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  • beefcat,
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    It sounds like this one doesn’t really need patches to be fun, it is in a pretty polished state on day 1. Which is weird for a Bethesda game.

    learningduck,

    Seems more polished than other games. Winner what kind of fantastic mods are going to be made for it.

    unpoetical,

    Don’t forget to save some cash for the XE, YE, ZE editions that will come out every three years and woo the modding community.

    Annoyed_Crabby,

    Tbf, Fallout 4 only have goty and vr edition as an option, which is pretty standard for game.

    ech, do gaming w This YouTuber Is Actually Suing Minecraft & Mojang

    Providing an actually useful summary instead of more click bait would be preferred.

    jjagaimo,

    As far as I can tell, unfair terms in their EULA which are illegal in some places, and silently changing the terms of the EULA after the fact without informing anyone. Removal of content/mods under the new terms that they deemed they “didnt like” it because it had guns while putting guns in their own shop. Probably a number of other things.

    ech,

    Interesting. Thanks!

    KairuByte,
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    I believe there’s also the fact that they flat out ban the selling of mods, but “add-ons” that do the exact same thing can be sold through their store.

    Gamers_mate,

    They have also have been allowing pay to win servers in the marketplace loot boxes and all while it being against their own terms.

    Gamers_mate,

    My bad I fixed the TLDR to be more specific. cheers.

    ech,

    Appreciated.

    nostradiel, do games w Starfield, is it getting review bombed?
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    This game is just ridiculous. Overhyped advertising, terrible optimalization, 10 years old graphics, so many loadscreens, plain story, no real space exploration, perk wall to do anything, horrible UI and they call it next gen open world space exploration RPG. I stopped playing after 10 hours so I can make a good assumption but it got only worse and worse. I don’t have time to waste it on this. Even if it starts being more enjoyable later it doesn’t excuse all the issues.

    circuitfarmer,
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    I feel you. The first 10-15 hours did feel like kind of a slog. I will say, I hit a point where I’m legitimately enjoying the game and things seem to have coalesced in a way they just don’t in earlier game. I’m 20 hours in though. That’s a slow starter if there ever was one.

    nostradiel,
    @nostradiel@lemmy.world avatar

    You’re a patient man. If you enjoy it, that’s good. But that game is not for me. Last game I enjoyed from Bethesda was Oblivion so I’m not much surprised. I’m quite picky…

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  • circuitfarmer,
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    Mostly yes.

    meco03211, do games w Overwatch Classic | Official Trailer

    Interesting model blizz. Create a game. Build a base. Destroy the game and lose part of that base. Re-release original game to claw back former base.

    matrixrunner,
    @matrixrunner@lemmy.world avatar

    “re-release” XD

    Even if Blizzard did actually re-release the game I paid 40$USD for and can no longer play, they couldn’t get me to jump back in with a battering ram.

    djsoren19,

    Kinda wild they’ve now done this for nearly every game in their portfolio though. We have multiple flavors of World of Warcraft Classic, Hearthstone had a Classic mode for about a year, D2R is basically Diablo Classic, now there’s gonna be Overwatch Classic. I guess we just need a Heroes of the Storm Classic and a remake of Brood War to complete the set.

    CosmoNova, do games w Unity ...It Just Keeps Get Worse

    One gripe I have with this video is that he said the situation at the unity office - namely the supposed death threat by an employee against their employer - was “understandable”. It absolutely isn’t understandable. No matter how shitty your tech CEO is, unless they happily throw puppies into a wood chipper in the office, death threats are definitely not understandable.

    ekZepp,
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    Agreed

    whileloop,
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    What if they only indifferently throw puppies into a wood chipper?

    ExiledElf,

    I’m ok with it then

    ekZepp,
    @ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

    Man, i’ve missed this. 😂

    hansl,

    They still shouldn’t do it in the Office. They should do it at home, like all others puppies-in-wood-chippers people I know. Boundaries, Karen!

    Bipta,

    I assumed the threat was from a developer whose life's work is ruined by these terms. I wonder what the employee's motive was.

    OrgunDonor,

    I presume a day off work.

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    Boss needed a bomb threat called in

    StarServal,
    @StarServal@kbin.social avatar

    Active evil vs passive evil.

