Gordon_Freeman

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

idk, at this point even "built by an amoeba" sounds better than "built by an AAA studio that cares about nothing but microtransactions"

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

It takes a lot to make a soulslike
But when it comes to me and you
And him, and her, and the baby too
Too many soulslike, it's true

Too many soulslike
Too many soulslike
...

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

I only buy fighting games when they launch the complete edition with everything included (at least all the characters, I don't care about the cosmetic extras that I will never use). Since I don't play online (I suck at fighting games so playing online it's a waste of time, but I still like the genre) I'm pretty much unaffected if the online is active or not

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

I thought the standards people were talking about were the exceptional treatment the players received (Larian provided a full game experience. This is no abusive DLC scheme, no predatory microtransactions and way more polished than the average AAA game experience)

It turns out all the fuss was about the game size?

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

Well, TotK is a DLC of BotK sold as a full prized game they can repeat it again, they have to recycle the map again add a couple of mechanics and done, a brand new game for the switch 2

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s still less expensive than a PC hobby

just with the sales and free online/cloudsaves PCs are cheaper in the long run

And mods are an added value, we can even include fanmade patches that fix what developers don't into that added value

Consumers don’t have much say in what these companies do or how they operate.

Yes, they do. Microsoft tried to incorporate Xbox live onto PC and it was a failure because PC consumers didn't bought it

The same goes with paid mods, Valve and Bethesda tried to make people buy mods and it was rejected by the consumer so the have to backtrack.

Consumers have all the power in their wallet they decide what course the companies take. If a company does something that goes against your interests as consumer is as easy as stop giving them money, if you hurt them economically, they'll have to go back to the business model that gave them profits (this works only if the average consumer is intelligent enough to protect their own interest/rights)

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

I'd say it's more expensive to lack common sense

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

No, if you are poor you learn to value every cent and not being wasteful, if you have common sense, of course

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

I'm not rich, I know what I'm talking about. When I'm going to spend money I have to look the best way to spend it, which is the best "invest". Being wasteful is an luxury I personally can't afford.

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

making value judgements on other poor people for being poor is not okay

luckyly for me, I'm not doing that

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

basic tier for those of us who just want online play and cloud save

That should be free. It's when people should have started boycotting Sony (and Microsoft and Nintendo) now it's just too late

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

It's too late. Just because you stopped paying for Xbox live does not means Microsoft is going to make it free.

People should not have accepted pay for online play but since is widespread, it's too late to revert it

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

There’s no way Nintendo abandons the removable joycons.

Nintendo abandoned the dual screen, and that was an incredible feature, I totally see them abandoning removable controllers

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

Neither the DS nor the 3DS flopped, on the contrary. the DS was the most sold console in the world

And it gave us new experiences, new ways to play and also made some stuff better (like having extra info, like maps, information or access to the inventory, having that meant you didn't need to pause the game)

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

I’m not a console owner, are PlayStation owners really giving Sony $60 a year to play online multiplayer?

It all started with the Xbox, since people did not questioned it and received it with open arms the others (Sony and Nintendo) just copied it. It's just matter of time we end up paying on PC too

Gordon_Freeman, 9 miesięcy temu

To have access to those "free games" you have to pay first, so how come they are free when they are asking money for them?

Free is this:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/hero_of_the_kingdom_ii

No payments required and you keep it forever

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

AAA PC exclusive titles also have the right to exists.

I miss playing good first person shooters...

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

I miss playing good shooters since the PS360 era, way before the battle royale genre entered the game.

It's when the genre exploded on consoles and it was when the genre was overly simplified and dumbed down

Before, some multiplatform FPS changed between the PC version and the console version. The console versions often had maps changed or even completely removed (and enemies where altered too) because they where too much for a controller

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

I know we've had cases like older GTA or NFS titles removing songs from the game in updates because the licenses ran out.

Not in updates, but in re-releases.

