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- Comment on What MMORPG are you playing, and why? 18 hours ago:
I wasn’t even aware that it was an MMO.
The entire galaxy is shared by everyone playing the game, in real time. You can encounter each other, fight, team up, or avoid each other, and your actions influence the state of the shared simulation. Definitely an MMO.
What am I missing?
The most recent thing you probably missed was the thargoid war, and (very recently) the battle with the titan that parked itself over Earth and took over the Sol system. You might compare it to a fantasy MMO raid, but at a much larger scale.
- Comment on What MMORPG are you playing, and why? 1 day ago:
Elite Dangerous, because it can be as intense or chill as I want, it’s a remarkably good space sim, and I can easily opt out of PvP while still affecting the state of the galaxy.
- Comment on 2024 Steam Awards Nominees Announced 4 days ago:
Yeah, they stopped updating the legacy PC client, too. I suspect it’s in the same game world as your console, still alive and playable, but with no new content.
The new client is free, but also more resource-hungry; I guess they didn’t have the budget to get it working on consoles.
- Comment on 2024 Steam Awards Nominees Announced 4 days ago:
I’m a little disappointed not to see Elite Dangerous nominated for Labor of Love. The game is ten years old, and the developers have recently been bringing in new features like it was still new.
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 5 days ago:
No, it doesn’t have to work that way, as we can see by the existence of messaging platforms with end-to-end encryption.
I suspect the person to whom I replied understands this, but their comment could have been misinterpreted as implying that Discord messages are private, so I wanted to clarify.
- Comment on Please suggest budget controllers for kaizo mario.. 5 days ago:
If you’re looking for something inexpensive and aren’t picky about the size of the analog stick dead zones, the Logitech F310 might be a good fit. Its D-pad works well in my experience.
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 5 days ago:
Just in case anyone reading this gets the impression that direct messages sent on Discord are private from Discord itself, they aren’t. If you were to send your face to a mod, or send anything to anyone there, then Discord would have it, too.
- Comment on My Skyrim followers tier list, hope it's not too controversial xoxo 1 week ago:
If we’re talking about mods, Zora Fair-Child (Interesting NPCs / 3dnpc) was fun, too.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
Yeah, they did. I wasn’t a fan of every part of Cyberpunk 2077, but I have to hand it to them: the gameplay was pretty solid compared to the mess I read about at launch. They even made the player controls responsive and reasonably nice to use. That alone was a huge improvement over Witcher 3.
(Geralt, I’ll never forgive you for all the times you stepped forward into danger when I pressed back to avoid it, or decided to fiddle about with a candle when there was something more important for your hands to do.)
I’m optimistic about this one.
- Comment on Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 1 week ago:
Will Astro’s Playroom or Astro Bot run on an emulator yet?
I would consider buying one or both of them if ported to PC, but somehow I suspect that’s unlikely to happen.
- Comment on The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024 1 week ago:
In this case, replace
/watch?v=with/embed/, but I don’t know if it works in every situation. - Comment on My Skyrim followers tier list, hope it's not too controversial xoxo 1 week ago:
I didn’t realise there were so many.
- Comment on The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024 1 week ago:
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Oh, piss off, Google.
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- Comment on Tencent reportedly wants a greater say over Ubisoft as investment discussions continue 2 weeks ago:
This is not shocking, but it’s nevertheless interesting, because it seems to disprove a naïve assumption that I’ve seen repeated over the years: that Tencent doesn’t influence the game companies it invests in.
- Comment on SpaceCraft | Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Mostly useless trailer, but after looking up the game, it looks like it could be fun.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC] 2 weeks ago:
Does he think books should be shorter because the years of authors’ lives spent composing them are also not sustainable?
I wonder if he’s aware that development budgets can be allocated in different ways, like paying good writers to make substantial (and long) stories, rather than pushing every new GPU/console generation to its technical limits.
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 weeks ago:
Let’s hope Intel’s build quality has improved since the A770.
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 weeks ago:
The comments I’ve read from current-generation Arc owners have given the impression that their Linux drivers are catching up to AMD. Here’s the latest info:
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- Comment on Blizzard may have violated the UK GDPR following my 2019 Data Erasure Request 3 weeks ago:
Did you attempt to close your account following the HK tournament controversy?
