ms_lane
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- Comment on I am propane and propane accessories 2 days ago:
Lego piece 28125 (Limmy)
- Comment on Stop Killing Games: The POG Act has passed at the CA State Assembly! 2 days ago:
‘poggers’
- Comment on Fable is delayed to Feb 2027 | via Wario64 2 days ago:
They release them sometimes, but only after they’ve gone through a period of mandatory enshittification.
ie. Apparently Starfield didn’t just have a regenerating O^2 meter before Phil got his changes in, the reason there are so many ‘almost interactable’ O^@ containers around is you were able to run out. Fuel too.
The game would be a lot more suspenseful with those features.
Then you’ve got RedFall, Halo 5, Gears 5, etc.
- Comment on Day 680 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
When 200cc first came out I move from Rosalina to Isabelle and haven’t looked back.
I liked bigger chars on bikes before, Waluigi on the Wario Bike was my fav on mkwii. But 200cc is something else.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 4 days ago:
It might be better to just go back to the drawing board on that one if even possible-
Scrap the board as is, go for Strix Halo but give it a big fat 150w PPT, give it 4x DDR5 slots instead of soldered LPDDR5X.
Don’t sell it with RAM or an SSD.
- Comment on Day 680 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Start with some lighter characters (Toad, Isabella, the babies, etc) on Mr. Scooty with rollers.
Remember to brake! Even in 150cc I rarely need to brake for anything, just drift more, but 200cc requires use of brakes.
- Comment on New Halo Campaign Evolved Report Claims Heavy Outsourcing and Major Gameplay Changes 4 days ago:
That will be $34billion in tokens, you’re welcome.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 4 days ago:
They raised it an extra $100 in Australia over the US price.
Should of been increased to ~AU$1320, is actually AU$1429. (AU$1049 last week)
Thanks Gabe :')
- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 6 days ago:
We’ve also learned from Star Citizen that doesn’t work either.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 1 week ago:
The report isn’t trying to say they need to add those thing to gaming.
I don’t understand how this whole thread has misunderstood the report point so thoroughly…
The report is saying those 3 things are now more popular and have a higher amount of attention given to them than gaming and that publishers need to do better in order regain attention.
The prior parts of the report deal with how publishers have effectively cancelled and shut down so much that there is little to play.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Cardbuilders - just why?
It’s just simulated gambling.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 1 week ago:
You see, what you should of done is raise the price even more.
-other CEO.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 5 weeks ago:
ARM isn’t the reason why it won’t work for long.
It’s cooling, as soon as the phone thermal soaks it’s throttles down - phones can’t have a decent cooling system since they use power (fans EAT power), degrade water resistance and just add weight/bulk that most don’t want in a phone.
The handhelds you’ve listed aren’t phones. They’re handhelds that do in fact have heatsinks - they’ll work fine.
Again this isn’t anything against ARM, it’s the idea that a phone form factor with zero cooling considerations will somehow best a device with those considerations.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 5 weeks ago:
For a minute or so anyway, until the SoC overheats and thermal throttles.
You’re going to need a bigger battery and a real heatsink+fan if you want real gaming out of it, at which point it’s going to start getting to Deck size…
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 5 weeks ago:
Or, a game looks great, is fairly made by inspired artists looking for a return on their risk, in which case: Why are you not paying them for their work?
Vast majority of people making games are on a Salary. They’re not getting any more or less return from you buying a game.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 5 weeks ago:
*Unless you’re a german webshop, then it’s fine to restrict sales to Germany only apparently.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
oh it’s the .ml guide?
- Comment on Chocolate - The World's First Wii U GamePad Adapter for PC 1 month ago:
USA only unfortunately.
- Comment on The throne 1 month ago:
Squat Toilet Supremacy
- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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) 2 months 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 2 months 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.