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dev_null, wczoraj (edited 6 godzin temu)

People say “Pokemon with guns” as if that was some kind of core gameplay. You can play through the game without ever using them. It’s a small feature, that absolutely is there, but reducing the game to that is missing the forest for the trees.

It’s an open world crafting base building game to enjoy with co-op, that has catchable creatures like Pokemon. There is no Pokemon game that fits this niche. The guns are not important to what the game is.

dev_null, wczoraj (edited 5 godzin temu)

I’m not saying ignore it, it’s a valid reason to not like the game, like any other subjective reason.

I’m saying calling the game “Pokemon with guns” is dismissive of what the game is. It’s like calling Minecraft “Rust with animal husbandry”, which completely misses what the game is about.

dev_null, 9 dni temu

Apparently I was the only one to read the title that way, but I thought your brothers died (late) in their 40s.

dev_null, miesiąc temu

What makes you think it isn’t an option? Most people probably aren’t using it though, because there is no reason to predownload terabytes of world data when you aren’t going to come near 95% of it.

dev_null, miesiąc temu

Have you tried that fun fact? I know there was a meme claiming it, but I have never found any evidence of it actually being true, nor did I manage to replicate it on Amazon.

dev_null, miesiąc temu

Since the 2014 release date.

dev_null, miesiąc temu

I looked at the latest and most “recent” heroes games… they’re all rated/reviewed SO harshly.

Many of the negative reviews are (and rightly so) because of Ubisoft forcing you to use their crappy launcher, adding DRM, and otherwise making the customer experience horrible, and not because there is anything wrong with the genre.

dev_null, 3 miesiące temu

Nobody is saying it’s enforceable. It’s just a shitty thing to do when someone shows you something in confidence, asks not to share it, and you publish an entire news article about it. It’s just a dick move. Obviously nothing illegal about it.

dev_null, 3 miesiące temu

What’s up with everyone calling it ugly? It’s a shit car, but I think it looks cool. Something that has no place in reality, but fitting in a video game.

dev_null, 3 miesiące temu

The cybertruck has enough issues that I wouldn’t want one, but yeah I would like a car looking like that, if it was actually a good car not made by Tesla.

dev_null, 3 miesiące temu

Then it would be good. But they already tried making one.

dev_null, 5 miesięcy temu

What do you suggest would go wrong? I never even gave Steam my name, so how would they even know it’s different?

dev_null, 5 miesięcy temu

Do we really think video games are promoting violence?

No, that’s not their argument. They are saying the gun manufacturer advertised their real life gun in the video game. They don’t have an issue with video game violence, they have an issue with advertising weapons to children.

dev_null, 5 miesięcy temu

So that if you leave the room to make yourself a tea or something while the game is loading, your won’t miss the cut scene / beginning of the action / lose the game because it started without you present.

dev_null, 6 miesięcy temu

I was also confused what the European Space Agency has to do with this

dev_null, 7 miesięcy temu

Never had that problem, because I didn’t even know there is a wireless version.

dev_null, 7 miesięcy temu

In Vermintide when you open a crate (the primary reward for doing things in-game), what is inside is based on what you already have, so even though everything rewards you with the “same” crate, you always get better and better gear from them.

dev_null, 7 miesięcy temu

But you could freely rotate in new accounts. Now you have to wait a year.

dev_null, 7 miesięcy temu

Or… siblings?

dev_null, 8 miesięcy temu

Since this is an MMORPG, how so you prevent cheating? Since this works offline, what prevents someone from faking the steps count and reporting to the game that they totally made 50000 steps while the phone was offline for 24 hours?

Looks amazing! But this was my main worry here.

dev_null, 8 miesięcy temu

On 4, this just changes the question to spoofing the pedometer value rather than spoofing the location. Which makes it worse, because that’s much harder to detect.

dev_null, 8 miesięcy temu

Sounds good! Thanks for the answer

dev_null, 9 miesięcy temu

I played Ark, got a random disease that apparently can only be healed with items from a high level area and didn’t go away on death. So my options were: play with the disease for the foreseeable future or restart from scratch and lose days of progress.

I chose to uninstall.

dev_null, 10 miesięcy temu

What’s wrong with live service games? Soulless AAA games tend to be live service, but so are good games. All of MMO’s are a live service and many are good games (if MMO’s are your thing).

dev_null, 10 miesięcy temu

Or they don’t disappear, servers are released or reverse engineered and the community takes over. Yeah, in many cases it doesn’t happen and companies often try to prevent that, but then that’s the shitty thing. The fact the game was live service didn’t prevent preservation in itself or require the developer to make a bad game. It often goes together, yes, but it’s not an inherent property of it.

dev_null, 10 miesięcy temu

Elite: Dangerous is all right. Buy once, no subscription or other crap, really cool in VR. Or World of Warcraft (I played it over 10 years ago, so not sure about now), had a really good time, don’t remember any bullshit from the devs.

dev_null, 10 miesięcy temu

I see lots of MMOs that become ran by the community on private servers after the developer stops supporting it. It’s crap when companies try to stop that, but the game being a live service isn’t a problem in itself.

dev_null, 10 miesięcy temu

Blizzard today just has nothing to do with Blizzard back in the day

dev_null, 10 miesięcy temu

Yeah, my point boils down to “nowadays live service games tend to contain lots of antifeatures and bullshit practices”, but the concept of a live service game is not inherently bad.