this whole time! These bans/unbans are dope! I think this will work and it does set the precedent for the idiot business people that you can manage a format independent of design teams and stockholders.

dota__2,

“close to the game” doesn’t know that this is definitely not the first time they’ve done this.

modern mind sculptor unbanned years ago and saw little play. SFM. more recently mox opal and splinter twin.

unbannings are just admitting that power creep has surpassed the level those cards were at previously.

twilightwolf90,

First time for a “trial unban” where they go back to the ban list if they don’t positively impact the format? Yes, this is the first time an official “trial” has occurred in the competitive history of the game. The only time they have come close to this was the original ban of High Tide when paper and online ban lists merged.

I’m not talking about unbans in general and neither is the article.

I concur that unbans are usually a reaction to power creep. However, Modern has always been a mismanaged format since it’s inception. The premise of banning the top decks so that Modern was different from “Old Extended” (because Extended at the time became a “Double long Standard” instead of a rotating Type 2 Format) damaged the genesis of the format, which inevitably led to Grixis Twin’s dominance. I do think the format back then could’ve benefitted from Fae/Sculpter/Thopter-Sword/Affinity being legal and providing variance.

dota__2,
PennyRoyal, do games w Discover more than a dozen game consoles you never knew about

Author’s website, which, after playing a little text game, takes you to a better place to buy it from than Bezos’s fetid swamp - curiousvideogamemachines.com

scrubbles, do gaming w Switch 2 vs. Steam Deck: How Nintendo’s next console measures up
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What a horseshit article. 90% of the “comparisons” are “We don’t know yet”. “It’s up in the air on the switch”. Only concrete thing I saw is that it has 2 USB-C ports.

dinckelman,

Checks out for a polygon article. It’s not even about who’s going to deliver the news first, it’s about SEO click farming

Zombiepirate, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 Revealed.
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

Should have called it the Nintendo Top.

runner_g,

Nintendo Dom

november, (edited ) do games w US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam

I don’t even like this genre of game but I bought it (after downloading the demo to make sure it would run under Proton) because fuck this censorship.

(Edit) Just saw a post on Bsky claiming that “if you shoot soldiers who are surrendering, you lose”. Much evil, very terrorism.

Neon,
  1. It has been removed in the EU on behalf of french anti-terrorist authorities. So this is an actual terrorism-concern and not just censorship.
  2. hey, a fellow linux user. Long-time or recent?
november,

It has been removed in the EU on behalf of french anti-terrorist authorities. So this is an actual terrorism-concern and not just censorship.

Any support for Palestine is being called “terrorist” these days, so I’d rather make the judgment call for myself.

hey, a fellow linux user. Long-time or recent?

Been using Linux for 20 years.

Neon,

Any support for Palestine is being called “terrorist” these days, so I’d rather make the judgment call for myself.

yeah, I’m sorry, but I disagree. That’s a conspiracy like Q-Anon, meant to make you feel like you’re something special, a “Truth-seeker” in a world of “global conspiracies”. This game was removed for valid reasons because it is an omage to terrorism and glorifies and validates that terrorism.

Semjaza,

I recall from the interview when the UK blocked it the creator said “you do nothing in it you don’t do it Black Ops. But only mine is terrorism, it’s purely political.” (paraphrased)

I’ll confess that I’ve not played either of them, so I don’t know how true that holds. But I do know that a lot of those console shooters are very political and the world seems fine with it when it’s a US avatar shooting up Arabs.

SmilingSolaris,

Oh no an action shooter where the brown people are the heros? Stop the god damn presses.

maplebar,

Any support for Palestine is being called “terrorist” these days, so I’d rather make the judgment call for myself.

So what is your judgment call? Was the October 7th attack terrorism or not?

november,

Do you think Palestine sprung into existence on October 7? Why does every discussion of Israel being genocidal colonizers come down to an incident that happened decades after their oppression of Palestine began?

maplebar, (edited )

Do you think Palestine sprung into existence on October 7?

No. I think most people know that Israel and Palestine were both established by the League of Nations back in the 40s post the fall of the Ottoman Empire, after which they proceeded to start fighting each other for fucking decades of pointless holy wars.

I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the discussion at hand, however.

Why does every discussion of Israel being genocidal colonizers come down to an incident that happened decades after their oppression of Palestine began?

