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I live for 90s TV sitcoms

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I’d say it’s remarkably consistent how gamers will pick up on budget reductions and cost cutting in games. This isn’t the movies, we aren’t going to just spend 2 hours with a piece of media where some editing handwaving can get us to ignore or not even notice something. These are 40-120 hour games here, we’re going to notice when business stepped in to tell the creative folks to drop something.

Even Hogwarts, a game that I 100%'d, was obviously affected by that. The fucking Merlin Trials. Revelio? You can’t tell me there wasn’t some committee decision that was “We have this big open world, just throw those in every 100 feet or so to make it feel active”. The more corners are cut, the more gamers will notice. They can bank on that.

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Corporate America can absolutely be a cult. I’ve jumped around a fair bit, but you can always tell who the lifers are. Think the company is their savior, love the CEO even though they only met them once, go to all the functions, it’s sad to me. Most of those lifers were making much less than me because I jumped around to bump my salary, they are constantly passed over for promotions because “now just isn’t the time”, and usually they ignore their home life and never take PTO.

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Been saying it since last year. The companies are so terrified of a recession that they’re going to cause one. The funny thing is that this time the market is actually trending up again. This time they just want their bonuses.

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I was in Europe on their rail and we rode from Switzerland to Rome in a day. Albeit a bit long, 8 hours, but when we got off we realized that entire trip was the same distance as Denver to Seattle, a flight we frequently take.

Flying takes us about 3.5 hours plus security, waiting, travel to and from the airport. Plus then sitting on a cramped plane with very little service.

I wish I could take 2 more hours and have an enjoyable ride like the rail they have over there.

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All of the stories were like that in starfield. If I could sum it up it would be “jack of all trades, master of none”. Too much stuff crammed in and none of it fleshed out well enough.

Base building was fun, until it was tedious because they only half automated the process.

Ship building was fun, except you could only customize to a point.

Exploration was fun, except they only made really 10ish buildings to just spawned them everywhere instead of generating custom ones (I fought at the same building at least 2 dozen times)

With exploration, we want you to wander through giant spaces and planets, but give you no explorer or vehicle to use.

We also want you to explore the galaxy fully immersed, but couldn’t solve the loading screen problem that yanks you out of the immersion.

So so many cool ideas that you can tell the committee was just like “no, it’s not with finishing that, players will be fine with it”. The entire game feels like it was built by committee.

What games do you recommend for my girlfriend? angielski

My girlfriend has never really gamed. But she’s now forced to move less than she would like to (health problem) and she’s getting bored. I was thinking of introducing her to a game or two that we could play together. She’s not the real action game type, and seeing as she has no experience with controller/mouse and keyboard...

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For puzzles, absolutely unpacking, also have seen similar friends put time into that remodel game that escapes me right now. House Fixer maybe?

It is more action, but I have had success during covid with family who was trapped at home by introducing them to Mass Effect (on story mode, the easiest setting). The story is so engrossing through the three games that they overlooked the action. If she likes big stories, I would suggest that. On keyboard and mouse it’s not the most confusing game either, pretty simple.

If you were thinking Factorio but want to do it together, check out Satisfactory. It’s a 1st person version of it that supports multiplayer, and you could set up a dedicated server. (I’m biased though, I have over 2000 hours in it and I am a mod of !satisfactory). Satisfactory is definitely less intimidating than factorio for newbies to the factory building environment, and there’s a creative factor in there too.

I’ve also had luck with people giving them portal. Portal is a great game to introduce them to not anction gameplay but helps them learn movement controls. Honestly out of the three I suggested maybe portal first and go from there. Would introduce movement, a weapon, and the second has a pretty strong story.

For anything else, what are her interests, what does she do for a living? Maybe we can put forward some more.

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Good, I’ve unchecked movies experience so many times

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As a mass effect and dragon age fan, I empathize so much with you. Love deus ex too, so many rpgs just left ignored.

I really don’t understand it. All of these games would be smash hits. Let’s be honest even if they weren’t very good the franchises are known so well that they would all be bought, and older game sales would swell too. To me it’s a no brainier, make the game, it prints money. They’re just so terrified of having to… Invest in something to get a payout.

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Commented. Thanks for letting us know! HSR should be a huge priority right now

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Don’t worry, by buying so many studios they will invest more into gaming, and we’ll get better games than ever!

Monopolies are never good, kids. Attempted monopolies are just about as bad.

I’m also real tired of the copro euphemisms going around trying to hide that they’re firing people.

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This always happens with mergers, and it’s disgusting that our government knows this and allows it to happen without a plan.

T-Mobile buying sprint did the same thing. “Oh, we’ll need everyone on deck!” Really? You’ll need 2 teams rolling out the same phone? You’ll need twice as many people managing the same amount of plans? That’s just not how it works.

