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Pxtl, w Quake II - Official Trailer (2023)
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Yay, muzzle flashes! So, anybody know if old mods will be compatible? Like, can we bring back Transformers Quake 2?

steal_your_face, w Quake II - Official Trailer (2023)
@steal_your_face@lemmy.ml avatar

If you already own quake ii on steam this is a free update which is cool.

Altreus,

I just discovered this. Insane! Not that I’m complaining. Wanted to stream it but wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get it … Win!

Gabadabs, w Quake II - Official Trailer (2023)
@Gabadabs@kbin.social avatar

Looks awesome! Glad to see quake getting more love.

NanoooK,

I would love for a remake of Quake III.

whataboutshutup,

To populate the community, maybe, but QuakeLive, original Q3 servers and open alternatives still have people. And what I love about them more than the idea of a remaster is that they aren’t gated by software or hardware. This possible remaster may require a W10-11 and lots of powerful hardware to show all these fancy things you, by default, disable to participate in competitive Quake.

Quake Champions (or how it’s called) is what current gen have instead, while old people don’t care having old Quake 3 Arena things running.

gnzl, w Quake II - Official Trailer (2023)
@gnzl@nc.gnzl.cl avatar

This is awesome. To this day Rage is one of my favorite music tracks from any game.

Bluescluestoothpaste, w Europa Universalis IV and Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You free on Epic Games this week

Am I crazy or is europa universalis just a worse version of crusader kings? Love crusader kings but mever tried EU because it just seems like the same game with less features?

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s the same engine, but the focus is different: CK is about the ruling dynasty, EU is about the country itself. Time period is also different (EU4 goes from 1444 to 1821),

A good example of that is that in EU4 your country can be the junior partner of a personal union, where it needs to fight against its rulers to get independence. You won’t see anything similar in CK3, because you are the ruling dynasty.

Bluescluestoothpaste,

I guess, idk that seems less fun to me lol. And in CK3 you can absolutely be a vassal of a larger kingdom and fight (or negotiate) for your independence.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

And in CK3 you can absolutely be a vassal of a larger kingdom and fight (or negotiate) for your independence.

Yes but you can’t be a junior partner of a personal union, since this means that you (the dynasty) would be fighting yourself. On the other hand in EU4 this works fine since you’re the Senate government/country/state itself, not the king or the dynasty. It was just an example on the different focus, mind you.

On EU4 being less fun than CK3: personally I like EU4 better because I care far more about groups in Modern times interacting on a global level than individuals in Mediaeval times interacting on a regional level. And EU4 always involves some sort of “if I did this in real life I’d be a monster” decision, that actually makes me understand a lot of the shit that governments do, such as culturecide or backstabbing/Realpolitik.

But there’s no “right” choice, it’s different strokes for different folks.

FARTYSHARTBLAST, w Square Enix has removed Denuvo from Octopath Traveler 2
@FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works avatar

That’s nice, maybe I’ll buy it on sale for $5 one day.

kostel_thecreed,

I feel as if it is worth the price its currently at. I got 60 hours out of it, without even doing 100% of the acheivements.

BakedGoods,

Sure but they put Denuvo on it so they pay the asshole-tax.

_waffle_,
@_waffle_@sh.itjust.works avatar

Since you’ve played it, I do have a couple of questions.

1). I haven’t played really any JRPGs before so is this game friendly to newcomers or not really? It looks really beautiful and that caught my eye when I first saw it

2). Do I need to play the previous one to understand what’s going on?

kostel_thecreed,

It was also my first JRPG, and I would say it’s pretty easy to grasp the concepts of it.

No, it’s a separate story line.

keeb420, w Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games | GameSpot

It's like gaming companies almost want to see the market crash with all these bullshit things they are doing. Yet people keep buying into it.

ThiefUserPermissions,

Havent made a single apple purchase for over 2 years now.

This is how it starts. How it ends is up to them.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I don’t pay for microtransactions out of principle, yet I’m sure there’s someone else who will not than make up for me. I honestly don’t get it.

NanoooK, w It costs $100 to unlock all of Street Fighter 6’s TMNT content | VGC

Don’t buy the game then. Editor won’t stop if their sales don’t decrease.

else,

The game is great and easily the best japanese fighting game experience for casuals. (Mechanically I prefer anime fighters though.) For once a Japanese game has all the bells and whistles instead of almost purely focusing on the multiplayer.

