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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In the volcano area, I found a random message in the middle of nowhere, that simply read :

  “Seek the Elden Ring Or something…”

  To this day I’m convinced it’s the most practical summary of the game and the player motivations. It also made me giggle a lot for no reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Big issue for me is the direction towards incentivised exclusivity. I can tolerate it on consoles (barely nowdays) because you’re paying someone to use your hardware instead of another, and you have to specifically develop for console hardware. That takes time and effort.

  Different distribution platforms do not have such issues, and frankly I don’t want exclusivity anywhere near PC gaming, unless you’re self publishing. Frankly if they weren’t banging on about steam using the industry standard % take, while they themselves are trying to undercut and use garbage tactics, I would have absolutely no problem with them, same as Ubisoft and EA’s garbage store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say something like elden ring might be worth that price point given the breadth of the experience. Thing is, Elden ring is actually kinda too big. I like it, but a run through is like a multi week commitment, and I definitely don’t want that to be the norm, especially for fromsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah then that’s Vulkan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope you’re running on Vulkan, for me it went from 30ish fps to an illegally high number for some ungodly reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there was one person that didn’t in this article, and they got fired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marshmallow Test⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit now I’m sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gina Rinehart urges Liberal party to stick with Trump-like policies in the wake of election loss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the money in the world can’t buy an once of self reflection. I genuinely hope the worst for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best gaming moments of the last decade?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prey 2018, when you break through the glass. The whole game was good, but that first but was stellar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I completely get you, on a rail is a famously difficult spot for a lot of people. I think the lack of landmarks and long duration really hurts that chapter. If it’s any consolation it’s mostly a one off situation, and yeah black mesa doesn’t really have an equivalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t feel too bad about it, the best bits are the first half or so I’d argue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which bits in particular? Because on one hand it’s a fairly linear design, but on the other there are some bits that can loop around themselves and objectives aren’t always obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof yep I feel that one. I love the wheel and spoke moderately open world level design, but if you actually need to move the story it can be very difficult to find where the next bits are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’ve been playing Tropico 4 for a bit, and it looks pretty good. You’re always zoomed out, so you don’t need to have more than like 8 polygons for a limb.

  I literally could not run cities Skylines 2 or KSP 2 at a good frame rate. Everything was modelled incredibly well and looks great, but that doesn’t mean shit if I can’t run the game. I strongly suspect that’s a big contributing factor.

  In addition to this, they’re going to against their biggest competitors: the previous game. It’s literally the same game with more content, runs incredibly well by comparison, has a huge mod library, and is much cheaper to boot. Might not be as pretty, but it actually might not matter given what you’re playing.

  I think there’s probably a lot of issues that contribute to this to be honest, but it feels like at it’s core it’s a fools errand to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that’s not too unreasonable thinking about it, I’m pretty sure their proton setup works in a similar way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The post work exhaustion will get easier over time, but it’s a trick to balance. Make sure you’re keeping your health good, getting adequate rest, etc. There will be some adjustment, some changes, it all depends on the kind of work you do and how hard you can avoid burning out.

  Good luck, it will likely get better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does a release of all releases contain itself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure. I don’t begrudge the series as a whole, honestly the episode is fascinating because it feels impenetrable to me now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well then the obvious conclusion is that respecting women makes you better at video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Futurama has aged quite well, until you get to the episode where bender changes gender to win in the women’s robot Olympics.

  It’s such a bizarre experience because you almost can’t view it through the lense of that era given how the topic has exploded, and even trying it’s still really hard to tell if it’s genuinely making fun of women, or making fun of the perception of women being weak.

  At least when South Park did it with the special Olympics episode Cartman gets stomped by the actual athletes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BloodBorne Released 10 Years Ago Today, Fans Once Again Organize a Return to Yharnam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PS4 emulation has come a long way. I haven’t played fully through my copy, but I was going through it at 60fps through the first few areas with little to no issue. You may want to wait until all the kinks are out, but it’s pretty good as it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossils on Fossils⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suddenly feel very small, but also the load off my shoulders lifted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably? I have memories from over a decade back so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Football

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your body after losing an online game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Core problem you come across in multiplayer team games is that there is often required support roles that are less generally desirable to play than the usual gameplay experience. E.g. people want to shoot guns rather than heal teammates.

  So when you lose a team game, it’s often pretty easy to look at what your team was doing, and figure it what vital support roles weren’t being filled.

  This can lead to what we see in the meme here, where you reflexively blame your teammates not fulfilling support obligations collectively, healing in this case. This blame assignment also purposely glosses over the fact that you were perfectly capable of identifying the problem, yet didn’t switch to a support role yourself. This helps shift the blame, and absolves you of the responsibility of the loss, managing your own emotional state.

  Because this helps regulate your own emotional state, it becomes reinforced behaviour, and you become reliant on it over time. You point out issues that aren’t there, become hyper critical of others, anything to make sure you aren’t at fault. It even goes so far as becoming reflexive at the very concept of a lost round, or any negative outcome. It’s not uncommon for people to make mistakes while they’re alone, and then retroactively blame their teammates for not being there with a “WHERE WAS TEAM!?!?”

  In general, it’s a huge problem in games like Dota or LoL. Toxicity borne from negative emotions is now part of the core gameplay experience in public matches, which leads to others doing the same. I myself can’t even boot Dota anymore because of the associated negativity, despite not actively not engaging with it myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of, but those let you use the pre-existing codebase for each game as is. This lets you play with the inner workings. You could do something drastic like implant rollback netcode, add new classes, wild shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we know this is actually Earth, and not just some torture chamber in Hell and we are just being punished?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kind of in the same boat.

  I think it can fuck with people that rely on self determination for security or self justification? At least the couple of people I’ve met that take issue with the idea seem to mostly be uncomfortable with the implication that their choices and actions might mean less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do we know this is actually Earth, and not just some torture chamber in Hell and we are just being punished?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, we also probably don’t have free will, but we should live and act like we do. Don’t let the minute details keep you from getting what you can out of this life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victim Anon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s any consolation, young men are seldom taught social skills, and often have difficulty with this kind of thing. Women are also taught not too be direct, as it’s too forward.

  I’d say have a laugh about the absurdity of it, chalk it up as a learning experience, and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortune's Run development put on hold because the dev is going to prison⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually respect the hell out of the dev here. Owning up to past wrongs, growing as a person, clear and concise communication, honestly that’s all huge progress.