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Agent_Karyo, do games w Friendship is survival in Citizen Sleeper 2
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

I am so excited for this game! I went into the original Citizen Sleeper without any prior knowledge of the game, ended up finishing it in two (pretty long) sessions.

halcyoncmdr,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

Same here. Not the type of game I would normally have jumped on, but something about it was just captivating.

snugglesthefalse, do games w Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024

I know it’s a game journalism circlejerk so I shouldn’t have expectations but I’m still disappointed by this year’s choices overall.

Maven, do games w Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024

Damn :/ I was rooting for Balatro

ouRKaoS,

Balatro is really fun until it pisses you off because of a bullshit draw and you stop playing for months…

JackbyDev,

It’s fun until you close the shop and realize what the boss is and can’t reopen the shop lol.

ouRKaoS,

I was on ante 7 with a build exploiting Pareidolia, and didn’t realize I drew The Mark as the boss blind.

Whole deck disabled 😭

Viking_Hippie, do games w Secret actor behind Metal Gear Solid 3’s EVA revealed after 20 years

So she asked me, ‘What was your dog’s name growing up?’

And then she emptied her bank account, having just learned the final security question answer.

essteeyou, do games w Netflix shelving its best interactive titles next month, keeping the boring ones

Getting rid of Barbie and keeping Black Mirror. The headline seems incredibly weird to me.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

Probably preferential licensing. Black Mirror is still an active development with them.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I suspect they own the remaining titles. So there’s no cost to keeping them on there. I was also really surprised they keep swinging at the concept, considering how tepid the reception was beyond the original internet hype for Bandersnatch. Which makes sense, people don’t watch movies to actively be ready to press a button on short notice, you don’t exactly sit down on the sofa to go “Oh I know, how about 1,5h of QTE threat?”.

It’s a very cool concept, but one that targets the wrong audience, basically.

hal_5700X, do games w Dead Rising remaster will make Frank West less of a creep

If you remove stuff from a remaster is it still remaster?

Glytch,

Yes.

hal_5700X,

How? You’re removing something who is from the OG. The thing they’re remastering. So how can it be a remaster? Looks like Capcom playing a word game with remaster and remake. This is a remaster so it’s okay we remove stuff.

Glytch,

When movies are remastered a lot of times undesirable parts of it (vhs tracking lines, static, film scratches and the like) are removed. Same as when songs are remastered and they take out mistakes on the original recording. Hell, look at the amout of stuff that was changed with the “special edition” remasters of the Star Wars OT. In each case things are removed or changed, but it is still a remaster.

hal_5700X,

You’re talking about mistakes. But the Erotica bonus from photos is not a mistake.

Glytch,

You asked how stuff can be removed from a remaster and still be called a remaster. I explained how that can be so.

The Special Edition in particular is relevant because Lucas changed things based on decisions he made later. Removing the Erotica bonus is equivalent to making Jabba a CG slug in his scene in A New Hope rather than a human gangster, as he was originally envisioned (yes the scene was cut from the theatrical release but the footage of human Jabba still exists). It’s a change in artistic vision that the creators want reflected in their new definitive version.

With any luck Capcom won’t pull a Lucas and make it nearly impossible to get the original version if someone wants to play it warts and all.

Kolanaki,
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Hal’s argument sounds more like pedentry about what a remaster is vs what a remake is, and I would have to agree that this game sounds like a complete remake, and not simply a remastering of the original with what has been detailed about it.

rwhitisissle, do gaming w Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon

Deadlock sounds like the name of a no-budget indie horror game that would release on Steam for a dollar. Not a big budget Apexwatch or Overlegends or…whatever you call this style of game.

lemmyvore,

They’re actually two different genres, team deathmatch and battle royale. This Deadlock would be the former.

rwhitisissle,

Wikipedia says that Overwatch and Apex Legends are each part of the “Hero Shooter” genre (boy does that sound like an uninteresting genre). I’m guessing there are greater subdivisions of play structure that matches what you’re describing, but it all sounds like an uninteresting blend of character based FPS, like multiplayer Borderlands. I guess that’s where modern gaming is, though, since these really took off after 2016, which is solidly after my “hardcore gaming” days were mostly over.

lemmyvore,

character based FPS, like multiplayer Borderlands

That applies too, but it’s orthogonal to game structure. MOBAs also tend to be character based and you can add it to basically any game (eg. card based rogues like Slay the Spire).

