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- Comment on Castlevania: Grimoire Of Souls Has Been Archived Following Last Week's Shutdown | Time Extension 2 days ago:
Seems like that version of the game (2021 enhanced rerelease without microtransactions), was only on Apple Arcade, so it was already iOS/MacOS exclusive to begin with I assume.
I’m hoping they find a way to emulate/translation-layer it to PC though, it looks interesting.
- Comment on Do analog triggers matter all that much? (In general and aside from racing games) 5 days ago:
The game I played that I feel needed them the most was F-Zero GX. So, obviously it’s still racing, but they’re not used for throttle or brake, they make you slide laterally.
- Comment on Day 780 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 days ago:
Every time I hear about Project Zomboid, it looks like exactly the kind of game I’d want to play… but on a mechanics level only. I never really cared about zombie survival stuff, and the huge craze around the genre in the mid 00s to 10s only killed it to me.
I have the game somehow, probably from a bundle long ago.
- Comment on 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look 1 week ago:
Oh, you’re right, it is. Thanks. Never really noticed they implemented that in lemmy.
Technically my first lemmy user was a couple months before, I’d followed a big reddit exodus around the time they killed third party apps, but I migrated to another instance a bit after that.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 week ago:
Probably. I’ll just keep avoiding those I guess.
- Comment on Day 775 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Few years ago I completed the pokedex on Gen 6/7, using transfers back from Gen 4-5. That was fun. Especially Black, the way they balanced content in BW felt very fresh IMO, and the sprite work is very nice in Gen 5.
I kinda fell off the series after USUM, didn’t care about Let’s Go, there was the “dexit” debacle, the whole “get used to not being able to get eveyone in one game from now on”. And then the absurdly bad performance/glitch reports in new episodes.
Pokopia is my only Pokémon-adjacent game since Ultra-Moon, and that’s mainly because I heard it was great and I liked Dragon Quest Builders 2. And, to be honest, it is a very cool game. I just finished the base game’s pokédex.
- Comment on Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos 1 week ago:
Real problems like gen AI’s impact on the environment and the cost and accessibility of technology?
- Comment on Day 773 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
People have different hobbies. Maybe you have others, and that’s okay.
Playing games every day with a full time job should not be some kind of magic trick, and if it is, there might be something wrong with your job.
- Comment on Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos 1 week ago:
Oh, only a 50% performance hit on very pricy hardware for making automated lighting choices and complete face redesigns that don’t respect the designers’ and artists’ vision?
What a steal!
- Comment on killer instinct 2013 sequel cancelled 2 weeks ago:
This year, and the previous one. And the previous one.
- Comment on GTA 6 Leaker Defies Take-Two Subpoenas With Shocking New Gameplay Leaks 2 weeks ago:
to promote a crypto scheme
Of course they do. Yup, I don’t care who’s winning this.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 weeks ago:
Now that you mention this, I think I’ll map mine to be a home dup anyway, because the only times I push it is when I confuse it for the other one.
Maybe there’s an edge case where it would be more useful to map it to something else in split joy-con mode, not sure.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 weeks ago:
No, that’s pretty much it.
Sure it’s annoying to have a whole button dedicated to it (I mean, even to me, I do have an online subscription but I never use that feature).
Were they planning to use their switch 2 as a phone? That would only work between switch 2s that would have to be connected, but not subscribed to online?
That thing is of very little use outside of online gaming.
- Comment on Aliens: Fireteam Elite Is No Longer Playable On Switch 4 weeks ago:
In this case the problem is not even DRM, it’s that the game was entirely streamed from a cloud service. People buying that technically never had the game on their device and were always dependent on a server that would be shut down eventually.
This is the future big tech companies want. Not owning anything to the point the game doesn’t even exist on your device. I say fuck them.
- Comment on 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look 4 weeks ago:
This is what I feel happened with Starfield (not to the same extent, but still).
Everyone hyped the hell of it, it released, huge collective “meh”, and two weeks later it was mostly forgotten.
I had already had enough of Todd Howard and Bethesda’s bullshit at this point, so I was just wondering why that was even hyped so much to begin with.
At least I used to like Bethesda. I don’t even give a shit about GTA, so Rockstar can crash and burn for all I care.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 5 weeks ago:
She’s starting this complaining about a casual game of ping pong so it’s not exclusively board games, it’s like… the concept of playing a game? And apparently, not only as a party activity, but in general.
Very weird take.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 5 weeks ago:
There are three mentions to alcohol, one for each potential social interaction in that article. So I guess I know how the author parties typically.
I’d rather have the games, thank you.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Delayed on Xbox Hours Before Launch 1 month ago:
Agree on principle, but the fact they delayed it that late most likely means that some shit management happened and that they were already crunching to try to meet the failed deadline.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 month ago:
More like DLSS 5 is “vibe-rendering”.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, thankfully now we can automate that phase of game development where all character faces are made “beautiful” and totally unrecognizable from the initial concept and where graphic artists spawn new hair and nostrils out of nowhere.
