I got through phases of games, and right now I’m in the one I like to think of everything-modern-is-making-me-angry-so-I’ll-turn-back-to-vintage-games - and that’s in the form of PCSX2 on my Steam Deck....
They’re trying to soften the blow by adding new features to each tier, but it’s still just to disguise a price hike. More games are coming to the $15 tier, but it still won’t be day and date releases. First party games come to the $15 tier “within a year”, but that’s even excluding Call of Duty.
They’ve been pretty underwhelming for a while now.
You used to get crazy deals on games only a few months old. Now it’s just the same 50% off a five year old game before being ramped back up to full price between sales.
There’s a few bargains of stuff you may have missed, but likely they’ve been an Epic freebie, or on PSPlus or in a Humble Bundle by now.
Here I am playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, when it dawns on me. Lara is a sociopath. She is a killing machine who barely even speaks on it, it’s nothing to her at this point. She doesn’t care about her health, injury nor pain. She just wants artifacts and to uncover ancient mysteries. I like her character but damn she is...
There’s a bit where she has to kill somebody in self defence and then breaks down over it, before spending the entire rest of the game plonking arrows through people’s skulls.
A group of investors including private-equity firm Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund could unveil a deal for the publisher best known for its sports games as soon as next week, WSJ said.
I don’t think so. They’re quite cheap when it comes to knocking these out, and didn’t have a higher poly model to go off like they did with Tomb Raider or Soul Reaver.
I’m still salty over how many tweaks they could have made to improve that and didn’t bother.
SMG2 is probably the best 3D Mario game, but since I already own them I’ll just keep what I have.
Dolphin can play them both just fine. If it’s anything like the last pack, it’ll be the laziest possible emulation anyway. This shit should have been in the NSO subscription if they’re not actually going to remake it.
So many people online seem to already complain about Silent Hill f out of a few details coming out of trailers. I honestly think the game looks sick and I can’t wait to play it, expecially considering the writer’s good reputation....
Do people really complain about playing as a lesbian? That’s like double the tits.
I did hear whining about having to play as a trans character though, despite the fact that you don’t. I can only imagine those people never played it and were just “hur dur big arms = man”.
Yeah, there’s a definite Commodore 64 aesthetic to it, but it feels like every pixel is meaningful. It’s all just detailed enough to be able to tell what’s going on.
for me mine are 1. Elden Ring, 2. RDR2 3. BOTW, all because they genuinely blew my mind when playing them for the first time and changed how I saw and played video games.
The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an "easy button", it's hard to not use it. It's sort of like when you're at work and see the "quick workaround" effectively become the standard process....
It’s mostly small places that don’t. I think they started during covid so they didn’t have to physically take anything from the grubby customers, and found they didn’t lose much (if any) business over it.
Cash still costs money to handle, either for the time or wages of taking it to the bank, or paying somebody to collect it every day.
I guess it helps that contactless payments are now ubiquitous. Practically everyone has a phone, and readers like SumUp and Square can be had for a few quid.
But then there are places that still only take cash, because it’s easier to hide that from the tax man.
We had a card surcharge ban bought in a few years back. The shops aren’t allowed to charge extra, and unless you’re employing family members or not declaring the cash (and for a lot of small takeaways, it’s probably both of those) it probably works out more expensive to handle the cash.
Today’s game is some more of The Last of Us. I made it all the way through the chapters with Sam and Henry, and damn, did their death’s hit hard. They were only with me for a short while but i kinda got attached to them. Maybe it’s because the game makes you feel so alone sometimes....
As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there’s been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it’s fine to disagree, I’m finding it suspicious that there weren’t comments like this posted a week or 2 ago
I don’t know when we decided that games should have credits but other software doesn’t.
I don’t see credits for business software. When you shut down Linux it doesn’t go “A Linus Torvalds OS. Written by Linus Torvalds”
Why are they even there? Is it a union thing, like with movies? Did they just need more than “Congratulations, you have finished the game” at the end? Who even reads them? Nobody needs to know who provided the catering at the translation company they outsourced to.
I was level capped before I even touched the DLC. I ignored everything that was generated rather than having some story to it. There’s just a lot of game there. Too much, in fact.
I just don’t know who the funbucks shop is even for. It’s not like you can even show it off online because it’s single player…
This is probably going to seem wildly low-effort compared to my usual posts here, but I’ve found a bit of a treasure trove of print media gaming ads from magazines and sites. And they’re amazing. I found it so fun to see what companies used to do to promote their games....
