Over the years, there’ve been various red flags in gaming, for me at least. Multi-media. Full-Motion Video. Day-One DLC. Microtransactions. The latest one is Live Service Game. I find the idea repulsive because it immediately tells me this is an online-required affair, even if it doesn’t warrant it. There’s no reason for...
It used to not be. FPS games were run by players, not corporations. The ability to run your own dedicated server was baked into the game. Today you can still setup a Quake 2 server without having to rely on the publisher or a 3rd party. It doesn’t have to be that way today, but people accept it.
“in some form,” being the key part of that. Someone mentioned Diablo 4. It doesn’t have to be always online. Gran Turismo 7 is another example. It’s a trend.
I absolutely will accept it because it brings better gameplay. FPS games are more fun when there’s constant balancing changes and new content on a schedule. It’s infinitely better than older game models where if one thing is broken you’re stuck with it for the entire lifetime of the game.
How is this different than Valve continuing to patch Team Fortress 2 decades after its release? There’s no Live Service model here.
Being able to run my own dedicated server isn’t even something I’d want to do, nor would I want to play on player hosted servers.
I think that’s true for most people, but a small number of a community can support the vast majority. It would ensure a game isn’t dependent on a company to exist, either.
When games go EoL, sure, require them to open source the multiplayer engine. But really, it’s not a big deal that an individual can’t host a Battle Royale server.
If that was an actual practice that’d be great. There’s no incentive for the publisher to do this, however, and they’re profit driven.
I just watched this review the other day and it reminded me that this game existed. I played it back in the day I’ve been playing it with an improvement hack that cleans up a lot of it, and I’ve been loving it. I highly recommend it to people who like dungeon crawlers and turn based RPGs....
For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!...
Valve doesn’t get the credit it deserves for innovating if not keeping alive the PC space. Steam came out at a time where PC gaming was dying on store shelves, there was no support for it by triple A publishers…it was a dark time. And everyone hated Steam at first. Took a lot of work attracting smaller/indie devs to the platform to prove itself as a viable option for larger publishers.
They’ve proven that Linux is a great operating system for games, and without the overhead that is Windows. The ability to natively play Windows games isn’t enough of a draw for me to use the Ally or Legion.
As a casual viewer of LTT this is surprising. The show seemed relatively wholesome and helpful, but obviously I missed moments to the contrary that people are pointing out now. Being an infrequent watcher, seeing threads suddenly popup that call for Linus to step back/step down are like whaaaaaat. Internet is a fast moving place.
Do you find the description Live Service Game off-putting? angielski
Over the years, there’ve been various red flags in gaming, for me at least. Multi-media. Full-Motion Video. Day-One DLC. Microtransactions. The latest one is Live Service Game. I find the idea repulsive because it immediately tells me this is an online-required affair, even if it doesn’t warrant it. There’s no reason for...
Starfield, is it getting review bombed? (youtu.be) angielski
Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don’t put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
It’s real. After all those years.
Arcana for SNES - A Review | hungrygoriya (youtu.be) angielski
I just watched this review the other day and it reminded me that this game existed. I played it back in the day I’ve been playing it with an improvement hack that cleans up a lot of it, and I’ve been loving it. I highly recommend it to people who like dungeon crawlers and turn based RPGs....
Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall (www.gamescensor.com) angielski
EA SPORTS WRC - Official Reveal Trailer (www.youtube.com) angielski
From the same devs as DIRT Rally, so this is essentially Dirt Rally 3. Looking forward to it.
Final Fantasy XVI producer announces PC version is in development, along with 2 paid DLCs (twitter.com) angielski
[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! (cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com) angielski
For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!...
Lenovo Legion Go - Launch Trailer (www.youtube.com) angielski
Lenovo releases a new handheld starting at $700
Killer Bean - Official Game Trailer (www.youtube.com) angielski
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4747949...
The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com) angielski
Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil” (arstechnica.com) angielski
Kudos to Ars Technica to interviewing the Devil. The comments section of that post is *not *kind.