Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

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Blackmist,

Do you also rate books by the number of pages?

This attitude here is what has fucked up gaming more than any greedy publisher ever did.

Blackmist,

Reminder that supporting a single GPU is a lot simpler than supporting all of them…

Blackmist,

So $89.99 then.

Special edition with a 6" plastic Temu tat figurine and 1000 FREE BorderBucks will be $249.99.

Blackmist,

That’s not going to mean shit when it downloads a 100GB day one patch.

Blackmist,

I’m not sure what most people were expecting but I finally got around to playing the GOTY edition recently.

I got a game with great characters, writing and story, slightly average gameplay, all shackled to a bizarre open world that completely destroys any pacing and urgency. It really did not need all those fixers and like 150 police mini missions, which detract from it all in a major way.

Having also played Witcher 3, that’s kind of what I was expecting, I guess. I genuinely think CDPR should abandon their open world ideas, because they’re excellent at story telling, but really bad at filler bullshit.

Phantom Liberty ups the package to a flawed masterpiece.

Blackmist,

@UnfortunateShort

I think the main issue people have is that they got Peter Molyneux’d on it. Which is fair enough, and why I don’t really read much about games before I play them.

I’m glad I held off until PL came out, because it looks like the 2.0 update fixed a lot of things that would irritate me, like gear and levelling blocking off missions. It does rob you of a sense of progression, but I’ll trust their decision to drop that.

There’s enough RPG elements to get in the way of it being a shooter, but not enough to actually satisfy anybody who wanted a full blown RPG. Decisions especially are very binary and I gave up on the platinum trophy after seeing I’d have to save a guy I let die about 60 hours of gameplay ago, in a save long since overridden.

I guess I’ve been around the block enough times to filter out any claims of amazing AI and day/night cycles. We’ve heard those claims before with Fable and Oblivion, and all it really meant is “the shops shut at night”. And here it didn’t even do that, at least beyond a handful of locations where you had to press a button to wait until they opened before you could do the quest inside.

I think I’ve had a lot better experience going into this late and blind.

Patches mean we’re no longer in the days of bad games being bad forever, but they’re certainly remembered that way.

Blackmist,

A 2TB Xbox Series X now costs more than a PS5 Pro (in the US at least).

That is mental. Xbox hardware division must be bleeding money hand over fist. I honestly doubt they’ll do another generation, and stick to trying to monetise GamePass through PC and streaming. Maybe you’ll even see GamePass for PS6 since they own so many studios now.

Blackmist,

EA Play is on PS5.

Assuming MS exit the console market, I don’t see why Sony wouldn’t allow it (as long as they get their pound of flesh from every sale of it). They’d basically just be another publisher.

Blackmist,

Yeah, there’s probably a fair bit of overlap between GamePass and PSN Premium games.

I suspect to try and push their own products, we’ll be entering an age where games are $80, and almost never go on sale, purely to make their own subscription services seem better value. And then they’ll crank the price of those as well.

Blackmist,

People never bought music from artists.

They bought it from record labels.

Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it’s not Spotify that’s keeping it all.

Blackmist,

That’s fair enough. They still need to be a business after all.

Id open sourced Doom and Quake decades ago, but you still can’t just have all the assets for nothing.

Blackmist,

Does it freeze up all the time like in the Digital Foundry video?

If not I’m wondering if it’s that stupid shader compiling thing that has plagued PC games all generation.

Blackmist,

The half price games on various platforms (“Platinum” on playstation, can’t remember what they were called in other platforms) were great and made me get into consoles.

Feels like the PS4 gen when that stopped happening. Shame, because it’s not like you can magic your customers into having more money to spend. They’ll just buy fewer games.

Blackmist,

No he meant it had a butch woman he didn’t fancy.

Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version (www.gamesradar.com) angielski

Full title: Ubisoft says you “cannot complain” it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren’t “deceived” by the lack of an offline version “to access a decade-old, discontinued video game”...

Blackmist,

That’s one of the many reasons why I never bought it.

Blackmist,

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was well received.

Their “AAAA” output is pure slop, but the smaller games can be OK.

Blackmist,

I think it’s only Nintendo published games that basically never go on sale.

Rabbids is unusual because it’s got Mario in but it’s not by Nintendo.

Their whole policy on never having a sale makes me not want a Switch 2 at all.

Blackmist,

Neither

Blackmist,

rtx 3070 which will be getting too old soon for new games

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/413873be-7c56-4eb0-bdfc-3f2600c4581f.webp

Blackmist,

Guessing there’s a lot of DLSS going into those resolution and framerate specs…

Best game ever? angielski

Yeah pacman and pong were seminal but so was elite on the BBC, and Populous which I think was on the spectrum. Also unreal tournament, silent hill, vice city, homeworld, doom 2016, beam ng, I enjoyed em all but I can’t decide. Ppl here have done much more gaming than me, I’m wondering what you all think is the best game...

Blackmist,

I’m not sure there can ever even be a “best game ever”, but in any case mine is Grand Theft Auto 3.

Picture the scene. You’ve got your shiny PlayStation 2. You’ve got a bunch of games, but honestly, a lot of it could have been done on the PS1 with worse graphics.

And this bad boy drops, and never stops surprising you with all the absolute chaos you can cause. Not much of a story to go on, but the sheer scale of it was amazing. A whole city of driving, slightly wonky shooting and even flying (a bit). It was a game that just felt like the hardware was designed specifically for that.