But there are also lots of battle royales without characters (like PUBG or Fortnite) and team deathmatch without characters like CS.

BmeBenji, do gaming w A handheld Xbox? Microsoft’s gaming chief can’t stop thinking about it

Leave it to microsoft to join the party years late with a product that completely misses the point of what makes the original to their copy actually popular

MarcomachtKuchen, do games w 14 great games to try if you loved Baldur’s Gate 3

How can one talk about Disco Elysium without mentioning the writing even once

ampersandrew, do gaming w The human cost of 2023's devastating game industry layoffs
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

The night prior, current and former Epic Games employees told Polygon, a mystery meeting got added to everyone’s work calendar. There was no information included, except for a directive: Cancel any meetings that conflict with this one, because this one is mandatory. “I jokingly messaged my team and was like, ‘I don’t feel good about this meeting. Is this how we find out we’re all getting fired?’”

Yeah, that's the only thing a meeting like that ever means. Not in games, we got one of those where I work too.

Lols, do games w Microsoft completely misjudged Baldur’s Gate 3

this article is garbage and built entirely on polygon misreading one word

MartinXYZ,

What word did they misread? “HUB”? what does that mean?

acastcandream, (edited ) do gaming w Baldur’s Gate 3 just made the future of Xbox Series S a bit more uncertain

Ultimately the game still had to release on Series S and Microsoft can simply say “no.” I think this is just bar talk speculation taken too far frankly. I’d be surprised if this radically changed their position.

stopthatgirl7,
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Thing is, it didn’t ultimately have to release on series S. Larian could very well have decided it was too much work to get it to work, and Microsoft didn’t want Xbox left out of such a big release. I think as the generation goes on, you’re going to see a lot more devs and studios deciding or not worth all the extra cost to try to get a have running on S for an Xbox release, or games will get nerfed from the early development stage, unless Microsoft lighten up on their parity requirements.

acastcandream,

Yeah but not everyone is going to be in Larian’s position, and those with that kind of clout also stand to lose out a lot of revenue they clearly wanted in the first place.

stopthatgirl7,
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So they’ll most likely decide to completely remove features from the Xbox releases rather than try to get them to work on S, which will lead to worse gaming options on the Xbox. Which Sony will absolutely love.

acastcandream,

🤷‍♂️

deegeese,

The strength of consoles as a development target is that there is only a single hardware configuration you need to support.

Microsoft squandering that advantage in order to hit a lower price point was a gift to Sony that will keep on giving.

InvertedParallax,

They could have cheaped on the soc, reduced some minor detail rendering.

Screwing with ram size is moronic.

stopthatgirl7,
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RAM feels like it’s the one thing they really shouldn’t have skimped out on, because that’s the one that’s going to affect longevity the most.

violetsareblue,

While also being one of the least expensive components, if the trend for consoles follows the price patterns for pc parts.

YourFavouriteNPC,
@YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de avatar

Which isn’t to say that Sony hasn’t been actively trying to ruin their reputation all by themselves over the last 1-2 years. This whole console generation has mostly been about both companies getting just a little too comfortable and screwing over their customers in the process.

stopthatgirl7, (edited )
!deleted7120 avatar

Oh trust, I’m complete aware of how badly Sony has been effing it up, so much that I’ve gone from being a strictly PS console gamer to a PC gamer.

AnarchistArtificer, do gaming w Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

Oof, the last paragraph hit me hard:

“It gave me space to breathe a little more,” she said. “I remember a moment where I did get harassed, I don’t know what it was, but it was either a Twitter [message] or an email. And [when I saw it], I was like, Oh, that hurts. And then I was like, Wait a minute. That hurts. That’s cool. Being able to feel again, that’s a form of healing.” And by stepping away for a bit, she hopes to keep giving herself more and more space to grow.

I learned a lot from Anita Sarkeesian’s work, and it was a nice thing to see, growing up as a girl who had to justify my existence in the space, despite gaming making up a huge portion of my youth

JillyB, do gaming w Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming out on September 4

Holy shit it’s happening!

Noerknhar, do games w Rare's Everwild canceled amid layoffs at Xbox Game Studios

Fuck!!!

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