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griD, w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?
Heavybell, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

Want that couch? It’ll take your sim 4 real time weeks to earn it with their pay, or you could just spen $15 in real dollars and get it now. Another for the guest room, or because you lost the first in a cooking fire? $15 more, please.

Potatos_are_not_friends, w Cyberpunk 2077: What’s coming in Update 2.0: Vehicle combat and car chases

Any updates on genitalia?

Why allow me to spend so much time crafting my nether region and never give me the opportunity to wave it around?

Ganbat, w Introducing the new Godot Development Fund

Lol, props on taking the opportunity.

space, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

Game is free but now you pay real money instead of sims money for building the house. No more motherlode and rosebud for you.

Theharpyeagle, (edited ) w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

I’m pretty sure I soft locked my New Vegas save a good few years ago, or at least locked myself out of the ending I wanted. I was going for the Yes-Man ending, but I wanted to let House upgrade the robots first. I let him do it and then killed him to get the platinum chip back, but turns out he didn’t have it on him. Without any way to give the chip to Yes-Man, I was SoL. I think you can still complete the game with a couple other factions, but I know for sure that I already pissed The Legion off so I don’t know how many options are left. Maybe I’ll dig up that save somehow and try again.

Also, In the original Thief games (Thief: The Dark Project, Thief: Gold, and Thief 2), there was a brief fadeout period between dying and getting kicked to the game over screen. This death state didn’t lock the controls, so you could still move around, interact with objects, and, critically, quicksave. If you happened to quicksave at the moment of your death, there was nothing you could do to get out of dying. There was only one quicksave slot and no autosaves, so if you weren’t manually saving every now and then, you had to start the entire game over. Learned to make occasional checkpoint saves the hard way.

The death mechanic did lead to at least one hilarious fan mission where you had to get through a door and complete the mission after falling to your death.

JokeDeity,

Yes Man is the failsafe ending, so you should always be able to do it I’m pretty sure. Killing Yes Man should work like killing Victor and he just jumps to a new body if I remember correctly.

federated_toast,

Link to the fan mission? I’ve been getting my annual itch to go back to The City

Nioxic, w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

Lol

At least paralives is in development… (its slow though… but looks like a solid alternative to sims)

hoi_polloi, w After years of 'good enough' PC ports, Armored Core 6 is the first game in FromSoftware's history truly born for mouse and keyboard

Good enough is them putting the kids gloves on this one.

LucyLastic, w Cyberpunk 2077: What’s coming in Update 2.0: Vehicle combat and car chases

If they added a 3rd person camera option I’d be all over this game!

AbyssalChord, w Over 50% of all steam games have never made over $1000
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There‘s no mention of ingame purchase revenue, so I assume they aren’t included?

Abrslam, w Steam's Oldest User Accounts Turn 20, Valve Celebrates With Special Digital Badges - IGN

I remember how much everyone hated steam at first. The WON was fine why ruin it with this stupid steam thing?

Staple_Diet, w What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending?

Metro.

All 3 games require you do/don’t kill certain people at different levels in order to get the ‘true ending’. When I first played I just killed anything that moved, but then found out the consequences of doing so. Honestly it improved my game experience so much more when I had to carefully consider each action.

AlexisFR,
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At least Exodus good ending is way easier to get imo, just don’t kill non bandits humans. (and don’t act like an ass around your crew)

hydroel, w Resident Evil 4 Remake, RE Village, And Assassin’s Creed Mirage Announced For iPhone 15 Pro

Do you think these will actually run on the device, or is Apple betting on streaming here? I don’t see how they would capitalize on developers being able to develop for iPhone, while they dropped game support on Mac years ago.

geosoco,

It's likely running native as they've been touting the ray tracing of their new gpu. They've pushed a number of games in the past to show off hardware updates or features, so that's probably what this is about.

Also, they didn't drop support for mac, they just focused on their own gaming API. They continue to get new games published.

hydroel,

You’re probably right! I wonder how well it can run on an iPhone when devices dedicated to gaming barely manage decent framerates on modern games at 800p. And maybe Apple hasn’t actually dropped support for game development, but I don’t believe they have been very active on that front either, did they? Looking at a list of games released on macOS in 2023 isn’t very impressive, and all games released for x86 (so, prior to 2020) won’t work on modern devices.

ConditionOverload, w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists
@ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

Weird to think it was because of a remake. The game isn’t old and still holds up very well.

GreenMario,

Last of Us part 1 remake says hi

mateomaui,

Yeah but the original wasn’t on PC for TLoU

Virkkunen,
@Virkkunen@kbin.social avatar

They didn't remake the game so they could port it to PC, they did it so they could sell more banking on the triple dippers

mateomaui,

Both is correct.

I mean if you don’t understand that they’ve ported or remade their PS exclusives to PC because they also wanted a new untapped player base that didn’t own playstations, I don’t know what to tell you, brah.

Endorkend, (edited )
@Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

It's not weird to think as the remake being in the works has been reported many months before they pulled the game from Steam.

It's a decade old and big studios are creatively bankrupt, so they just love simple redoing old shit and reusing the old work.

Skyrim wasn't the game that started this shit, but it sure was what popularized it with studios.

Daefsdeda,

It holds up well until you try to run it. Terrible issues on PC they never fixed…

ConditionOverload,
@ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

Weird, I don’t get those issues on my PC. I usually install it every year at least once to play through it.

Daefsdeda,

I think it can go one of two ways. Either it runs fine

Or you need windows 98 compatibility mode, change some ini setting, set physx or whatever its called to off and be finally able to play.

Then see yourself standing in your ships boundaries, unable to move. This all happened to me and I just stopped playing.

It did play well a few years back but that was on windows 8.

FMT99, w Over 50% of all steam games have never made over $1000

Considering how much stuff people dump on there that probably doesn’t even deserve to be released it’s not super surprising right? I’m more surprised that 8.9% of games, that’s almost 1 in 10, made over $200k.

Also clearly visual novels are not the way to go if you want to make a lot of money

chemical_cutthroat, (edited )
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

With VN makers and Midjourney, you can pump out a half way decent VN in no time. I’ve honestly thought of doing a cheesy one for my DnD players as their story recap each session, but I already spend so much time on the rest of the game…

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah exactly. Because to me it implies that less than 90% is shovelware crap, and I cannot quite believe this. It doesn’t feel that way, even with all the filtering Steam offers nowadays.

Compare the Nintendo eShop, which doesn’t filter and where Nintendo doesn’t care, and the endless pages and pages and pages of shovelware you need to scroll through (and 15 iterations of AAA Clock for 2€, 80% off! 😅) to find each single proper game.

I would have thought 2%-3% make money, honestly.

taladar,

There is probably some bias because games that make money stick around a lot longer. I doubt most games released in the last three years (which seems to be the time they looked at) that made no money are still on there.

Vlyn,

I mean releasing a game on Steam is not free. You pay a $100 fee per game to Valve to release on their store.

That at least seems to stop the flood of shovelware a tiny bit.

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