We were no longer just playing games. We were living in the future. And we’ve never gone back.

Blackmist,

I’m going to contradict myself a little, because Vice City is the better game. It’s got an actual story, a great voice cast, helicopter gunships, and the finest soundtrack of any game ever made.

But it was very much built on GTA3. The mind was already blown. It wasn’t going to happen again.

Blackmist,

While I really enjoyed Alyx, it’s very much a game built around it’s own limitations. It’s more of a survival horror game in a way, because of the limits on ammo and deliberately mechanical reloading. There’s no melee at all, so once you’re out of bullets you’re done for.

For all the roughness of Half Life 2 VR Mod, I find myself enjoying it more because it has fewer limitations imposed by the move to VR. It doesn’t always work (and the vehicle sections in particular really push it), but as a mod of a 20 year old game, it’s really good.

Blackmist,

It took me a long time to get used to VR locomotion.

I still really can’t handle smooth turning at all, but using VRChat a lot (where the teleport movement is terrible) made me get used to the left stick movement at least which is really all you need.

Blackmist,

The headsets have (if you can stomach Meta). Thanks to the combines efforts of Nvidia, scalpers, crypto-bros and AI-nerds, the hardware cost has been sailing into the distance and shows no sign of stopping.

Blackmist,

And if a game did have an ending, you’d often just get “well done but the fight against crime is never over” screen and be dumped right back at the start of the game anyway.

Blackmist,

Instructions unclear.

Locked it behind a Discord community instead. 🤡

Blackmist,

I’m not sure what the intent was, but the message we took was “children ruin everything”

The kid looked creepy as fuck too.

Blackmist,

Sounds about right. Needing an account for third party crossplay is nothing new.

This is the back of the Split Fiction box warning about needing an EA account and a billion other things.

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/97f3c9ff-eaa9-4e59-8d85-e7133a26c63b.webp

Blackmist,

Exactly. You’d have a blurb, a barcode, and some screenshots from a better looking platform than the one you had.

Blackmist,

It’s not a single player game. Or did you mean Forza?

Although if you’re offline you won’t be able to make an account anyway.

Blackmist,

And that’s how Playstation won the console wars.

Blackmist,

Depends on your hardware. I ran the benchmark tool for a laugh. I don’t think I quite meet minimum spec, but not far off I think. If you’re down that end, I’d avoid it.

i.imgur.com/JR1YNxE.jpeg

Lots of upscaling and frame generation options, which honestly make it look shite.

Blackmist,

There’s been a handful but nothing I could name off the top of my head and the specs meant anything more impressive than Super Meat Boy might be out of the question.

Just cheap crappy Windows 8 tablets for the most part, with controller buttons tacked on.

Blackmist,

The publishers own PEGI.

Whatever rating they want, they get.

Blackmist,

The PEGI management board is people that publish games, people that make consoles and trade organisations.

None of whom want to see sales go down.

They’re behind the bonkers decision that representations of gambling are worse than actual gambling.

PEGI mainly exists to save publishers bothering with each country’s classifications boards. Before that you’d have like BBFC in the UK, and each country having to rate it. It’s industry self regulation, and like any good fox guarding the henhouse, they’re not doing a great job of it.

Blackmist,

Is “engagement” just weaselspeak for “advertisements”?

Blackmist,

They surrendered when they thought day one console buyers and people who liked gimmicky dance game peripherals were one and the same, and never really caught back up.

Since then they’ve been pushing Game Pass hard, but that mythical era where you’d just need a TV, internet and a gamepad just never arrived for them. Streaming games is probably fine for a lot of casual gamers, but the casual gamers are already on mobile and tend to spend very little on games. Far too little for Game Pass Ultimate to make sense for them.

And I’m really unconvinced that day one Game Pass games are sustainable. Even with their piss-poor output over the last few years.

I also don’t like that games are no longer going down much in price over time. It seems everyone is far too happy to leave things at launch price to make subscriptions and crap sales seem like better value.

Blackmist,

Sometimes.

They mostly make money though.

Blackmist,

A good move. Nip that shit in the bud right now.

The mobile stores are fucking unusable, a sea of ad-ridden garbage.

Blackmist,

Mate, they practically invented them.

Blackmist,

But they don’t fight for everyone. If they did, maybe they wouldn’t be in this state.

Blackmist,

Well you can prevent it on Steam. And I don’t think Epic really have an ad network to abuse for this either.

If you see Google launch a “free game only” store for PC, get worried. Although Google being Google, it will be deleted within two years anyway.

Blackmist,

Oh there wouldn’t need to be anything actually good on it.

You just need Superbowl advert money and suddenly you’ve got millions of users with no money.

I suspect the only reason this hasn’t happened already is that those millions of users are already on mobile, being flashed with garish noisy adverts every two minutes of gameplay, and moving them to PC some of the time wouldn’t really increase ad revenue…

Blackmist,

Very rare to see 30fps games on PS5 that don’t have a performance option to get to 60.

Especially action games.

Blackmist,

Honestly still is. Best FPS since HL2. Love the cutting tool.

Blackmist,

I say I like physical media so I could lend them to family.

But really I ain’t lending anyone shit.

Blackmist,

You think that was bad, try Tomb Raider 3. With limited saves on PS1.

I played the remaster recently and I’ve no idea how I completed that shit back then with no guides.

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