PonyOfWar

PonyOfWar, miesiąc temu

Only thing I can think of are maybe the catching mechanics (which are straight out of Legends: Arceus). No idea if these would be considered unique enough to be patentable, guess we’ll find out.

PonyOfWar, 2 miesiące temu

I’ve been playing the new Guild Wars 2 expansion “Janthir Wilds”. Very enjoyable, with a nice setting and soundtrack.

I’ve bought Spin Rhythm XD on the recent Steam Sale. Quite a nice rhythm game, with excellent native Steam Deck support.

I’ve also been giving Deadlock a go. So far hasn’t really clicked for me though. Doesn’t help that I’m not a big MOBA player, the only one I’ve enjoyed so far is Heroes of the Storm.

PonyOfWar, 2 miesiące temu

I’d love to get another singleplayer game as well, but I’ve accepted that Valve is just unpredictable. I’m sure they haven’t given up on Singleplayer and we’ll get another singleplayer game… at some point. Their previous game was the fantastic Half-life Alyx after all.

PonyOfWar, 2 miesiące temu

Reading the full statement, it sounds to me like there was more to it than just the game’s development coming to an end. It sounds like it might have been a very sudden decision by the publisher, with possible negative consequences for the development team.

In principle I agree though, there is no issue with a game just being finished at some point, especially a single player one. But I also don’t mind continued updates and/or DLC.

PonyOfWar, 3 miesiące temu

Really doesn’t matter whether the proposal as it is in the petition is completely realistic or not. The point is to get this topic into the EU parliament. It’ll be their job to work out a solution that works for both consumers and developers.

PonyOfWar, 3 miesiące temu

I don’t agree with it starting the wrong conversation. Something does need to be done about companies denying access to a game you bought and that’s the conversation it starts. If this proposal lands on the EU negotiation table, I can guarantee you that the games industry will lobby against it, and heavily. There is no chance the EU will just go “OK sounds good, make it so!”. Heck, the chances are higher that if they pass an actual law, it will be so watered down that it won’t do anything at all. But then at least we tried.

I’ve watched his first video, but I really don’t agree with many of his points. He only barely acknowledges this being a proposal and then gets lost in the details. He’s clearly against any measures that have the slightest potential to be a disadvantage for game developers, which I guess is understandable from his perspective as a developer. But he doesn’t seem to particularly care about the consumer’s rights, basically saying the problem is solved as soon as the publisher makes it clear at purchase that people are only buying a temporary license. He’s also trying to discredit supporters of the initiative by saying they don’t know how the industry works, despite quite a few people in the industry supporting the initiative as well.

PonyOfWar, 6 miesięcy temu

Man, the state of the games industry is just sad. Also makes me question my career working in an adjacent field, despite my job being safe for now…

PonyOfWar, 7 miesięcy temu

IMO the story is not really worse than the games’ writing. Fallout as a universe never really made sense. So for me, it being fun and campy is enough and just what I’d expect of a Fallout show.

PonyOfWar, 8 miesięcy temu

Kirby’s adventure feels really modern for an NES game, still holds up great to this day. The difficulty is also closer to what people are used to nowadays, compared to the punishing difficulty of many NES games. One of the few NES games I played through completely.

PonyOfWar, 8 miesięcy temu

The Skull and Bones beta motivated me to start a second playthrough of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, 10 years after my first one. Having a blast, it’s honestly even better than I remembered and runs great on the Steam Deck.

PonyOfWar, 8 miesięcy temu

I’d love to play it with my niece and nephew if the game had a split screen mode. Not going to happen if they need a Switch and a copy of the game each.

PonyOfWar, 9 miesięcy temu

Not disagreeing otherwise, but it’s 4 paid expansions, not just one.

PonyOfWar, 9 miesięcy temu

This needs way more context and evidence. Right now. this is not a “revelation” but a statement by an unknown person, without providing any actual comparisons of the 3d models so people could judge for themselves. If there is something to it, it should be easy enough to prove.

PonyOfWar, 9 miesięcy temu

Thank you. Have to say, I’m not convinced after watching these. Aside from similar body types, there are differences everywhere. Like in the last video, the Palworld model has a concave back, thinner differently shaped legs and a smaller head. It’s a cartoony quadruped of similar but not identical proportions and that’s about it. To prove ripped models, you’d have to show significant sections where the vertices are identical.

PonyOfWar, 9 miesięcy temu

Yeah. It would probably have been more work to take a Pokemon model and modify it to this extent compared to making it from scratch. Some of the designs in Palworld definitely took heavy Pokemon inspirations to the point of almost being a rip-off, but so far the evidence for actual asset theft is not convincing at all.

PonyOfWar, 9 miesięcy temu

But even those are not that similar. Tail length, head size, leg length, distance between front legs, ears etc. I have my doubts in this mysterious anonymous “expert”. I may not be a senior character designer, but I also work in 3d content production. I don’t agree with their claims.

PonyOfWar, 10 miesięcy temu

I usually emulate on my Steam Deck. I still have a Nintendo Online subscription going as it’s required for multiplayer (hate that that’s a thing), but I rarely use the emulators. I wouldn’t pay for the Online+ subscription, it doesn’t seem good value to me.

PonyOfWar, 10 miesięcy temu

Free games are free games, IMO it would be silly to reject them just because Epic bad. I can install them on my Steam Deck through Heroic without even having to use the official launcher.

PonyOfWar, 10 miesięcy temu

What was it about EGS that made you do that?

PonyOfWar, 10 miesięcy temu

What made BG3 “antiquated” to you? Just the nature of it being a cRPG? I thought it had some really good modern game design.

