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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

unexposedhazard, do gaming w I have a shelf of boxes that I just can't throw out...

Nah thats dumb take. The switch 2 just came out, so if you have any issues within warranty period, you will want to have that box. Wait until after the end of warranty to throw it away.

Gullible,

This post was written by Nintendo.

MagnyusG,

why would Nintendo actively tell people to follow up on their warranty?

Gullible, (edited )

I think I should explain. A post is the main, original content that someone uploads to the internet for others to reply to, supplying a separate space, called a comment section, for people to discuss. It can be a picture, text, link, or some combination of the three.

A comment, despite being able to hold the same content, is not a post as it is not the main, original content someone posted. A comment does not create a separate space, but it does create a comment thread, a string of replies, usually by separate users.

A comment is to a post as the red marks on your school papers were to your writings. Hope that helps!

rayquetzalcoatl,
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world avatar

Could’ve just said you were referring to the original post, and not the comment you replied to.

Gullible,

But I enjoyed explaining the difference between a post and a comment a fair bit more. I comment for me! But I’m a bit upset that no one has “umm, actually’d” the mistake I added later.

Rai,

Hahahaha I love this

Ptsf,

Why would they do the thing they do on the box, the website, in a little packet, and over the phone?..

MoonRaven,
@MoonRaven@feddit.nl avatar

Tip: you don’t need original packaging for warranty. You just need to send it in sturdy packaging.

unexposedhazard,

Yeah but its way easier just to keep it for a while. Also gives you a place to store any additional parts or papers.

PhobosAnomaly, do gaming w Microsoft Office gonna wreck your shit

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/b1c93b22-2473-41a0-817e-6569ff292ef4.webp

The seven horsemen of the 90s workplace computer apocalypse.

rmuk,

I’m still pissed off that they dropped the gold(ish) colour for Outlook.

PhobosAnomaly,

Outlook 2000 was magic, even if it had more security warnings than a trip to Yemen. The current iteration of Outlook that they’re pushing with Office 365 is an absolute disaster, as if they’ve dragged it down to Teams’ level and let it rot away.

As you can tell, I’m not a fan.

tibi,

I’m holding to old outlook for as long as I can. I’ll bitch and moan when they rip it out of my hands.

Trainguyrom,

The big problems is outlook like every mail client from the early 2000s collected tons of features during the mail client wars where every client needed to do a billion different things, so now there’s dozens of random little features baked in that very few people use but those who do have built entire business processes around.

For example I observed while working at a bank that the backend finance people would use the voting feature to vote on whether to bundle certain loans together. I’ve never before or since seen anyone in any business actively use that feature. There’s lots of other little features and tunables buried deep in Outlook and it’s a royal pain as an IT person to quickly learn about whatever obscure feature a user is complaining stopped working and of course figure out what the intended workflow for the feature is to begin with before I can even start troubleshooting how to fix it

I can’t blame Microsoft for wanting to greenfield Outlook development to a new standard base that’s shared between webmail and the application, but holy crap the amount of technical debt Outlook accumulated is going to take ages to escape from.

Personally, I don’t mind Outlook (new). It sends and receives emails, it shows my Teams meetings on the calendar, and it lets me easily schedule calendar events and Teams meetings, which is all I really need. Most importantly it bypasses a ton of annoying quirks of Outlook (classic)'s license verification and M365 authentication so I generally encourage my users to use it if they don’t otherwise have a strong preference, because it saves me tickets (especially the dreaded “outlook lost teams integration” complaints where Outlook (classic) misplaced its own extension for communicating with Teams (new) and usually involves uninstalling all versions of Teams then installing Teams (Classic) and upgrading it in-place 3x to resolve)

Appoxo, (edited )
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I prefer the new color.
And hot take: I like the icons of O365 for Wort Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint. And I prefer those over 2007. But I can compromise with the icons from 2013.

Edit: Halo is leaking :p

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Wort wort wort!

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I was wondering what you meant. Until I carefully read my post again and noticed…
All I can say is WORT WORT WORT

rmuk,

Agreed, the current batch of Office icons - and the updated versions rolling out soon - are excellent. I’m a big fan. But I still wish Outlook was gold.

dejected_warp_core,

Alas, Access was too powerful to make the transition to the cloud. It couldn’t be allowed to survive.

PhobosAnomaly,

Access got FoxPro’d, right in the kisser

And009,

What does it do again?