Surprisingly, as soon as the heat was off of them after the merger they laid off entire departments that were “redundant”. Never trust a corpo kids.

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The easiest layoff method there is.

Still, the most putrid word for me is “right-sizing”

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Phones really don’t like “corpo”… but I’ll leave it for you

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We’ve tried layoffs, we’ve tried cutting funding, revoking investments, and still they refuse to be profitable! We’ll close them now to show them how they failed.

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Yeah I think expectations are too high, where people expected a perfect game like cities skylines forgetting that when it launched it was also a very rocky start.

Gamers in general are just very entitled, and very unforgiving

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It wasn’t polished yes, graphics were not great and people were justified being disappointed and returning it if they felt like it was game breaking

But the vitriol is what I mean, the pure hate, the threats to developers, the anger thrown at them. That is what I’m referring to. If some graphical issues make you so mad that you need to literally threaten people then I think you shouldn’t game anymore. That’s where I say entitled and anger issues.

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Maybe they’re learning from Sony. That barely anyone runs out to get another console for exclusives, way more people will wait or just not play the game. They’re mostly just leaving money on the table

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I think I’m perfectly comfortable with not using subscriptions.

I’ve replayed mass effect a dozen times. Cyberpunk 2077 4 times. Witcher at least 6 now. Why would I want to start renting my games over buying them?

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And people think I’m crazy for buying physical discs of movies and having 20+ hdds spinning

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I can get a 20tb HDD right now for $300. When I am talking about 100s of TBs it makes a difference

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Bingo. AI is shockingly good at building simple things, helping with direct questions about items. It cannot replace humans in its current state.

At this point it’s CEO bluster just like the blockchain, where the suits are talking about technology like they personally handcrafted it while the actual engineers are sitting in the back of the room thinking “uh, there’s no way it can do that”.

I think we’re going to see a couple hilarious cycles of some shit thinks they can replace humans with AI, fail spectacularly, and then quietly go back.

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Well, for one, I play role playing games. So, I like to experience different roles, different ways of thinking, and playing as someone like FemShep or female V in Cyberpunk offers a much different perspective on life than if I played as a male. I’m a male, I go outside as a male, why do the same thing in gaming?

And for a second reason, if I’m playing a third person shooter why would I (a straight male) want to stare at a man’s ass for 120ish hours?

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They should have known this would happen, I mean, after X-Men origins wolverine…

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Ah, the marketing department had to justify their existence, didn’t they?

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Very cool. I try to keep tabs on the game, every time I start but then I get bored around 20ish hours in. Something about making the same factory over and over, but I’ll have to give it an honest shot now

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They do, but they only get you so far. I just gotta push my way through it. I remember that green engine, had to make huge factories multiple times for that thing

Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com) angielski

apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...

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Starfield has it’s negatives for sure, but he has a point about what the communities have been like (including here on Lemmy).

There have been so many armchair gamedevs who overnight know intricacies of engines, how programming works, how 8 year old computers should be able to run brand new AAA titles at 120fps. It’s been just exhausting reading these conversations.

For example, one thing I read again and again was “Starfield just wasn’t optimized, they easily could have reduced memory and bumped framerates”. Which any actual programmer will immediately feel a pit of dread in their stomach because we’ve been asked to reduce ram usage or speed something up, and that is a daunting task in our simple little apps - let alone a major AAA game.

Again I’m not saying Starfield was perfect. It has a lot of flaws, biggest one for me is that it felt like a game that came out 10 years ago in terms of how it played. But it didn’t deserve the overall destruction it received online. Any developer knows that the only people who can say “how” their game could have been done better were the ones who actually wrote it.

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I’m guessing some hyper-triggered gamer who saw there was a girl playing or something equally stupid

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Unfortunately this is just the norm when a company buys another. I give props to the employees thinking it is still Bungie, but it’s not. The second that deal was finalized they became sony employees, and even if on paper they were still Bungie they were always going to become Sony employees.

But business swallows little business. And big business doesn’t care about the jobs it leaves behind, or the people. Bungie as we knew it is dead

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Yes on paper that’s how it’s all laid out. However anyone who has been through a buyout knows that no parent company intends for the child company to act separately indefinitely. The shotgun clause in there saying they have to do well financially proves it to me. What company hasn’t gone through hard times before? Sony may be playing the long game but they’ll get control eventually, they always knew they would. It was inevitable that this would happen. Guarantee it was written this way probably with projections on when it would likely happen.

Which is why I say as soon as a buyout occurs the old company is gone. The cool culture you had, the lenient bosses, the small company style benefits? Gone. It may take a bit, but they’re going away. Papa business is here and he only cares about the profit margin, not the people, not even the product. They may say it’ll stay the same, but drip by drip the company will change, and a few years later you’ll realize you aren’t working for that cool smaller company anymore, you’re working for the big corpos conglomerate.

