Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC 3 hours ago:
Franchise rot is real. You’d think they’d learn when their most talked about games are always the early entries in a series, after the devs have hit their stride but before execs have ruined things with dumb ideas and fad chasing.
I haven’t played an Assassins Creed since Black Flag. I remember watching a preview of (I think) Valhalla showcasing the stealth. They snuck up on a boss and “assassinated” him, which… started the normal boss battle with them missing a bit of health. What’s even the point, then?
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 1 day ago:
Even if implementing it turns out to be trivial, testing art assets for quality and consistency will be a nightmare. Especially if the underlying generative AI isn’t deterministic.
- Comment on What games are you picking up March 19th? 2 days ago:
I’ve stopped buying new games I’ll probably never even launch, and started splurging on DLC for the old games I actually play.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 days ago:
Remember when sites had webring links at the bottom? Before Google solved it (then destroyed it completely several years later), discoverability used to be a community effort.
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 5 days ago:
- Comment on Rude 1 week ago:
Hence the idiom “canary in a coal mine” for early detection of a failure. Miners used to carry a caged bird with them to detect pockets of deadly gasses. If the canary suddenly drops dead, it’s time to get the hell out.
- Comment on They Don’t Make CGI Quite like They Used To 1 week ago:
“‘Lurch backwards when kicked’. You mean walk like the character Lurch, right?”
- Comment on Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea Announced - RPGamer 1 week ago:
Obligatory “rights to the Harvest Moon name are owned by the publisher in America, who now slap it on their own farming games; the real successor to the original games is the Story of Seasons series”.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 1 week ago:
Florida would be the first to fall.
~so~ ~yes~
- Comment on nothing to see here 1 week ago:
A lot of memes are dumb. At least loss memes like these show creativity, and are a fascinating look into the human brain’s pattern recognition as well.
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 1 week ago:
(source is Awkward Zombie)
- Comment on Posting without context. Will not be taking questions. Bye. 1 week ago:
- Comment on 3.5 Stars 1 week ago:
Excuse me, that’s Doctor Wife. She didn’t spend all that time, effort, and money going through medical school to not have her name used to give weight to her idiot husband’s stupid statements.
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 1 week ago:
They showcase the combat because action looks better in previews. Your base does get raided occasionally, but most of your time is spent balancing all the tasks a colony needs done and maintaining the fragile mental states of your limited number of colonists.
You can also adjust the settings of the “storyteller” (the AI that makes events happen to shake up the gameplay) if you want a more peaceful community builder sort of experience.
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 1 week ago:
Your best bet is likely whatever you’d call the genre RimWorld is in. RimWorld itself could probably scratch that itch if you up the number of colonies you can have in the settings and add a few mods that expand the world map-level gameplay.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 1 week ago:
I have a feeling there’s a huge overlap between the people who complain about Chinese food and the people who raved about the Mississippi pot roast (which has two packets of MSG-loaded seasonings in it).
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 1 week ago:
It’s psychosomatic. MSG is also in tomatoes, mushrooms, and tons of salted snacks such as Doritos. None of those tend to trigger the symptoms people claim to have after eating Chinese food.
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 1 week ago:
Not necessarily. You choose what permissions your token has when you register it with Discord. In this case the game asked for an auth token with all permissions, so the game connects to Discord with the same access levels as your actual login.
- Comment on Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself 1 week ago:
Gamefly
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long, long time.
- Comment on Games with friends 3 weeks ago:
Peak would be perfect for OP’s group. Having players of wildly different skill levels just means the better players can support the newer ones.
Abiotic Factor is an excellent game, but unfortunately it’d fail both of OP’s player requirements (too complex, and easily spoiled/speedrun by someone looking things up ahead of time).
- Comment on Games with friends 3 weeks ago:
It’s a shame they pulled the demo.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 3 weeks ago:
How could a prequel even work? The first Saints Row was gritty street-level crime and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness in later entries after the Boss took over in 2. The original leader of the Saints, Julius, even has your character assassinated at the end of the first game (you get better) because he didn’t like how violent the gang was getting.
A game set before the Boss arrived and Julius was still calling the shots sounds boring.
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 3 weeks ago:
That moment and what happened after defeating the Elite Four in Pokémon Gold both blew my mind as a child.
- Comment on Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games 3 weeks ago:
GTAV has made over ten billion dollars. They would have earned more than doubled its entire lifetime development costs if they’d charged a twentieth of what they did.
- Comment on Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games 3 weeks ago:
They’ve monetized GTAV so thoroughly via Online that in the past they’ve given the game (including single player) for free because they still made a profit off of it.
Charging $100 for a sequel they’ll definitely monetize even worse is the epitome of greed.
- Comment on Oh yes 3 weeks ago:
Unrelated, but I can’t unsee the nails in the floorboards as a bug infestation.
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 4 weeks ago:
He wrote himself into a corner with his villain being too powerful and well-prepared to defeat and wanted ideas on how to fix it, but he was incapable of admitting he screwed up. So instead he told the readers they had to “guess” his plan (read: come up with one for him), and even threatened to give the story a bad end if they didn’t. It was utterly transparent but his fanbase ate it up.
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 4 weeks ago:
Is the other 50% smugness and delusions of grandeur?
- Comment on smoooooth 4 weeks ago:
Scientists be like “ow, how?!”
- Comment on Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended 4 weeks ago:
The “support” was clearly a hallucinating AI agent, and Ubisoft has already clarified that the game is still supported and should get a patch in the future.