NikkiDimes,

No one truly knows, but there’s always that one guy in the office using it for god awful things it was never meant to do…

dejected_warp_core,

Access let you build visual apps, usually data-entry workflows, around its internal SQL database. You could build small apps with it using Visual Basic and a visual UI editor. Plus, all your work ships as a single file, provided the user also has Access installed. In many ways, it was like Apple’s Hypercard, but also way easier to write than webpages with the same capability. Oh, and you don’t need a server anywhere to make it work; it’s 100% local. It was also the next logical step to take after the most complex things you can do in Excel.

That said, it was crippled from the start - still very useful, but not for heavyweight stuff. It’s limited to a fixed number of UI, pages, database rows, etc, so it wouldn’t compete with more expensive MS solutions (this thing came with Office). I don’t think it got a lot of love because of that, but I personally used it to solve some real problems in the workplace, without need of any (official) developer resources.

In the present day, it would actually compete with a lot of simple business cases that are served in the cloud at some cost.

Trainguyrom,

Honestly Microsoft could’ve had a killer product with Access if they made an easier pipeline from Excel -> Access -> Win32 application/webpage with an SQL backend. Like there is some of that pipeline present, but if Microsoft actually followed that vision, created easy wizards for each step that your average office drone can complete and marketed the shit out of it, they could completely own business processes instead of a cottage industry of spreadsheets turned SAAS apps for every niche usecase that could’ve been handled by a common database frontend.

On the other hand, now we have a super easy jumping point for anyone in a large business who can program a little to spin up a new startup. Find a business process that’s currently a spreadsheet/on paper, write a database frontend to easily handle that then sell your solution to businesses looking to remove load bearing paperwork and spreadsheets

dejected_warp_core,

Exactly. Access was a dirt-cheap rapid application design (RAD) tool in disguise, and very easily could have been shaped into a smooth on-ramp to ASP, ASPX, IIS, and SqlServer solutions. In short: a hypothetical “Access.NET” would have been really something.

On the other hand, now we have a super easy jumping point for anyone in a large business who can program a little to spin up a new startup. Find a business process that’s currently a spreadsheet/on paper, write a database frontend to easily handle that then sell your solution to businesses looking to remove load bearing paperwork and spreadsheets

You just described most of my career, and how a lot of contracting shops get their start. Managers need reports, and someone has to program them. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve replaced Excel with custom software; a faster way to do this is usually welcome. That said, the cloud “Data” space is doing a lot right now to reduce this kind of task to Jupyter notebooks and some other proprietary solutions.

OfficerBribe,

It’s what many should have used instead of doing everything in gigantic macro filled Excel file.

filcuk,

Getting ptsd flashbacks from having to work with access.
Database corruption was so common I’ve had scripts in place to run automatic recoveries.
Terrible security, performance, and SQL feature support.
I’m so glad that thing is buried deep where it belongs

Karyoplasma, do gaming w A typical relationship in Crusader Kings III

Historically accurate royal family. Not even joking, it was all incest.

Quill7513,

when heredity is power, consolidation of power is inbreeding

icecreamtaco, (edited ) do games w When Nintendo games were affordable
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

Well yeah used games are always cheaper. These were $60 $50 new

suburban_hillbilly,

Well, at least used games used to be a thing that you could buy.

catloaf,

Still are. The Switch still takes cartridges.

Diddlydee,

Used to and still are.

ChapulinColorado,

GameCube games MSRP was 49.99. Adjusted for inflation it is $79.30. The reason things feel so expensive is because you get half cooked broken DLC ridden games as the norm and a large portion of income goes toward housing, transportation (cars specifically), food and education.

Glide,

Mhmm. Everyone is shitting on Nintendo, but the reality is their games are literally keeping up with inflation. The problem is that our wages haven’t kept up with inflation, and the cost of living has, at least, kept up. In some cases (rent), it’s grown faster than the inflation of everything else.

Don’t get me wrong, Nintendo is tone deaf for making this decision now, and I suspect they’d still make billions with a $15 price increase rather than a $30 one. I’m not defending them. But the picture is a lot larger than them.

JPAKx4,

If Nintendo always made games that didn’t need dlc or got free updates, didn’t require Nintendo online for full functionality, or had to pay a 30% platform fee, it would make much more sense for this price. I don’t believe for a second they won’t make a profit at $60 for their mainline games.

naticus,

You’re also forgetting maybe the biggest factor: library selection. We used to have a lot of choices, but not literal thousands of choices across all our platforms. If we only had our choice of a few hundred games, $80 might sound more reasonable.

