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GammaGames, do gaming w PVKK from the Dome Keeper devs is Papers Please but you get a huge planetary defence cannon

The full title is PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant

Tywele,

I’m looking forward to non Germans trying to pronounce that.

Kissaki, (edited )
Kissaki,

Deep Narrative: Experience a story rich with political intrigue and moral dilemmas.

we call it eine Politischintrigenhaftmoralischdilemmaischerfahrung

algorithmae,

I thought this was a joke but no, holy shit

DdCno1,

My rule would be simple: The only ships allowed to land are those crewed by a captain who can pronounce this accent-free. Every one else gets acquainted with the business end of the Planetenverteidigungskanone.

MaggiWuerze,

Yes! I am safe!

GammaGames,

I am fucked

Toneswirly, do gaming w Remembering Prey, Arkane Austin’s masterpiece

Prey was the true successor to Deus Ex and system shock. Its a miracle of technical design with one interconnected world that the gamers always say they want. Fun powers, a trippy story that demands to be seen through.

simple, do games w Piranha Bytes, devs of Gothic and Elex, are next on Embracer's chopping block

Piranha Bytes issued an official statement here

Pic if you don’t want to click:

https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FGEctS3vXMAAHC8j.jpg

dinckelman,

Not unexpected, but sad. Hope they make it. ELEX is a mess, but there is definitely still hope

Schaedelbach,

Aw man… I know that Elex has problems and stuff but it is and always will be one of my all-time favorite open world games. It’s probably the insane mix of science fiction stuff mixed with Mad Max style stuff mixed with fantasy stuff. It’s definitely a game done by people who really cared! And if they have to shut down, the gaming landscape will lose a unique voice!

WEAPONX, do games w Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer

I wish they would stop with the weird hack&slash/ATB combat. Also, with PC ports they should use standard PC control scheme and menus. And i get it, PC is not big in Japan, but they are selling the games to western audiences.

MrScottyTay,

As a big fan of the old FFs I really enjoy the new ATB and hack and slash combat. 16 is fun and I think 7R is a great middle ground as well as being a true extension of the classic ATB stuff.

helloharu,
@helloharu@lemmy.world avatar

People seem to forget that the ATB stuff started to come in at IV/V. I’m not sure I want the turned based mechanics and gameplay of games like FFII for the sake of misplaced nostalgia. Give me ATB any day over that.

WarmSoda,

I would love a return to turn based combat.

Katana314,

Any return to turn-based would probably have to be careful about it. Persona 5 managed it well, but it easily reaches criticism of being too much of “Use fire on ice”. Ideally, every decision a player is making in their infinite-time turns should have some form and consequence to it. I have always hated the “solution” wherein you can turn on an Auto-Battling system. It fixes the problem, but doesn’t acknowledge that the problem is battle decisions always being completely unnecessary and routine, which itself is something that can be fixed using more intelligent game design.

Dagnet,

They already nailed the turn based system with FFX imo

memo,
@memo@feddit.it avatar

fyi: SMT and Persona based their combat system on weak points way earlier than P5. I’m not saying it is immune to criticism, but it’s a series standard by now

Katana314,

Ooooooooh. Ouch. “It is a series standard” is exactly the sort of weak point that leads to some big franchises like Final Fantasy staggering.

There’s a reason games like Persona gained such popularity. It is NOT because players learned to use a thunder attack on the floating pair of chairs.

memo,
@memo@feddit.it avatar

Persona’s combat system, if tweaked correctly can be a tremendous strength: there’s a chance to have a great turn-based system in which elements play the role of the main “puzzle” to strategize over with both your demons and your party cast. I agree that Persona 5 had very little strategy in it, let’s hope for future entries to be better.

I wonder what kind of battle system the new Atlus JRPG will have

Ookami38,

I think they brought up p5 specifically because it’s a super-modern turn based RPG, so the same kind of thing a new, turn based, ff would be. This modern game, despite being overall well received, got some criticism for its turn based system being too much of the “use obvious elemental weakness” style strategy, and not more novel ideas.

