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Tremble, do gaming w Man, gaming ads in the 90s were something else.

Reminds me of John Lennon who said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus…

There were protests and record burnings and they were banned on many radio stations and they stopped touring, some say because of the backlash….

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus#:….

zaplachi,

In 1980, he was murdered by a Christian fan of the Beatles, Mark David Chapman, who later cited Lennon’s quote as one of his possible motives in the killing.

Olhonestjim, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

The clear solution is a single centralized launcher for all these launchers.

kewwwi,
reksas,

And after some years, launcher-launcher-launcher

graymess,

Playnite does a great job at this. GOG Galaxy isn’t bad either last I checked.

MonkderZweite, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

Lost Dr. Seuss Poem

Can someone do this for game launchers?

woodenskewer,
@woodenskewer@lemmy.world avatar

I love my launchers, I love to play!

I love more and more clicks each day.

I love my DRM, it is the best!

I love security and all the rest.


I love my software and its location, not having physical software is salvation.

I love my ads, they hold my attention, to spend more money is my intention!

I think my launchers are really swell, there’s nothing else I love so well.

I love to spend money on a microtransaction, its price is merely a microfraction

I love my local computer and its remote software;

I hug it often though it won’t care. I love each program and every distant file.

I’d love it more if I could download even more a while.


I’m happy the software is there, not here. I am. I am.

I’m the happiest slave of the launchers, I am.

I love these launchers, I love all the different cliques.

I love sharing personal information, I need my fix.

I love my launchers – I’ll say it again – I even love those friendly men.

Those friendly men who’ve come today,

In clean white coats to take me away!

MonkderZweite,

Lol, thanks! 👍

jol, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

Vote with your wallet then. Stop buying games from terrible companies. Oh right, you prefer to just rant and literally change nothing in how you live life.

Filthmontane,

Games don’t typically state when they use game launchers. By the time you find out you’ve probably already bought the game. Ubisoft and EA are the only companies I can think of that have truly awful launchers that make me not buy games from them anymore.

Kecessa,

Don’t buy games on release and use your favorite search engine to find out if there’s a launcher?

Filthmontane,

Paradox games have a launcher and it doesn’t bother me. Very minimalistic. I also haven’t bought anything on release since the Wii first came out. People always bitch about little things so it’s hard to know how bad something is until I experience it first hand. I personally won’t play anything by Ubisoft or EA because they’re bad companies that make bad games. I’d put up with their shitty launchers if they had something truly unique to put aside my dislike for them, but they haven’t yet. A bad launcher isn’t enough to make me not buy a game. It’s simply a large deterrent.

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

Admittedly, the paradox launcher mostly exists so you can control which mods are turned on, which is a mostly legit use of a launcher.

starman, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!
@starman@programming.dev avatar

Here is the solution: apps.gnome.org/Cartridges/

Hupf, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

Now how about we get an Office launcher

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

Achievement unlocked: Starting to Excel

Would you like to share this Gaming Moment™ with your friends? Yes / yes.

LastoftheDinosaurs, do gaming w I've got a bad feeling about this
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  • EatYouWell,

    Yeah, they’re going to lose a ton of money if they try this.

    abysmalpoptart, (edited )

    Without further research, i have to imagine he means charged per hour of gameplay, so a 40 hour game, a 10 hour game, and a 120 hour game should all be priced differently.

    Considering replay value I’m not sure how you actually accomplish that pricing method in a reasonable way, but i don’t fault him for thinking in that way (assuming it is not actually streaming)

    Edit:

    I’m not saying i agree with the quote. I don’t think it’s fair to be angry at an assumption, so be mad at what he actually meant. Also, the actual quote at least has some level of merit, even if i think it’s a bad idea (certainly not as awful as a subscription model).

    Here’s the full quote with source:

    “Take-Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick isn’t concerned with upsetting fandoms, as reinforced by his latest comments that video games should be priced on their “per hour value”, aka based on the hours of gameplay you get.”

    gamingbible.com/…/gta-6-priced-by-per-hour-value-…

    misanthropy,

    All that’ll lead to is games becoming worse, and being dragged out in tedious ways to justify charging more…

    abysmalpoptart, (edited )

    Oh for sure. I mentioned above that i didn’t mean to suggest that this idea is the correct one, only that i don’t believe it was intended to mean subscription model. It’s less of a greedy idea and more of just a bad idea (in my opinion). There is also at least some merit to the statement, i.e. if he’s suggesting that triple a titles that are particularly short shouldn’t be full price.

    TheBlue22,

    “Length” of a game is useless out of context. Games like the later assasins creed are bloated garbage with overinflated playtime. On the other hand you have games with procedural generation, optional endgames, post launch content and the simple fact that a small, but still significant amount of players will play through a short game multiple times, because they enjoyed it so much/wanna get better. (In my case, thats Furi)

    What I am trying to say is, you can’t really get a proper amount of hours of playtime for any game, unless its like 99% cutscenes.

    abysmalpoptart, (edited )

    I agree with you. I didn’t mean to suggest that he’s correct, only that i don’t think he meant to infer a subscription model. In my opinion, that changes it from a particularly greedy idea to simply a poorly thought out one. Unless, of course, he really did mean subscription model.

    Edit: Also i can see the logic if this ceo is looking down upon triple a titles that are particularly short but still charge full price.