The cosmetics are what they are. At least it’s not p2w but it’s up to consumers to not spend if they don’t agree with paying more in a game they already bought.

Edit: downvote me all you want but the truth is that street fighter 6 was a very big step forward for japanese fighting games in terms of what they offer consumers. The fgc hasn’t had games that can truly appeal to and bring in new players so I can’t help but be happy for it. The only exceptions would be NRS’s games and smash.

cantstopthesignal,

I don’t know why people hate on this so much. Cosmetics are how they want to make money and it doesn’t fuck up the game play.

_haha_oh_wow_, w Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games | GameSpot
@_haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social avatar

Gross.

sadreality, w Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games | GameSpot

Look at all these mother fucking bitches who ain't making us some mother fucking money!

mcforest, w Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games | GameSpot

I'm doing my part so they can get closer to their goal. By not being part of the audience.

WarmSoda, w Translators for Baldurs Gate 3 worked for 3 years translating more than 1 million words and Altagram Group only credited their execs and leads

That’s how being a vender works.

deranger,

I’d say that’s okay if only the company is credited by name, but the execs names were included. If they’re including names, include all the names. It’s not a long list from what I saw on Twitter.

turtlepower, w It costs $100 to unlock all of Street Fighter 6’s TMNT content | VGC

That’s some bullshit. Not radical at all.

DarraignTheSane, w Take-Two CEO: "We Ought To Be Monetizing 100% Of The Audience" For Mobile Games | GameSpot
@DarraignTheSane@lemmy.one avatar

Wait, there are still mobile games without monetization?

Astronautical,

Usually ones that come with an upfront cost, but yeah. There’s actually a lot that are pretty good, like Monument Valley 1+2, or Stardew Valley’s mobile port.

huginn,

Not free but without micro transaction: slay the spire is killer

Droechai,

Unciv on Android is quite fun :)

Sebastrion,

The Base Game of Vampire Survivors is free and the DLCs cost a few Dollar like the Steam Version.

Oneeightnine, w Change my view: loot boxes aren't as bad as people claim they are.
!deleted4231 avatar

What if Chuck E Cheese was in your bedroom and it was marketed to make you feel like you were missing out if you didn’t have the thing your friend’s had, but you can’t buy the thing, oh no that’s too easy. We’ll let you buy the chance to own the thing.

Shere_Khan,

I’ll give you the proximity point, it is easier to access loot boxes when they are in a game.

But as for the missing out part, yeah that’s how it works. Your friend wins something from the claw machine or gets a bunch of tickets, now you want that. That’s part of the fun, your parents could just buy the toy but that’s lame

DarraignTheSane,
@DarraignTheSane@lemmy.one avatar

But your parents can’t just buy the toy. The only way to get the toy is through the element of chance - sometimes with a near zero win chance - by spending real world money.

The only reason it’s not de-facto gambling is that there are consolation prizes, but in most peoples’ view that doesn’t make it morally okay to push on children, nor does it make it completely not gambling either. It’s just gambling with consolation prizes.

Shere_Khan,

I disagree that most people view it as bad. Arcades and stuff have been around forever, and are still being used by a ton of people. Just because you don’t want send your kids to chuck E cheese doesn’t mean most people agree with you

DarraignTheSane,
@DarraignTheSane@lemmy.one avatar

You keep relying on the Chuck E. Cheese anology, but it simply doesn’t work. At Chuck E. Cheese the prizes are a bunch of toys that your parents could otherwise buy, and the fun is in playing the games themselves which pay out tickets toward earning those prizes. That is in no way the equivalent of gamble boxes in video games.

Gamble boxes contain prizes that can’t be bought outside the game, and in nearly every case contain prizes that can’t be bought with the “consolation prize” (i.e. “tickets”) that are dropped when you otherwise win nothing or very little compared to the actual prizes. And there is no inherent “fun” in clicking an “UNLOCK BOX” button compared to actually… playing a game in order to earn prizes. Not comparable at all, really.

If you’re going to try to convince people they’re not gambling (and you have quite the uphill battle to fight), you’re better off likening them to blind bag grab-packs of card games / collector cards / toys, etc. - Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, sports cards, blind-bag toys etc. That is their closest real-world equivalent. Many would argue that those are also a form of gambling, as well.

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