Dudewitbow,

theres also the chance that at least for TTYD, that was a players choice version of the game, which retailed for 20$ new. since its 2006, on the wake of the Wii

Viking_Hippie, (edited ) do games w Are there any games like Starfield?

The Outer Worlds is pretty much what Starfield could and should have been and was made by Obsidian, the developers behind a ton of other great games such as (in chronological order, with the best of all games ever bolded)

  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
  • Neverwinter Nights 2
  • Fallout New Vegas
  • Pillars of Eternity
  • Tyranny
  • Pillars of Eternity 2

There’s even a sequel to it coming out some time this year so you don’t run as much of a risk of running out of game any time soon!

FeelzGoodMan420,

Hm. In my opinion Outer Worlds was just as boring and mediocre as starfield.

Viking_Hippie,
Kaboom,

You aren’t wrong, but it’s better than starfield.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Hard disagree. They’re both equally boring as shit, but Starfield at least had decent ship flying/building mechanics. What did outer worlds have? Nothing.

the_captain,

world building that makes sense

Kaldo,

It did? Outer Worlds was just an over-exaggerated parody of capitalism, Starfield at least had some somewhat-believable world building in terms of how the tech progressed, how/why did humans start to live among the stars, conflict between different religions or factions, the xenomorph threat...

Like I'm not saying any of these were done well, but it did have decent worldbuilding and some neat ideas, it was just the execution that sucked. OW might have some better parts than SF, like companion writing (although it was pretty cliched and cheesy there too) so I'm really surprised you use world building as your example lol

the_captain,

im just salty about starfields world building shouldve chosen different example

OWs world building was fine. nothing special, just fine. there were stupid things but they were either a joke or there to back up a point (“we moved this dangerous animal to this planet to make a deodorant and now its killing us” 👈 this shit is supposed to be funny and anti corporation. does it work? dunno, its stupid, might be funny to someone, its fine, little cringe )

starfields world building just grinds my gears. when there are stupid things, they are there because someone at bethesda thinks its coool as heck or didnt think it through. fucking space cowbois. fucking colony war. why add mechs into your world and ban them? why artificially limit the number of star systems the nations can control?

tldr - both are shit but starfields worse

Kaboom,

I’d agree that most of the world building in SF was better, but the unity just destroyed everything. It made it so everything you did, did not matter.

winety,

I’d say it was a solid 7/10. One of the DLCs (Peril on Gorgon I think) is better than the base game, I’ve heard.

On a good day, Starfield’s a 5/10 in my eyes.

HIMISOCOOL,

Totally agree the dlc really made it one if those “it gets good after x hours” sorta things; All different vibes for the dlcs too. The raider one was lonely but it felt like it was supposed to be.

HipsterTenZero,
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

It’s not the be~st choice, it’s spacer’s choice!

JustEnoughDucks,
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

Yeah I played it halfway and it didn’t grip me like New Vegas and KOTOR2 did. The story just seemed pretty convoluted and meandering.

Gameplay was about as fun as NV though!

john89,

Yeah, I really enjoyed the polish of it and how it showed us what a better fallout could be.[

That said, it was woefully lacking on content and committed a cardinal sin of gaming: the ending felt like the game was just getting started.

Also, not a fan at all of whoever is telling them to ignore romance options.

ByteOnBikes,

Thank you! Felt like I was I playing a different game than everyone else.

Everyone mocked Starfield’s Neon for being Discount Cyberpunk. But at least they played it as straight as they could. Like, I could believe people live there and had a life.

It felt like Outer Worlds kept trying to make jokes about how cruel capitalism is versus tell a real story. Like, “Oh boy time to go increase shareholder value!” Or “I love Space nuts. I have to say that or I die.” Like wtf, where’s the subtlety?

It’s not Borderlands 3 bad, no where near it. But it’s pretty bad.

winety,

In this genre of “big space games”, The Outer Worlds stands near to Mass effect, because it follows “the Bioware formula” pretty closely: The player and a group of followers visit several semi-open worlds, where they look for a MacGuffin related to the main story while solving local problems. (I’ll write a short essay about the Bioware formula someday…)

The Outer Worlds was a good game (not great) and I look forward to the sequel. I’ve played most Obsidian games and I wish they wrote more sci-fi.

