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mostlikelyaperson, do games w Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?

Nope, because review bombing doesn’t exist on steam. You have to own the game to review it. A customer leaving a negative review is not review bombing.

Novamdomum,
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I believe how it works is people buy the game, write the negative review and then refund it. Review bombing is not only definitely a thing but Steam have gone to great lengths to combat it, which would be odd if it was imaginary.

FigMcLargeHuge, do gaming w What's the state of Linux gaming with Proton?

Don’t see why you wouldn’t be just fine. I am playing Dune Awakening right now on my Linux machine. There’s the proton db website to help if you run into issues, but I haven’t had any so far. If I have a problem with a game, I usually force it to an older version of proton, or just fiddle with the versions and that usually fixes things.

Drives are cheap. Get a new drive, pull out the windows drive and put in the new blank drive and install linux and give it all a try. I just bought a new gaming laptop and the first thing I did before powering it up was swap out the nvme drive to a larger empty one and installed PopOs to match my desktop machine. It’s working just fine.

nocturne,
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I was unable to get past the privacy notice or Eula, I forget which to be able to play dune.

FigMcLargeHuge,

I just checked and I have Compatibility set to Proton 8.0-5. Try that and see if that makes it work for you.

AmazingAwesomator, do gaming w What's the state of Linux gaming with Proton?

it has gotten so good that i only check if there are compatibility issues if there is 3rd(4th?) party anti-cheat involved.

turbowafflz, do gaming w What's the state of Linux gaming with Proton?

Pretty close to perfect in my experience. I don’t even bother to check on protondb to see if games run before trying them anymore and I almost never find anything that doesn’t work. Off the top of my head the only things I know of that don’t work are things with really aggressive anticheat like Fortnite that intentionally detect and block players on Linux.

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RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?

Sometimes, the only way for players to get the developer’s attention is by doing something drastic like that. Not always, but many times. Because developers and publishers think Steam Review Scores are important for game sales (and I mean, they are, but maybe not as much as they seem to think).

Sometimes this comes from players in a different language complaining about bad translation or something.

Review Bombing, the term, is almost used to discredit when people have negative sentiment for something, and does nothing to explain why players may be doing it. Sometimes it is warranted, sometimes it isn’t. But most people are going to read that term and think “Ah, its just a bunch of whiney children,” only to later feel frustrated at the things those negative reviews were talking about.

HubertManne, do games w Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?

I honestly have never looked at the review section. I only get guides there because its practically the only place for some games

Coelacanth, do games w Man, seems like Jim Cummings is to classic CRPGs as Jeffrey Combs is to Star Trek.
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

That clip of Jim Cummings talking to a fan and telling them “please remind Larian that I exist” still breaks my heart. I guess Matt Mercer is a cheap PR move or something to boost sales but I wish Jim got to come back to do Minsc.

ampersandrew, (edited )
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

The worse casting choice was who they replaced

Tap for spoilerSarevok

with.

EDIT: Also, I know they motion captured everyone for BG3, and when some of these guys are getting older, maybe it was less about PR and more about who they believed they could get into mocap gear.

Coelacanth,
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Also who replaces ::: spoiler spoiler Viconia. Though the whole character assassination of Sarevok and Viconia in itself is a travesty. :::

Studios like Remedy and Sandfall have shown you can have mocap done by an actor other than the voice actor and still end up with a great product. Stuff like this is just one of the many little things that make me feel like Larian had very little regard for the original games, and only used the IP for brand recognition and marketing. Which makes me sad.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I never encountered her in my playthroughs of 1 and 2, so I couldn’t say. The guy I spoilered was fine, and I’d say Larian showed a ton of reverence for those original games throughout. The entire format of the game is one BioWare made famous via Baldur’s Gate II, after all.

Coelacanth,
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I never really got the feeling of reverence for the originals personally, down to the references made feeling like lip service created by someone browsing a wiki who has never played them in the first place.

Choosing to set the game a 100 years later (so that they wouldn’t have to incorporate much of the original cast or story) but still shoehorning in two fan favourite characters never sat right with me either.

ampersandrew,
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The other point to setting the game 100 years later is that they’re not beholden to the same exact geography, architecture, or, most importantly, the choices the player made in the previous game. And it allows people to step into this one without feeling like the previous two were mandatory. They did still choose a canon, and they can handwave others away as hearsay told in legends where multiple conflicting things are true, but the game was unmistakably made by enormous fans of Baldur’s Gate and Dungeons & Dragons. It is still a story that revolves around the city of Baldur’s Gate and Bhaal. It is the most authentic D&D game made since those old infinity engine games and arguably more so, given the ways their games are made to allow you to get more creative with systems, like the tabletop experience.

hzl,

It’s set in the 1490s because that’s the current era in Forgotten Realms, just like the first games were set in the 1360s because that was the era that was current at the time. It’s not like they actively chose that specific time period for any of the three games.

