SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman, 7 dni temu

Remember when people lost their shit over an Xbox console being all digital distribution and no ability to sell used games like 10 years ago maybe?

kotaku.com/that-xbox-one-reveal-sure-was-a-disast…

Nintendo fans are fucking masochists.

SnotFlickerman, 12 dni temu

No and they don’t plan to federate it. Not on their roadmap.

Further Matrix is guided by the Matrix Foundation, a non-profit group.

But I mean sure let’s just dump one for-profit app for another as if it won’t follow the same path.

SnotFlickerman, 19 dni temu

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SnotFlickerman, 20 dni temu

Commander Shepard tried for both Liara and Ashley at the same time.

SnotFlickerman, 22 dni temu

Ms. Huang knows whats up.

https://c.tenor.com/X_Yl5V739UoAAAAd/tenor.gif

SnotFlickerman, 22 dni temu

Also Starcraft: Ghost

SnotFlickerman, 29 dni temu

I don’t play CounterStrike or Team Fortress 2 because I’m not a god damned masochist.

In the end, I’m technically already boycotting them.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

Quite possibly because it shared a lot of DNA with Halo which they don’t own anymore.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Only semi-related: Why do they always show pictures of Gates when he hasn’t been involved in MS in a long time? Why never Satya Nadella?

EDIT: Also, yes, related to the actual question already living Linux full time and when October rolls around probably gonna back up everything from the Windows side of my dual-boot and wipe the 1TB NVMe Windows is on to use as storage.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

Maybe, he is indeed looking hella rough in this photo.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

businessinsider.com/bill-gates-harassment-inappro…

You’re right, it’s really hard to fill the shoes of someone who abuses their power and position to try to hook up with women.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

Two words: Mario Paint

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

The sequel is just getting a Remaster, not a Remake. SS1 was a full remake, SS2 is just a remaster. No idea if they plan on giving it the SS1 treatment, and I don’t really care as long as multiplayer works in the remaster.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

I am so hyped for this weird game!

Centering a service animal is dope!

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

The soundtrack alone is still a must-play for me.

This one seems like it’s going to have a similarly great soundtrack.

I want to wad you up into my life

Let’s lump up to make a single star in the sky

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/7a152263-5f74-4765-adea-af42b2f189f6.webp

The worm one was Noby Noby Boy.

I think it’s interesting to note here that he was the Director of the first two Katamaris, Director/Designer of Noby Noby Boy, but from there on out is just a designer. I think it shows that not only does he want to work with other people but that he doesn’t necessarily want full creative control as much as he values the input from others in creative ideas.

Which also makes it a little frustrating that all the games are still marketed as “From the Creator of Katamari Damacy!” while it seems like he’s just another designer on a team and he’s happy with that. More like the businesses use him as a marketing gimmick, maybe?

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

I just want it to still have co-op so I can play with a friend who uses a different skill tree and we can complement our skills.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

Like Musk, Zuckerberg is just trying to create a world where people actually like him.

Also like Musk, he will fail.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

Chrono Trigger Is Timeless

I see what you did there.

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

If space dwarves drinking, burping, and dancing isn’t innovation then who needs innovation?

For Karl!

SnotFlickerman, miesiąc temu

AMA

So, are you a masochist in other aspects of your life, too?

The video worked excellently, just so you know.

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

Damn, incredibly sad. Soul Reaver was a relatively unique game at the time and had interesting writing and ideas.

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

They ought to be doing it with Dreamcasts since pirating games for DC was way easier.

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

To me, this is different choices in player autonomy/agency. No player is truly autonomous in a game world, but giving the player choices and having the choices have outcomes that actually impact the gameworld makes it feel like it’s your own agency making the choice.

For example, why would I eat the fish in Nier Automata? Doing so kills me. Why would they give me the option to have a game-ending early on in the game based on eating a fish? Because in giving you the choice to do so, they’ve given you a level of autonomy. They let you find out for yourself what the consequences are, and the consequences make sense in the context of the game world.

