Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

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2024 Steam Awards Nominees Announced (store.steampowered.com) angielski

NomineesGame of the Year* Black Myth: Wukong * Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl * Balatro * Helldivers 2 * Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 VR Game of the Year* Metro Awakening VR * Davigo * Maestro * Blade and Sorcery * Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 Labor of Love* Stardew Valley * Baldur’s Gate 3 * Dota 2 * No Man’s...

Blackmist,

I’d like to see Black Myth Wukong win nothing just because of how salty they get over it.

The Two Genders (beehaw.org) angielski

[alt text: Text which says, “The 2 genders according to chuds”. Below the text is two images. On the left is an image of Geralt from The Witcher 3, and he is labeled, “Male, parentheses (white)”. On the right is an image of Ciri from The Witcher 4 trailer, and she is labeled, “Political”.]

Blackmist,

They seem to hate Naughty Dog ever since they made them play as a lesbian instead of a generic white guy.

I do like to see those people triggered. I can see them being angry at rainbows for making the sky gay.

Also, I hope I spend this game collecting so much 80s music that I feel like I’m back in Vice City.

Blackmist,

The only good thing about 6 was the Stranger Things mission.

Blackmist,

GFE was terrible because it always forgot my login and fuck if I’m going to remember a password just to update drivers.

At least they’ve done away with that bit.

Blackmist,

Yeah I disable those back when I noticed World of Warcraft started performing badly. GFE had helpfully optimised it to run at a resolution 4x higher than my screen and downscaled it…

Blackmist,

Might as well go all in on that new rating.

Balatro 1.5 Patch Notes.

  • All the Jokers now hang dong.
  • Big naturals Queens are worth double.
Blackmist,

Funny how none of them had a problem with like 10 games about Lara Croft.

Blackmist,

Feels like W4 being about Ciri is the worst kept secret in gaming.

Blackmist,

Because YouTube is a cesspool and anything featuring anyone other than white soldiers is “woke” and “DEI”

Blackmist,

Sounds a bit like a reimagining of the Bloodborne chalice dungeons. Not sure there was anything like that in any of the other Fromsoft games.

Blackmist,

This trailer is why I can’t really get into the Netflix series version of Ciri. She just doesn’t have this.

Blackmist,

They came with the GOTY edition which was pretty much the standard version being sold after a while.

HoS is my favourite of them even though it adds some truly tedious enemies to the map, but BaW is huge and adds like another 50% to the base game.

Blackmist,

I think I actually preferred the second. Less reliance on blowing you up and making you restart puzzles.

Blackmist,

You just know that their “AI driven platform” is a call to google for the brand names they’re “protecting” followed by takedown requests issued to the registered email followed by one to the registrar for every domain found.

We need a new internet because this one is fucked.

Blackmist,

TFW PS5 only.

Blackmist,

Mostly seems to be timed these days.

Bloodborne still MIA though.

Blackmist,

Unmonitored automated systems can do a lot of damage.

Although maybe register important business domains with an actual large company you’ve heard of and not “iwantmyname”.

What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? angielski

I just got finished with beating Riven for the first time. I adored the way the game seeped into my real life with pages of notes about the world I was discovering. Are there any other games that can match this feeling? That really work best when you have a journal in hand?

Blackmist,

The loading page was some straight up bullshit though.

I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store (lemmy.world) angielski

Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy… and then it’s only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can’t it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It’s so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic… which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

Blackmist,

Valve kills physical ownership of games: I sleep

Games exclusive to Origin: I sleep

Games exclusive to whatever the fuck Blizzard made: I sleep

Games exclusive to Microsoft Store: I sleep

Games exclusive to Epic: REAL SHIT

Blackmist,

So it would be better if it was a permanent exclusivity deal, like traditional publishers have?

They’ve been paying out in advance in some cases (Epic Mega Grants, I think) so the devs can finish the game. That’s basically the definition of what publishers do, but when Epic do it it’s somehow “not publishing”?

Blackmist,

When Half Life 2 launched, you had to register your game with Steam before you could play it. You had to give up your physical ownership of the product, and lock it to yourself. You couldn’t sell it to anyone else, or even let them play it.

That’s what you were encouraging by buying from that shitfest of a platform.

I really don’t see how bunging devs money for publishing rights is worse. The devs clearly don’t see it that way.

Blackmist,

There are apparently 270 million Epic Store accounts made.

Now most of them don’t buy anything and are probably installed on a whim for one free game ad now they’ve forgot their password, while a good chunk of them are probably 12 year olds playing Fortnite who don’t even look at it and hurl all their pocket money into V-bucks so the rest of us get free games, but it’s not an insignificant amount.

Blackmist,
  1. No. You can with physical. Well, before that just meant a steam key with a disc.
  2. That come much later. Try to keep up.
Blackmist,

Big naturals Withers romance option when?

Blackmist,

I switched that to easy mode at one of the mid game bosses, and I still struggled. The combat is way too tough for what it is.

Blackmist,

The real answer will always be Outer Wilds.

But also…

Fez. It definitely inspired Animal Well and Tunic.

Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically? (lemmy.world) angielski

It’s beyond insane to me that a $70 “AAAA” game (kidding, it’s AAA) dips down to the absurd price of $5. I’ve never seen anything like it. Wish the entire Sims 4 “collection” if you can call it that was $5 total, would be incredible, or Starfield.

