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- Comment on Star Citizen relabels alpha 4.11 to alpha 5.0 and dates its next Intergalactic Aerospace Expo free-fly event 2 days ago:
That’s a fair point.
You know the story of Freelancer’s development?
Yes, indeed. Good game with mods.
- Comment on Star Citizen relabels alpha 4.11 to alpha 5.0 and dates its next Intergalactic Aerospace Expo free-fly event 2 days ago:
And what if the complete parts game are the 30 hours of cutscenes of questionable quality? With gameplay not really being complete or well made.
Remember that Chris Roberts wrote himself into the lore as both the saviour of humanity and person who made spaceflight be near universal!
Roberts Space Industries was officially formed in 2038 on Earth by a young inventor named Chris Roberts, who established the core tenets of the company’s philosophy long before he began working on his first creation.
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Earth was reaching a critical mass of overpopulation, and numerous wars erupted across the planet as the populace faced food, water, and energy shortages. Roberts formed a team to address some of the issues of the day. In 2043, RSI released its first product, a hyper-efficient battery converter for ground-based civilian vehicles. The company’s initial products ranged from a compact water-purification system to an energy-efficient power network, and included a small expansion into cricket farming.
Because Roberts had long dreamed of making space travel more accessible, he met with the graduate and assembled a team to build a more affordable engine for spacecraft. The process was not without setbacks, but on 2075-05-03 RSI unveiled its prototype quantum core engine.
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The Quantum drive technology was immediately recognized around the world. Exploration missions became feasible, as piloted vessels could now push further into the solar system. Various states (called “countries” at that time) that previously could not afford space travel were suddenly able to embark on missions of their own.
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Making space more accessible did not solve the overpopulation on Earth, so Roberts pulled together a dedicated team from RSI’s various subsidiaries to develop the company’s most ambitious technology yet: terraforming a planet. This pursuit became Roberts’ obsession until he died in 2108. Although terraforming remained elusive during his life, the new CEO continued his corporate philosophy of seeking out innovators. After two generations of team members and almost forty years, RSI unveiled the world’s first Atmo-Processor on 2113-04-21, which laid the groundwork for terraforming a world.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Wing Commander: The Movie, it’s an entertaining and often very funny movie. Saffron Burrows is always very nice, and even Freddie Prinz Jr. and Lillard are fun. But I would not watch 30 hours of Wing Commander: The Movie, it’s just too much.
Not to mention “Top Gun”-style American military space might have been ok in 2014, but it’s a bit passe in this day and age.
- Star Citizen relabels alpha 4.11 to alpha 5.0 and dates its next Intergalactic Aerospace Expo free-fly eventmassivelyop.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Hey,
Once you release the play-test, it might be worth cross-posting to:
!bside@fedia.io
!adventuregames@retrolemmy.com
Good luck!
- Comment on GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good" 3 weeks ago:
GTA2 has under-rated world-building (there is not much writing), it was humourous in many ways, but also subtly dark and dystopian in a way that I don’t think we’ll ever see in GTA again.
- Comment on GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good" 3 weeks ago:
Even if avoid discussion about subjective versus objective, there is also context.
Ray Liotta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino did a great job.
The soundtrack/score (remember the intro scene) was also very good and has only gotten better with age.
The film is also very stylish.
That covered for the writing, which is its own thing.
- GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good"www.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Star Citizen answers select player questions about flight, damage, and bugged missions 5 weeks ago:
Are they doing a rip-off of the styling of the newer Mad Max series? I am personally waiting for waiting for a more focused rip-off of the newer Dune movies (I know they have a fake sandworm, but I am looking for more low quality copying).
- Star Citizen answers select player questions about flight, damage, and bugged missionsmassivelyop.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Former NFL coach Mike Tomlin is sharing a massive Minecraft city he spent twelve years buildingmassivelyop.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on as a young person, what must one look for when it comes to finding a new country to live in? 10 months ago:
I’ve lived in 5 countries across 3 continents, so I do have some perspective on this.
The first point is finding out local immigration laws, even if you don’t need a tourist visa, you will need legal authorization to stay in a country on a more permanent basis.
Which brings me to my second point, you need local employment to get authorization for permanent stay (or proof of above average independent income).
Another option is to go study in a country. This is expensive and you will need to win scholarships if you don’t have a lot of money. Countries always try to make money on foreign students.
Another option is to teach English, but this is likely harder than it used to be (15 years ago or so). Although it is worth exploring this opportunity, unlikely to work for EU though.
Do you have any relatives in other countries? Close friends?
I will speculate it’s going to be difficult to move to Netherlands if you don’t have family or a skillset that is in high demand.
I would explore developing countries where you can likely get a good job (by local standards, so $1,000 to $2,500) if you have a degree and some solid work experience.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 10 months ago:
I believe Cyberpunk 2077 was a success. 35 million copies 35 million units and $750+ M revenues.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 10 months ago:
Haha, that pretty shit level software. Usually it took a little bit more effort than to just kill it in task manager.
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 Review - Not the game I was looking for 10 months ago:
Haven’t watched this particular YT, but from other video and text reviews that I have watched/read, it’s basically a relatively generic vampire themed action-adventure. It’s not an RPG in the least, some of the RPG-lite elements look comically dumb.
- Comment on The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless 10 months ago:
Cheers!
- Submitted 10 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 11 months ago:
I don’t know about that. If Valve made Left 4 Dead 3 with some minor iterative improvements (better graphics, same gameplay, maybe a new mode) and no trash monetisation (B2P like the first two games), I think it would be very successful.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 11 months ago:
Back 4 Live Service Game Failure
- Comment on 11 months ago:
When you use steam, do you mail Newell the cash?
- Comment on 11 months ago:
How does that contradict what I said?
You think living in Ukraine, I would be aware of the exact scope of sanctions against russia (and the massive loopholes)?
- Comment on 11 months ago:
From the article:
For context, Steam currently doesn’t allow direct purchases by Russian players, in accordance with western sanctions, so Russian buyers have to make use of workarounds such as third-party key resellers.
Btw, I knew this before reading the article. Do a web search around how these workarounds operate (the example cited by RPS isn’t the only one,).
- Comment on 11 months ago:
I respect your reasoning and I agree that it would massively increase piracy in russia, but remember, russia is sanctioned; Valve isn’t supposed to be selling to russians in the first place.
Disagree on impact on global piracy rates. Pirated games were widely available via public russia sources such as rutracker.org.
You don’t even need to know russian as all titles have english headings.
Here is a link to Vampire Bloodlines 2, originally release on October 21st, with consistent updates since then, last one being on November 18th:
rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6761118
You don’t need to speak russian to figure out what “magnet-ссылке” with a magnet icon refers to.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
I strongly disagree, the Workers & Resource DLC link can provide some insights on this; russian language reviews talk about “getting salo for the Ukrainians” and whataboutism about Palestine (like they care about Palestine, if anything most russians tend to support Israel). There is lots of anti-Ukrainian, pro-invasion russian language commentary on Steam.
We’ve lived in russia as an expat family for many years, we left as soon as our finances allowed us to (this was was before the russians invaded Georgia in 2008).
Then there is broader research on russian support for the full scale invasion; even using demographic splits (e.g. people aged 18 to 24, highly educated russians, high income russians), all demographic segments show at least majority support for the full scale invasion (with almost all segment groups showing at strong majority support and very commonly overwhelming majority support).
With respect to arguments that “people are afraid to show their true views”; there are multiple research pieces that specifically account for preference falsification. Some russians do hide their preferences, but this group is so small that even with preference falsification adjustments you have a strong majority support (65%+) for the full scale invasion. That’s specifically the full scale invasion (i.e. 2022), with respect to the annexation of Crimea, preference falsification was found to be not statistically significant with the respect to the baseline ~85% support for the annexation of Crimea.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
What’s wrong with Steam getting blocked in Russia? It’s not like Valve allows direct purchases by russian users.
Russian users losing access to their libraries without VPN is their own problem. They are responsible for their government, no one else.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
So Valve does not accept money from russian users directly (the roundabout methods are well known by russian users and Valve does nothing in this case even though it act against similar methods when publishers make the call), so why would they even care what Roskomnadzor? What can Roskomnadzor do to Valve?
I will note that Valve also does nothing about genocidal imperialist russian reviews on this DLC for support of Ukraine in Workers in Resources:
I’m from Donetsk. We have been bombarded since 2014 by the state in which I was born and lived. Declaring us enemies of the people. I am for the Russian SVO. Buy a dls only because of the Zaporizhia NPP, it is well made <3
You can check the number of civilians deaths in Donbas in 2014 vs 2022 to present and look at what happened to cities like Bahmut during the russian invasion. Not to mention the 1.5 million Ukrainians who had to leave just in 2014 (including my family members).
And yet we have to hear faux-libertarian polemics about alleged belief in “freedom of speech” and arrogant gibberish about “I am a free speech absolutist!” from individuals who know nothing about the value of free speech.
I said it before and I will say it again, American companies cannot be relied upon as a source of digital services. Both for systematic reasons (submission to the local oligarch/criminal regime) and philosophical reasons (a culture of ignorance and lack of desire to go beyond theatrical proclamations about freedom of this or freedom of that).
Let’s say you think I am being uncharitable in my attitude. Then tell me, why does Valve even read notices from Roskomnadzor (not to mention implementing their orders)? Russia is sanctioned and they are not supposed be able to make purchases at all. And yet Valve feels the need to follow orders from Roskomnadzor. What’s the logic here?
- Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interviewmassivelyop.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- MoviePass emerges from bankruptcy to run a fantasy filmmaking [crypto] game called Mogulwww.techspot.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs 1 year ago:
I think this is due to the broader “move towards AI”, gaming was big around COVID, now it’s in massive decline, at least in terms of employment and investment opportunities, if not actual revenues.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 year ago:
Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).
Crime isn’t only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature consideration) is also criminal activity.
They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.
- Comment on Celeste Mountain art 1 year ago:
Cool art, but yeah this is spam.