I stopped playing Blizzard games after that incident, because I’m not willing to populate the servers of a game company that punishes people for saying a few words in support of human rights. (I might eventually return, since Microsoft has replaced their upper management, but I’m not in a hurry.)
I never deleted my account, though, so I’m afraid I can’t offer another point of view on your situation.
- Comment on Day 134 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
These posts have become a “guess the game” game for me. I look at the thumbnail first, make my guess, and then open the post to see if I was right. :)
- Comment on Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically? 3 weeks ago:
Then… Why not just price it correctly to begin with?
I can’t speak for the people pricing these things, but suspect the answer has to do with whales, perceived value, shareholders, regional economics, and various other things.
I agree that lots of games are overpriced, though.
- Comment on Prime/GOG games that I do not wish to claim for myself 3 weeks ago:
I saw this too late to claim Monster Train, but I applaud you for sharing your leftovers. Some of us don’t have much of a games budget. Thanks for doing this!
- Comment on Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically? 3 weeks ago:
It’s about Volume.
Selling a thing to a million people for $5 makes more money than selling it to a thousand people for $70.
They’ll most likely return the price to $70 before long, so they can pick up a few whales who aren’t patient enough to wait for the next sale.
- Comment on Why you should buy your games on GOG 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about whether you benefit from clicks; it’s about how the post affects the community.
Unlike a text post, a bare link to a video cannot be quickly assessed by readers to determine what lies inside. Instead, it demands that people spend the time to follow the link and sit through at least part of the video, before they know whether it contains anything of value to them. Multiply that by the roughly 32 thousand members of this community, plus uncounted others who browse without subscribing, and it equals an enormous waste of other people’s time.
I think it’s fine to post a video that’s likely to interest or inform people, but in future, I hope you’ll include at least a summary of the content, and ideally something worthy of conversation: your insights, criticisms, questions, or other thoughts on the subject. That way, the post would have a good chance of reaching the people to whom it matters while respecting everyone else’s time, and be a decent contribution to the community rather than low-effort noise.
For what it’s worth, I agree that GOG is good. :)
- Comment on Why you should buy your games on GOG 3 weeks ago:
If you wanted to participate in this forum, you could have at least outlined your thoughts here, in text.
Posts like this one categorically earn a downvote from me, for treating us like a click farm.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
I’m approaching a thousand hours in Elite Dangerous. Quoting myself from a week or two ago:
It’s different to most other games, by not being goal-oriented except for the goals you set for yourself. No main quest line dictating progress. No mandatory tasks. No win condition. Instead, it drops you into a simulation of our entire galaxy roughly 1300 years in the future, where humanity has mastered hyperspace travel and spread through hundreds of star systems.
(To give an idea of the simulation’s scope: Around 85 million systems have been recorded by players so far, and those are a vanishingly small fraction of what’s out there. Space is big.)
I like that it offers a variety of activities to fit whatever mood I might be in on a given day. I can hunt pirates, mine asteroids, engage in a bit of piracy myself, find and collect bio samples, infiltrate rival settlements, venture into vast unexplored areas of space, discover Earth-like worlds that nobody has ever encountered before, defend humanity against hostile forces, photograph beautiful stellar phenomena, rescue stranded survivors, customize and finely tune my ship to perform beyond its original specs, team up with friends, pledge to a political power and expand their influence, or chill out as a space trucker and haul cargo to earn enough money for my next upgrade. It can occupy all my attention, or just be relaxing entertainment while I listen to music or an audiobook.
It’s an MMO in the sense of having a large game world (galaxy) shared by all players in real time, but PvP is optional. One mode exposes you to other players, while another limits you to NPC encounters. You can switch between them at will.
One warning: A space ship has more than a few controls to learn, and they’re better suited to a game controller or HOTAS than a keyboard and mouse. I use button combinations for almost everything beyond basic flight controls, since there aren’t enough buttons on a controller for everything.
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 4 weeks ago:
I love a well-crafted puzzle, but that’s not what most people mean when talking about game depth. You’re talking about different things.
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 4 weeks ago:
Meta-comment:
To the people who come into point-of-view threads like this one and downvote other people’s comments, how about writing about your own experiences instead? It would make Lemmy a nicer place to be, and might even add something of value to the discussion.