Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre, and harass their employees while being protected by HR and the CEO.
Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.
There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.
At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.
In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”
It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.
The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.
Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.
SpoilerThe giant is a very melancholic, dignified old servant who’s feeling betrayed and disappointed in the player (long story, happens before the game, you don’t remember it and you’re only just piecing together what happened). When he dies, he starts slowly sinking in lava with a very sad expression, with a speech about how “You were an example to us all”, lamenting about what happened, etc… And just before being completely immerged, with just his hand still reaching out of lava… “You…” “…are an ass!” And he flips you off. Perfect delivery.
As usual the worst part is the title (by design, of course. Gotta farm those clicks).
“there are too many but keep dreaming if you want big sacks of money” is not the guy’s quote. The frankenquote is ambiguous on purpose, it could sound either like sarcasm or like a semi-cautious encouragement.
In the article, he sounds way more negative toward live services than that. There’s no “but”, he just says it’s an “illusion” and it “mostly doesn’t happen”.
Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.
I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Don’t worry, guys. I’m sure their investment partner, the president’s totally squeaky-clean son-in-law Jared Kushner, will make sure nothing bad comes of this deal. It’s not like he’s ever used the power of his connections to fatten his wallet, right?
Probably not. Even the thing that was shown several years ago, and that hasn’t been mentioned again since, wasn’t a sequel. It was a completely different style of game, and a prequel with different characters.
The first game ended on a sequel hook, and left a lot unresolved. People who asked for a sequel mostly wanted to know what happens next. They weren’t asking for a procedural multiplayer open world with different characters in another time frame.
BGE ends like the Empire Strikes Back. It’s a bittersweet ending in which main characters have evolved, but the conflict is not resolved at all… and there’s even a good guy still in deep shit. Obviously it needs the sequel to wrap everything up.
BGE2’s announcement is like we got nothing after Empire Strikes Back for a decade, so no Return of the Jedi, and George Lucas came back to tell us “we’re doing the prequel trilogy now, no plan on ever concluding the old storyline”.
It’s true. Reviewers rave about a game, I pick it up and play it, and they’re raving about a new one before I’ve finished that last one. I’ve got a list of 20+ games that came out this year that I still haven’t gotten around to. I might get through 5 of them before the new year. And you know, if wouldn’t hurt my...
The question here was if RuneScape gold is a product or if it is legal tender. If it was legal tender then you don’t pay VAT on it, similar to when if you trade one currency to another VAT is not applied.
Even if they went that way (good luck with that), doesn’t that mean farming gold regularly and for profit should still be registered as a professional activity? Or at least the result of it declared as revenue?
Who asked for this? Beyond Microsoft executives who want to justify their paycheck, I mean.
Though really there might be good entertainment value for a few streamers out there. Use it on a niche game or a fairly complex one and laugh at the inevitable hallucinated bullshit as the assistant pretends to know about it.
Edit : just read it was on a “list of supported games”. Booo. Cowards.
I’ve played the first two Discworld point and click games. Let me tell you, I might have believed you if you told me that was a true hint for the first one.
Even knowing the books it got its inspiration from won’t help you with some of its “puzzles”.
This is is totally free right now, but claiming it is in a morally grey area. It’s also not as simple as adding it to your library, I’ll explain how in a sec, though. Anyway, since I figured since it is being shared everywhere, I might as well share it here also....
Not sure I want that after the reviews, which is a shame because a good fantasy city builder is something I’d pay for. But I wouldn’t want to invest time in an unfinished game that’s turning to a mobile idle thing model.
But I am a bit curious about how they are doing this. I don’t think Steam allows different pricing from the wishlist, do they?
Did they just hide the free base game purchase leaving only paid options on the store page? It’s looking like that, technically you can’t buy “Leviathan’s fantasy” alone from the store, only paid bundles (with the new version? and weirdly, this makes Leviathan’s fantasy cost money inside that bundle making it more expensive? so confusing).
Seems to me he and Gearbox have been in lots of shit for a while now (the infamous USB drive, serious plagiarism accusations when Borderlands did an artistic 180 during development, Alien : Colonial Marines released broken as hell after funneling its funding to make BL2, Duke Nukem Forever…)
And every time Pitchford’s (mostly unnecesary) public answer has been terrible.