Blackmist,

Yeah, but the 10-20% sales are for good games.

Blackmist,

I did like Fallen Order. It’s not particularly challenging for the most part and it being compared to Dark Souls is overblown, but it definitely “gets” Star Wars.

Blackmist,

5

Blackmist,

World of Warcraft and then Final Fantasy XIV.

And it’s not even close.

Blackmist,

I spent hours tearing that thing around the Seattle Circuit.

Blackmist,

Some of those cars really made me appreciate the analogue face buttons on the PS2 controller.

Blackmist,

The last corner always caught me out. I think I took longer to get used to that than I did the corkscrew.

Blackmist,

It does seem like a very obvious thing to add, and the mind boggles at how it wasn’t there to start with.

For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. angielski

Been playing this game for weeks. I completed it and then started a new game. The game’s story is excellent, but it absolutely does not justify the tedium it makes you endure to experience it. In a 40 minute sitting, I’d spend the entire thing simply having characters dialogue at me. What’s the point of the open world...

Blackmist,

I haven’t got around to playing it yet, but what you’ve described sounds a lot like The Witcher 3 for me.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it enough to finish pretty much everything (except all the Skellige question marks which thoroughly outstayed their welcome), and Hearts of Stone is better than Blood and Wine, but the gameplay was pretty flat throughout, and most of my enjoyment was in the cutscenes and dialogue and following threads to their inevitably grim conclusions. It’s not a game that I would ever replay.

Blackmist,

Was it a nice top?

Is a Quest 3 really worth it? angielski

I have been really tempted to jump into VR for a little while now, I tried it when the quest first came out, the very first one but it was too blurry and made me dizzy. I’ve considered getting back into it again, but the thing that has made me really hesitant is I’ve heard that VR is not in the greatest place and that it’s...

Blackmist,

If you have a solid gaming PC, yes. There is no immersion quite like VR. No amount of monitors will get you there.

It’s a bit of a faff each time you want to get it going (having to start the link each time), at least compared to a dedicated headset like the original Rift. The Quest 3 is a bit pricy, the 3S and 2 not so much. There’s a few decent exclusives for the 3 that aren’t even available on PC, so of the two I’d get the 3S.

Low framerate will make you dizzy. The resolution not so much. You will need a decent GPU.

Most VR games are fairly small and low budget affairs. The big exception is Half Life Alyx which is amazing. The game I come back to the most is VRChat, just for the massive number of worlds that people have made. It will help you get your VR legs over time.

Blackmist,

What did Episode 1 and 2 push forward?

Blackmist,

The first is a bit rough. It got a remake with Black Mesa which used to be free, but I don’t think it is any more.

I’d honestly just start with 2. It’s a better game all round. You can always go back and play Black Mesa later if you like it.

If you have a VR headset and a decent rig, Half Life Alyx is well worth it. I’d definitely play HL2 plus Episodes 1 and 2 before heading into that one.

Blackmist,

Gee, I wonder why it’s all AI generated horseshit from press releases these days.

The writing was on the wall when Jeff Gerstmann was fired over a bad review back in 2007. The whole game journalism industry has been on life support since then, and realistically been shafted ever since we went from purchased magazines to online.

Even then magazines would find themselves without timely review copies if they were not sympathetic to the need for good reviews.

Blackmist,

It’s probably the inbuilt browser component that seems to be in everything these days.

Chrome pulled support for Win 7 and 8 ages ago, so anything that relies on an up to date browser is sure to follow.

Blackmist,

This is what game launchers looked like in my day.

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/0663ed97-7a9a-4173-81b9-20dd95dfde59.webp

If I wanted a different game I’d put in a different tape!

World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive angielski

The monetization of World of Warcraft has evolved significantly since I played during Burning Crusade over 10 years ago. Back then, the model was straightforward - you bought the expansion and paid a subscription fee. That was all you needed to access 100% of the game’s content....

Blackmist,

Meanwhile Final Fantasy XIV is doing a collaboration with hair dye.

Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor! angielski

This is Furukawa. At today’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch Online will be available on the successor to Nintendo Switch as well. Further information about the successor to Nintendo Switch, including its...

Blackmist,

I mean, Nintendo have often been fairly good with back compatibility.

If the architecture and form factor of physical media isn’t really changing, there’s not a lot of need to block older games from running.

They’re already on ARM, and there’s not much better for mobile gaming and GPUs have been fairly similar for a long time now.

The more interesting question is: will the Switch games get a performance boost on Switch 2? And it’s probably going to depend on the game. I’d imagine they’ll test a lot of the more popular titles, and anything with issues just gets it disabled until the developer patches it. It’d be nice to play TotK at a decent frame rate. Impressive as it is, it certainly chugs.

Blackmist,

“None of my stuff works but I least I don’t have to use WinBloWz$$$”

Blackmist,

Do you honestly think that people who use Windows do it for no reason?

We’re not just using a browser over here. We have thousands of games we’d like to continue running, as well as thousands of dollars of business software. PC gaming is buggy enough as it is, without throwing one of a million distros of Linux into the mix.

Blackmist,

I would think it would still do most of it’s business on console regardless of which PC store it launched on.

Lack of a physical release probably hurt more than not being on Steam. When you go pure digital, you miss out on those impulse purchases.

Blackmist,

Children Ruin Everything: The Videogame.

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