Uh, are we not currently in a thread specifically talking about an October 7th game or…?

november, (edited )

Uh, are we not currently in a thread specifically talking about an October 7th game or…?

From the linked article:

Fursan al-Aqsa was released in 2022

Calling it “an October 7th game” is a neat little piece of propaganda though. Good job falling for it.

(Edit) Yeah, actually after taking a look at your profile, you’re not the kind of person I want taking up my mental energy.

maplebar,

Fursan al-Aqsa was released in 2022

You’re clearly not very well informed, because the source of the controversy here is an October 7th themed update that came out in late 2023.

Yeah, actually after taking a look at your profile, you’re not the kind of person I want taking up my mental energy.

What kind of person would that be?

atocci, (edited ) do gaming w Sony is in talks to buy FromSoftware’s parent company Kadokawa.

Are they doing this because they want FromSoftware or is it to continue their anime monopolization?

JusticeForPorygon,
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Yes

B0NK3RS, do games w Death Stranding gets surprise Xbox Series X release
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This is great news. Death Stranding is in my all time top 10 so highly recommend it to anyone tempted on Xbox.

drasglaf, (edited )
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I bought it last year but I abandoned it after only a few hours. I have to give it another chance.

B0NK3RS,
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Honestly the first few hours are a bit of a chore but keep going.

ampersandrew,
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Death Stranding is one of my favorite examples of how many ideas are out there to make games out of without resorting to making a game loop revolve around violence.

Entropywins,

I don’t know I violently fell very often in that game…

chakan2,
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Eh…I struggled through the second half…it wasn’t worth it. So many convoluted cut scenes to tell you what the last convoluted cut scene just said.

lowleveldata,

The delivering part is actually fun tho. The cut scenes are confusing but they don’t really take that long so it’s fine for me.

chakan2,
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Really? That scene where you’re lost on the beach was at least 45 minutes. It may have been hours…I’d get to the next part, the cut scene would start and Id put up with it for 5 minutes then go mow the grass or something. That was painful to get through.

lowleveldata,

Well ya that was really bad. But it was just that 1 time (also it’s with the credit roll) so I’m going to let it slide. I also started reading a book at that part tho.

PunchingWood,

I recently tried it and only got through the first chapter before giving up, it’s just not fun to me.

wrekone,

Same. I think i could have enjoyed the gameplay but the horror aspect and overall vibe was too offputting.

7112, (edited ) do games w Secret actor behind Metal Gear Solid 3’s EVA revealed after 20 years

Amazing! Had no idea. Happy to have this out after so many years.

9point6, do games w Dead Rising remaster will make Frank West less of a creep

Sadly, I’m sure there’s a dark corner of the internet where someone is very angry about this.

Viking_Hippie,

You mean Twitter and Lies Antisocial?

Glide,

I mean, a small part of me dislikes the lost potential for satire. Dead Rising was always an over-the-top franchise, and Frank always came off as a kind of “wants to be taken seriously, but often finds himself selling candid shots of celebrities to tabloids to get by” kind of photographer. But the presentation was too serious and felt ultimately creepy, rather than being funny or coming off as social commentary.

SanguineBrah,
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I do think the sleaze is an integral side to Frank’s character that should stay or he would be a lot less interesting. I don’t think anything in the article actually demonstrates that they are changing his character despite the headline. If I recall correctly, Off the Record also included the mechanic even though Frank was not the protagonist so perhaps it was never meant to reflect on his character and was just there to reward the player for being kind of gross.

altima_neo, (edited )
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Yeah I thought that was part of Frank’s character? He’s a has been that never was that reluctantly finds himself becoming a hero.

In the second game, he’s shown to be moreso a sleazeball, as he’s basically making a living selling the rights to his story and starring in a survival game show.

KingThrillgore,
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Yep it’s called reddit dot com

aluminium, do games w Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles

Might as well allow me to install a other OS at this point

VindictiveJudge,
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Playstation let you do that for a while.

nasi_goreng,
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I remember Linux for PlayStation 2 back in the days.

JoMomma, do games w Twitch streamer plays Palworld using only her mind

Funny, most people play it without using their minds

thantik, do games w Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item

Too little too late, and soon they’re gonna be owned by Microsoft. Fuck 'em. Let them eat cake.

ArchmageAzor, do games w Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t see the sub at first and thought it was a kickstarter for a real-life mars terraformation project

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