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onlooker, 6 dni temu

The quality of the game isn’t why The Crew makes a good target. It’s because it’s made by Ubisoft, which is based in France. And France has some pretty strict consumer protection laws. Were this, say, EA, which is based in the US, the lawsuit would be a non-starter. In adddition to that, France is a part of EU, which means Ubisoft has to comply with EU law in addition to the aforementioned French laws. So if this goes through, they will have to fight this on at least two fronts. The Crew is also a singleplayer game with an online component, which shouldn’t be necessary for the game to function, but here we are.

So to sum up: the lawsuit is not because people are super passionate for The Crew (though some probably are), but because if you’re going to make an example of a game, your best shot is suing a company which is located in a country with good customer protection laws. The Crew just happened to fit that bill.

onlooker, 26 dni temu

We still have about 6 years to go, but it’s obviously going to be Gollum.

onlooker, 3 miesiące temu

Good. I hope that sleaze Pitchford loses a mountainload of money on this. I absolutely hate the guy, he’s a liar and a thief. And arguably, depending how you look at it, a pedophile.

As a short reminder: Borderlands was originally meant to look like this. Then, at the MTV Asia Awards 2006, an artist by the name of Ben Hibon premiered a neat-looking animated short by the name of Codehunters. You can see it here. Witchford saw this and wanted to use the artstlye for his new game. He and Ben had a back-and-forth for a while and then, radio silence.

2009 comes around and Pitchfork’s new game Borderlands is released. And to say that it looked familiar to Codehunters would be an understatement. Kitschford, being an upstanding and virtuous citizen that he is, straight-up aped Codehunter’s style. No discussions or agreements were made with Ben and as such, despite Borderlands becoming hugely profitable, Ben didn’t see a cent. And that is why I will always hope for the Borderlands IP to crash and burn. Or, at the very least, for someone to actually pay Ben Hibon for (unknowingly) creating the game’s artstyle. Anyway, rant over, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

onlooker, 3 miesiące temu

Nah, I didn’t forget. It’s just that Pitchford’s list of screw-ups is so extensive that if I wanted to list of each and every one, we’d be here all day.

onlooker, 3 miesiące temu

I started playing the first Nioh. Send help.

onlooker, 3 miesiące temu

Much appreciated nonetheless. And yes, that’s precisely what I’m looking for.

onlooker, 3 miesiące temu

It definitely qualifies! Alas, I’ve already played it. It still astounds me that the game wasn’t ported to other platforms, it was good!

onlooker, 3 miesiące temu

I loved Picross 3D 2 (or Round 2 or whatever it was called) on the 3DS! As you surmised, it’s not what I’m looking for, but I’ll try to snag it the first chance I get. Thanks!

onlooker, 3 miesiące temu

I know, I would love to see more games using that style! Then again, I completely understand that it might be easier for some devs to use skeletal animation on voxel models instead of making a static voxel model for every frame of animation.

onlooker, 4 miesiące temu

Not surprising. Either this was their long game or MS is in crisis mode, because lately they haven’t been doing so hot.

onlooker, 4 miesiące temu

Are people asking for a Bloodborne remake? I always thought they just wanted a port to systems other than PS4. Which I still think Sony should do.

onlooker, 4 miesiące temu

True for most screw-ups in gaming, yes, but not this time. The studio in question, Paradox Tectonic missed three Early Access deadlines. It sounds like Tectonic bit off more than they could chew. I like bashing execs as much as the next guy, but if you miss three deadlines at any job, you’re probably getting the axe.

onlooker, 4 miesiące temu

Oh shit, that was Sylux from Prime 3’s secret ending. I loved the Prime games, I’m pretty hyped about this.

onlooker, 5 miesięcy temu

So, business as usual for Bethesda.

onlooker, 5 miesięcy temu

Probably what he meant, yes, but that’s not a sequel. I would even hesitate to call it a spiritual successor. It’s basically just Civ in spaaaaace.

onlooker, 5 miesięcy temu

Ooh, I’m always down for some spying. Especially if high tech toys are involved. Here’s hoping it’ll be good.

onlooker, 5 miesięcy temu

This comment should be somewhere near the top. My reaction was similar to DebatableRaccoon’s.

onlooker, 5 miesięcy temu

Same here. Terry didn’t even bother to change up the artstyle. Forget being inspired by something, his game looks like a straight-up copy. What a tool.

onlooker, 5 miesięcy temu

It would be even better if they commited to not installing rootkits on your PC.

onlooker, 6 miesięcy temu

en.wikipedia.org/…/Category:PlayStation_5-only_ga…

Gee, wonder why.

onlooker, 6 miesięcy temu

Mat Piscatella, executive director of analysis firm Circana, said that monthly, non-mobile, video-game subscription spending in the US “has been flat to low single-digit growth” since the middle of 2021.

