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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for 3D Platformer recommendations on sale on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played Penny’s Big Breakaway. It’s well made, and I had a bit of fun with it, but it’s not what I usualy look for in a platformer. It’s a very score-based game in which just going through a level is easy but the real challenge is doing it in style, by chaining moves and racking up combos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that setting alone shouldn’t be enough to claim copyright infringement, but the visual identity of the Tencent game looks way too close to Horizon. And since apparently they tried to get the licence and failed, it’s even harder to see it as anything but an attempt to make “I can’t believe it’s not Horizon”.

  They could have made it look different enough that it would be considered at most heavily inspired and there would be nothing wrong with it.

  I certainly don’t think Sony needs defending, but yeah, I can’t say that result is surprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not wrong, but the amount of random shit they added to it is enough to make a dive into it worth it to me, at least once in a while.

  It’s certainly not deep, but there’s stuff to do, some room for creativity, and occasional funny weirdo creatures to encounter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Bethesda we’re talking about. They can definitely reach that level of incompetence without AI being involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love XC1 and 3, and I enjoy XCX for everything that’s not its story, and…

  Yeah I totally agree with you. XC2 is cursed on many levels. It’s the one I just can’t replay and it’s mainly because of its characters and degenerate quirks. You’ve played the worst game of the series by far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't mind me, just enjoying a perfect Wednesday evening⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have coin for that khajiit’s wares?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you played inside video games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure anyone who played Tears of the Kingdom did that at some point, but there are those koroks little guys you’re supposed to guide to their destination, generally by designing machines to carry them there.

  Of course instead you just strap them to the most absurd rocket powered contraptions and play Korok Space Program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit weird indeed. I’ve played it on switch and it runs perfectly fine on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can kind of see that.

  It was not a huge problem for me, but I play lots of metroidvania, and I am used to memorizing stuff for later. And for stuff that I know will be hard to remember, occasionally, I might take notes or screenshots of hints.

  Though most of the time, there are more than one hint for a single quest. The game does a very good job at updating every related NPC dialogue when something has changed.

  But if you want to find everything, yeah you have to talk to absolutely everyone. TWICE. Almost everyone has two lines of dialogue at any moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like CrossCode, but I am going to bat for Phoenotopia Awakening, one of the best game almost nobody has heard about. Slightly different perspective but similarly massive game full of secrets, puzzles, fun characters and a consistent world where even the tiniest bit of banter can lead you to discover something on the other side of the map.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DAE name their characters by their official name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t actually appear anywhere in game but Oblivion’s main character has an internal name in the editor. “Bendu Olo”. Very Geoge Lucas kind of name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DAE name their characters by their official name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shin Megami Tensei games have you rename their protagonist (and often the 3 other central characters too), but most of them don’t have a canonical name. Also most of the time those people are supposed to be Japanese. Every time I am starting a game like that I struggle to choose a name that doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb for them.

  If there is a default name, I usually use it. Exceptions are the kind of RPG where the character is a blank slate, whose identity doesn’t matter at all and whose appearance is custom (like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Xenoblade X for example). And stuff like Pokémon, obviously. When your avatar is going to meet other players, doesn’t look good if everyone has the same name.

  I started Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U) without even knowing the main character had a canon name (it’s… Cross. Like the X is supposed to be pronounced in the games’s title). But even if know it now I still rename them. They are custom, there is multiplayer, and story-wise they’re the blandest of characters anyway, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit of warning : I’ve seen indie developers mention that having a single common word for their game title was a mistake. It makes it hard to search for. A combination of words or a simple phrase is better in that regard.

  Searching only for “Architect game” right now already yields a bunch of things, like a Korean MMO, actual house architect simulators, and you know, the very popular Prison Architect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That cycle was artificially squeezed into one year though.

  If we’re staying in the area of games that don’t rely on story or lots of new manually crafted environments, a game like, say, SimCity could have had a minor update and be released slightly better every year. That didn’t happen, it got 3 games in ten years despite being quite popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They litterally did 4 years of re-releasing the exact same FIFA on Switch with only a roster update, just slapping a “legacy edition” on them for good measure. If it’s the same game, by comparison, making it a DLC of the previous edition is slightly more honest.

  Annual sports game editions are just a wet dream a marketing genius had back in the 90s. A shame that it must still work on a significant part of their audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DarkPattern.games » Healthy Gaming « Avoid Addictive Dark Patterns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the fact it’s onlt mobile games surprised me a bit, especially since they don’t seem to mention it anywhere until you see the only platform filters are iOS and Android.

  There are several games I have a small interest in but from companies I don’t trust much, so a review of the potential manipulation tactics in those might have been useful to me.

  I don’t play mobile games though. This is unfortunately not at all exclusive to mobile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, thank you very much, because of that last sentence I’ve parsed your message three times wondering if some of it was sarcasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Poem for your sprog, right? Not been on reddit for a while, but encountering a post from that guy was generally a fun moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lionhead's secret best game, and one of the greatest ever abandonware games - The Movies - turns 20 today [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I discovered that game long after it was abandoned, and I love it. My dream is a version of this with a slightly modernized UI (especially since it was made for low-res 4:3 screen ratios), maybe more movie genres and mod integration for user content like planet coaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre and harass their employees while being protected by HR and their higher-up.

  Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.

  At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.

  The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations on not having an addiction problem. If you can “not notice it” and still play the game, you’re not the target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.

  Spoiler

  The giant is a very melancholic, dignified old servant who’s feeling betrayed and disappointed in the player (long story, happens before the game, you don’t remember it and you’re only just piecing together what happened). When he dies, he starts slowly sinking in lava with a very sad expression, with a speech about how “You were an example to us all”, lamenting about what happened, etc… And just before being completely immerged, with just his hand still reaching out of lava… “You…” “…are an ass!” And he flips you off. Perfect delivery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As usual the worst part is the title (by design, of course. Gotta farm those clicks).

  “there are too many but keep dreaming if you want big sacks of money” is not the guy’s quote. The frankenquote is ambiguous on purpose, it could sound either like sarcasm or like a semi-cautious encouragement.

  In the article, he sounds way more negative toward live services than that. There’s no “but”, he just says it’s an “illusion” and it “mostly doesn’t happen”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.

  I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US senators voice concerns over ‘foreign influence and national security risks’ in Saudi-funded EA acquisition | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is EA still using the cube-sphere-pyramid thing? Or is that a generative AI somehow scraping and/or remaking an old logo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have at least one dev from Motion Twin, who explicitely wanted to stay there and work on new games, being told to leave the company after trying to get them to do something for months.

  deepnight.net/blog/going-rogue/

  So yeah, even the part of Motion Twin that wanted to move on seems to have been messy post-Dead Cells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A great AI-generated game before the end of next year”

  Mark those words, and prepare to have a good laugh.