Rockstar is bad at respecting player agency, but you know what the worst was in my experience?

Hogwarts Legacy. (Note: I pirated this trash to not give Rowling any money)

Right off the bat, at the beginning of the game, you’re meant to follow your Professor through a dark seemingly endless empty space. If you leave the side of your Professor, nothing terrible happens, just big red scary words cover the screen saying you’ve failed because you lost track of the Professor.

In a game that actually respects player agency, you wouldn’t just be like “Hey, you’re doing THIS MISSION WRONG” (which is basically what the message said in nicer terms), you would give the player an actual event showing why it was dangerous.

What would be so hard about animating a shadowy horror coming out of the shadows and snatching you, instantly killing you? At least then you have learned why you shouldn’t venture alone. Because there are scary monsters in the dark and they could kill you! This respects the players agency by allowing them to explore but also giving them clear limits that fit the theme of the world in which they exist. There’s definitely scary horrors in Harry Potter, and a myriad of things that could kill a new student. We don’t see any of them, just big all caps “YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!”

The game would pose further issues, like not being able to jump over obstacles that your character is clearly jumping higher than. Invisible walls is another thing which disrespects player agency and breaks world immersion.

It’s been a while since I played it, but the whole game was crammed to the gills with these kind of wag of the finger “we didn’t tell you to play that way so don’t” instead of using compelling story-based reasons to keep people from doing those things.

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

I also read that on release, Star Wars Outlaws that being seen during a stealth mission was an insta-fail.

Unlike, say, Alien Isolation where you get to see yourself swallowed up by the Xenomorph when you fail.

Apparently they sent an update to Outlaws that changed that, because people hated it obviously.

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

Shorter answer: games give us what real life refuses to give us anymore.

Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose.

They give us autonomy to complete things how we see fit in the frameworks given. They give us an opportunity to master a set of skills. Finally, the story gives us purpose and drive to continue the “work.”

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

Achievement Unlocked: Get a raise!

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

It would super help if there was any direction on what keys do what. I never figured out the second thing youre supposed to drop.

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

Thats not arrogant. I just didn’t scroll down. Thanks!

I stupidly assumed the controls would pop up in game. I appreciate you being polite about it.

SnotFlickerman, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Spore was such a disappointment.

EDIT:

Shout out to Sim Copter and Jacques Servin:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter#Easter_egg

The game gained controversy when it was discovered that the homosexual designer Jacques Servin inserted an Easter egg that generated shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other and appear in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. The egg was caught shortly after release and removed from future copies of the game. He cited his actions as a response to the intolerable working conditions he allegedly suffered at Maxis, particularly working 60-hour weeks and being denied time off. He also reported that he added the “studs”, as he called them, after a heterosexual programmer programmed “bimbo” female characters into the game, and that he wanted to highlight the “implicit heterosexuality” of many games. Although he had initially planned for the characters to appear only occasionally, the random number generator he had created malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently. Servin was fired as a result, with Maxis reporting that his dismissal was due only to his addition of unauthorized content. This caused a member of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a gay AIDS organization, to call for a boycott of all of Maxis’ products, a measure which Servin rejected. Some months later, a group named RTMark announced its existence and claimed responsibility for the Easter egg being inserted into the game, along with 16 other acts of “creative subversion.” Servin stated that he had received a money order of $5,000 from RTMark for the prank. It was revealed later on that Servin was a cofounder of RTMark.

Servin would go on to be one of the founders of The Yes Men.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men

SnotFlickerman, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Unpopular Opinion: The last few hardware generations have had diminishing returns while increasing the cost of being a PC gamer drematically. While the DOOM games are generally well-optimized, I just upgraded my whole ass system after 8 years just two years ago and I’m hitting minimum specs to play the new DOOM game at all. Same with Indiana Jones, same with STALKER 2, same with Alan Wake 2.

Of course, we also went from 8gb of video RAM being more than enough to needing fucking like 16-24gb as a standard somehow.