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Starfield was much better than Outer Worlds IMO. I enjoyed my time with Starfield, it’s not perfect of course. I’ve tried to get through Outer Worlds three times but it’s just not fun, I also strongly dislike New Vegas. Just ok writing doesn’t make up for shitty gameplay.

Viking_Hippie,
lvxferre, do gaming w Itch.io was taken down by funko pop
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

As of now the site is already back.

The core of the problem is that there’s absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.

At least you’d expect claims to be automatically dropped when coming from an assumptive/disingenuous party. Something like “you issued 100 wrong claims so we won’t listen to your 101st one, sod off”. But nah.

As such, “your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you’re conrent now!!!” has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they’d abuse it.

The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.

merthyr1831,

IP and copyright laws have been the bane of the internet. Not only stifling fair use but it has become nothing but weaponised for corporate warfare. the DMCA isn’t fit for purpose.

Quexotic,

Couldn’t it be weaponized right back at them. What’s stopping an individual?

Apepi,

Getting sued for all your bananas by companies much richer than you.

Quexotic,

Fairnuff.

lennivelkant,

An individual would risk corporate lawyers lobbing suits at them they don’t have nearly enough resources to fight. In that way, it’s much like other forms of activism: individual actions are easily singled out and retaliated against.

If a ton of people were to do so, however, they might have an impact. Either the registrar would have to take steps to limit who can submit them, which might conflict with some laws, or they’d invest a great deal of resources trying to sort out the legit ones. Trying to single out people for retaliation is hard when there’s enough of them. In this way, too, it is like other forms of activism:

There is strength in numbers. There is power in unity.

If, hypothetically, someone were to coordinate such actions in the style of a crowdsources DDoS, and they could get enough participants, they might get away with it.

Quexotic,

Interesting point. I’ll keep it in mind.

Crotaro,

Sounds like a job for a group similar to Anonymous, just less focused on actual illegal activities and instead just playing out the legal methods of fighting against corporations.

dylanmorgan,

Does the DMCA protect claimants against liability if they make incorrect or spurious claims?

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]

As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.

millie,

I mean, there is. DMCA essentially protects content hosts from copyright claims. When they get a DMCA notice, they remove the material and inform the user whose material is removed. If they want to contest it, they can submit a counter notice denying the claim and basically saying “take me to court then”, with their contact info so a suit can be filed. At this point, if nothing is filed in a two week period, the host is free to consider the initial takedown notice void.

Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.

Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.

underisk, do games w PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug
@underisk@lemmy.ml avatar

you don’t get entire functional UI elements accurately populated with appropriate data out of a “bug”. at best its a feature that was being tested internally and never would have made it past that, at worst its something that went live early.

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

Oh whoops I accidentally built an entire ad portal and placed it onto the main page and oh no I accidentally passed it through multiple levels of code review QA and approval, then crap I deployed it to the test environment then prod

Scolding7300,

I can see how that’s a bug that it got released if the intended purpose was to do a POC and gauge the reaction from some internal testers.

But even then they were POC-ing that, which is terrible

underisk,
@underisk@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah it is possible he’s accurately, but misleadingly, calling it a bug because it was not meant to be deployed to production (yet). I do not think that’s how he wants or expects people to take it when he calls it a “bug”, though.

dabu, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?
@dabu@lemmy.world avatar

First thing that came in to my mind was Gears of War with its specific third person view and hiding behind covers. I don’t think it was the first game with that mechanic but the most influential one

RootBeerGuy, (edited )
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Third person view in an FPS (first person shooter) type of game was first seen in the first Lara Croft game, I think?

MagicShel,

I think you need to be more specific than just “third person”. Third person view was in Pong, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Centipede, etc. It’s the default for most games.

First person was probably introduced with Battle Zone.

Which, I don’t mean to sound pedantic, I just literally don’t really know what you mean here.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Then you will need to extend that to the OP of this comment chain as they didn’t specify either what Gears of War is. I am going to edit my comment to clarify but I do feel you are too pendantic for asking this.

MagicShel,

Thank you. Sorry. Never played that game and didn’t know that was specific to FPS. I know some arcade shooter games had that mechanic, but not in the context of free-roaming FPS. I think you’re right about Tomb Raider.

