ryathal

@ryathal@sh.itjust.works

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

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Games from back when a sports game could just be about fun and not extracting money on competitive modes.

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That’s what makes money. Pointing at the 5-10 indie games that won the lottery isn’t really relevant to what is required for the average indie game.

I'm tired of every game being live service angielski

I’m really frustrated with how almost every new game these days is being forced into this “live service” model. It seems like no matter what type of game you want to play—whether it’s an RPG, shooter, or even something traditionally single-player—you’re stuck with always-online requirements. And for what? It adds...

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You can support games like Inquisitor martyr that shut the servers down, but patched the game first to allow you to pick any season to play offline.

Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? angielski

Battlefield 2042 is $60 right now. One of my friends on Steam plays Battlefield 2042 and I thought hey, that would be pretty cool to play with him. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that much because that game came out a long time ago and was extremely poorly received and like, I’m sure it would be really easy to buy that game or...

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Doing that bankrupted jc penny.

Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time angielski

Starfield steam page for the DLC currently shows eight user review score of 41%, making this one of the worst Bethesda DLC’s released of all time. This is so horribly, shockingly bad for Bethesda, because it shows as a gaming company, they are no longer capable of delivering a really good gaming experience as they had in the...

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They do ESO makes anything else the company does largely irrelevant. Same as Blizzard back when Activision bought them.

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They don’t. Their payouts leaked a couple years ago, of the thousands of streamers there’s a few hundred that make minimum wage or better. This pattern holds true for YouTube, only fans, etc.

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The bigger cost is probably the processing time, limiting to $100 probably drops the number of payments by 80%.

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How often are those small streamers the only one though? Having times where you do almost ok aren’t that great if you make nothing 30% of your streaming time.

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Yep same thing with all the streaming services, just taking the Netflix money was probably a better move for a lot of these services.

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Halo and Gears of War are both pretty good if sci Fi is ok.

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You capture monsters in balls, hurting them more makes it easier.

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Companies aren’t innovative. Once they land on a formula they just keep using it. Eventually it gets stale and the company crashes or buys another company that had a good idea and runs it into the ground. Innovative games happen when a AAA company happens to acquire an indie studio at the right time to give them runway to properly polish their game.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' (www.tweaktown.com) angielski

I’m genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student’s first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year),...

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Advertising better cuts to publishers doesn’t mean much when the price is the same across platforms. If epic was consistently 10% cheaper than steam it would get better traction.

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That doesn’t apply to exclusive games which also don’t have lower prices.

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Which I as a buyer don’t care about. That’s the whole point of the parent.

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EA tried about a decade ago to compete with steam. It didn’t go well for them either.

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Industry standard prices exist. If an exclusive matches them you aren’t getting a discount.

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Critic reviews in video gaming are literally just corporate advertising. It’s not surprising critics like a game with Disney behind it.

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Anything less than a 7 gets you blacklisted from publishers.

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Majesty really needs another game. Simulation is pretty popular now and the second one was so disappointing.

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I don’t even bother claiming free Amazon games on the epic store.

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Glad to know druids are still catching absurd nerfs. Some things never change.

Something like wow is about the only thing I’d consider paid early access for. The chance to get out of the starting new zones while there’s only 30-50% as many people in them is an appealing idea.

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The first two are awful for a console. Why would you want to play wow or an RTS with a controller?

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Keyboards need a desktop though, which isn’t really common for most console locations.

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2 was primitive, but designed in a way that allowed much more freedom than later versions.

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I look forward to maybe buying this in 5-10 years when it’s on sale with dlc for a reasonable price.

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Monster hunter beat them to it.

SteamOS could see a general distribution release, work with other handheld gaming PCs soon (www.techspot.com) angielski

One of the Steam Deck’s primary advantages over more powerful handheld gaming PCs is its operating system, which is designed to mimic a game console interface within a Linux PC environment. Valve has long planned to bring the OS to other devices, but a recent Steam Deck software update includes the first mention of a rival...

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Yes, but it really only works at low latency over a wired connection. It’s great for video or games where input lag isn’t a big deal.

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Only if they read anything about the games or books. Leaving master chief out doesn’t fix the active contempt for the source material.

Space Marine 2 feels even more explosively, grimly, and hilariously authentic to the Warhammer 40,000 universe than the first game (www.pcgamer.com) angielski

A Warhammer 40,000 space marine is not just your usual sci-fi super soldier. They are hulking behemoths, 10 feet tall (and about 10 feet wide too). They don’t move like people, they move like freight trains. They have the physical bearing of an industrial freezer unit and the emotional intelligence of a crocodile. They do not...