Kazeta is a new OS by the creator of ChimeraOS. You might have seen some news on it in the last few days, or at least some posts on social media. Its not trying to be the next big gaming platform, it’s more like a little love letter to the old style of gaming. Instead of all those menus, online accounts, and updates, it takes...
Switch still have them. Of course now some publishers on Switch 2 are shitting on the very concept of cartridges by making empty carts that are just keys to download the game.
Something I’ve picked up on with my gaming preference is stories that don’t simply focus on one “mood” for the game, but alter it to fit the situation. Players get a relaxed time exploring or diving into combat, and the world is inviting and colorful, but when the story builds, it puts brutal tests of character in front...
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 became my favourite entry in the series because of how it still has light, silly moments, improbable vistas and absurd world building, but when it tries for dark, it hits hard (and to be honest it’s generally a good deal darker than the other games even from the beginning).
Previous episodes had their emotional moments, but nothing comes close to one particular scene in 3.
Today’s game is No Man’s Sky. With the new corvette update i had to play it. Games with fully functional ship building functions are what i live for and i’m happy to have it here. The game lets me get up while flying and walk around and even open the back door. I ended up opening it up and just watching the view....
Today’s game is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Usually i’d emulate it, but i got a chance to play it again on Native hardware and got to join friends for multiplayer tonight. I’d never gotten to do Multiplayer to be honest, the most i got was playing on a single system with siblings and that was my experience. Getting to...
Oh fuck, Hard DK has found his way to you too then :)
Streamer Alpharad got a “Hard DK” bit running since they got their ass handed over to them by a crazy Mario Party CPU DK that was just gambling like mad and winning everything.
They trained an incredibly good amiibo CPU DK in Smash they called Hard DK in reference to this.
My problem with Smash is I just can’t commit to one character and I’m just kind of bad at all of them. If anything, the most decent I get might be with the Links and Belmonts. I guess projectile jank is kind of my thing.
“Another fighting game character”, take your pick. Just with non-nintendo IPs at this point it could be Ryu, Ken, Terry Bogard or Kazuya Mishima.
And then you can throw Solid Snake, Pac-Man, Sonic, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, fucking Minecraft Steve and a Mii disguised as Sans from Undertale into the mix.
Amiibos are a bit expensive. There are a few DK amiibos, they should all work with Smash because amiibos have a character identifier that’s recognized between games and amiibo series.
The ones from smash bros and super mario series should be around the “normal” price (for me it’s about 13-15 euros). Maybe you can find a second hand one for cheaper.
There’s a new one with DK and Pauline for Bananza, like other new amiibos it costs a bit more (around 18€ for me). It unlocks a costume in Bananza as an extra.
There’s also an old Skylander DK figure that doubles as an amiibo if I remember correctly. It’s kinda ugly and cheap-looking, and probably not easy to find, but who knows.
Today’s game is Super Mario Galaxy. This is the attempt. I’m going to beat it this time… probably. I said the same things every other time. But I have the thing I’m playing it on all to myself in the evenings, so literally, I have no excuse....
Galaxy is so great. Good flow, good looking, excellent music with a mix of epic and ambient… And a new character that got more personality from a short story and a couple dialogues than any character from the series ever had.
Too bad they never really knew what to do with her after that. Except Ubisoft with Mario + Rabbids 2, but… Meh.
2 botches things that worked very well before. Especially the camera that did a good job of always being in the right place in 1, but in 2 you suddenly have crazy angles and blind spots that play against you. This can’t even be explained by more complex level design, so who knows what happened.
Also they got rid of the hub for a small, disturbing looking ship and a very generic map, and they killed any trace of story. Those were two things that really set Galaxy 1 apart IMO.
On the new side of things, there were Yoshi, with different powers, and more challenges (but they kind of feel repetitive, because you end up needing to do the same things with just an additional timer or enemy etc…). And the last stars were quite a bit harder than anything in Galaxy.
