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smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

When have Nintendo actually gone after emulators? ROM distributors, sure, but all the emulators are still widely available.

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

These services are for people who don’t even know what emulators are (or just can’t be bothered)

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

People get immersed in different ways. Some people get involved in the story, putting themselves in the character’s shoes and imagining it’s a real world. Some people get lost in the gameplay, enjoying the mechanics and focusing entirely on completing the challenge. For some people it’s TV, film, books, or just chatting at the pub and losing track of time. I’m sure you get immersed in something!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

I think $10 is per month, so multiply that by 12 to get the $3B

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Something about the narration just sounds a little… off, like it’s a bit robotic and slowed down. Is this just this channel’s style, or is it some chatbot-generated text-to-speech thing?

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

They obviously have been thinking about in-app purchases, ads, and extra fees.

I know gamers have a lot to be cynical about, but seeing an announcement that specifically says “without any ads, in-app purchases, or extra fees” and taking that as evidence of the opposite is a bit of a stretch!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Aren’t those games all already available on mobile? Or is definitive edition the new bit here?

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Any idea what that actually means for the games?

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

I already own three copies of the originals, no plans whatsoever to buy any more!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Lots of companies have products that exist just to compete with a rival’s product and keep the pressure on them, I’m sure Microsoft has plenty of products that exist just so they have the “you know we could drop this deal we have with you at any point and use our own version, so offer us a good deal”. I imagine they’ll keep the xbox around even if the likes of Sony and Nintendo do support game pass just so Microsoft have always got that bargaining chip of “alright then, we’ll run it on our own machine” if the others decide they want to change the terms of the deal.

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

They’ve been making people redundant left right and centre for the last few years. They overstretched and overhired after going public and are now being bitten by recession and terrible decisions, of which the recent licence fiasco is just one.

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Rosalina’s story is incredibly sad. Mine was the end of Undertale (when you get to the house). The music in both was a huge contributor to the sadness.

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Oh man, I’ve not played halo since the 360 and I didn’t know there was a TV programme being made, what was it that made it so bad?

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

That’s… a bold decision. Who pays for the rights to a well-known character/IP with lots of fans and then decides they want to attract a new audience instead? Guessing it was pretty poorly received?

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

I found this so interesting that I then went and watched the full version, absolutely fascinating view into how you make a video game in the brave new 3d world of the 90s!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Interesting read, this would be a good post for !rpg

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

I can understand invisible walls to stop you going off the map, or little “airlock” areas to hide a loading zone, but what is the point of this other than filler?

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Also available on Android

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Ubisoft says it was trying to put an ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage in the main menu of other Assassin’s Creed games. However, a “technical error” caused the promotion to show up on in-game menus instead.

There’s nothing accidental (or “accidental”) about the ad being in the game. Probably was an accident that it appeared mid-game, they need to desensitise you to ads in the menus first.

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Did anyone else find that CotL was a bit unbalanced? I had already maxed every unlockable ability and built a massive farm cult by the time I was about halfway through the dungeons, which made the rest of the game a bit anticlimactic as I didn’t need to do any more resource management. Hoping this expansion deals with that, if so I’d love to give it another go!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

I think it would have been better if there was some limit as to how much cult time you had between each dungeon run, but there’s nothing stopping you (in fact I felt encouraged!) spending a while using your resources to build new things and making all your cultists happy every time you go back to the cult.

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

This is actually great content. I don’t come hear to read about which investor group has bought some video game developer, I come here for surprisedly well-researched shitposts like this which make me sensible chuckle.

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Pretty sure that’s just a normal sized PS5

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Come to !freegames where everything’s 100% off (probably a bit less choice though)

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Speak for yourself, “gamer”, it’s the latest Mario Kart game, obviously we’re all still playing it. Have you gone back to Double Dash?

