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nokturne213, do gaming w Doom lore is getting too complicated
negativenull,
@negativenull@lemmy.world avatar
SkaveRat,

I can hear this picture

I spent way too many hours grinding in there

sundray,

I feel like Doomguy should be a class in Diablo.

Cethin,

Well, they are both owned by M$ now, so it could happen…

dragonfucker, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Why is he still using Twitter? Does he want a bunch of Nazis replying to him?

bassomitron,

Because, unfortunately, millions of people still use it. If you’re selling a product, it’s in your best interest to have as much social media presence as possible.

Also, it’s better to have an official presence on those platforms so others can’t impersonate you as easily.

dragonfucker,

Then there should also be a version of the post on Mastody, and this post should be a screenshot of that one.

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  • essteeyou,

    If you’ve ever made a thing that took so much time that it has to be your job, and earn you money, you’d likely have a different view. If you’re ignoring a percentage of your target market because they’re on a platform you don’t like, then your project might fail, and you don’t get to keep your house.

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  • Tarquinn2049,

    If your stated downside to still using Twitter is that it’s a waste of time, is that invalidated if your posting tool posts to all of your socials with one click? Like most professional social media users that have to maintain a bunch of channels with the same content?

    Also, who is being dramatic about how important it is to be on or off twitter?

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  • Tarquinn2049,

    Ok… but his thing can actually happen… your version of the bad things that can happen for still also posting news to twitter is all imaginary stuff that doesn’t happen in real life. Being upset about the direction Twitter and Reddit took and are taking is a totally valid, and honestly the objectively correct position to have about it. But adding in imaginary penalties for using it is not.

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  • essteeyou,

    You’re saying it’s completely impossible that a game developer remortgaged their home for their project and then failed to meet their required sales by a small amount that could be accounted for by being active on Twitter?

    Like, completely impossible for that to happen under absolutely any circumstances?

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  • essteeyou,

    All of this stupid disagreement is about this:

    You either do the right thing and lose a little exposure or you stick with it and accept that you’re a part of Elon Musk’s political machine.

    For some people, that’s a choice between scraping by and failing.

    I’m saying: do what you gotta do

    nasi_goreng,
    @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip avatar

    Twitter can reach various community from variety of region, like English Asia Twitter.

    Entire fediverse is still mostly Western community.

    Fubarberry,
    @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Twitter is by far the larger platform, and small independent creators have to work to promote their game on every platform they can, if they want to succeed. The moral high ground of not using undesirable social media sites is nice, but isn’t fair to people who are partially dependent on those platforms to make a living.

    damnedfurry,

    Also, the simple fact is that there is no reason that any entity promoting their product has to choose any of these platforms over the other–you can just post to all of them, every single one that has enough users to be worth posting to.

    Cornelius_Wangenheim, (edited )

    I’ve seen several small creators say they get 10 times the engagement on Bluesky. That includes sales through promo links, which can’t be faked. It’s becoming clear that X’s numbers are mostly illusory at this point.

    anomaly, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
    @anomaly@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Control

    Damage,

    Yeah, got it for free on epic, assumed it was a game on dictatorship for reason… What a trip it turned out to be

    inb4_FoundTheVegan,
    @inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

    Great combat, graat atmosphere, great story. Definitely worth your time.

    Artyom,

    It’s on sale on Steam for $7, just got it!

    ZC3rr0r,

    The DLC for that game was a trip too. Highly recommend checking it out as it really added to Alan Wake 2 for me.

    TommySoda, do games w My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them

    I cannot tell you how much better my mental health has been since I stopped playing Apex Legends, Overwatch, and Rocket League. I never had anything against the gameplay of these games but the microtransactions and battle passes were just straight up toxic. After a couple weeks you simply don’t give a shit anymore and it’s amazing. I see my roommate playing these games until 3 AM every day because he has to do his daily challenges for 4 different games. He’ll be so pissed off that he can barely speak as he powers through game after game to get them done so he can go to bed. And in hindsight, that’s probably what I used to look like back when I played those games.