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Your examples are of bird’s eye view games, not third person.

sp3tr4l,

If you are attempting to ask which game popularized 3d, third person shooters, then yes, the original Tomb Raider is probably the most early, widely popular game that popularized this.

GeneralEmergency,

Operation WinBack from 1999 is considered the first third person cover based shooter.

sirico,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

This is true but Gears popularised it

Ragnarok314159,

Showing my age here, but what’s the difference between hiding behind cover in Gears of War vs what we did in LAN parties for UT or Wolfenstein 3D?

sirico,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Snap to asset change camera angle Vs jiggle peak

sexual_tomato,

This game is a broken buggy mess but in a good way

Katana314,

The term I refer to is “hiding behind cover” singular - so when I hear “hiding behind covers” I think of the COG seeing locusts, getting scared, and wrapping themselves up in blankets. Lol

mPony,

when I hear “hiding behind covers”

Operation Blanket Fort

luciole, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

To be fair when it came out seven years ago it really shook up the portable gaming scene. Every portable console coming out since is an iteration on that design. The joycons can go to hell though. And those weird ass online plans.

sleepybisexual,

Yea, you have a point. But in terms of feel, my n3dsxl is a lot comfier

luciole,
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

I really liked the original 2DS personally. The announcement left everyone incredulous as the device sounded and looked like a dumb downgrade. I mean, it was hard to tell if it was joke or not. In the end though it’s light, cheap, tough and surprisingly comfortable.

sleepybisexual,

The 2ds looks cool, I want more systems in the family

cordlesslamp,

Hey, is it too late to buy a couple of n3dsxl in 2024? Is it unusable now as all online services are shut down? Can you still find game cartridges to buy?

I just want something simple to play co-op game with the wife and kids on camping trip or on-the-go sometimes. Last month I dug out my old DSLite from the attic and it’s still boot. My candy-crush-4-life wife love the Mario kart and couldn’t stop playing LOL. But we can’t justify to buy 2-4 Switch.

Because fuck Nintendo and their predatory anti consumer business model.

sleepybisexual,

They can be a lil hard rlto find, but are well worth it. Get one, a 128gb microsd and you have a really good system

BruceTwarzen,

When it came out it was just slightly better than a phone

luciole,
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

Cheaper than many phones as well.

frezik,

But without an app store full of shit that games the recommendation system.

Nintendo handhelds would have died a long time ago if smartphone vendors could have avoided that problem.

t3rmit3,

Isn’t the switch itself just an iteration on the GameGear, or close to ‘home’, the GBA?

It’s not the first chunky, horizontal handheld. The only thing that was new about it was the joycons, and they ditched those immediately for the Lite.

erwan,

The Game gear and GBA played games that were nothing like the home console games of their time.

This is what the Switch brought to the table. Breadth of the Wild was a great home console title, and you could play it handheld on the go.

t3rmit3, (edited )

I think that calling BOtW similar to other full-scale console games of 2017 like Sniper Elite 4, Middle Earth: Shadow of War, Nier Automata, Prey, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, RE7, or AssCreed Origins, is a biiiiiiig stretch.

It was a huge jump for Nintendo (it was basically putting GameCube-level games on a handheld), but it was still far behind other consoles. Witcher 3 (2015) even eventually released on the Switch in 2019, and it was massively graphically gimped compared to ahem real consoles.

GammaGames,

I think that discounting the 5th best selling game of the year (plus all the awards) because you like games on other platforms is a mistake.

Graphics aren’t everything!

t3rmit3, (edited )

I didn’t say it’s not good, I said it’s not equivalent to console releases of that year. Graphics isn’t everything, and I still enjoy playing Pax Imperia and Nox, but that doesn’t change that it was a handheld game, not a console game. Pokemon Red/Blue were also some of the best selling games the year they released, but that doesn’t make the Gameboy equivalent as a console to PSX or N64 either.

GammaGames,

What makes you think it’s a handheld game? It was originally designed for and did release on the Wii U, a console

Don_alForno,

BotW was originally developed for the WiiU, which it also released on. It is not a “handheld game”, and tbh I’d take it’s gameplay loop over Nier Automata or Shadow of War any day of the week.

Instigate,

The Switch design is an evolution of the Wii U controller, which itself was evolved from the the lower screen design of the DS, which itself was modelled on the old Vertical Multi Screen Game and Watches from the 1980s.