    What’s the difference between puppy-chippers and starving out families with policy changes?

    kicksystem,

    I wonder now whether that means that you feel that egg industry CEOs deserve death threats…

    youtu.be/udSiluTAOaQ?si=QF7odI0WUCXdUmWS

    TragicNotCute, do games w 15 More Free to Play Overwhelmingly Positive Steam Games
    @TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

    OpenTTD is a good time if you like those types of management games. The graphics are old, but it’s still fun.

    mihnt,
    @mihnt@kbin.social avatar

    I caught a stream of TheSpiffingBrit playing it the other day and I downloaded it because of that. It's neat, but it does take some learning.

    bionicjoey,

    My favourite OpenTTD gameplay video is the Valefisk video where he invites his Patreon supporters to play a game with him and his friends and then ruins their day by basically starting the server early so that his corp already has more money than the other players.

    Link: youtu.be/8F-P46V5zuY

    UntouchedWagons,
    @UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

    Master Hellish has a tutorial series on YouTube that’s very good.

    carrmcg,

    If you find yourself enjoying openTTD, I’d highly recommend trying the JGR patch pack. Link It adds loads of improvements that the steam version doesn’t have. I started on the steam version, loved it, and love the JGR version even more.

    maynarkh, do games w Skywind 2024: The Road So Far

    I get that a lot of people are saying “oh this has been taking forever”, but from what I’m seeing these guys are producing an AAA-sized title with an engine they don’t own, with an IP they don’t own, all on volunteer time.

    This is amazing.

    FatTony,
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    I am seriously in awe just from the sheer dedication. I can hardly keep up a project for more than three days before getting bored of it.

    rem26_art, do games w 15 More Free to Play Overwhelmingly Positive Steam Games
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    I'd throw in a vote for HoloCure. It's like Vampire Survivors, and even if you know nothing about Hololive, its pretty addicting.

    takenaps,

    Will check it out, just stumbled into vampire survivors that game is awesome

    mana,

    As someone who doesn’t follow vtubers, I can confirm Holocure is excellent, and obviously made with love. Every character has a unique playstyle, and the aesthetc is a nice departure from the gloom common to the genre.

    UntouchedWagons,
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    I played a bit of it and what I got was completely different to what I saw kronii playing. She had what looked like a fishing and farming Sim while I had reverse bullet hell. Runs great on the steam deck though.

    pokemaster787,

    “Holo House” is the farming and fishing minigame. I believe you unlock it once you beat stage 1, it shows up in the main menu as “???” until unlocked.

    SquigglyEmpire, do games w Flappy Bird Returns but now with microtransactions

    And the trademarks were sleazily grabbed from the original creator :/

    PunchingWood,

    It isn’t the original creator? I saw some advertising elsewhere that heavily implied that it was the same guy.

    If it’s just some company trying to leech of the success from over a decade ago, including microtransactions, that’s beyond pathetic.

    SquigglyEmpire,

    Unfortunately multiple sources seem to agree Dong Nguyen has no involvement, which is consistent with the way he originally shut down Flappy Bird due to people spending too much time on it :(

    “The Flappy Bird Foundation said it has acquired the official Flappy Bird trademark from Gametech Holdings LLC, a U.S. company that appears to have wrestled the trademark from Nguyen, as well as the rights for the original game and character from Piou Piou vs. Cactus, the mobile game that supposedly originally inspired the Flappy Bird character.”

    ign.com/…/10-years-after-it-was-pulled-offline-vi…

    DudeDudenson,

    His name was dong?

    TomAwsm,

    His friends called him Magnum.

    RizzRustbolt,

    Gametech had the Piou Piou rights? Sounds dubious…

    slurpinderpin, do games w ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY!

    Tech Jesus had a video about this recently too. I’ll stay far away from Asus

    Chainweasel, (edited )

    I think Gamers Nexus also did a video on it recently.

    Edit: I’m an idiot and I just recently started watching GN so I had no idea it was the same channel 🤷‍♂️

    WhiteHotaru,

    Louis picked it up from Gamers Nexus, as he says in the video.

    Fermion,

    Tech Jesus is a colloqial name for Steve Burk of Gamers Nexus because of his hairstyle resembling old depictions of Jesus.

