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- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 2 days 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] 5 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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’ 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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" 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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" 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
“A great AI-generated game before the end of next year”
Mark those words, and prepare to have a good laugh.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 4 weeks ago:
Probably not. Even the thing that was shown several years ago, and that hasn’t been mentioned again since, wasn’t a sequel. It was a completely different style of game, and a prequel with different characters.
The first game ends on a sequel hook, and left a lot unresolved. People who asked for a sequel mostly wanted to know what happens next. They weren’t asking for a procedural multiplayer open world with different characters in another time frame.
BGE ends like the Empire Strikes Back. It’s a bittersweet ending in which main characters have evolved, but the conflict is not resolved at all… and there’s even a good guy still in deep shit. Obviously it needs the sequel to wrap everything up.
BGE2’s announcement is like we got nothing after Empire Strikes Back for a decade, so no Return of the Jedi, and George Lucas came back to tell us “we’re doing the prequel trilogy now, no plan on ever concluding the old storyline”.
- Comment on Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC 5 weeks ago:
Personally, I don’t see a lot of reasons to be fair towards Ubisoft executives.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 month ago:
I have zero interest for Bloomberg in general, but, that’s Jason Schreier.
He’s one of the very few you could reasonably call a videogame journalist non-ironically, and I really don’t think “conservative” describes his views.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 1 month ago:
The question here was if RuneScape gold is a product or if it is legal tender. If it was legal tender then you don’t pay VAT on it, similar to when if you trade one currency to another VAT is not applied.
Even if they went that way (good luck with that), doesn’t that mean farming gold regularly and for profit should still be registered as a professional activity? Or at least the result of it declared as revenue?
I don’t think they want that.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 month ago:
Wow the thing is pathetic.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 month ago:
I’ve played the first two Discworld point and click games. Let me tell you, I might have believed you if you told me that was a true hint for the first one.
Even knowing the books it got its inspiration from won’t help you with some of its “puzzles”.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 month ago:
Yeah, I am sure that’s what happened too. That’s part of what I called executives justifying their paycheck, because it’s a direct consequence. Make sure everyone below gets in on the program, or get rid of them.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 month ago:
Fantastic, then maybe it has the potential to be very confidently wrong about everything!
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 1 month ago:
Oh. So it’s an unintended quirk in Steam’s interface and basically nobody knew about it.
I guess they wanted that free version hidden and only accessible for people they knew had purchased the game before.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 month ago:
Who asked for this? Beyond Microsoft executives who want to justify their paycheck, I mean.
Though really there might be good entertainment value for a few streamers out there. Use it on a niche game or a fairly complex one and laugh at the inevitable hallucinated bullshit as the assistant pretend to know about it.
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 1 month ago:
Not sure I want that after the reviews, which is a shame because a good fantasy city builder is something I’d pay for. But I wouldn’t want to invest time in an unfinished game that’s turning to a mobile idle thing model.
But I am a bit curious about how they are doing this. I don’t think Steam allows different pricing from the wishlist, do they?
Did they just hide the free base game purchase leaving only paid options on the store page? It’s looking like that, technically you can’t buy “Leviathan’s fantasy” alone from the store, only paid bundles (with the new version? and weirdly, this makes Leviathan’s fantasy cost money inside that bundle making it more expensive? so confusing).
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 1 month ago:
In two months Skyrim will be 14.
And don’t get me started on F-Zero.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
Was he? Was that a long time ago?
Seems to me him and Gearbox have been in lots of shit for a while now (the infamous USB drive, serious plagiarism accusations when Borderlands did an artistic 180 during development, Alien : Colonial Marines released broken as hell after funneling its funding to make BL2, Duke Nukem Forever…)
And every time Pitchford’s (mostly unnecesary) public answer has been terrible.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 month ago:
It’s a bit fun to imagine that. People of the future playing a game that would be sci-fi to us, but really to them it’s like Oregon Trail.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 month ago:
Joke?
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 1 month ago:
By the time they launch, they’ll have a game with 8k textures and everyone else will be releasing games for Star Trek’s holodeck.
- Comment on Konami’s AI project backfires, Yu-Gi-Oh! videos deleted over unauthorized use of popular actress’ voice 2 months ago:
Konami id more about ruining everything they have the rights to, but I guess that makes them kind of complementary, yeah.