Carighan

Carighan, 22 dni temu (edited 22 dni temu)

Geezus fucking hell, why did I watch the clip?

That’s disgusting. I would argue two things need to happen across the board:

• Companies need to collect IRL data if you want to have access to text/voice chat, verify them, and in situations such as these, hand them to the authorities. Yeah it’s a tricky data protection problem, but these would be legally actionable threats IRL, they should not be let off the hook just because it was done online.
• More importantly, companies themselves should be on the hook for failing to act. That is, if you want to provice text or voice chat or something, but also do not want to invest enough money to moderate these spaces, then you should be legally liable under the same logic as why the cases should be given to the police in the first place, you’re aiding and abetting such threats. I suspect we’ll very very quickly either see way stricter moderation (good) or the end of text/voice chat in many games (not ideal, but if they cannot be moderated, then so be it).

Carighan, 22 dni temu

Did you click through to the actual clip?

It’s not that I entirely disagree, but it’s not a black-vs-white thing. Some ribbing is understandable, after all it’s a competitive environment. But the explicitly misogynist, hateful, threatening and illegal needs to be harshly dealt with, to make players understand that it’s an absolutely 0 tolerance police and you will fuck yourself up if you try.

No player should have to go through having to shrug off rape threats.

Learn how to block people and move on with your life.

That’s what we want the game makers to do, yes.

Carighan, 22 dni temu

Again, did you click through and watch the actual clip? Rape threats are against the law in many/most jurisdictions.

Carighan, 23 dni temu

They have 1300 people? To make mtx and killers for DbD?! What?

Carighan, 23 dni temu

Definitely, each room and mission seems to be dedicated purpose-built puzzle rooms.

Carighan, 23 dni temu

Oh thank you! I was thinking of that but absolutely could not recall the name when making the OP.

Carighan, 23 dni temu

Rock and stone! ⛏️

This really looks fantastic. Quite a lot of new things.

Carighan, 24 dni temu

Be happy that you don’t need to log your toaster and fridge into PSN to use it, too.

Carighan, 24 dni temu

How would I possibly go even lower?! Not even Doritos and Mountain Dew?!

Carighan, 27 dni temu

Well to be fair, only Cataclysm had decent writing. HW1 lived off its world building, but being a fresh setup it did a superb job with that.

Then HW2 mostly coasted on the success of HW1 in world building, bringing much of it down with its shallow design but eh, still good enougthe problem is that by now the world is known in large parts. Bow they need to bring in actual story, especially because we know from Cataclysm that they can do that.

Carighan, 30 dni temu

What, you mean it was not, as the Internet was absolutely certain, to oust Bobby Kotick and revert OW2 to OW1? I am shocked! Shocked!

Carighan, miesiąc temu

I mean considering the state of DbD, there can’t be something getting hype and knocking it off the throne fast enough IMO.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Weird but he is right, the visual overhaul is amazing and the game is fantastic, and one of the few scenarios where 30FPS doesn’t truly make a difference - except for those timing attacks.

Personally I’d go a step further and say that during some animations, 30FPS looks… better? Paper-style is inherently low-fi, the low framerate somehow fits that visually. At least to my eye.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Do you think Gabe would even raise an eyebrow for such a pocket money offer? Or would he actually find enough effort to laugh at it?

Carighan, miesiąc temu

It’s an AI generated “article”, on a site that exclusively feeds headlines into AI to write “articles”.

So even if the original headline was - in the now-unknown wording - something rooted in reality, the generative shitcode has now turned both the headline and the content into utter derangement.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Especially because from what was said, the employees were told the sites will be bought “as is”, so everyone gets to keep their jobs.

It’s in situations such as these where C-suites being required to also apply to them what they apply to others would be nice:

• CFO or CEO at IGN has to quit. Won’t hurt them much, but eh.
• CEO at Reedpop has to sell themselves (into slavery I suppose, plus it fits what they do to their workers).

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Which sucks due to the innate near-inability of a Youtube video to carry an argument without a visual component well.

It’s why podcasts can be decent for some topics, but youtube is just someone talking a podcast into the camera for 45 minutes, and all of it would be ~5 minutes reading a single paragraph at most if it were in written form but you really really realy got to chase those ad-impressions.

Non-textual forms for textual content have really been their own destructive blight on internet content. :'(

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Eh, I thought it was perfect. I hate how modern Pokemon games have become quasi-MMORPGs, in staleness of core design, lack of combat depth and also their desire to have you spend every waking hour doing absolutely mindless rote activities.