Seriously, the rig I bought to play fucking Bioshock Infinite kept up for about 8 years. I know I didn’t go all-out in building my machine but I didn’t 10 years ago either when I put my old box together. Honestly current machine feels way more high-end than the one 10 years ago did.

Anyway, kind of feels like a rip-off by the industry to me, and this is the same industry that is pushing for GTA 6 to cost $80-100 because they’re not making enough money somehow.

Basically, even if you have a 4090, the stutters and poor fps still exist due to the way the game is designed.

In a way, it’s like being back in the NES days all over again. Sometimes the game itself would just push the hardware too much and it would slow down. This shouldn’t be happening at all in this environment, it’s a joke. It goes well beyond just positive reviews for this kind of stuff.

SnotFlickerman, 3 miesiące temu

In all, it is a list put together by somebody young, that really loves Nintendo, l and with limited video game history knowledge

Half the games on this list are from the 90’s and were on Playstation??

They even correctly clocked that Ms. Pac-Man is actually a better game than Pac-Man.

Hell, there are only three Nintendo games in the to 10, as a reminder Tetris isn’t actually a strictly Nintendo property despite being #2 in the list.

There’s six fucking games in the top 10 that were all available on various generations of Playstations.

SnotFlickerman, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Someone has never read a Rolling Stones best of list before.

They were upsetting people over how they ranked music for decades before ChatGPT was available.

Here’s a thread where people are bitching about them in the same year ChatGPT was released. They’re talking about prior lists, so they’re not talking about AI generated ones. This has been an issue with Rolling Stone for literally decades. Everyone hates their best-of lists.

old.reddit.com/…/why_are_rolling_stone_lists_take…

I’m gonna get tired real quick of this “everything is AI and you shouldn’t engage with it” take. If you can’t handle it, get off the fucking internet and go touch grass.

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EDIT: Further, each section of the article, about 2-3 paragraphs per game has a human author listed.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/0d400843-5c0e-4155-9c31-0c4a82407768.webp

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/567363e9-7c2b-4164-ac33-cb117d63c0a8.webp

Let’s just keep pretending that nobody gets paid for this kind of thing and make sure that nobody gets paid by lying and saying it’s all AI anyway, leading it to all eventually become AI anyway because everyone stopped fucking reading.

SnotFlickerman, 3 miesiące temu

Each game literally has two or three paragraphs dedicated to why it was chosen with the human authors name credited at the end of each game section.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/0d400843-5c0e-4155-9c31-0c4a82407768.webp

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

Anything to reduce salaries.

“Nope, we’re making less money than ever, more cuts are coming.”

It certainly feels like every business in the USA is on team “make weird business decisions and excuses as a way to shaft worker pay and rights.”

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

Oh yeah, there’s no doubt about that. It was over two years ago that economists were already crowing about how soon people would be running out of their “pandemic savings” and would have to buckle under pressure again. They never hide this stuff, if you pay attention to the right people, they’re right out there being super honest about what they’re doing and what they want.

They want to starve the citizens out, which is crazy when you consider the old statement “No society is more than three meals away from revolution.” They’d rather risk pushing us to revolution by turning the screws rather than give up any amount of power, control, or wealth.

www.nytimes.com/2021/12/…/pandemic-savings.html

As far back as 2021 they were talking about people running out of “pandemic savings.”

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

“Xbox” will just be Windows going forward, at least on handhelds.

We’ve come full circle, almost like a red ring of death.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

I’ma be real: It fucking kills me that Steam on Android has been mostly used for 2FA and the idea of it being an alternate game store for Android somehow just… doesn’t exist?

Especially, out of all companies to take the fight about that kind of stuff to Apple and Google, Valve has the punching power, and they’ve literally already had Epic forge a path for them in this regard.

