LainTrain
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- Comment on Well, they finally got around to me 4 hours ago:
Already back
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 17 hours ago:
Wuuuut?
The original post had nothing to do with mobile games and service at all.
My comment said that it was not true that all games are interactive movies, and you said it was because of the games you listed, which you then said are not interactive movies.
Are you like, lost?
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 1 day ago:
But the original reply stated:
It feels like every other AAA game is an interactive movie these days.
I stated that it’s not really true
And you went off to list games that supposedly support the original point.
And I said that’s not true.
And now you agree. So why even include those games or respond at all? This comes across like when you correct chatgippity or smth 🤔
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 1 day ago:
Guilty as charged!
Fwiw I love gaming nowadays, things like itch and steam self-publishing just didn’t exist nearly to the same extent they did back in the day, and this has allowed for niche titles I could only dream of back in the day, weird artsy games like Buckshot Roulette, Disco Elysium and Warframe finding success is awesome and was definitely not a thing in the past where gatekeeping was inherent to gaming.
Even hardware stuff like FBT trackers and steam deck and the crazy modding scene of today are things I love about modern gaming.
That doesn’t mean it’s not without things to critique, as every generation of games has, nor that nothing of value has been lost.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 1 day ago:
Every yakuza game, baldurs gate, every fromsoft game, the insomniac games like spiderman, Sony stuff in general like horizon, god of war, last of us, etc, black myth wukong, the endless remake games (some of which are very solid) like ff7, silent hill 2, persona 3 reload, etc, rockstar games even (rdr2 was 2018 and gta6 is supposed to come out this year, maybe). The sea of jrpgs like shin megami tensei v vengeance, trails through daybreak, granblue fantasy, unicorn overlord, etc. And that’s literally off the top of my head
Question 1: And those are all “cinematic” games in your view?
If the answer is yes:
Question 2: have you played literally any of them? I don’t think all of these barring the JRPGs could be more different from each other if they tried. RDR2 and the Yakuza games for instance are good, fromsoft not so much.
If the answer is no then I’m not sure what you’re alluding to, maybe you responded to the wrong comment?
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 1 day ago:
Meh, if people didn’t pay or play those it wouldn’t make business sense to make em. Gaming is weird these days.
Everybody seems to have “the game” they play like OW or Valorant(?) or Fortnite, certain genres like racing and fighting games seem to have split up from mainstream gaming altogether where if you just check out what’s the new Tekken like people assume you’re like a “fighting game person” that goes to tournaments and builds your whole life around it and have since forever, back in my day it was just a game you played cuz the dudes on the cover looked cool and the game was fun.
‘Core’ games are all rip offs of souls or some other crap or straight up remakes, consoles cost way too much this gen and there are no real exclusives.
The trends in graphics are concerning too, everything is a TAA or AI upscale smearfest, PS5 can’t run that new Star wars game at more than DVD resolution without the same bullshit 8th gen checkerboarding or some other dynamic resolution technique alongside god damned AI trash. MSAA and SSAA seem dead and with them clarity and good visuals, the only pretty games are MSFS and CP2077 with Path Tracing on max, UE5 is built from the ground up around smear.
The only thing that I love about gaming nowadays is indie and AA games, from Stray (barring the awful graphics) to Sea Power, Descenders to Teardown to Airport Sim, these are games I had the most fun with this year that aren’t 5th-7th gen classics. That football game at TGA from Sifu devs seems fun tho.
- Comment on Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use 1 day ago:
👑 10/10 👑
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 1 day ago:
It’s not ridiculous, it’s true, but it is sad. As always the public chooses the worst things.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 1 day ago:
This was barely true like 10 years ago. Now everything is mobile games and live services.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 4 days ago:
Bruh can you try reading my comment before you write some dumbass surface-level already-addressed shit next time?
It’s not about having to, it’s about the fact that everything around the boss fight is such a painful slog that it’s not worth the time investment required by slow, boring traversal across generic fantasy environments to get to the boss every time to actually freely experiment and find a strategy that works well naturally, y’know, which is fun, because it’s far more satisfying than copying what some guy on gamefaqs did, and fun is what games are meant to be about, right?
I’ll grant that Sekiro is probably the least carbon copy souls instalment, but that is just because the bar for the souls games is so low it’s right down by dinosaur bones, most games change up the gameplay more between sequels than souls does between it’s series.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 5 days ago:
Yeah but that doesn’t make your opinion valid, all those souls series are very very slow, you die, you go way back to some location from an hour ago and slog through the same generic again, and it just gets more boring each time, especially when the locations don’t stand out from any other generic fantasy place.
