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Intergalactic, do games w Palworld announces Terraria crossover

I beg your exquisite pardon?

caseyweederman,

Granted

podperson, do games w What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

  • Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperature Science
jqubed,
@jqubed@lemmy.world avatar

Burn it down! Burning people. He says what we’re all thinking.

Katana314, do games w Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening

I am curious if the games community has anything positive to say about major publishers at this point.

It’s fun to laugh at one failure, and it’s nice we still get occasional great indie hits. But when most major publishers fail to turn out anything of interest, and even Sony is kind of reaching vanishing expectations amid remasters of remasters, it becomes hard to even suggest what to buy an unknowledgeable kid for Christmas.

Sabata11792,

I appreciate them for the effort they put into bankrupting companies that make AAA corpo slop. Ubisoft could not have stopped Ubisoft without the help of Ubisoft. If were lucky EA could hop on board and bankrupt EA by acting like EA.

protist,

I’m buying my son Xbox 360 and PS2 games

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy,

Valve is pretty well liked. not sure you can really call them a games publisher any more though.

Katana314,

Right - they don’t even make a game a decade anymore, and even Deadlock is in a genre many people aren’t interested in.

zzx,

God deadlock is so good though I have to say. I have hundreds of hours already. This is coming from someone who HATED mobas and would still probably never touch dota or League

WhosMansIsThis,

Agreed. As someone who doesn’t really like shooters and never got into League or DOTA, I had mixed feelings about playing a ‘hero shooter/moba’. I’m actually blown away at how good it is. They did phenomenal job. 10/10.

NotMyOldRedditName,

It’s a invite only alpha and as I write this it’s #7 on the steam rankings of current players, 6 if you wanna exclude Banana which is it’s own hilarious thing

Dota 2 is #2 and has 565k right now

epicsninja,

Capcom has been pretty consistent.

JustAnotherKay,

Unless you care about their use of Denuvo

Katana314,

I don’t think there’s that many big-budget releases you can invest in if you care about Denuvo. Even the Ace Attorney games, re-releases of old DS visual novels, have been getting Denuvo’d.

Wolfram,

I’d say I’m happy that AAA companies are reaping what they sow from listening to their dumbass stakeholders.

Katana314,

The point is that it’s not just them paying the price, though. With continuous years of NO publishers putting out anything interesting, we’re at a point where people are just less interested in anything that’s coming out.

It’s a carrot and stick problem to some degree. They know now we hate microtransaction-laden live service games, but it’s harder to define what players would enjoy. Keep in mind, there’s many cases of simply letting the developers cook that haven’t worked out either.

Wolfram,

I fully understand your first point and that is how I feel. That’s why I made my comment; I and others have been dealing with endless AAA slop that mostly hasn’t been intriguing for a long time. Even if its a certain game franchise I’m not interested in, I understand other people’s pain of it been driven into the ground with micro transactions and buggier and buggier games.

turmacar,

There’s plenty of publishers putting out interesting games.

They’re just not the traditional AAA / “AAAA” games companies because they’ve grown so big they’re hidebound.

Katana314,

I agree when it comes to taste-specific stuff. I’m playing Steamworld Heist 2 and have Tactical Breach Wizards in my wishlist, so indie tactics games have been satisfying me - they’re certainly good and interesting, as you say.

But, those aren’t games I’d recommend to everyone. It does mean not much water cooler discussion since no one is playing the “same” games in most social circles. It used to be, a big release like Halo came out and everyone was talking about it, playing it, and discovering things together.

turmacar,

I mean that’s everything. There isn’t a “movie of the summer” anymore really, no I Love Lucy / Cheers / Friends / Simpsons that basically everyone is watching or familiar with. It’s been true for longer with books/music because of the lower gateways to entry and being able to be a “local artist”, but not by much, and even for them it’s exploded since the Internet became mainstream.

The democratization of publication has dramatically broadened the type and quality of things being made and no industry titans really have figured out how to promote around that. At least not consistently.

greenskye,

90% of the games I play are now made by indie or medium sized studios/publishers. I’ve bought several AAA games in that time frame, but almost universally they’ve failed to hold my interest and I typically regret my purchase. I can’t remember the last AAA I bought that I would consider a ‘favorite’.

