ColeSloth

ColeSloth, 10 dni temu

StarCraft brood wars and warcraft 3 had like 80% of my time in custom games playing turret defense games and whatnot. I say those were pretty much the birthplace of League of Legends.

ColeSloth, 12 dni temu

Anyone been playing it on steam deck? How’s the fps? Is the text very hard to read?

ColeSloth, 19 dni temu

Now factor in the cost savings from a lower server load and less staff to run the back end, and possibly the smaller licensing\use costs for the games available to play since less people would be accessing those games.

ColeSloth, 21 dni temu (edited 21 dni temu)

This going to be a total venture capitalist play. It was already set that the fifty billion dollar acquisition was also going to be placing EA in like twenty billion in debts. They’ll flood it with more debts, piece the IP’s all out, legal launder the money, and take ea into bankruptcy.

EA is dead.

ColeSloth, 23 dni temu

I want the final answer he left out, so it’s finally time for me to start playing rdr2.

ColeSloth, 2 miesiące temu

Then why did Sony also increase pricing in several other countries?

ColeSloth, 2 miesiące temu

Wow. “Mega threads” are exactly how reddit buries away news they don’t really want people to see or care about.

ColeSloth, 2 miesiące temu

Yep. A fucking Australian group of Bible thumpers, specifically.

ColeSloth, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah, inflation is a thing. But so is increasing volumes in sales with low cost distribution of the product.

After a game is made now, the only cost is distribution now, and games sell in larger volumes than ever before, making more money than ever before. A game like BL4? Even if they spent $300,000,000 making the game they only need to sell 6,000,000 copies to recoup costs at $70. BL3 has sold 18,000,000 copies. A huge profit, even if most of those sales were on sale prices. BL3 was made and advertised with a 140 million dollar budget.

ColeSloth, 5 miesięcy temu

I had assumed it was BS as soon as I saw the price of just $5k.

ColeSloth, 5 miesięcy temu

It was put out that everyone should change their passwords. That kind of info for like 90 million steam accounts would fetch a much higher price or ransom than some personal info on a bunch of people like names, phone numbers and an address.

ColeSloth, 5 miesięcy temu

FU for old pooh. I still got my nes from 87

ColeSloth, 5 miesięcy temu

You can say 9 out of 10 buying a raspberry pie are setring up retro pie for emulating, but 98 out of 100 people emulating aren’t using a raspberry pie to do it.

ColeSloth, 5 miesięcy temu

You’re just speaking of dedicated emulator systems? I’d agree with those numbers of yours then. I was just speaking of what people use to emulate old games in general. Almost everyone just uses a pc, laptop, or cell phone. The numbers for dedicated systems that look like retro Gameboys and stuff like that are outnumbered by like 100 to 1.

ColeSloth, 6 miesięcy temu

I enjoyed the fighting simplicity of the original pokemon games. I could recognize and know the names of 151 pokemon and their weakneses/strengths. Now there’s too many pokemon and too many counters and hybrids. Too much work to keep track of.

ColeSloth, 6 miesięcy temu

Yes. I enjoyed the simpler “rock paper scissors” offense/defense of the older games. There is such a thing as too much and it would be nice if game developers didn’t always feel the need to add way more stuff to every sequel.

ColeSloth, 7 miesięcy temu

For sure, and my backlog is huge. I have tons to still play. I’m just now getting around to gta5 on my steam deck. I also just finished re-playing the original ff7 with some mods that made it look way nicer than back when I played it on my ps1 in the 90’s. I could go another 5 years without catching up to 2020 if I wanted to.

ColeSloth, 9 miesięcy temu

The speculation is free buildup and helps create demand anticipation. Leaks and speculation like this are great advertising. It only becomes bad when the leaks and speculation created are better than what the actual product is, or a lot worse than the product is.

If the speculation was going around that it would be backwards compatible with all former Gameboy cartridges and include free downloads of any Nintendo games older than 5 years, Nintendo would quickly release the real specs/info.

ColeSloth, 10 miesięcy temu

It took me 48 attempts to beat it the first time. After that it was like every five to ten tries.

ColeSloth, 10 miesięcy temu

NES “Pro Wrestling”.

“A winner is you!”

ColeSloth, 10 miesięcy temu

“Get yer finger outta that bunghole!”

“I think I’ll use my human call. I’m so wasted, I’m so wasted”.

ColeSloth, 11 miesięcy temu

I’d remember playing this on Nintendo when I was around 7 years old. My cool ass already knew how to play chess for a year or so, but I would absolutely bomb it during the fights.

ColeSloth, 11 miesięcy temu

It was ported to everything in the late 80s, nes included, so it wouldn’t surprise me. 7 year old me totally sucked at the fighting.

ColeSloth, 11 miesięcy temu

#metoo

ColeSloth, 11 miesięcy temu

Also, generally speaking, people interested in news about games read and seek out gaming sources that cover gaming info. Like kotaku.

