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HollowNaught, do games w Any good games that break the mold
@HollowNaught@lemmy.world avatar

Played through hifi rush recently. I can’t think of a game that’s done anything like it, I cannot recommend it enough. Was truely one of the best games I’ve ever played

daniskarma, do games w Denmark is the 5th country to pass the #StopKillingGames EU threshold - 340K out of 1M signatures in total!

I did know about the uk proposal. Didn’t knew about the EU one. I will sign it today 🫡

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w Astro Bot (2024) Review Thread

GOTY here boys and girls

Bezier, do gaming w #StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

Nice going. Maybe EU can beat some sense into digital “ownership”.

Hawk,

Or kill it completely. The only reason I’ve held off signing this is that the wording is so vague that it could work in favor of gaming companies. I’d rather not see that.

Bezier,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

It’s not supposed to be a finished law at this point. The main take from the initiative is that digital games have a massive issue with anti-consumer practices, and that consumers demand something to be done about it.

How would this exactly backfire in your view?

Hawk,

Multiple ways.

Companies can completely erase the idea of ownership. If everything is subscription-based, they can simply stop the subscription and have no further obligations.

Or Europe just gets completely locked out of functionality, as already happens in some European countries.

Of course good things can come from this, but I’ve read here several times that this just isn’t a good proposition and might just lead to the anti-consumer practices disappearing in a negative way too.

Bezier,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

EU is way too large of a market to “lock out.” Didn’t happen with Apple, for example.

For subscription hell, we’re deeper into it than is healthy, but I don’t expect it to take over because of this. Steam, which is the biggest, most profitable platform out there doesn’t even offer a subscription and shouldn’t be hurt by this. For competitors, trying to suddenly force everyone into a subscription would lose a lot of business.

Edit: Anyway, doing nothing about it is a guaranteed bad outcome.

LogicalDrivel, do gaming w Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game?
@LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz avatar

The first games that popped into my head were Forager and Outpath, though these arent so much community building type games. They are more just something cute to relax to. They have farming and resource collecting and honestly play more like an active idler game than anything. Another game ive sunk tons of time into that kinda meets your requirements is Banished. Its just a medieval city builder game but it is deceptively hard to get a good balanced town going which can be pretty rewarding in itself. Theres no money per se but you do have to manage resources. Theres bartering in the game but you use your resources like crops and stone and stuff.

TexMexBazooka,

Seconding banished, it’s great with mods

DdCno1,

It’s also great without mods. During my first playthrough, a tornado destroyed most of the village, including the school with every child in it. Up until that point, nobody had died. All livestock, all crops, every single house was gone. The only thing that saved the survivors just before the next winter was some fruit I had stored in the dock for future trade. I managed to get them through the following winter and they all lived to die from old age, but the village never recovered from losing the entire next generation. I was only able to stabilize the population; growth ended up being impossible after this disaster.

I love games that are able to organically create stories like this one.

Nythos, do gaming w Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 credits pay homage to TotalBiscuit

They have a homage to TB in a game that doesn’t have a FoV slider

HK65, do gaming w #StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold

Thanks for spamming this to keep reminding me, I am a total slob, and it took me this long to go find my ID card to sign.

Strider, do gaming w #StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold
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@Vittelius That's hilarious. I go to sign up but I can't because of Brexit. FML!

Vittelius,

A UK petition is in the works. It might take some time until that goes up because your election a couple of months ago reset a lot of work, but it’s comming

Strider,
@Strider@mstdn.games avatar

@Vittelius Cool. Please keep me informed. This is something I will certainly support.

runner_g, do gaming w Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game?

You may be interested in Aska. It asks the question “what if valheim was also a colony sim?”. It’s a bit less chill then Stardew/Portia, but it is a classless, moneyless community building game.

SkunkWorkz, do games w Denmark is the 5th country to pass the #StopKillingGames EU threshold - 340K out of 1M signatures in total!

Can’t confirm my identity. Is it because it’s the weekend?

khannie,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

Are you using a VPN maybe?

innermeerkat, do gaming w #StopKillingGames Update: Netherlands passes threshold
@innermeerkat@jlai.lu avatar

Thanks for sharing this, I did my part ! 🇫🇷

rob_t_firefly, do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

Seems like they should change their now-impossible username.

catloaf, do games w Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game?

tesrskywind.com

skyblivion.com

Project Arroyo seems dead, though, so no Fallout that I know of.

But why no official ones? They don’t think it would be profitable. Microsoft and Bethesda are businesses first.

Buttflapper,

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  • catloaf,

    I’d like to see that data. I’d be surprised if it exists, companies rarely release that level of detail on their finances.

    And “evil” is a very strong word. We’re talking about video games, a luxury recreational product.

    simple,

    Countless games have had successful remakes, and crazy profits.

    The vast majority of remakes, even the bigger budget ones tend to be of smaller games. Games that are easier to recreate or port. Bethesda games are huge, and it’d need to be ported to another engine and redo everything from voice acting to the open world visuals. Even if they’ll bother with all that, I don’t think there’s a demand to remake Bethesda’s older, clunkier games.

    catloaf,

    Voice acting has been good enough in the past few decades that it’s usually usable without re-recording. Maybe remastering at most.

    There’s also plenty of tooling to upscale textures too, even without AI. The biggest hurdle (for assets, at least) is 3D models. You can slap a subdivision modifier on them to make them higher-poly, but you’d still have to make sure the UVs didn’t get messed up (or whatever it is that they’re using these days). And also verify that nothing weird happened like new geometry hiding or showing something in-game. (Collision probably doesn’t need to change if you’re just increasing polycount.)

    Armok_the_bunny,

    Don’t forget capitalwasteland.com

    lemmy_user_838586, (edited ) do games w Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game?

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  • Buttflapper,

    I’ve known about this for a while. Sadly, I don’t think it’ll ever be finished. Even if it is, Skyrim is an extremely old engine and looks like crap, runs like crap. I modded the hell out of it with 4k graphics on an RTX 4070… It’s just awful. The engine isn’t great. They need to make something new. Even Starfield had the same old ass dated engine.

    Renacles,

    Most of the work is done and they are aiming to release next year, at this point I’d be surprised if it doesn’t get done.

    In any case, this is a project that a lot of people have been working on, for free, for over a decade, I wouldn’t tell them it will look like crap even if I really thought so.

    shadowedcross,
    @shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works avatar

    What does “4k graphics” even mean? Did you just install 4k textures for everything or what? Either way, you can get modded Skyrim to look very beautiful, without being insanely demanding. I guess it depends on your resolution, but a 4070 should be able to manage it just fine, so I’m not sure what you did.

    Marafon, do games w Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game?

    Go play Fallout London. It’s a bitch to install and has more bugs than an ant colony but it’s the best Fallout since New Vegas imo. Even in it’s rough around the edges state you can tell it is a love letter to Fallout and is so good its canon for me regardless of what the will of Todd may ultimately decide.

    If you have any issues installing the game and getting it stable please reach out to me. There was also a nearly gamebreaking issue with semi auto rifle damage being grossly under calculated that I can help with as well. If Fallout 3 and NV are your favorite games you really should play it and that goes for anyone else who stumbles on this comment. It’s just so good.

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