    Buttflapper,

    Apex Legends … the microtransactions and battle passes were just straight up toxic

    My friend bought Battlepass for Apex once because it had a pretty decent skin in it. Then, he was straight up *PISSED * when next season they had the most ridiculous, incredible looking skin ever. He felt like he had to purchase it again that season, and was bitter he spent money the previous season for something so mediocre. That kind of thought process is just awful. These games lure you right into it.

    Prox,

    Apex battle passes have always given you enough credit to buy the next season’s pass. I’ve been playing since launch, I’ve completed all battle passes save for maybe 4, and I’ve spent a total of $10 on the game.

    TommySoda,

    Until they start charging only money for the battle passes. I never even used 80% of the skins I got on the battle passes anyway. I just wanted them so I didn’t not have them. As someone that has over 2,000 hours in Apex, I’m so glad I jumped ship. The grass was very green on the other side.

    Prox,

    Funny you should mention that. They attempted to do precisely this (only buy the BP with real money) a few months ago. The player base revolted, and they walked it back to the way things were.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    He’ll be so pissed off that he can barely speak as he powers through game after game to get them done so he can go to bed.

    If you want to help him get out of that, give him a burn or two every once in a while: “How are your second, third and fourth jobs coming along?” - “With all that work you do, you should ask for a raise!”

    Hopefully he’ll realize he’s not playing, but working, and give up on that. Hopefully.

    RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time

    Still better than Horse Armor. So no, not Bethesda’s worst DLC.

    very_well_lost,

    At least horse armor was good for the memes. This is so bland no one even cares to meme about it.

    Buttflapper,

    Still better than Horse Armor. So no, not Bethesda’s worst DLC.

    The difference is that Oblivion wasn’t bad at all. It was terrific. Starfield was trash from the beginning, then delivers a trash DLC. That’s much worse. No improvement.

    ech,

    There are 2 important words there that you’re missing.

    samus12345, (edited )
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    Shattered Space is one of the Bethesda DLCs of all time.

    Cyberflunk, do gaming w The worst of both worlds
    ech,

    I dig it.

    affiliate,

    i really hope his whole character isn’t just a “man in dress” “joke”

    Soulg,

    Is it even a dress? Thought it was a pink suit jacket kinda thing

    trxxruraxvr,

    From the original post it seems like he’s wearing jeans

    TotalFat,

    Is that supposed to be Herobrine or something?

    Carighan, do games w How to decide what kind of controller one should purchase?
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    An 8bitdo Ultimate.

    There, decision done, express lane service.

    gnomesaiyan,
    @gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world avatar

    I second this, great manufacturer. The 8BitDo Pro 2 is my personal preference. It looks like a Playstation and SNES controller did the fusion dance. I liked it so much I bought two: one for my PC and one for my Switch. It has a quality feel to it, excellent tactile response, and feels very comfortable in my hands.

    mp3,
    @mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

    I chose the Ultimate BT variant because you know, Bluetooth and the Hall Effect joystick.

    I bought a pack of ABXY buttons with the Xbox color scheme and layout just to make it look like the non-BT variant.

    hobovision,

    The Ultimate 2.4 has right now bluetooth and hall effect sensors as well. I couldn’t get it to pair with the switch though I didn’t try super hard. It works on Bluetooth with my Android TV but for whatever reason ignores the customized buttons (I keep accidentally pressing the wing buttons on the bottom) so I use the dongle on the TV.

    ElectricTrombone,
    @ElectricTrombone@lemmy.world avatar

    Bingo. Get the Pro also.

    I use the 8bitdo Pro for platforming because of the d-pad makes it feel like a SNES controller. And the 8bitdo Ultimate for games where I need joysticks.

    figaro,

    Just checked, looks like they are wired. I get it for certain games, but generally I prefer the convenience of wireless.

    BigPotato,

    They come wired and wireless.

    BlindFrog,

    Second this, just get some thumbstick covers. I have the 8bitdo pro, and I’m getting tired of the joysticks peeling off onto the rest of the controller after a game.

    I haven’t had drift on them yet, but if/when I need to replace Old Reliable, I’m looking for hall effect joysticks.

    Edit: damn, just found out the pro2 has hall effect joysticks

    Sanctus, do games w RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    “Invest Firms” are doing this all over. My company as well as several other prominent southwest construction companies just got bought out, too.

