demonsword

demonsword, godzinę temu

How often do people leave reviews?

Speaking only for myself, I only leave a review if I loved or I hated a game. A “meh” game doesn’t get a review. I’d hazard that many people do something similar.

demonsword, godzinę temu

I kinda agree with you. I don’t use retro achievements because I’m an obsessed completionist. That means that I’d keep playing one game well beyond the point it stopped being fun just to tick all those boxes.

demonsword, 14 dni temu

Corporations are amoral things. Money is money, it has no frontiers.

demonsword, 17 dni temu

Poe’s law, maybe

demonsword, 17 dni temu

Games that don’t allow you to pause and skip cutscenes.

This is the main reason I cannot replay Valkyrie Profile

demonsword, 21 dni temu (edited 19 dni temu)

It’s a little old and more Metroid- than -vania: A Robot Named Fight

EDIT: since no one else mentioned it, Timespinner is kinda good too, despite being a somewhat short game

demonsword, 21 dni temu

It’s an fantastic game, as other have already told you. But I’d like to add that there’s a randomizer for it and this basically adds almost infinite replay value (at least for me!)

demonsword, 28 dni temu

There is something else you forgot, Steam has a library with thousands of games. More games than most console’s entire libraries combined.

demonsword, 28 dni temu

even though Xbox figured out asymmetric was better back in 2001

MS did the asymmetric layout to avoid patents that existed on previous Sony controllers… they weren’t trying to innovate or anything like that

demonsword, miesiąc temu

Poem for your sprog

I’ve seen someone who took that username here in Lemmy, but that could be anyone, no guarantee that it was the same guy/gal on reddit

demonsword, miesiąc temu

The regular PS4 controller works fine. Works well in steam, lutris, retroarch and the few native games I own, never had any (unsolvable) problems with it.

demonsword, miesiąc temu

I’ve got it working but, unfortunately, when wireless the controller has unacceptable input lag. Might be something interfering with the bluetooth signal, I don’t know.

demonsword, miesiąc temu

I still have a few save state hacking guides floating there :)

demonsword, miesiąc temu

Five years olds shouldn’t be allowed to play GTA.

demonsword, 6 miesięcy temu

150 million Switch 2 sales

Nope, that’s Switch 1 sales, over its entire lifetime.

demonsword, 7 miesięcy temu

the patent system is based on a “first to file the paperwork” basis

then blame the patent office, because it definitebly shouldn’t be so

demonsword, 7 miesięcy temu

the PS2 didn’t use Pentium processors at all

demonsword, 7 miesięcy temu

Requires an active Amazon Prime or Prime Video membership.

thanks, but no

demonsword, 7 miesięcy temu

and quite frankly the symmetrical stick placement is uncomfortable and outdated by nearly 20 years

sorry but I have to disagree, it’s so much more comfortable than the mismatched sticks other controllers have

fuck Sony BTW, they patented said symmetrical stick placement and the world is worse off because of this

demonsword, rok temu

cool joystick

demonsword, rok temu

But several people also noted that the games industry goes through cycles of mass layoffs, because simply having a stable business isn’t enough for investors. Revenues must grow by a chunky margin: if they don’t, costs must be cut. Embracer’s mishandling of their business might be grotesque, but it’s business as usual nonetheless. “We make a shitload of money, but it doesn’t go back into the games,” one person commented. “It goes into a lot of now very wealthy peoples’ pockets, and the people who actually make the games kind of scrape by, most of the time.”

late stage capitalism

demonsword, rok temu

intereresting read, thank you

demonsword, rok temu

enlighten us plebs with your wisdom and tell us which conclusion should be drawn then

demonsword, rok temu

Archived version

demonsword, rok temu

I develop software for a living and still this looks like deep, black magic to me

demonsword, rok temu

Kernel level anti-cheats are a must nowadays to lift the barrier to entry which excludes quite a bunch of cheaters.

$40 ain’t much of a barrier to entry

demonsword, rok temu (edited rok temu)

I’m curious about that too

EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it’s a programmable wheel

demonsword, 2 lata temu

well, it was right there on the article…

In a similar lawsuit against Apple, Epic lost on several claims though the game developer convinced a judge that the phone maker should loosen restrictions on payments through its app store.

demonsword, 2 lata temu

that cake is flipping the bird to us

demonsword, 2 lata temu

A p2p-share-hosted daily-routine blogging system without any central authority. The unique selling point of Goldkarpfen is its calm way of publishing: nodes will only sync once a day. This is a more human approach to communication and will reduce stress and improve the quality of content.

???

demonsword, 2 lata temu

stay a while and listen

demonsword, 2 lata temu

Honestly, blacksmithing isn’t that hard

it’s well beyond the reach of most people, specially considering the price of the tooling alone

demonsword, 2 lata temu

We live in a world where hundreds of millions of people are literally starving, dude.

demonsword, 2 lata temu

But even rolling from there, a 300% hike in base prices would mean games cost $200, and that’s just not true.

if you consider that nowadays (almost) all games ship incomplete and demand DLCs… yeah, it’s true

demonsword, 2 lata temu

DLCs aren’t the only “evil”, there’s also the case for microtransactions and other stupid monetization bullshit schemes

demonsword, 2 lata temu

So don’t play those games

…and I don’t, I prefer supporting indie devs

demonsword, 2 lata temu (edited 2 lata temu)

You do realize indie devs consisting of one or two people are also businesses, right?

seems to me that there’s some sort of critical mass they need to achieve first before the fuckery sets in, small teams aren’t “evil” (yet) simply because they can’t be (yet)

EDIT I mean “evil” as in “we want profit above all else, let’s milk this cow dry until she dies”

demonsword, 2 lata temu

all of this takes place in our own minds and nothing is real

demonsword, 2 lata temu

I have a hard time believing that such a bland, empty review was written by an actual human being

demonsword, 2 lata temu

Gacha is so close to P2W that I didn’t know until recently that those are separated concepts