Holytimes,

Having a old man in a rocking chair who tells crazy tells of his adventuring years voiced by Jim would be peak. Could listen to him for hours.

Would be even cooler if he retells stories of the various characters he’s voiced by slightly changed so it’s all DND like.

Just picture him making subtle references to dark wing for example!

Lfrith, do games w Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?

Last time I actually heard of review bombing was for Helldivers 2. So for me it feels like there hasn’t been a big public review bombing event in a long time, and reviews can filtered by country, time, and there’s warnings when there are unusual spikes.

So for me no I had forgotten about it, since it hasn’t made headlines in a while.

PonyOfWar, do games w Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?

Haven’t really noticed any change personally. What game was it btw? Having a positive experience with a game that is being negatively reviewed doesn’t necessarily mean it was review bombed. Especially when it comes to bugs and technical issues, which often won’t affect every single player.

Novamdomum,
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Didn't want to mention the name of the game cos some might claim I'm stealth marketing for it or some bs like that.

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

Moderator here!

Feel free to reply to them with the game’s name, clear to me that there’s no ‘stealth marketing’ going on :)

Novamdomum,
@Novamdomum@fedia.io avatar

Oh ok 🙂 It was Seafarer: The Ship Sim. A day after they launched they got a load of negative reviews that took them down to a "Mostly Negative" rating. That's improved since then, presumably once more genuine reviews came in.

Fizz, do games w More Online CO-OP Games should have option to pause
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Beyond all reason is great for this. Its 8v8 competitive multiplayer and anyone can pause and say hold up gotta check om my kid or whatever and everyone just waits and when they get back theres a countdown and its unpaused.

Ive never seen another game be that chill. Usually it turns into a shit.flinging fest.

Fyrnyx, do games w Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?
@Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Review bombing is so stupid. Steam reviews have been garbage for a long time, you'll barely find any useful reviews but they are diamonds in the rough. A lot of reviews are just people who shit all over things, try to be witty and whatever else. Then they'll come over to your reviews and mark them 'funny'.

jellygoose, do gaming w Be respectful

Aaayayayayayayyaaaaiiiii

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world avatar

Ooooshka low

AngryCommieKender,

Did custodes just enter the room?

SkybreakerEngineer,

Greetings Custodes, how are you this daAAAY? Have you brought me any cool ancient tech to displaAaAaY?

AngryCommieKender,

Kitten is the one custodes that doesn’t have that theme song though…

SkybreakerEngineer,

Yes, but have you forgotten about the HUMONGOUS TERMINATOR DADDIES

AngryCommieKender,

I’m pretty sure that Big E spectrally punched the last person to say that phrase…

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I need to play this damn game just so I can understand all the goofy names people give the enemies like we did back in the early days of gaming.

AngryCommieKender, (edited )

We are actually referring to If the Emperor had a Text To Speech Device. It ended too soon because of GW shittery.

m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyiDf91_bTEgnBN0jAvz…

The first video is technically absolutely canon. The rest are only about 90% canon

It is rather funny.

Edit: if you do watch it, The Emperor is always accurate in how long it took for the various videos to come out, not the in universe timeline.

Wrufieotnak,

Yes it ended too early because of GW shittery, but something glorious has risen from it: Hunter the Parenting! Go watch that when you are finished with the Emperor.

AngryCommieKender,

I’ve tried watching it. I don’t care for Big E in that one.

Metju,

No we have not; but to ask you for a favor…

Nelots, do games w Day 448 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

After this one we got the prison unlocked, but decided to save that for next time we play.

Some advice for when you do: If you get stuck in a cell block during a hunt, the ghost can’t see through cells for some reason so locking yourself in one isn’t a terrible idea. Good luck. Medium maps are a big step up in difficulty, and a lot of people hate prison, though I myself enjoy it a lot.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

We played a match today a little bit and that was what I ended up doing (after I triggered a hunt with the Monkey’s Paw). I locked myself in and held the door.

KeefChief13, do games w Day 448 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Have not played this in a while.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

It’s fun to pick up with friends for the season

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