Gaming is popular enough that there are several dedicated news and information sites to choose from. The “news” is for stuff of general interest. They could cover some gaming news, but for the most part people who want gaming news get it from more dedicated sources.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Some configuration file tweaks and an m.2 drive had the first one run great for me. Just had a few areas with clipping issues but no real problems. Some QOL mods definitely made it an awesome game, so yeah; it definitely took some work to polish up, but the mystery and story and exploration is something that I think they could pull off again, and the technical side of things…well, they’ll surely have a bit bigger employee count and can hire some talent.

ColeSloth, rok temu (edited rok temu)

That was the best thing to have missing. The isolation made the game.

• edit: rockpapershotgun had more info. There’s going to be solitary play mode/story, but also an up to 4 player co-op.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Subnautica has sold over six million copies. If they don’t have the cash to fund making subnautica 2 after that, then I sure don’t want to give them EA money.

ColeSloth, rok temu

I get lost in my own city, so I got a mod that leaves a map stay revealed anywhere you’ve swam to.

Then just a mod that allowed you to build an automatic organizer for all the stuff you mine and gather so I don’t have copper or something stored in like 3 different lockers.

Then lastly, a mod that let’s you build something advanced so long as you have enough base materials in your lockers to make it. This is the best one because it really gets rid of a pointless time waster. I don’t have to spend 10 minutes creating all the different parts, so I can make the different parts, so I can combine the different parts, so I can eventually build my super cool thing or whatever. If I have everything that would allow me to eventually put together the super cool thing, I can skip doing all the pointless parts and just create it straight away.

That’s all I used if I recall. The map one can effect gameplay and some mystery, but im directionally challenged. The others are just QOL and just do what the game should have already been doing.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Back in my day, the objects just glimmered every few seconds.

ColeSloth, rok temu (edited rok temu)

You can just follow the guide they made for it.

youtu.be/LnGVcYo4uZQ?si=9Hh9uYyJSntkKT2x

*edit- who the hell would be downvoting me for this? It’s literally the guide to run it on steam deck. I think it’s even one of the games co developers that made the guide.

ColeSloth, rok temu

I dropped them all like 8 years ago. Not even the microtransaction parts for me since I never played any pay to win games and not big on caring about skins or hats. It was that any game time I had, felt like I had to play league of Legends, or I’d fall behind.

So I dropped it and have happily gone back to pretty much exclusively single player games. It’s nice.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Yep. You take a month off from league of legends and all of a sudden 50 things have changed/rebalanced and there’s 2 new heroes to figure out.

So nice going back to gaming on my own terms. I’m replaying ffvii right now with 7th heaven mods. Been over 25 years since I played it last, and it’s still awesome, mostly.

ColeSloth, rok temu

I’ve heard of people setting up the right track pad to use as a movable area zoom, so you could actually read the tiny text. You try setting that up?

ColeSloth, rok temu

I had to get kinda squinty with some of the herbs and plant descriptions.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Per the article: it takes place thousands of years in the past, with an avatar that has not been seen before.

I swear, people only read headlines and then it’s off to make comments.

ColeSloth, rok temu

I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more gaming pcs now days, too. Consoles have been loosing out on the gaming market share since the 90’s. PC overtook consoles in both popularity and profits a bit over a decade ago.

Disheartening enough though, is that as far as profits are concerned, mobile games make $ more than pc and console combined.

ColeSloth, rok temu

I started replaying the original ffVii on my steam deck, now. Using several 7th Heaven mods that really make the game look and sound like it didn’t come from the PS1 Era. It’s a slow start, but so far it’s still shaping up to be the great game I remember playing 25+ years ago.

Plus, unlike the remake, it’s all one game instead of 3+ take your money releases across two or three console generations.

ColeSloth, rok temu

To maximize profits and costs they can go after, and to be a bit less on the radar of the public eye. Now that palworld is essentially done making money, Nintendo can go after that amount.

Say it is the throwing spheres that Nintendo is basing the suit off of. If Nintendo tried suing in the midst of its popularity, palworld could have just switched the capture system to like a special gun or cubes or something. Nintendo wanted to wait in order to financially crush them into dust.

ColeSloth, rok temu

If a game gets lost in the steam store and no one ever plays it, was it ever a game at all?

ColeSloth, rok temu

I too, played “Combat” on Atari.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Tbf, tons of nes and snes/Sega games were crazy hard. It hid how short they were. Like, Altered Beast is a game that no one ever beat on the Sega without using like a game genie. The entire game is only like 15 or 20 minutes long, though. Tmnt and battle battletoads were just super popular games you couldn’t beat.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Altered Beast absolutely was. Some games never made it to arcades, though.

ColeSloth, rok temu

GT3 had the right amount of advanced and customization without going overboard or being too realistic. It was my sweet spot.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Mario kart is still a thing. I absolutely hate the not actually random item drops, though. Getting punished for being in the lead is lame.

ColeSloth, rok temu

Look at how they’re willing to act in order to attract millions of 12 year old viewers. You can’t fake act being that stupid and emotional for that many hours pretty much every day unless you’re fucked up in the head.

ColeSloth, rok temu

The touch pads on the steam deck are freaky like this. I thought my left one was broken until I used it in a game compared to the os menu.

Also, motion controls are wicked awesome in shooting games.

ColeSloth, rok temu

I still just call it “Nintendo”.