    This is the end game of capitalism. Firms buying other firms to squeeze every dime out of them. Its about to get fucken bumpy.

    silverchase, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
    @silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Celeste $1.99 (90% off, new all-time low)

    Hard but fair precision platformer by an expert of platformer design. Excellent controls, deep platforming mechanics, and a cathartic story about internal and external struggles.

    june,
    @june@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Also 🏳️‍⚧️

    lud,

    Is the character trans? I have flinished the whole game and I can’t recall that.

    silverchase,
    @silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Yes, Maddy is trans. This is both from word of god and a hint in the background of a piece of art in-game.

    june,
    @june@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    maddymakesgames.com/articles/…/index.html

    Is Madeline Canonically Trans?

    Well, yeah, of course she is.

    This feels painfully obvious to a lot of (mostly trans) people, and likewise it feels painfully obvious to me too, in retrospect. It has also become painfully obvious to me that I, myself, am trans. But these are things that I was not aware of during the development of Celeste, where I was writing Madeline and speaking from her perspective. Creating Celeste with my friends helped me reach the point where I could realize this truth about myself. During Celeste’s development, I did not know that Madeline or myself were trans. During the Farewell DLC’s development, I began to form a hunch. Post-development, I now know that we both are.

    lud,

    So she is essentially retroactively trams.

    Not that I mind, but it is what it is.

    june,
    @june@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Read further, while the author didn’t realize what she was doing it is a trans narrative through and through, and the free dlc ending did contain the flag because by then she did know.

    When Madeline looks in the mirror and sees her other self; when she attempts to abandon her reflection, who then drags her down the mountain; when the two reconcile and merge to become stronger and more complete… that was all unknowingly written from a trans perspective.

    silverchase,
    @silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar
    barsquid,

    I’ve been wanting to play this for a while and that price made it an instant buy. Really glad I did. Some of the strawberries are hard and unfair tho, haha.

    simple, do gaming w Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?

    People that have this opinion often only play AAA games. There are a lot of indie games that channel old-school game energy and improve upon them. Shovel Knight for example is a lot better than old platformers wish they were. A Hat in Time is a ton of fun compared to the vast majority of PS2/Gamecube 3D platformers. Hollow Knight is better than any Metroid game (I know a lot of people would disagree, though).

    Feyd,

    Hollow Knight is pretty different than metroid games and I’m not sure I’d directly compare them. I’m the only person I know that doesn’t like Hollow Knight and it seems like the departures it makes from the classic metroidvania formula that put me off it are part of the reason other people like it

    MudMan,

    Nah, you have a point. There are a bunch of "2D soulslikes" that get advertised as "Metroidvanias", and I wish we had better language to split that difference, because there's a big conceptual shift between the "parry and dodge" souls style and the genuine Metroid/Castlevania style of movement and aggression. It feels very different and honestly the last time something scratched that itch it was Bloodstained.

    So yeah, Hollow Kinght is a very well made game, but it's not what I'm looking for every time I fire up one of the DSvanias for yet another run.

    sleepybisexual,

    I play indies too :3 (well try to, switch games don’t appeal much to me)

    I wonder if you find older indie games

    eezeebee,
    @eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

    I loved A Hat in Time. I grew up in that golden age of platformers and Hat definitely stands up in quality to those.

    Glide, (edited )

    Cassette Beasts kicks the ever loving shit out of Pokemon across the board, modern or retro.

    Retro games weren’t better than modern games as a “full-stop” statement. They tended to be bug-ridden messes, but there was still a heart and soul behind them that tends to be missing in the AAA industry. Continuing on the Pokemon example Red/Blue were an absolute mess. I mean, moves and items that were supposed to massively increase critical hit rate massively decreased them instead. Stat calculations were all over the place. Hell, the ghost-psychic interaction just straight didn’t function as intended. It was a mess, and yet for some reason, it’s touted as “better” than the modern Pokemon games.

