Meltrax
@Meltrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Split Fiction™ | Official Reveal Trailer 4 days ago:
This isn’t made by EA. These are the same people who made It Takes Two.
EA makes shit games themselves these days but their program for supporting smaller independent studios has resulted in some really great titles.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 1 month ago:
SSX Tricky brought up to PS5 graphics.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is a very odd and out of touch comment with what the game currently is and what is being produced by the devs. Have you even played it recently? All the new Varlamore region stuff is aimed at early and midgame players.
And yes, the game progresses towards grinding endgame encounters… Like every single MMO ever. If you’re friend is a maxed out account farming for ultra rare drops, I don’t think you can say that what he is doing is “the content the game has to offer for people”. What would you prefer instead? What do you think it should be like, if not this?
- Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them 2 months ago:
I mean… They have grown. The studio is bigger, they don’t have other revenue sources like Blizzard does really (also Activision Blizzard is owned by Microsoft, if you’re worried about a games company being owned by someone else that just wants profit…), and shit costs more now than it did 10 or 20 years ago. I wish it didn’t but inflation is a thing, and that thing affects the food and housing bills of the employees at companies.
For what it’s worth, OSRS has made some absolutely amazing improvements in the last couple years. Almost every single update has hit perfectly with nothing but minor errors or complaints. New expansions and regions, new quests, new raid, weapon and damage rebalances, new bosses, new community events and special game modes, new updates to their clients both mobile and desktop, and most importantly a significantly better bot-busting system over the last few months.
This shit isn’t cheap. That’s a LOT of parallel systems and work, and OSRS continues to have 0 micro transactions outside of membership. True, RS3 and its cesspool of mtx helps fund OSRS, but I don’t know how far that goes since the player count there is stagnant.
Now your opinion and choice to not support a company is always valid, that is up to you. But I don’t think it really is a “bullshit” price increase. I’m OK with OSRS costing $2 more per month if it means that this current cadence of content of QOL updates marches on. Jagex has been absolutely nailing it and I’m very happy with them, and that’s worth money to me.
- Comment on I'm tired of every game being live service 2 months ago:
Steam is literally constantly doing showcase events for different genres of small games.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 2 months ago:
I’ve heard the hype but I have never played this game. What am I missing?
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 2 months ago:
You’re like 5 years late on this realization. Unfortunately not much is changing.
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 3 months ago:
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, and I preface this by saying I do not fully understand the ins and outs of game development, though I am a software engineer (just not a game dev).
OSRS has made some absolutely amazing improvements in the last couple years. Almost every single update has hit perfectly with nothing but minor errors or complaints. New expansions and regions, new quests, new raid, weapon and damage rebalances, new bosses, new community events and special game modes, new updates to their clients both mobile and desktop, and most importantly a significantly better bot-busting system over the last few months.
This shit isn’t cheap. That’s a LOT of parallel systems and work, and OSRS continues to have 0 micro transactions outside of membership. True, RS3 and its cesspool of mtx helps fund OSRS, but I don’t know how far that goes.
I’m OK with OSRS costing $2 more per month if it means that this current cadence of content of QOL updates marches on. Jagex has been absolutely nailing it and I’m very happy with them, and that’s worth money to me.
- Comment on Funny bad games reviews 5 months ago:
“Worst MMO Ever” series by Josh Strife Hayes
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Solium Infernum as a standalone game is quite fun. I haven’t played TWW3 though, so I couldn’t tell you how similar it is.
- Comment on So I just tried the demo for Tactical Breach Wizards, and that's... actually really really genius 6 months ago:
Really liked the trailer, added to my wish list. Looks very amusing, I love that type of writing humor.
- Comment on The PlayStation 2 7 months ago:
SSX Tricky will forever hold a special place in my heart.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I mean yeah it’s fucking horrifying. But this weird ass poster pretending to be a game, and posting it in this community, is disingenuous. Maybe that’s the point. Still crappy.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
What the fuck is wrong with you people
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
Just so much of the OSRS league, it’s honestly like crack.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s still around! And there’s a little discord full of super nice people who still play it and mod it and maintain a new forum.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I replay EV Nova (Arpia plugin, of course) every few years and just absolutely love it.