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Kolanaki, do games w Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE
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If you didn’t forsee people getting pissed at a content add that costs $250 and not counted as DLC so those with the lifetime DLC pass don’t get it without paying more, you are a monumental moron and probably shouldn’t be in charge of running a business where you have employees who can lose their livelihood because of your poor leadership and incredible lack of foresight.

Ashtear, do games w The developers of Dead Cells, Darkest Dungeon and Slay The Spire are launching their own "triple-I" Game Awards

I don’t know what’s going on with this headline; it’s not an awards show, just a showcase. Although I understand how events like The Game Awards blur the line between the two.

Makes me feel like Game News Season (or whatever we’re calling it post-E3) is coming up quick.

Yokozuna, do games w No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul
@Yokozuna@lemmy.world avatar

As someone who wanted to love Elite Dangerous but couldn’t get behind the grind and monotony of it, would this game be worth getting now?

Lesrid,

One thing I loved about Elite was the collection of mini games. Navigating through the space station to your landing pad, finding a suitable patch of surface to touchdown on a planet, having to fight or yield to a supercruise interdiction, they all came together to make Elite feel like a driving game where your vehicle happens to be a spaceship.

In No Man’s Sky landing and takeoff are achieved with a singular button press. And the ship combat is there to check a box. The game is mostly about taking pics of flora and fauna and digging trenches in planets for minerals.

Yokozuna,
@Yokozuna@lemmy.world avatar

Yea, I would have to agree wholeheartedly that the ship flying is awesome in Elite. The ambiance is great, such as the creaking of the ship when in hyper drive. I guess the games are two different kind of space Sims. If what you’re telling me is accurate about NMS then Elite is probably better for me in the long run, I just wish I had a friend who would actually play it with me and make space a little less lonely - I guess I would have the same problem in either title come to think of it.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, for the most part ship flying is better in Elite. Especially travelling long distances. But I still enjoy it in NMS for the most part.

undergroundoverground,

Each to their own. I’ve played both and I found elite to be very “space truck driver…ey”. Personally, I want to spend my time exploring solar systems and not decelerating to space stations. NMS also has rich and meaningful planetary exploration and not a hollow imitation afterthought.

Due to the depth of NMS, I wouldn’t even put them as comparable. One is an award winning best seller that’s having yet another huge free update just to make the fans happy, the other is free on playstation plus because no one will buy it.

Yokozuna,
@Yokozuna@lemmy.world avatar

Yea that’s kinda what I was getting at in my comments on here, maybe not necessarily this comment you replied to, but elite definitely had the ship aspect of the game down, it feels so good to fly around, bur you’re totally right in how you called it a space trucking feel. That’s where I get tired of it even if you can get out of your ship with the expansion now. With all of the comments here I think I’ll wind up buying it here soon and giving it a whirl.

deur,

Yeah!

johannesvanderwhales,

Ehhh, maybe. While the game is so much better than it was at launch, it’s still pretty sandboxy and repetitive. I found myself dropping it after I realized I was trying to build bases to get better at gathering resources to make money to buy bigger ships to make more money to… What exactly?

Yokozuna,
@Yokozuna@lemmy.world avatar

Yea Elite Dangeous is kind of the same, you have to make your own objectives or you’re just running missions to make money to buy ships to be more efficient at those runs and eventually even bigger ships to make more money.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

There is at least a couple of core storyline loops that I think are fairly engaging, besides just setting your own goals.

jjjalljs,

Yeah once I had a fleet and some bases mining resources for a ton of money , and a ship I liked, I kind of lost interest.

It’s a good game but it doesn’t go on forever.

Moneo,

Unrelated but this is why I stopped play BotW after the first boss temple thingy.

SaintWacko,

Isn’t that most games, though?