This was nice. Strictly superior oldschool Pokemon clone with fantastically punny names, really cute characters and a nice runtime that’s still longer than the old Pokemon games but not as bloated as modern ones.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

No of course not. Plus XI nowadays is a bit tricky to play anyways, and with XIV, there’s also no reason to for the average player.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

I’ll be honest compared to many of the main FF games like X, XIII or XVI, XIV’s story from ARR->EW, especially once you’re in the last segments of ShB and EW, easily outdoes them. It’s slow as molasses since it has to fit a whole MMO with 2y release cycles into it, but it’s also damn good.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

That’s a good thing - as the consumer.

The less exclusives, the better. We don’t need lock-ins, we need open platforms and open systems. If I want a plug&play gaming experience I can buy a console, if I want maximum performance and quality in a more maintenance and setup intensive package I can build my own PC.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Link ot the actual source. No need to give someone regurgitating their content the ad impressions instead of the people doing the work.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Yeah this seems to be something people are missing. These tests sometimes prohibit all reviewing and commenting in their NDAs (including positive ones). It’s a playtest, not a beta, review copy or pre-release.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

I love the petty envy Sony displays here. “Fuck! Microsoft is getting all the bad press attention! Quick! Do something!”

Carighan, miesiąc temu

They did it a second time, so what is it now? Dependable incompetence?

Carighan, miesiąc temu

I mean I bailed on gamescom even before that, given how badly the event was always organized.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

C-suite bonuses ain’t gonna pay themselves, you know?!

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Not even that, but usually this comes with the actual big target on your back: Being publicly traded.

Now of course, you can be publicly traded without being a big corp, and you can be a big corp that is held privately. But usually these big corpos are the ones that are on the stock market, and yes, the moment that happens everything becomes secondary to your actual responsibility: To the shareholders. Line must go up! And an easy one is to fire more workers.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Prey retroactively devaluaed Dishonored for me - as amazing as those were at their time, Prey showed what really could be obtained from the formula, and perfected every aspect of it.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Because the indie space is also a graveyard. Investors are increasingly wary of funding anything but a “guarantee” and plenty of studios have had to shutter because the funding they were promised was rescinded.

Maybe gaming has become too bloated as a concept if no company can ever produce a product with their own money any more, instead always listening entirely to investor cash.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

but Dishonored, Deathloop, and Prey all did pretty well I thought

I thought Arkane Austin (the closed one) was only Prey of those. Which is a shame, because Prey was utterly fantastic.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Yeah the studio put out nothing but nice games. Sure, Ghostwire in particular wasn’t stellar, but it was also enjoyable and pretty well done. Evil Within was dorky, but in just the right way. Hi-Fi was phenomenal, and that alone should have seen them physically behead every single higher manager at Bethesda before they tough anyone at Tango.

But alas, apparently if it ain’t Fallout: Ghostwire or Fallout: Hi-Fi, then it doesn’t matter. Manager bonuses ain’t going to pay themselves (hrm… come to think of it, they do?), line has to go up!

Carighan, miesiąc temu

SwitchU, if anything.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

And yet it was one of the best gaming experiences ever, no matter the framerate and resolution.

Been a long time since fidelity was interesting to notice, tbh. Don’t get me wrong, all else being equal I’d take 165Hz and 4k over 24Hz and 720p. But all else isn’t equal. And the better game easily wins.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

💖 Check out Microsoft Azure AI

No thank you, I won’t.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Well this one comes with rootkit DRM and season passes, so it’s no wonder it wants to be as online as possible.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

I think the mistake was ever thinking that one company is “good” while the other is “bad”. Companies are just different flavors of bad once they grow above a size of, well, once they are companies.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

I dunno, I don’t think the game would benefit from flat combat and meanigless crafting grinds.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Yeah same, bunch of my friends had been playing it for a week or two, but between the in game story, the season passes and the utterly intrusive DRM, I figured I’ll wait for a good sale at least. Well, guess I’ll be saving 100% on this, now!

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Yeah because in some ways it’s unrealistic. But we need a decision on what the “expected lifetime” of a video game is , I suppose. Much like how for rental flats there exists standards how long a kitchen, a bathroom, etc, last on average until they need refurbishment.

So if it comes down to say 10 years, then you cannot shut down your online services before those 10 years are up. As video games can be expected to last that long. Although I wonder whether this means they could shut it down after 5y if they refund everyone 50% of their sales price.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Yeah it’d be tricky. I would rather see a law that requires companies to keep their games accessible for X years minimum from release, which also affects online services.

Carighan, miesiąc temu

Plus, this is Bethesda, and in particular their open world games. They have always been shit the fans had to fix if they wanted to play it, as the foundation was solid but the company didn’t do any actual development.