    KryptoSynth,

    I believe Steve did a video on it as well recently. Fortunately, looks like I dont own any Asus devices.

    ripcord,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    I believe also Tech Jesus did a video too. Lots of stuff going on with this.

    DAMunzy,

    GN too!

    Chef_Boyardee,

    I forget the channel, but this guy with long dark hair and a goatee covered this issue.

    slurpinderpin,

    Tech Jesus = GamersNexus

    All hail Steve!

    DAMunzy,

    I’ve known about GN for years and with everyone talking about Tech Jesus I thought I’d have to look up a new tech reviewer. Never heard him referenced as TJ before but I can see it. Such pretty hair!

    altima_neo,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    Tech Jesus he mentions he spoke to Louis Rossman about this in his video. So it kinda makes sense Louis would also make a video about it.

    frezik,

    Gamers Nexus is killing it over the past few years. So many shitty companies taken down.

    Breezy,

    Yeah, that video made me switch out the motherboard I was planning on buying for my next build

    KickMeElmo, do gaming w You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders)

    Honestly, I hate the CRT aesthetic. I grew up with CRTs. Leaving them behind for LCDs was one of the greatest transitions of growing up. By all means, enjoy them if you do, but I don’t.

    thingsiplay,

    It’s not just the look of it, but the art and games were designed with the limitations of CRT in mind. Not all games off course. An example is the transparency effect on Genesis / Mega Drive:

    https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/ed89bb43-8e6a-4f17-a938-ab22d0447216.webp https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/813b1b23-0b41-437f-b6e6-7bb0535ae762.webp

    thingsiplay,

    Shaders are not only useful for CRT emulation, but also to get the look of handhelds:

    https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/4a23ad1c-c6e2-4bc1-9361-66a2317fae5c.webp

    DdCno1,

    Does this shader also replicate the horrific motion blur that the display of the original GameBoy suffered from?

    thingsiplay,

    There are two variants, one with motion-blur and one without. Besides that, often shaders have additional settings. One can change settings and save it as a new Shader Preset and use that instead. I have described it here: thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/…/8/-and-e…

    DdCno1,

    Thanks. I shall avoid the motion blur variant as best as I can, because that’s one of several aspects of this device I do not remember fondly.

    I borrowed a friend’s Game Boy for an afternoon when I was a kid and I was so disappointed by it (primarily the screen, but also poor ergonomics and the limited nature of its games) that I lost nearly all interest in gaming for a year.

    bbbhltz,
    @bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

    Ah jeez, this picture triggered the earworm! Now that song is in my head!

    pimeys,

    Add that China theme to the mix.

    You’re welcome.

    DoucheBagMcSwag,

    Fucking Moai 🗿 heads

    MetaStatistical,

    Getting the settings right for video is critically important, too. Scaling needs to be done with the nearest neighbor pixel method, not more modern blend methods.

    Dremor, do games w ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY!
    @Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

    My own experience with Asus warranty was of utter incompetence.

    It was a long time ago, around 10 years or so, and I sent a newly acquired laptop for repairs because of constants BSOD. Waited a month before getting it back… Without sound. Turn out they forgot to reconnect the sound card. I sent it back for repair, waited another month (because even if they are at fault, they won’t even fast track that repair), only to get it back with a nonfunctional touchpad. I don’t use it, so I didn’t send it back a third time, because who know what would have come back damaged that time.

    So their repair woes aren’t recent. When their stuff works, it works well, but pray that you won’t need to RMA it.

    MentalEdge,
    @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

    I had a nightmare situation a few years back with a ZenFone 6.

    It bricked itself within a week, and after I sent it in I got months of radio silence, until I started calling them about it. They had no clue what the status of my repair was, there were a ton of orders for part after part, and it just kept going.

    Eventually I just started pressuring anyone I could with “I need a new phone, this old one is falling apart, I can’t just keep using it for months on end as you figure your shit out” and they eventually relented, instead just giving me an entire new unit.

    Last year I bought an Asus monitor with clearly advertised “on-site-warranty” (which means a courier comes to your house and just drops off a replacement in exchange for picking up the old one), it was DOA.

