snooggums

snooggums, 2 miesiące temu

They made the Willy Wonka Meth Lab version of Minecraft?

snooggums, 2 miesiące temu

The Multiversus approach!

snooggums, 2 miesiące temu

So the extra A is for ‘Asshole’?

snooggums, 2 miesiące temu

Took me about 5 hours to get through the winter intro story that is linear before it gets to being the open world. Not sure if that was slow or not, but it was a bit longer than I would have preferred.

snooggums, 2 miesiące temu

It is like Overwatch and Leaguen of Legends/Heroes of the Storm had a baby.

It is a FPS MOBA.

snooggums, 2 miesiące temu

Close enough :P

snooggums, 2 miesiące temu

Honestly only having two body types is the lazy part, no matter what the two types are. The best solution would be a variety of heights, weights, shoulder, waist, and hip sliders with boobs and butts and whatever else as add ons to the body shape. That should cover everyone as long as there is plenty of range on each option.

Unless everyone is in armor, in which case two or three gender neuteal body types are fine because boobs and butts won’t be noticeable through armor anyway. Height is pretty much all that is different if everyone in the armor is in decent shape and the armor is made to fit a range of people.

snooggums, 3 miesiące temu

The trombone drop at the end was glorious.

snooggums, 3 miesiące temu

It really depends on the game.

Some games are challenges that many people feel as completed when they finish it. For me, that would be Portal. The storytelling through the setting was great, but the main focus was the puzzles which aren’t as fun the second time through. Portal 2 has a great story that makes it fun to replay, but that doesn’t mean Portal was a bad game because it didn’t have a story line worth replaying. Plus Portal 2 had the additional custom puzzles that made it worth playing outside of the story itself.

Being an unfun challenge is definitely the sign of a bad game., or at least a bad match for the player. I’m sure there are plenty of people who think Dark Souls/Elden Rings are bad games because of the frustration factor, some only play it once to get the satisfaction of beating it, and there are people who play through it over and over again.

snooggums, 3 miesiące temu

Might need those healing potions after the credits!

snooggums, 3 miesiące temu

It was absolutely fantastic. A full campaign plus all of the DM tools and the ability to run shared servers for people to join and play together!

I really wish they included similar real time DM tools to BG3.

snooggums, 3 miesiące temu

The movement is wonky compared to modern games, and unless you are wanting to do real time DMing it isn’t worth it in my opinion.

snooggums, 3 miesiące temu

That woukd be consistent with worc anti virtual tabletop tirade last year.

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

Same for me, and I have had better luck with enjoying early access games than most full release games. Valheim is the stand out example for me, but there arena couple others with hundreds of hours of fun! It also helps that indie early access games tend to be less expensive.

Then there is the case of Multiversus, which was way more fun to play in prerelease than it is now. On top of that they cranked up the intrusive monetization, so getting to the less fun gameplay is a slog.

Then there is Tekken 8, which launched ok and then added a shitty shop and annoying seasons shortly after release. It also seems like the networking has gottenn worse.

But every early access game where I was clear on expectations has been fun and always feels worth the money.

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

Who watches the same movie every day without watching something else in between?

Game distributers set their expectations on the most successful games, so they want to beat World of Warcraft and PUBG on player counts.

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

WoW did set out to be massively popular with a gameplay style that encouraged daily play.

PUBG lucked into the popularity by getting the scale and pacing correct for a large audience.

Both also seemed to benefit from server issues causing an ‘exclusive’ thing that means people lined up to get in during peak hours. Popularity can breed popularity, especially when the games are fun.

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

Tekken 8 didn’t have an early access that I am aware of, and I have given a Not Recommended review on steam because of the shop being added post release. The Tekken situation is not an early access problem, just a greed problem so I might have caused some confusion as an example of games having sketchy behavior even without early access.

Multiversus is free to play with predatory monitization. The beta was free, but you actually got stuff by playing a somewhat reasonable amount of time. During the beta they increased the amount of time and people complained, so it was kind of surprising that they did the opposite of the early access feedback on release.

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

As a third party user, I also see the icon only on feddit.io view of the community and not on the lemmy.world view of the community (or on midwest.social). In fact, I don’t see any icon on LW or MS, just feddit.

I wonder if the community had it up last month and the change to the icon didn’t federate.

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

Is anything other than sexting referred to as inappropriate when a minor is involved?

