UndercoverUlrikHD
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
- Comment on The Witcher 4 Recasts Ciri 4 days ago:
Explains why her face looked so different compared to Witcher 3 Ciri, I guess it’s the cost of tying voice actors to the game models.
- Comment on Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 1 week ago:
John Linneman from digital foundry said the game reminded him of why he loves games after all the AAA slop and UE5 games they’ve been through. Up there in quality with the Mario games.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t really a question in that sense. What I meant by that sentence is that the game is already planned to be removed (from sale), so Blizzard suing GOG wouldn’t make much sense. However that doesn’t mean that GOG/Blizzard can just take the game away from those who already purchased it.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 2 weeks ago:
I think you might have replied to the wrong person
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 2 weeks ago:
Games are constantly pulled from the Steam store, but that doesn’t result in owners losing access to the game, GOG is no different. The only thing that will happen is they stop selling the game, it’s standard practice.
GOG also offer offline installers that would be impossible for even GOG to take away from you.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 2 weeks ago:
A DRM free store that’s run by the CD Projekt Red guys. It focuses mainly on older games (Good Old Games) but it also got modern DRM free games such as Baldurs Gate 3.
If you’re buying an older game, it’s likely a better option than whatever steam offers as GOG will also try to fix old games that are broken on modern systems.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 2 weeks ago:
The game will be removed on 13. December?
However that can’t simply take away a game someone has already bought.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 has entered full-scale production, CD Projekt has confirmed 3 weeks ago:
They claimed that it was expensive and was part of the reason for cyberpunk’s turbulent launch.
It’s a real shame though, most UE5 runs awful it seems, and are still limited by single thread performance, unlike RED Engine which scales far better with more CPU cores.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 3 weeks ago:
I guess I didn’t read the problem properly.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like your typical game theory problem.
Not pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: None
Pulling the lever: Worst case: Your loved ones dies Best case: Your loved ones survives
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 4 weeks ago:
I’m the same with 1. I’d recommend trying out Black Mesa, it might be the best game remake ever made.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 5 weeks ago:
Better visuals and much faster/cheaper for the developer to make.
We are still in the infancy of the technology and the vast majority of games with ray tracing doesn’t fully utilise it as they must compromise to support normal raster, leading to half baked implementations on engines not designed with ray tracing in mind.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 2 months ago:
She refused until I guessed… She even had the gall to act insulted when I was wrong
Guessing people’s height also isn’t something I do regularly. Might be why I suck at it.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 2 months ago:
My height is 192 so 190 vs 185 would be easy to tell, but once you reach ~182 and below it’s all a wash. 180 vs 175 I wouldn’t have a clue. I was off by more than 10cm in my estimation when they were sitting in front of me, and it was a person I knew well.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 2 months ago:
Unless you’re the same height as me, I’ll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.
Height just isn’t something I register about a person, and I don’t see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 2 months ago:
Pathfinder also has fairly detailed difficulty settings panel, you can tailor the difficulty to your liking. Story mode difficulty and auto level up presets makes the game beatable for even your grandma, so you can ease into the system.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 2 months ago:
Graphics and voice acting, but only because they randomly stop speaking and go to pure text during dialogue. BG3 also doesn’t have Blackwater…
100% agree with the rest. I really hope Owlcat gets inspired by the more dynamic elements/environments from Larian’s games though.
- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 2 months ago:
Which in turn reposted it from a Roman source
- Comment on You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 2 months ago:
And then the other half of the Internet cries about how all they do are lazy remasters.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Preview - IGN 2 months ago:
No. Different genre at this point
- Comment on Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores 2 months ago:
I can’t remember ever having used meta critic to guide a purchase. There is so much content both from forums and YouTube/Twitch that gives you much more accurate impressions of games. Meta critic seems rather pointless nowadays.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 3 months ago:
It’s a genuine concern though. If you want one centralised server hosting all the content, just use reddit.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 3 months ago:
Children probably
- Comment on AI Artefacting 3 months ago:
That’s a narrow view of art
- Comment on Too many looks. 3 months ago:
Peaked in 2005
- Comment on Does AAAA just mean awful triple A games now? 3 months ago:
Ubisoft are
- Comment on OK. 3 months ago:
It’s their heart that burns, they only compare the temperature with the sun.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 3 months ago:
Just a heads up that I think you replied to the wrong comment in the chain
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 3 months ago:
But now you’re cherry picking food. Fish and chicken is good and healthy food, why didn’t mention those instead. Pure sugar is both vegan and gluten free, but you wouldn’t call that healthy would you?
There is nothing unhealthy about gluten if your body can tolerate it. So vegan, gluten free and the opposite are all perfectly valid options for a healthy diet. You could also have an unhealthy diet within those 3 categories as well.
