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- Comment on 4 hours ago:
Very little, but I’ve played through Twin Snakes, it certainly doesn’t go anywhere near that length for cut scenes.
Not saying Kojima didn’t enjoy making that, just that there’s a reason nobody is disputing that record.
- Comment on 6 hours ago:
The most common way to get a Guinness record is to do something so stupid nobody else has done it before and nobody else will try to beat it. I think it applies here.
Also for most people it involves paying a very substantial amount to Guinness. They sell ego trips on one end and books on the other.
- Comment on Day 814 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
This pic has no right to be this good.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Might as well ask why scientists still haven’t invented hyperspace travel yet.
Also, you know who is really invested in having stuff plugged into your brain right now? Musk. Do you want this type of asshole anywhere near your lobes?
- Comment on Report: Cancelled Perfect Dark Project Over 2 Minutes of Gameplay Surfaces Showcasing New Zones and Combat 4 days ago:
You know, game projects are killed all the time, sometimes for good reasons…
But this was “the Initiative”, Microsoft’s “unlimited resource”, “quadruple A” studio, that was meant to redefine videogame standards no matter the cost. Really, that was what they said back when they announced it. And they shut it down before it could release anything.
They deserve all the ridicule they can get. Also the hate for all the studios they routinely acquire and kill, even when the ones that were actually successful.
- Comment on Star Citizen answers select player questions about flight, damage, and bugged missions 4 days ago:
By the time SC releases in a finished state, its setting will look like fantasy ancient history to the people who might play it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, makes sense that this would work.
Though as you said many games just use the system language and don’t feature an option to change it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There is some level of region-locking exclusively for Japanese switch 2s. I don’t know if this one is, but they really should make sure before they get one.
Basically, the most common Switch 2 model in Japan is cheaper but it only accepts Japanese Nintendo accounts and it only supports the Japanese language.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, zero chance people like that were actually going to play paralives to begin with.
Not too long ago, I ended up randomly on one of those “curator” lists where they review basically everything in terms of wokeness. You know, so you can buy responsibly or something. That shit is hilarious.
Like half of the “nope” have no reason but “there’s gay marriage in it”, but wait, Skyrim has that too… “Err yeah, but we like that one so, it’s okay. For… reasons.”
And I remember one game getting a “Not Recommended” with the only line in the whole review being “In the trailer, you can see a man knitting”.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
“Since this is the only platform where people can’t seem to be normal about this, the comments have been locked”
Not sure why you’d even bother announcing anything on X these days, really.
- Comment on Why does Australia tend to censor games A LOT despite a copy having a foreign classification rating? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if that situation evolved a bit since, but Nintendo of Europe has had a lot of stupid crap happen to the Europe e-shop because of Australia (it was still the case mid-Switch 1).
Historically (mostly because they used to have the PAL standard like Europe), Australia was considered the same region as Europe for Nintendo. Somehow this survived long after the need for the PAL/NTSC distinction, as some level of joint management of e-shop for EU and Australia. Problem is, Australia is very trigger-happy when it comes to change a game rating, and Nintendo too when it comes to remove a game until rerating is validated. It took something like 6 months in some cases.
Example, Jamestown, a classic pew-pew pixel-style bird’s eye shoot’m up, removed from both stores for that long, despite the fact Europe’s own rating PEGI maintained a 7+ rating for it. Still have no idea what could have triggered Australia’s change of rating.
- Comment on Castlevania: Grimoire Of Souls Has Been Archived Following Last Week's Shutdown | Time Extension 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
More like DLSS 5 is “vibe-rendering”.