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woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Made Starfield Development “Very, Very Slow,”

Should have upgraded their PCs, I guess…

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

I don’t understand the people who spend a hundred hours on a game to then give it a bad rating, calling it boring. Why don’t they just quit much earlier and play Chrono Trigger or something?

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Chrono Trigger was the first example of a game that came to my head that’s just great. I replayed it a few weeks ago as well. It’s time better spent than playing a shitty game for 100 hours.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Customers aren’t professional reviewers. Paying customers are entitled to have their opinion at any time. Tiny Tina’s Wonderland immediately put me off with that lame overworld. I think I clocked around 3 hours and then uninstalled it. Never ever would I spend dozens of hours in a game where a significant portion massively annoys me.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

I see @GamerKick created a new account to promote their blog spam…

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Turks: keep electing someone who’s responsible for high devaluation of the Lira and stay calm

Also Turks: “Not my gaming!!!”

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Not when Sony magically created this “service” and is free to dictate the price at will, regardless of how much real value there actually is.

I agree that Sony is able to arbitrarily set the price to whatever they want. Online play and cloud saves are free on Steam and such, for example, so obviously Sony could just as well set the price to zero for at least the tier without free games. However, it’s not like the price increase comes out of nowhere. Sony probably makes internal calculations based on the US Dollar or the Yen and then converts to local currencies in certain intervals and since the last conversion the value of the Lira decreased massively because of Erdogan’s economic policies.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Buggy and disappointing to a lot of people.

And here I am, thinking that it fits Game Pass with its “7/10, would not buy it but it’s alright if it’s on GamePass” quality games just perfectly.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

The author wasn’t selling DLSS

So NVidia’s DLLs for DLSS are not included? (Honest question, I don’t even own the game.)

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

You can get the DLL very easily and legally

But I asked if the mod bundles it.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

No, Nintendo didn’t.

Tldr: Nintendo outsourced the work for dumping NES ROMs and developing a NES emulator for GameCube and that contractor added the standard headers to dumps they made from original cartridges provided by Nintendo. Someone saw the headers and drew conclusions.

Long read: resetera.com/…/tomohiro-kawase-mightve-been-hired…

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

How else would copy protection get removed if the original source code was lost?

If mods are licensed in a way redistribution is allowed, it’s not stealing either.

I don’t get your outrage.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

The ethics are about releasing broken games and then not fixing them while still taking money.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Well, if someone spray painted the door of my car without my permission, it’s vandalism but still my car. If it later turns out that it was done by Banxie and that “vandalism” is worth millions, I can still sell my car however I like and owe Banxie nothing.

Btw, freeware is a thing. Did those cracks ever get released without the permission to freely distribute? If not, those cracks may be used by the rights holder however they like. That’s not the problem. Releasing broken shit is the problem.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

So people go and fix that, for free. Now the automobile maker takes that free fix and sells all new cars with it. Is that ok? There, still a crap analogy but arguably better than yours.

OK, cool. Too bad you forgot that in modern jurisdiction buying a game is merely like leasing a car. So yeah, if a workshop fixes the car for free the actual owner of the car can make use of those fixes however he likes.

Maybe target your energy at the actual shitty thing Rockstar does: Selling broken games. The means how they removed Securom is irrelevant. The fact that the games are broken garbage is not.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

the moment when buying a game outright is no longer an option is the moment when I stop paying for video games.

That moment will not come. That would mean that every single indie developer had come under the umbrella of such subscription services and not one bigger actor would want to try to differentiate from the competition.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Honestly never understood why they keep multiple publishing subsidiaries anyway.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

Everyone knows NVidia are the fastest in the business…

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu

In case anyone wants a direct link for the PC version: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Logiart_Grimoire/

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Good. Fuck Roblox.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Google’s streaming tech is pretty good.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Probably ease of use.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Hoping for at least a public beta on tomorrow’s 11th anniversary of CSGO’s release.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Why does avery modern game have a color palette like it’s aimed for preschoolers?

Because everything being brown and grey is boring.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

From their Kickstarter:

featuring branching narratives and RPG elements similar to games like Mass Effect or Baldur’s Gate

So not just a straight-forward campaign…

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Switch’s operating system is based on the OS from 3DS. The ARM architecture was already well documented and emulated. Tegra has documentation from NVidia.

With all that, making a Switch emulator was relatively “easy”. They took Citra, the 3DS emulator, and worked from there.

Xbox 360 is a different beast. Even its OS was only kinda Windows, so they couldn’t just take Wine and a PowerPC emulator and call it a day. Taking long is IMO not much of a surprise because of that.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

More like Heretic/Hexen with modern quality of life changes. I don’t think I was ever swarmed by a pack of enemies in Unreal 1.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

BG3 set the highest standard for a game. It’s not a bad thing that it exists, and the studio absolutely deserves the praise they’re getting. However, we should not seek to make it the minimum standard. Larian Studios worked hard on this for over 5 years without crunch.

If they made shorter but polished games without padded content, they’d achieve a similar level of quality. Heck, there are indie games by one person with an insane level of polish, just on a smaller scale. Cultic with its 4 hour length and retro graphics at a low price comes to mind.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Steam’s colour scheme makes it difficult to read and causes eye strain and headaches for people with astigmatism, like me.

