Venator

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It’s translated to 2024 currency for relatability.

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But you’d still need to download the games onto the ps5 in the cabin in the woods, assuming this doesn’t apply to games on disc.

Venator, 4 miesiące temu

Forza horizon clone.

Venator, 6 miesięcy temu

:(

UK government responds to Stop Killing Games campaign, There is “no requirement in UK law” preventing publishers from rendering older games unplayable

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Venator, 6 miesięcy temu

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Venator, 8 miesięcy temu

Also riddled with microtransactions and yeah it’s not the worst in that regard but there’s still a lot of game design decisions that are worse off because of it.

Venator, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

The main issues I have with it are the grinding rpg style gameplay loop, and forcing players to return to the ship as often as possible.

Maybe I’m being too cynical but I assume its to try to get people to play as long as possible and look at the storefront as often as possible.

You can unlock a lot of things for free including some premium currency, but that’s just to increase player familiarity with the premium store and to make the player think about the cosmetic upgrades as often as possible.

Another issue is with the difficulty scaling: it doesn’t scale with the number of players or add AI players to the game if someone drops out. On its surface this can be explained by not wanting to spend the man hours to develop smart friendly AI or put more work into difficulty balancing, but the financial incentives also work against this as without it people are encouraged to invite friends to play with them, thus generating free advertising for the in game store.

That’s just a couple of examples, but every game design decision gets influenced to some extent by the way players interact and think about microtransactions. This isn’t really the case with baulders gate 3, which is in a completely different league in terms of quality(and dev budget tbf) to hell divers: it feels a bit like comparing McDonald’s with a michelin star restaurant 😂 (I haven’t played lethal company so can’t comment on that one)

Venator, 8 miesięcy temu

I have played it, but I guess im just not as receptive towards microtransactions as most people.

Venator, 8 miesięcy temu

I’m not saying it’s difficult to ignore the microtransactions, but it influences the design in a way I don’t like 😂

I guess it’s just not for me as I couldn’t care less about the lore or the global state of planets and position of other players ships 😂

Venator, 8 miesięcy temu

Cs gone

Venator, 8 miesięcy temu

Team Fortress 2. It was so well balanced when they nerfed the spies backstab for that 1 week back in April 2008 😂

Venator, 8 miesięcy temu

GTA1 was really good too.

Venator, 9 miesięcy temu

DLAA with frame generation seems pretty good to me in cyberpunk.

Venator, 9 miesięcy temu

GPUs are getting better, but the demand from the crypto and ML AI markets mean they can just jack up the price of every new card to higher than the last so the prices have stopped dropping with each new generation.