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

Why would a 45 year old need permission to stay up late?

snooggums, 4 miesiące temu

That is just choosing…

snooggums, 5 miesięcy temu

It has had a lot of polish aince the beta last year, and the store stuff/season pass microtransaction hell was dialed down. The first season pass appears to be free, not sure how they will handle that stuff in the future.

It is still fun to play although all the flashy daily stuff and the awkward menu navigation is atill annoying.

snooggums, 6 miesięcy temu

The distributers that set the rrlease date will never learn.

snooggums, 6 miesięcy temu

The Suicide Squad.

snooggums, 6 miesięcy temu

Imperfect Dark

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

The author apparently doesn’t know that BG3 (and a lot of other games) has an honour mode that doesn’t allow save scumming, so people can choose to play the exact same way if they want to.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

I was always impressed by how creative the artwork made out of text were. Yeah, most were made by a program that converted pics to text, but that was automating something that was already being done and they had to pick and choose art that would convert clearly.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

If the mtx is meaningless because you can get it easily in game, then it is predatory as it is intended to be purchased by people who are not aware that they can earn it in game. That strikes me as worse than mtx that is required to do something they can’t without it, because it preys on people’s lack of information and they aren’t making an informed choice.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

Designer Alfred Mosher Butts

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

The outcome of splitting the content is that there are a lot of people who want to have everything and they will end up paying far more for a la carte than for an expansion. The people who wouldn’t have bought the expansion still buy nothing, and pretty much nobody just buys a couple of things to save money.

Microtransactions is a system designed to prey on completionist whales. Barely anyone only buys a couple of things and doesn’t end up spending more than $30 over time as the content is drip fed and the new hotness comes along to replace the old hotness. Those that don’t spend anything, or just buy one thing before catching on, weren’t going to spend the $30 anyway.

It is false choice that negatively impacts the game experience.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

Unless the entire game is developed by an independent studio and is entirely funded on microtransactions, buying micro transactions is just there for more company profit on top of the regular game sales by stripping content out of a full release. It isn’t supporting the development.

The market didn’t want it.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

Visual style for sure.

Overwatch has far better voice acting though, the lines from this clip sounded like practice lines that should have been cut. Like someone clearly pretending to be excited instead of actually sounding excited.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

I heard you like microtransactions, so I put microtransactions in your microtransactions.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

It would make less sense if the games were single player and full price, but Lethal Company, Palworld, and Helldivers 2 are all at $40 or below for the base games and have a multi-player experience.

Of course people are going to jump on lower priced multi-player games with positive word of mouth quickly so they can play with their friends and get a few dozen hours or more entertainment.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

Obviously rarely enough that they expect people to pay for them.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

Is it really review bombing when the complaints are valid?

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

They could have either not had fast travel at all or only made it available in game. Making it something you can buy through mtx is the terrible part.

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

It also gets much easier once you manage to get your water supply under control, almost nullifying the survival mechanics.

So, authentic beaver gameplay?

snooggums, 7 miesięcy temu

Your armor too!

snooggums, 8 miesięcy temu

At least 9/10 have in the past, because my thought is that surely I will get to them in a few months well after the refund window.

I leave a few large installed games I don’t play in my library to remind me to pace my purchases. Now I’m down to 3/4 gathering dust!

That said, don’t regret any that I picked up but didn’t end up working out.

snooggums, 8 miesięcy temu

Yes! Nobody has the time to play all of the great games that have come out over the years.

Not to mention most people don’t enjoy every great game either. I think Subnautica is a great game, but it just doesn’t work for me for a few reasons related to tracking where stuff is.

snooggums, 8 miesięcy temu

I tend to fall back on games that have a setting and possibly a story, but have the main gameplay available as repetitive things to do.

Fighting games

Racing games that don’t have a defined ending

Games like Battletech 2019 which has a story mode and also a never ending campaign mode.

Open world games like Skyrim and Grand Theft Auto, but mostly side quests and doing random non-story things.

My main reluctance for playing new games is learning new mechanics and story with all the interruptions of adulthood. I keep buying them and just planning on playing them later.

snooggums, 8 miesięcy temu

Edit: Dang it, I misread the typo too.

snooggums, 8 miesięcy temu

100% accurate. Hell, it doesn’t even feel like paying a premium when the user cost is the same or lower than in stores the majority of the time.

snooggums, 9 miesięcy temu

Knowing they were charging for new characters was almost a dealbreaker for me. This would have stopped me if I had known.