Yeah, completely. Pauline’s got her time in the limelight right now, between Odyssey and DK Bananza, but Rosalina was just relegated to “bonus Peach clone that can do a swirl attack” in 3D World, and that’s basically it.
I assume I’m not the only one who has played the same games on different type of storage: commonly HDDs and SSDs, but I also set up two RAID 0 filesystems (one on two HDDs, one on two SSDs), and I even installed Deep Rock Galactic on RAM....
Part of it might be applying the many patches of definitions and stuff, but it’s probably mostly just loading a shitload of png files in memory.
Even worse, even after years of updates, the several literal minutes of loading on a HDD happen on a completely unresponsive, static screen (Windows even prompts you with that “kill the app or wait for it to respond” pop-up if you alt-tab out of it).
There’s a mod to add a progress bar to that initial mod loading. Yeaaah.
Today’s game is Mario Galaxy. Specifically the 3D all Stars Version. After Mario Kart world Yesterday, I wanted to see how this looks on the system (looks great, but Galaxy has some sharp edges I wish I had options for). Embarrassingly, I bought the 3D all Stars when I was young and Naive and bought into the FOMO Nintendo...
It’s something I feel like more recent Nintendo games haven’t done.
References to past games are still a thing they do quite a lot. Weirdly enough in Super Mario Odyssey they went all in on Donkey Kong nostalgia. 3D world has the Comet Observatory, reimagined levels from 64, Bowser’s Fury brought back Bowser Jr’s paintbrush from Sunshine.
Breath of the Wild is chock full of references, ruins of old places, every land feature name is evoking something, be it a character, an old boss, whatever, music cues from the Temple of Time, Spectacle Rock dungeon, Dragon Roost Island…
Echoes of Wisdom borrowed like 70% of its map from A Link to the Past. Again. They already did that in A Link Between Worlds. Not a fan of that one honestly, I love ALttP, Nintendo please stop nostalgia farming it for subpar games already. I like my maps to feel fresh.
Mario Kart World is almost nothing but references, most tracks are from past episodes, and you can find stuff like SNES circuits on the roads around the official ones. And there are loads of remixes of past games music, from NES to Switch and everything in between.
Not all games are about graphics, and this looks completely serviceable to me. I understand struggling with ASCII roguelike interfaces (never really got the hang of it myself), but everything here looks easily identifiable.
I recently learned there was a musou/Warriors game called Bladestorm taking place during the hundred years’ war. The game was not great apparently but reading about the crazy anime takes on European historical figures and events is funny.
Apparently it has a sequel where Joan of Arc turns evil (including the stereotypical villainess costume change, of course) and leads an army of sorcerers and monsters to wreck havoc.
I mean, Hamilton exists. If people want to write crazy shit about historical figures or make games about them they should be able to.
There’s a 35 year old game series featuring stuff like leading Cleopatra’s army against the tyrannical rule of Theodore Roosevelt while Gandhi’s words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
I’m pretty sure the few overpaid execs that are “fuck you” rich are still there, and they’re probably richer than ever. However now they probably consider themselves too important to park with normal people. It’s all about private jets and helicopters.
Tells a lot about this guy and his ilk that he thinks you measure a healthy company to how many assholes actively flaunt their money with shallow luxury shit.
Today’s game is some more Wind Waker. I started making my way through the first dungeon, but was stopped by my worst enemy: A dead controller battery. It’s a shame because I had just gotten the key....
The Triforce quest was somewhat nerfed in the remake. You get some fragments immediately instead of finding a map to them.
And the new sail kinda makes wind control useless for sailing which I’m honestly not sure I like. This is just a part of the game’s theme they cut, there is such a thing as too convenient IMO.
Today’s game is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Right now I only have access to my Steam Deck due to current events, and I wanted to kill some time and have kind of been craving this since Prey isn’t on the menu and I recently beat OoT. I’ve been putting it off because this game’s openings is one of its weaknesses...
IMO the cool thing about TP is the weirdness. There are those eerie choirs, even in the jingles, there are some quite grotesque designs, and a few quite disturbing and puzzling cutscenes.
It’s definitely the Zelda game for weird moods, maybe not as crazy as Majora’s Mask but more like a constant feeling of something being not right.
Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? angielski
‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? angielski
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37932218...
Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
US senators voice concerns over ‘foreign influence and national security risks’ in Saudi-funded EA acquisition | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Don’t worry, guys. I’m sure their investment partner, the president’s totally squeaky-clean son-in-law Jared Kushner, will make sure nothing bad comes of this deal. It’s not like he’s ever used the power of his connections to fatten his wallet, right?
Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) angielski
Mine is Joanna Dark (Perfect Dark N64)
Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Link to the original scoop by Stephen Totillo’s Game File
The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games (www.bloomberg.com) angielski
It’s true. Reviewers rave about a game, I pick it up and play it, and they’re raving about a new one before I’ve finished that last one. I’ve got a list of 20+ games that came out this year that I still haven’t gotten around to. I might get through 5 of them before the new year. And you know, if wouldn’t hurt my...
EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com) angielski
100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) angielski
This is is totally free right now, but claiming it is in a morally grey area. It’s also not as simple as adding it to your library, I’ll explain how in a sec, though. Anyway, since I figured since it is being shared everywhere, I might as well share it here also....
GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago angielski
'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash (www.ign.com) angielski
Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Shocking exactly 4 people on the planet, Squadron 42 might not make it's just-recently-confirmed-absolutely-rock-solid 2026 release date. 😂...
Konami’s AI project backfires, Yu-Gi-Oh! videos deleted over unauthorized use of popular actress’ voice (automaton-media.com) angielski
Massive Gaming Crossover: Among Us Teams Up with Popular RPG (gamersplan.com) angielski
Kazeta: the new Linux-based physical media OS (my article!) angielski
Kazeta is a new OS by the creator of ChimeraOS. You might have seen some news on it in the last few days, or at least some posts on social media. Its not trying to be the next big gaming platform, it’s more like a little love letter to the old style of gaming. Instead of all those menus, online accounts, and updates, it takes...
What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? angielski
Something I’ve picked up on with my gaming preference is stories that don’t simply focus on one “mood” for the game, but alter it to fit the situation. Players get a relaxed time exploring or diving into combat, and the world is inviting and colorful, but when the story builds, it puts brutal tests of character in front...
Day 408 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is No Man’s Sky. With the new corvette update i had to play it. Games with fully functional ship building functions are what i live for and i’m happy to have it here. The game lets me get up while flying and walk around and even open the back door. I ended up opening it up and just watching the view....
Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Usually i’d emulate it, but i got a chance to play it again on Native hardware and got to join friends for multiplayer tonight. I’d never gotten to do Multiplayer to be honest, the most i got was playing on a single system with siblings and that was my experience. Getting to...
Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Super Mario Galaxy. This is the attempt. I’m going to beat it this time… probably. I said the same things every other time. But I have the thing I’m playing it on all to myself in the evenings, so literally, I have no excuse....
How much does storage speed affect your games? angielski
I assume I’m not the only one who has played the same games on different type of storage: commonly HDDs and SSDs, but I also set up two RAID 0 filesystems (one on two HDDs, one on two SSDs), and I even installed Deep Rock Galactic on RAM....
‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
A Fistful Of Yankees, an RTS x tactics hybrid with base building, with a spaghetti western setting, released on steam. (store.steampowered.com) angielski
Day 397 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Mario Galaxy. Specifically the 3D all Stars Version. After Mario Kart world Yesterday, I wanted to see how this looks on the system (looks great, but Galaxy has some sharp edges I wish I had options for). Embarrassingly, I bought the 3D all Stars when I was young and Naive and bought into the FOMO Nintendo...
Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work (bsky.app) angielski
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Has Made Certain Bosses And NPCs Unkillable Following Backlash In China (www.thegamer.com) angielski
Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Day 387 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is some more Wind Waker. I started making my way through the first dungeon, but was stopped by my worst enemy: A dead controller battery. It’s a shame because I had just gotten the key....
Day 385 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Right now I only have access to my Steam Deck due to current events, and I wanted to kill some time and have kind of been craving this since Prey isn’t on the menu and I recently beat OoT. I’ve been putting it off because this game’s openings is one of its weaknesses...