Ledivin, do games w Indie publisher Versus Evil closed and all staff laid off

alleging that the publisher had breached obligations of their agreement in purchasing Versus Evil. tinyBuild announced in a recent trading update that they had settled the litigation, agreeing to pay the claimants “$3.5 million in cash (in addition to legal costs).”

…are you allowed to have layoffs after receiving a $3.5M settlement from your publisher? I know everyone will be feeling bad for the devs but this sounds sketchy as hell of them

Limeey,

As long as all wages are paid then there’s no obligation to continue employment in “at-will” states.

The employer must pay all due wages, but after that they can close or fire for any reason, including “fuck you, got mine”

echo64,

Yes, this was a founder complaining that they didn’t get paid or whatever their complaints were. The company was bought and owned so they can do whatever.

As usual, c level gets rich, workers get laid off.

njm1314, do games w Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss

Like anyone is worried about more Google gaming. It’s like an idiot tax on people who are too dumb to have learned not to trust them.

Dark_Arc,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

I did some of my gaming for like 2 years for basically free thanks to Google’s refund, and got free gaming hardware (controllers)… call me an idiot or call me a genius, but, that was a heck of a deal.

drmoose,

Honestly I really like Play Pass on android. Mostly because it’s only 3usd here thanks to regional pricing and there’s a lot of great value! My issue is that Google generally sucks at keeping things going so I’d never invest anything beyond that with them.

My Steam account from 2006 is still going, all of the games work, it’s mostly the same platform but better. I don’t think Google can match that.

hogart,
@hogart@feddit.nu avatar

This. Valve is doing a lot of good. People can claim they are doing a lot of bad as well but I can’t mention many companies with purity from top to bottom.

brsrklf, (edited ) do games w Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss

Another article mentioned that this guy is now working for Tencent (announced in 2022). Before becoming yet another Galactus in the industry, Tencent is originally an online service provider and (mostly) an ad company.

What about barbarians trying to ruin the glorious video game empire now?

Funny how this small detail doesn’t show up in that article, where he’s only “ex-Sony boss”.

TheQuietCroc, (edited )

Tencent has been around for a decade, that’s past being “at the gate”

Beardedsausag3,
@Beardedsausag3@kbin.social avatar

I left the living room window open for 5 minutes for fresh air.. Fucken ten cent was sat on the sofa enjoying my coffee, petting my fucken dogs be time I came back.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Google, Apple, Amazon, Netflix as we all know have only been around a few days.

TheQuietCroc, (edited )

In gaming? Netflix is definitely at the gate with the current options they have. Apple as well with their Arcade service. Google and Amazon keep coming back but never stay long, I’m not even sure they should be in the conversation.

Tencent has been in gaming for a long time now, they’ve owned Riot since 2011. They’ve had their hand in other gaming companies many times since then. They’re well past the gate, it’s not even in their rear view anymore.

LandedGentry, (edited ) do games w The original Stalker trilogy is getting a free upgrade that brings in reworked lighting, full controller support, and more

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  • kindenough,

    I remember having to fiddle around with xinput and to me it wasn't a good experience. Finally getting to play them...in my library for a decade.

    osaerisxero, do games w Katamari creator's new game about a teenager stuck in a T-pose gets a release date (May 28th)
    @osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org avatar

    Dominance Assertion Simulator 2025

    SweatyFireBalls, do games w Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell

    Obviously this is just me, but here is a list of the last 5 games I purchased that were not smaller indie titles:

    Stalker 2, Elden ring, remnant 2, bg3, dragon’s dogma 2

    You could argue that remnant is intended for multiplayer and you could argue that maybe only bg3 and stalker and really narrative driven but the truth is, anymore I tend to buy single player and stream to my friends than I do actually play mp games. The only mp game i was tempted by was Helldivers and I was just too busy at the time.

    Anything else are steam deck friendly indie games. I buy a lot of those, and bought a lot even before I had a deck.

    In my anecdotal experience, when I see x game is multiplayer, or live service, or just not an experience I can enjoy on my own time I tune it out. For example, I always bought Diablo games but I don’t own 4.

    I also immediately think of some other big ones that I opted out of, like Wukong. People fucking love single player games when they are good games. I think the real issue is developing a good game is hard. Developing a game with dark practices and otherwise addicting (but not necessarily fun) gameplay is a much easier way to make uninspired games made by committee.

    It’s just easier to point the blame at the market than actually admit that upon self reflection you realized it is best to avoid the hard part of game development.

    Phen, do games w Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be

    I mean, if someone creates a game with all the options there and you just use AI as a replacement for a complex UI, it could kinda work. A game like scribblenauts could theorically implement an AI based stage creation option with the current tech already. The problem with that is that the AI wouldn’t be able to guarantee that the stage has a proper challenge level (or even that is possible to complete it), so it would also need to implement an AI that tries to beat the level as well and then keep iterating over the two until a proper stage is found.

    In short: doable, for very niche cases and probably taking a very long time to complete a prompt (possibly hours).

    ATDA,

    Does candy crush use AI or is there just a hellish algorithm that generated thousands of levels.

    CleoTheWizard,
    @CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world avatar

    I see AI as being more useful in things like Bethesdas radiant quest system. Theoretically an AI could generate quest and character dialog and react in unique ways to game world events. As far as game elements, machine learning is actually a pretty good way to have dynamic difficulty where the player is pushed as far as they can go and game elements are tweaked accordingly. Or the AI could even design unique quest items and names if trained right.

    Plenty of applications for it but I think we’ll see it overused in some games which will lead to bland or non-cohesive elements that on the surface are fine, but don’t amount to anything unique. Like imagine cyberpunk but written by AI and it’d be mostly generic dialog with few connecting ideas. It’s not impossible for AI to get better at that though and maybe if it were only trained on other game dialog or if it gets approved by a human first, it could be incredible.

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

    Do you guys do anything other than to pile on to shit on this game? Shit on Star Citizen? Shit on buying anything ever? Shit on Sean Murray and how naive he just was and you would just do such a better job right?

    Thought this would be a cool place to talk about games. How do you not have any awareness that [removed for civility]

    Makes sense though since Linux is [bad word] at running games unless you have a Steam Deck.

    PotatoKat,

    I recently switched my laptop over to pop os and I’ve had no issues running the games I want to play using Lutris. Hell I’d argue Linux runs old games better than windows because of lutris. I have a few games I tried running on windows 10 and no matter what I did the game would insta ctd. But after switching and installing them using a lutris config I’ve actually been able to play those games. I even thought for sure I’d lose some of the functionality of my laptop (key lights, touch screen, something) but nope it all worked straight after install.

    Linux has come a long way since I last tried it ~15 years ago

    bundes_sheep,

    Linux has come a long way since I last tried it ~15 years ago

    100% this. Linux has been my daily driver since ~2005 and it seems like suddenly one day I went from playing tux racer and trying to get Skyrim to work to some degree with wine to buying games on steam with little fear of having to anything more than choose proton experimental and maybe add gamemoderun to the settings. It’s a completely different world now.

    spez_,

    Stop being so simped you cuck. The game’s pathetic and it should have been like this from the start

    And it’s GNU/Linux and we don’t need games anyway as they’re unproductive

    Seasoned_Greetings,

    and we don’t need games anyway as they’re unproductive

    So you come to a games community to shit on games and brag about how your shitty OS doesn’t play them?

    Make it make sense

    TJDetweiler,
    @TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca avatar

    Username Spez_

    Of course it’s going to be a shit take.

    Dremor,
    @Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

    Please stay civil (rule 2)

    Dremor,
    @Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

    Please stay civil (rule 2).

    If you come across such comment, please reply to them instead of OP, maybe you will start some interesting debate instead of just try to stir conflict in the community.

    Simon,

    Sorry, edited

    Dremor,
    @Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

    Still out of context.

    If this was a reply calling on someone baselessly criticizing the game, I’d allow it, but OP just posted an article that doesn’t even criticize the game.

    Still, thank you for your edit.

    Simon,

    There was just too many derivative comments to choose from. I didn’t want to make it personal with someone. This was not directed at OP I thought (perhaps incorrectly) that that would be clear.

    Dremor,
    @Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

    If you find one that seen interesting to debate upon, reply to it.
    For the other, don’t waste your time on them and just downvote.

    The vote system was made for this reason.

    Kolanaki, do games w The Day Before studio say the game's downfall was thanks to "a hate campaign"
    !deleted6508 avatar

    They hated it because it fucking sucked, dude. Just one look at the final product and you can tell you how fucked up it is. You don’t even need to play it to see it sucks; that’s how bad it fucking sucked.

    junezephier, do games w Latest Baldur's Gate 3 update adds colour-blind settings, hireling customisation and best of all, sponge baths
    TWeaK,

    According to RPS, that’s full of spoilers.

    TSG_Asmodeus,

    Yeah holy crap, a bunch are sentences like: Fixed an issue that would cause spoiler (MAJOR PLOT POINT) to occur later than expected

    I think they meant to spoiler tag them and forgot.

    Seasm0ke,

    Spoiler is right before the highlights in bold

    TSG_Asmodeus,

    At the very top of the document, it says:

    SPOILERS - Please bear in mind some of the entries below might contain spoilers, proceed at your own risk

    But it doesn’t separate them, or have any cover whatsoever. So if I want to find out if a quest that’s bugged for me is fixed, or other issues, I do have to read it at some point.

    This is why I think they meant to spoiler tag it and didn’t (I edited it to remove actual spoiler content):

    The ‘(GOAL)’ background goal for Soldiers will now unlock correctly after you spoiler kill (ENEMY) and escape the (AREA).

    Seasm0ke,

    Ah I’ve never seen a tag in their patch notes before, just the disclaimer since early access.

    fiah,
    @fiah@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    So you can use a sponge and soap but you can’t even chill in a tub completely naked like my man Geralt? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

    Nepenthe,
    @Nepenthe@kbin.social avatar

    Up til now, we've had:

    • The sudden realization that you can bathe and don't have to crunch around in weeks of dried gore

    • The further realization that at least one npc mentions you stink and should probably do something about that

    • Standing relatively close to a waterfall for a few minutes if you can find one, or perhaps walking at a normal pace through a really deep puddle.

    • Sophisticated method — stealing a water bottle, throwing it really hard at the floor, and hoping the splashback is enough

    After months of steady work, we can use the soap now, but you're going to have to give your fellow gamers a minute to get used to things before you start making other suggestions

    hh93,

    There is a cloak that makes you wet when wearing it at the start of act 3 - I always use that to clean of blood after a fight

    Nepenthe,
    @Nepenthe@kbin.social avatar

    How did I forget about that cloak!? I got that before reloading because I kept failing my attempts to steal all my money back. I didn't expect all of those to be so addictive. I loved it.

    My personal favorite was the boots that grant their wearer misty step for the tradeoff of leaving all your other clothes in a pile at your starting point. Still kinda sad I couldn't snag those again.

    Jumi,

    I’m 300 hours in the game and I never heard of those two items

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    I just go to my camp and back; that always magically makes me clean.

    Rade0nfighter, do games w Meet the men hiding their FIFA Ultimate Team addiction from their families
    @Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world avatar

    Haven’t played fifa but understand that loot boxes are basically gambling. Arguably worse than gambling because with gambling at least you might win something “real”.

    Curious though - there was a screenshot in the article where you could preview a loot box before buying - does that not make it more like “buying” the players instead of “gambling” for them?

    xep,

    The cunning thing is that the preview doesn't really change the random boxes. You still don't know what's in the next one.

    echo64,

    How does a FIFA Ultimate Team Preview Pack work?

    All packs for sale in the FUT Shop have an eye icon and a button to trigger the preview. Doing that exposes its contents as if the player actually had bought the pack and opened it.

    Once the player has seen the revealed cards, they may then buy the pack with either FUT Coins (the free in-game currency) or FUT Points (the premium). If they don’t like what they see, they don’t have to buy the pack. But there will now be a 24-hour wait period before they can preview another pack or buy a different one in its class. If they buy the pack, that timer immediately expires.

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