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Damage, do gaming w Former Disco Elysium Devs Embrace Worker/Player-Owned Structure To Bring ‘True Democracy’ To Game Development - Aftermath

Godspeed

TheAlbatross, do gaming w Harpoon 97 — a re-release of a re-release of a 1989 game.

MicroProse has really been filling a niche I’ve missed with these “old style” games. I mean, maybe an odd post to comment this specifically on, because this is and old game, but their recent releases in general seem to harken back to an older era of gaming that I’ve missed.

Hey, maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll get to try their hands at another MechWarrior!

muhyb,

New Empire Earth looks great too.

bear_delune, do gaming w Games Where You Play As The Monster, Yes - Aftermath

Isn’t that every military shooter?

Razzazzika,

Zing!

thingsiplay, do gaming w Games Where You Play As The Monster, Yes - Aftermath
YeetPics, do gaming w A PC Game Launching A Launcher After I've Already Launched It In Steam Should Be A Crime - Aftermath
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

If I buy a game that requires a launcher I immediately return it and give a very long and detailed description as to why that’s not a product I can buy as I do not own it.

Boomkop3, do gaming w A PC Game Launching A Launcher After I've Already Launched It In Steam Should Be A Crime - Aftermath

That is called “refund”

Auster, do gaming w A PC Game Launching A Launcher After I've Already Launched It In Steam Should Be A Crime - Aftermath

Launchers should do just that, to launch the game. Doing anything other than that is, before anything, a repurposing of the word.

And regarding this specific game, I didn’t see the whole struggle so I don’t even know which game it is, but in case it is officially sold anywhere DRM-free, I strongly suggest going for that, wherever it may be.

turkalino, do gaming w With Ryujinx Gone, We Can't Trust Nintendo To Be Reasonable - Aftermath
@turkalino@lemmy.yachts avatar

Any info on what exactly the dev got out of the deal? Huge sum of money? Big titty waifu? Unreleased version of Smash with Waluigi?

moreeni,

Likely not getting his life destroyed by a lawsuit

turkalino,
@turkalino@lemmy.yachts avatar

It would be sad if that’s what Nintendo convinced him into believing, because as the article points out, there’s legal precedent for emulators

jol,

Even so, you can’t win a legal battle against Nintendo that easily even with precedent. It will cost you money which you might not have…

bountygiver,

yup, the system is rigged from the start. Big corpos can easily bully an everyday person by stalling the legal process and stack up your legal fees until you cannot afford them and had to settle.

jol,

They have lawyers on staff earning a salary, so stalling literally costs them no extra money.

mindbleach,

Yeah, Bleem won that lawsuit. And the next lawsuit. And the next.

And then they ran out of money.

mindbleach,

They sent goons to his house.

What he got out of it is, they left.

DebatableRaccoon,

Given Nintendork’s history, this wouldn’t surprise me.

darkkite, do gaming w With Ryujinx Gone, We Can't Trust Nintendo To Be Reasonable - Aftermath

my theory is that this will harden the next generation of nintendo emulator devs to be more anonymous and uncontactable.

i also suspect that nintendo has only delayed switch 2 emulation which is probably really close to switch 1 and can be trivially emulated relatively speaking.

i do think they’re going to partner with denuvo though which with make piracy harder, but i think the switch will also be cracked.

wombat, do gaming w With Ryujinx Gone, We Can't Trust Nintendo To Be Reasonable - Aftermath

nintendrones are the most brainwashed corporate bootlickers I’ve ever encountered

whereBeWaldo,

As a person that has grown up in a poorer country I never have played any nintendo games as a child so I don’t have that nostalgia factor. The recent nintendo games I’ve tried were just okay, nothing to write home about in my opinion. I really cannot grasp why these people with hundreds of nintendo merch do what they do, is the feeling of nostalgia really such a great factor?

criitz,

Yes

PolandIsAStateOfMind,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

Same, old NES and SNES were pretty good for its era but for the last 30 years nintendo managed to produce exactly one game series i mildly wanted to play, Fire Emblem, and ever since i played it on emulator recently that want disappeared, it wasn’t even very fun.

conciselyverbose,

They have a lot of perfectly fine games. If they were priced appropriately.

Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid are all pretty good 2D platformers (with Metroid obviously being one of the original sources of metroidvania as a genre). But tech has advanced to the point that one person, or a small team, can make 2D games every bit as good as theirs, many small teams have (with better art in some cases), and there are many better options that start at lower prices than their “huge discount mega-sale” price of $40-45, and discount even further beyond that.

Their games sell well enough, so clearly it works on some level, but it’s just generally doesn’t make a lot of sense to get a game like Metroid Dread over a game like Ori or Hollow Knight. Games aren’t fungible, and I get that, but I genuinely think a lot of indie games are better, better looking, and much more substantial than a lot of their 2D offerings.

