ms_lane
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- Comment on pro-self language 3 days ago:
oh it’s the .ml guide?
- Comment on Chocolate - The World's First Wii U GamePad Adapter for PC 1 week ago:
USA only unfortunately.
- Comment on The throne 1 week ago:
Squat Toilet Supremacy
- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 1 week ago:
To be fair, ‘PlayStation’ is an American brand now, SCE is headquartered in California.
- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 1 week ago:
Switch2 is selling insanely well in Japan as they have their special Japan-only subsidised version. (¥49,980/~USD$313)
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 1 week ago:
Increasingly yes, Unity is spyware and UE5 games all play, look and feel the same.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t consider the main Dragon Quest to be AAA, let alone the spin-off builders game…
- Comment on Bethesda has released a major update for Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on Nintendo Switch 2, significantly improving the overall experience on the console. 2 weeks ago:
Probably still sooner than GTA6 on PC.
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say any update.
The game should be fit for purpose, bug fixes should be expected.
New content should not, a ‘roadmap’ should not be expected. But I do expect the game to work.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 3 weeks ago:
I know the topic is prices increasing due to scarcity of parts, but Nintendo should have expected exactly that outcome when they started subsidising the Japan-only consoles with higher prices elsewhere…
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 3 weeks ago:
And generally not very high quality.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 3 weeks ago:
Can’t slowly upgrade a PS5 into a PS6 though.
You can on PC.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 3 weeks ago:
Third the employees.
Reminder that Skyrim was made with a staff of ~300, that included revamping Gamebryo into Creation.
Devs with ~1000 devs using UE5 - what are the people even doing other than useless meetings?
- Comment on As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Development of the arts is supposed to be for arts that could never stand on their own feet commercially though.
Game publishers shouldn’t ever be getting a cent.
Game developers shouldn’t either unless the game is released for free.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 3 weeks ago:
Regular slop, ground truth data structured slop
It all flows downhill.
- Comment on Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people' 4 weeks ago:
I have no plans on buying any mods from Bethesda.
Why?
Because there is no guarantee of interoperability.
With mods from Nexus and friends, I have no expectation of compatibility between gratis mods made by people in their free time. (even though mod authors usually go to great pains to make sure they’re compatible with most anything that isn’t another mod doing the same thing)
If I’m paying for a ‘mod’ (really just DLC) - I expect a paid level of support.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 4 weeks ago:
If GenZ has a BS meter, it’s wired backwards.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 4 weeks ago:
Viralbility, memebility, social media and coop are the heart of it
So, ‘Authenticity’ really means ‘astroturfing’ in this context?
- Comment on I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year! 4 weeks ago:
Not with that attitude Kif!
Assemble the men, we’re turning off clipping.
You’re right though, it’s a lot of cliff wall hugging or diverting to hidden valley.
- Comment on I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year! 4 weeks ago:
There is a safe route through there though, multiple in fact.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 5 weeks ago:
I’ll preface by saying I don’t think it’s a good idea, but-
Fallout TV Show (and friends) have brought a lot of new people to gaming that might have eschewed it before, a lot of those people have on idea what they’re doing in videogames.
An ‘AI assistant’ could help in a face-saving way (consider a 60 year old father who’s never played, and possibly chastised games in the past, is now getting into Fallout NV due to the TV show - asking their kids that they ridiculed about games would be embarrassing, but asking an AI may not be)
Basically, letting old people who hated videogames, play videogames.
- Comment on Crimson Desert's PS5 Physical Edition Won’t Run Without 48GB Day-One Download 5 weeks ago:
So it’s a “Game Key Disc”?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Well modding is out of the question then, so the game is a hard drop from me.
- Comment on Sony Faces $2.7 Billion UK Lawsuit Over PlayStation Store Monopoly Claims | TechPowerUp} 5 weeks ago:
No, go after them all.
I personally don’t think Valve is abusing a monopoly position, but it should be tested nonetheless.
Lootboxes and Gambling on the other hand, Gabe has a lot to answer for.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 month ago:
I know I’ll never be trying or buying Helldivers after this, the community as a whole are just bad people who idolise Nazi imagery.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 month ago:
If it’s allowed to run Linux, it’ll be better than the Steam Machine.
Microslop, for their faults, actually does get custom hardware from AMD - Valve uses repurposed parts which is much cheaper for their smaller runs.
I think it’ll be fully locked down though, but if it’s not - i’d wager it’ll make a better Steam Machine than Steam Machine.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 1 month ago:
Constellations is a good mod collection on Nexusmods.
- Comment on 10!=10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1 1 month ago:
neat
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 month ago:
Xbox died the day Peter Moore left.
- Comment on Nintendo is issuing refunds for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition's poorly-received premium Switch 2 Edition upgrade 1 month ago:
Image - Video from Reddit.
It only affects handheld mode, but there is shimmering and upscaling artifacts. In docked mode it’s fine.
It’s not really worth AUD$8/US$5 though, it’s only a resolution and framerate upgrade (60fps mode already existed but was masked out, it’s been available on emulators using the official code since last year) and it’s still only SDR. Mario Odyssey had a free upgrade which added 4k/60 AND HDR.