Also I’m growing more and more detached from what modern, AAA games even feel like. Opening up a game like fortnite or COD where they’ve shoved dozens of different game modes into an all in one program is confusing and overwhelming. It’s off putting to me and I feel like having a ‘get off my lawn’ moment.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I am curious if the games community has anything positive to say about major publishers at this point.

I’m laughing a lot, is that a positive? These are all self-inflicted wounds because they mistook “shareholders” for the customers.

azertyfun,

There’s probably a whole thesis or five to be written on the subject.

The “traditional” AAA pipeline is “make big games with loooots of assets and mechanics, maximize playtime, must be an Open World and/or GaaS”. Both due to institutional pressures (lowest common denominator, investor expectations for everyone to copy the R* formula, GaaS are money printing machines) and technical reasons (open worlds are easy to do sloppily, you can just deliver the game half finished and have it work (e.g. Cyberpunk), GaaS/open worlds are a somewhat natural consequence of extremely massive development teams that simply could not work together on a more narrowly focused genre).

That’s not to say there aren’t good expensive games being payrolled by massive studios like Sony or Microsoft. But AAA is a specific subset of those, and blandness comes with the territory. However if I was a betting man I’d say we’re nearing the end of this cycle with the high profile market failures of the last few years and the AAA industry will have to reinvent itself at least somewhat. Investors won’t want to be left holding the bag for the next Concord.

delitomatoes,

Japanese publishers retain staff because every Japanese company does, they don’t pay as well but you get life time job stability. Capcom is on a roll, Sega still has RGG, Bandai Namco has Fromsoft. They have the chokehold on jrpgs. And finally Nintendo is still king

drunkpostdisaster,

I regret buying my ps5 so much.

arefx,

I’m not saying this to be a dick, I would just like to add, no regrets on building my PC.

RaineV1, (edited ) do gaming w I watched 2 hours of starfield gameplay and an hour of review

I mean, yeah, if you aren't into the core elements of a game you probably won't be interested in the game. It's like say, "I'm not impressed with the new Mario game. I don't want to do platforming, and I don't care about powerups or collecting things."

sexy_peach,
@sexy_peach@feddit.de avatar

fair

CMLVI,
@CMLVI@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, lot of people are upset that Bethesda released a Bethesda game.

"Why is this like Skyrim in space and not like completely different studios style?"

Well, probably because Bethesda made the game and not the other studio...

Sharpiemarker,

A surprising percentage of gamers seem to think that any new AAA title game is catered to them and rather than understand it was made for other people, they complain about how bad it is.

echo64, do games w Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'

I didn’t have Controller DRM on my 2023 bingo

Wilibus,

I had DRM on my coffee pot on my 2017 bingo card.

ATDA,

Hello it appears that your subscription to generatebingocards.com is about to expire. If you’d like to continue to access your bingo cards please click this link to update your payment method.

MoreFPSmorebetter, do games w Skill issue

I have ~10k hours in counterstrike across multi game versions and accounts. I noticed a similar thing over my years. The players doing well in a match were often neutral towards gamer girls, but the guy having a shit match would be the fastest sack of shit every time. Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.

Obviously there are always exceptions to any rules but in my anecdotal experience the guys who were confident in their abilities didn’t care about women but losers would attack them just for speaking.

theangryseal,

Man. I miss when gungame was filled with people and all the fun addons. Warcraft 3 mods, vote for knife fight, “gotcha bitch” with every knife kill.

I want to go back.

ksigley,

OG /gg and /surf maps.

CarnivorousCouch,

Counter Strike was way better when this was the vibe. I am so tired of competitive this and gun case that. I’ve never been interested in 5v5 scrimming in any serious way, but that’s all CS2 wants me to do.

I want gun game, I want wc3, I want ZM. I want quirky custom maps (glass!) and quake sounds and !bet ct all. I want to fuck around with new friends on a server for an evening, not to sweat my balls off throwing practiced smokes on dust2.

theangryseal,

I’m right there with you. I haaaaaate the direction of modern gaming.

DaTingGoBrrr,

Same thing kinda happened to TF2. I mean, Competitive is dead but the server browser and community servers are not what they used to be. I miss when it was front and center. Today most people just play casual on Valve servers.

After a quick search it seems like the CS2 in-game server browser has gone to complete shit. I hope Valve fixes it. It’s part of the Source Legacy.

Kazumara,

And the old WCFAN (We Couldn’t Find A Name) servers, what was it called again, I think hillbreak? That was fun!

