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- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 7 hours 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 20 hours 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' 4 days 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' 4 days 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' 4 days 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 1 week ago:
Konami id more about ruining everything they have the rights to, but I guess that makes them kind of complementary, yeah.
- Comment on Konami’s AI project backfires, Yu-Gi-Oh! videos deleted over unauthorized use of popular actress’ voice 1 week ago:
Because of the nature of generative AI, anyone selling it is in the mindset of making money out of stuff they had no rights to.
- Comment on ekansssssss 1 week ago:
In case someone is wondering. Charizard already had a smash amiibo long before the others, because Smash Bros 4 (3DS/Wii U) replaced the pokémon trainer, who had the three of them in the previous game, with only Charizard. Part of the compromises they made for 3DS was removing characters with multiple forms. Since Smash amiibo were created for Smash 4 originally, it had a Charizard amiibo.
In Smash Ultimate, “everyone is here” so they released the other two.
- Comment on Massive Gaming Crossover: Among Us Teams Up with Popular RPG 1 week ago:
By that definition, it’s a massive crossover whenever McDonald’s does a pokémon happy meal. Thiese may be popular IPs, but that’s not like there are stuff like that all the time.
- Comment on Massive Gaming Crossover: Among Us Teams Up with Popular RPG 1 week ago:
That’s a massive crossover?
- Comment on Kazeta: the new Linux-based physical media OS (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Switch still have them. Of course now some publishers on Switch 2 are shitting on the very concept of cartridges by making empty carts that are just keys to download the game.
- Comment on What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? 2 weeks ago:
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 became my favourite entry in the series because of how it still has light, silly moments, improbable vistas and absurd world building, but when it tries for dark, it hits hard (and to be honest it’s generally quite darker than the other games even from the beginning).
Previous episodes had their emotional moments, but nothing comes close to one particular scene in 3.
- Comment on Day 408 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I have been pausing NMS for a few months. I think I’ll start playing again next week, a bit curious about this corvette thing.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Make your own Donkey Kong figure with papier mâché or something and stick a tag on it. Boom, one of a kind amiibo!
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Amiibos are a bit expensive. There are a few DK amiibos, they should all work with Smash because amiibos have a character identifier that’s recognized between games and amiibo series.
The ones from smash bros and super mario series should be around the “normal” price (for me it’s about 13-15 euros). Maybe you can find a second hand one for cheaper.
There’s a new one with DK and Pauline for Bananza, like other new amiibos it costs a bit more (around 18€ for me). It unlocks a costume in Bananza as an extra.
There’s also an old Skylander DK figure that doubles as an amiibo if I remember correctly. It’s kinda ugly and cheap-looking, and probably not easy to find, but who knows.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
“Another fighting game character”, take a pick. At this point it could be Ryu, Ken, Terry Bogard or Kazuya Mishima.
And then you can throw Solid Snake, Pac-Man, Sonic, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, fucking Minecraft Steve and a Mii disguised as Sans from Undertale into the mix.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
My problem with Smash is I just can’t commit to one character and I’m just kind of bad at all of them. If anything, the most decent I get might be with the Links and Belmonts. I guess projectile jank is kind of my thing.
- Comment on Day 402 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Oh fuck, Hard DK has found his way to you too then :)
Streamer Alpharad got a “Hard DK” bit running since they got their ass handed over to them by a crazy Mario Party CPU DK that was just gambling like mad and winning everything.
They trained an incredibly good amiibo CPU DK in Smash they called Hard DK in reference to this.
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, completely. Pauline’s got her time in the limelight right now, between Odyssey and DK Bananza, but Rosalina was just relegated to “bonus Peach clone that can do a swirl attack” in 3D World, and that’s basically it.
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I prefer the first one to be honest.
2 botches things that worked very well before. Especially the camera that did a good job of always being in the right place in 1, but in 2 you suddenly have crazy angles and blind spots that play against you. This can’t even be explained by more complex level design, so who knows what happened.
Also they got rid of the hub for a small, disturbing looking ship and a very generic map, and they killed any trace of story. Those were two things that really set Galaxy 1 apart IMO.
On the new side of things, there were Yoshi, with different powers, and more challenges (but they kind of feel repetitive, because you end up needing to do the same things with just an additional timer or enemy etc…). And the last stars were quite a bit harder than anything in Galaxy.
- Comment on Day 399 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Galaxy is so great. Good flow, good looking, excellent music with a mix of epic and ambient… And a new character that got more personality from a short story and a couple dialogues than any character from the series ever had.
Too bad they never really knew what to do with her after that. Except Ubisoft with Mario + Rabbids 2, but… Meh.
- Comment on How much does storage speed affect your games? 4 weeks ago:
Part of it might be applying the many patches of definitions and stuff, but it’s probably mostly just loading a shitload of png files in memory.
Even worse, even after years of updates, the several literal minutes of loading on a HDD happen on a completely unresponsive, static screen (Windows even prompts you with that “kill the app or wait for it to respond” pop-up if you alt-tab out of it).
There’s a mod to add a progress bar to that initial mod loading. Yeaaah.
- Comment on How much does storage speed affect your games? 4 weeks ago:
Similarly to Project Zomboid, modded Rimworld’s initial loading is a lot more tolerable on SSD.
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, the old “make it a contest and have a bunch of people work for you for free” trick.
I hate that this kind of things work.
- Comment on A Fistful Of Yankees, an RTS x tactics hybrid with base building, with a spaghetti western setting, released on steam. 4 weeks ago:
Pesto-apocalyptic, Calzone the Barbarian…
I tried.
- Comment on Day 397 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
There’s Cadence of Hyrule, and the map shifts every game!
Okay, that’s a stretch.
- Comment on Day 397 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
It’s something I feel like more recent Nintendo games haven’t done.
References to past games are still a thing they do quite a lot. Weirdly enough in Super Mario Odyssey they went all in on Donkey Kong nostalgia. 3D world has the Comet Observatory, reimagined levels from 64, Bowser’s Fury brought back Bowser Jr’s paintbrush from Sunshine.
Breath of the Wild is chock full of references, ruins of old places, every land feature name is evoking something, be it a character, an old boss, whatever, music cues from the Temple of Time, Spectacle Rock dungeon, Dragon Roost Island…
Echoes of Wisdom borrowed like 70% of its map from A Link to the Past. Again. They already did that in A Link Between Worlds. Not a fan of that one honestly, I love ALttP, Nintendo please stop nostalgia farming it for subpar games already. I like my maps to feel fresh.
Mario Kart World is almost nothing but references, most tracks are from past episodes, and you can find stuff like SNES circuits on the roads around the official ones. And there are loads of remixes of past games music, from NES to Switch and everything in between.
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 4 weeks ago:
Not all games are about graphics, and this looks completely serviceable to me. I understand struggling with ASCII roguelike interfaces (never really got the hang of it myself), but everything here looks easily identifiable.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure the few overpaid execs that are “fuck you” rich are still there, and they’re probably richer than ever. However now they probably consider themselves too important to park with normal people.
Tells a lot about this guy and his ilk that he thinks you measure a healthy company to how many assholes actively flaunt their money with shallow luxury shit.
- Comment on Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Has Made Certain Bosses And NPCs Unkillable Following Backlash In China 4 weeks ago:
I mean, Hamilton exists. If people want to write crazy shit about historical figures or make games about them they should be able to.
There’s a 35 year old game series featuring stuff like leading Cleopatra’s army against the tyrannical rule of Theodore Roosevelt while Gandhi’s words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS.