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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 4 days ago:
Lonely Mountains: Downhill. A voxel indie mountain bike riding game that basically has you trying to ride down various mountain trails in shorter times and with less crashes. Very chill game, good for parents who don’t have a lot of time to game anymore.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 1 week ago:
Final fantasy tactics is decent on android too
- Comment on Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job 2 weeks ago:
Waiting for the inevitable April Fools realisation.
- Comment on OpenAI Finalizes $40 Billion Funding at $300 Billion Valuation 2 weeks ago:
While I agree with you, ChatGPT is the one that people really know about in the mainstream. It is Normie AI
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 2 weeks ago:
Syncthing?
- Comment on Let's discuss: Grand Theft Auto 2 weeks ago:
Adding swimming into san andreas was a bit deal to me.
I’ve played them all on release since GTA3 and of course I loved 3/vice city, but the addition of stats and being able to get jacked meant I was able to basically live in the game.
- Comment on Nintendo Direct Confirmed For Tomorrow, 27th March 2025 3 weeks ago:
Please be real…
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like someone is in some financial terrible with TSLA dropping.
- Comment on DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next 5 weeks ago:
This is the biggest thing stopping me from donating to Firefox, or Mozilla in general. CEO salary should not be that high for basically a not-for-profit.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 5 weeks ago:
Move fast and break things tends to create broken systems.
- Comment on Trump tariffs threaten the future of physical video games, analyst warns 1 month ago:
“Game preservationists have long argued that a move to a digital-only future will cause games to be lost forever if proper preservation measures aren’t put in place.”
Unfortunately, even physical game discs so often don’t contain the full game files and requires access to servers in order to download and access the game. No longer is buying physical the answer to the game preservation problem.
- Comment on 🔔(1) A somehow even more controversial Pokemon post 1 month ago:
Literally my first DM
- Comment on Kaizen: A Factory Story makes a game of perfecting 1980s Japanese manufacturing 1 month ago:
I’ve not heard of Zachtronics, but love puzzle games. Do you have a recommended one of theirs?
- Comment on 🔔(1) A somehow even more controversial Pokemon post 1 month ago:
Did every single person get these DMs from her?
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 months ago:
That was the case for me when I got my PS5, I had to manually set the PS5 to being the primary, even though I didn’t even own the PS4 any more.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 months ago:
PS4 may still be your primary console.
- Comment on Game Pass sets quarterly revenue record, sees 30% growth in PC subscribers 2 months ago:
How good does Doom run! It is incredibly well optimised. My steam deck was getting a solid 60fps on medium settings from memory.
- Comment on Game Pass sets quarterly revenue record, sees 30% growth in PC subscribers 2 months ago:
Oh, I thought Fable was getting released sometime later this year. Google suggests as much.
- Comment on Game Pass sets quarterly revenue record, sees 30% growth in PC subscribers 2 months ago:
I had a game pass sub a couple of years ago and quit it because the games that I wanted to play quickly ran out. I had a sub for a month until a few days ago and I must say game pass is in a way better place than it used to be.
Nine Sols, Kunitsu Gami, Cocoon, Chants of Senaar and black ops 6 campaign were all unexpectedly good experiences.
- Comment on Game Pass sets quarterly revenue record, sees 30% growth in PC subscribers 2 months ago:
Black Ops 6 and Indiana Jones released in this measured quarter. Mainly COD pulling these numbers up.
- Comment on Many people left Meta after Zuckerberg's changes, but user numbers have rebounded 2 months ago:
I think because it is clearly the platform with the most useful content hosted on there. People complain about YouTube, but I think it and Wikipedia stand as the most valuable websites on the net for me.
- Comment on A Pivot To Indie won’t save us [AURAMBLES blog] 2 months ago:
I haven’t thought too deep about my desire for the industry to push to indie, but this was an interesting read.
Another point that I’ve thought though, is that marketing budgets are insanely high in AAA in order to cut through the noise of the rest of social media.
I would imagine that if EA or whoever was pumping out 10 times as many games, they would need to share that marketing budget equally. The chance for cut-through for each game would be small and many of the projects wouldn’t even make financial sense compared to putting bets on a smaller number of the bigger budget games. The game release cadence would be really confusing and noisy, with people not knowing what is worth playing.
Very much agree with the last point about games being profitable as fuck. It should be enough that the industry is making shed loads of money above cost without the need to increase shareholder value every quarter by cutting jobs.
I wonder how much of the ballooning cost of AAA budgets due to losing technical expertise by staff turnover/churn? I can’t imagine that creates an atmosphere of efficiency.
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 3 months ago:
You could add them to your steam family to give them access to your library?
Otherwise, seeing as he’s played a lot of console games, maybe an RTS would be a good option? Something where kB+m is a better controller layout.
- Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 3 months ago:
Strange that that’s the case. The thing that made the Witcher 3 good was the writing of the side quests, not the combat.
Not sure if I’ve played a game that’s pivoted to be more like the Witcher that has met that standard in that regard.
- Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 3 months ago:
Mass Effect Trilogy and DA: Origins came out after the EA acquisition though. It seems like everything post ME:3 has been disappointing though.
- Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+ 3 months ago:
I bought Alan Wake 2, and glad I did. Accidentally decided to buy Red Dead redemption 2 on there because of a discount code making it much cheaper than steam a couple of years ago.
Huge mistake. I added it as a non-steam game so now to launch Red Dead redemption 2. I need to launch steam which then launches epic which then launches Rockstar Games launcher which then launches the game.
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - PC Announcement Trailer (Coming Jan 23, 2025) 3 months ago:
Maybe! There’s much bigger spaces in this one, more assets to load etc. Recommended specs are an RTX 2060 for 1080p 60fps medium settings. I would say the steam deck sits around there?
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - PC Announcement Trailer (Coming Jan 23, 2025) 3 months ago:
Oh man I’m very impressed with it. First “console” in many years that I’ve been really really happy with.
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - PC Announcement Trailer (Coming Jan 23, 2025) 3 months ago:
It’s surprisingly capable hardware. Doom External was running at solid 60FPS on medium or high settings (can’t remember) for me. Sure, it’s a very well optimised game, but it’s a real looker too.
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - PC Announcement Trailer (Coming Jan 23, 2025) 3 months ago:
I don’t think it will run very well there, we can have hope though