    Plus, not all big studio games are soulless cash grabs of releases, either. Hi-Fi Rush is my favorite game of 2023 by a huge margin, and was a Bethesda published game. Sure, the dev studio was “smaller” compared to Ubisoft or Activison, but I wouldn’t call the game indie - it was AAA in polish and scale. I’m currently really enjoying Unicorn Overlord, getting major Ogre Battle 64 vibes from it, and playing a lot of Monster Hunter Rise thanks to a Steam sale. These games slap, and have all the depth and passion of games of old without alI of the horrible jank we dealt with in the pre-internet “no such thing as a post-release patch” world.

    It’s easy to see the yearly Call of Duty, Pokemon, generic EA sports, and obligatory Ubisoft open world games release and think “man, AAA gaming sucks”, but they’re honestly a very tiny portion of the conversation.

    EDIT: I take everything back, Bethesda just closed the studio that made Hi-Fi Rush. AAA gaming is a cancer that needs to be surgically extracted.

    comicallycluttered,

    Cassette Beasts was a real treat. I’ll be finding it very difficult to go back to other monster taming games after playing that.

    haui_lemmy, do games w I just want to play my game...

    if you want to own/keep owning stuff, consider supporting with the push of a button.

    Stopkillinggames is trying to change this in a huge effort spearheaded by one stubborn individual.

    bridge_too_close, (edited ) do games w Game devs should follow the BG3 development footprint
    @bridge_too_close@kbin.social avatar

    A lot of devs already do this. That's what Steam Early Access is for. Now, whether or not the devs actually listen to feedback is a different story...

    Carighan,
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    Early Access is just “release”. Only the devs openly admit ahead of time the game is buggy and unfinished, and promise - as always - to fix it up and add the missing parts.

    Often they do. Sometimes they don’t.

    TBH it’s ultimately nothing but a shitty buggy release, but the honesty of making that known ahead of time buys a whole lot of goodwill. It should be the default, that any publisher releasing a game that is not finished - so most AAA nowadays - marks it as Early Access, openly declaring the unfinished part.

    It’s also very different from a beta version, which is usually feature and content complete (otherwise it’s generally called an alpha). Early Access versions are often very early in the development process, they’re feature-complete-ish, but never or rarely content complete, usually just starting out on that. This works exceedingly well for games that need “just more stuff”, but can miss the mark on games that need underlying systems reworked as this ires the existing playerbase and splits it.

    bridge_too_close,
    @bridge_too_close@kbin.social avatar

    Early access isn't necessarily different from a beta version, it's just the name of the program used by devs to generate some revenue and get feedback during development. The game can be in alpha or beta or whatever.

    Personally, I avoid games in early access on principle (with a couple exceptions) as I would rather play them once they are completed.

    Carighan,
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    Same, I got little enough gaming time, might as well play it once it’s in its best state and play something else before that.

    yamanii,
    @yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

    I disagree, big publishers do not deserve early access, they have money to pay for QA, it’s a gross misuse of the feature.

    dustyData, do games w What moment from a video game made you cry?

    Brothers: A tale of two sons.

    The game has a pretty unique mechanic. It makes you control two characters at the same time. It’s not a coop game, with optional solo. It’s strictly a single player game, where you use one controller to move two characters, the titular two sons, one on each control stick. Throughout the game you use movement and interactions with the environment to solve simple puzzles to remove obstacles in your way and travel to your destination. Usually, by having you do different things with each character simultaneously. After a while, it becomes second nature to control both brothers in a synchronous and flowing manner when you get used to the challenge of moving and paying attention to two different things at the same time.

    spoilerNear the end of game though, one of the brothers dies. Now, you are left with two control sets, but only one character. Puzzles similar to ones that you already solved, now you have to figure out how to solve them, on your own. This on its own is gutwrenching as you developed a familiarity and affection to both characters and their dynamic, as they grow from mutually annoyed siblings, to a well coordinated team of brothers who care and protect each other. But through the game, you’re also taught that the younger brother can’t swim, he doesn’t know how to. So whenever you had to cross a body of water, the elder brother had to carry the younger brother on his back. He is deadly afraid of being in the water since their mother apparently drowned herself and he saw her die. At the climax of the game, alone in the middle of the ocean, you have to swim to shore. The emotional kicker is as you discover that using the dead brother’s stick on your controller, which you haven’t touched in at least half an hour since the other brother died because it doesn’t do anything anymore, calls however upon the memory of the older brother when you swim. You have to use both controller’s sticks to swim effectively and survive, and you can hear him cheering and supporting the younger brother to find his strength and swim on his own, back home, to carry on and save their father’s life. It’s such an empowering and emotional moment.