Klanky,
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz avatar

I came to a realization a few years ago that I am too boring to play sandbox games. I need a tightly crafted narrative, I cannot be left to my own devices. After a long time of trying to get into every sandbox game that looked cool, it was such a relief to finally realize that about myself.

theangryseal,

I’m the same way and I hate it.

I really really want to enjoy those games.

redcalcium,

There are a lot of things to do in nms now after years of updates. Right now it’s 50% off so I say it’s worth it

BluesF,

If you don’t like grindy monotony it is not the game for you.

Yokozuna,
@Yokozuna@lemmy.world avatar

I would say I do to an extent, but elite dangerous solo is pretty egregious i just feel really confined even though you can get out of your ship now. If there were a few more things to do it would check all of the boxes such as things you could do in NMS like build bases, etc. And plus the ship customization is strictly internals and you don’t have the ability to change the overall look of your ship besides skins.

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

I felt the same way about E:D, and I also enjoyed No Man’s Sky quite a bit.

Xanis,

I’ve on/off played this game for way too long. If you can get past the initial slow start, and I’m talking at least two hours of gameplay, then you’ll find things begin opening up. This expanding of the gameplay applies to equipment, ships, battles, exploration, and mechanics in general. It’s a game that has become a fantastic experience and yet along the way sort of forgot about that initial experience, which could be expedited significantly without much loss.

That said, if you struggle to make challenges for yourself and often end up aimlessly wandering til you get bored without some direction, I would hesitate to grab NMS. Go watch a recent Let’s Play may be the best idea to get a handle on whether it fits your preferences.

pimento64,

So you’re saying it’s the perfect game to get for playing while AFKing redwoods in old school runescape

Deconceptualist, (edited )

No. Every single gameplay mechanic in NMS is shallow and made by someone incompetent on game design.

The engine runs well and it’s a weird giant sandbox and it gets tons of grindy cosmetic content updates. But the actual game aspects are terrible.

EDIT: Disagree? Name one game mechanic that’s designed well compared to other games.

person420,

Though, flying a ship in VR is pretty dope.

Deconceptualist,

That’s cool, but isn’t it also true of Elite?

Also I felt like halfway into the game there was nowhere good to go in my cool ships. I mostly went between my settlement and freighter.

person420,

I’m not sure about Elite, but I think I was saying that more to your point than against it.

When I first got the game I had about 50-60 hours into it before I started getting bored. I spent most of that time farming eggs to sell and hanging out in space ports waiting for cool ships to arrive. I’ve come back a few times after updates but it always felt monotonous. All that’s really left is it’s a cool VR tech demo, as long as you only want to fly ships (which is pretty cool, but gets old fast).

undergroundoverground,

For me, yes. Its an award winning best seller. Its also dirt cheap and a labour of love for all the scifi they enjoy. They listened to what their players wanted and just … did it, like a bunch of psychopaths.

It also has one of the most meta storylines I’ve ever seen in a game. For me, its a very special game and as close as anyones come to the space game I always wanted growing up.

Its not for everyone of course. But, if its your kind of thing, it’ll really work for you. Honestly, if anyone choses to play it, id recommend getting a buzz going on whatever poison you’re into, don’t Google any of it fot a bit and let it unfold as you play. Part of the game is figuring out the game.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w The Day Before studio say the game's downfall was thanks to "a hate campaign"

One of the most wish listed games ever…a hate campaign.

Shut the fuck up and let your company die in a corner

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

…What the hell was this about?

4am, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

If Microsoft acquired Nintendo I will give up on all video games forever.

Like yeah Nintendo is a big bad capitalist company but, just, no. I can’t think of a better way to make gaming worse.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Microsoft would make the company a lot more retail friendly.

End Nintendos fake scarcity selling tactics.