Why is my Android copy of Balatro unable to use the same cloud save system as Steam? Why am I stuck in Google’s fucking lame gaming ecosystem? It just makes me heave and sigh because I’d way rather be purchasing games for Android via Steam on the Steam Android app. It just feels like such a missed opportunity.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

Dude off the top of my head Balatro (won many Game of the Year awards), Vampire Survivors, Terraria, and Minecraft all have Android ports.

I wonder if Valve plans to release an Arm version of SteamOS

The problem here is you’d be relying on a translation layer similar to Proton, but would probably have to be built off of something like Box64 for it to work. There just may not be enough horsepower on these small devices for that to do well.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

I wish, but it feels like Valve is still mostly trying to support x86/x64 type devices and ARM/RISC-V doesn’t seem on the roadmap as much.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

Because AAA games cost more to make than blockbuster movies, thus they need profit to match.

They take more art than a blockbuster movie, they take more script than a blockbuster movie, they take more motion capture than a blockbuster movie (except maybe the Avatar series which are basically all-CGI/motion capture), just everything is so much more than what you need in a film plus the need for compelling gameplay with a satisfying ludonarrative.

The massive amounts of capital needed to make one to begin with literally preclude studios that aim for this style of game from doing anything but submitting to large publishers who will finance them. Because the resources required to make that type of game are just that much.

It’s part of why Larian did Early Access for BG3 so they could make money during the development to help lengthen their runway and lower their burn rate. They still had to cut a huge amount and just release as-is. The Upper City got cut entirely as did the return to Avernus and with it Karlach’s actual happy ending, all of her current canon endings are technically fail-states for her storyline.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

I have a hard time even playing one but that’s depression.

It’s been a week or so since I last played a few hours of STALKER 2.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

AC really died with Desmond

Ouch, right in the nostalgia.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Because the wealthy need to remind us how much free time they really have because they don’t actually fucking work or contribute anything at all of value to the world.

The first thing I wanted to comment was “Was this written by Elon Musk’s ghostwritergamer?”

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Real answer: Because the games industry is bigger than the film industry, in terms of total valuation.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

A fun video I actually came across recently about Opposing Force/Blue Shift. It had been years since I had thought about it.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

https://i.chzbgr.com/full/6039747584/hE525CD30/papea-kills-off-developers

Seriously this sentiment is old as hell. This comic is old as hell.

The BioWare of today is not the one that made the original Baldur’s Gate. Shit, it’s not even the BioWare that made the original Dragon Age.

They’ve been a hollowed out shell chasing whatever “AAA” style sells the most for a long time now. If Baldur’s Gate 3 had come out before Witcher 3, you can bet your ass Veilguard would look and play a hell of a lot more like BG3, because it’s painfully clear they did everything they could to crib the speed of the combat in Witcher 3, which was the hot shit when they started development. Similar to how Inquisition was chasing the Open World fad. If Baldurs Gate 3 had been the hot shit when they began development? Veilguard would have played like that instead.

It is what it is, and this has been this way since at least Dragon Age 2/Mass Effect 2.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

I think this is an important and distinctive point to be made, and I think it needs some background.

Who else remembers when EA won The Consumerists “Worst Company in America” two years running?

Well, I remember, but I also remember that EA actually placed the blame for winning Worst Company on something else entirely, and we have to be honest with ourselves and question whether this sentiment was real and we ignored it to our detriment.

consumerist.com/2013/04/05/…/index.html

This is part of what EA CEO Peter Moore had to say when EA won “Worst Company” a second year in a row:

In the past year, we have received thousands of emails and postcards protesting against EA for allowing players to create LGBT characters in our games. This week, we’re seeing posts on conservative web sites urging people to protest our LGBT policy by voting EA the Worst Company in America.

I remember at the time thinking this was pure deflection. Now I’m not so sure.

I mean, they won the awards in 2012 and 2013 and then Gamergate happened in 2014/2015. Seems pretty tied together, to me.

SnotFlickerman, 4 miesiące temu

Neir Automata had pretty good graphics, but nothing groundbreaking.

The soundtrack is fucking phenomenal.