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BadEngineering, do games w VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it

Having a fan blow into your face really helps too. I cant play more than 10 or 15 minutes without one, but with I'm fine for hours.

Cl1nk,

Which kind of fan do you use?

GBU_28,

Anybody really. Young, old, helps if they’re taller

GiuseppeAndTheYeti,

Ahh, the ol’ Lemmy faneroo.

Piemanding,

Hold my headset. I’m going in… ouch.

greavous,

Only

dinckelman, (edited )

If a game uses smooth locomotion, instead of teleportation based movement, I cannot play it without air blowing into my face, or sometimes been at all. Otherwise I have no issues at all

Ashtear, do games w I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal

Unfortunately, it’s also here again with 2.0 so far. I started playing the game in 1.3, so this is the most buggy I’ve ever seen it. Vertex explosions, jumpy character animations, skills not working correctly, incorrect sound effects being played.

This is indeed the new normal, and I shouldn’t expect Phantom Liberty to run smoothly next week either. If took months after the recent big Witcher 3 update for it to play okay on mid-spec systems.

I think I was happier when I still catching up on games from a couple generations ago. Now that I’ve done that, I keep running into this stuff. 😕

Moghul,

Yup, I re-downloaded and started a new campaign this week, and I’m a little disappointed. All the prompts are controller prompts, I can’t rebind several of the actions, I can’t crouch or dodge, the game crashed 5 times in 2 hours last night, the FPS takes a dip sometimes between ‘scenes’ in the story, DLSS kept resetting when I was benchmarking, etc.

On the plus, the game still looks amazing, the story is still S-tier in my opinion, Judy is still Judy (I simp for Judy like it’s going out of style and you can’t stop me), the driving combat is a good addition, and the cop fights are good. I don’t regret downloading it right now, but I will be putting it down for a couple of weeks, and hopefully they’ll fix some of the nagging bugs

skabbywag02, do games w I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal

Don’t forget to pre-order their latest DLC!

scala,

After they lied that their first major DLC will be free. I’m happy to wait till Phantom Liberty is 50% off or more. Not going to forget it’s launch. Review embargoes. Last gen performance. B roll footage forced into reviews to hide all the bugs.

GeoGio7,

The tweet you linked to is just a gif of the kool aid man they tweeted. Did they alter the tweet?? Wtf

Voytrekk,
@Voytrekk@lemmy.world avatar

Twitter doesn’t show the tweet they replied to.

@CyberpunkGame Will the game have Free dlc like your big brother @witchergame?

They released a bonus pack for free, so I’m not sure why it was complaining. They were never going to release a massive DLC like phantom liberty for free.

qyron, (edited ) do gaming w Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200 year old gun: "I was armed but not dangerous"

I don’t own this game and I don’t intend on buying any time soon.

But when I eventually get it, if I think find that figure in the game, I’m going after it and throw it off a very tall building. Twice.

bermuda,

I played through the main story twice and I dont ever remember encountering a character based on Elon or a character voiced by him. His then-girlfriend Grimes has a character with a medium length side-questline, but that character isn’t based on her either. Part of the quest means “dealing with” her new boyfriend, but I didn’t really think that guy was based on Elon either.

There are a lot of corpo people in the game that you deal with, but most of them are just parodies of all billionaires, not really one in particular.

Would be shitty if he’s in Phantom Liberty though.

reverendsteveii,

eurogamer.net/no-cyberpunk-2077-didnt-remove-the-…

You did not encounter elon, a character based on him, or a character voiced by him in cyberpunk 2077

Blackmist, do gaming w Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored'

That maybe so, but if Earth had 1000 moons, we’d have likely gone to one with something interesting on it.

Kolanaki, do games w Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC'
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With my experiences playing the game with an unsupported GPU and getting a solid 60 fps still as long as no NPCs are in the vicinity, I don’t think it’s the GPU side of things that needs optimization. It’s whatever uses the CPU.

