games

Magazyn ze zdalnego serwera może być niekompletny. Zobacz więcej na oryginalnej instancji.

lustyargonian, (edited ) w Forza Motorsport 2023 vs Forza Motorsport 7 Comparison Shows Visual Improvements

Looks cool!

Billboard trees and lack of fog, detailed reflections and shadows were tradeoffs of last gen that at that time weren’t as perceivable as they are now, when compared side by side. I wonder what the next gen would look like? Accurate RTAO, RTGI, RTR and no ghosting artifacts? It definitely feels like we’re near the end phase of graphical fidelity. I mean we can improve infinitely but it’ll come at extremely diminishing returns and insane amounts of pixel peeping.

Maybe the focus would shift towards realistic animation blending and pixel accurate collision physics once everything is path traced and uses photogrammetry. Thanks for listening to my ramblings.

woelkchen, w Heretic's Fork - Launch Trailer
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Tower defense game, nothing to do with classic Heretic.

LEDZeppelin, (edited ) w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

SEC: we don’t see nothing, we don’t hear nothing, we don’t do nothing.

Arcane_Trixster,

It’s been a day since the announcement, and a few hours since people noticed the stock dump. What the fuck do you want them to do? Fully research the case, send out subpoenas, call hearings, listen to testimony and level fines all in less than 24 hours?

NewPerspective, w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

It’s almost like they knew it was a shitty decision…

mojo, w Starfield hasn’t hurt No Man’s Sky’s popularity – it may have even helped it

They’re defintely way different games. NMS is more sandbox and procedural focused, whereas Starfield is a story focused game. Both are buggy space games lol.

CarlsIII,

Thank you for saying it. I’m getting tired of all of these “Starfield is NMS but worse” takes form people that have obviously played neither.

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

NMS is a space exploration game.

Starfield is a lite-RPG with a space theme.

Sanctus, w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

record scratch I-I-I-Insider trading!

vlad76, (edited )
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

We’re bored of this business. Let’s just suck it dry, let it whither away, and take our money elsewhere.

Customers…? Who?

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Curse spreaders, rich and bored.

Havald, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

Thankfully paradox are making a contender. Although paradox overdoes kt with dlc, too, but they’re not a scummy company like ea so it should be better. Plus they’re trying to take marketsharr from es so doing the exact same thing would be counterproductive.

Also paraloves might not be too far out either.

Nibodhika,

Usually Paradox has some content DLC but the vast majority is cosmetic, so you don’t have to buy it but that money fuels their development of future content. Also with every content DLC they almost always release updates and extra content for free for the base game, I feel that Paradox is one of the only companies that do DLCs right.

Also they always allow mods, and a lot of their cosmetic DLCs can be immigrated by mods, so it’s not like they block people from doing what they want with their game just to shove cosmetics.

Havald, (edited )

For me for a game like Sims I need a big variety of cosmetics to keep me playing, new game mechanics are kind of secondary.(Although, if I trust any company to recognize that and adjust accordingly it’d be paradox) But still, you are completely right, paradox doesn’t abandon players that don’t buy the dlc but release content patches at the same time. Plus if you happen to play with other people only one person needs to own the dlc, which is one of my favourite things paradox does and more companies should do.

Also, I completely forgot about mod support. That makes a huge difference, too.

Caligvla,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

That paradox game looks horrible though. I think I’d just rather pirate Sims instead…

geosoco, w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more

If folks didn't see, Nvidia released a driver update in the last day or two as well that improved performance on their cards.

BallShapedMan,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s better on my 4090. Though I do have the DLSS patch too.

Shizu, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

“Motherlode”: $4.99 for 25k Simleons

Zombiepirate, w Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world avatar

Not nearly enough though.

They’re still exploiting their customers who’ve been developing products based on a completely different fiscal agreement; you can’t just change engines after years of work.

KoboldCoterie,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

The worst isn’t even people currently developing things - it’s developers who already have released products. Imagine if you released something like, over the summer, for example. You’ve been paying the current revenue share, and will continue to do so until Jan. 1, then you’ll start paying the per-install fee. So you’re paying twice for the same customers’ purchases.

conciselyverbose,

I really feel like they're going to lose a lawsuit on that.

Unilateral contracts don't have unlimited power and "we can blanket change what we want to charge you on games already made" doesn't seem like it's going to be enforceable.

