EncryptKeeper

EncryptKeeper, 20 godzin temu

Not at all. It’s a factory building game. 3D Factorio if you will.

EncryptKeeper, 2 dni temu

Fun game, if not a little on the easy side. Beat Ante 8 on my second run. There is an endless mode thankfully.

EncryptKeeper, 3 dni temu

What it really comes down to is that this type of “safe” game design where you rehash the same game over and over again for 20 years thing used to make a shitload of money, that’s why they all do it, and now it doesn’t. Or at least, they’re discovering that there’s a mathematical maximum amount of times you can rehash something without innovating. And not doing that is too huge a pivot for a huge lumbering company like Ubsioft to make on a reasonable timescale.

This is what’s supposed to happen though. When not enough people buy games to make them profitable, the games have to change, or Ubisoft goes under. Either is fine.

EncryptKeeper, 2 dni temu

I don’t think they’re doing that.

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

The shame of it is this kinda the way she goes for passion jobs like game dev. Similarly, EMS is a chronically underpaid career. Not for lack of difficulty or skills required, but because people want to do it. That desire to help others only translates into an ability to underpay people for the privilege. There’s a nobility to wanting to dedicate your life to helping people despite the lack of pay. A nobility that is happily exploited by private equity.

EncryptKeeper, 18 dni temu

“Minute differences” is a bit absurd. It may have been a bit too long since you’ve booted up your PS4.

EncryptKeeper, 18 dni temu

Computing hardware when the PS4 and PS4 pro came out was still in the before times when new hardware meant doing more for the same money. It’s been a minute since those times and that isn’t really something Sony has any control over.

Meanwhile you also have a weird phenomenon that didn’t exist during the PS4 generation where you have a huge spike in inflation between your base console and pro launch. When the PS5 launched at cost $500, but $500 then is more than $600 now. The PS5 pro is really only $100 more in 2024 money than the PS5 was at launch.

Maybe Sony is making the wrong move here but understanding the market and economy as it is today, I’m not sure what else they could have done besides not launch a pro console at all.

EncryptKeeper, 18 dni temu

I don’t agree with that really. I think PS5 games are already designed with the PS5 Pro in mind. We already have difference performance profiles where you can have 60FPS OR 4k OR Ray tracing.

If all the Pro means is being able to play 60FPS at 4k with Raytracing, the $700 price point would be very attractive. You won’t get that with a $700 PC that’s for sure.

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

Well from that perspective literally any upgrade at all is entirely pointless and a waste of money. There’s no point upgrading from your Nintendo 64. None of the games made possible by any console since can truly make any games inherently more fun, it’s all just graphical and performance enhancements.

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

Increased computing power used to open up entirely new concepts in gaming. 3D environments, then larger and larger worlds, dynamic physics engines, more complex NPC Ai and more power to run larger numbers of enemies at a time.

Absolutely none of that makes a new console inherently more fun. Many of the games I have on my launch PS1 and N64 are to this day unsurpassed. Not only that but some of the most critically acclaimed, genre defining games of the last 10 years could be run on a calculator. On the other hand we have all this extra compute power yet video game AI is universally garbage. To this very day the hands down best combat AI in a game are Halo 1 and the original F.E.A.R.

Console upgrades today are about making things prettier, fit on bigger screens, and perform better. If you think the jump from PS4 to PS5 wasn’t worth the money, there’s no upgrade that will ever be worth it to you again.

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

That’s really the key. The PS4 and even Pro were fighting for their lives by the end of the generation. Anyone who claims the upgrade to a PS5 was “minute” is lying to themselves about their jet engine PS4

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

Yes besides all of the brand new hardware that improved load times dramatically and can reliably play games at 60fps without blowing out your eardrums due to fan noise, the best new controller to hit the market since the first rumble pak, and all the new games to play on it, it didn’t improve much… lol

You better settle in bucko because I have some bad news, it only gets more incremental from here.

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

You’ve got it backwards. I said from your perspective, any upgrade will be a waste of money. You then proceeded to argue how from your perspective, any upgrade will be a waste of money.

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

We’ve been at diminishing returns for close to 20 years now. I’m not sure exactly what your point is.

EncryptKeeper, 17 dni temu

Nah, just a guy who has actually used both consoles and understands the state of Compute today.

EncryptKeeper, 19 dni temu

The new Duelsense features are used in just about every single game on PS5. I have yet to come across any AAA game even from a non-Sony publisher who doesn’t use them.

EncryptKeeper, 19 dni temu

One part of the touch pad that’s used very often is the touch zones, effectively using the touchpad as two buttons. Outside of that though it’s very rare. I think Ghost of Tsushima used the swipe.

EncryptKeeper, 22 dni temu

The remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 4. Also Resident Evil Village

EncryptKeeper, 26 dni temu

So it all comes full circle

EncryptKeeper, 28 dni temu

I loved Civ 5 but I couldn’t go back after Civ 6.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

As of last week, Cult of the Lamb

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

What the hell is that clickbait thumbnail. Halo 2 did not look like the left picture on Xbox lol

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

Combat Evolved didn’t look that bad either. That just looks like someone on PC put the graphics down as low as possible. Something you can’t even do on Xbox

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

For multiplayer, look at Steam charts for most active players. Any of the top 20+ games are probably worth playing, even if old.