The Steam Store is just a website where a user style such as uso.kkx.one/style/219929 can be applied like any other. Game prices are just black on white using that theme:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/13891b37-7681-4137-98d2-250821f89c97.png

The Steam Client itself is largely or perhaps even fully controllable via command line (…valvesoftware.com/…/Command_line_options#Steam) and you can set any color scheme to your terminal as you like:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7e9827e0-734b-401a-9b7b-f01c73c7f45c.png

The Steam Client also supports skins since forever: steamcustomizer.com

Steam may not have color schemes for all kinds of visual impairments and that’s a legitimate criticism but Steam has a bag full of aforementioned features for customization, so with a little bit of research (I was curious about that myself, so I spent like 5 to 10 minutes) I found quite easy workarounds. As someone who does not like to be blasted in the face with light themes, I look for similar workarounds all the time.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Fuck that noise. Call it a Classic Doom-like.

Except that other than a few GZDoom-based games, Dusk and such have more in common with Quake than Doom, being fully 3D.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

the single most influential person involved in the genre: John Carmack.

Why would an engine developer be responsible game design? Are you confusing the Johns and meant John Romero?

And what would the genre be called then? John-like?

boomers didn’t make the genre, boomers don’t deserve the credit.

Neither did Castlevania in Metroidvania. Metroid founded the genre a decade before Symphony of the Night game out, it’s just that it was called a side-scrolling action adventure. That’s a bit long, though, so a shorthand was needed.

Personally, I would not mind “Retro FPS” but it’s just a label and in the end doesn’t really matter much.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

That’s basically reverting back to calling games “DOOM clones”.

Calling something like Amid Evil with its spectacular map architecture a mere Doom clone does it a disservice, though, because Doom closes were basically flat and had 90° walls. Descent and Quake 1 aren’t clones of Doom either.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

could you please do us the favor of not conflating us with boomers?

I? I did not write the article. I just found it interesting and crossposted it here and I don’t care what others use as a shorthand for fast-paced, pixelated FPS games.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Dude, if you think the game engine designer and programmer had nothing to do with the end result then you’re out of your mind.

You’re projecting waaaay to much into what I wrote. Carmack did not design the game but obviously the engine is part of the overall package. Reading my statement into saying that he “had nothing to do with the end result” is insane.

You do know that symphony of the night is not the first Castlevania, right? The first Metroid and first Castlevania games both came out in 1986.

Yes, and for a decade Castlevania games were not “Metroidvanias”. That’s why the term makes no sense to be part of the genre but I also don’t throw a tantrum over unimportant things on the internet. Relax.

Get some culture Van Winkle, you have been asleep for too long.

Why are you so angry? I did not attack you or your mom. It’s just about video games. Chill, man.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Typical moron gamer moment, though: Bitch about price, buy it anyway, leave a bad review at 500 hours played, and repeat next year.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

The medium had split screen on the series s

The problem is that with split screen in BG3 the entire game, incl. all background calculations, need to run twice. Split screen is disabled on Steam Deck for that reason but can be enabled via command line and frame rate drops to under 10FPS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyaeoUdc10A

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

They could just remove split-screen entirely on Xbox and then Series S would run it just fine (that’s what they did on Steam Deck).

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Let’s say that’s something Microsoft would even allow

Games launch with different features between consoles all the time.

it diminishes the ability to compete with the PS5.

Not getting the games at all even more so.

Why would I get a Series X if there’s a chance that some big game launches will have less features than other current gen platforms?

Why would you get a Series X if games don’t launch at all because of Series S parity mandate?

Nothing you wrote really is an argument for why launching BG3 without split screen on any Xbox is worse than not launching at all.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Can’t you read? I wrote about no split screen on all Xboxes, not to allow feature disparity between X and S.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Your comment makes zero sense. The decision not to release on Xbox at all is not Microsoft’s. It’s Larian who rather sacrifice an entire hardware base for a niche feature. You obviously didn’t read the article. It’s spelled out there.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

It’s literally in the title…

Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands

Wow, I’m amazed on how bad you’re at grasping the basics of what I wrote.

I 👏 DID 👏 NOT 👏 WRITE 👏 ABOUT 👏 CUTTING 👏 SPLIT SCREEN 👏 FROM 👏 SERIES S 👏 ONLY 👏 BUT 👏 ALL 👏 XBOX 👏 VARIANTS 👏 SO 👏 THE 👏 GAME 👏 CAN 👏 LAUNCH 👏 AND 👏 NOT 👏 LEAVE 👏 XBOX 👏 USERS 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏 RAIN!

The article is about feature parity between Series S and Series X and not about how all Xbox variants can’t have feature disparity with PlayStation. If Larian were to cut split screen for all Xbox versions, the game could launch just fine.

Really not that hard to understand.

woelkchen, 10 miesięcy temu

Where did Microsoft or Larian say that was an option?

That is an option because exclusive features come to one brand all the time. Everyone with even minor insight in video game business knows that.

Where did Microsoft say that they would be happy to have features cut from the X to keep parity with the S?

It’s not about happiness, it’s about what the rules allow and since there are exclusive features on other consoles all the time, it’s obviously allowed. That’s how the Spider-Man character ended up being exclusive on the PlayStation version of Marvel’s Avengers. Golden Eye 007 has online multiplayer exclusive to Nintendo Switch. Those are well-known facts and if you don’t know them: That’s on you.

I pointed out how poor a business decision this would be if Microsoft would allow it. It ruins their offering for the Series X. How can it compete with the PS5 if they start allowing developers to drop features from Xbox games?

Yeah, you’re such a great business genius, you think not launching a game at all is better than cutting a niche feature barely anyone cares about. Yes, you totally convinced me.

I guess you gonna vote me down again because you cannot stomach that I’m right and you’re wrong.