PonyOfWar, 11 miesięcy temu

This is actually hilarious. Never trusted them for a minute, but didn’t expect the rugpull to happen after just a few days. Wonder if Steam will refund everyone.

PonyOfWar, 11 miesięcy temu

Not saying it is, but they have done so before for games with particularly bad launches.

PonyOfWar, 11 miesięcy temu

Cool, love the Redwall-esque setting. I hope they get their marketing right this time and don’t overpromise.

PonyOfWar, 11 miesięcy temu

People remember, it’s more that some people hope that Rockstar will stop their bullshit eventually. PC gaming is in a very different place than it was when GTA V released.

PonyOfWar, 11 miesięcy temu

On the other hand I don’t see why being there in person has to be required for anyone. He can say exactly the same things remotely.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

At least about 2 minutes of it were Half-Life 3.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

Spoilers: >!Most of the game is a prequel to HL2, but in the final few minutes, you get sent into the future, right to the time and place where Episode 2 ended. So it does advance the Half-Life plot forward, but only by a few minutes.!<

PonyOfWar, rok temu

Some desperate scalpers on ebay are already trying to sell the 512GB version for 1000€. Despite the fact that you can still order one for half the price and receive it within 6-10 days.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

I’ve had Slay the Spire in my Library for a while, but only got hooked on it when I tried it on Steam Deck.

When I got my Steam Deck at launch, the first game I was hooked on was Elden Ring, which came out around the same time. I first started it on my PC, but got frustrated by the huge lag spikes. Thankfully, those aren’t a thing on Steam Deck!

PonyOfWar, rok temu

Because they’ve done it many times in the past? Wii, WiiU, Gameboy series, DS series all had backwards compatibility.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

4% royalty is fine, but they might as well remove the weird install-tracking bullshit at this point.

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Really sucks to be a Unity developer right now. I’ve been working with mostly Unity for around 10 years now, and while I’m not directly affected by the recent changes, it really feels like the engine has been dying a slow death for a few years now. Hopefully Ricitello will leave eventually and they can turn this around, otherwise many of my skills will be useless in a few years…

PonyOfWar, rok temu

To an extent I can apply my knowledge to other engines, sure. I’m working on my third Unreal project currently, and while it’s not like starting from scratch, I’m definitely way slower working with it. It also doesn’t replace Unity completely. It’s great for high-spec 3D stuff, but almost useless for mobile 3D/AR apps, which is a lot of what I do (not making games but mainly industrial interactive 3d applications).

PonyOfWar, rok temu (edited rok temu)

Absolutely makes sense for most planets to be rather barren. What I found a bit disappointing so far - keeping in mind I started yesterday and I’m only a few hours in - is how mostly when you land on a planet there is a key point of interest (an outpost, a mining facility, a city etc) at a landing site and then immediately a whole lot of randomly generated nothing around it. No roads or paths, NPCs, houses etc. I haven’t really been to a place where I got that Skyrim feeling of going out into the wilderness and finding interesting things. I hope that later on there are at least a few areas with more substantial exploration. Still enjoying the game though.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

When it comes to the barren planets, it just adds a bit of immersion IMO. Nobody is forcing you to visit those rocks, and you probably won’t ever land on most of them, but it’s cool that you can. So to me, it’s not something that has a negative effect on my enjoyment of the game.

Makes sense to wait for a sale though. Mods and updates will no doubt vastly improve the game. Personally, I just play it on gamepass.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

It’s similar, though the the actual points of interest are way more fleshed out than in NMS and sometimes have unique quests etc.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

I imagine they care about the players who didn’t, who, let’s be real here, make up the majority of players on emulators.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

It costs $273 (without VAT) in Germany

The European price is VAT-included.

Not that that makes it a good price by any means.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

Nope, not sure where you got that from but it’s incorrect. It’s 220€ VAT-included.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

Looks great, but I’m skeptical if it’ll ever see an actual release. Remastering the entire game with the kind of asset quality we see for this single room would require an enormous amount of time and effort, especially with people working for free.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

I guess this means that all the speculations about Mario’s voice in Wonder not being Martinet were probably true.

PonyOfWar, rok temu (edited rok temu)

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros, because the tutorials never stop. Even 20 hours into the game, it will explain which button to press in exhausting detail every single time. Gave up the game due to this.

On the opposite side, ΔV: Rings of Saturn. The tutorial does a really bad job of explaining the (very unusual) controls of the game. Worse, you can accidentally leave the area during the tutorial, which cancels the tutorial altogether so you have to restart the game. That happened to me twice. Third time was the charm though, and I did enjoy the game afterwards.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

It will be interesting to see how these kind of things develop over the next few years. Of course, it’s very enticing for developers to use AI voices, as they can probably save massive amounts of money through it. Will the voice actors have any options to stop this?

PonyOfWar, rok temu

I’ve played the Divinity games, which are very good CRPGs, but in my opinion, Baldur’s Gate 3 is in another league compared to those. The amount of choices and possibilities the game offers and its sheer vastness are amazing. Add to that the many fully voiced and well directed cutscenes and you have an awesome game that manages to appeal not only to hardcore CRPG fans.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

BG3 like everyone else. I’m at 40 hours now, in act 2. Going to play a bit less this week though, as the game hasn’t been great for my sleep cycle.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

Yup. No way to give it a 5/10. With so many people (IMO rightfully) disappointed with what they turned Overwatch into, of course they won’t recommend it. Though no doubt some people now only want to pile on the negative reviews for fun.

PonyOfWar, rok temu

Guess that means that custom servers will be monetized in future games and using unofficial free services will get you banned. Maybe I’m too cynical, but it’s Rockstar after all.