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- Comment on Prince of Persia remake apparently still on track for 2026, per Ubisoft 1 day ago:
The lost crown was extremely refreshing.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 day ago:
Loll, people will never stop getting these confused
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 days ago:
I don’t know if offgassing is the reason the water tastes better when cooled overnight. I would do this with an enclosed bottle (no off-gassing possible) and it would taste equally better.
Definitely cooling it is an improvement, I always thought it tasted different due to how our mouth/taste buds responds to the dropping temperature.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 3 days ago:
Indeed. I think the last 6 months have been great value for PC game pass. Of course it goes against the OP/thread sentiment that Xbox is ripping everyone off.
I buy on steam/key resellers at heavy discount most of the time, but game pass allows me to play new release games that are in the “looks interesting, but I’m not dropping full price to try this out” category of games.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 4 days ago:
I think if you’re playing 1 new release game every month or two, you’re getting the value. I’m enjoying Avowed and Doom the Dark ages recently, but I’m very glad I didn’t pay for Doom.
Xbox has kind of been on a roll lately with the games they’ve added.
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 5 days ago:
Regarding BP:
spoiler
Yeah, it feels like rolling credits on blue prince is just the beginning. I think you could have 100 hours in BP.
I feel the same way but will put more time into it if I get it on steam one day
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 6 days ago:
The comment I replied to believed that both the console and the game price is a scam, that is their valid opinion.
They criticised OP for “half caring about the rip off pricing”. OP didn’t think the console had ripoff pricing. Why is that a character flaw of op like is suggested by the commenter?
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 1 week ago:
I played Blue Prince and Clair Obscur back to back on Game pass and I’ve got to say that these were two of the best games I’ve ever played in their respective genre. Makes me want to go back and try Myst/Riven.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
Didn’t realise that consoles were sports teams that you were either in the club or out of it. OP is allowed to have a nuanced take.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 1 week ago:
The new Asus Xbox would be really cool if they got quick resume working. That would then be a really decent Game pass + windows handheld machine. I can’t see myself moving away from my steam deck OLED for a while, quickly resume is the killer feature.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 1 week ago:
I’m an Australian so I’m not 100% sure on what you’re paying for other consoles at the moment, but the switch 2 hardware is cheaper than the base disc PS5 slim and Xbox series X over here. Don’t even get me started on PC hardware.
Xbox raising their prices to $80 isn’t a good sign. Sony increased the price of the PS5 over here recently even though it won’t be subject to any tariffs, to subsidise their losses in the US.
All that is to say that Nintendo aren’t being so anti-competitive relative to the industry that I think they’re going to be forced to drop prices
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 1 week ago:
I think the average PC gamer on Lemmy isn’t going to see the value in the Switch 2. I think for people that want things to just work the switch is a great console.
The Switch 2 is getting a little greedy with paid upgrades to switch 2 performance for switch 1 games, and that goes against the “just works” ethos.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
If they can’t do that then this thing is kind of DOA. I’ve just assumed for some reason that this is what they’re doing.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
LTT describes that the XBOX team have also trimmed down 2GB of W11 desktop bloat with this and have attempted to make the W11 experience more similar to a console. I’m curious to follow this. I’d imagine Microsoft are a bit intimidated by the fact that SteamOS is a better gaming OS than Windows. Obviously this must have been in the pipeline for a long time now.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
Totally. And then these rebuttals are time consuming to fact check too.
- Comment on Is this genocide denial? 1 week ago:
How very Petersonian of Person 1. JP would be proud by that level of semantics.
- Comment on Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Cinematic Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Honestly the likeness of John Snow is crazy good here. Not sure if it will be a good RTS, but the timing seems really late considering GoT wrapped up 6 years ago.
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture - Launch Trailer 1 week ago:
This game nailed the Souls game feel. Looking forward to trying out the DLC.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
Haha that’s an interesting 20fps cap option.
I want to give an example of Final Fantasy VII for the PS1. The battles in that game have very low frame rate, about 18 FPS. I modded the game on steam a couple of years ago and unlocked the frame rate, so it was running at 60fps.
I remember it was transformative to the point where it was unsettling to look at, because I had become so accustomed to 18 FPS for that game.
Absolutely after a few battles I preferred it, but it did strike me that some aspect of the games’ identity was tied to that low FPS. Nostalgia is a powerful thing for me.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 week ago:
I think player expectations play a big role here. It’s because you grew up with 20fps on ocarina of time that you accept how it looks.
I’m pretty sure that game is not a locked 20 FPS and can jump around a bit between 15-20, so the argument that it is locked 20 and so feels smooth doesn’t really convince me.
If that game came out today as an indie game it would be getting trashed for its performance.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 1 week ago:
He also refuses to admit that most Christians wouldn’t define God in the way that he does.
Peterson is in practice an atheist that has successfully monetised right wing religious conservatives, and can’t risk alienating that base by admitting that he doesn’t have belief in anything close to resembling the way that they do.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
Blue Prince was incredible. Any game where you need to keep a physical notepad next to you gets points in my book. If you’ve not played Return of the Obra Dinn I’d rec that for that same experience.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
I’ve been wrapping up endgame dungeons in Clair Obscur this week, having played through the story last week. I was a big PS1 final fantasy fan as a kid that later got into dark souls/Sekiro, so this game hit so hard for me. I can’t recommend it strongly enough if you’ve been a fan of these genres.
- Comment on MindsEye boss claims game's negative reaction ahead of release has been paid for in "concerted effort" against studio 2 weeks ago:
Yep bastard got me too
- Comment on Screenshot of my current game! Lies of P 2 weeks ago:
The parry system in this game rules.
- Comment on Clair Obscur's Composer Talks Going From Unknown To Scoring 2025's Most Celebrated RPG 3 weeks ago:
I just started the game last night. Holy shit that opening prologue was incredible, and the music did so much for the atmosphere of loss/melancholy.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 3 weeks ago:
Also, it reviewed well but with some annoying caveats.
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 3 weeks ago:
Alex Garland is a pretty good director. Ex Machina is one of my favourite films and Annihilation was a demonstration that he isn’t so tied down by the source media, but does capture the spiritual essence of a book adaptation, at least.
He’s a pretty proven writer and director and has written for video games before (DMC 2013). Elden Ring as a universe has a lot of interesting angles you could approach a story from. I think as an action souls game adaptation , it will be hard to avoid trying to please the two groups of people: one that wants a compelling narrative and another that just wants to see a big boss fight on screen.
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 3 weeks ago:
Without clicking, I know exactly what one this is lol