ArtificialHoldings,
@ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world avatar

Ego soothing, peacocking behavior

ramenshaman,

I have ~10k hours in counterstrike

Damn. There’s 8760 hours in a year btw. That’s impressive.

MoreFPSmorebetter,

If it makes you feel any better those hours were spread out over the last 10 years or longer. I can’t even remember when I started. Just one of those ol’ reliable games for me.

BeNotAfraid,

A tenth of a year is still 36 and 1/2 days of uninterrupted cs per anum.

MoreFPSmorebetter,

And the worst part of it is that probably half of those hours happened within a few years in the middle there. I played like 6 hours a night every night with my friends. Good times but yeah…

spookex,

Same feelings here, I used to average around 1k hours per year in my “active” years.

All of the issues with CS2 kinda put the end to that, played the beta, then stopped for a year, and now I play few games every few days

MoreFPSmorebetter,

My heavy CS days were early in csgo days. Back when the skin gambling scene and the pro scene were popping early on. My buddies and I would watch the pro games and then get all hyped to improve and we would jump into ranked only to get fucking pub stomped. Good times. Eventually we did start getting good. I only ever got to whatever rank was below global and only two of my buddies ever got to global.

However my top fps bragging moment was actually in valorant when it was a closed beta still I absolutely shat all over pro csgo player at the time named JDM in a lobby. Top fragged and completely dominated him the entire match.

That was when I peaked in my fps gaming lol. It’s all been downhill since. I’m still better than most people at fps games in general, but I am not as sharp and snappy as I was when I was a younger man with way more free time to practice and improve every night.

Naz,

You’re absolutely correct, I had a similar experience

I played CS for roughly the same amount of time; my clan ranges from DMG to Global, but we had a rule that if you were in the clan, we’d 5-man with you regardless of your rank, so if you were Silver, you’d have a chance to rub elbows and learn strategies from the higher skilled players.

Then we got a Global, a girl named Moon.

Holy hell, it’s like people’s brains did a 180°, they were incredibly mean to her, for no reason, and eventually it came out that she was trans, and they bullied her even worse, out of the server.

I kicked everyone who bullied/demonized Moon for being trans; because at the end of the day, it was about being a honest human being, and not just a CS player/gamer.

RememberTheApollo_,
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world avatar

Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.

Not really a gold star by the top player’s name for this, either. The comment alone leaves plenty of room to be interpreted as “girls should be easy to beat/poor gamers because they’re girls.”

MoreFPSmorebetter,

They wouldn’t say “you’re getting beaten by a girl” as much as they would respond to the guys losing their minds who happened to be below them on the scoreboard by saying things like “Why are you yelling at her she’s playing better than you are shut up”. Kinda way.

ThomasCrappersGhost,

There are definitely many competent players that will be like “haha you’re getting beaten by a girl” out there, though.

roguetrick,

Nobody ever claimed pubstompers were good people. We pubstomp precisely because we’re not

ThomasCrappersGhost,

I’m hoping this is sarcasm, otherwise that is an interesting thing to be proud of.

roguetrick,

I’m not a misogynist but anybody who consistently scores top on a public server pretty much is a pubstomper asshole by definition. And I have certainly been that. You don’t do it for the challenge, or you’d be doing league and more competitive modes.

MoreFPSmorebetter,

Oh absolutely

maxprime, do gaming w Wish I could retire now actually

I dunno. I game less and less every year. I think I’ll probably just play the odd n64 game by the time I retire.

NegativeLookBehind,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

You have to pick one n64 game. Go.

Do not disappoint me.

MeatsOfRage,

Blast Corps

Stovetop,

Ocarina of Time. Randomizer.

dharmacurious,

Definitely oot, but if I could pick two, it’d be this super weird game I’ve never been able to find again, or remember the name of. Had a kind of Hawaiian theme, iirc. There was a conch shell you blew. It was weird, and I loved it so much

Frozengyro,

Mystical Ninja staring Goemon?

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar
lightnsfw,

I forgot about that game. It was great.

Robust_Mirror,

There’s like 300 n64 games in existence. You can find it.

Clinicallydepressedpoochie,
@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world avatar

Megaman legends.

ISOmorph,
@ISOmorph@feddit.org avatar

Superman 64

ZoopZeZoop,

I know you’ll be disappointed, but Mario 64 has a fair number of levels and star missions. So, either that or Star Fox (your score can always be a little better).