    TheBlue22,

    He’s an exec. It’s safe to say he meant the subscription

    abysmalpoptart, (edited )

    I didn’t want to make that assumption because then i run the risk of reacting more based on my own biases and less on the context of that was actually said. I did pursue the source of the quote:

    “Take-Two’s CEO Strauss Zelnick isn’t concerned with upsetting fandoms, as reinforced by his latest comments that video games should be priced on their “per hour value”, aka based on the hours of gameplay you get.”

    gamingbible.com/…/gta-6-priced-by-per-hour-value-….

    I’ll reiterate that i don’t necessarily agree with this idea, but i can at least see where he’s coming from. I’ve absolutely played games that were incredibly short (I’m looking at you, Fable 1), and thought wow, fun, but i spent $50 on this?

    germtm_, do gaming w Wait that's illegal

    no enemies are legally allowed to heal. only i can. >:(

    ShaunaTheDead, do gaming w The only meme I've been picturing while playing BG3
    @ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social avatar

    My favorite weird RPG moment is when the grizzled veteran of several wars who you probably just saw murder a bunch of baddies easily in a cut-scene has just joined the party......... and he's level 1.

    Stamets,
    @Stamets@startrek.website avatar

    BG3 did a great job with this. Everyones backstory is pretty badass with all the stuff they’ve done but the argument is that the tadpole in your head is suppressing everything and making you weaker.

    Klaymore,
    @Klaymore@sh.itjust.works avatar

    And when you get new people in your party they stay the same level as your other characters.

    MisterNeon, do gaming w You just had to be there
    @MisterNeon@lemmy.world avatar

    The School Bus belongs in Smash Bros.

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

    Literally the first thing that pops into my mind when I think about this as well. And you had to do a secret code to get it, even in the arcade! Something to do with turning the wheel a few times and then the gas and brake in a certain order?

    Edit- looked it up. was just holding down view 2. thought there was more to it.

    LinkOpensChest_wav, do gaming w We've been taken for fools!
    @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Sussy Super Mario Bros 2 is super fun though, even if it is just reskinned Doki Doki Panic. I’ve played DDP in an emulator, but I like it better with the Mario characters!

    The_Picard_Maneuver,
    @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

    I’m so nostalgic for it. I played it over and over on the SNES Mario All Stars cartridge.

    LinkOpensChest_wav,
    @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I’m nostalgic for it too! Everything about it – the colors, the music, the game play – makes me happy!

    DemBoSain,
    @DemBoSain@midwest.social avatar

    One of my favorites in the series. I wish they would would make SMB22.

    fartsparkles,

    Seems a bit wild to skip out 3 to 21 but to each, their own.

    samus12345,
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    Having a run button enhances the gameplay quite a bit as well.

    RHOPKINS13, do gaming w It's often the only good way for new generations to experience the classics

    If the game is out of print, buying a used copy, even at scalper prices, isn't going to benefit the original devs or even the publishing company at all. They won't see a penny of that money.

    In my particular situation, my son has an OLED Nintendo Switch and a fairly big, growing library of games for it. Nintendo is already getting plenty of my money. They're not losing any significant amount of money over my fullsets of NES, SNES, and N64 ROMs, the vast majority of which are not available on Switch Online / Virtual Console.

    FlyingSquid, do gaming w I truly don't know how to explain this to anyone who wasn't around then without them thinking we were out of our minds.
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    I remember when the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was being claimed by people as an animated movie that was so photorealistic, you wouldn’t even be able to tell you were looking at animated characters.

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9edf1a09-2c63-4b0e-9732-049287798e59.png

    doctorcrimson,

    TBF it hasn’t gotten much better than that in the 22 years since. Beowolf was cool, though.

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0b19b243-68f8-4f03-b19b-66a43b303c6e.jpeg

    FlyingSquid,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Oh my god! I don’t know anyone else besides me who liked Beowulf!

    doctorcrimson,

    I saw it in theatres back when those new age 3D glasses came out, it looked really cool.

    FlyingSquid,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Yep! Me too! Grendel and his mother were both so cool.

    johannesvanderwhales, do gaming w Has also maintained an active playerbase for 1500+ years

    I mean it did get forked into shogi.

    davemeech, do gaming w Im still undecided about if it looks fun though

    I have yet to have a solid informed grasp of whether Palworld manifested their sources of inspiration in good faith, but my tentative opinion at the moment is that hopefully this presses the Pokemon Company to innovate and elevate their overall game. The switch generation to me represented a generation of mismanagement and obvious management generated timelines and barriers, which is super unfortunate for Pokemon’s transition to a console.

    Competition hopefully might change that.

    keefshape,

    Transition to console? Where did they live before?

    eRac,

    Pokemon was a handheld franchise. All main series titles were Gameboy/DS games until the Switch came along.

    Consoles had spinoffs like Stadium and Snap.

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    The aesthetic is very similar, but the only thing I’ve seen that looked like it was straight up ripped off was a statue of a Lugia, the Lizard Punk dudes look very much like a creature from Final Fantasy, and the fact there is an area of the map that is the Altus Plateau from Elden Ring; like nearly 1:1 except the scale is smaller.

    Everything else could just be chalked up to the fact the designs are pretty simplistic representations of real animals, but you can also see clear inspiration taken from a plethora of games even if they aren’t straight up duplicating anything.

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