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Yep, sounds like they aren’t getting my money for a year

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All it took was 5 years of development to get a teaser.

Bioware has constant layoffs and budget cuts then daddy EA wonders why they have trouble shipping games

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Could be either. No matter what it’s mismanaged, somewhere it’s to blame there. Could be EA, could be Bioware.

All I know is they could be alternating Mass Effect and Dragon Age every couple of years and just be pumping out profit - if they were managed well and had good investment. The fact that they’re not just seems to me like EA/Bioware are just leaving money on the table

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Yup, it’s obvious once you connect everything why Microsoft is doing this. They’re monopolizing the game market - and most gamers couldn’t be more excited. When I was on Reddit I called out how competition was good and this was bad and was always met with the majority of people saying “nuh uh, they’re going to put them all on game pass for only $9 a month!”

Kids let me tell you the story of Netflix.

'Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition' Arrives on Netflix December 14 for Mobile (about.netflix.com) angielski

Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is coming to Netflix on December 14 for Netflix members on the App Store, Google Play, and in the Netflix mobile app.

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So, to make a splash in the gaming market Netflix is choosing… one of the worst releases of all time. Interesting strategy there. Unfortunately it will still probably sell like crazy.

Also

including through one of the most iconic series in history, without any ads, in-app purchases, or extra fees.

So to be clear - They obviously have been thinking about in-app purchases, ads, and extra fees. Hoo-boy there service just sounds swell.

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Yep, I’ve seen this film before - and I didn’t like the ending.

Played this game with Netflix. It kills be because all of these kids think I’m stupid for not buying game pass. That I’m old for wanting to own my games. Except it’s just a teaser, it’s obviously a loss leader for Microsoft. They want it on all screens because that’s how monopolies work. As soon as it’s everywhere they’ll jack up the price and start removing content - but by that point there’s no where else to get the content. You either end up paying twice (or more) for the game you wanted - or you just lose it forever.

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Monopolies generally are evil

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I will never not be mad at that.

Let’s take the show halo fans have wanted for decades now, bring in a bunch of people who know nothing about the franchise, forbid them from learning about the franchise, and then we’ll market to people who don’t care about the franchise.

Corpo marketing big brains right there. Halo has one of the largest followings in gaming and still that wasn’t enough. Hell the fans would have encouraged others to watch but nooo had to make it bland and generic for non fans. And they didn’t even do that well!

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It’s a lot of things, but what I said there was true. They literally forbade the writers from playing any of the games or reading the books. They wanted to “attract a new audience” and “make something new”. So now instead of the TV show all of us fans wanted we have something with master chief and if you squint your eyes it might look like a halo plotline

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50% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Idk what the idiots in corporate marketing were thinking, but in my dreams they were all fired.

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It’s good for a niche market, people who have multiple people living in the house where they have to share a TV, but don’t need to share the PlayStation. In that one niche it makes sense to me

In every other way though, why not a handheld?

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I think it’s interesting how other people play. I never plan out my road systems. Highways I have a rough idea, but I personally like the challenge of figuring out that I’ve run out of space and I need to fix it. It ends up feeling like a more realistic city to me, with grid systems meeting that were never meant to collide, weird bits of space, it all makes it feel authentic to me

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Playing through CP2077 for the 4th time now, this time with the dlc. Really does change the flow of the game, just a couple missions in so far.

In a couple weeks I’ll be spinning up a new factory with friends in Satisfactory too! Getting excited for that.

Shameless plugs for both !cyberpunk2077 and !satisfactory for those interested

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Everyone should start prepping for cheaper and crappier “AAA” titles moving forward.

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Yup. They’ll let smaller studios take risks on new IP and buy them if it’s profitable. They get the wins but none of the losses.

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It’s insane to me how poorly they treated workers before and got away with it, but then decided to just keep pushing the envelope like the workers would never say that’s enough.

Game devs get shit from all sides. They’re pushed to work hard for long hours, during crunch they’ll frequently miss weekends and nights from their families. It is common that they burn out and their family life suffers. Most developers in the community avoid game studios because they know what it’s like, so studios attract Jr developers who are less qualified and don’t know any better. And we haven’t even talked about the putrid shit they get from gamers when they release a buggy game, that they probably did know about and desperately wanted to fix but execs forced them to release anyway.

Yet they still want more from them. And now execs are all shocked Pikachu that they’re finally organizing to unionize. And they absolutely should

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Don’t forget we have a whole community of Ficsit Pioneers over here too, over at !satisfactory

Very excited to start a new factory on U8!

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