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Phen, 10 dni temu

I wonder how that’s going. When the devs started they were clearly overpromising things that they thought would be cool to have without any idea of how long it would take to implement them. I always suspected it would remain in development for many many years, but apparently it’ll be playable next year.

Phen, 2 miesiące temu

Yep, though the combat is very hard to get used to early and it may feel to hard - only to feel too easy once you master it.

Phen, 2 miesiące temu

I played it last year and got soft locked in the main quest about 15 hours in, but only realized after another 10 hours of side quests. Usually I wouldn’t start over but in the game I gladly did.

Phen, 4 miesiące temu

The trailer looked uninteresting so I didn’t try it.

Phen, 6 miesięcy temu

Because it wasn’t a game, it was a gamified data collection app. If someone actually wanted to make a game with this concept, it could turn out well, but that was never Niantic’s intention.

Phen, 7 miesięcy temu

Damn, it’s been 20 years already? In my mind this was still a new game that I would eventually try out since I was familiar with the original.

Phen, 7 miesięcy temu

Not exactly. Of course Gabe could be replaced by some idiot who fucks everything up, but if Valve doesn’t become publicly traded it will continue to be in the best interest of whoever ends up owning it to continue doing things this way. Gabe doesn’t do good things just because. He does it because happy customers means more money in the long run.

Publicly traded companies on the other hand need to extract as much money as quickly as possible and have no regards to what will happen to it a few months later. So even if Gabe dies, all Valve needs is a leader interested in what’s best for itself.

Phen, 7 miesięcy temu

I just had a revolutionary idea: what if every time you reach a new point in a game, it showed you a certain sequence of icons related to that point in the game. Then, if you ever want to play that part of the game again you can just insert that same sequence of icons into an option of the game and it’ll play from there.

Then people could also share the sequences they discover with their friends, allowing said friends to skip part of the game if they want to.

Phen, 7 miesięcy temu

I was afraid I was too old and people wouldn’t even know games used to do this.

Phen, 7 miesięcy temu

Specially for devs in countries that don’t have tax treaties with the US, if you’re buying it in the US. They’ll refund you fully but still have to pay 30% of the value to uncle Sam.

Phen, 7 miesięcy temu

4070 here, in full-screen I could barely move the mouse cursor at launch.

Phen, 8 miesięcy temu

When New World came out, ignoring all the other issues, a lot of the people who were playing it really wanted mounts. They said it was absurd the game didn’t have it. I missed being able to move faster too, but just by looking at the game I could tell that the only thing stopping me from getting to max level in three days was that it took time to go from point from the quest givers to the quest locations and then back. If it had mounts that would completely break the progression and they would need to make us have to kill a lot more enemies or collect a lot more items to complete quests or get exp.

I heard they added mounts in a recent update. I wonder how they ended up doing it. A couple years later getting to the end game pretty quick is probably no longer an issue so they may have done nothing.

Phen, 8 miesięcy temu

Well civ 6 was like $10 with all DLCs and I’ve played for over 500 hours. Hard to get a better ratio than that.

Phen, 8 miesięcy temu

Valve is also a privately owned company, meaning that every decision they make will always affect Gabe, and not someone different every week like most other companies. Valve needs to think long term while their competitors need immediate effects.

Phen, 8 miesięcy temu

How many of the last 10 games you bought were from Microsoft?

Phen, 9 miesięcy temu

Steam doesn’t let you sell the game for cheaper prices in other stores.

Phen, 9 miesięcy temu

Apparently the ps5 comparison is because they ran the same tech demo that the ps5 did 2 years ago. But that doesn’t really mean anything. At this point Nintendo may still be working with a wide range of specs on prototypes before finalizing a decision about what the console will be.

Phen, 10 miesięcy temu

Because it impresses people and so it sells. If they didn’t do that, all those EAs and Ubisofts would have to find a new selling point like making their games good or something.

Phen, 10 miesięcy temu

Sometimes windows itself will only let games know there’s a controller plugged in after a button is pressed, but connecting a controller with the game already open can usually be detected just fine.

Phen, 10 miesięcy temu

Multiplayer makes fights more fun, but the game’s story is better experienced on single player.

When I first started playing I was mostly just using basic attacks against enemies like a regular rpg. When I played with friends with all sets of different builds I saw them dropping furniture to barricade doors, shoving enemies off of cliffs, triggering traps from a distance and all sorts of cool stuff I wasn’t even considering. But outside of fights everyone moved somewhere different and triggered different story elements that the others weren’t seeing at all.