If you want to sell the game again you have to renegotiate the music licenses because the deal was only for the original release

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

That was a re-release, not an update

And that re-release was a port of the android version (that was also a re-release)

A re-release does not always means a graphical upgrade, it just means release the game on new systems or stores

If you had the original 2004 release installed on PC it would not receive an update patch in 2014. They just released it in new platforms (Steam) and since they were releasing the game again they had to change it because they music rights were not negotiated for that release

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

I support censoring all news related to Elon and his companies

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

The first game in ages where it actually feels like the company/ developers actually put in effort and released a complete product

I miss the time when this was common

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Who is the target audience for this thing?

Clueless parents

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Zero Divide
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Bloody Roar 2
Rival Schools
Soul Edge/Soul Blade
Tekken 3
Guilty Gear XX (^Core+R is the most recent one, there are like 6 different versions)
Ehrgeiz (this one have several minigames and an action RPG mode that involves a lot of dungeon crawling)

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

It just works

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Me, who mistakes Manic Miner with Miner 2049er

It Hurt Itself in Its Confusion!

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Apparently the Angry Birds games are still popular and strong

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

We already had like 343289754357863948 JSR spiritual succesors already

Just kidding, but the press repeated that headline so much since the game was announced back in 2020 that it feels like every year we got multiple spiritual succesors to JSR, and it was the same when Hover was announced and eventually the releasded in 2017

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Demos have returned, on PC at least.

"Steam Next Fest" are events when devs launch demost for their upcoming projects. it's like 3 or 4 times per year

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

I wonder if building realistic cities is possible. Not being able to do it was turn off for me in the first game

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

I mean how cities are made/planned in real life

In Cities Skylines you have residencial, commercial, industrial and office zones, right? That is not how you make a city irl. Photographic proof

https://iloftmalaga.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/23.jpg
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/vr-splice-j/06/2c/0c/ee.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e8/3c/19/e83c19a673784c08e68b45cf58a937e2.jpg
https://www.65ymas.com/uploads/s1/77/34/5/calle-mateos-gago-de-sevilla-una-de-las-ma-s-emblematicas-de-la-ciudad.jpeg
https://www.madrid.es/UnidadesDescentralizadas/UDCMedios/noticias/2010/01Enero/21Jueves/NotasPrensa/TioPepe/ficheros/Edificio%20tio%20pepe.jpg

irl when you make an apartment building the ground floor is used for commercial purposes (you can have banks, restaurants, clothes stores, butchers, surpermarkets, whatever...) as you can see in the photos I linked.

Even more, you can buy (or rent) an appartment and make it an office for your business, so, appart from industrial zones, everything is mixed irl

The developer is European idk why the game focuses only in american style city planning that are highly inefficient and car-centric. You barelly need a car when you have access to all kind of services at 10 or 15 minutes walking

The ingame "High density residential zones" should include some type of commercial activity in the city to be more realistic

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Well, yeah, I wrote about it in the same comment

The developer is European idk why the game focuses only in american style city planning

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

And do most of Epic games run well?

https://www.protondb.com/

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

Gamefreak cannot keep its historically small team size while trying to make large, open world titles that release annually

Define "small". For Sword and Shield they had around 1000 workers, according to Ohmori, the game's director.

With 200 being from Game Freak, some from Creatures Inc. (they make the 3D models and send them to Game Freak) Debugging and Quality Control is externalized

So, yeah. The number being close to a thousand, that of course includes all the different functions like marketing and PR and everyone that would be associated with the game ahead of release. But I think at Game Freak, really the core team of people that worked on the game was around 200 people. And of course, Creatures is another partner company that develops 3D models of the Pokémon. There are various teams that handle debugging at our partner companies as well. So there’s a lot of people involved and I think in terms of just the sheer number of the most resources required to make something happen for the development, it was definitely more on the graphical side of things.

https://www.polygon.com/interviews/2019/10/24/20929597/game-freak-explains-the-1000-staff-missing-creatures-and-leek-size-of-pokemon-sword-and-shield

So it's not like Game Freak does everything for the game. They don't have to do the 3D models that will be used in the game nor debugging

And they hired more for Scarlet and Violet iirc

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

WipeOut was Sony’s initial first-party exclusive for the original PlayStation

It was so exclusive that was ported to DOS, Windows and the Sega Saturn

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Well, that's the third entry (wipeout 64) the first game was not ported to the N64

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

At some point in this millenium, it became ubiquitous in games to ask for a button press before switching to the main menu and it has become a pet peeve off mine.