Kowlown,

It’s the CPU. I had to throttle the process to be able to able. This game is a CPU ressource hog

nico,
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  • Kolanaki, (edited )
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    It could be optimized better for intel. They have had that issue in the past.

    Though… I limit my voltage to keep it from shooting up to 95c from their latest firmware updates (AMD cpus push themselves to the thermal limit intentionally), I kinda wonder if that is having an effect. It’s never been a problem before, however.

    IWantToFuckSpez, (edited ) do games w Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it

    Crazy what people can do with the N64 with modern knowledge. There is this German dude on YouTube who modded Mario 64 to run at 60fps on the console, the game normally only runs at around 20fps even with the C compile optimizations turned on, which Nintendo left off in the original, it rarely hits 30fps. Now he’s making his own full fledged mod for the game. https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE

    curiousaur, do games w 'It's not a clone of D:OS2': 6 big takeaways from our interview with Larian after the reveal of Divinity

    I just hate the terrain effects of 2. Oops, the ground is all cursed, electrified water. I hope they do away with that.

    nul9o9,

    Lingering effects for sure. Throwing a pot of water at someone and throwing lightning at them for aoe bonus damage would be fine with me though.

    Montagge,

    I tried so hard to get into both DOS and DOS2, but just couldn’t. I hate the combat and found the story not worth pushing threw the utterly shit combat for.

    It’s extra frustrating because both games should be right up my alley, but both were complete misses for me. Friends and family still recommend them for me, but I disliked those games so much I refuse to touch BG3. I don’t trust Larian or the reviews.

    curiousaur,

    Oh, I hated divinity, but BG3 is one of the best games there is. I hope you can trust my review, because I’m sad thinking of you missing it.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    There’s an enormous jump in quality of story, presentation, and quest design between D:OS2 and BG3, and the RPG mechanics are very different. It’s worth a shot, seriously.

    dogslayeggs,

    I absolutely loved BG3, and I I haven’t liked an RPG since Dragon’s Quest 2 back in 1988. I plan on picking up DOS2 in 2 weeks, so if you remind me I can let you know how the two games compare. BG3 was a revelation to me, opening my eyes to a completely new way of enjoying games. The writing was good, the game-play good, the graphics good. BUT!! If I play DOS2 and also like that, then I could give you that feedback.

    CosmoNova,

    I loved the idea but it had too much of an impact on how a battle plays out. I hope it‘s kept but toned down considerably.

    TORFdot0, do games w After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series

    The new MW3 was literally just an expansion pack for the new MW2 sold for full price.

    Same as BO6/7. People are only willing to be milked so much. It’s why when people say what their favorite CoD is, the oldest game mentioned is Black Ops 2

    warm,

    Depends what generation you ask, because a lot of the CoD audience now, never even played Black Ops 2. Which I agree, was the last good game, I'll give credit to BO3 for it's amazing zombies experience, with mod tools on PC, which was a surprise.

    Deestan, do games w The game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle

    Looks like it has triggered someone’s “we can’t be seen backing down!” reflex at Valve

    Goodeye8,

    What are you on about?

    Deestan,

    The game being banned for a misunderstood piece of placeholder concept art in a Steam approval preview build, which was both removed, and explained. Then Valve refusing to reconsider it and rejecting all attempts to clarify their objections.

    Goodeye8,

    I know. It’s not Valve’s fault the developer fucked up and gave them the wrong build to review. But that has literally nothing to do with this article unless you’re somehow trying to insinuate that Valve influenced other storefronts.

    _cryptagion,
    @_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus avatar

    if one of the builds for your game contains CSAM, then I don’t really give a shit what alternative builds you have, I don’t want to play anything made by you. kudos to Valve for not dealing with pedophiles.

    blackris,
    @blackris@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    What I get from reading about that scene, it is just one of many examples in that game that was supposed to show how animals are abused on farms by replacing them with humans and letting other people doing „normal“ things to them like marking them with a branding iron or, like in that scene, riding on them. How any sane person reads anything different into that than: this is supposed to show animal abuse really blows my mind.

    alehel,

    Doubt it. They probably don’t care enough to have a reflex. They denied it, and likely aren’t going to give it much more thought now that they have.