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Most the games are fine to just pick up with no knowledge of Warhammer.

Day 21 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world) angielski

Today’s game is (Modded) Skyrim. I took this while walking from Whiterun to Winterhold to start the Mage’s guild quest. I thought the mountain was pretty so I snapped a screenshot

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It holds up pretty well for what elder scrolls is. It’s still a fun world to run around and do things. Especially with mods. If you use something like ordinator to change the perk trees it’s a very different experience, especially for magic.

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It took music a while to learn this, and most game companies already knew it. I just wish streaming platforms would learn a bit faster that exclusives aren’t that useful.

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The casting alone is a reason to be skeptical.

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You’re listing games over a year old. Steam had over 14k new releases in 23. There’s maybe 10 good games in any given year, and generally less than 3 great games. They are absolutely swimming in a pool od shit games.

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Everyone wants WoW levels of income without WoW levels of effort.

I also don’t think companies realized how competitive live services are, very few people will buy in to more than one live service at a time.

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I’d settle for the EU to start enforcement on use of the words buy and purchase. If a game requires online connection or only gives you a license, then they must use the words rent or license at point of sale.

Thanks Reddit. I'll continue to not provide any content since I shredded everything pre-enshitification. (sh.itjust.works)

This just makes me angry. You need to write comments and get likes before you’re able to make posts. Most of the posts in that community could pass as boomer-Facebook-posts from what I’ve seen. The quality definitely went more downhill than Tony Hawk‘s Downhill Jam....

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Reddit massively over uses automod and creates absurd rules. Way too many default subs are essentially impossible to post in because of karma, verified email, account age, other subs you posted in, it’s not the fun day of the week, everything belongs in the mega thread, or the mods just steal your posts.

Looking for emotional game recommendations angielski

My favorite games are Omori, Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds. I cried for hours at the end of those games, and I think the common point in them is high-quality emotional writing and stellar OST (music really affect me) and my attachment to the characters....

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The first walking dead game from telltale was good, but if you’ve played anything they’ve done its largely the same.

Papers please can get emotional, but it’s mostly intense pressure.

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I enjoy inquisitor Martyr, it’s definitely more basic than Diablo. It scratches the kill everything and get loot itch though.

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This is my preferred version. Anything else is overly specific on arbitrary features. It doesn’t matter to me if levels are procedurally generated or randomly chosen from 100 different hand made levels, the result is the same.

Veteran Videogame Analyst: Subscription growth has flattened [in video games] (files.catbox.moe) angielski

Adding a bit more to the discussion on whether game subscription can be “the future”, it looks like despite the heavy push made in the past decade, subscriptions only make up 10% of total video game spending in the US....

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I’m not sure there ever was a honeymoon phase for game subscriptions. They generally still push you to buy dlc/season passes. They still segment stuff into pre-order bonuses that you don’t get in a subscription. You already have titles leaving the service.

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Honestly I don’t regret paying a subscription for WoW. Maybe it’s different now, but when I played it felt fair. You got reliable servers, frequent updates,somewhat reasonable balance changes, and seasonal events. You didn’t get any loot box bullshit, just playing the game regularly generally got you the rewards with minimal effort.

Sure expansions also cost extra, but that was $30 and about 1 every 2 years.

For a game that ate all your free time, it didn’t hit your wallet that hard.

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The subscription also helped with spamming. There was plenty in wow, but it was nothing compared to f2p ganes that I’ve tried.

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The right choice is to just stop, but this is a phenomenal game that should be experienced by more people. Just don’t let kids play it, it’s very much an adult game.

Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss (www.ign.com) angielski

In a new interview with IGN, Larian Studios boss Swen Vincke responded to questions about Baldur's Gate 3 being on Xbox Game Pass, explaining why the best RPG of 2023 won't be on Microsoft's subscription service anytime soon.

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Game pass needs games with lots of dlc and season pass bullshit for it to make sense for non Microsoft games. If you actually make a good game, it’s way more profitable to ignore game pass.

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It’s almost always better to wait on Bethesda titles and buy the goty/complete edition a few years later.

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Putting your faith in a fable game to live up to expectations is a terrible move.

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Instead it’s a title made by a studio that’s about 3 levels removed from the original creators.

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