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 month ago:
There are so few games I play in which ads would make sense. Hard to shoehorn a dorito ad in a fantasy universe or on a distant planet. I very much wouldn’t welcome it.
There are a few odd cases I can remember, like freaking Tonic Trouble ages ago was another Rayman-like from Ubisoft and power-ups in that game (in Europe) were crunch bars from a vending machine. Or back when I played Splatoon they did an event in which you had to fight for a brand of noodles or some shit.
Oh yeah, there’s that absurd thing in Mario Kart 8 where they added 3 mercedes mini-cars out of nowhere. It’s terrible but also so stupid it’s a bit funny, especially since it’s the only product placement they ever did in that game.
- Comment on Gaslamp Games Under New Management; Announces Surprise Public Beta of New Dungeons of Dredmor Patch 1 month ago:
Wow, freaking Dungeons of Dredmor getting an update? I just checked, last time I played that was 14 years ago… And I did play a lot of it back then.
That’s crazy.
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 1 month ago:
I love Zachtronics games that have been recommended a few times already. But for a different genre…
Ni no kuni is a RPG that was kind of that, with a big (originally physical) book of magic. But since it’s been remade on many platforms as a digital download, the book is there in a rather boring pdf reader-like UI and has been made a bit less useful.
It’s still rather charming having this in-universe codex-like book listing gameplay elements, items, recipes, bestiary, and bits of lore about the world (and some pages just telling random fables about whatever). Nowhere near required reading for the game though, just occasionally useful.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 1 month ago:
Fire Emblem 7 was just called “Fire Emblem” internationally (first one to be released out of Japan). Even the actual first Fire Emblem had a subtitle in Japan, but no, this one will just be “Fire Emblem” for you, that’s not confusing at all.
And then there’s that terrible trend…
Castlevania (N64) is just called Castlevania… for reasons. And so is Circle of The Moon in Europe. None are remakes or retelling of the first Castlevania. Also, consider Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), and Prince of Persia (2008).
Kirby’s Return to Dreamland is titled “Kirby’s Adventure Wii” in Europe, despite not being a Kirby’s Adventure remake. I’m including this one even though it technically has the “Wii” to distinguish it because there was an actual Adventure remake that, of course, did not have Kirby’s Adventure at all in its name (Nightmare in Dreamland).
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 1 month ago:
I rarely do that, but when I do, it’s not a case of too boring (those I just forget about entirely). It’s the kind of game that feels so wrong I just have to see how bad it gets.
Okamiden on the DS is my go-to example. Absolute fan of the original, but I finished that pseudosequel in one long, angry session.
Another would be Pokémon Pearl. Terribly balanced with the most tedious world to traverse I’ve experienced in a Pokémon game. It was part of a gen 4 to gen 7 playthrough with dex transfer so I committed to it. Black, Z, Alpha Sapphire, Moon? Yeah, had fun with all of them. Pearl was complete ass.
- Comment on "You Can't Rule Out The Possibility That Executives Are Idiots" - John Carmack On Microsoft's Gutting Of id Software 2 months ago:
Wow this is right. At this point it’s beyond clickbait and ouright lie.
Why not just take random words from what he said and just make up a complete new quote out of it while they’re at it.
- Comment on Day 718 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
They’ve progressively added storage upgrades (the last ones are not cheap, but at the point they added them I had way more than enough bells and basically nothing else to use them).
I do the whole catalog hunt, so storage was kind of a struggle initially. I don’t keep orderable or easily craftable stuff if I don’t need it. I just “scan” them by having it in my inventory and then I can re-obtain them whenever I want (easier when you can exchange your finds with other people too). But lots of items are not orderable so those I had to keep. Also lots of bugs and fish for models. Literal walls of cages and tanks crammed on a corner of my island.
But now I am wasting space with the random crap I find and still can’t reach the ludicrous new max limit.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 2 months ago:
I agree, the combination of the incorrect character, the “random” doubling of it and the way they did not respect the developer’s decision to change their logo makes it hard to believe it was a mistake.
To me it really sounds like the change of logo made some piece of shit angry, and then they thought they’d “correct” it.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 2 months ago:
Funny, I have the original standard NWN box, it was already a lot smaller than the big old school boxes, and definitely a lot smaller than the NWN 2 here (I’m assuming it’s a collector edition of sort, maybe?).
I still have a few old big boxes like that though. The only one I really like to the point it earned a spot in my game shelf is the Creatures one. It looks so cool.
Can’t find the exact one I have (early French edition I guess) but it’s that art with (fortunately) a lot less crap tacked over it :
creatures.wiki/…/Creatures_1996_Windows_Cover_Art…
Mine just has GT and cyberlife logos in corners and the silly digital DNA warning.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 2 months ago:
Even if there were, you don’t have to make those accurate.
F-Zero GX is quite fast, but I really don’t think it’s 2,000 km/h fast.
