Cocodapuf

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you play a game that constantly tests your morals and fucks with your belief of what is good and what is evil? | The Milgram Experiment Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the fallout and cyberpunk both had some of those great moments of exploring morality. But in my opinion, the Witcher 2 & 3 do it better than any other games I’ve played.

  Rather than spoiling the story with specific examples, I’ll just say this: these games thrive in the grey zone, it’s where they live. And you’ll often find yourself making decisions you really didn’t expect to make or seriously regretting the choice you just committed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that games can’t work as books, it’s that books can’t work like games.

  Trust me, if book publisher could keep you from actually owning a physical book, from reselling it, from photocopying it, from lending it to a friend, they would. And with ebooks they do.

  The fact that games are software gives publishers additional control over the product, and they take advantage of that control to limit user control whenever possible. You just can’t do that with a pile of paper bound together, otherwise they would.

  This is where legislation can come in though. We need to make it legally clear that when you buy something you really own it. Renting, leasing, licensing, these ideas aren’t bad on their own, but you can’t call that “buying” and the venue offering these services shouldn’t be called a “store”. If it’s called a store, it needs to be actually selling things, otherwise the entire business is disingenuous and deceptive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think all three statements in this chain are accurate and true. But it does leave me not really knowing how to feel about this.

  I guess mostly disappointed, because the most salient point to me is the last one, that this is really unlikely to pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait for XBox Live: The Movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta be honest, I understand this position. I have a real difficult kid. We’re working on building trust, but it’s a process. The fact of the matter is that he seeks out inappropriate content and he can’t seem to help himself, just too impulsive.

  There’s a reason for these behaviors, and like I said, we’re working on it. But in the mean time, we’ve had to completely lock down all technology in the house. And most of it is complete garbage when it comes to parental controls. Stay away from Roku for instance, that device is fucking horrible, just the worst.

  Anyway, the thing is, sometimes parental controls are in fact necessary, but as long as they exist, things are fine. Steam for instance has a great system, you can control what aspects of steam a kid has access to, multiplayer functionality, the store, online content, etc. a all that can be switched on or off. And for games you can use their general rating system (which is imperfect) or you can manually whitelist individual games. Finally, you can lock it all behind a simple pin code. Honestly, this is how all such platforms should work, it’s manageable.

  I don’t think there’s really any legitimate reason to complain about the systems steam currently has in place.

  Roblox on the other hand… That’s a shitshow. We don’t touch Roblox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, how did that work?

  You send a summons through the mail to… anywhere?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your so wrong is impressive.

  Every book on my bookshelf is copyrighted, but I own those books, OWN.

  I can resell them, legally, regardless of copyright. I can’t say the same thing if my steam library, but I should be able to.

  Copyright is about ip, not about the physical media, the end products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That that is nuts. Are you telling me you’ve never bought anything in your life? That’s the only way I can imagine that you could be so far off base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful, that sounds like a form of harassment and Sony may take action against you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  unreasonable demands for apologies

  You’re gonna have to explain that one. How is demanding an apology unreasonable? I think you just dug yourself deeper into the wrong side of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The German army is trying to attract recruits at Gamescom, the world’s biggest video game convention⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok yeah, having admittedly only read the headline, my first thoughts were “this doesn’t seem that unusual”. They’re not the only military to do this kind of recruiting either. Hell, the US army actually made a videogame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Live-service is a red flag for us': Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and organic community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t though. I mean anything has the potential to be laggy, sure. But if you’re in Europe, play on EU servers, if you’re on the US East Coast, play on East Coast servers. This isn’t rocket science.

  It isn’t inherently less secure either, any server is someone else’s. In fact, I trust other players far more than I trust the publisher or whoever they’re contracting with for game servers. The players aren’t looking for additional revenue streams.

  For most games, the performance hit for running the server is not significant. I think the majority of this post is pretty misguided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess The Game (#013)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I think it looks like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not first person, but company of heroes is definitely a delight! Nothing will make you feel more like you’re actually winning the war against Hitler than that game. It feels like being a colonel on the set of Band of Brothers.