    Katana314, do games w To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub

    I once tried writing a guide for Paper Mario, and it was then I realized how much effort, consultation, and typing all of these are. It’s in some ways not a surprise that walkthroughs are now just video playthroughs of the game (often involving someone backtracking 3 times as they figure out a puzzle) - that takes a lot less effort than conscious text recorded outside of a game.

    Damage,

    And explaining actions in text is much more difficult than just showing them

    jqubed,
    @jqubed@lemmy.world avatar

    I’ve never written a game FAQ but when I’ve done documentation for other things on a computer I’ve found that I prefer recording myself doing the task and then writing the guide while going back through the video. It’s too easy to skip steps otherwise.

    smeg,

    Don’t go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)

    Ashtear,

    Even just revising my guide for the new Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is way too big a project for me right now. It’s amazing how much work it is.

    BackgrndNoize, do games w [UnReal World] has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'

    I’ve never heard of it before, is it only popular in some regions?

    Agent_Karyo, (edited )

    I don't think it's that popular, more like a cult classic of sorts.

    Although I wouldn't be surprised if it is better known in Scandinavia and parts of Eastern Europe.

    NuXCOM_90Percent,

    Up until the big UI/UX update a few years back, the vast majority of people had never heard about Dwarf Fortress outside of the sickos and the people who remember when LPs were forum/blog posts.

    Unreal World has been in that same category where the people who play it love it and the rest vaguely recall their favorite youtubers maybe trying it out once.

    BackgrndNoize,

    I have never played Dwarf Fortress but I thought it had name recognition, I guess the average COD, Fortnite type player might not have heard of some niche game like that

    redhorsejacket,

    …God I miss forum-based let’s plays. I was never a SA member (Something Awful, not Sturmabteilung, though there’s probably some degree of overlap there), but I did browse the lparchive website once upon a time. Some folks put so much effort into their presentation, I want sure where the game ended and the LP narrative began.

    There was one in particular that was an LP of the Blade Runner adventure game. That’s a game I had watched my dad play on our family Compaq back in the day, so I thought I knew what I was getting into, but the combination of the game having secret narrative branches (that change based on a random seed when you start a new game, I think) and the posts being written in a first person, hard-boiled noir style, made me think that we had played different games.

    KindnessIsPunk, (edited ) do games w US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment

    It’s another form of kissing the ring. They know it’s bad for business but there’s the implied threat that if they retaliate the FCC will grind the company to a hault.

    So it’s a way of reminding them of their loyalty and extending the president’s influence beyond it’s legal limits, very common tactic during the 1940’s of a particular country’s history.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    Considering how dependent on M$ servers and products the 'murican government is, Microsoft could easily push for a MAD standoff against them

    ohshittheyknow, do games w Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'

    And these companies wonder why all the good games this year came from indie developers.

    SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program
    @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

    That’s a good question though. What happens if a right’s holder dies and doesn’t transfer the rights to others? Are the rights then public domain or what?

    meldrik,

    I guess that depends on where you are in the world, but I’d imagine that the rights would be inherited by the closest family member? If not, it would probably go to the public domain.

    Kissaki,

    It may depend on the country and state, but with a lack of heirs, it likely goes to the state like all other possessions. I’m no expert on this, though.

    miguel,
    @miguel@fedia.io avatar

    After a set period of time, they expire. Life +50 to Life +90 or so, depending on country.

    vrighter,

    unless you own mickey mouse, of course

    miguel,
    @miguel@fedia.io avatar
    Cethin,

    In particular including the mouse. The reason why the age is so long is because Disney keeps lobbying to get it extended. It used to be a much shorter period of time.

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