They had bizarre TV adverts as well. You could never accuse early 2000s Sony of not getting weird with it.
I don’t know if any of it really helped. It rode in on the already wildly successful PS1. It had a DVD player in it back when a DVD player was quite expensive. It had SSX and Tekken Tag at UK launch. It could play all your PS1 games and “upscale” them. The only competition it had at launch was the Dreamcast. It was going to sell anyway.
I think that was the PS3. They took it out later though, and had to give a paltry amount of money back to people who were using it.
It’d be nice to see homebrew coding return to consoles. Something like Godot ported to it and installed, kind of like Dreams but less limited.
I first got into programming via Basic on the ZX Spectrum, and I do worry how future generations will get into it now they’ve all gone back to phones instead of PCs.
Halo community lead wears PlayStation t-shirt to announce: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward’ [VGC] (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Why would I buy this? angielski
So I see this game. Let me sum up what I actually see:...
Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! angielski
I got through phases of games, and right now I’m in the one I like to think of everything-modern-is-making-me-angry-so-I’ll-turn-back-to-vintage-games - and that’s in the form of PCSX2 on my Steam Deck....
Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] (news.xbox.com) angielski
They’re trying to soften the blow by adding new features to each tier, but it’s still just to disguise a price hike. More games are coming to the $15 tier, but it still won’t be day and date releases. First party games come to the $15 tier “within a year”, but that’s even excluding Call of Duty.
Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun (store.steampowered.com) angielski
What are you buying?
Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (www.gamingonlinux.com) angielski
Lara Croft is a Sociopath angielski
Here I am playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, when it dawns on me. Lara is a sociopath. She is a killing machine who barely even speaks on it, it’s nothing to her at this point. She doesn’t care about her health, injury nor pain. She just wants artifacts and to uncover ancient mysteries. I like her character but damn she is...
Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com) angielski
A group of investors including private-equity firm Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund could unveil a deal for the publisher best known for its sports games as soon as next week, WSJ said.
Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago angielski
'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70 (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer (www.youtube.com) angielski
Take your bets on how much this will cost
Thoughts on the humble bundle this month? angielski
Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting now (store.steampowered.com) angielski
Picture of isSteamDown showing that Steam is indeed experiencing issues...
Best Co-Op Games? angielski
What are the best co-op games you enjoy? Anything from the modern games, to the old games....
Japan’s national library says it won’t be preserving Switch 2 Game-Key Cards | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? angielski
So many people online seem to already complain about Silent Hill f out of a few details coming out of trailers. I honestly think the game looks sick and I can’t wait to play it, expecially considering the writer’s good reputation....
Whine harder you assholes angielski
Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow (www.theverge.com) angielski
Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work (bsky.app) angielski
18+ Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases (www.vice.com) angielski
'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? angielski
for me mine are 1. Elden Ring, 2. RDR2 3. BOTW, all because they genuinely blew my mind when playing them for the first time and changed how I saw and played video games.
This happened to me in Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Sims. angielski
The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an "easy button", it's hard to not use it. It's sort of like when you're at work and see the "quick workaround" effectively become the standard process....
PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming angielski
Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review (www.bloomberg.com) angielski
Steam gets a brand new video player for trailers (store.steampowered.com) angielski
Finally. The old player was buggy and kept defaulting to 1080p when it's not fullscreened.
Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit (www.theverge.com) angielski
Phone call campaign to tell Payment Processors to stop censoring adult content | Details inside (lemmy.blahaj.zone) angielski
One-tap dial phone numbers:...
Day 374 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is some more of The Last of Us. I made it all the way through the chapters with Sam and Henry, and damn, did their death’s hit hard. They were only with me for a short while but i kinda got attached to them. Maybe it’s because the game makes you feel so alone sometimes....
Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? angielski
As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there’s been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it’s fine to disagree, I’m finding it suspicious that there weren’t comments like this posted a week or 2 ago
Is that a mod on the device that you own? angielski
Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios (www.notebookcheck.net) angielski
The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise (www.gamereactor.eu) angielski
John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025 (steamcommunity.com) angielski
If you want to pick it up, cheapest way is via the humblebundle sale.
Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery angielski
This is probably going to seem wildly low-effort compared to my usual posts here, but I’ve found a bit of a treasure trove of print media gaming ads from magazines and sites. And they’re amazing. I found it so fun to see what companies used to do to promote their games....