Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.de
- Comment on Dev of cancelled Life By You game shares some information, including just two weeks notice of cancellation after being given the thumbs-up a few weeks prior 5 months ago:
How does this even make sense? You can’t pay more in taxes than the earnings you’re paying taxes on. If you deliberately cause a 10 million loss reducing your earnings by those 10 million and thereby saving a percentage of those 10 million in taxes, you’re not very good at math, are you?
- Comment on DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake – Release Date trailer 5 months ago:
It looks like an Octopath spin-off. Which is a good thing.
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 6 months ago:
Article without tracking paywall bullshit.
So, the player frustration this quest is inspiring isn’t a straight-up next entry in the long-running paid mods debate that’s been going on within the Bethesda community with regards to the Creation Club for a while now, but rather folks simply being unhappy with the monetisation practices Bethesda’s employing with regards to its own stuff.
I suppose that will be part of it, but it takes a load of willful ignorance to not see that the reason they distribute it this way is to ease people into the idea of using the infrastructure they ultimately set up to monetize other people’s work (i.e. mods).
- Comment on God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC 6 months ago:
With how frequently they get hacked, Sony is the last company you want to trust with any of your data. Might as well post all of it on a public facebook page.
- Comment on For The First Time In A Decade, Nobody Is Working On Cyberpunk 2077 6 months ago:
If I were a dev, that also wouldn’t be my priority in a first person game.
I repeatedly spend time deciding on clothing choices etc for my character only to proceed to never actually see them outside the menu.
- Comment on Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets 6 months ago:
Well, yeah, XIV as an MMO is a different thing. But that one also doesn’t have revenue issues afaik.
- Comment on Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets 6 months ago:
Maybe it’s because Final Fantasy peaked at VII-X and went downhill from there, fucking up their combat further and further with every installment?
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
The average movie isnt worth ticket price either
The worth of a thing is determined by what people will pay for it.
length certainly doesn’t equal quality.
For any single product that’s true, statistically it makes the two classes (games and movies) comparable.
I don’t think you’ll earnestly want to argue that 1 hour of movie entertainment is in general worth multiple hours of gaming entertainment. There are good and bad movies and games, but if you compare those of similar quality, the fact stands that the game will give you more for your money. Whether you want more of course depends on you - I gather that gaming doesn’t seem to really entertain you for the most part.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
If the game cost $20, they’d have to sell about 120k copies to break even on that Investment,
Far more actually. You have to deduct taxes, steam’s cut etc. from those 20$.
- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 6 months ago:
That’s a movie ticket and a snack. Most games offer far more (or at least longer) entertainment than that. Even games I won’t finish.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 7 months ago:
And people still have to lift heavy shit, crawl around in dangerous spaces and generally harm their health to make a living.
- Comment on New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June 7 months ago:
Wait for the kernel level anti cheat to be revealed before you get hyped.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 7 months ago:
FF16 to me is paper thin in every regard. I would rank it last among all the FF games I’ve played. The combat is especially bad. You can basically button mash your way through all of it. Dodge a lot, that’s it.
- Comment on Hellblade II Official System Requirements 7 months ago:
Guess I finally have a reason to upgrade …
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 7 months ago:
BotW was originally developed for the WiiU, which it also released on. It is not a “handheld game”, and tbh I’d take it’s gameplay loop over Nier Automata or Shadow of War any day of the week.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 7 months ago:
Handheld mode is really not great for extended periods.
I got it for (business) trips, so I appreciate that I can easily connect it to a hotel room TV, or put it upright on a train or plane table.
One disconnected joycon in each hand IS pretty comfortable, since I can avoid the static “controller in front of you” arm pose.
- Comment on A personal argument for a benefit of gaming 7 months ago:
I’m in my 30s. I’m gradually getting calmer. But seriously, if a game doesn’t induce the urge to throw objects around the room from time to time, it probably won’t make my list of favourites.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 7 months ago:
Because you don’t wade through hordes and hordes of enemies. (There are many but compare it to Diablo.)
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 7 months ago:
I don’t get why Diablo-likes are called ARPG’s.
We used to call them “Hack 'n Slays”. I guess studios didn’t think that term marketing friendly.
- Comment on Ubisoft is reportedly revoking The Crew licenses following shutdown 8 months ago:
Funny you should say that. It’s usually my line when I tell people to not buy games from companies like that. We’ve been telling people these things would happen at some point back when steam was starting up.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 8 months ago:
There are different kind of DLC, and the kind that’s similar to actual expansion packs is usually not criticized (or not by most).
- Comment on CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games" 8 months ago:
The thing is, you actually get 30$ story and 5$ per outfit instead of a 30$ Expansion.
And cosmetics do add to the game for a big part of the market.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 8 months ago:
Sea of Stars. Beautiful hommage to the classics.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 8 months ago:
Every Tad says “ah shit, here we go again…”
It’s canonically always the same Tav repeatedly getting dragged into these weird “save the world” situations.