NegativeLookBehind,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

Not disappointed at all.

kratoz29,
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

Yep, most of us won’t really have the energy to get into a 100 hours + game, a platform, an indie or a retro beloved game? Yeah I can see that.

maxprime,

I know right. Elden Ring looks so damn good but there’s no way I can get into it at that playtime.

rockSlayer, do gaming w Why compete when you can buy the competition?

Intellectual property is a resource. Corporations are in the business of hoarding resources to extort ration at a price. Microsoft doesn’t care about the studios. They care about owning ip.

bungle_in_the_jungle,

Came here to say this. Acquisitions these days are all about the data, seldom the talent.

tpihkal, do games w What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?

I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.

HerrVorragend,
@HerrVorragend@lemmy.world avatar

“I’m Garrus Vakaryan, and this is my favourite spot on the Citadel”

dethedrus,

Best wingman ever.

I am hard pressed to take anyone other than him and Tali on any mission they are available for.

Kyle_The_G,

had to be me… someone else might have gotten it wrong.

Mirshe,

Might run…tests on the seashells.

slazer2au,

I should go.
I should go.
I should go.
I should go

DoucheBagMcSwag,

We’ll bang ok.?

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

I don’t really say that do I?

Ziomster44,

Shepard.

Maven, do games w "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy"

It’s definitely not the fastest but it’s really close.

The fastest full shutdown currently belongs to The Culling 2 which only lasted 2 days between launch and being closed completely.

The Day Before is another big example of a game that lasted an incredibly short time but despite that game lasting 4 days before no longer being sold, the games servers stayed on much longer than that meaning that it was shut down after Concord despite being cancelled before it.

lambda,
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

Why did culling 2 fail? Wasn’t the first game pretty big?

Maven, (edited )

Including joke reviews, the game had a 16% rating and was so poorly made that within those 2 days it killed the popularity of both Culling games extremely quickly.

The first game was popular because it was a twist on the genre while the 2nd one was a quickly thrown together (almost exact) clone of DayZ.

The word scam was thrown around a lot in those 2 days.

Buddahriffic,

Sounds like the first was made with the mindset of, “it would be cool to make a game that does x, let’s do that and see if it will make money” while the second one was more of a, “all we gotta do is make a game that does x and we’ll make a ton of money!”

Denalduh,

They really know how to cull their player base.

ArmokGoB, do games w RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it

The difference between $12 and $14 is not equal to 50% of $12.

Weslee,

There are other currencies in the world.

Euro is going from 8 to 12.5, which is higher than 50%

ipkpjersi, (edited )

That’s 36% but I’m sure it’s higher in some other currencies. 50% would have to be 16.

edit: This is the worst comment I have ever left on this website. I’m leaving it up so people can see what happens when you do math early in the morning. Embrace it, learn from it, live with it.

Itwasthegoat,

No, it’s a 56% increase. The increase is based on the before number, not after. 8->16 would be a 100% price increase

semi,

12.5/8=1.5625, so the Euro price went up by 56.25%

testo12,

You divide by the old price, not the new one:

12.5 / 8 = 156%

LeroyJenkins,

you’re trolling bro wtf

Enoril,
@Enoril@jlai.lu avatar

Not sure, took me some time to remember we were talking about % increase.

Not everybody is natively good at math ^^

Summzashi,

That’s fine, but then they shouldn’t go around correcting people.

ipkpjersi,

I shouldn’t do math right when I wake up.

intensely_human,

50% would have to be 18

Apollo42,

50% of 8 is 4, so increasing from 8 to 12.5 is an increase of over 50%.

intensely_human,

But we’re starting at 12

Apollo42,

Read the comment you originally replied to and then come back and tell me why we’re not starting at 12.

Apollo42,

8 eur to 12.5 eur is a 56.25% increase. 16 would be a 100% increase.

ipkpjersi,

OP said it’s 20% to 56% depending on currency.

ArmokGoB,

Then he should put that in the title.

Mr_Dr_Oink,

Thats fair, but equally you should read the post.

Like you have never had to dilute a clickbaity title before…

HKayn,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

What we should do is blame OP for deliberately choosing a title that makes it look worse than it is.

papertowels,

Just to be clear, by “read the post” do you mean go through all the comments of the mega thread OP shared? That seems unreasonable as opposed to “OP could’ve been clearer”. I’ve read both OPs post as well as the jagex website linked by Reddit and neither have enough information to back up OPs claims without prior knowledge.