    I thought great, “on-site-swap” should have this sorted by tomorrow. I started the RMA and the first thing they want me to do is ship my monitor to Germany at my expense. I said “fuck no”, and instead returned it to the retailer as I was still within the return window, and then just walked into another retailer with more in stock, to pick up another, which then worked.

    Then, months later, some dude calls me and asks when I’ll be home for my on-site warranty swap, straight up dropping my jaw to the floor. I know I cancelled my RMA.

    Lo and behold, the RMA case-number wasn’t even the same, so for some reason Asus decided, on their own, to open another RMA, WITHOUT TALKING TO ME for a monitor I TOLD THEM I WOULD BE RETURNING. Maybe someone tried to fix the fuck-up of not honouring the on-site warranty, but holy fuck if that took two months, thank god I took it into my own hands and got it fixed within 24 hours.

    makingStuffForFun, do games w First Ever REBIRTH in NES Tetris
    @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

    What does that mean?

    TexasDrunk,

    Some guy played to level 255 and it rolled back to level 0, (that’s the rebirth). Then he played to level 91 after that. To answer an unasked but important question: he did it on a ROM and not a cartridge because it’s pretty damn likely a cartridge would have crashed long before this point. Even on this particular ROM there are a bunch of ways to crash it (there’s loads of them documented).

    makingStuffForFun,
    @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

    That’s awesome. Thank you so much.

    dogslayeggs,

    Did he use an original NES controller with the ROM or a modern controller? I know I have a hard time getting the 40 year old controllers to respond fast enough at higher levels, though I haven’t tried the bump control method.

    TexasDrunk,

    As a drunk language model I do not have that information.

    dogslayeggs,

    Watching the earlier levels I can hear the thumps on the controller indicating he is doing a bump/rolling control method.

    TexasDrunk,

    So I did a little research. Along with what you heard, rolling may be the only way to do it. Hypertapping may not be fast enough.

    Adm_Drummer,

    To add on: After a certain level is reached there are a multitude of tile combinations you have to avoid or they cause a hard crash. I believe oldschool tetris used to be played until the very first hard crash and that’s where everyone thought the record would end. Prior to that was the development of rolling which allowed players to get past the original game over state that sped tiles up too fast to react to.

    Now we have players so proficient they’ve memorised crash states, and are rolling over the game.

    I wonder how long until Points + Prestige become an antiquated measuring system.

    CluckN,

    He completed the karmic cycle of Samsara and has been reborn.

    Evotech,

    He prestiged Tetris?

    Poopfeast420, do gaming w You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders)
    @Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    You’ll never catch me using filters like these voluntarily. Inject those crisp pixels straight into my vein.

    ReallyActuallyFrankenstein,

    I was a crisp pixel diehard for like 20 years even despite growing up with CRT, because I remember in the 80s-00s trying hard to get the clearest picture (RF->SRGB->S-video->Composite) and it felt like, “what’s clearer than exact pixels?”

    And then I tried a good CRT filter that emulates not just scanlines and noise, but subpixel effects, and it really changed my mind. The graphics really were designed to be displayed with those analog “imperfections,” and if you lived in that era, you kind of took for granted the things that worked well with the natural CRT blur while pursuing image clarity. Bringing back the CRT effects was a revelation.

    Like, even handheld emulation filters that mimic how those particular LCD screens functioned often give a better experience since game designers took that into account.

    I don’t know if someone growing up with only emulated square LCD memories would feel the same, and I’ll always take pixely LCD over bad CRT emulation, but I’d suggest to give it a try with good filters.

    yozul,
    @yozul@beehaw.org avatar

    Square pixels are a filter just as much as CRT filters are. In fact, they distort the image even more. Even leaving aside all the things that just don’t work right in square pixel land, turning every pixel into a square messes up the aspect ratio of a lot of old consoles. Everything ends up squished and stretched because it wasn’t designed for square pixels. You can call that distorted funhouse mirror version of old video game art “crisp” if you want, but in reality it’s just the cheapest and worst filter.

    Railcar8095, do games w The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Announcement Trailer

    Should have been called The Legend of Link just to perpetuate the confusion

    The_Vampire,

    The biggest missed opportunity this century.

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