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

Forget fake scarcity, the REAL scarcity of pre-acquisition Nintendo games and consoles would skyrocket. Microsoft is only consumer-friendly now because they're still in the phase of acquiring a critical mass of content and users. Once they have both, and everything is on Game Pass, they'll jack up the price as high as they want knowing you'd lose access to all your games if you don't pay.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, there’s a reason I don’t consider getting GamePass or any other subscription service.

philluminati, (edited )

Nintendo has an incredible brand for easy child friendly and safe gaming experiences. It‘a products are about as retail friendly as you can possibly get. It’s trustworthy. You just buy them off the shelf and slot the cartridges into the unit.

Microsoft is famous for anti-consumer practices, poor UI design, expensive licensing, abandoning products like their Phone, Zune.

Sethayy,

And Nintendo loves to make trash consoles, making them insanely simple to emulate. Microsoft has decades of cyber security experience and would probably lock that right down.

(no of fence to Nintendo consoles, if anything its what made them interesting)

Verito, do games w EA CEO Andrew Wilson got a nice pay bump last year, while the company's workers earned less on average

Punchable faces for $200, Alex.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Are you kidding me? That’s a daily double punchable face. The mouth is smiling but the eyes are making sure the battery cables are firmly clamped on your nipples.

CmdrShepard49,

It almost looks like an AI generated face. Definitely uncanny valley territory.

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w Dreamsettler, the follow-up to early internet inspired browser game Hypnospace Outlaw, has been cancelled

Real shame but that is the hellscape we are in.

If anyone hasn’t played Hypnospace Outlaw? Do it. It is genuinely one of the best gaming experiences I have ever had. Went from “I’ll give this a go before I hop in the car” to “I have pre-check. I can probably get to my gate on time…”

If you haven’t heard about it? The premise is that you are a moderator for effectively geocities back in the 90s/00s. And your first (?) assignment is to investigate a kindergarten teacher who is accused of using copyrighted materials. And it escalates from there.

And it kind of escalates from there with a cast of characters that you mostly interact with through seeing what they posted on their websites and messages to each other. And it is a ridiculously heartfelt game that truly loves and understands its source material in a way that so few “nostalgia cash ins” actually do.

We have truly lost something Beautiful with Dreamsettler being binned.

silverchase,
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

I don’t think any game has made me feel so much for characters I don’t even get to see. There’s some real humanity in Hypnospace.

chicken,
Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a compelling review. I will have to check it out.

I am surprised I’ve never heard of the game before, it’s been out since 2019.

givesomefucks, do games w BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections

Part of why it’s so ridiculous some Americans are legally prohibited from participating in BDS, is people only know if you tell them.

You can just not buy it and never mention why.

And unfortunately, lots of people aren’t even aware it’s illegal:

newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colle…

suite403,

We’re so freeeeee!

Katana314,

This whole thing has erupted on my radar in the past month ever since they abducted the girl from Tufts.

HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?

Now I’m getting YouTube ads to demonize Hamas; apparently their effort to “pull people back” and get people sympathetic for October 7 hostages. I AM sympathetic to the hostages!…So why is Israel bombing them??

givesomefucks,

HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?

Before AIPAC there was another Israeli organization that donated to politicians.

After years of fighting a committee ruled that it had to register as a foreign agent.

So Israel created AIPAC and then gave Max donations to the people on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.

Which is why AIPAC has never had to register.

As both parties continually got rid of campaign finance law, AIPAC kept increasing what they gave, and started throwing insane money at anyone critical of Israel in the primary when it’s cheap.

Over decades they’ve bought the only two options and ensured the only two options were peo-Israel over anything else

The worst part …

They’re not the only organization, even foreign country. Doing this to ensure they always win.

Luckily while Ken Martin does have a pro-Israel bias, while running Minnesota he was one of the few state chairs who refused to work against anti-genocide Dems in primaries or generals. Which resulted in Minnesota being one of the progressive strongholds despite no one guessing it would shake out that way a decade ago.

So I want to be clear:

The people fucking up the DNC for decades is gone, we need to support the new DNC to keep it out of their hands. The people running the DNC six months ago wants the current DNC to take the fall so they can move back in.