  I never get tired of hearing the squad chatter.

  “We need a fuckin’ bazooka for this shit!”

  “Eyes and ears engineers!”

  ”Jesus Conrad… TIE YOUR FUCKIN LACES!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I recommend this one, it’s pretty fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Red Dead Redemption 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here here. Fuck off take two.

• ⁨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:

  There are things to be outraged about and this ain’t one of em.

  That’s the thing right there. I don’t understand why it seems worthwhile to get upset about this.

• ⁨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:

  Seriously. Who needs to see a trailer that badly? And honestly, when I already intend to buy a game, I do everything I can to avoid seeing the trailer. Why spoil things for yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is not rocket science here, this is business 101.

  1. Make the customer happy

  2. Enjoy increased revenue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement from OneBGS, the Bethesda Games Studios union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I think Bethesda has always had the same problem. They have an unhealthy relationship with feature creep.

  Sometimes if you love an idea, you have to let it go…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need that leg enhancement.

  It’s the only way to play the game. If you played all the way through without trying this, all I can say is you missed out.

  With the jump and the air dash you will be an unstoppable melee demon. And it will be fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We reached out to all gamers everywhere and a spokesman for the group responded with the following statement:

  Lol wut?

  Fucking noobs…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So Imma be real with you. I switched to DDG full time on all my devices, mostly out of security concerns and the desire to not feed the monopoly.

  That said, DDG is so much worse at finding what I’m actually looking for than Google ever was. It’s a bit frustrating, I have so many reasons to like DDG, but being a good search engine isn’t one of them.

  But for the record, Google isn’t great at finding what I want anymore either, and with its AI bullshit it’s likely to simply lie to me. Really, 2010 Google search is superior to modern Google search by every metric possible, that was peak web search for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, didn’t realize that! Now I feel justified in pirating it, thanks for the heads up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless your use dedicated servers rather than matchmaking systems and publisher hosted servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite gaming console you have played?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a heavily missed wii and I love it. The only downside, no hd support. I’ve been considering looking into some other consoles for that reason.

  Honestly, my biggest issue is that Rock Band works so much better in HD. But… I have the giant plastic peripherals that I have, so I’m kinda stuck in this ecosystem now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-World Games with Drivable Motorbikes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  7 days to die is an open world zombie survival game. Getting the motorcycle is a slog, it’s practically an end game item. But once acquired, is totally badass.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In retrospect I probably should have mentioned the horizons games as well, but I just finished with cyberpunk, so that’s been on my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok you want something as rich and interesting as skyrim, so I’m assuming open world games are your jam.

  There are three games you should play.

  1. Red Dead Redemption 2 - it’s a Western, the world is very believable, and it makes you feel like you’re really part of it. You can follow the main story line, or you could spend your days hunting and fishing. You could travel from town to town playing every poker game you can find. You can conduct train robberies, breed horses, really, there’s just a whole lot to do.

  2. Cyberpunk 2077 - this is RDR2 but in a scifi dystopian future where the corpos own everything, sex is for sale on every billboard and every ad break, and the only justice is what you can achieve on your own. You’ve got a ticking time bomb in your brain and no time to fuck around. In this world where you can’t trust anyone, somehow what really matters are the friends you make along the way. (seriously)

  3. The Witcher 3 - from the same studio that made cyberpunk, the Witcher 3 is truly a masterpiece of storytelling. The one caveat I have for this game is that it starts hard, almost “souls-like”. But get past that first rough hour and there is an extremely rich world with a seemingly unending collection of stories to become a part of. This may be the most skyrim-like of the games listed here, but you’re in for a treat, because this is a much better game than Skyrim.

  All three of these games are gonna make you feel real feelings, they’re all actually better at telling stories than Skyrim is. The Witcher 3 in particular loves to live in the grey zone, it’ll make you make ethical choices that matter, and you probably won’t like any of the possible outcomes. But this is a good thing!