It’s extremely punishing and discourages free player experimentation and creativity and fun with the mechanics and encourages reading the wiki to cheese a boss so you don’t have to do it again or going somewhere else to level a stat like some lame ass MMO or ass creed, which makes it all tedious and boring.
Compare that to a fast game like Doom (original), you die, there’s that wipe effect and you’re going a mile a minute, less than a minute and you’re right back in the action to give it another shot with a new tactic or strategy.
DMC4 didn’t have the best level design either, precisely because there was too much of it, and DMC5 went in the right direction and made everything a corridor of monsters so you can get right to the combat and quickly, because that’s the fun.
Souls combat can be fun too when you’re really in there rolling about the place with some huge dragon or some shit but to actually fucking get to it isn’t worth the time investment of navigating some bullshit maze over and over.
All the aforementioned games can be pretty dang hard, Doom on UV or DMC5 on DMD are both tougher than most Souls encounters, but they are fun and encourage you to try harder and souls isn’t.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 5 days ago:
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
Sekiro and Elden ring are literally just a demon souls reskin
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
Ok slop hoover
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
Jedi academy and DMC4 has hand-holding? Delusional. They’re just good games. Souls games are shit games. Idgaf about forntire demographic they need to learn what games are good before they’re allowed opinions fr fr
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
I played demon souls before you were born bro
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
You’re welcome? 🤗
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
Lmao no. I played all three insomniac Spider-Mans and all the Arkham games and fallen order is nothing like any of them, it is literally a dark souls reskin, from the level design to bonfires and progression to the combat and even little details like respawning enemies after a bonfire rest etc.
It’s a shame good games like jedi knight/academy and SWTFU didn’t get modwrn sequels and instead we get this slopfest.
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 6 days ago:
Yuh I wasn’t saying more privatisation, I was saying how in some ways there’s already so much privatisation.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
See my comment above, there are 10 souls games and only one of them was any good and it was just mid jank at best but at least it had Soul™
They’re not unique and are the standard for action games with the likes of jedi fallen order and jedi fallen 2 order or whatever ripping the formula off.
Idk I think it’s exactly like FIFA and madden in terms of actual artistic value, but I wouldn’t compare it to COD because they at least have some pretty standout evolutions now and again, these souls games, new zelda games and new mario games etc are all designed by committee.
I’m just bitter that games that actually evolved action across the spectrum be it the high complexity and style of DMC4 and 5, Bayonetta series, the fun mechanics of MGR:R or even the speed of something like Warframe didn’t catch on nearly as much as the slow paced slog where you navigate boring generic fantasy environments where you fight some poorly animated big guy once in a while for the umpteenth time.
Even worse, these games are labeled as RPGs, which yeah they’re really no Fallout or Mass Effect, JRPG maybe, but it’s led to more and more shoving of RPG elements into what should be normal action games. It’s all so tiresome.
No accounting for taste amongst gamers, though.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 6 days ago:
2009: Demon’s Souls 2011: Dark Souls 2014: Dark Souls II 2015: Dark Souls II King of whatever expansion 2015: Bloodborne 2016: Dark Souls II 2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2022: Elden Ring 2025: Elden Ring 2
Thats almost yearly releases.
You’d think after like 10 games of the same monotonous bullshit people would get tired of it but ig not
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign - We Played It! - IGN 1 week ago:
yawn Souls games are just yearly FIFA slop for nerds and rougelikes/metroidvanias are a cancer to the action genre that needs to die off.
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 1 week ago:
Bruh 💀 So much for nhs
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 1 week ago:
I fully agree. I’d be the first to defend the rat as a victim of the system, but fucking hell he didn’t risk losing his job or death by just looking the other way, doing what you need to do to survive isn’t an excuse to outright aid the bastards and that same logic definitely extends to xitter employees etc. who’d have every other tech company fight for them if they left.
I’m starting to think The Matrix had the right idea. Until someone is “awake” they can easily turn into an agent of the system, a dedicated defender of it, and as such we can’t think of them as friends.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 week ago:
I love dairy milk, especially and exclusively UHT Milk. But fuck the dairy industry so much.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
Accurate af
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
I’m not American but I also assume everyone speaks English. Other languages are cool but they’re just not very useful.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 weeks ago:
Seconding this. It’s really an exception to the rule in every way. You don’t even have to play it multiplayer either.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
Average lemmy.world poster
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
Nothing new, they always had. This isn’t about that anyway