Is there a more summarized version then “all the reddit comments on a mega thread” anywhere? Because that is basically halfway to telling someone to “do your own research”. At least quote some specific comments that could be taken as secondary sources.

We’ve had to dilute clickbaity titles before, we’ve also been pissed off at clickbaity titles before. I’d rather that shit not be normalized, personally.

Tudsamfa,
@Tudsamfa@lemmy.world avatar

By “read the post”, I assume they mean “read the 2nd sentence”.

The increases range from 20% to 56% in price depending on currency.

Sure, to verify this claim would take a bit more work. But the comment in question was just “14$ is not 50% more”.

The more appropriate thing to point out is that the increase in US $ is just 16%, anyway.

papertowels,

I also made the 16% error lol, math is hard.

Yeah I realized the difference is unpacking the clickbait as opposed to providing a verifiable claim.

Mr_Dr_Oink,

The second sentence in ops post here on lemmy.

papertowels,

Ah that’s fair, lol.

I realized we’re talking about two different things, you’re saying that the post unpacks the clickbait, and I’m saying that there’s no documentation of price increases, which tbf isn’t OPs main point anyways.

RvTV95XBeo,

But $12 to $14 is <20%…

olafurp,

Different currencies…

ipkpjersi,

But there’s more than one currency.

ShinkanTrain, (edited ) do gaming w I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness

S L I D E R S

Fucking Saints Row 2 had this shit figured out

PS: I like when the game just shows you a bunch of presets and says “pick one”. It’s more elegant than “which of the two body types do you want”

HawlSera,

^ This, I much prefer this… I mean something about “Body Type A/Body Type B” just feels too “corpo” for my tastes… but Saints Row sliders not so much.

Heck Pokemon even figured this out by just showing you pictures of characters and saying “Hey, which one of these do you wanna play as”, didn’t even have to use words.

derbis,

What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds? Where it’s the same year, and you’re the same person… but everything else is different? And what if you can’t find your way home?

jmbmkn,

I get this reference

Dariusmiles2123, do games w UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government

I hope everyone keeps putting some pressure on legislators about such things.

We have to remind companies that buying is buying.

I wish there was a petition for my country.

Baggie,

There might still be something you can do, go to www.stopkillinggames.com and you can see what you can do based on your country.

Dariusmiles2123,

Thanks for the info.

I had already looked at it and nothing applies to my country, especially because I don’t own « the Crew ».

But I just watched this video and it’s revolting : youtu.be/QZYy9KzFT2w?si=znDa-mFop0AQvSu9

mojo, do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

Fandom ruined actual good wikis. God that site is so shit, why do people keep using it?

sebinspace,

Because monopoly.

Shit, Mojang used to maintain their own wiki for Minecraft, but it was dropped and migrated to Fandom and now none of us can have nice things.

ryapric,

I was about to reply and say “nuh uh, the Minecraft wiki isn’t a Fandom one”, but jesus you’re right.

bobbysq,

It used to be independent until Curse started Gamepedia and then got bought by Wikia.

bionicjoey,

How is it a monopoly when mediawiki is FOSS? Lots of fan wikis use that instead.

FooBarrington,

Monopolies aren’t defined by the availability of alternatives. It’s based on the market share captured by a single entity. We’d need to see statistics to determine if it’s a total monopoly, but I’m not aware of many other hosting platforms for game wikis. Maybe fextralife?

bionicjoey,

Yeah I think hosting is the thing that they’ve captured, far more than the notion of a domain-specific wiki. Of course, there’s nothing stopping an aspiring wiki admin from hosting on a platform that isn’t targeted at game wikis.

JackbyDev,

Fextralife is utter shit. Always giving you the most unrelated information in the longest amount of time all while being forced to watch a stream you don’t care about.

jjjalljs,

I use an adblocker to remove their stupid stream embed

cre0, (edited ) do games w Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?

PSA for people sick of fandom: www.antifandom.com has the same content on an ad-free UI

its a mirror of www.breezewiki.com which has a search on the home page as well as a list of other mirrors

NinjaYeti76,
@NinjaYeti76@mastodon.social avatar

@cre0 @blanketswithsmallpox many of my video game related searches end with -fandom. Thank you for this.

sebinspace,

I think we hugged it too hard

cre0,

breezewiki.com is another mirror and looks to be still working

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