PolandIsAStateOfMind, do gaming w With Ryujinx Gone, We Can't Trust Nintendo To Be Reasonable - Aftermath
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

Entire history of video games shows that when piracy is on decline, ripoffs intensify.

thejevans, do gaming w With Ryujinx Gone, We Can't Trust Nintendo To Be Reasonable - Aftermath
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

Ryujinx did everything right and legal. Let’s see how Nintendo supporters try to justify this one.

thingsiplay,

I’m not Nintendo supporter and play Switch games on emulators. But one justification is, that this is current generation system. And while the developers are not responsible for, this enables easy piracy, and basically each first party game got leaked early and was playable before or shortly after launch. So lot of these people connect the wrong dots and say that the emulator “supports” piracy, which is not true, but depending on the view could be interpreted by some haters.

The Ryujinx isn’t illegal and I am pro emulation (I have terabytes of Roms for all kind of systems) and Open Source. The above statement is not MY justification, but what I think is what most Nintendo supporters will say. I talk about this subject with my bro, watch YouTube videos and read forum comments and that is what I get from them.

DebatableRaccoon, do gaming w With Ryujinx Gone, We Can't Trust Nintendo To Be Reasonable - Aftermath

For those who’ve been paying attention, this has been known a long time. Remember when Nintendo would falsely claim gaming videos on YT and take all of the earnings just because one of their games made an appearance?

frauddogg, (edited ) do gaming w Deadlock Is Turning Cheaters Into Frogs - Aftermath
@frauddogg@hexbear.net avatar

Is Deadlock going to lean any further into being a shooter, or should I just start filtering the term “Deadlock” for being an unfortunately-awesomely aesthetic’d MOBA? Cause keeping it a band, getting crashed out on by a League-toucher in my first match during playtests no less was enough to make me want formats where the League and DOTA-touchers would not be. Like, if mfs already crashing out on 106% toxicity before day zero even hits, I already know ion’t wanna be in these queues.

Without non-MOBA formats, all I see this as is superfluous in the face of DOTA, and just another Valve Thing™ in the way of TF2 ever getting back on its feet the same way Smite keeps getting in the way of Paladins.

Codilingus,

Wtf did I just read?!

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

A HexBear post.

Portosian,

I’ve long since blocked HexBear , but will occasionally click the “show me anyway” button just to validate that decision. I’m somehow still surprised by the advanced stage brainrot every time.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

almost, it’s missing the obnoxious reaction image, though helpfully another user supplied that in a reply.

Boomkop3,

If the game is not for you, just play something else

frauddogg, (edited )
@frauddogg@hexbear.net avatar

I already uninstalled it, brodie. I’m allowed to be disappointed that something with banger aesthetics is populated by gaming’s most toxic; and wish for the other parts of its formula to be leaned a little harder into.

Like, do you realize how the way you came thru with the “just leave if it ain’t for you” makes you sound like you’re running cover for hard-R spewing League-touchers?

Codilingus,

Its a competitive game, it’s going to be free 2 play, so it’s naturally going to attract all kinds of people, including the heated, toxic, and as you put it hard-R league players. It comes with the territory of playing a competitive PvP only game. Report them, laugh at their smooth brains, mute them, and move on.

I’ve been playing quite a bit since May, and I’ve encountered way more friendly people in voice comms than not. Most matches are silent with people only using the ping system/wheel the game has baked in. About 1/2 of my losses are hit with a “gg ez” in text chat though. I respond along the lines of congrats bro, you’re better than me at a closed beta testing game with an NDA. 😂

Running cover for them though…Cmon now…thats a huge stretch…

NewDark,

I’ve had far less obnoxious people in deadlock compared to Dota. There was some smart decisions to have fewer defined “roles” and less emphasis on having one or a few players pop off with all the resources.

The game itself is so solid, has good balance, the movement and abilities are fun… It’s good. Some people are going to get annoying and sweaty in a comparative snowbally team game. I like to thank them for making my games a win-win. Either I get to win the game, or my obnoxious teammate gets to lose.

I too hate the average g*mer but I’m not going to let them steal my enjoyment.

Boomkop3,

Those are a bunch of terms I don’t know. Go enjoy whatever that is I suppose. Or not, that’s also fine.

The_sleepy_woke_dialectic,

We got ourselves a GAMER here bois gamer-gulag

thingsiplay, do gaming w Deadlock Is Turning Cheaters Into Frogs - Aftermath

Where does this sudden obsession with frogs come from at Valve? There is another project from a Valve employee related to frogs as well.

Cenotaph,

All I can think of is the valve staff member who is famous for DOTA 2 balancing goes by the handle IceFrog

thingsiplay,

Oh man, yes! IceFrog is the one who is behind Deadlock as well. Makes sense with this game to have fun with frogs. And the other projects might be just inspired and the frog becomes a symbol for success or change or whatever it is. Yes, probably related, good point.

astrsk,
@astrsk@fedia.io avatar

Frogs rule!

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