Have a look through all of Nintendo’s consoles and you’ll see the lines of inspiration drawn from generation to generation.

Glide, do gaming w What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

It’s just a quality Western RPG, the like of which we haven’t seen since Bioware was bought.

Good products create buzz; I really think is is simply that.

DarkDarkHouse,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That and it’s a tire-screeching exit from the abusive road we thought gaming was going down. Microtransactions, lootboxes etc. Baldur’s Gate 3 is refreshing from that perspective and, like me, I think many are amazed that it’s actually working.

lolcatnip, (edited )

I see nothing revolutionary about a game not having things like microtransactions and loot boxes. Those are mostly restricted to multiplayer games, and the industry never stopped making good single-player games without that bullshit.

bezerker03,

But bg3 is a multiplayer inspired game.

Bg 1 and 2 set the rpg world on fire. 3 lived up to the hype.

entropicdrift,

Not just multiplayer-inspired. Fully multiplayer start to finish, if you want

hh93,

Even a lot of the AAA single player games have day 1 DLCs with skins or 15 different deluxe packages for preorder or something similar though

Doesn’t need to be the in-game microtransactions but it’s very rare today that everyone starts out with the same stuff in AAA games today

Ricaz, (edited )

DOS 1 and 2 were almost on par with BG3 imo.

Pillars of Eternity was also really good.

Thintalle,

How about those Pathfinder games? How do they stack up?

Ricaz,

Only played the first one which was pretty good. It’s super big on character customization as it has a million race/class combinations. A bit more extreme than the rest

kembik,

Here is a video about both if interested. youtu.be/bQZAg4RwuZU

ayyy, do games w First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .

Fuck religion.

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Don’t you just love people that can’t mind their own fucking business?

YiddishMcSquidish,

Bro for real! Like I hate any porn game, as a game. Not as a societal flaw!

So you know what I do? Same exact thing I do about gay sex. I don’t do it, I don’t think about it very often unless there’s a funny joke to be made in a tangential way, and I don’t tell other people that they have to be exact like me.

Ffs, let people do what they want if they aren’t hurting anyone.

glitchdx,

but if people are watching porn or having gay sex then they’re not making babies to sacrifice to the capitalist meat grinder.

MrScottyTay,

They want people having more babies so the US president has more supply to pick from. It’s not been as easy since he lost his best friend that helped sort it out for him.

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

They cannot help it. They literally think about it all the time, and there’s no helping people like collective shout or the crazies on the street. The unwashed ones with the “you’re going to hell for gay sex” signs.

I see the same people on the street all the time. And they think about gay sex WAY more than I do, and I’m married to a person of the same goddamn sex, lol.

Some people really need to cut loose. Generally, I’m not pro-drugs, but damn, they need some hard party drugs to reset things and help them get back to a normal life. Go to burning man, get a good job, then go hike the Appalachian trail or something, for Christ sake.

YiddishMcSquidish,

I would argue that instead of party drugs (which I assume is X, coke, alcohol, pot, and so on), I think they need a good ego death trip. I’m talking like twenty caps(or two wavy bois) or an LD50 of LSA.

ArchmageAzor,
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

“If you sin you’re going to hell, I have to save you from yourself!”

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

I’m so sick of this. What if we don’t want saving? Just fuck off.

I’ve got friends in both places, and I highly doubt God is gonna give you extra karma or brownie points for converting someone to a made up religion that’s like, maybe 200 years old, lol.

Go gardening. Volunteer at a big cat rescue place. Stop wasting your life preaching something that deep down, you probably don’t even believe in, but is distracting you from something else in your life that could be resolved with therapy.

Supervisor194, do games w Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world avatar

Because it’s about to affect big money so they sic their bots on it to shape public opinion and stomp it, like everything else.

henfredemars, do gaming w Don't touch me with that stuff

It’s like how IT people don’t trust printers.

NaibofTabr,

Do you know someone who does trust printers?

DragonTypeWyvern,

Suckers and normies

aviationeast,

I laughed, you laughed, the printer laughed. I shot the printer so the hacker just pivoted to the smart thermostat.

OminousOrange,
@OminousOrange@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah those get put on the no internet access network.

henfredemars,

The last printer I bought I returned because it said Internet access is mandatory to complete the set up.

I tried temporarily turning it on but as soon as I disconnected it after a couple days it would tell me I have to reconnect to continue printing.

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