Fake news. It was common in the previous millenium too

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pI0fJMkYdPU/maxresdefault.jpg

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

So next year we can expect Quake III Arena, I guess

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/linux_libssl_fix

I found that link in this thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/does_linux_version_of_baldurs_gate_enhanced_edition_work_out_of_the_box

It explains why it does not work and have a link to a solution (the first link I pasted)

EDIT. I tried it and it works

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

RDR* on PC when? It was launched 19 years ago and still nothing

*RDR = Red Dead REVOLVER

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

they'll probably do it

FTFY. The PC version was confirmed a long time ago

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

“2B’s combat was kind of basic”

I haven't played Nier, but I'd say that defines perfectly Platinum games' games (or at least the ones I played)

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

And when you actually pick up the controller and play one of them, you begin to feel like you’ve been through the same gameplay loop as many other games this generation: Tales Of Arise, Scarlet Nexus, Nier Automata, Valkyrie Elysium, YS 8 and 9; they’re all essentially the same action game with different spices and aesthetic fluff.

I'd quote the same fragment as you, and I'll add:

It's the same for western RPGs

All action RPG games feel "samey" (think Gothic, The Elder Scrolls, Elex, Two Worlds...) they’re all essentially the same game with different spices and aesthetic fluff.
All dungeon crawlers (Diablo, Torchlight, Path of Exile, Titan Quest, Sacred) they’re all essentially the same game with different spices and aesthetic fluff.
All DnD games are exactly the same (Baldurgs Gate, Neverwinter Night, Icewind Dale, PlaneEscape, Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, Dragon Age...) they’re all essentially the same game with different spices and aesthetic fluff.

Anyways, the article is about JRPGs, but the author for some reason only focuses on action games that are not JRPGs (Scarlet Nexus, Nier, Valkyrie Elisum, Ys 8, etc...)

It's like writing an article about chess, but complain about checkers

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Bayonetta has basic combat?

When I bough Bayonetta 1+2 for the Wii U I was expecting something close to Devil May Cry (They share the same director and almost the same developing team, after all) but it was a huge disappointment everything is so dumbed down and simple that is not even fun. People only likes it because they are satisfied with the over-the-top action and Bayonetta one-liners and that's all.

My main complains with Bayonetta are the following:

All the weapons feel the same, where the only change is the attack speed, their cosmetic appearance and in some cases some minor and useless changes, like if you hold the attack buttons and the weapons you have equiped are fireweapons, they shoot (with this I mean combos, like PPPK, KKKPK, etc... do the same with every weapon, except maybe the Kulshedra, the extremely basic whip, the weapons do not feel unique in any meaningful way, they all have the same moveset and combos. In Devil May Cry each weapon is unique, with their own moveset and combos, and their moveset changes depending on the style you have active, for extra depth)

Finding the secret stuff is too easy (except for some verses and Alfheim, that require some backtrack at specific points, but finding the vinyls to get new weapons is too easy)

Speaking of the Alfheims, they are not even chanllenging (compared to the Secret Missions in Devil May Cry)

Bayonetta 2 is even worse, everything is way more simplistic and easy than the first one, I haven't bothered with Bayonetta 3

This is what playing Bayonetta feels like

Gordon_Freeman, 10 miesięcy temu

Fishing minigames. I hate them with every single fiber of my body specially when they are mandatory for progress or to get 100% completition

They are not relaxing, they are painfully boring

I love hard games, but only when the challenge is fair, if the game consist solely on trial and error, that's bad

I genuinely enjoy the "git gud" journey, I find it very rewarding

Gordon_Freeman, 11 miesięcy temu

I blocked the user who flooded the community with shitposting, I prefer no content rather than shitty, low quality content

I left plenty of subreddits because that kind of content was rampant and it was hard to find actual quality content, because those posts were buried in shitty memes