Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

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Big naturals Withers romance option when?

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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5

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World of Warcraft and then Final Fantasy XIV.

And it’s not even close.

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I spent hours tearing that thing around the Seattle Circuit.

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

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

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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...

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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.

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...

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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.

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What did Episode 1 and 2 push forward?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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....

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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...

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Children Ruin Everything: The Videogame.

World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store (lemmy.world) angielski

I thought this was a joke but it seems like it’s actually legit. WoW, which has a subscription and paid expansions, just added a $90 item to their store. This is Korean MMO levels of absurdity. What do you think of this?...

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I’m thinking I made the right choice to quit a few years ago.

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When has any really rich person ever gone “you know what? I actually have enough now…”?

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I guess Notch as well. Sold Minecraft for an obscene amount of money and got into indefensible right wing views instead.

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12 years of early access. Thousand dollar DLC spaceships. Remaining players “happy”.

This is as close to a cult as you will find in gaming.

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I would not be at all surprised if the Switch NES and SNES emulators are running an open source emulator that they’ve tried to shut down.

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At this point you might as well stream the game video, it would be less bandwidth.

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Doesn’t it already run on Gamepass xCloud whatever they call it?

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It’s hardly Counterstrike.

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It would mean that you were allowed to sell your license to somebody else, just as you would be able to with a physical copy.

It would mean that you could continue to have it, and be able to reinstall it on future hardware if Valve closed shop tomorrow.

Currently you can do neither of those things.

Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? (lemmy.world) angielski

So I just read this book on history of games called “Blood, Sweat and Pixels” and was fascinated by the chapter on The Witcher 3 and mostly how the team put in so much thought and care in every single side quest. And seems that there are a lot of moral decision to be made on each adventure. So I finally decided to give it a...

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Keep Quen up, roll about, hit stuff.

There’s a couple of enemies where this doesn’t work, but it should get you through the trickier combat sections.

Don’t forget the DLC, and for all the praise Blood and Wine got because of it’s size, don’t sleep on Hearts of Stone - it’s the most memorable part of the game for me.

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Player count don’t mean dick on single player games.

You could be the only person on earth playing it and still get the same experience.

That said, I didn’t like it anyway. I killed everyone in my play through and didn’t feel the need to do another. Half those deaths were “hold the controller still” QTEs that did not work. For the last one I even held it on a table.

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The annoying thing is they don’t really need to. PS5 SSD loading is near instant. They’re still using techniques that I first noticed in Soul Reaver.

Still we’re a long way from San Andreas and it’s miles of open country between cities to hide the loading.

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That’s already out isn’t it? Remastered and everything.

PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off (www.ign.com) angielski

Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now…...

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I’ll accept it’s a bug tbh. There’s no money in this.

Seems like it’s auto selecting the first “news” thing for the game rather than leaving it on the default game splash screen.

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It gets clicks from angry people, that’s the only reason IGN do anything these days.

Sad that they bought Eurogamer, because they were one of the last sites that hadn’t gone to complete shit.

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Not sure how much you can monetise the news feed for a game you already own… The publisher may already control all the things linked to it. If unmonetised things are “ads” now, then the whole Steam UI is a giant ad.

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A quick look on eBay suggests the only people buying them seen are scalpers.

Hope they all get fucked on this one.

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The last thing we need is Pro consoles getting exclusives. That would be PS6 in all but name.

The PS4 Pro made some sense. The PS4 was underpowered on launch, and 4K became pretty commonplace shortly after they launched. It still had an underpower CPU, but at least you got an upscaled HDR 1440p image for most of the time which is good enough. Even PC gamers accepted upscaling to 4K once they gave it a fancy name and told them it was exclusive.

But here, you’ve already got a choice of pretty RT mode and 60 fps mode, and if you really wanted both of those at the same time, then you could lash out a big pile of money for a PC.

It’s 700 notes for half a generation of slightly prettier gaming. It’s aimed at the “turn everything to ultra and have a fit when it drops below 60fps” PC gaming demographic, who have no need for this.

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They were already lazy because the hardware was powerful enough to hide a lot of sins.

FF7 Rebirth for example. It looks much better on the Pro, but frankly, it should have looked much better on the base console. And it came out well before the Pro was announced.

But at the same time, the majority of PC gamers are happily still playing at 1080p. Resolution was always overrated and an expensive thing to chase.

The only semi-exclusive from last gen was Cyberpunk, and I can’t really see things being much different. If a game engine was capable of running at 60 if you reduce the graphics, they’ll still offer that. If it wasn’t, then the Pro won’t be able to run it faster either. It’s pretty much the exact same CPU under both.

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They’re not. Steam survey has 4K monitors at under 4%. Well over half are at 1080p and below. There’s exactly 1 GPU in the top 10 above the nVidia x060 series.

The way things get reviewed, you’d think 4K was a minimum. I suspect the majority of high end cards out there aren’t even used for gaming.

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Be nice if it actually came down in price eventually though.

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BO1 is at least coming to PSPlus in PS1 form. I’m expecting it to feel very rough.

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