KoboldCoterie,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

Exactly - as others have pointed out, if they can do this, what’s stopping them from raising it to $1 per install, or $100?

MentalEdge, (edited ) w Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

The new model makes no sense whatsoever.

If I install a game I bought on both my desktop and steamdeck, the devs have to pay unity twice. If I uninstall it and re-install it, they have to pay it thrice. Four times if I ever use my laptop to play.

If I share the game with my dad and sister via steam family share, the devs have to pay yet another two times.

But I only paid for the game once.

It’s complete insanity. Do they have to pay again for every update, does that count as a new install? What about games on subscription services?

wccrawford,

You missed one: They initially said that web-based games count as installs, too. Insanity.

Norgur, w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

Riccitiello made EA the money guzzling shithole it is today. Who thought he might change when he was given the reigns of unity?

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Remember when he wanted to charge players per digital bullet fired in FPS games?

IWantToFuckSpez, (edited )

Nobody at Unity expected him to change. It was the entire point that this shit heel got to helm the company. The three founders are billionaires now, that’s why. Two years ago one of the founders, Joachim Ante, sold $40million in stock. They dgaf anymore they just keep selling.

RandomVideos, w Why Unity's New Install Fees Are Spurring Massive Backlash Among Game Developers - IGN

Good thing i switched from unity to godot a while ago

jdeath,

i have a couple Unity games that are close to shipping, i think i’ll hold off on that and rewrite in Godot instead. I was already considering it since working with Godot is a thousand times more pleasant than Unity anyway.

detalferous, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

Free to play with all items available at DLC

hard pass

abraxas,

It’s days like this that remind me I’m not a typical gamer.

When Sims 4 came out, I put Sims 3 away thinking it was time for something bigger and better even though I’d had wishlisted DLC unpurchased. When Sims 4 clearly had basic content locked behind future DLC, I quit and didn’t go back to anything because playing the old version when the new version is out “didn’t make sense”. Went from being a Sims player to not a Sims player, not in protest but because their business model “failed to monetize” me. Obviously, if I were the base case, EA would have backpedaled.

Reminds me of the “mini-outrigger and story collection” thing with fantasy literature. I’ve gone from being a diehard fan to no longer even reading simply because I didn’t have the bandwidth and research hours to take it all in (Dresden and Iron Druid, lookin at you).

nyctre,

I’m sorry, could you explain the last bit? Did you stop reading those series because they had too many short stories or did I misunderstand?

abraxas,

Pretty much.

With the namedrops in the main stories on things I didn’t recognize and my not being able to keep up with side stories, my interest waned and I moved on. I still haven’t read anything after Peace Talks, and I don’t recall what’s going on in Iron Druid anymore.

ugo,

If you enjoyed the sims 3 I think you should check out Life by You. It looks like a bigger and better sims 3

abraxas,

Life by You

Leave it to Paradox to make a Sims clone ;). I’m going to add this to my wishlist and keep my eye on it. Thanks!

TipRing,
@TipRing@kbin.social avatar

I am cautiously hopeful for Life By You. My favorite thing in the Sims was to set up crazy soap opera dramas and see what happens, but Sims 4 sims are so docile and boring, it feels a lot more like just playing with dolls and decorating the house. I'm not judging if that's the part you like, but it's just not for me.

ares35,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

the ultimate life sim.

Cosmonaut_Collin, w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more
@Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world avatar

This is stuff that should be available on release day for all fps games. I can’t believe companies keep getting away with releasing beta version of games as a full release.

redcalcium,

Could’ve been worse. Microsoft actually delayed Starfield for 2 years so Bethesda can supposedly fixed as much bugs they can before release.

wesker,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

But if you don’t preorder, you wont get the special costume and mount.

  • Wszystkie
  • Subskrybowane
  • Moderowane
  • Ulubione
  • rowery
  • Technologia
  • krakow
  • test1
  • muzyka
  • shophiajons
  • NomadOffgrid
  • esport
  • informasi
  • games@sh.itjust.works
  • FromSilesiaToPolesia
  • fediversum
  • retro
  • ERP
  • Travel
  • Spoleczenstwo
  • gurgaonproperty
  • Psychologia
  • Gaming
  • slask
  • nauka
  • sport
  • niusy
  • antywykop
  • Blogi
  • lieratura
  • motoryzacja
  • giereczkowo
  • warnersteve
  • Wszystkie magazyny