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

I actually built my own go-kart track next to a tortoise sanctuary and a banana plantation for the true experience, casual!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

I can offer you a less harmful addiction, get yourself some !freegames and load up on all the games you’ll never play without hurting your wallet ;)

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Tinyfolks is a little indie turn-based roguelike you can compete a run of in a few hours. It’s like Darkest Dungeon except with the opposite amount of stress, and it actually only supports mouse/touchscreen!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

Definitely not a resource-intensive game!

smeg, 10 miesięcy temu

According to Wikipedia it started out as a mod, Valve asked them not to give it a name too similar to their own Half-Life Source, then later Valve approached them and suggested a commercial release!

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

I’ve played video games as a criminal, a murderer, a genocidal maniac, and a wrathful god, but never something as horrifying as an estate agent

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

Based on my experience of the current Deck I’d say it’s not for everyone, but for my use-case it’s one of the best purchases I’ve ever made. If you’ve got a large backlog of PC games you’ve built up over the years, you’re OK with a little bit of tinkering to get some of them working, and you want to play them curled up on the sofa, then this is definitely the device for you!

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

Sadly I’ve seen a few games available for free recently which are slightly deceptive in mentioning that they’re actually only demos. The example that sticks out is Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition, not to be confused with Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (Base Game), a paid DLC which is actually the game. Obviously you see what’s going on pretty quickly, but the headline “game is free” is not the same as “demo available”!

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

This is Nintendo we’re talking about, doing common things that other tech companies do isn’t exactly their way of playing. Also, make your kids share!

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

I didn’t consider cartridge size as an issue, at least back in the day they were large enough that it was harder to lose them!

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

It’s more for the camera control rather than the character control

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

This was going to be my point, the “quick save and quit” option, regardless of how the “normal” save system works. It’s fine if the game only wants you to create a save point you can reload from at certain locations, but a quick save that disappears when you reload it means you can put down the game immediately when the real world comes a-knocking.

smeg, 11 miesięcy temu

There are too many articles posted in gaming communities which are actually just business articles which happen to be about companies involved in making games. Obviously it affects everything, but like you I don’t care about business bullshit!

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That applies to open software standards, what does it have to do with buying cash cows?

smeg, rok temu

It does seem like some people just automatically post it on every thread that mentions Microsoft. Just because we all dislike something doesn’t mean we want to see the same low-effort comments spammed every time they come up in discussion like we’re still on Reddit!

smeg, rok temu

I had to use an incognito window for it to be claimable, I imagine some weirdness on their website because it’s a bundle

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Would you normally replace a perfectly functional console with a smaller but otherwise identical machine? Do what you want with your own cash but that’s a very decadent purchase!

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Completely trivial point, but a non-USAist I don’t think I’ll ever stop finding the phrase “the Holiday Season” weird. If you mean Christmas because you want people to buy it as a Christmas present, then just say Christmas! I guess it’s to be non-religious but I just find it funny to say “the holiday season” to mean winter when the season that everyone goes on holiday is summer.

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That much makes sense, but when it’s companies releasing products they hope will be bought as Christmas presents then it’s just odd to hear them skirting round the word “Christmas”. Unless you guys buy each other PS5s for new year?

smeg, rok temu

Yeah I get it, it’s just one of those phrases that sounds weird to the non-American ear

smeg, rok temu

Yeah it makes sense, just sounds odd. Maybe it’s because here in Britain Christmas is kind of a thing for everyone almost entirely independent of religion. Cultural differences and all that.

smeg, rok temu

I think it could also be cultural difference in the use of the word “holiday”. In Britain a holiday is what you’d call vacation, whereas our bank holidays are what you’d call public holidays. We don’t generally refer to Christmas and New Year as holidays, even though that’s when you take time off work, because you’re not “going on holiday”.

smeg, rok temu

As I said in another reply, yeah it makes sense, just sounds odd. Maybe it’s because here in Britain Christmas is kind of a thing for everyone almost entirely independent of religion. Cultural differences and all that.