ampersandrew
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 31 minutes ago:
I have now caught up to where the show left off, and I’ll probably pick up the comics during an imminent sale somewhere. I did hear that this game would have an original story, and given all the deconstruction of its genre that that show does, it gets me excited that they’re doing something similar for tag fighting games. A riff on Storm from Marvel vs Capcom 2 would be perfect for that.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 day ago:
I played quite a bit of Pocket Tanks, but there’s a huge gulf between that and the public consciousness that came up around indie games in the summers of arcade.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 day ago:
Xbox 360 and Summer of Arcade are major pillars in bringing indie games into the spotlight around exactly that era. There may have been Darwinia and Ragdoll Kung Fu on Steam at the time, but it was the likes of Braid, Super Meat Boy, Bastion and such that really came up within the XBLA promotions.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 day ago:
What we think of as the rise of indie gaming was when they started getting publishers to promote them. You needed one in order to be listed on XBLA back in the day.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 days ago:
Hundreds of people worked on that game, as many as some AAA games, and yet games like Blue Prince, from a solo developer (or very close to it?) had to compete against that?
Moby Games lists 121 people in the credits for Blue Prince and 416 for Clair Obscur. At some point, the number of people who worked on a game is nearly arbitrary once your publisher enlists a QA contractor or starts localizing to more languages. I don’t think it’s ever been murkier territory to try to classify a game as indie.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 days ago:
Wuthering Waves should not be surprising. It’s a game that’s popular in China. If you’re polling people from all over the world to determine a winner, the one that wins is the most popular game in China.
Clair Obscur is a good game, but I definitely like it far less than everyone else, and if I were god of video game awards, it would have gone to Kingdom Come: Deliverance II this year.
Fatal Fury winning best fighting game was the objectively correct choice when faced against an early access game and several collections.
The Alters losing out to a port of a PS1 game, even a spruced up one, for the strategy category is pretty stupid. The Alters also should have shown up in narrative and performance.
As for reveals, there’s lots to be excited for. My most anticipated game for next year is probably Invincible Vs; I have not seen Ella Mental at where I’m at in the show, and maybe she won’t show up until later seasons, but she looks like a great Storm archetype for that game.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Indie games have to launch on steam or they fail miserably. Seriously though. This is why I roll my eyes at people who claim steam makes it breaks these games.
Those two things aren’t opposed though. Launching on Steam doesn’t guarantee success, but I believe what they’re claiming is that not launching on Steam more or less guarantees its failure.
- Comment on Order of the Sinking Star | Official Announcement Trailer 2 days ago:
Does anyone really care about a follow up to two amazing puzzle games? Yes.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 2 days ago:
What you need to do in that case is be prepared for lots of smaller games to not hit, and then eventually one will that will make up for all the experiments you did along the way. That’s how they and their peers used to operate before they all tripled down on those big hits and stopped making new IPs.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 2 days ago:
It’s short by JRPG standards, and if you find a deep enough sale, I’d say there’s still a good chance you’ll be into it and it’s worth a try. It’s very JRPG but also very different from others I’ve played at the same time.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 2 days ago:
Ubisoft generally has an extremely efficient pipeline for producing a lot of games that play extremely similarly.
- Submitted 2 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 2 days ago:
Starfield was undoubtedly inspired by Interstellar and such, which is extremely my style, but even though it had some ideas here and there, the execution was what bothered me, and that’s why I’d like to see Larian’s take on the same kind of setting.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 2 days ago:
I’d very much like to see them do a sci-fi setting, like Starfield, but as a turn-based CRPG (with more thought and heart put into it).
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 2 days ago:
Larian’s next game is the teased statue that Keighley tweeted, so they’ll have something to announce tonight. The only thing they said it isn’t is Divinity: Original Sin 3, but it could be a different Divinity RPG, or a looter like the old-school Divinities, or a new Dragon Commander, or a new spin-off entirely. They’re also a multi-project studio now.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 2 days ago:
Well, you said those were the only AAA devs that weren’t making money printing skinner boxes, and we had plenty of counter examples just this year. Obsidian put out 2 or 3 games this year, depending on how you count, and it wouldn’t be crazy for them to have an announcement for a game coming next year.
Absolutely give those two games a try; they’re high on the TGA’s lists for a reason.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 3 days ago:
The jury is composed of the review outlets, not the studios. It does have a bias toward larger games, because the outlets reviewing games have an incentive to more reliably cover the games that most of their audience will be interested in, but it’s not because Sony’s voting for themselves to win.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 3 days ago:
We know HL3 is happening, and if you trust Jeff Grubb (you probably should), we know nothing is happening with Bloodborne right now.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 3 days ago:
On the other hand, winning an award from this show has a tangible effect on game sales, so it’s nice when a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 can beat the mainstays like The Legend of Zelda and earn that bump for themselves.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 3 days ago:
I guess that depends on where your cutoff is for AAA, but if you’re including FromSoft, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II just came out this year at a similar level of budget and production value. And I know people have their issues with Unreal, but it really has raised the bar for what a “AA” might be capable of. The likes of Avowed, The Outer Worlds 2, The Alters, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 this year (and games like The Thaumaturge last year) are all what we would have expected out of a AAA game in the not-too-distant past, most of which comes down to scope, where a lot of AAAs are arguably doing too much.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 3 days ago:
Always a highlight of the show. I hope he never cuts his hair.
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: 'Dark Heresy's Upcoming Alpha Launches Next Week 3 days ago:
Thanks. I know nothing of Warhammer other than the stuff that took inspiration from it.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
There’s click bait, and then there’s rage bait. Veritasium never tried to get me upset about gravity not being a force with a thumbnail of an evil Albert Einstein saying, “HE LIED”.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
If you want to know if this YouTube channel is of any value whatsoever, click on the channel, then click on videos, and take a look at every video thumbnail and title, and you’ll have your answer.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
In fact, Mat Piscatella of Circana says, “On the hardware side, PS5 saw the most extensive discounting. So, it got a big sales lift. Wouldn’t take much more away from the week than that, tbh.”
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: 'Dark Heresy's Upcoming Alpha Launches Next Week 3 days ago:
Does anyone know if this will have any story hooks whatsoever to Rogue Trader? Because if so, I’m compelled to play that one first, but then this becomes a scheduling problem for me.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 4 days ago:
Because it’s been the best-selling game of the year almost every year for 20 years.
- Comment on Evo Japan and Las Vegas 2026 lineups announced 4 days ago:
All of these games are demanding of skill and have mechanical depth. Except Hokuto No Ken, but they still put that on Japan’s roster.
- Comment on Evo Japan and Las Vegas 2026 lineups announced 4 days ago:
It’s a larger scene than the likes of Rivals of Aether II or Virtua Fighter 5, but there’s more at play for game selection than just that. And remember that when it comes to copies sold, Mortal Kombat 1 having a bad day is still about as good as Street Fighter or Tekken having a great day.
- Submitted 4 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments