chuckleslord

chuckleslord, 25 dni temu

… oh, I turned off the launcher in steam. I was very confused on the GTA comment

chuckleslord, 2 miesiące temu

Miyazaki is trying to recreate the spontaneous cooperation he experienced with cars pushing cars up a snow covered hill. Honestly, their system is really cool if you treat it like a side thing, adding people when you really need help. Playing with friends, though, it’s kind of shit.

chuckleslord, 4 miesiące temu

Explain?

chuckleslord, 4 miesiące temu

Literally victim blaming. Classy.

chuckleslord, 5 miesięcy temu

I don’t like the blaming the victim mentality here. Sure, the games aren’t super great, but they use skinner box mechanics to get players to feel like they have to pay. Skinner Boxes are literally dopamine machines, meant to program behaviors. To fully lay the blame on the players instead of acknowledging that the games themselves are mostly to blame feels pretty gross.

chuckleslord, 6 miesięcy temu

I’m so tired of that word

chuckleslord, 10 miesięcy temu

I can’t play horror games, I freeze when I’m scared. Thank goodness for Let’s Plays, get all the content I want without needing to demonstrate to myself that my instincts haven’t changed.

chuckleslord, 10 miesięcy temu

Minthara is such a pain, unless you throw her in a pit.

chuckleslord, 10 miesięcy temu

Since she’s a “companion”, she leaves an orb when she goes over. At least she did when the game came out (source, I’m definitely rocking her outfit after throwing her over)

chuckleslord, 10 miesięcy temu

Didn’t have trouble second time. I play like a big dumb dumb cause it both makes it more fun and also I play like a dumb dumb thinking I’m smart. I get there eventually.

chuckleslord, 11 miesięcy temu

Less crunch, more realistic deadlines, less unnecessary scope. Makes better games

chuckleslord, 11 miesięcy temu

No, it doesn’t. Pushing people to burn out doesn’t make more or better products, it just burns people out. People are more productive when they have work life balance

chuckleslord, 11 miesięcy temu

This is about the comics that game is based on and the characters/settings therein. Not just the material in the game itself.

chuckleslord, 11 miesięcy temu

Listen, it might’ve looked cheap as fuck, but I found a certain charm in the “every dungeon interior is just one of three dungeons with different parts blocked off”. Plus the combat flowed really well. I played that whole game through like… 5 times. One right after the other.

chuckleslord, rok temu

I have no problem if games reached this via a similar model that Larian used here (lots of experienced staff, pre-built systems, 6 years of development, 3 years of expertly done early-access with a highly engaged player base) but they’re not going to. They’re going to implement more crunch, more abuse, more destruction of the few people who want to work in games in order to get there. And that’s where I have the issue.

I want shorter games, with worse graphics, made by people who get paid more to do less. Because that’s what’s needed to make truly great games. People who are passionate, not burning themselves out just to barely make deadlines, make great games.

chuckleslord, rok temu

Sorry, I’m neurodivergent. Can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

chuckleslord, rok temu

Completely agreed. The issue is that gamers™ aggressively advocate for better quality, and do not care about workplace abuse or worse products with more features. This creates the current feedback loop we have where games that are longer, have flashier features, and aren’t finished at launch.

Labor unions and protections would be excellent, but isn’t something that I, a non-game developer, can do much to advance, besides avocation.