ampersandrew
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- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 2 hours ago:
I’ve definitely found games that I thought were worth $100, and they often refuse to even go as high as $70. Probably the only one that I thought was worth $100 and charged that much for it was Street Fighter 6.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 21 hours ago:
Another commenter already gave you the answer, but it truly sucks that we’ve gotten so used to this that you can’t imagine an alternative.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 1 day ago:
I’ll add, “my government might get pissed off at one of the companies involved” to my list of reasons why always-online games are a terrible idea.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 days ago:
I couldn’t know that until I got home, and this article summarized everything just fine as well as embedding the source video in it.
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 2 days ago:
I don’t know what the market at large wants, but I suspect its failure is based at least in part on the fact that the purchase has zero value if other people don’t also value it, so the customer is now more reserved with their time and money unless a game seems like it’s going to take off, which would theoretically make nearly every a game a huge success or total failure. What I want is for a scalable multiplayer shooter that gracefully handles 1-X players, and I hardly care what X is as long as it’s more than 3. Let me host it on a LAN and play split-screen, and give me a deathmatch mode, among other things. We used to get this kind of shooter all the time, and now I’m starving for one, to the point that I’d happily have picked up Concord if it was that game, even with its wonky-ass character designs.
- Comment on After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game 2 days ago:
When a game cost that much to make and didn’t launch with big numbers, there was no prayer of it ever making money.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 days ago:
It was early morning at jury selection, and I did not bring headphones with me.
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 3 days ago:
Well, yeah. If it’s clearly never going to recover, why keep spending money on it? They already took it as a total loss by refunding everyone, so that was probably cheaper than holding out for a recovery that wasn’t going to happen.
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 3 days ago:
Keeping it running has ongoing costs involved. It would just be setting money on fire.
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 3 days ago:
Concord likely wasn’t shit but also was just thoroughly not something that anyone was asking for.
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 3 days ago:
Keeping engaging content on an ongoing basis seems to be such an unreachable target for most devs and game designs that it’s undoing large swaths of the industry.
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- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 days ago:
It had worth to me, as someone who was stuck in a place where it was unacceptable to watch a video but was acceptable instead to read a summary quietly.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 days ago:
I would not put it past Nintendo to charge you $70 for Tears of the Kingdom again so that you can run it at reasonable resolutions and frame rates this time.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 days ago:
The old games were beaten by a Twitch chat sending little more than random inputs to the game. Maybe the newer ones are worse, but let’s be real.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 days ago:
There’s a disclaimer that says not every Switch 1 game will work, but I think it will play on the new Switch with the same lousy performance it has now unless you buy the Switch 2 version.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 days ago:
Are you prepared to have to buy the game again to do that? I don’t know it for sure, but it’s how I expect Nintendo to operate.
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- Comment on Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched 5 days ago:
As it stands now, it’s difficult for the consumer to make the informed choice that you can make with any of those. And the comparison is that you’d prefer cigarettes that didn’t cause cancer, because they absolutely have the ability to make cigarettes that don’t cause cancer in this metaphor, but they choose not to because they believe they stand to make more money the way things are.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched 5 days ago:
Depends on the territory. The argument is that the practice as it stands now is against current consumer laws in places like the UK. Functionally, even if they were forced to provide this disclaimer, it would still lead to the current state of things being less lucrative and would discourage the practice anyway, which I would still call some kind of a win.
- Comment on Hacker Broke into ‘Path of Exile 2’ Admin Account, Hijacked Wave of Characters 6 days ago:
Sure would, but I’m going to set my hopes very low for that one. The best way to make this happen would be to only buy and play their competitors that are more future proofed.
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- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 6 days ago:
Nope, but there are surely deals that are locked up in this thing’s launch, and I’ve got an unannounced 3D Mario game on my Fantasy Critic roster.
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 6 days ago:
Plans can change in the course of a year. At the time, that probably was their plan, and that it didn’t happen doesn’t make it a guess. We’re hearing this same reveal on the 16th from multiple corroborating sources at this point.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev Larian Says Its 'Full Attention' Is on Its Next Game, 'Media Blackout' for the Foreseeable 6 days ago:
There was an interview with Vincke right around award season last year where he said they already knew their next project and were expecting to beat the development time on BG3 in a world without a new eastern European war or a new pandemic. It was something like, “We think it’ll take us 3 years, so it’ll probably take 4.” I’m looking forward to hearing more in 2027.
- Comment on Nintendo will reportedly reveal Switch 2 this week | VGC 1 week ago:
This holiday season for that one then, with Mario Kart allegedly coming at launch.
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- Comment on Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make 1 week ago:
No worries. There are lots of kinds of games we used to get a lot of back in the day, but their successors or spiritual successors don’t get the kind of attention or marketing that the industry giants do. Often times, if you miss a certain kind of game, just start searching for “modern games like X”, and you’ll probably find it.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 week ago:
Game Pass subscribers and people who play games with kernel level anti-cheat do.
- Comment on Freejam studio closing with Robocraft and Robocraft 2 shutting down 1 week ago:
I started playing at the end of 2015. I saw the game go through a bunch of different forms. The people pulling higher tier weapons into lower tier bots were mostly doing all-in strategies around that weapon, because they didn’t have enough budget left for much else, IIRC. But it was going to be mathematically impossible to support to 10 tiers of 10v10 matches as the game went on anyway, and it became a really fun competitive game with no tiers in early 2017. Then they went for some kind of half-assed return to tiers at the end of 2018 that made no one happy.