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Naz, do games w Larian working on mid-game Baldur’s Gate 3 character customisation

Major quality of life feature. People make mistakes, sometimes the character lighting in the gen screen is completely different from in-game and now your character is stuck with purple eyes.

What I’d like to see afterwards is player PC slot kicking / clearing. Far too many people have started a game with some friends only for a person to quit/leave after dropping by to realize to their horror that character is permanently locked to that save and can’t be replaced with an NPC.

Brunbrun6766,
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

Ungroup that character and have them run into battle alone

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

Lol. Goodbye BlazeIt! Go out in a...YourName of glory!

But I think people want those characters to show up when the player does and disappear the rest of the time. Otherwise your CoOp saves pretty much need to be 100% co-op. Can't really drop in and out with your friends.

Shatter,

sometimes the character lighting in the gen screen is completely different from in-game

I’ve seen this in a lot of games recently and it annoys me a bit. Diablo 4 for example the character creation hair color looks sometimes okay, but then in-game horrible.

zr0, do games w Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit

I hope Tencent recycles everything they developed so far and come up with a crazy novel idea, such as having cute fantasy animals walking around and you have to catch them with balls.

Rozz,

Ancient Pokémon trainers

Lemminary,

I think you meant Nomékop 🥸

mereo, do games w Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’

Think about it this way, people. Yes, it may be more expensive than a PlayStation. However, Steam offers numerous deals several times a year, so it will be worth the investment. In the long run, owning a Steam Machine or PC will pay for itself.

Unfortunately, due to the craze of AI server farms, PC parts are becoming more expensive. For example, the price of RAM has doubled, and analysts say that SSDs will suffer the same fate.

unmagical,

I think this geared toward the crowd that plays games, but doesn’t have the latest and greatest hardware nor likes to tinker. This will be an upgrade for a lot of people and the ability to just set it up and play your already existing backlog with ease is the main selling point over power.

It’s an awesome device which will help drive the Linux gaming ecosystem forward, but it’s not for me personally as it doesn’t hold a candle to my PC.

Flamekebab,
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

s/backlog/library/g

RamRabbit,

However, Steam offers numerous deals several times a year, so it will be worth the investment. In the long run, owning a Steam Machine or PC will pay for itself.

And you also don’t have to pay monthly for multiplayer!

mereo,

That too!

RamRabbit, (edited )

I’m honestly amazed console gamers have accepted paying for multiplayer (though, I do note, PC gaming has expanded over time, I wonder why…). I had a PS2; I remember being excited about buying a PS4. It has a blu-ray player! The graphics are so much nicer! The previous gen even had free multiplayer!

I never bought a PS4, it had paid multiplayer. Fuck that.

Edit: I did briefly own a 360, the paid multiplayer was the reason I sold it fairly quickly. It felt like it was trying to milk me, and I would rather just be rid of it.

HarkMahlberg,
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth avatar

The real question is if Valve plans to swallow the jumps in price. They must have designed the machine before the price hikes, so I wonder if they already had a price in mind and whether they're gonna stick to it.

boaratio, do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Remember when square used to make great games?

Ashiette,

That was Squaresoft, not Square Enix.

BrilliantantTurd4361,

Square Ewwwwnix

nik9000,

I loved Enix’s Ogre Battle and Square’s Final Fantasy 6 and 7. How could putting the companies together make a bad?!

boaratio,

My memory failed me. Thanks for the correction.

harrys_balzac, do gaming w Square Enix announces more layoffs as part of US and Europe restructuring [VGC]

Wow. And just yesterday, there were a slew of articles about Squenix embracing AI to do Quality checks and other tasks.

I’m sure this is just a coincidence. /s

mintiefresh,
@mintiefresh@piefed.social avatar

Still waiting to see how AI benefits humanity.

SteevyT,
JohnEdwa,

AI benefits humanity in thousands of different ways, as it’s a massive field of computer science. Ever used to text to speech or speech to text system, read an OCR scanned document, played chess against a computer etc, those are all uses of artificial intelligence, just the ones that suffer from the AI effect.

This current fad of shoving LLMs into absolutely everything and pretending they are actually intelligent probably never will for the most part, unless they actually manage to create an AGI out of it. And then we all die.

orenj, do games w ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’
@orenj@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

lmao he’s doing it again

thingsiplay, do gaming w Konami instantly shot down the Wachowskis’ request to have Hideo Kojima make a Matrix game, it’s claimed [VGC]

Probably because Kojima didn’t have time when the request came in. I wouldn’t mind a new Matrix game with current tech, as Matrix is my favorite movie of all time. I’m so glad there is no successor to this perfect movie, because the story ends right with the phone call.

Megaman_EXE,

Lol I’ve often heard the other movies weren’t as good but I’ve only seen the first. Are they that bad?

thingsiplay,

I watched the second one in theatre and don’t want to talk about it. Lot of people like it. But that is where I stopped. I don’t even know what happens after. :D

moody,

Neo becomes Superman in the Matrix, and the agents escape into the real world. It’s stupid, and everything else is irrelevant.

The first one is the only one worth watching. If you want more, check out the Animatrix. It’s a series of Anime shorts by different artists and directors that’s much more entertaining.

Rose_Thorne,

2 is okay, but nowhere near as good as the first. 3 is absolutely forgettable outside of “Neo Does A Superman” for his flight.

Animatrix, an animated anthology released between 1 and 2, holds up pretty well, in my opinion, but isn’t heavily connected to the main movies outside of one particular story. Kinda wish they went more down that route, it was neat seeing other stories in the universe outside of The Second Coming of Neo arc.

Sina,

The fourth one has a shockingly good electronic soundtrack.

rozodru,
@rozodru@pie.andmc.ca avatar

From a lore point of view, they’re not that bad and it all makes sense when you consider what the Wachowskis were TRYING to do. All the sequels and all the media associated with the sequels were ambitious to say the least. Reloaded, 4 shorts from the Animatrix, Enter The Matrix (the game), and a collection of comics all tie together the overall lore. it’s a lot. Basically back in the day if you wanted the COMPLETE story for Reloaded you had to watch like 2 shorts from the Animatrix and play Enter The Matrix. The issue is for the third film, while it was filmed at the same time as Reloaded, doesn’t really expand on some of the stuff revealed in the other media that tied into Reloaded.

The third film simply felt like was something that was forced on the Wachowskis by Warner Bros. Like I imagine very little was cut from both films because they really couldn’t cut anything and it was clearly evident they NEEDED to cut stuff.

All that being said The Matrix Online continues the story and expands the lore, which was canon, and it actually got quite a bit better.

SageMountain,

The sequels are good, if a bit different from the first. Saying they’re bad/don’t exist is just a meme

alxvs, do games w Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says
@alxvs@lemmy.ml avatar

ahn they did? 40 and 50 USD on ps2 50 and 60 USD on ps3 60 USD on ps4 70 USD on ps5

zipzoopaboop,

Plus dlc and mtx nickel and diming, and special editions

who, do gaming w Subnautica 2 saga turns messy: Former devs sue Krafton, as publisher accuses them of ‘betrayal’ | VGC

“The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume.We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.”

This statement seems manipulative to me. As a Subnautica fan, I have always been interested in quality of content, not how fast it gets created. I can wait for a good game. Krafton is trying to disguise their own profit-driven expectations as if they came from me and others like me, deceptively using us as pawns in guilt-laden psychological warfare against the people who have been developing the game.

Dear publishers,

Please don’t be like Krafton.

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

Sadly, all publishers are like Krafton… or worse.

altima_neo, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Not just ultrawide support, but also interpolated frames for super smooth frame rate.

secret300,

What is that?

zalgotext,

In a nutshell, interpolated frames are basically just extra generated frames that go between the frames outputted by the video game itself. They’re used to combat things like motion blur, and to make animations look smoother.

MTK, do games w Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says

I hate when sequels are prequals! We want 2078!

thatKamGuy,

I’m going to hold out for Cyberpunk 2222, personally.

HiDiddlyDoodlyHo, do gaming w Ori developer Moon Studios head warns it may have to shut down following review bombing [VGC]

That sounds less like review bombing and more like poorly received mechanics and broken promises. Am I missing something here?

Vodulas,

Right? “We made a mediocre game that doesn’t deliver on the promises we made. Pls give good review now”

That being said, I have not read the Steam reviews, but it could be that they are getting bombed, but the situation described in the article is just people not liking the game for valid reasons

Mister_Feeny,

I went and read a good chunk of negative steam reviews for it. And yeah, the vast majority of the negative ones are about mechanics, or performance, and seem perfectly legitimate. A lot that basically even say, "I don't recommend now but seems like it will be good once they cook for a bit."

I did see a couple made super recently that were basically negative reviewing because of this dude's statements, but not many.
And funny how the only reviews I could imagine being considered review bomb-y seem to only have happened because of his whining about being review bombed.

Mostly it looks like the game's recent "The Breach" update was legitimately poorly received by the playerbase, the studio head decided, "No, it's the children who are wrong."

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Ugh, this discussion happens every time this topic comes up. There’s nothing about the phrase “review bombing” that implies the reviews are somehow illegitimate. It just means a large number of negative reviews in a short time.

Vodulas,

Yes, it does imply that

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_bomb

Specifically malicious intent

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

While it mentions malice in the first few words, I would argue many of their examples are not malicious, including the one given about the first known use of the phrase:

One of the first appearances of the term “review bomb” was in a 2008 Ars Technica article by Ben Kuchera describing the effect in regards to Spore, in which users left negative reviews on Amazon citing the game’s perceived lackluster gameplay and digital rights management system.

based on this article I’d say it has more to do with the organized nature of reviews. It even says:

Review bombing is a similar practice to vote brigading.

Vodulas,

I would argue the first use was malicious and that it spawned even worse instances after. It is a known favorite tool of gamergaters and right wingers

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Giving a game bad reviews because of “lackluster gameplay” and DRM is malicious?

Vodulas,

With the intent of tanking review scores so the game does not sell as well is, yes.

Ulrich, (edited )
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

What other purpose for reviews is there than signaling to others whether or not they should buy the game?

Do you think the negative reviews for No Rest For The Wicked don’t have the intention of making it not sell as well? And if not, why do you think players leave them?

Flamekebab, do games w PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

What would I even play on it?

BigTrout75,

Used PS3 games!

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Don’t forget emulated PS1 and PS2 games!

Related: I got PS+ for my birthday and saw they had Indiana Jones in the catalog and downloaded it without really looking. I thought it was the new one; it was a PS2 game. lol

hitmyspot, do gaming w Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC]

Most games that are long are artificially so, with padded out content and grinding to advance. Short excellent games sell well. Huge expensive messes don’t.

Just like movies, large blockbuster, high budget content can sell well but does risk sacrificing its soul and purpose. Occasionally one is both excellent technically, artistically and fun too.

Or you can have smaller games with a more specific purpose which won’t sell as well. Some low budget games are bad. Some high budget games are bad. Neither is a mark of quality, they are just different ways of making games with different outcomes and purposes.

Games need to turn a profit to be visible, so they should be looking at what’s the optimum way to spend their budget and make sales.

As gamers, we should be rewarding good games, and avoiding microtransactions and all the upsells. I don’t buy any cosmetics or additional content (unless it’s a continuation of the game that makes sense as another chapter). I want to avoid that side of gaming as it doesn’t lead to good games. I pay full price at launch for my favourite game series, but not extra content. Other games I purchase later on sale.

barnaclebutt, do games w PlayStation Stars will no longer give credit for money spent on subscriptons

A good reminder to cancel PlayStation plus.

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