    The ending of that game still makes me tear up after all this years as it makes me think of my own family. Even writing this comment I’m getting emotional. And it does it all without a single line of dialogue, text or voice acting. All by animation and vocalizations along with game mechanics. It’s one of the most effective uses of gameplay I have ever seen in a video game and forever has made me think of this as one of my favorite games of all time.

    Other video games, and things people call emotional are usually about story elements, plot lines, events on a character’s arc. Things that have books upon books of analysis and history. Not that they’re any less valuable or deserving of praise, but using gameplay this effectively to convey emotion is, however, kind of unique and rather harder to pull off effectively.

    SlimeKnight,

    You have me sold on the game.

    fluxion,

    Yah that sounds like an incredible experience

    CouldntCareBear,

    You put that into words perfectly. I think it’s the only game that proscribes an emotion so successfully through a gameplay mechanic. It’s the most real, raw and visceral sense of loss I’ve ever felt in a game, film or book. Truly unique.

    Nath,
    @Nath@aussie.zone avatar

    You missed the very end when the dad finds out that his son basically died to save him. As a dad with two sons, this would break me. Leave me to die, boys. That’s not a trade I’d ever make.

    Nihilore,
    @Nihilore@lemmy.world avatar

    I played this many years ago on Total Biscuits recommendation, he had similar things to say about it, it truly is a beautiful game

    lvxferre, do gaming w AITAH for pirating games before buying them?
    @lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

    For the people discussing here: remember that the morality of an act depends on the act itself, the context where it happens, and the moral premises. It does not depend on how you phrase or label the act.

    With that in mind: since I define arseholery as “actions or behaviour that cause more harm to someone else than they benefit the agent”, and there’s practically no harm being caused by OP’s actions, I do not think that OP is being an arsehole.

    0485919158191,
    @0485919158191@lemmy.world avatar

    Good point!

    bionicjoey,

    It’s a victimless “crime”. Especially since OP is saying they will go on to buy games they like.

    Kolanaki, do games w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?
    !deleted6508 avatar

    Sierra adventure games, like King’s Quest and Space Quest, were notorious for this kind of thing. Like there could be an item you have 1 chance to get, and you didn’t know, so you don’t get it and then several hours later when you’re at the end of the game, you realize you need that thing to solve the puzzle and actually move on. But you can’t. Because you didn’t get it when you had the chance and you can not go back.

    BeanGoblin,
    @BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I like the Unstable Ordinance from Space Quest IV that you can pick up near the start of the game. It’s entirely useless, you can’t ditch it, and if you have in your inventory near the end of the game, it blows up and kills you. Everytime. You have to restart nearly the whole game and resist the adventure game urge to grab everything that isn’t nailed down.

    ripcord,
    @ripcord@kbin.social avatar

    I thought it blew up when you went into the sewers which isn't long after you pick it up. But still, it's a trap you don't realize is a problem right away and really sucked :)

    RaincoatsGeorge,

    Those games didn’t give a fuck about your feelings. I remember some of those point and clicks had zero chill. I played one where all I wanted to do was cross the street. My character was immediately run over by a car and I had to start over. The typing games could be even worse. Oh sorry this bees nest is attacking you, here’s hoping you grabbed the bug spray under the carpet on the 3rd floor and are quick enough on your feet to type out the exact sequence of words necessary to get your character to use it. ‘Use bug spray’ sorry can you please be more specific. Oh never mind your character is dead, no saves, heres the worst 8 bit death audio anyone has ever created.

    Theharpyeagle, (edited )

    Ah, fond memories of playing Hugo’s House of Horrors and having to frantically type while a dog bites your face off.

    RaincoatsGeorge,

    That’s the exact game that came to mind. At least a few years ago there was a website where you could play all those games , I don’t know if it’s still up.

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