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

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Most remake/remasters aren’t worth anyones time, as it is.

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If you like it, support the Developer that made it by buying it.

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Dusted off Raft and started a new playthrough. For all it’s upolished and unforgiving nature, it’s a good game.

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Completely unrelated.

That id software is now owned by Microsoft pisses me off way more than it should. I was already iffy when they were acquired by Zenimax.

And there’s literally no one left of the original crew at this point.

I think I’m done with Doom, Wolfenstein and all that.

Rant over and sorry. It all just dawned on me when I saw the post.

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I know that and I’m happy that there is so much to choose from these days, simply because distribution isn’t a big issue anymore. The indie scene has never been in a better place.

It’s a nostalgia thing. Plus, I’m against the whole “exclusivity” thing. And a bunch of other reasons, but it hardly matters.

Sometimes you just need to vent your disappointment, you know?

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A bit late, but good for them.

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Might have helped a bit both before and during Koticks rampage.

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Im not a Console player, but I’m pretty sure whatever hardware you’re using should be able to outlast the Cheeto-man’s final term.

GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead (www.eurogamer.net) angielski

I saw someone, somewhere, saying something like this recently: it’s always easier to play the role of doomsayer than the optimist, because far fewer people seem to care if you’re wrong when you’re predicting something will fail....

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Even the Devs out of a job isn’t necessarily something you should concern yourself too much with.

Games development is a fairly privileged job to have and for the Devs working for big dubious companies…? Let’s not pretend like they didn’t know who they worked for, what they worked on and what the personal risks attached were.

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We probably all have our own factors that go into determining whether or not someone deserves our sympathies.

And there’s definitely some circumstances where I’m more understanding. Like, Ubisoft as you mentioned. I have zero relation to their products nor the company it self. They’ve never really been on my radar. So I can’t speak to that.

But then we have something like Microsoft. A giant among giants in the corporate world. You don’t become a 3 trillion dollar company by playing by the book. And I understand why people would want MS on their resume, but I can’t understand wanting to work for them.

But that’s just a part of my little black book. I imagine you have your own, most people do.

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Working in entertainment is privileged. It’s not a job you just happen to end up with by accident. Most people are there because they want to be there.

And yes, the shitty mega corporations will use that against you. And yes, again, your small indie company can get purchased and suddenly your boss is the shitty mega corp. But you have a choice even then. Try to get out on your own terms or stick around until it’s time to cut the fat and get fired.

You can think I’m a dick all you want. I have my principles and I live by them. I have taken jobs most people don’t even know exist, because they can’t even imagine themselves in a position that would ever warrant something like it. And I’ve quit jobs for less than how game developers get treated. I don’t care what I do, I care about who I work for and how they treat the people around them.

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It’s been 84 years…

Please stop defaulting to Half Life 3 when you have nothing better to write about.

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Shadow dropping isn’t a new thing Bethesda just invented, so I doubt Oblivion would have anything to do with it.

Valve does what Valve wants to do. Always have. And they don’t have a tendency to announce anything years in advance to generate hype, because frankly, I don’t think they care.

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Just played through OneShot.

Very good little game. I did take a bit of fiddling to get to work properly in Linux, but worth it.

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I take a lot of breaks. Just a few minutes doing something else.

What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough? angielski

For me it’s Super Metroid. I have played Zero Mission, Fusion, Metroid: Samus Returns (3ds) and Metroid prime remaster, three of these games are remake/remaster. So you can see why I’m hesitant to start Super Metroid, I’m sure that game still holds up, but playing it with modern controls annd other bells and whistles would...

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I would never hold off on playing a game for a remake/remaster.

I love my oldies.

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Was Stalker supposed to be like Far Cry?

Am I missing something?

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Ahh, that headline title could have been more clearly written then.

Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" (www.rockpapershotgun.com) angielski

Answering GDC’s 2023 survey, 78% of respondents said they considered the harassment and toxicity developers receive from the public to be a serious issue. A simple sentiment is often the most effective, and the title of Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah’s latest video cuts right to the heart of it: “Your $70 doesn’t buy you...

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I have no personal vendetta against any of these individual Devs.

My stake in this is slightly different. Like, when I heard about how Blizzard treated it’s own staff and then the whole sexual harassment thing popped up, I was done with them. From that point on, that company didn’t deserve to exist and I blacklisted them. So i try to keep up with gaming related news.

More studios have joined that list since, for various reasons, and I find myself mostly playing indie titles from small upcoming developers now. I feel better about that.