I recently got into The Division 2 and that’s YEARS old. There isn’t much multiplayer until you reach endgame (very quick for essentially an MMO) but then there’s a decent community still.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

The winds are howling

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

I wonder where a union draws its power from in an industry where there are so many people desperate for work right now.

Trade unions make sense because there’s such a shortage of skilled workers in total, much less scabs. How does a union for such a well known legacy game developer sustain itself in an environment where I bet scabs would be in abundance?

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

I’ve got 2,000h in Rimworld and it’s sufficiently like Rimworld for that tagline.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

It is absolutely beyond me how there is a single soul that didn’t know where this was going the very day Gamepass was announced lol

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Don’t need to, never had it lol

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

What does that have to do with what I said?

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Not in the slightest.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

I did no such thing lol. People had to be surprised by this turn of events based on the response to it in this very thread. Whether or not people are forced to continue paying for it has nothing to do with anything I said, speaking of straw men.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

This would by definition be both the first and last time they’ve had a full 1.0 release announcement.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

You can’t even compare late, pre-PS5, PS4 games and the launch PS4 games.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

The two big expansion packs absolutely. Leader and civ packs are up to you.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

There are things I like and dislike about both, but the district mechanic is something I find hard to live without.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

This is broadly true, but I think that many older games that were much simpler, with a narrower focus and more fleshed out presentation have a spot on the leaderboards that won’t be knocked off any time soon. One example is the Legend of Zelda series. With Breath of the Wild and its sequel, it did some pretty innovating things. But in the process it sacrificed much of what made the earlier Zelda games great. We figured out how to make a game with “more dungeons” but they were uninspired and they all looked the same. Gone were the huge, sprawling, uniquely thematic dungeons with memorable bosses and iconic music. The overworld got much larger and they crammed more overworld activities into it, but now those activities were just the same four or five things copy pasted to every inch of the world, none of which did much individually besides making one of a few numbers go up by a tiny fraction. New technology allowed them to make huge sprawling worlds to explore, at the expense of the ability to effectively fill those worlds with stuff worth exploring for.

New games innovate in what is technically possible, but they move backwards in other areas that don’t get the same attention. It’s more than just “These old games were good for their time”. In many cases they are still unsurpassed by modern games because the focus changed.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

Breath of the Wild doesn’t have an equivalent to dungeons. There are only four divine beasts, and just like the shrines they are extremely short, and identical in appearance. They were just slightly more complex shrines with an animal theme. And the overworld doesn’t realistically have a whole lot to find, by design. Since the game is entirely unstructured, you can’t put anything to find in the game, because you don’t know where the player will go and nothing to stop them from going anywhere. Thats why nothing amounts to anything more than a fractional stat boost or a temporary weapon. The outfits and the master sword are the only things worth actually finding in the game.

As a shit your brain off and run around a pretty overworld type of game, it excels. But it doesn’t delivery anything a typical Zelda game does.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

The divine beasts are in fact visually identical. The only real difference between them is which animal they’re vaguely shaped like. As for the overworld, I found all of it. It’s just that “all of it” was for the most part just copied and pasted over and over with minor variation.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

Tom Clancy’s End War?

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

Well, 3 data leaks in the last 10 years, at least one of which wasn’t their fault at all. This change is bad for several reasons but “data leaks” isn’t really one of them.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

Well they reversed the account linking. I don’t think the anti-cheat had the same backlash though.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

Evidently that is the case.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

It’s remarkable how well this game looks, plays, and performs. The game was somehow made by a single guy, yet it puts just about every other medieval city builder that’s come before it to shame. Only real issue with the game is a lack of content due to being early access, but everything that’s there is incredible.

EncryptKeeper, 5 miesięcy temu

Totally disagree. The homogenization and enshittification of AAA games has meant that there is less choice than ever. More and more established IPs are tanking in quality and there aren’t enough new ones to replace them. There are certainly “more games”, but the problem with this quantity of quality style of production means that there are fewer standouts and unique experiences to actually choose from. This has resulted in entire genres collapsing under their own weight. There are still unique, standout games but I’d hardly say there are now that 10-15 years ago. And the ones we do have are more often than not made by indie and AA studios.

EncryptKeeper, 5 miesięcy temu

The problem is the AAA games are what prop up gaming consoles, which are the only reasonable way for the average person to afford gaming. All the best AA and indie games have predominantly been on PC. All my favorites are still PC only.

In the year like, 6 months to a year I’ve seen what looks like maybe start of many of them coming to consoles, but we’re still years out from seeing what becomes of that. As for right now, AA studios and indies can only afford to port things to consoles due to the large console adoption, and large console adoption is due to AAA games. If consoles stop being worth it for Sony and Microsoft to make, people will have to buy PCs. And PCs are expensive even to those with the experience to build things themselves and know how to shop for what they need to have a good experience.

EncryptKeeper, 5 miesięcy temu

Which is pretty pathetic given the numbers of game breaking bugs and head scratching performance issues in Fallout 4 for PC. I guess for Bethesda back in the day, fixing the game for the people that already paid for it wasn’t worth doing.