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- Comment on Palworld devs heard “nothing at all” from Pokémon creators despite everyone calling it 'Pokémon with guns' 2 days ago:
Which is what everyone with some sense predicted, except Xitter exploded into drama from faking proof that it was directly copying Pokémon to claiming wild things like using gen AI to create the models.
These things are easily verified (or rather, debunked), but it was already too late. I lost a lot of faith in some gaming journalists as they kept perpetuating the wild takes and claims.
We’ll do this all again soon with another game and we will not learn from it.
- Comment on You can turn on Scottish slang in the subtitles, reminds Still Wakes The Deep developer 1 week ago:
Slang words that are being subtitled wrong because the locale automatically sets to English (international) instead of English (UK) for a lot of players.
It’s in the article if you bothered to read it
- Comment on Trying to buy right size bicycle wheel online 1 week ago:
I see the problem, it looks like Amazon. Stop shopping there
- Comment on $843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players 1 week ago:
Yep, I was only summarizing their angle. Here are the specifics for anyone who wants to read the source documentation: partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3
The only thing that doesn’t sit right with me is developers stating Steam threatened to delist the game when they expressed wanting to sell elsewhere. I haven’t seen any proof except just the statements, but it would be weird for a developer to lie about that stuff. If anyone has any more sources on that, it would be appreciated
- Comment on $843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what they’re trying to say. It could have been cheaper if Valve didn’t have pricing clauses that doesn’t allow developers to price things cheaper elsewhere.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy fans rejoice as new Harry Potter game officially announced for September 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a lot of folks are not really interested in the quirky sport, so saying fans are rejoicing because of this announcement sounds like they don’t really understand why people played HL.
Its like saying Dark Souls fans rejoice because From Software announced a fitness spinoff called Yoga with Solaire. Okay actually, they might. Bad example.
- Comment on I have a level that is a tribute to The Stanley Parable in my game, here is my progress. Any feedback? 4 weeks ago:
Is the level in the demo? Gonna check it out regardless, I love games that are meta and turn themselves inside out
- Comment on Propose defederation? 5 weeks ago:
When I click on the example I see 0 comments, but based on what you’re describing I think I’m glad
- Comment on Why does deleting a post not actually delete it? 5 weeks ago:
With the Sync app you can still see the comment if you hit “reply”, as the reply view has a top box for reading the parent comment and making text selection and for some reason it retains the comment contents. Just an FYI
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th 5 weeks ago:
I will look it up but please feel free to elaborate, it sounds cool.
- Comment on UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government 5 weeks ago:
It would make sense to require a company to release the code for players to host their own servers, which has been done by many games in the past. Not to continue to run it themselves.
That’s basically what people are asking for. Instead of not being playable anymore, give consumers the means to keep it going for themselves.
This could mean always-online having to be gutted from the game after it’s support ends so you can play it offline. Or server hosting files to host your own private or public server.
The goal is to have games not be impossible to play after X amount of time. How companies reach that goal is up to them.
- Comment on EA is diverting 100 percent of Immortals of Aveum net sales revenue to Ascendant Studios 1 month ago:
Who’s going to buy this when it’s on subscription services like XGP and EA Play?
- Comment on The AC game set in feudal Japan is called Assassins Creed Shadows, may have leaked its own release date 1 month ago:
The game might be revolutionary and I will still pass. Somewhere between ruining franchises and turning them into open world Ubisoup games, publishing “AAAA” games, sexual harassment by executives, and more, I have lost all interest.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 month ago:
This is not about US bottle caps
- Comment on Manor Lords gets its first big patch, with new taxes, animations and changes to trading 1 month ago:
Only on the beta branch at the moment, so if you’re on a different storefront you can’t get an early peek.
Perfect excuse to start over for me. Even though old saves should be compatible, but with early access YMMV
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 1 month ago:
Why would Valve delist a game? Can you elaborate on what kind of speculation was made?
- Comment on Trans community ally 1 month ago:
I thought all green texts were made up?
- Comment on Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell 1 month ago:
Phantasy Star Online Ep. 1 & 2 has two loading screens where you can manipulate the location or speed and angle of the visuals on-screen. Not super interactive but enough to make the loading times feel less long
- Comment on My solo project roguelike tower defense game is having a free prologue 2 months ago:
For some reason I was thinking the prologue would stop being available at release like a demo, but that’s just my sprinkled size brain being tired. I totally get it now, thanks
- Comment on My solo project roguelike tower defense game is having a free prologue 2 months ago:
What made you decide to release a separate free app vs a demo on the original app? Not critiquing the choice, just curious what the reasoning could be.
I looked at the trailers and I think it would be helpful if your towers and other friendly buildings / units have a different coloured orb compared to enemies. I found it very hard to distinguish between friend or foe. That could be less impactful when playing, but first impressions leave me slightly confused. Put it on my wishlist!
- Comment on Manor Lords - Launch Trailer | Medieval City Builder/RTS 2 months ago:
Saw RCE play this and while the combat wasn’t shown, it’s like Anno had a baby with Mount and Blade. Am tempted to pick it up for sure, I miss playing both
- Comment on Fallout 4's "next gen" update is out today and might break your mods - here's how to stop it 2 months ago:
The perfect timing would have been at the show’s release, but we both know it would have been an even bigger broken mess than whatever this turns into.
- Comment on Fallout 4 Gets A Next-Gen Update Today – Here's What To Expect 2 months ago:
Keyword being “next gen”
- Comment on How much do people still follow media reviews today? 2 months ago:
For example, Nintendo fans in general will give massive backlash to reviews that are not 10/10 for Nintendo games, even if the lower score is legitimate.
This sounds like an anecdote, if anything. Nintendo fans are usually mad at Nintendo for missing the mark with certain games, not with the reviewers.
- Comment on What do you do with your time after leaving Reddit? 2 months ago:
A Nintendo Switch for games might be perfect for micro breaks. The system goes in and out of sleep mode within a split second and you can pick up the game right where you left it. Even if that means resuming a game you paused two weeks ago. No boot times or loading times present.
- Comment on A bad influence 2 months ago:
Apparently the prompt for asking is triggered because the “new” version is a different executable than the shortcut you’re using is pointing to. So you could fix that by creating a new shortcut.
Another fix would be to get rid of Teams, but when you’re on a corporate license there’s not much we can do about that
- Comment on I saved spreadsheet when Excel was glitching (corporate remote network), time stamp got updated however file reverted to original state with reboot - please help! 2 months ago:
Have you checked the status of the file on Sharepoint, provided office files are automatically synced via OneDrive?
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress hits 800,000 sales and no sign of it stopping 2 months ago:
Does Steam on Linux offer the same controller settings? You can basically map gamepad buttons to any action of the keyboard / mouse and save it as a layout that will be activated each time you launch the game.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This sounds like it could be an accessibility toggle, unless certain gameplay requires moving whole swinging
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 2 months ago:
No, this is for US only. Where corporations are permitted to abuse the market and the law (or lack thereof).