Good. Now that we’ve established that the subscription-based videogame market is pretty much saturated with very little potential for growth, can we please stop shoveling out all this live service crap? It didn’t work for Bioware, it didn’t work for Rocksteady Studios and it didn’t work for Arkane Austin. Stop it.

onlooker, 6 miesięcy temu

I’m frankly astounded by the sheer ineptitude on display here. I don’t know what’s happening at Microsoft, but whatever it is, it’s insanity. How tone deaf can you be? And this is only days after the gamepad fiasco.

onlooker, 6 miesięcy temu

Very nicely explained, I find myself in agreement with you. This makes a lot of sense and would explain their current behaviour. So, with this in mind, if I look at Microsoft’s statement from the article, it now reads slightly differently. Before, it was just their statement verbatim: “we need games like Hi-Fi rush”, but now it’s “we need games like Hi-Fi Rush, but a hell of a lot cheaper”. All because of GamePass. Dude, I am so sick of subscription services.

onlooker, 6 miesięcy temu

All that talk about how Xbox is investing in the Japanese market and then they close the one prominent Japanese studio that they own. The same one that, as the article points out, made Hi-Fi Rush which was “a break out hit”. What the hell, Microsoft.

onlooker, 6 miesięcy temu

So, it’s an announcement for an announcement? We don’t know anything about it, other than that it’s in development.

onlooker, 6 miesięcy temu

How about the Swiitch? You get the roman numeral 2 in there and the name’s similar enough to the original Switch, so customers will be confused as to whether this is a new console or an iteration of the current one. Just like the Wii U!

onlooker, 7 miesięcy temu

So glad this is gaining traction. I like playing older games from time to time and I am NOT down with capricious companies killing games just because they decided it doesn’t make financial sense to patch out their DRM. The Crew was sold as a good, not a service. They should either patch out the online requirement or give users their money back.

I can imagine the prospect not being attractive to Ubisoft, but who cares about Ubisoft anyway.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

It feels like everybody, here are just a few examples. And if that doesn’t cut it for you, Steam has a whole-ass tag for boomer shooters.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

I know, but just let me have my old man yells at cloud moment.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Oh, they’re definitely better, no question. But by that definition, wouldn’t that make them Boom Shooters?

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Dammit! Upvoted with great begrudgement.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

No, you’re not. But I like you anyway.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

I would love to see that take place, so sign me up for the Church of the Boomest Shooter. My only real concern is where do we go from boomest?

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Hey, at least it’s shining.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

It wasn’t? This is what Wikipedia says:

“OK boomer” or “okay boomer” is a catchphrase and internet meme that has been used by members of the Millennial generation and Generation Z (born between the early 1980s and the early 2010s) to dismiss or mock attitudes typically associated with baby boomers – people born in the two decades following World War II.

Who was it targeted at then?

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

It does roll off the tongue nicely, I have to admit.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Get off my lawn and leave me to my prune juice.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Oh, I’m liking this take. Get ready for “Z Shooters” and “Alpha Shooters”.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Raging against new slang is just gonna make us more out of touch, and intensify the feeling of being old, so I just accept it and try to keep up.

NEVER! I choose to embrace my inner geriatric and complain about kids these days and their hippy-hop music.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Okay, then riddle me this: which shooter DOESN’T go boom?

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Nope, that goes boom, too.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

That’s a good one. True enough, Splatoon doesn’t go boom, it goes splat.

onlooker, 8 miesięcy temu

Are action RPGs okay? If so, Ys: Oath in Felghana. It’s a remake of Ys III, which is also available on other platforms. However! The PSP version has features that other platforms do not, the main two being voice acting (other ports just have beeps when text is displayed) and a whole new mechanic, which is reminiscent of Final Fantasy’s Limit Breaks.

One potential caveat, though: this is probably the hardest entry in the series. Fights are hard, but never cheap. If you’re okay with that, you should have a good time.