I do believe we should be(e) kind. But I also believe kindness is a two way street.

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The cost of developing games hasn’t skyrocketed. Developers have more means than ever. Many things that was handcrafted on crappy slow computers then are auto-generated in seconds now.

There’s no massive shipping costs or printing of physical mediums anymore. And no losses if the already printed cassettes or CD’s didn’t sell.

If a game costs hundreds of millions to develop, in this day and age, it’s by design and/or because of bloated companies.

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I see how it’s different. And I’m not making excuses for anyone.

If anything, I’m saying I can understand where it’s coming from. But that doesn’t mean I’m onboard with it all.

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They’ll still make the Xbox consoles as long as they are selling. They’ll hopefully just ease off the “Exclusives” going forward.

It was a shitty way of trying to move consoles anyway.

Although they are late to the party, Sony is also trying to sell on PC and other storefronts. So my guess is that the console market isn’t treating either of them super well atm.

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It’s been a while, but yeah. I do believe they have a couple of projects in the works.

Whether or not they’ll amount to anything is anyones guess.

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I do believe Valve also counts as Indie. They are privately owned and self-publish.

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A quick internet search would suggest that no, you can exchange them, but not dismiss them entirely.

The game seems pretty hard-coded in regards to how they want you to play it.

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Time to build the new giants.

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And there’s some really good stuff out there in the Indy scene

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I’m talking about buying from small indie studios.

Every giant we have now all started as a small studio, doing their thing.

All we have to do, is shop around and make sure that whatever we buy isn’t affiliated with a big publisher.

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    Zelda like? You’ll have to specify a bit. What installment are we talking about?

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    That would be fun

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    To fair, the “peach fuzz” was a superfluous addition.

    As much as I enjoyed Horizon, it was very much a ‘one and done’ game for me. I would have liked more emphasis on replayability than skin textures and raytracing.

    But that’s just me. I’m old-school.

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    I don’t know about Elden Ring. Never got into the Souls games.

    But yeah, quest markers in open world games is lazy.

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    Ofcause it does. What part of a game that gets attention is a choice.

    From visuals to gameplay to sound design and so on. Everything has a priority.

    And with priority comes allocation of resources.

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    Yes, but it’s by choice. Big companies aren’t trying to impress nerds. Their demographic is everyone that is easily fascinated by “shiny” things.

    The hardware it was made for also prioritized resolution over frames per second. So hyper realism became a focal point of many of the AAA games created. And hyper realism is a one-way street (aesthetically speaking).

    It culminates in Hellblade. With ridiculously stunning visuals, but little else going for it.

    At what point would you say that a game isn’t a game anymore, but closer to an interactive movie?

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    The key words here being “I bet…”

    OP is just raging at no one in particular.

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    So you’re gonna go of the word of IGN, Pcgamer and the like?

    Because I’m pretty sure they are gonna praise it to high heaven even if it sucks.

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    Well, your taste is your own.

    I’ve been burned by the bigger media companies before. But I seldomly buy anything at launch, anyway.

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    Avowed is an established world, while The Outer Worlds was a new IP.

    Vastly different scopes.

    I expect TOW2 is going to be bigger in scale and depth.

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    The bar is pretty low, we’re talking Bethesda.

    That being said, I have yet to hear anything negative about F: London.

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    Didn’t Beth’ update F4 just before F:London dropped, redering the Mod partly incompatible?

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    Sadly Bethesda has the perfect fan-base. Obedient consumers that think anything they indulge in is beyond reproach.

    And regardless of the dwindling quality, they will keep buying whatever is advertised.

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    I think the general consesus is that Origins is the way to go with Dragon Age. You’re also more likely to see it go on sale soon now that Vailguard is out.

    Are you a patient gamer? (kbin.melroy.org) angielski

    There's no magazine on any instance that I see of such a community on the topic matter. To anyone not familiar, a patient gamer is someone who is immune to FOMO, doesn't get caught up or tied up with current modern gaming. Someone who doesn't care that they've beaten a game from 1996 and here it is 2024. Someone who doesn't care...

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    I don’t know what your point is, but yes, BG3 is still a recent game.

    Therefor it’s unlikely we’ll see a higher discount anytime soon.

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    Which is an anomaly, not a rule.

    But yes, we got lucky with The Witcher.

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    Meh, of all the games… BG3 shouldn’t make you feel bad for buying. It’s one of the few games in recent memory that is worth the money in full, imo.

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    It’s actually 20% off right now and until the 11/11-24.

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