1SimpleTailor, (edited ) do gaming w The Gamergator rhetoric of historical accuracy has come back to bite Kingdom Come on the arse
@1SimpleTailor@startrek.website avatar

I still enjoyed the first game but wasn’t one of the lead devs on KCD a capital G Gamer? I remember some… interesting tweets from him. Was he booted or did he change his ways?

Edit: Derp, should have just read the article before commenting. Fascism eats its own yet again.

crawancon, do games w No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul

this game came out in 2016 btw

kudos HG! grah!

Decoy321,

GRAH!!

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

…Interloper

MutatedBass, do gaming w Space sim Squadron 42 is "feature-complete" and gunning for Starfield's lunch with massive new video

I watched the whole video trying to keep an open mind, but what they showed off just looks so generic. Quick time events, very basic looking fps mechanics, flight looks like War Thunder arcade battles. At least the gfx and animations looked pretty cool, although imo this is the least important factor of a good video game. Will probably be a skip for me, if it ever releases that is.

Friendship,
@Friendship@kbin.social avatar

Honestly even if SQ42 ends up being a great game, it can never live up to the anticipation they've built around it at this point. People are expecting something so completely revolutionary that it will be unlike any other game they have played, but the reality is that it won't be that. Which isn't to say it can't be a good or even amazing game, it just won't be anything different or revolutionary gameplay wise.

I've got very minimal interest/expectations for SQ42 and I'm far more interested in Star Citizen which is still a pipe dream (although pretty fun to play in it's current state too, bugs willing) but has much more potential to offer something different than other games in the genera are doing.

Jarmer, do gaming w KOTOR Remake feared cancelled after Sony quietly pulls tweets and videos

We knew this was happening a long time ago though. This is probably just Sony making it “official” in an unofficial way. This project has been dead for ages since the dev team was pulled off it long ago.

hamsterkill,

It was given to another team, but obviously radio silence ever since.

Part of me is wondering if the success of Baldur’s Gate has impacted the approach to it at all, given it falls roughly in the same genre space.

Embracer’s financials probably impacting it more, though.

azerial,

It was definitely an EA call. They’ve been talking about kotor 3 for years internally. The devs want it, but you gotta keep up that stock price…:⁠-⁠\

hamsterkill,

EA/Bioware had nothing to do with this remake. It was in development at Aspyr at first, followed by Saber Interactive — both owned by Embracer Group.

This was/is? a remake of KOTOR 1, not a KOTOR 3 which has never been announced.

azerial,

Lol i guess I’m commenting on a different project perhaps. 😝

UnfortunateShort, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

Wasn’t this a thing forever ago and didn’t Nintendo just laugh at them? They just had a super successful console and now have more successful IPs than ever, they would be straight up insane to sell a business that runs this good.

Squizzy,

Nintendo is publicly traded, it may be the case that the board won’t have that much of a say.

Sanctus, do games w Starfield players are being haunted by asteroids
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

For all we know “space” is the same map for each planet and only a few assets get swapped depending on orbit. Maybe this was a cheeky way to make their ancient engine run all these new features without crashing.

geosoco,

Would not be surprised if this were true.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

My best guess is that it's a debris effect from your ship taking damage, and it's supposed to fly away and expire, but somehow got stuck instead of disappearing, so now it's an "effect" on your character that doesn't know its supposed to have timed out already.

Other Bethesda games, especially Skyrim, had bugs like this of status effects that would get stuck on your character longer than they were supposed to and you'd only realize hours later when your character has some weird blue fog following them

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

That has precedent and is a very interesting conjecture. I vote this explanation.

Toribor,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

I’m having memories of Bethesda getting trains to work in Fallout 3 by making an NPC wear a train as a hat and then run really fast.

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Its all smoke and mirrors, my friend. The cake is a lie.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar
Mandy, do games w Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell

Thats the studio head talking bullahit.
Not the actual creators

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